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Key Features:
Murder mystery, Serial killer, Thriller elements, University setting, Teacher-student relationship, Conspiracy, Investigation
Tone:
suspense-driven, serious
Target Audience:
Mystery lovers, Thriller enthusiasts, Intellectual audiences
Emotional Arc:
Intrigue → Suspicion → Revelation

The Oxford Murders

2008-01-18
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At Oxford University, a professor and a grad student work together to try and stop a potential series of murders seemingly linked by mathematical symbols.

Genres
Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Cast
Elijah Wood, John Hurt, Leonor Watling, Julie Cox, Jim Carter, Alex Cox, Burn Gorman, Dominique Pinon, Anna Massey, Tom Frederic
Crew
Álex de la Iglesia, Álex de la Iglesia, Jorge Guerricaechevarría
Rating
6(683 votes)
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Murder on the Orient Express

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Anatomy(2000)
6.098

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Accident
Accident(1967)
6.294

Stephen is a professor at Oxford University who is caught in a rut and feels trapped by his life in both academia and marriage. One of his students, William, is engaged to the beautiful Anna, and Stephen becomes enamored of the younger woman. These three people become linked together by a horrible car crash, with flashbacks providing details into the lives of each person and their connection to the others in this brooding English drama.



Anti Matter
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The Other Me
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The Professor and the Madman

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Spinning Man
5.593

Evan Birch is a family man and esteemed professor at a distinguished university. When a female student goes missing, police Detective Malloy has reason to be suspicious when crucial evidence makes Evan the prime suspect in her disappearance.



Arabesque
Arabesque(1966)
6.3

When a plot against a prominent Middle Eastern politician is uncovered, David Pollock, a professor of ancient hieroglyphics at Oxford University, is recruited to help expose the scheme. Pollock must find information believed to be in hieroglyphic code and must also contend with a mysterious man called Beshraavi. Meanwhile, Beshraavi's lover, Yasmin Azir, seems willing to aid Pollock -- but is she really on his side?



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Murder by Numbers
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7.6

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Stonehearst Asylum
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Init!ation
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During a Whiton University's pledge week, the carefree partying turns deadly when brutal murders start befalling the students, sending Ellery into a race against time to uncover the truth behind the school's dark secrets and the horrifying meaning of a recurring symbol: a single exclamation mark.



Marguerite's Theorem
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The future of Marguerite, a brilliant student in Mathematics at the prestigious Ecole Normale Supérieure, seems all planned out. The only woman from her year, Marguerite is finishing a thesis she has to present to an audience of researchers. On the big day, a mistake shakes all her certainties and all her foundations collapse.



Dial M for Murder

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Fermat's Room
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Kill List(2011)
6.2

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Killing Words
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A mild-mannered psychopath plays mind-games with a woman he has tied to a chair in his basement.



Uncovered
Uncovered(1995)
5.6

While restoring a fifteenth-century painting Julia reveals a hidden Latin phrase. A series of murders begin to rock her small world of art experts, patrons and restorers, and she finds that the mystery of the painting is interwoven with the mystery of the deaths around her.



Splatter University

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Murder on the Orient Express

Agatha Christie's classic whodunit speeds into the twenty-first century. World-famous sleuth Hercule Poirot has just finished a case in Istanbul and is returning home to London onboard the luxurious Orient Express. But, the train comes to a sudden halt when a rock slide blocks the tracks ahead. And all the thrills of riding the famous train come to a halt when a man discovered dead in his compartment, stabbed nine times. The train is stranded. No one has gotten on or gotten off. That can only mean one thing: the killer is onboard, and it is up to Hercule Poirot to find him.



Creepy
Creepy(2016)
6.7

After having narrowly escaped an attempt on his life at the hands of a psychopath, detective inspector Takakura quits active service in the police force and takes up a position as a university lecturer in criminal psychology. But his desire to get to the bottom of criminals’ motives remains, and he does not hesitate long when former colleague Nogami asks him to reopen an old case.



Brain Drain
5.2

Emilio, a shy, not too brilliant pupil at a humble local secondary school, has always harboured a secret love for Natalia, the cutest, brightest girl in the class. On the last day of the school year, when he finally decides to declare his love, Natalia is awarded a scholarship to study Medicine at Oxford. It would seem that all is lost for Emilio, but his drop-out school-pals are not ready to throw in the towel. After faking qualifications and scholarships, this band of brainless nuts land in Oxford, causing havoc in the normally peaceful campus existence. —The Film Catalogue



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Brain Drain
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Hit Man
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Pathology
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Cult Killer
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Perfect Number
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Vanishing
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Cairo Conspiracy
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A fisherman's son is offered the ultimate privilege to study at the Al-Azhar University in Cairo, the epicenter of power of Sunni Islam. Shortly after his arrival, the university’s highest ranking religious leader, the Grand Imam, dies and the young student becomes a pawn in a ruthless power struggle between Egypt's religious and political elite.



Crossword Mysteries: Proposing Murder

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The Thursday Murder Club

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Sexy Killer: You'll Die for Her

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Pieces
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A frustrated Boston detective searches for the maniac responsible for mutilating a number of university coeds.



Nightwatch
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Nightwatch
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Sleuth
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The Murder at Road Hill House

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Inferno
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6.085

After waking up in a hospital with amnesia, professor Robert Langdon and a doctor must race against time to foil a deadly global plot.



The Ritual Killer
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Unable to process the death of his daughter, Detective Boyd embarks on a hunt for a serial killer who murders according to a brutal tribal ritual: Muti. The only person who can help Boyd is Professor Mackles, an anthropologist who hides an unspeakable secret. The line between sanity and madness thins as Boyd goes deeper into the killer’s world.



Diabolique
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The wife and mistress of a cruel school master collaborate in a carefully planned and executed scheme to murder him. The plan goes well until the body, which has been strategically dumped, disappears. The psychological strain starts to weigh on the two women when a retired police investigator begins looking into the man's disappearance on a whim.



Confessions
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Arlington Road
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Room of Death
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The Riot Club
5.9

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Death Bell
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Mystery Street
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The Lovebirds
6.1

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Murder Mystery 2
6.391

After starting their own detective agency, Nick and Audrey Spitz land a career-making case when their billionaire pal is kidnapped from his wedding.



Seven Blood-Stained Orchids

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Sherlock Holmes
7.2

Eccentric consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and Doctor John Watson battle to bring down a new nemesis and unravel a deadly plot that could destroy England.



Death on the Nile
6.4

Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot's Egyptian vacation aboard a glamorous river steamer turns into a terrifying search for a murderer when a picture-perfect couple's idyllic honeymoon is tragically cut short.



Anesthesia
5.712

Multiple lives intersect in the aftermath of the violent mugging of a Columbia University philosophy professor.



The Doctor and the Devils

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Urban Legends: Final Cut

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Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: Bloody Inscription

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A Study in Terror
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A Perfect Murder
6.54

Millionaire industrialist Steven Taylor is a man who has everything but what he craves most: the love and fidelity of his wife. A hugely successful player in the New York financial world, he considers her to be his most treasured acquisition. But she needs more than simply the role of dazzling accessory.



Chasing Sleep
6.006

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7 Women and a Murder
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