Movies and TvShows featuring "hit-over-the-head" theme.
In Affair in Trinidad, a seductive nightclub entertainer finds herself caught in a love triangle and implicated in a murder. As jealousy and intrigue unfold, she must navigate through a web of deception and betrayal. Set against the backdrop of the Caribbean Sea, this film explores themes of seduction, femme fatale, and secret plans.
After moving into a new apartment, a woman discovers strange occurrences and begins to suspect that her neighbor is a homicidal maniac.
In this gothic drama, a biographer is hired to write the memoirs of a famous novelist and unravels long-held family secrets, including a tragic past and a mysterious arson.
Guns, Girls and Gangsters tells the story of a gangster who plans to rob an armored car on New Year's Eve. The plot thickens as the gangster deals with betrayal, murder, and the hunt for the stolen money.
The Eternal is a supernatural horror movie set in Ireland. It follows the story of an orphan girl who is adopted by her uncle and experiences strange occurrences in their mansion. The plot involves druids, mummies, supernatural powers, and soul transmigration. The movie explores themes of family relationships, doppelgangers, and the dark secrets of the past. As the story unfolds, the protagonist discovers the truth about her origins and the curse that has plagued her family for generations.
The Floorwalker is a silent comedy short film from 1916. It follows the adventures of a clumsy man who works in a department store and gets into various comedic situations. The film features comedic pratfalls, foiled robberies, and a mix-up with identities. It is a classic example of slapstick comedy.
In 'One Body Too Many,' an insurance agent named Albert Tuttle gets caught up in a murder plot when he is assigned to deliver a last will and testament to a millionaire's spooky old house. As he arrives at the house, he discovers a series of strange and suspicious events, including a dead telephone, a trapdoor, and a secret panel. With the help of the quirky inhabitants of the house and a beautiful but suspicious astrologer, Albert must navigate the twists and turns of the plot to uncover the truth and survive the night.
When a series of brutal serial murders rock Los Angeles, a newspaper reporter takes it upon himself to investigate the case. As he delves deeper into the mystery, he uncovers shocking revelations and gets entangled in a web of lies, violence, and paranoia.
A criminal psychologist treats an artist whose blackouts coincide with a series of murders.
In this silent film, the little tramp character gets caught up in a series of comedic events. Pretending to be husband and wife, he and his partner are chased by police after being mistaken for robbers. With the help of some clever tricks, the tramp manages to outwit the police and return a favor to a friend in need.
Below Zero is a comedy movie set in the depression-era. It follows the hilarious misadventures of a comedy duo who find themselves in various comical situations during a snowy winter. From hitting the wrong person with a hat to being run over by a truck, they go through a series of comedic mishaps while trying to make a living as street performers.
When a theater offers a free wedding to a couple, confusion reigns.
Buster agrees to pose as a murderer to throw off the police while his room mate, a reporter, searches for the real killer.
In order to get his daughter away from her suitors, her father decides to spirit her away to Bermuda. Our hero, however, stows away on the ship. When discovered, he is credited with catching a crook, thus winning a reward and the girl.
Ted is riding for Pa Martin against Cooper in the big race. When Cooper has his men capture Ted, Peggy overhears them and sets out to free Ted in time for the race.
Unwitting pickup artist Jack Coley (Jack Hogan) nabs a briefcase holding a costly scientific formula, turning himself into a moving target for owner Alan Sheridan (John Baer), foreign agents and the fuzz -- all bent on a blistering game of finders, keepers. In this stylized crime drama, the quarry coolly eludes the pack while eliciting the aid of an unlikely party: blonde beauty Nan Baker (June Kenney), the attaché's original carrier.
King Bool returns to Bulvania to claim his throne and his girl.
A harried propman backstage at a theater must put up with malfunctioning wind machines, roosters that spit nitroglycerine, and a gang planning to rob the theater's payroll.
When a landlady finds one of her tenants murdered, Inspector Hornleigh is sent to investigate. Inspector Hornleigh's assistant, Sergeant Bingham, soon finds an attaché case that had been stolen from the murdered man. When Hornleigh examines the case, inside it he finds a bag that was used to carry important government documents. The documents have been taken, and to make things even more confusing, a duplicate of the stolen bag soon turns up.
Fire chief Amos McCarthy, a confirmed misogynist, counsels his nephew Harry Howells to avoid matrimony at all costs. Still, the lovestruck Harry is determined to marry his sweetheart Ethel. All that changes, though, when it turns out Ethel is a faithless gold-digger. Disillusioned, Harry spends the night in his uncle's fire house to try and forget his troubles... until the clamor of a fire alarm presents the bumbling Harry with a chance to be a hero.