Movies and TvShows featuring "tumbling-down-a-staircase" theme.
A woman named Martha Ivers has built a successful life for herself, but the weight of her dark past and the secrets she holds threaten to unravel everything. As a child, Martha witnessed a murder and her involvement in the crime has haunted her ever since. When her husband, Walter, discovers the truth, Martha will go to great lengths to keep her secrets buried, even if it means destroying those she loves.
Down-and-out artist Joe Manning wakes up from a night of drunken revelry in a jail cell, where he's being held on suspicion for the murder of a nightclub singer.
A single mother and her daughter move into a haunted house in Detroit. They experience paranormal phenomena and encounter apparitions. As the haunting intensifies, the mother seeks the help of a medium to uncover the secrets hidden within the walls of their new home.
A young hero teams up with his brother's ex-girlfriend to take down a crime lord in an urban setting, using kung-fu and hilariously over-the-top antics.
No Man's Woman is a film-noir crime movie from 1955. The story follows a manipulative and seductive woman who uses her charms to control and deceive men. Her actions lead to betrayal, murder, and a police investigation. The plot explores themes of dysfunctional relationships, deceit, and the consequences of greed.
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.
Thunderbolt is a pre-code crime drama set in New York City during the jazz age. The film follows a gang leader caught between reformation and retaliation as he navigates the corrupt underworld of the prohibition-era. Thunderbolt features gunfights, bootlegging, and a gripping storyline of redemption and violence.
When two vagabonds find themselves in a pinch, they impersonate identical twin sisters in order to hide from the police. Chaos ensues as they navigate the confusion of their assumed identities and encounter a comedic series of misunderstandings and slapstick situations. Another Fine Mess is a classic comedy that will have you laughing from start to finish.
A 13-year-old girl is more than her widowed father can handle at times, even with help from her aunt, until a tragic accident changes her outlook on life.
Scram! is a comedy short film from 1932. It follows a series of comical events involving a drunk policeman, mistaken identities, a flirtatious wife, and a compromising situation.
Unaccustomed as We Are is a comedy short film from 1929 that follows the comedic duo Laurel and Hardy as they experience a series of misadventures after a surprise visitor shows up for dinner. Hilarity ensues with plenty of bickering, misunderstandings, and comedic errors. This pre-code film is filled with slapstick comedy, funny dialogue, and classic Laurel and Hardy moments.
A group of stranded travelers seek shelter in a remote castle on a stormy night, only to discover that the castle is inhabited by Count Dracula. As they try to survive, they are subjected to torture and violence, while some of the travelers become entangled in a web of lesbian vampires. Will they be able to escape before becoming victims of Count Dracula's great love?
When a property developer and his partner unearth a tomb on their new land, a coven of witches is resurrected and begins to haunt the manor, killing the inhabitants one by one.
Our Wife (1931) is a comedy short film that follows the chaotic events of an overweight woman's wedding day. From getting stuck in a window to falling down a staircase, the bride-to-be faces numerous comical mishaps. With a disapproving father, a clumsy butler, and a mischievous housefly, the film is filled with hilarious moments that will keep you entertained from start to finish.
A Nazi spy ring is after a chemical formula that increases the power of ordinary gasoline for U.S. Army aviation use. Two U.S. chemical companies are developing the formula, with each working on half for security purposes. The spies get half the formula and know that either of two chemists, Robert Norton or Tom Fielding, knows the rest. They capture Fielding, through a ruse by gang member Linda Pavlo, and threaten the life of his sister Nancy and his mother if he does not give them the formula. To protect his friend Fielding, who does know the formula and is engaged to Nancy, Tom pretends to know the secret and boards the Dawn Express plane with the spy leader and his gang.
Gruff gumshoe Francis Hogan is hired by a mysterious woman to find her boyfriend who has gone missing. With his perpetually hungry partner in tow, Hogan must untangle a web of intrigue involving the criminal underworld and a dead courier. One double-cross follows another as Hogan investigates the whole sordid affair.
An ESP expert uses his powers to try to track down a psychic who uses telepathy to commit murder.
A wife whose husband is away asks her decorator to impersonate her husband, to help her deal with a pest. Soon there is quite a web of confusion that also involves the decorator's girlfriend and the wife's suddenly returned husband.
Buster agrees to pose as a murderer to throw off the police while his room mate, a reporter, searches for the real killer.
Four "Picture Brides", from New Orleans, arrive in the Brazilian jungle on a riverboat, brought there to marry workers at Lottagrasso, a remote mining site of the Standard Diamond Mines. Also on the boat with the four "mail-order" brides (Americans Mame Smith, Flo Lane, and Gwen from England and Lena from Europe) is Mary Lee, a frightened and innocent girl, who has come to see the mine's brutal supervisor, Von Luden, about a job.