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Incendies(2010)

R
| 2h 11min | Drama, War, Mystery
4.1/5 (with 1,075 votes)

A mother's last wishes send twins Jeanne and Simon on a journey to Middle East in search of their tangled roots. Adapted from Wajdi Mouawad's acclaimed play, Incendies tells the powerful and moving tale of two young adults' voyage to the core of deep-rooted hatred, never-ending wars and enduring love.

Dementia 13(1963)

NR
| 1h 15min | Horror, Thriller
2.8/5 (with 68 votes)

Shocked by the death of her spouse, a scheming widow hatches a bold plan to get her hands on the inheritance, unaware that she is targeted by an axe-wielding murderer who lurks in the family's estate. What mystery shrouds the noble house?

The Razor's Edge(1946)

NR
| 2h 25min | Drama, Romance / Love, Adventure
3.5/5 (with 35 votes)

An adventurous young man goes off to find himself and loses his socialite fiancée in the process. But when he returns 10 years later, she will stop at nothing to get him back, even though she is already married.

Saturday the 14th(1981)

PG
| 1h 15min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
2.5/5 (with 38 votes)

After his family moves to a new house, a young boy discovers a mysterious book that details a curse hanging over the date of Saturday the 14th. Opening the book releases a band of monsters into the house and the family must join together to save themselves and their neighborhood.

Stubborn Fate(1992)

1h 33min | Drama
2.4/5 (with 5 votes)

Carolina Rambaldi isn't fulfilled by her three children: Marcello, a lazy do-nothing, Lucrezia, a bossy type who produces a TV show, and Cesare, homosexual and malicious, who's a sociologist. When she writes her will, Carolina leaves her property to the one child who's married and had a child in the past year and a half.

Melvin and Howard(1980)

1h 35min | Comedy, Drama
3.2/5 (with 26 votes)

The story of hard-luck Melvin Dummar, who claimed to have received a will naming him an heir to the fortune of Howard Hughes.

Pinky(1949)

1h 42min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 19 votes)

Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother's house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school. Pinky tells her grandmother that she has been "passing" for white while at school in the North. In addition, she has fallen in love with a young white doctor, who knows nothing about her black heritage.

Hold That Ghost(1941)

1h 26min | Comedy, Horror
3.5/5 (with 25 votes)

Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangster's will. Their trip to claim their fortune is sidetracked when they are stranded in a haunted house along with several other strangers.

Night of the Skull(1974)

1h 22min | Horror
2.3/5 (with 4 votes)

Horror mystery about the residents of a Louisiana castle who are being murdered by a masked killer. When the family arrives for the reading of Marion's will, his wife is strapped to the face of a cliff and drowned by the tide. More murders follow, and as Inspector Bore investigates, he discovers some dark secrets in the family's past.

Too Much Sun(1990)

R
| 1h 37min | Comedy
2.6/5 (with 4 votes)

A multimillionaire, whose son is gay and daughter a lesbian, leaves a will with one clause: His children will inherit his money only if at least one of them produces him a grandchild within a year of his death.

The Doll of Satan(1969)

1h 30min | Horror
2.4/5 (with 8 votes)

Following the death of her uncle, Elisabeth returns to her family's castle for the reading of his will. She is informed of legends about the castle's ghost and experiences erotically charged nightmares, before being kidnapped by a hooded figure and tortured in the dungeon. Meanwhile, her boyfriend Jack suspects a plot to gain Elisabeth's inheritance and begins his own investigation...

A Season for Miracles(1999)

G
| 1h 40min | Drama, Romance / Love, TV Movie
3.8/5 (with 13 votes)

A miracle occurs for a homeless family consisting of two wayward children and their protective aunt with the help of an angel. When a young woman's niece and nephew are threatened with foster care after her sister is hospitalized following yet another overdose, she flees with them until they land in the sleepy town of Bethlehem just before Christmas and a series of kindnesses and coincidences gives the trio a chance at happiness.

Directed by Michael Pressman - With Carla Gugino
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She'll Have to Go(1962)

1h 29min | Comedy
2.6/5 (with 3 votes)

When Francis and Douglas Oberon learn that their late grandmother has bequeathed the family fortune to distant cousin Toni, they immediately start plotting to get their hands on the money. They dream up a plot whereby they cannot fail to acquire a comfortable future; the lovely Toni must either be murdered, or married...

Directed by Robert Asher - With Bob Monkhouse

The Western Code(1932)

57min | Western

When Tim Barrett rides into Carabinas, his reputation as a lawman precedes him. Rescuing Polly Loomis from the unwanted attentions of a saloon ruffian, he learns her mother married ranch foreman Nick Grindel shortly before her death, and left everything to him in her will. Nick has proposed marriage to his stepdaughter, and she fears violence if her hot-blooded brother Dick finds out. When a body is found at the Bow Knot, Tim barely rescues Dick from a necktie party and is deputized to investigate when Dick confesses to a crime he didn't commit.

Directed by John P. McCarthy - With Tim McCoy

The Curse of the Living Corpse(1964)

NR
| 1h 24min | Horror
2.9/5 (with 7 votes)

The wealthy patriarch of the Sinclair family lives in mortal fear of being buried alive because he suffers from a rare condition that causes him, at times, to appear lifeless. So, when he dies, his relatives learn that his will stipulates that nobody will see a penny unless they follow a strict set of orders which would allow for him to "return from the dead." When the relations refuse to comply with his wishes, he returns from the grave and proceeds to exact his revenge on his insubordinate kin, killing each of them in precisely the ways they most fear.

Next Time I Marry(1938)

3.5/5 (with 3 votes)

Heiress Nancy Crocker Fleming will only receive her inheritance if she marries a "plain American." Her late father was afraid a foreign gigolo would steal her heart and money. So Nancy pays Tony Anthony, working on a WPA road project, to marry, then divorce her. When Nancy inadvertently drives off with Tony's dog, Tony seemingly kidnaps her to retrieve the pooch, which leads to a cross-country race between the two to reach Reno and the divorce court since neither one wants to be the second to file papers.

Directed by Garson Kanin - With Lucille Ball

O Diário de William(2018)

10min | Drama, Fantasy

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High Society(1955)

NR
| 1h 1min | Comedy
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Sach receives news that he is the heir to the Terwilliger Debussy Jones fortune. Accompanied by his pal Slip, he arrives at the Jones mansion to review the legal papers needed for him to claim his new fortune. However, Sach and Slip discover that the rightful heir, the young Terwilliger III, is being cheated out his inheritance by the miscreant duo of Stuyvesant Jones and Clarissa. Sach and Slip, with the help of their fellow Bowery Boys, save the day and restore the heir’s inheritance.

A Man to Remember(1938)

NR
| 1h 19min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.3/5 (with 3 votes)

On the day of his funeral, a dedicated smalltown doctor is remembered by his neighbors and patients.

A Touch of the Sun(1956)

1h 20min | Comedy
2.8/5 (with 2 votes)

A hotel porter is left a fortune but after living it up for a while he returns to his old place of work which is in financial difficulties.

Directed by Gordon Parry - With Frankie Howerd, Ruby Murray, Dennis Price, Dorothy Bromiley

Three Steps In The Dark(1953)

1h 1min | Crime, Drama
3.0/5 (with 3 votes)

A rich but disliked elderly man invites his relatives to a family reunion at his home. Once the gathering is complete, he announces enigmatically that he intends to change his will before he dies. Before he can do this, he is murdered. His niece (Gynt), a detective story writer, has to put her theories into practice by solving a real-life murder mystery.

Directed by Daniel Birt - With Greta Gynt, Hugh Sinclair, Hélène Cordet

The Beauty of Athens(1954)

1h 20min | Comedy
3.5/5 (with 4 votes)

A streetwise guy, according to a will, has to marry an extremely ugly old lady to get the money of the inheritance.So he tries to trick a poor devil into getting married with her.

Dynamite(1929)

2h 9min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 3 votes)

Wealthy Cynthia is in love with not-so-wealthy Roger, who is married to Marcia. The threesome is terribly modern about the situation, and Marcia will gladly divorce Roger if Cynthia agrees to a financial settlement. But Cynthia's wealth is in jeopardy because her trust fund will expire if she is not married by a certain date. To satisfy that condition, Cynthia arranges to marry Hagon Derk, who is condemned to die for a crime he didn't commit. She pays him so he can provide for his little sister. But at the last minute, Derk is freed when the true criminal is discovered. Expecting to be a rich widow, Cynthia finds herself married to a man she doesn't know and doesn't want to.

The Grasp of Greed(1916)

50min | Drama

En route to Australia, beautiful authoress Alice Gordon (Louise Lovely) is shipwrecked on a desert island in the company of wealthy book publisher John Meeson. Sensing that his days are numbered, and lacking pencil and paper, Meeson tattoos his last will and testament on Alice's lovely back.

Where There's a Will(1955)

1h 20min | Comedy
3.2/5 (with 3 votes)

A Cockney family inherit a ramshackle Devon farm. The rest of the family don't want to leave London but the father insists and off they go, to face the unknown.

Rusty Saves a Life(1949)

1h 8min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

The eponymous doggie hero, portrayed by a very busy canine thespian named Flame, does exactly what the film's title says he does. But before this prophecy can be fulfilled, the story spends a great deal of time with young Danny Mitchell (Ted Donaldson), who briefly turns to juvenile delinquency when he's denied an expected inheritance.

Directed by Seymour Friedman

The Forgotten Law(1922)

NR
| 1h 10min | Drama

Margaret Jarnette discovers that her husband Victor has been cheating on her and confronts him. Outraged, Victor has his lawyer rewrite his will so that in the event of his death, his brother Richard will get custody of his daughter Muriel, and his wife won't. When Victor dies shortly afterward, Richard suspects that Margaret had murdered him and takes custody of Muriel. However, he soon begins to suspect that things may not be quite as cut-and-dried as he thought they were.

Directed by James W. Horne - With Milton Sills