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For Love Or Murder

1970 · 90 min

A slow-burning, talky thriller that feels like a hazy, paranoid dream of manipulation and doomed romance.

Genres
Thriller
Overview
A wealthy, eccentric chemical company owner sends his woman to get an American writer to take a mind control drug, Kemek, to verify its potential. She accomplishes her mission, but falls totally in love with the writer. The chemical magnate, satisfied with the results of the test, rewards her with murder, just as she is about to flee to Naples with her new lover. Her ex-husband and a private detective track the killer behind it all to a remote hideaway to unravel the solution.

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Tone
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • eeriestrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • obsession
  • betrayal
  • love
  • deception
  • crime
Places
  • big city
  • single country house
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • twist ending
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror2
Humour2
Realism6
Romance5
Tension6
Darkness6
Complexity6
Emotional weight5

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Genres
thriller
Directed by
Theodore Gershuny
Written by
Theodore Gershuny
Starring
Alexandra Stewart, David Hedison, Mary Woronov, Helmuth Schneider, Herbert Weißbach, Robert Wolders, Chuck Mitchell, Suzanne Wolders
Cinematography
Enzo Barboni
Runtime
90 min
Country
Germany, Canada
Languages
English

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