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Four forgotten movies - crazy doctor, big hotel, western movie and Venice/Paris costume ball


I'm looking for several movies for my friend.

1) Probably 90's and TV Movie. The action takes place practically all the time in a large apartment building or something similar. A girl has gone missing there. Her sister (blonde) moves in incognito to solve the mystery of her disappearance. It turns out at the end that some crazy grotesque scientist who conducts sexual experiments on young girls lives there. I know how it sounds, but the guy had some kind of problems with his penis.There's also a cop, supposedly investigating, but he is near main heroine (a girl) more. The film had a stuffy, claustrophobic atmosphere, a bit like that of B-grade erotica. The atmosphere was also kind of futuristic, kitschy, I don't know what to call it, it just wasn't a typical 90's thriller (Sliver, Jade), rather a bit of a B-grade camp psychedelic.

2) Probably late 70s / 80s to 1990. The plot such a bit in the convention of Poirot or "Killed to Death." Several strangers are invited to some sort of party on the top floor of a massive hotel. A typical American apartment for the rich people (like from the TV series "Dynasty."). Naturally, the host does not show up, and as it turns out the apartment becomes a trap.
The heroes by means of deduction come to an explanation of the situation, what connects them to the mysterious host. I remember that they watched some video on VHS video cassette, which gave them some suspicions. One of the main characters was played, I think, by a mustachioed man typical of the for the 80's (Reynolds, Selleck type), probably.

3) A film somewhat in the genre of "Limitless Skies" (1952) or "The Last of the Mohicans" (1936). Perhaps 40's or 50's, something in style western movie from the colonial era. There were some group of soldiers in darker uniforms (so maybe French army) goes through the forest (where and for what ?, I have no idea). When they hoped that they had succeeded , they came out exhausted to some open area, and there was already waiting for them an enemy squad (sort of like the English) with rifles pointed at them (the sense was that they were walking in vain). There were also Indians Iroquois or similar to them.

4. Probably 50's or 60's. Again, one scene, but as someone who has recently watched should get it. A former carnival, costume ball (Paris or Venice) moves to the streets. One of the characters is running away through the streets somewhere. He is clearly being chased by someone. He tries to sneak between the merry cross-dressed crowd. Finally, in some dark alley, a murderer dressed as Harlequin catches up with him.

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No. 2. could be "Clue" (1985)?
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088930/

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It's very good guess, but we know this movie and it isn't. Do you know something similar?

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Not from that era.

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Same story, different adaptation:

"And Then There Were None" (1974)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072263/?ref_=tt_mv_close

Starring Oliver Reed, who often wore a moustache (but not in this movie).

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Unfortunately, it isn't too. Somebody from Poland give the same guess. But thank you for next guess.

You have very big movie knowledge :-)

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I don't, I just like to dig deep, and search for tiny details and clues.

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Probably not, but could 2 it be The Cat and the Canary (1978)? Or Blood Legacy (1978)?

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Yeah, sounds like Cat and the Canary.
"In 1934, on the twentieth anniversary of his death, the remaining relatives (all cousins) of Cyrus West are summoned to his mansion in rural England to view his filmed reading of his last will and testament. "

Although there was no VHS in 1934. :D

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Unfortunately, it isn't.

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:(

Maybe something like The Beast Must Die (1974)? No VHS, but surveillance cameras.

Or 5 bambole per la luna d'agosto?

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Maybe Castle of Evil 1966?

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Rather not, because it is horror, but it was crime movie.

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I have seen A… Come Assassino few days ago. Likely not the film, as it has audio tape instead of VHS, but the setting is in luxurious home and one of the characters has moustache.

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OK. Definitely not giallo.

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Could 1) be Sins of Desire (1993)?

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Maybe. I think that I have to ask my friend. It sounds like correct title. Did you watch or only searched?

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Actually, none of that. I had one other film in mind, which I saw several years ago and didn't clearly remember, but I found it too non-similar to this after finding it in my IMDb ratings (it has male character searching for his sister) and this one was in "more like this" section on IMDb.

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It isn't "Sins of Desire", unfortunately.

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Sad to hear it, but I hope someone will manage to find it.

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For 3) - out of the Revolutionary War/colonias era westerns I have seen, the closest ones re Allergheny Uprising, which has a group of soldiers ambushed by Iroquis in the woods and The Scarlet coat, where two men are aprehended in a forest. But I am afraid none of them fits the description :(

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It is difficult too. I asked my familiar from Poland, but he doesn't remember nothing more. He is very experienced cinephil, so it will be extremely tough to find.

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