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- J. Edgar Hoover, powerful head of the F.B.I. for nearly fifty years, looks back on his professional and personal life.
- Mystery crime stories with sometimes different cops and many now-famous faces.
- Edgar Allan Poe throws a murder mystery dinner party to impress the beautiful Annabel Lee. He invites some of the world's most renowned authors. Things go awry when someone actually gets murdered...
- The story of the late J. Edgar Hoover, who was head of the FBI from 1924-1972. The film follows Hoover from his racket-busting days through his reign under eight U.S. presidents.
- Based on a book series by Charles Ogden, lively animated series EDGAR & ELLEN revolves around the titular 12-year-old twins, whose primary mission in life is playing mischievous practical jokes (on each other as well as classmates and teachers) and putting the snooty residents of Nod's Limbs in their place. (Edgar and Ellen's adventures air as both an episodic cartoon series and longer specials.) Edgar and Ellen are voiced by Kathleen Barr and Jillian Michaels, respectively.
- Marooned on a remote peninsula and haunted by frightening specters, a young man must confront the grotesque denizens of the night, or heed the Lighthouse Keeper's cryptic warning to, 'Always keep a light burning!'
- "An Evening of Edgar Allan Poe" sees Vincent Price reciting four Edgar Allen Poe stories: The Tell-Tale Heart, The Sphinx, The Cask of Amontillado, and The Pit and the Pendulum.
- Edgar Allan Poe led an unhappy childhood, broken only by the unceasing devotion of his foster mother, Mrs. Frances Allan, whose loving ministrations gave him courage to carry out his desire to write. His first love was Elmira Royster, and though she married another while he was at the University of Virginia, he could never purge his thoughts of her and, under the influence of her spell, he poured out the deepest passions of his heart. After a discouraging period during which he was disowned by his foster father and lost his appointment to West Point, he found the love that tamed his restless heart with Virginia Clemm. After he and Virginia married, Poe did his greatest creative work, writing for the Southern Literary Messenger and Graham's Magazine.
- He battled the Kennedys and Martin Luther King, encouraged McCarthy and single-handedly changed the course of history. Hired by F.D.R. to be the director of the FBI, Hoover erected the most sophisticated investigatory agency in the world.
- Two goth besties search for chicken innards for a ritual to resurrect Edgar Allan Poe.
- Managed by world famous rock manager, Edgar Harding, a small time band is on the brink of success.On the eve of receiving the elusive recording contract all bands dream about, a devastating twist of events follow and test just how far one band will go to 'sign the deal'.Set over 3 days, they experience the highs of success only to lose their grip a day later. They decide they must do whatever it takes to get it back, at a devastating personal cost to one of them.The Last Days of Edgar Harding is an amusing, yet shocking story about how ambition changes the lives of four musicians forever.
- David Jason plays the inept Edgar Briggs, personal assistant to the Commander of the British Secret Intelligence Service. Briggs is an agent who, in spite of his cluelessness, manages to solve case after case.
- Edgar and his schoolmates put on a production of Shakespeare's Hamlet such as the townsfolk have never seen.
- Poe's fiance, Lenore, falls into a coma and is taken for dead. She is rescued at the last possible moment from being buried alive, but the experience has driven her insane. On the advice of his friend, Dr. Forrest, Poe commits Lenore to the asylum run by Dr. Grimaldi. On a visit to the asylum, Poe and Forrest sense that something strange is going on, and decide to sneak back in after dark and investigate.
- The movie follows a German art student suffering from a unnamed illness. He meets a man named "Edgar Allan," who seems intent on driving him mad by dogging his every move.
- Two magicians, Mr. Schwarzwald and Mr. Edgar, try to outdo each other in performing elaborate magic tricks, leading to a violent ending.
- Based on the bestselling novel by Marc Dugain, this original docudrama weaves unique archival footage within a fictional story and sheds a new light on J. Edgar Hoover. This film reveals the FBI director's battle to retain power from the Kennedy clan. From 1960 and 1963, two ideals of America come face to face and two sets of morals clash. Clyde Tolson, Hoover's right-hand man and secret lover, is the last survivor of this psychological drama. He recounts this intense political period when America's destiny has never been as dependent on one of the most powerful and mysterious figures of the time.
- Based upon the short story by Edgar Allan Poe.
- A police psychologist uses his skills to become a bounty hunter.
- December 1959: Poe, a young writer, has locked himself inside his seedy Hollywood motel room. Astray in his projected memories, he gets a visit from a dark bird named, 'Nevermore.'
- Edgar Aquin may be outwardly inconspicuous, but he's a formidable investigator with uncommon powers of observation. With his unconventional methods, sharp instincts and unique logic, he'll prove suspects guilty every time.
- Hollywood Graveyard host Arthur Dark takes a journey into madness and mournful memory through the mind of Edgar Allan Poe, while visiting his gravesite.
- The story, while not biographical, is founded on incidents in his life, showing his devotion for his sick wife, Virginia. Desperate from his utter helplessness to ameliorate his dying wife's suffering, owing to extreme destitution, he is in a frenzy of grief, when a raven is seen to perch on a bust of Pallas above the door of their cold, cheerless apartment. An inspiration! He sets to work, and that masterpiece. "The Raven," is the fruit. During his work he has divested himself of his coat, putting it over his wife to protect her from the cold. The poem finished, he rushes coatless and hatless to the publisher, where he meets with scant attention. One editor, however, thinks the work possesses some merit and offers ten dollars for it. Ten dollars for the greatest jewel in the diadem of fame - think of it! Poe thinks of the comforts, meager though they needs must be, for his poor wife and accepts the offer. Hastening to the store, he procures food, a heavy comfortable for the cot, and medicine, and with much lighter heart returns home. Spreading the quilt tenderly over Virginia, he takes her hand and gazes fondly into her sightless eyes, but the cold, unresponsive hand tells him the awful truth. "My God, she is dead!" and he falls prostrate across the cot.
- An evil director steals all the Edgars before the WB awards ceremony. Unfortunately, his assistant crashes their blimp into the water tower, freeing the Warner siblings. It's up to them to find all the Edgars before the ceremony goes on.
- This fictional account fuses the biography of the great mystery writer with his most bizarre tales.
- Edgar. Since his childhood Edgar has not felt like the others. He never knew how to be happy and doesn't understand the world around him. So it is time for him to move towards the twilight of his life. Based on Edgar Allan Poe's poem "Alone" Stopmotion by Jeremy Niels Circus with Music By Marc Deren and voice over by Stanislas Clement.
- Based on a book series by Charles Ogden, the EDGAR & ELLEN series of shorts revolves around the titular 12-year-old twins, whose primary mission in life is playing mischievous practical jokes (on each other as well as classmates and teachers) and putting the snooty residents of Nod's Limbs in their place. (Edgar and Ellen's adventures later aired as both an episodic cartoon series and longer specials.) Edgar and Ellen are voiced by Kathleen Barr and Jillian Michaels, respectively.
- With stories inspired by the work of Edgar Allan Poe that take place in São Paulo, a man plans revenge for the disappearence of his wife.
- The real story of J. Edgar Hoover, created as a bonus featurette for the DVD/Blu-ray of the film J. Edgar (2011).
- Edgar is about to lose the lady of his heart because the Bates boys have been given a complete camping outfit for their back yard: tent, stove, and everything. However, Edgar soon rallies and organizes a side show, displaying the greatest freaks on earth. This soon draws attention from the Bates boys, and Edgar is himself again, until that night when he camps out in the sideshow tent. Then the spooks hover about and Edgar is carried shrieking into the house by his father.
- Official music video for "Stuck Up" by Edgar Sandoval Jr.
- How the inventor of the detective story became his own greatest mystery.
- Edgar buys a badge and a book of instructions and starts to learn the detective business. When he and his chum accompany his uncle's hired hand and his girl to town on a load of hay, and learn that a stop at the minister's means a marriage and not a murder, the two boys are sadly disappointed.
- A documentary about the "King of B-Movies", Edgar G. Ulmer. It includes interviews with well-known filmmakers Roger Corman, Peter Bogdanovich, Wim Wenders, Joe Dante, and Ulmers's daughter, Arianne Ulmer.
- An exciting documentary following in the footsteps of Edgar Allan Poe to discover the mystery behind the man who wrote such classics as "The Raven," "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Black Cat," and countless others.
- An American Indian actor finds himself literally and figuratively lost in the woods when he encounters two children who are also lost.
- The fugitive of a forensic mental institution enters a country house right after the owner changed his last will and a series of mysterious murders starts.
- In the small village of Heartwood lives Edgar, a young vampire who unlike his illustrious ancestors feeds exclusively on love.
- The world of a virgin geek turns upside down when his video game breaks and a new girl moves in next door. In an attempt to win her heart, he crashes a private party to stop a group of pretentious hipsters from corrupting her.
- "Only 12 people can say that they have walked on the moon. Now, if one of them told you that ET visited Earth and that the government knew about it and covered up the truth for years; if he also told you that aliens averted a nuclear war between USA and USSR to prevent humanity from self-destructing; would you judge him as a crazy nutcase or would you listen to further details?"
- A middle aged apartment dweller and his special relationship with a large black dog.
- "Nightwatch Presents Edgar Allan Poe" was a hosted horror movie show with Mike Cheever as "Dr. Terror" presenting a seven week run of Edgar Allan Poe films on WAND-TV Channel 17, Decatur, Illinois in 1973.