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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.
- 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!'
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Two goth besties search for chicken innards for a ritual to resurrect Edgar Allan Poe.
- "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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- A police psychologist uses his skills to become a bounty hunter.
- 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.
- Edgar and his friends get tired of eating and are not very particular as to what or when they eat. Sour pickles, ice cream, gum drops, cake, pie, apples, and a dozen other things are eaten and munched by the boys in one afternoon. Result: stomach-ache and comedy.
- Hollywood Graveyard host Arthur Dark takes a journey into madness and mournful memory through the mind of Edgar Allan Poe, while visiting his gravesite.
- Based upon the short story by Edgar Allan Poe.
- In his first appearance on network television, Edgar Bergen hosts a Thanksgiving Day special featuring three of his partners in ventriloquism - Charlie McCarthy, Mortimer Snerd and the lesser known Podine Puffington (a life-size doll that Bergen would use as a comedy dancing partner). Orchestra leader Ray Noble becomes upset when Charlie tells him that Edgar has hired someone else as a pianist (who turns out to be the beautiful Diana Lynn) to perform a solo. In the last scene, Edgar and Charlie are the put on trial for witchcraft in Colonial Salem, Massachusetts and sentenced to be burned at the stake before escaping with the help of a fetching Indian maid.
- 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.
- A middle aged apartment dweller and his special relationship with a large black dog.
- TV MovieIn 2010 Lt. Elijah Lupo is an American solider who is an Afghanistan war vet that died on the battlefield, trying to save his friend's life. His ancestor Edgar Allan Poe uses the opportunity to Walk-In to Elijah's body and resume the life that was cut short so many years ago...unfortunately for Poe, Elijah's soul returns to his body as well and the battle for possession is on. Elijah is the only one that can see Poe in reflective surfaces all around him, as well as seeing the decomposing bodies of the dead, who alarmingly want Elijah's help. Poe discovers the modern American world with all of its salty, sinful characters and technological wonders coming to life. Now he is here to PLAY.
- 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.
- How the inventor of the detective story became his own greatest mystery.
- This film follows painter Edgar Payne from his childhood in the Ozark Mountains, through his years in Chicago, and on to his discovery of the California landscape that became his lifelong inspiration. Produced in association with the Pasadena Museum of California Art, and created with the curators and scholars behind the touring exhibition of the same name.
- 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.
- "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?"
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- For nearly 50 years, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover amassed secret files on America's most prominent figures, files he used to smear and control presidents and politicians. Frontline reveals how Hoover's own secret life left him open to blackmail by the Mafia and offers a startling new explanation why the FBI allowed the mob to operate unchallenged for over two decades.
- 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.
- A little photocopy contest helps Edgar and Elizabeth reveal the nature of the beast within.
- Edgar from the city goes to visit his country cousin and at once begins to impress him and his gang with the superiority of life and ways in the city. His brave effort to go barefoot "like we do in the city" causes him much pain, and everything he attempts to demonstrate the city's superiority has disastrous results. However, a black eye, a face full of bee-stings, and the general bawling-out of the gang fails to conquer him, and he declares that he is having a bully time.
- On the way to Sunday school, Edgar meets the lady of his heart--and his hated rival. The Sunday-school lesson on David and Goliath so intrigues Edgar that he sees himself as David, saving the entire school, sweetheart and rival included, from Goliath's sword. Edgar's answer to the teacher's question proves his straying thoughts. As a result he is placed on the platform, where he sees himself descending to the "lower regions" as the "worst boy in the school." Edgar's Sunday adventures end with him at peace with the world, after two helpings of pie.
- 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.'
- Among other Christmas gifts, Edgar receives a tool chest containing a little saw. While he is out displaying some of his other presents to the boy next door, little brother Charlie saws up everything in the house, furniture, hats, and at length attempts operations on the cat. Edgar gets the blame, and is being kept from his sweetheart's party as punishment, when Charlie's guilt is discovered.
- 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.
- The real story of J. Edgar Hoover, created as a bonus featurette for the international DVD/Blu-ray of the film J. Edgar (2011).
- The real story of J. Edgar Hoover, created as a bonus featurette for the DVD/Blu-ray of the film J. Edgar (2011).