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Following the death of their daughter, Tessa focuses on her acclaimed children's book series, "Lily Learns," while her husband, James, attempts to find solace in the daily crossword, but quickly unravels as it takes on a mind of its own.

A woman starts to see crossword answers all around her

A man obsessed with crossword puzzles ignores his wife's desire for intimacy

Tess gets invited to be a part of a popular game show, but when the host is unexpectedly murdered, she and Detective Logan O'Connor seek to uncover who was behind it all.

Major Zaza is investigating a routine criminal case: murder for the purpose of robbery. However, his adversary is cunning and ruthless, a dangerous and cynical repeat offender nicknamed “The Intellectual.” Exposing this cunning criminal is proving difficult.

The daily crosswords-and-coffee ritual, when difficult to decipher, revives the memories of a woman's household, materialized in the spaces of her residence, in a disarrangement of times and places.

In a nursing home, a word in a crossword, an unexpected call and a broken TV are the events that flip the daily life of three elders, who must go out in the search of answers.

A simple crossword puzzle of empty squares is immersing an old man to the point of reliving his own life all over again. Will it help him to make sense of it all?

Igor is almost a grown man. Together with his retired mother he spends summer days out in the country, endlessly doing crossword puzzles. But can he really have rest while neighbours’ hens are wandering around the yard, some nasty insects are buzzing in the bushes nearby, and his mother is struggling with a six-letter word?

A crossword puzzle editor finds her life completely disrupted when several of the clues in her recent puzzles are linked to unsolved crimes, and she is pulled into the police investigation.

After volunteering to participate in a crossword solving competition with a new supercomputer, crossword puzzle editor Tess Harper finds herself swept into the investigation of the bizarre murder of a tech CEO

During her birthday celebration, Tess and Logan find themselves swept up in a world that isn't always what it seems when the headlining magician at the Magic Manor winds up dead.

When an old friend of New York Sentinel Crosswords editor Tess Harper is found murdered on the very day her puzzle includes his proposal of marriage, Tess unofficially teams up with Detective Logan O’Connor to find the killer.

If people from different parts of the world lined up their monologues, as if in a crossword puzzle, these monologues would eventually create a conversation.

What do you see when you listen to the radio? What do you hear when you look at the image of water? Like a crossword, this film is made up of a series of questions and answers that, viewed from a distance, seem chaotic and meaningless, but put into relation to each other become simple truths.

"Pathe presents its sixth all-British cartoon of The Adventures of Pongo the Pup."

Crossword-solving waitress Gloria falls for a womanizing TV repairman.

Under the name “Araucaria,” John Graham had been creating cryptic crosswords for the UK’s Guardian newspaper for over 50 years when he was told that he had an incurable form of cancer. He started placing little clues in his puzzles, telling his fans about his illness and how it was progressing.

After one short blind date, Mary Horowitz, a brilliant and eccentric crossword constructor, is convinced that Steve, a CCN cameraman, is her soul mate. Because his job takes him hither and yon, she crisscrosses the country following Steve, with the encouragement of a reporter, turning up at media events he's at to convince him they are perfect for each other. Along the way, she befriends an assortment of misfits who accept her for who she is, leading her to reassess her reasons for this strange journey.

From the masters who create the mind-bending diversions to the tense competition at the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, Patrick Creadon's documentary reveals a fascinating look at a decidedly addictive pastime. Creadon captures New York Times editor Will Shortz at work, talks to celebrity solvers -- including Bill Clinton and Ken Burns -- and presents an intimate look at the national tournament and its competitors.

Simón is an aspiring novelist who makes a living designing crossword puzzles for a newspaper. One day he receives a threatening message instructing him to include the word "adversary" in a puzzle as Seville gets hit by a series of violent attacks.

Alex Grégoire is a timid insurance company clerk who shares his uneventful life between his wife Angèle, his colleagues and his passion for crosswords. But all of a sudden his existence changes dramatically. First because he wins a crossword competition. Second because a jewel thief, Charles Tuffal, thinks he recognizes in him a former accomplice. From that moment "uneventful" is not the best adjective to qualify Alex's life anymore...

A disgraced journalist discovers an online puzzle that causes people to disappear.