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1. Sleeping Dogs (2024)
R | 110 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
An ex-homicide detective with memory loss is forced to solve a brutal murder, only to uncover chilling secrets from his forgotten past.
Director: Adam Cooper | Stars: Russell Crowe, Karen Gillan, Marton Csokas, Tommy Flanagan
Votes: 6,715
2. The Crow (1994)
R | 102 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A man brutally murdered comes back to life as an undead avenger of his and his fiancée's murder.
Director: Alex Proyas | Stars: Brandon Lee, Michael Wincott, Rochelle Davis, Ernie Hudson
Votes: 203,845 | Gross: $50.69M
3. The Dry (2020)
R | 117 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Aaron Falk returns to his drought-stricken hometown to attend a tragic funeral. But his return opens a decades-old wound - the unsolved death of a teenage girl.
Director: Robert Connolly | Stars: Eric Bana, Genevieve O'Reilly, Keir O'Donnell, John Polson
Votes: 33,033
4. The Little Things (2021)
R | 128 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Kern County Deputy Sheriff Joe Deacon is sent to Los Angeles for what should have been a quick evidence-gathering assignment. Instead, he becomes embroiled in the search for a serial killer who is terrorizing the city.
Director: John Lee Hancock | Stars: Denzel Washington, Rami Malek, Jared Leto, Chris Bauer
Votes: 126,921
5. Cold Case (2003–2010)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The Philadelphia homicide squad's lone female detective finds her calling when she's assigned "cold cases," older crimes that have never been solved.
Stars: Kathryn Morris, Danny Pino, John Finn, Jeremy Ratchford
Votes: 31,565
6. Unforgotten (2015– )
TV-MA | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
London detectives investigate crimes from the past, unravelling secrets left buried for years.
Stars: Sanjeev Bhaskar, Jordan Long, Carolina Main, Nicola Walker
Votes: 30,656
7. Basic Instinct (1992)
R | 127 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A violent police detective investigates a brutal murder that might involve a manipulative and seductive novelist.
Director: Paul Verhoeven | Stars: Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone, George Dzundza, Jeanne Tripplehorn
Votes: 219,536 | Gross: $117.73M
8. The Stranger (II) (2022)
TV-MA | 117 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Two men who meet on a bus strike up a conversation that turns into friendship. For Henry Teague, worn down by a lifetime of physical labour and crime, this is a dream come true.
Director: Thomas M. Wright | Stars: Joel Edgerton, Sean Harris, Jada Alberts, Cormac Wright
Votes: 26,577
9. The Snowman (2017)
R | 119 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Detective Harry Hole investigates the disappearance of a woman whose scarf is found wrapped around an ominous-looking snowman.
Director: Tomas Alfredson | Stars: Michael Fassbender, Rebecca Ferguson, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Jonas Karlsson
Votes: 71,758 | Gross: $6.70M
10. Forbrydelsen (2007–2012)
TV-MA | 57 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Police detective Sarah Lund investigates difficult cases with personal and political consequences.
Stars: Sofie Gråbøl, Morten Suurballe, Lars Mikkelsen, Bjarne Henriksen
Votes: 30,246
11. The Missing (2014–2016)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Tony and Emily Hughes' vacation turns into a nightmare when their 5-year-old son Oliver disappears from a large celebrating crowd in Northern France.
Stars: Tchéky Karyo, Anastasia Hille, James Nesbitt, Frances O'Connor
Votes: 30,303
12. The Silencing (2020)
R | 93 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
A reformed hunter living in isolation on a wildlife sanctuary becomes involved in a deadly game of cat and mouse when he and the local Sheriff set out to track a vicious killer who may have kidnapped his daughter years ago.
Director: Robin Pront | Stars: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Caleb Ellsworth-Clark, Josh Cruddas, Annabelle Wallis
Votes: 34,450 | Gross: $0.10M
13. Waking the Dead (2000–2011)
TV-14 | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Drama series following a team of detectives who investigate unsolved murders using modern technology.
Stars: Trevor Eve, Sue Johnston, Wil Johnson, Tara Fitzgerald
Votes: 6,449
14. Sinister 2 (2015)
R | 97 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A young mother and her twin sons move into a rural house that's marked for death.
Director: Ciarán Foy | Stars: James Ransone, Shannyn Sossamon, Robert Daniel Sloan, Dartanian Sloan
Votes: 60,685 | Gross: $27.74M
15. Signal (2016)
80 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy
A cold-case profiler in 2015 and a detective in 1989 work together to solve a series of related murders spanning three decades using a special walkie-talkie to communicate with each other.
Stars: Lee Jehoon, Kim Hye-su, Cho Jin-woong, Kim Won-hae
Votes: 9,250
16. Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines (2012 Video)
R | 91 min | Adventure, Horror
A group of college students, on a trip to the Mountain Man Festival on Halloween in West Virginia, encounter a clan of cannibals.
Director: Declan O'Brien | Stars: Doug Bradley, Camilla Arfwedson, Simon Ginty, Roxanne McKee
Votes: 23,003
17. Limbo (II) (2023)
108 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
'Limbo' follows the investigation of a twenty year-old outback cold case murder by jaded detective Travis Hurley.
Director: Ivan Sen | Stars: Simon Baker, Rob Collins, Natasha Wanganeen, Nicholas Hope
Votes: 1,609
18. Beyond Evil (2021)
TV-MA | 70 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
The story of two fearless men who are willing to go through extreme lengths in their pursuit of a returning serial killer. To uncover the murderer's identity, the two are forced to look deeper than what the evidence seems to suggest.
Stars: Shin Ha-kyun, Yeo Jin-goo, Choi Dae-hoon, Choi Sung-eun
Votes: 5,357
19. Jesse Stone: Lost in Paradise (2015 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 86 min | Crime, Drama
Jesse investigates the grim works of a serial killer in Boston and becomes concerned with a wayward teen in Paradise.
Director: Robert Harmon | Stars: Tom Selleck, Kohl Sudduth, Gloria Reuben, Leslie Hope
Votes: 3,857
20. American Woman (2018)
R | 111 min | Drama, Mystery
A woman raises her young grandson after her daughter goes missing.
Director: Jake Scott | Stars: Sienna Miller, Sky Ferreira, Kentucker Audley, Christina Hendricks
Votes: 7,713 | Gross: $0.24M
21. Cold Justice (2013– )
TV-14 | 60 min | Documentary, Crime, Reality-TV
Reality series following former prosecutor Kelly Siegler and crime scene investigator Yolanda McClary as they crack cold cases across the U.S.
Stars: Kelly Siegler, Steve Spingola, Yolanda McClary, Alan Brown
Votes: 1,991
22. The Pembrokeshire Murders (2021)
TV-14 | 48 min | Crime, Drama, History
DSU Steve Wilkins reopens two unsolved murder cases from the 1980s. Forensic methods link the crimes to a string of burglaries. Steve's team has to find more evidence before the perpetrator is released from prison.
Stars: Luke Evans, Keith Allen, Caroline Berry, Oliver Ryan
Votes: 10,884
23. The Kid Detective (2020)
R | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
A once-celebrated kid detective, now 32, continues to solve the same trivial mysteries between hangovers and bouts of self-pity; until a naive client brings him his first 'adult' case to find out who brutally murdered her boyfriend.
Director: Evan Morgan | Stars: Kaitlyn Chalmers-Rizzato, Adam Brody, Kaleb Horn, Wendy Crewson
Votes: 22,569
24. Bancroft (2017–2020)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A dark thriller surrounding Elizabeth Bancroft, a senior detective with explosive secrets.
Stars: Sarah Parish, Ryan McKen, Adam Long, Lee Boardman
Votes: 4,078
25. The Keepers (II) (2017)
TV-MA | 62 min | Documentary, Crime, Mystery
A seven-part docuseries about the unsolved murder of a nun and the horrific secrets and pain that linger nearly five decades after her death.
Stars: Gemma Hoskins, Abbie Schaub, Virginia Anzengruber, Jean Hargadon Wehner
Votes: 25,109
26. Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G. (2018)
TV-MA | 60 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
A scripted true crime series based on the murder investigations of Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls.
Stars: Josh Duhamel, Bokeem Woodbine, Wavyy Jonez, Marcc Rose
Votes: 9,009
27. Blackwater (2023)
355 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
One midsummer evening in 1973 two tourists are found murdered in a tent. The unsolved crime casts shadows on the lives of several people.
Stars: Pernilla August, Alba August, Erik Ehn, Rolf Lassgård
Votes: 3,374
28. Department Q: The Absent One (2014)
Not Rated | 119 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The murder of young twins initially implicates a group of upper class students as the killers, though the case takes a turn or two from its starting point.
Director: Mikkel Nørgaard | Stars: Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Fares Fares, Pilou Asbæk, David Dencik
Votes: 26,238
29. The Vanished (2020)
R | 115 min | Action, Crime, Horror
A husband and wife will stop at nothing to find their missing daughter, who disappeared on a family camping trip. When the police don't have any leads, the duo takes over.
Director: Peter Facinelli | Stars: Anne Heche, Thomas Jane, Jason Patric, Alex Haydon
Votes: 12,123
30. A Jazzman's Blues (2022)
R | 127 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Follows an investigation into an unsolved murder unveiling a story full of forbidden love, deceit and a secret.
Director: Tyler Perry | Stars: Joshua Boone, Amirah Vann, Solea Pfeiffer, Austin Scott
Votes: 4,323
31. Interrogation (2020)
TV-MA | 46 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A non-linear crime series that is centered around an interrogation of people who might be involved in a decades-old murder case.
Stars: Peter Sarsgaard, Kyle Gallner, Kodi Smit-McPhee, David Strathairn
Votes: 2,790
32. Uncovered (1994)
R | 103 min | Mystery, Thriller
While restoring an old painting showing a woman and two men playing chess, Julia discovers the text "Who killed the knight?" underneath the paint. The painting's owner tells her that one of... See full summary »
Director: Jim McBride | Stars: Kate Beckinsale, John Wood, Sinéad Cusack, Paudge Behan
Votes: 2,713
33. Department Q: A Conspiracy of Faith (2016)
Not Rated | 112 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Two intertwined cases linking the past with the present require the aid of Department Q to catch an elusive serial killer while time is running out.
Director: Hans Petter Moland | Stars: Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Fares Fares, Pål Sverre Hagen, Jacob Lohmann
Votes: 22,474
34. The Silence (2010)
Not Rated | 118 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
13-year-old Sinikka vanishes on a hot summer night. Her bicycle is found in the exact place where a girl was killed 23 years ago. The dramatic present forces those involved in the original case to face their past.
Director: Baran bo Odar | Stars: Ulrich Thomsen, Claudia Michelsen, Wotan Wilke Möhring, Katrin Sass
Votes: 8,185 | Gross: $0.10M
35. Springfloden (2016–2018)
44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A student at the Police Academy is tasked to study a cold case: the murder of a pregnant woman on a Swedish beach 25 years ago.
Stars: Julia Ragnarsson, Kjell Bergqvist, Cecilia Nilsson, Dar Salim
Votes: 4,728
36. American Gothic (2016)
TV-14 | 40 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The members of a prominent Boston family suspect that one of their own is working with an infamous serial killer.
Stars: Juliet Rylance, Antony Starr, Justin Chatwin, Megan Ketch
Votes: 4,726
37. Det som göms i snö (2018– )
TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Detective Peter Wendel returns after a long sick leave to form a team to reopen cold cases; the team find clues that an innocent man has been convicted of murder.
Stars: Robert Gustafsson, Louise Peterhoff, Ia Langhammer, Christopher Wagelin
Votes: 3,515
38. Prime Suspect 2 (1992)
102 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison's (Dame Helen Mirren's) investigation of a murder is complicated with the unexpected participation of her secret lover in her detective unit.
Stars: Helen Mirren, Colin Salmon, John Benfield, Jack Ellis
Votes: 4,113
39. Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Til Death Do Us Part (2021 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 85 min | Mystery
Just days before Aurora's wedding, a body is discovered, and Aurora fears that her father may be a suspect. She and Nick race to solve the cold case before they walk down the aisle.
Director: Martin Wood | Stars: Candace Cameron Bure, Niall Matter, Marilu Henner, Lexa Doig
Votes: 732
40. Creepy (2016)
Not Rated | 130 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Takakura is a former detective. He receives a request from his ex-colleague, Nogami, to examine a missing family case that occurred six years earlier. Takakura follows Saki's memory. She is... See full summary »
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Stars: Hidetoshi Nishijima, Yûko Takeuchi, Toru Baba, Ryôko Fujino
Votes: 5,995
41. Missing 411: The U.F.O. Connection (2022)
93 min | Documentary, Mystery
Dave Paulides investigates cases of elk hunters who've gone missing from specific regions of North America, and explores the theory that there could be a connection between these disappearances and sightings of UFOs.
Director: David Paulides | Stars: Daniela Salmen, John Miles, Adam Palmer, Gail Star
Votes: 724
42. The Battersea Poltergeist (2021 Podcast Series)
Talk-Show
A paranormal cold case, re-investigated through a thrilling blend of drama and documentary. The real story of one of Britain's strangest hauntings, with Dafne Keen and Toby Jones. Presented by Danny Robins.
Stars: Toby Jones, Burn Gorman, Dafne Keen, Sorcha Cusack
Votes: 35
43. Through the Glass Darkly (2020)
103 min | Thriller
A year after Charlie's daughter disappears, another girl from Elrod, Georgia goes missing. Convinced there is a connection, Charlie draws suspicion and contempt from local law enforcement and townspeople as she stops at nothing to expose its most devastating and darkest secret.
Director: Lauren Fash | Stars: Robyn Lively, Michael Trucco, Shanola Hampton, Judith Ivey
Votes: 10,149
44. Miami Supercops (1985)
PG | 96 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
An ex-con returns to Miami after completing a seven-year sentence for thieving $20,000,000 and is murdered. Two FBI agents are then shipped to Miami to investigate the case under the guise of cops.
Director: Bruno Corbucci | Stars: Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, C.B. Seay, William 'Bo' Jim
Votes: 8,220
45. Les témoins (2014– )
TV-14 | 52 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Set in a small coastal village in France, this is a quiet thriller of crime and dark secrets. The opening sequence takes place in a house just put out for sale. In it, the discovery of what... See full summary »
Stars: Marie Dompnier, Jan Hammenecker, Alexandre Carrière, Florence Bolufer
Votes: 2,641
46. The Silent Forest (2022)
100 min | Crime, Drama, History
Anja Grimm returns to the remote forest area where her father disappeared without a trace when she was eight years old. Her sudden appearance triggers a brutal murder. Disturbances in the ... See full summary »
Director: Saralisa Volm | Stars: Henriette Confurius, Noah Saavedra, August Zirner, Robert Stadlober
Votes: 594
47. Cold Case Hammarskjöld (2019)
Not Rated | 128 min | Documentary, History
Danish director Mads Brügger and Swedish private investigator Göran Björkdahl are trying to solve the mysterious death of Dag Hammarskjöld. As their investigation closes in, they discover a... See full summary »
Director: Mads Brügger | Stars: Mads Brügger, Clarinah Mfengu, Saphir Wenzi Mabanza, U Thant
Votes: 2,794 | Gross: $0.09M
48. Killer Legends (2014)
TV-MA | 86 min | Documentary, Crime, History
Delving into our collective nightmares, this horror-documentary investigates the origins of our most terrifying urban legends and the true stories that may have inspired them.
Director: Joshua Zeman | Stars: Rachel Mills, Joshua Zeman, Stephen Winick, James Presley
Votes: 3,537
49. Shuttlecock (2020)
TV-MA | 105 min | Drama
During a memorial for his father, WW II hero Major James Prentis confesses a dark family secret to his son, something he has harbored for more than 20 years.
Director: Andrew Piddington | Stars: Alan Bates, Lambert Wilson, David Oakes, Kenneth Haigh
Votes: 118
50. In the Footsteps of Killers (2021– )
TV-14 | 65 min | Documentary, Crime
Emilia Fox and Professor David Wilson use the latest forensic science and criminological research to shed new light on unsolved murder cases.
Stars: Emilia Fox, David Wilson, Graham Hill
Votes: 256