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1. The Frozen Ground (2013)
R | 105 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
An Alaska State Trooper partners with a young woman who escaped the clutches of serial killer Robert Hansen to bring the murderer to justice. Based on actual events.
Director: Scott Walker | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Vanessa Hudgens, John Cusack, Dean Norris
Votes: 67,759
2. DCI Banks (2010–2016)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Tenacious and stubborn DCI Alan Banks unravels disturbing murder mysteries aided by his young assistants, DS Annie Cabbot and DI Helen Morton.
Stars: Stephen Tompkinson, Jack Deam, Andrea Lowe, Caroline Catz
Votes: 9,192
3. 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: 5,439
4. The Night of the 12th (2022)
115 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
It is said that every investigator has a crime that haunts them, a case that hurts him more than the others, without him necessarily knowing why. For Yohan that case is the murder of Clara.
Director: Dominik Moll | Stars: Bastien Bouillon, Bouli Lanners, Théo Cholbi, Johann Dionnet
Votes: 9,834
5. 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: 1,649
6. 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 Je-Hoon, Kim Hye-su, Cho Jin-woong, Kim Won-hae
Votes: 9,368
7. Hailey Dean Mystery (2016–2021)
90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Ex DA's prosecutor, now therapist Hailey Dean and her investigator friend, Finch, solve murder cases.
Stars: Kellie Martin, Viv Leacock, Matthew MacCaull, Lucia Walters
Votes: 678
8. The Firm (2012)
TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Defense Attorney Mitch McDeere is targeted for execution by the Chicago Mob in retaliation for bringing down a profitable Mob-operated Memphis law firm ten years earlier.
Stars: Josh Lucas, Callum Keith Rennie, Molly Parker, Juliette Lewis
Votes: 6,161
9. Badla (2019)
Not Rated | 118 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A dynamic young entrepreneur finds herself locked in a hotel room with the corpse of her dead lover. She hires a prestigious lawyer to defend her and they work together to figure out what actually happened.
Director: Sujoy Ghosh | Stars: Amitabh Bachchan, Taapsee Pannu, Amrita Singh, Antonio Aakeel
Votes: 31,034 | Gross: $1.86M
10. The Murders at White House Farm (2020)
TV-MA | 46 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Revolves around the true story of a fateful night in August 1985 when five members of the same family are murdered at an Essex farmhouse, and the ensuing police investigation and court case that follows.
Stars: Freddie Fox, Alexa Davies, Mark Addy, Scott Reid
Votes: 12,086
11. JFK: What the Doctors Saw (2023)
92 min | Documentary, History
Startling medical observations about JFK's wounds when seven doctors who were in the Parkland Hospital ER reunite to discuss a day none of them can forget.
Director: Barbara Shearer | Stars: Ronald C. Jones, Lawrence E. Klein, Joe D. Goldstrich, Kenneth Salyer
Votes: 583
12. Nightmare Next Door (2011– )
60 min | Documentary, Crime
Tells the tales of mysterious murders that rocked small-town America.
Stars: Greg Diefenbach, James Davenjay, Dorian Lough, Tom Gambrill
Votes: 1,092
13. What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984)
Not Rated | 101 min | Comedy, Drama
The vicissitudes of Gloria, a neurotic housewife, and her family's peculiar characters.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Stars: Carmen Maura, Gonzalo Suárez, Luis Hostalot, Ryo Hiruma
Votes: 11,164
14. Murder by the Sea (2018– )
60 min | Documentary, Crime
Presented by journalist and true crime author Geoffrey Wansell (and later by crime historian Dr Nell Darby), Murder by the Sea examines strange murders recorded at famous seaside resorts in the United Kingdom.
Stars: Nell Darby, Geoffrey Wansell, Mike Berry, Paul Barnard
Votes: 34
15. Love on the Run (1979)
PG | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Antoine Doinel is now more than thirty. He divorces from Christine. He is a proofreader, and is in love with Sabine, a record seller. Colette, his teenager love, is now a lawyer. She buys ... See full summary »
Director: François Truffaut | Stars: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claude Jade, Marie-France Pisier, Dani
Votes: 7,555
16. Tiger Bay (1959)
Not Rated | 105 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A twelve-year-old tomboy witnesses the murder of a woman by her Polish merchant marine boyfriend, but bonds with him and thwarts the police in their investigation.
Director: J. Lee Thompson | Stars: Hayley Mills, Horst Buchholz, John Mills, Yvonne Mitchell
Votes: 3,179
17. Dearest (2021)
TV-14 | Crime, Drama, Romance
In 2006, Sanada Rio (Yoshitaka Yuriko) becomes entangled in a crime. Fifteen years later, she is the president of a successful drug development company when she is involved in a murder case.
Stars: Yuriko Yoshitaka, Kôhei Matsushita, Arata Iura, Hiroko Yakushimaru
Votes: 440
18. The Crimson Kimono (1959)
Approved | 82 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Two detectives seek a stripper's killer in the Japanese quarter of Los Angeles, but a love triangle threatens their friendship.
Director: Samuel Fuller | Stars: Victoria Shaw, Glenn Corbett, James Shigeta, Anna Lee
Votes: 3,125
19. Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (1939)
Approved | 60 min | Comedy, Crime, Family
Nancy helps two aging spinsters fulfill the byzantine provisions of their father's will, but the murder of their chauffeur complicates matters.
Director: William Clemens | Stars: Bonita Granville, Frankie Thomas, John Litel, Frank Orth
Votes: 981
20. Dead Sexy (2001 Video)
R | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A female detective gets involved with a murder suspect in a series of serial killings.
Director: Robert Angelo | Stars: Shannon Tweed, John Enos III, Sam J. Jones, Mary Shannon
Votes: 913
21. Love Me If You Dare (2015–2016)
45 min | Crime, Romance, Thriller
Simon is a criminal profiler from the US who returns to China. He hires Jenny to help him with his work, and they fall in love. But a serial-killer stalker is leaving calling cards for Simon in other killers' crime scenes.
Stars: Wallace Huo, Sichun Ma, Zheng Yin, Kai Wang
Votes: 750
22. A Question of Silence (1982)
R | 92 min | Drama
When three women with no previous acquaintance kill a male shopkeeper in the middle of the day, the female psychiatrist assigned to the case sets out to understand why.
Director: Marleen Gorris | Stars: Edda Barends, Nelly Frijda, Henriëtte Tol, Cox Habbema
Votes: 1,155
23. A Murder in the Family (2023)
142 min | Documentary, Crime
True crime documentary series. Each stand alone film investigates three shocking murders, where the victim and perpetrator are family, telling stories of ordinary relationships that take extraordinary and ultimately tragic turns.
Votes: 108
24. In the Name of the Italian People (1971)
103 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
A judge investigates the death of a young woman, possibly a murder. He suspects a famous industry tycoon with high political connections. But to what extent do the latter's lies and frauds influence the magistrate's opinion?
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Ugo Tognazzi, Vittorio Gassman, Ely Galleani, Yvonne Furneaux
Votes: 1,714
25. Five Star Final (1931)
Not Rated | 89 min | Crime, Drama
The City Editor of a sleazy tabloid goes against his own journalistic ethics to resurrect a twenty year old murder case... with tragic results.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Marian Marsh, H.B. Warner, Anthony Bushell
Votes: 2,545
26. Deadliest Families (2024– )
44 min | Crime, Documentary
The devastating murder stories where the victim and killer are family. What events led up to the crimes and why did the killers turn on their own?
27. Wrongly Accused (2023– )
60 min | Documentary, Crime
Investigative reporter Louise Shorter hosts this true crime series looking at both sides of some of the biggest miscarriages of justice in British legal history. Louise and experts look at what went wrong and how it was put right.
Stars: Jo Millington, Louise Shorter, Hywel Rose, William Adrian
Votes: 23
28. Murdered at First Sight (2022– )
60 min | Documentary, Crime
British true crime documentary series telling the first-hand stories of some of the most complex and hard-to-solve murder cases: stranger murders.
Stars: Bryanna Fox, Benjamin Hatfield, Jeff Edwards, Bob Benton
Votes: 62
29. Concrete-Encased High School Girl Murder Case: Broken Seventeen-Year-Olds (1995)
76 min | Crime, Horror
A 17-year-old boy, Jo Kamisaku, and three other boys abduct a high school girl Junko Furuta.
Director: Katsuya Matsumura | Stars: Yûjin Kitagawa, Satoru Saitô, Eisuke Sasai
Votes: 154
30. Murder Rap: Inside the Biggie and Tupac Murders (2015)
Not Rated | 113 min | Documentary, Crime, Music
The inside story behind the Biggie and Tupac murder investigations is laid bare using police case files, taped confessions never before shown on film, and interviews with lead detective Greg Kading and other witnesses.
Director: Mike Dorsey | Stars: Imari Williams, Greg Kading, Frank Alexander, Xavien T. Bailey
Votes: 934
31. Secrets of the Morgue (2018– )
42 min | Documentary, Crime
"Secrets of the Morgue" explores high-profile murder cases from the perspective of the medical examiner, as they work alongside homicide detectives to bring justice to murder victims and ... See full summary »
Stars: Rory O'Shea, Mark Mendelson, Jooyoung Lee, Jane Turner
Votes: 140
32. The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case (1930)
Approved | 30 min | Short, Comedy, Crime
In order to claim an inheritance, the boys present themselves at a creaky, bat-filled mansion on a stormy night.
Director: James Parrott | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Frank Austin, Stanley Blystone
Votes: 2,059
33. Legacy (2008 Video)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
When a geeky, overweight rushee is found dead at the hottest sorority on the campus, the three most popular girls of the house are prime suspects.
Directors: Jason Dudek, Michael Kolko | Stars: Haylie Duff, Madeline Zima, Monica Lo, Brett Claywell
Votes: 1,067
34. Murder in Batz (2015 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Manon cleans-up crime scenes to fund her medical studies. One day she is sent to an island in Brittany where an unknown stranger was killed in an abandoned and reputedly haunted house. The island's first murder in a century.
Director: Edwin Baily | Stars: Stéphane Freiss, Flore Bonaventura, François Marthouret, Sophie Le Tellier
Votes: 260
35. Dark Sanity (1982)
88 min | Drama, Horror
A woman with psychic visions and an alcoholic past moves into a house where the previous occupant was mysteriously decapitated, and soon suspects the visions she's seeing are her own future.
Director: Martin Green | Stars: Aldo Ray, Kory Clark, Chuck Jamison, Bobbie Holt
Votes: 239
36. The Suitcase Murders (2024– )
60 min | Documentary, Crime
The gruesome crimes of killers who dispose of their victims in luggage. Experts identify the sociopathic motivations of these killers and reveal how their attempts to hide their victims offer the clues they need to bring them to justice.
Stars: Stuart Hamilton, Jo Millington, Keri Nixon, Jane Monckton-Smith
Votes: 15
37. Judge Dee and the Monastery Murders (1974 TV Movie)
100 min | Mystery
China, 7th century. On their way to a provincial centre Judge Dee and his three wives spend the night at a taoist monastery. Soon the judge discovers that the secluded place holds a secret ... See full summary »
Director: Jeremy Kagan | Stars: Khigh Dhiegh, Mako, Soon-Tek Oh, Miiko Taka
Votes: 155
38. Open Doors (1990)
R | 108 min | Crime, Drama
A principled judge faces a case that society demands capital punishment for.
Director: Gianni Amelio | Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Ennio Fantastichini, Renato Carpentieri, Tuccio Musumeci
Votes: 1,002 | Gross: $0.12M
39. Pamela Smart: An American Murder Mystery (2018)
126 min | Documentary, Crime
This three part special explores the story of Gregg Smart, whose wife Pamela Smart plotted his murder at the hands of four teenage boys in 1990.
Stars: Paul Maggiotto, Diane Dimond, Dan Pelletier, Cecelia Pierce
Votes: 246
40. Caroline: The Murder That Fooled the World (2022 TV Movie)
67 min | Documentary, Crime
True crime documentary examining the shocking story of Caroline Crouch, a young British mother murdered in her home in a suburb of Athens, Greece and of the unexpected revelation of who had murdered her.
Directors: Sam Budd, Katie McDougall | Stars: Steven Mackintosh, Babis Anagnostopoulos, Caroline Crouch, Pavlos Kapantais
Votes: 44
41. Unknown (2023)
Drama, Mystery, Romance
Kokoro Yamihara and Toramatsu Asada live in a town that is quite peaceful, until a serial murder case happened where the bodies all had their blood drained out. Five years have passed but ... See full summary »
Stars: Keita Machida, Kumiko Asô, Mitsuki Takahata, Kei Tanaka
Votes: 17
42. Nothing Personal (2011–2012)
Documentary, Biography, Crime
A documentary type series narrated and hosted by Steve Schirripa that shows various plots of murder for hire.
Stars: Steve Schirripa, Elias Edraki, Frank Longo, Shane Harbinson
Votes: 40
43. Crime Scene Confidential (2022– )
Documentary
CSI expert Alina Burroughs revisits shocking murder cases from across the country by taking a fresh look at the forensic evidence, with the hope of bringing clarity to these complex crimes, and closure to the families of the victims.
Star: Alina Burroughs
Votes: 159
44. After Office Hours (1935)
Approved | 72 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Hard-hitting news editor Jim Branch falls for high-society type Sharon Norwood but can't get to first base as he continually makes use of her knowledge of the rich and famous to try to ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Constance Bennett, Clark Gable, Stuart Erwin, Billie Burke
Votes: 1,046
45. Vanpaia hosuto (2004– )
25 min | Drama
Rion, a naive, loudmouthed teenager, investigates a host club full of vampires when she suspects they must be related to the disappearance of a lot of people in the neighborhood, including ... See full summary »
Stars: Satoshi Matsuda, Minako Komukai, Shirô Sano, Seijun Nobukawa
Votes: 50
46. Deadliest Kids (2021– )
60 min | Crime
When kids kill it sends shock-waves through the community. But what drives a child to commit murder? Police evidence, personal archives, and interviews with the victim's loved ones reveal the truth behind the world's deadliest kids.
Stars: Milo Twomey, Blaze Sims, Paige Hudson, Abi Amara
Votes: 37
47. Barrymore: The Body in the Pool (2020 TV Movie)
110 min | Documentary, Crime
Nineteen years after Stuart Lubbock was found dead at Michael Barrymore's home, this film forensically explores the full story behind one of Britain's most high-profile unexplained deaths.
Director: Tom Barrow | Stars: Michael Barrymore, Ian Calder, Harry Cichy, David Corker
Votes: 111
48. Deep Water: The Real Story (2016)
87 min | Documentary, Crime, History
Up to 80 murders, 30 unsolved cases, thousands of assaults. In the 1980s and 1990s a murderous epidemic grips Sydney. The attackers are united by contempt. Their targets united by their ... See full summary »
Director: Amanda Blue | Stars: David McMahon, Sue Thompson, Peter Russell, Ted Russell
Votes: 152
49. Nightwalker: Midnight Detective (1998)
Not Rated | 25 min | Animation, Action, Comedy
Shido Tatsuhiko is not only a private eye, he is also a vampire with no real memory of his past. Joined by a female government agent, Shido must face demonic creatures known as Nightbreed.
Stars: Takumi Yamazaki, Maaya Sakamoto, Richard Cansino, Mari Devon
Votes: 222
50. The Gentle Twelve (1991)
116 min | Comedy
In a jury room, jurors deliberate on the guilt or innocence of a bar hostess accused of pushing her ex-husband into the path of an oncoming truck. Most of the jurors are nice folks ... See full summary »
Director: Shun Nakahara | Stars: Kazuyuki Aijima, Michiko Hayashi, Zen Kajihara, Yoshihiro Katô
Votes: 281