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1. Dial M for Murder (1954)
PG | 105 min | Crime, Thriller
A former tennis star arranges the murder of his adulterous wife.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings, John Williams
Votes: 189,113 | Gross: $0.01M
2. A Perfect Murder (1998)
R | 107 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A wealthy Wall Street speculator discovers that his wife has a lover. He investigates him and uses the carrot and stick to make him murder his wife. Planned to detail, it seems like a perfect murder.
Director: Andrew Davis | Stars: Michael Douglas, Gwyneth Paltrow, Viggo Mortensen, David Suchet
Votes: 92,326 | Gross: $67.64M
3. Wait Until Dark (1967)
Approved | 108 min | Thriller
A recently blinded woman is terrorized by a trio of thugs while they search for a heroin-stuffed doll they believe is in her apartment.
Director: Terence Young | Stars: Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna, Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
Votes: 33,784 | Gross: $17.55M
4. 77 Sunset Strip (1958–1964)
TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this Warner Brothers drama.
Stars: Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Edd Byrnes, Roger Smith, Jacqueline Beer
Votes: 1,639
5. The Honey Pot (1967)
Not Rated | 150 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
In Venice, a millionaire hires an actor to help him prank three greedy ex-girlfriends into thinking he's dying and leaving his fortune to one of them.
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Stars: Rex Harrison, Susan Hayward, Cliff Robertson, Capucine
Votes: 2,871
6. Man Bait (1952)
Not Rated | 78 min | Crime, Drama
The married owner of a bookstore is attracted to his sexy blonde clerk. He finally gives in to temptation and makes a pass at her, but that only results in him getting enmeshed in blackmail and murder.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: George Brent, Marguerite Chapman, Raymond Huntley, Peter Reynolds
Votes: 878
7. BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1959)
Drama
Series of television plays performed live.
Stars: Richard Caldicot, George Woodbridge, Robert Brown, Michael Brennan
Votes: 179
8. BBC Sunday-Night Play (1960–1963)
60 min | Drama
BBC Sunday-Night Play is the anthology drama series which replaced Sunday Night Theatre in 1960.
Stars: Brian Rix, Joby Blanshard, Cyril Luckham, John Bennett
Votes: 131
9. Dial 'M' for Murder (1981 TV Movie)
98 min | Thriller
A London businessman concocts an intricate plan to murder his unfaithful wife for her money.
Director: Boris Sagal | Stars: Angie Dickinson, Christopher Plummer, Anthony Quayle, Michael Parks
Votes: 270
10. Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates (1958 TV Movie)
90 min | Family, Musical
In Holland, poor but industrious and honorable 15-year-old Hans Brinker and his younger sister yearn to participate in December's great ice skating race on the canal.
Directors: Sidney Lumet, George Schaefer | Stars: Florence Anglin, Dick Button, Matt Crowley, John Fiedler
Votes: 87
11. Wait Until Dark (1982 TV Movie)
117 min | Thriller
A videotaped production of the Frederick Knott play in which three criminals play an elaborate scam on a blind woman who is in possession of a doll that, unbeknownst to her, is very incriminating.
Director: Barry Davis | Stars: Katharine Ross, Stacy Keach, Joshua Bryant, Robin Gammell
Votes: 75
12. Dial M for Murder (1967 TV Movie)
120 min | Drama, Mystery
An ex-tennis pro carries out a plot to murder his wife. When things go wrong, he improvises a brilliant plan B.
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey | Stars: Laurence Harvey, Diane Cilento, Hugh O'Brian, Cyril Cusack
Votes: 41
13. Dial M for Murder (1958 TV Movie)
Drama
Tony Wendice hasn't got much money to pay for his expensive tastes, but he does have a rich wife. However, she has a lover and so might leave him - if she lives long enough.
Director: George Schaefer | Stars: Richard Bowler, Anthony Dawson, Felix Deebank, Maurice Evans
Votes: 29
14. Nowhere in Sight (2001)
Unrated | 93 min | Thriller
A young woman defends her life against two intruding criminals.
Director: Douglas Jackson | Stars: Helen Slater, Christopher Heyerdahl, Andrew McCarthy, Richard Jutras
Votes: 569
15. Thursday Theatre (1964–1965)
Drama
Stars: John Sharp, Paul Rogers, Robert Flemyng, Rachel Gurney
Votes: 12
16. Grande Teatro Tupi (1951–1964)
Drama
A tele theater where famous plays were adapted and staged, during the days before videotaped Brazilian television, and performed by a cast of accomplished actors.
Stars: Wanda Kosmo, Rita Cléos, Nydia Lícia, Rildo Gonçalves
Votes: 31
17. Drej M for mord (1961 TV Movie)
93 min | Crime
Three act drama for five men and one woman about a murder-for-hire gone wrong. Tony Wendice is the scheming husband and Sheila his innocent wife. Danish adaptation of Knott's 1952 BBC play that Hitchcock adapted for the big screen in 1954.
Director: Clara Østø | Stars: Birgit Sadolin, John Wittig, Carl Ottosen, Ole Wisborg
18. Bei Anruf - Mord (1959 TV Movie)
108 min | Mystery, Thriller
An ex-tennis pro carries out a plot to murder his wife. When things go wrong, he improvises a brilliant plan B.
Director: Rainer Wolffhardt | Stars: Heinz Drache, Eva Maria Meineke, Herbert Tiede, Siegfried Lowitz
Votes: 33
19. Tony Wendice's Mistake (1981 TV Movie)
126 min | Crime, Mystery
An ex-tennis pro carries out a plot to murder his wife. When things go wrong, he improvises a brilliant plan B.
Director: Vasile Brescanu | Stars: Igor Kostolevskiy, Milena Tontegode, Pauls Butkevics, Aleksandr Filippenko
Votes: 91
20. Slå nollan till polisen (1960 TV Movie)
Mystery, Thriller
An ex-tennis pro carries out a plot to murder his wife. When things go wrong, he improvises a brilliant plan B.
Director: Bengt Lagerkvist | Stars: Gunnel Broström, Curt Masreliez, Lennart Lindberg, Tor Isedal
Votes: 12
21. Dial M for Murder (1960 TV Movie)
An ex-tennis pro carries out a plot to murder his wife. When things go wrong, he improvises a brilliant plan B.
Star: Kevin Stoney
22. Write Me a Murder (1965 TV Movie)
60 min | Crime, Drama
When two brothers inherit a fortune, one of them connives at murder.
Director: Henri Safran | Stars: Rhod Walker, Alan Edwards, John Gray, Judith Fisher
23. Soita 03 - Rikospoliisi (1958 TV Movie)
80 min | Mystery, Thriller
Director: Kaarlo Hiltunen | Stars: Eeva Kantanen, Kauko Helovirta, Hannes Kallio, Olavi Johansson
24. Bei Anruf Mord (1961 TV Movie)
Crime
A former tennis star plots wife-murder.
Director: Gerhard Klingenberg | Stars: Manfred Krug, Nana Osten, Kurt Ulrich, Hans Knötzsch
25.
BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1959)
Episode:
Dial M for Murder
(1952)
Drama
A London businessman concocts an intricate plan to murder his unfaithful wife for her money.
Director: Julian Amyes | Stars: Elizabeth Sellars, Basil Appleby, Emrys Jones, Olaf Pooley
26.
77 Sunset Strip (1958–1964)
Episode:
The Fifth Stair
(1959)
TV-PG | 47 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Forlorn hubby prefers to have his wife killed, rather than let her get away with adultery. Tony's tight alibi, & plan to make it look like a burglary gone too far seem perfect. Even when ... See full summary »
Director: Vincent Sherman | Stars: Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Roger Smith, Edd Byrnes, Richard Long
Votes: 70
27.
BBC Sunday-Night Play (1960–1963)
Episode:
Dial M for Murder
(1962)
Drama
A London businessman concocts an intricate plan to murder his unfaithful wife for her money.
Stars: Richard Pasco, Diana Fairfax, Leslie Sands, Kevin Stoney
28.
Thursday Theatre (1964–1965)
Episode:
Write Me a Murder
(1964)
Drama
When two brothers inherit a fortune, the less successful one plans a murder.
Director: Alan Gibson | Stars: David Buck, Elizabeth MacLennan, James Villiers, Noel Hood
29.
Grande Teatro Tupi (1951–1964)
Episode:
Disque m Para Matar
(1956)
Drama
A husband plans to have his wife killed, but the man he hires to do it ends up dead himself.