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1. Fargo (1996)
R | 98 min | Crime, Thriller
Minnesota car salesman Jerry Lundegaard's inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen's bungling and the persistent police work of the quite pregnant Marge Gunderson.
Directors: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | Stars: William H. Macy, Frances McDormand, Steve Buscemi, Peter Stormare
Votes: 727,423 | Gross: $24.61M
2. A Simple Favor (2018)
R | 117 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Stephanie is a single mother with a parenting vlog who befriends Emily, a secretive upper-class woman who has a child at the same elementary school. When Emily goes missing, Stephanie takes it upon herself to investigate.
Director: Paul Feig | Stars: Anna Kendrick, Blake Lively, Henry Golding, Andrew Rannells
Votes: 162,844 | Gross: $53.55M
3. As Good as It Gets (1997)
PG-13 | 139 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A single mother and waitress, a misanthropic author, and a gay artist form an unlikely friendship after the artist is assaulted in a robbery.
Director: James L. Brooks | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt, Greg Kinnear, Cuba Gooding Jr.
Votes: 318,742 | Gross: $148.48M
4. The Girl on the Train (2016)
R | 112 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A divorcee becomes entangled in a missing persons investigation that promises to send shockwaves throughout her life.
Director: Tate Taylor | Stars: Emily Blunt, Haley Bennett, Rebecca Ferguson, Justin Theroux
Votes: 199,550 | Gross: $75.40M
5. From Hell (2001)
R | 122 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
After five ritualistic murders are committed in 1888 London, Inspector Abberline's assignment is to investigate the "Jack the Ripper" murders. Along with a string of mutilated prostitutes, he uncovers a conspiracy involving the government.
Directors: Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes | Stars: Johnny Depp, Heather Graham, Ian Holm, Robbie Coltrane
Votes: 164,304 | Gross: $31.60M
6. Guns Akimbo (2019)
R | 98 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A guy relies on his newly-acquired gladiator skills to save his ex-girlfriend from kidnappers.
Director: Jason Howden | Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Samara Weaving, Ned Dennehy, Natasha Liu Bordizzo
Votes: 69,995
7. 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: 92,298 | Gross: $67.64M
8. Sudden Impact (1983)
R | 117 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
When a woman exacts deadly revenge on the aggressors who raped her and her sister ten years earlier, Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan is assigned to the case.
Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Pat Hingle, Bradford Dillman
Votes: 48,714 | Gross: $67.64M
9. Taking Lives (2004)
R | 103 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
An FBI profiler is called in by French Canadian police to catch a serial killer who takes on the identity of each new victim.
Director: D.J. Caruso | Stars: Angelina Jolie, Ethan Hawke, Kiefer Sutherland, Gena Rowlands
Votes: 95,366 | Gross: $32.68M
10. The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970)
GP | 96 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
An American expatriate in Rome attempts to unmask a serial killer he witnessed in the act of an attempted murder - and is now hunting him and his girlfriend.
Director: Dario Argento | Stars: Tony Musante, Suzy Kendall, Enrico Maria Salerno, Eva Renzi
Votes: 24,122 | Gross: $0.42M
11. The January Man (1989)
R | 97 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Two years after being forced out of NYPD, quirky Nick is rehired by the mayor to catch a serial killer after the 11th murder of a woman.
Director: Pat O'Connor | Stars: Kevin Kline, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Susan Sarandon, Harvey Keitel
Votes: 9,174 | Gross: $4.61M
12. Two Evil Eyes (1990)
R | 120 min | Horror
A duo of Edgar Allan Poe adaptations about a greedy wife's attempt to embezzle her dying husband's fortune, and a sleazy reporter's adoption of a strange black cat.
Directors: Dario Argento, George A. Romero | Stars: Adrienne Barbeau, Harvey Keitel, Ramy Zada, Bingo O'Malley
Votes: 8,157 | Gross: $0.35M
13. He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not (2002)
PG-13 | 92 min | Romance, Thriller
A young woman who is in love with a married doctor becomes dangerous when her attempts to persuade him to leave his wife are unsuccessful. However, when things are seen from his point of view, the real situation becomes clear.
Director: Laetitia Colombani | Stars: Audrey Tautou, Samuel Le Bihan, Isabelle Carré, Sophie Guillemin
Votes: 19,541 | Gross: $1.01M
14. Bad Ronald (1974 TV Movie)
Unrated | 74 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A perverted teenage boy who lives in the walls of a house finds the house sold to a family after his mother dies, then he falls for one of the new residents.
Director: Buzz Kulik | Stars: Scott Jacoby, Pippa Scott, John Larch, Dabney Coleman
Votes: 2,417
15. Body Parts (1991)
R | 88 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
After losing his arm in a car accident, a criminal psychologist has it replaced with a limb that belonged to a serial killer.
Director: Eric Red | Stars: Jeff Fahey, Lindsay Duncan, Kim Delaney, Zakes Mokae
Votes: 5,026 | Gross: $9.19M
16. The Ambulance (1990)
R | 96 min | Action, Comedy, Horror
A comic-book artist meets a woman on the NYC streets, but after a quick flirtation, she suddenly collapses and is picked up by an old ambulance. He checks all the hospitals in the area, but the woman has disappeared.
Director: Larry Cohen | Stars: Eric Roberts, James Earl Jones, Megan Gallagher, Red Buttons
Votes: 4,193
17. A Quiet Place in the Country (1968)
R | 106 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
After moving into a dilapidated rural villa to reinvigorate his creative energies, a neurotic artist becomes obsessed with a beautiful countess who died there many years prior.
Director: Elio Petri | Stars: Franco Nero, Vanessa Redgrave, Georges Géret, Gabriella Boccardo
Votes: 2,044
18. Crossfire (1947)
Approved | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A man is murdered, apparently by one of a group of demobilized soldiers he met in a bar. But which one? And why?
Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan, Gloria Grahame
Votes: 9,712 | Gross: $1.30M
19. Maniac (1963)
Not Rated | 86 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
An American painter has an affair with a bar owner in a French village and agrees to help murder her husband, who has escaped from a prison for the criminally insane.
Director: Michael Carreras | Stars: Kerwin Mathews, Nadia Gray, Donald Houston, Liliane Brousse
Votes: 1,552
20. Tiger Claws (1992)
R | 92 min | Action
A mysterious martial artist is going around and killing martial arts masters with his unique style, Tiger Claw. Two police detectives, who're also martial arts experts, use unorthodox methods to track down the serial killer.
Director: Kelly Makin | Stars: Cynthia Rothrock, Nick Dibley, Fern Figueiredo, Jack Vorvis
Votes: 1,276
21. House of Horrors (1946)
Passed | 65 min | Adventure, Crime, Horror
An unsuccessful sculptor saves a madman named "The Creeper" from drowning. Seeing an opportunity for revenge, he tricks the psycho into murdering his critics.
Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Robert Lowery, Virginia Grey, Bill Goodwin, Martin Kosleck
Votes: 1,292
22. Murdered for Being Different (2017 TV Movie)
61 min | Crime, Drama
On August 11, 2007, twenty-year-old Sophie Lancaster was brutally attacked in a park by a gang of teenagers and died 13 days later in hospital. She and her boyfriend Robert Maltby were attacked because they were dressed as Goths.
Director: Paul Andrew Williams | Stars: Chanel Cresswell, Nico Mirallegro, Abigail Lawrie, Sally Lindsay
Votes: 713
23. Inspector Maigret (1958)
119 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A serial killer is targeting women in the seedy district of Le Marais.
Director: Jean Delannoy | Stars: Jean Gabin, Annie Girardot, Olivier Hussenot, Jeanne Boitel
Votes: 2,085 | Gross: $0.01M
24. Raaz: The Mystery Continues (2009)
Not Rated | 151 min | Horror, Mystery, Romance
An artist comes to realize that the woman he has been been painting is real and is being haunted by a ghost.
Director: Mohit Suri | Stars: Kangana Ranaut, Adhyayan Suman, Emraan Hashmi, Habib Mithiborwala
Votes: 4,012
25. Gideon of Scotland Yard (1958)
Approved | 91 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A typical day for Scotland Yard Chief Inspector George Gideon consists of working on several cases at the same time.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Jack Hawkins, Anna Lee, Anna Massey, Andrew Ray
Votes: 1,544
26. The Fake (1953)
Approved | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
On loan to the Tate Gallery in London, Da Vinci's 'Madonna and Child' is stolen and replaced with a fake but the American security expert working for Tate aims to recover the original painting and catch the culprits.
Director: Godfrey Grayson | Stars: Dennis O'Keefe, Coleen Gray, Hugh Williams, Guy Middleton
Votes: 494
27. Intimate Enemy (2018)
108 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Andrej, a programmer, is developing his project of an intelligent home. To make his program perfect he moved with his wife Zuzana to the test house. He is striving to implement a bonus into... See full summary »
Director: Karel Janák | Stars: Gabriela Marcinková, Vojtech Dyk, Zuzana Porubjaková, Ondrej Malý
Votes: 268
28. No Man's Woman (1955)
Approved | 70 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
The police investigates five possible suspects in the murder of a greedy and scheming woman who wronged them.
Director: Franklin Adreon | Stars: Marie Windsor, John Archer, Patric Knowles, Nancy Gates
Votes: 612
29. Cop in Drag (1984)
96 min | Comedy, Crime
During a show held at Blue Gay, drag queen cabaret in the center of Rome, an artist of the restaurant is found dead. The investigations are entrusted to Inspector Giraldi.
Director: Bruno Corbucci | Stars: Tomas Milian, Bombolo, Olimpia Di Nardo, Paco Fabrini
Votes: 305
30. Devil's Express (1976)
R | 83 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A tough black martial artist cop takes on warring street gangs and an evil demon that haunts the New York City subways.
Director: Barry Rosen | Stars: Warhawk Tanzania, Larry Fleischman, Wilfredo Roldan, Stephen DeFazio
Votes: 539
31. The Art of Murder (1999)
R | 100 min | Thriller
An abused wife (Joanna Pacula) turns to another man and becomes the victim of a blackmailer.
Director: Ruben Preuss | Stars: Michael Moriarty, Joanna Pacula, Boyd Kestner, Peter Onorati
Votes: 259
32. Moon Child (2003)
120 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
The story of love and friendship on the harsh streets of 2014 Mallepa, a small corner in Asia.
Director: Takahisa Zeze | Stars: Hyde, Gackt, Leehom Wang, Tarô Yamamoto
Votes: 2,104
33. Open Cam (2005)
TV-MA | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
A cop investigates several castration/murders among gay men in the Washington D.C. area that all seem connected to a local artist of provocative anti-national works and his small circle of friends.
Director: Robert Gaston | Stars: Andreau Thomas, Amir Darvish, Ben Green, Matt Cannon
Votes: 420
34. Strange Affair (1944)
Approved | 78 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A comic strip artist and his wife investigate a murder at a banquet honoring war refugees.
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Allyn Joslyn, Evelyn Keyes, Marguerite Chapman, Edgar Buchanan
Votes: 310
35. Cocktail Hour (1933)
Passed | 73 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Cynthia Warren, independently wealthy through her ability as an illustrator and poster artist, rebels against the premise that every woman is destined for matrimony and motherhood, and ... See full summary »
Director: Victor Schertzinger | Stars: Bebe Daniels, Randolph Scott, Sidney Blackmer, Muriel Kirkland
Votes: 186
36. Fingerprints Don't Lie (1951)
Passed | 57 min | Drama
The killing of Mayor Palmer is being placed on Paul Moody by fingerprint expert Jim Stover as Moody's prints were found on the murder weapon. When reporter Brad Evans places doubt in ... See full summary »
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Richard Travis, Sheila Ryan, Sid Melton, Tom Neal
Votes: 203
37. Dead Man's Eyes (1944)
Approved | 64 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
When an artist is blinded, his fiancée's father offers an operation to restore his sight. When the benefactor suddenly dies, the artist becomes a suspect.
Director: Reginald Le Borg | Stars: Lon Chaney Jr., Jean Parker, Paul Kelly, Thomas Gomez
Votes: 1,024
38. Kaasua, komisario Palmu! (1961)
99 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
A rich widow is found dead of gas poisoning in her flat in Helsinki. First the death is thought to be an accident, but lieutenant Palmu notices that the murderer has made a mistake, and ... See full summary »
Director: Matti Kassila | Stars: Joel Rinne, Matti Ranin, Leo Jokela, Elina Salo
Votes: 1,670
39. A Night of Adventure (1944)
Passed | 65 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
A wealthy lawyer begins to suspect that his inattention to his wife is making her cheat on him. When he discovers the truth he's charged with murder.
Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Tom Conway, Audrey Long, Edward Brophy, Louis Borel
Votes: 278
40. Monnaie de singe (1966)
83 min | Comedy, Crime
Fulbert is a sidewalk artist who is duped into working for a counterfeiter. He accompanies a woman posing as a grieving widow on a trip to Spain in a hearse. Unaware she is the mistress of a notorious gangster, Fulbert is chased by thugs.
Director: Yves Robert | Stars: Robert Hirsch, Sylva Koscina, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Alberto Closas
Votes: 66
41. Nancy Drew: The Haunted Carousel (2003 Video Game)
E | Adventure, Mystery
Teen detective Nancy Drew investigates when a carousel at the Captain's Cove Amusement Park begins mysteriously starting up in the middle of the night shortly after one of its antique horses was stolen.
Director: Max Holechek | Stars: Lani Minella, Laurie Jerger, Gary Hoffman, Jonah Von Spreecken
Votes: 91
42. Alaston malli karkuteillä (1953)
77 min | Comedy
Director: Ville Salminen | Stars: Raili Mäki, Sakari Jurkka, Rauni Luoma, Matti Lehtelä
Votes: 78
43. Nancy Drew: Secret of the Scarlet Hand (2002 Video Game)
E | Adventure, Mystery
Teen detective Nancy Drew interns at a museum featuring an exhibit on ancient Mayan culture while investigating the theft of a priceless artifact.
Director: Max Holechek | Stars: Lani Minella, Laurie Jerger, Jake Perrine, David S. Hogan
Votes: 89
44.
Fox Mystery Theater (1984)
Episode:
Paint Me a Murder
(1984)
75 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Luke Lorenz is a artist whose paintings don't sell. His imaginative wife Sandra reasons that sales of his works would increase tenfold if he were to die, so they fake his death.
Director: Alan Cooke | Stars: Michelle Phillips, James Laurenson, David Robb, Alan Lake
Votes: 120
45.
The Spiral (2012)
Episode:
Episode #1.1
(2012)
52 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Director: Hans Herbots | Stars: Paw Henriksen, Elmer Bäck, Teun Luijkx, Thomas Ryckewaert
Votes: 29
46.
The Spiral (2012)
Episode:
Episode #1.2
(2012)
52 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Director: Hans Herbots | Stars: Paw Henriksen, Elmer Bäck, Teun Luijkx, Thomas Ryckewaert
Votes: 25
47.
Maigret (2016–2017)
Episode:
Maigret Sets a Trap
(2016)
87 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Chief Inspector Jules Maigret hunts for a serial killer.
Director: Ashley Pearce | Stars: Rowan Atkinson, Leo Staar, Shaun Dingwall, Alexander Campbell
Votes: 9,575
48.
Armchair Detectives (2017)
Episode:
Watercolour Crime
(2017)
44 min | Crime, Drama, Game-Show
In the first edition of the genre-busting game show three amateur sleuths watch as police in the fictional town of Mortcliff investigate the murder of a local artist. Hosted by Susan Calman.
Directors: Rob Brown, Julian Smith | Stars: Susan Calman, Stephen Billington, Roger Jean Nsengiyumva, Sarah Baxendale
Votes: 10