Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keywords "movie-director", "murder"

1. X (II) (2022)

R | 105 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

In 1979, a group of young filmmakers set out to make an adult film in rural Texas, but when their reclusive, elderly hosts catch them in the act, the crew find themselves fighting for their lives.

Director: Ti West | Stars: Mia Goth, Jenna Ortega, Brittany Snow, Kid Cudi

Votes: 174,366 | Gross: $11.77M

2. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019)

R | 161 min | Comedy, Drama

A faded television actor and his stunt double strive to achieve fame and success in the final years of Hollywood's Golden Age in 1969 Los Angeles.

Director: Quentin Tarantino | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Emile Hirsch

Votes: 849,966 | Gross: $142.50M

3. Babylon (I) (2022)

R | 189 min | Comedy, Drama, History

A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, it traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of unbridled decadence and depravity in early Hollywood.

Director: Damien Chazelle | Stars: Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Jean Smart, Olivia Wilde

Votes: 168,285

4. Mulholland Drive (2001)

R | 147 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

After a car wreck on Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.

Director: David Lynch | Stars: Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Justin Theroux, Jeanne Bates

Votes: 384,330 | Gross: $7.22M

5. King Kong (2005)

PG-13 | 187 min | Action, Adventure, Romance

A greedy film producer assembles a team of moviemakers and sets out for the infamous Skull Island, where they find more than just cannibalistic natives.

Director: Peter Jackson | Stars: Naomi Watts, Jack Black, Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann

Votes: 447,391 | Gross: $218.08M

6. Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)

PG | 104 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

When a cartoon rabbit is accused of murder, he enlists the help of a burnt out private investigator to prove his innocence.

Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Joanna Cassidy, Charles Fleischer

Votes: 217,129 | Gross: $156.45M

7. Super 8 (2011)

PG-13 | 112 min | Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi

During the summer of 1979, a group of friends witness a train crash and investigate subsequent unexplained events in their small town.

Director: J.J. Abrams | Stars: Elle Fanning, AJ Michalka, Kyle Chandler, Joel Courtney

Votes: 367,754 | Gross: $127.00M

8. Inland Empire (2006)

R | 180 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

As an actress begins to adopt the persona of her character in a film, her world becomes nightmarish and surreal.

Director: David Lynch | Stars: Karolina Gruszka, Krzysztof Majchrzak, Grace Zabriskie, Laura Dern

Votes: 62,490 | Gross: $0.75M

9. Scream 3 (2000)

R | 116 min | Horror, Mystery

While Sidney and her friends visit the Hollywood set of Stab 3, the third film based on the Woodsboro murders, another Ghostface killer rises to terrorize them.

Director: Wes Craven | Stars: David Arquette, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, Liev Schreiber

Votes: 164,246 | Gross: $89.14M

10. Lethal Weapon 3 (1992)

R | 118 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh pursue a former LAPD officer who uses his knowledge of police procedure and policies to steal and sell confiscated guns and ammunition to local street gangs.

Director: Richard Donner | Stars: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Rene Russo

Votes: 178,699 | Gross: $144.73M

11. Night Moves (1975)

R | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Los Angeles private investigator Harry Moseby is hired by a client to find her runaway teenage daughter. Moseby tracks the daughter down, only to stumble upon something much more intriguing and sinister.

Director: Arthur Penn | Stars: Gene Hackman, Jennifer Warren, Edward Binns, Harris Yulin

Votes: 17,747

12. Curtains (1983)

R | 89 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Six young actresses auditioning for a movie role at a remote mansion are targeted by a mysterious masked murderer.

Director: Richard Ciupka | Stars: John Vernon, Samantha Eggar, Linda Thorson, Anne Ditchburn

Votes: 5,747

13. Peeping Tom (1960)

Not Rated | 101 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

A young man murders women, using a movie camera to film their dying expressions of terror.

Director: Michael Powell | Stars: Karlheinz Böhm, Anna Massey, Moira Shearer, Maxine Audley

Votes: 39,333 | Gross: $0.08M

14. The Barefoot Contessa (1954)

Not Rated | 128 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

This is the life of a Hollywood movie star named Maria, as told by writer/director Harry Dawes, from being discovered in Madrid, Spain, until her funeral in Italy.

Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, Marius Goring

Votes: 12,741

15. Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (1992 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 106 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

At a reception for a fading film star making a screen comeback, a gushing, pushy fan is poisoned by a drink apparently meant for the actress.

Director: Norman Stone | Stars: Joan Hickson, Claire Bloom, Barry Newman, Norman Rodway

Votes: 2,035

16. Mojave (2015)

R | 93 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

A suicidal artist goes into the desert, where he finds his doppelgänger, a homicidal drifter.

Director: William Monahan | Stars: Oscar Isaac, Garrett Hedlund, Louise Bourgoin, Cletus Young

Votes: 5,571

17. Last Scene Alive: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery (2018 TV Movie)

TV-G | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

3 days after a film crew comes to town, the lead actress is murdered. The movie script was inspired by Aurora with a librarian/sleuth. Will Real Murders Club solve the crime before the police?

Director: Martin Wood | Stars: Candace Cameron Bure, Yannick Bisson, Marilu Henner, Robin Dunne

Votes: 1,433

18. How to Make a Monster (1958)

Unrated | 73 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

When a master monster make-up artist is sacked by the new bosses of American International studios, he uses his creations to exact revenge.

Director: Herbert L. Strock | Stars: Robert H. Harris, Paul Brinegar, Gary Conway, Gary Clarke

Votes: 1,520

19. I Love Your Work (2003)

R | 111 min | Drama, Mystery

The film follows fictional movie star Gray Evans through the disintegration of his marriage, his gradual mental breakdown, and his increasing obsession with a young film student who reminds... See full summary »

Director: Adam Goldberg | Stars: Marisa Coughlan, Judy Greer, Shalom Harlow, Jared Harris

Votes: 1,994 | Gross: $0.00M

20. Trapped Ashes (2006)

R | 105 min | Horror

Seven strangers on a Hollywood movie studio tour are trapped inside an infamous House of Horror and forced to tell their most terrifying stories to get out alive.

Directors: Sean S. Cunningham, Joe Dante, John Gaeta, Monte Hellman, Ken Russell | Stars: Jayce Bartok, Henry Gibson, Lara Harris, Scott Lowell

Votes: 1,804

21. The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968)

Approved | 130 min | Drama

A dictatorial film director (Peter Finch) hires an unknown actress (Kim Novak) to play the lead role in a planned movie biography of a late, great Hollywood star.

Director: Robert Aldrich | Stars: Kim Novak, Peter Finch, Ernest Borgnine, Milton Selzer

Votes: 1,504

22. The Devil's Footprints: It's a Wrap (2024)

Crime, Horror | Post-production

After the Dark Conjuring of Grandma Demon Witch, everything revolves around Moe, cold bloody killer, and his accomplices, Grandpa Killer Clown and Demon Boy. Everything will become even ... See full summary »

Director: Sucen Amirak Nallem | Stars: Stanley Nallem, Marcia Capone, Devi Whadia, Grandpa Killer Clown

23. Roots of Evil (1992)

R | 95 min | Crime, Drama

A serial killer is after hookers and strippers. A male detective and his female partner are assigned to stop him.

Director: Gary Graver | Stars: Alex Cord, Delia Sheppard, Charles Dierkop, Jillian Kesner

Votes: 240

24. Karaoke (1996)

63 min | Drama

Daniel Feeld is a screenwriter with pains in his gut and a new screenplay called "Karaoke", about a girl named Sandra who works in a seedy Karaoke bar and is murdered by a lowlife named ... See full summary »

Stars: Albert Finney, Roy Hudd, Richard E. Grant, Keeley Hawes

Votes: 622

25. Axe to Grind (2015)

TV-MA | 84 min | Horror, Thriller

B-movie legend, actress Debbie Wilkins, has just been replaced by a 23 yr old scream queen in her lovers bed. More importantly she's been left out of her lovers new film. Debbie doesn't take rejection well.

Director: Matt Zettell | Stars: Debbie Rochon, Matt Gulbranson, Guy Torry, Paula Labaredas

Votes: 249

26. Scotland Yard Inspector (1952)

Not Rated | 73 min | Mystery

An English woman asks an American detective visiting London to help find her brother's killer.

Directors: Sam Newfield, Pat Jackson | Stars: Cesar Romero, Lois Maxwell, Bernadette O'Farrell, Geoffrey Keen

Votes: 210

27. Murder on a Honeymoon (1935)

Approved | 74 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

A schoolteacher and amateur sleuth suspects foul play when a fellow passenger on a sea-plane gets sick and dies.

Director: Lloyd Corrigan | Stars: Edna May Oliver, James Gleason, Lola Lane, George Meeker

Votes: 897

28. Lady Killer (1933)

Passed | 76 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

A former gangster makes it big in Hollywood, but his old life catches up with him.

Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: James Cagney, Mae Clarke, Margaret Lindsay, Leslie Fenton

Votes: 1,888

29. Insect (2018)

98 min | Comedy, Drama

Amateur actors rehearsing "Pictures from the Insects' Life". The actors find themselves living out their characters' roles and hallucinating insects. "Insects", is intercut with the ... See full summary »

Director: Jan Svankmajer | Stars: Jirí Lábus, Jan Budar, Pavel Nový, Norbert Lichý

Votes: 523

30. Pandemonium (1987)

88 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

A beautiful nude feral girl raised by dingoes returns to Babylon, Australia to find her family. Her mom is an evil landlady and her nutty tenants want the girl for themselves. One of them realizes the girl was sent to stop the Apocalypse.

Director: Haydn Keenan | Stars: David Argue, Amanda Dole, Esben Storm, Arna-Maria Winchester

Votes: 127

31. Hera Purple (2001)

93 min | Horror, Thriller

A race against time as a group of detectives must unlock the secret behind a series of bizarre murders being committed by a beautiful woman, a nymph who seduces men and kills them during the moment of ecstasy.

Director: Kil-chae Jeong | Stars: Lee Se-chang, Chang Kim, Ho-sung Lee, Chun-bae Uhm

Votes: 112

32. Fan Base (2021)

63 min | Horror

Janey Romero is a former horror movie actress who finds herself being stalked by a deranged fan.

Director: Curtis Everitt | Stars: Carol Lynn Fortin, Blair Kelly, Blake Blasko, Heather Thurgood

Votes: 18

33. The Studio Murder Mystery (1929)

Passed | 62 min | Adventure, Crime, Mystery

Philandering actor Richard Hardell is murdered at a movie studio. His jealous wife Blanche, his director Rupert Borka, and a girl he mistreated, Helen MacDonald, all have substantial reasons for having wanted him dead.

Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Neil Hamilton, Doris Hill, Warner Oland, Fredric March

Votes: 205

34. The Lost Squadron (1932)

Passed | 79 min | Drama, History, War

In hard times just after World War I, three ex-fighter pilots manage to land jobs as Hollywood stunt fliers working for dictatorial director Von Furst.

Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Richard Dix, Mary Astor, Robert Armstrong, Dorothy Jordan

Votes: 820

35. Lazare (2020)

108 min | Drama, Fantasy, Musical

A team of French-Brazilian actors goes to Bucharest to shoot a film at a lower cost. But the Romanian technical team secretly shoot their own film.

Director: Philippe Chalem | Stars: Emine Meyrem, Milena Straube, Lionel Rousselot, Stanislas Siwiorek

Votes: 11

36. Shooting Stars (1928)

Not Rated | 70 min | Drama, Romance

The husband and wife acting team of Mae Feather and Julian Gordon is torn apart when he discovers she is having an affair with the screen comedian Andy Wilks. Mae hatches a plot to kill her... See full summary »

Directors: Anthony Asquith, A.V. Bramble | Stars: Annette Benson, Brian Aherne, Donald Calthrop, Wally Patch

Votes: 478

37. Charm (2012)

Not Rated | 86 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror

RANDOM ACTS OF VIOLENCE is an ultra low budget thriller/black comedy about Malcolm - a New Yorker who gets tired of how gentrified, tepid and antiseptic it's all become. So he decides to ... See full summary »

Director: Ashley Cahill | Stars: Rebecca Dayan, Jennifer Murray, James DeBello, Steve Carrieri

Votes: 421

38. Burn 'Em Up Barnes (I) (1934)

Passed | 210 min | Action, Adventure

Marjorie Temple, owner of a bus line and an apparently worthless plot of land, is set upon by rich oil speculators who know her land actually is worth millions. When they try to put her out... See full summary »

Directors: Colbert Clark, Armand Schaefer | Stars: Jack Mulhall, Frankie Darro, Lola Lane, Julian Rivero

Votes: 93

39. Corps et biens (1986)

100 min

The romantic and cruel escapades of a gigolo and a mysterious woman.

Director: Benoît Jacquot | Stars: Lambert Wilson, Dominique Sanda, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Ingrid Held

Votes: 65

40. HMU - Hit Me Up (2021)

Unrated | 29 min | Short, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Seeking to redeem his lost dominance, a divorcé with a mechanized arm decides to explore his darkest sexual fantasy, but at what price?

Director: Danh Nguyen | Stars: Aushad Broades, Lakeiza Broades, Shamhad Broades, Brylee Russell

41. The Unwritten Law (1932)

Passed | 66 min | Crime, Mystery, Romance

A film producer is found murdered on a ship, and among the suspects are a young woman whose mother was mistreated by him and his recently fired electrician.

Directors: Christy Cabanne, Wilfred Lucas | Stars: Greta Nissen, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher, Mary Brian, Lew Cody

Votes: 10

42. Le prestige de la mort (2006)

75 min | Adventure, Comedy

Inspired in Cecil B. DeMille's The Whispering Chorus (1917), but turning what once was drama into a black comedy, Moullet stages a deviant remake in order to put forward his reflections ... See full synopsis »

Director: Luc Moullet | Stars: Luc Moullet, Antonietta Pizzorno, Claire Bouanich, Iliana Lolic

Votes: 92

43. Peristsvaleba (1968)

85 min | Crime, Drama

An archaeologist, a movie director and a student. They are modern intellectuals, living moments of doubt, reflection and obsessive thirst for activity.

Director: Lana Gogoberidze | Stars: Geidar Palavandishvili, Rusudan Kiknadze, Sofiko Chiaureli, Lia Kapanadze

Votes: 25

44. Bobby: The Making of an American Epic (2007 Video)

24 min | Documentary, Short, Biography

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Stars: Robert F. Kennedy, Bryan Adams, Harry Belafonte, Mary J. Blige

Votes: 10

45. Justin Kurzel on Snowtown with Nick Feik (2011 Video)

24 min | Documentary, Short, Crime

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Stars: Nick Feik, Justin Kurzel

46. Kill the Messenger: The All-Star Cast (2015 Video)

3 min | Documentary, Short, Biography

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Stars: Pamela Abdy, Michael Bederman, Michael Cuesta, Rosemarie DeWitt

47. Black and White: Featurette (2003 Video)

11 min | Documentary, Short, Biography

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Stars: Robert Carlyle, Kerry Fox, Colin Friels, Craig Lahiff

48. Hollywood (1980)
Episode: Single Beds and Double Standards (1980)

Documentary, Biography, History

Mounting scandals including drug addiction and murder force the studios to appoint Will Hays as a morals czar to oversee production.

Directors: Kevin Brownlow, David Gill | Stars: James Mason, Cedric Belfrage, Karl Brown, Viola Dana

Votes: 83