Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keywords "pipe-smoking", "police-investigation"

1. The Illusionist (2006)

PG-13 | 110 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

In turn-of-the-century Vienna, a magician uses his abilities to secure the love of a woman far above his social standing.

Director: Neil Burger | Stars: Edward Norton, Jessica Biel, Paul Giamatti, Rufus Sewell

Votes: 389,810 | Gross: $39.87M

2. An American Werewolf in Paris (1997)

R | 98 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

An American man unwittingly gets involved with French werewolves who have developed a serum allowing them to transform at will.

Director: Anthony Waller | Stars: Tom Everett Scott, Julie Delpy, Vince Vieluf, Phil Buckman

Votes: 27,003 | Gross: $26.57M

3. Spellbound (1945)

Approved | 111 min | Film-Noir, Mystery, Romance

A psychiatrist protects the identity of an amnesia patient accused of murder while attempting to recover his memory.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov, Leo G. Carroll

Votes: 52,275 | Gross: $7.00M

4. One on Top of the Other (1969)

R | 108 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

An unscrupulous doctor is accused of killing his asthmatic wife as part of an insurance scam, despite discovering that she has a doppelgänger who works as a stripper and call girl.

Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Jean Sorel, Marisa Mell, Elsa Martinelli, Alberto de Mendoza

Votes: 2,677

5. Student Bodies (1981)

R | 86 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery

A serial killer with his signature heavy breathing proceeds to systematically kill the students and teachers of Lamab high school.

Directors: Mickey Rose, Michael Ritchie | Stars: Kristen Riter, Matthew Goldsby, Jerry Belson, Joe Flood

Votes: 5,371 | Gross: $5.17M

6. Masquerade (1988)

R | 91 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

A recently orphaned heiress meets a young racing yacht captain in the Long Island Hamptons. He shows interest in her, but love may not be the reason.

Director: Bob Swaim | Stars: Rob Lowe, Meg Tilly, Kim Cattrall, Doug Savant

Votes: 4,399 | Gross: $15.86M

7. The Exterminator (1980)

R | 104 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A man's best friend is killed on the streets of New York City. The man (Robert Ginty) then transforms into a violent killer, turning New York City into a great war zone, and Christopher George is the only one to stop him.

Director: James Glickenhaus | Stars: Robert Ginty, Samantha Eggar, Christopher George, Steve James

Votes: 6,570

8. What Have You Done to Solange? (1972)

R | 107 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A teacher who is having an affair with one of his students is reluctant to present an alibi when his lover witnesses the first in a series of murders connected to their school.

Director: Massimo Dallamano | Stars: Fabio Testi, Karin Baal, Cristina Galbó, Joachim Fuchsberger

Votes: 5,930

9. Maigret (2022)

89 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

In Paris, a young girl is found dead in a Parisian square, wearing an evening dress. Commissioner Maigret will try to identify her and then understand what happened to the victim.

Director: Patrice Leconte | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Jade Labeste, Mélanie Bernier, Aurore Clément

Votes: 2,966

10. Fatal Beauty (1987)

R | 104 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Rita is a tough narc cop with a wig for every occasion. Outside a drug heist scene with several bodies and a hardly cut fatal drug, Fatal Beauty, she finds a Kroll Construction van with a dead Kroll employee in it. Who is Kroll?

Director: Tom Holland | Stars: Whoopi Goldberg, Sam Elliott, Rubén Blades, Harris Yulin

Votes: 4,039 | Gross: $12.05M

11. Juggernaut (1974)

PG | 109 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

A blackmailer demands a huge ransom in exchange for information on how to disarm the seven bombs he placed aboard the transatlantic liner Britannic.

Director: Richard Lester | Stars: Richard Harris, Omar Sharif, David Hemmings, Anthony Hopkins

Votes: 6,328 | Gross: $1.56M

12. 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: 2,043

13. The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927)

Not Rated | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A landlady suspects that her new lodger is the madman killing women in London.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: June Tripp, Ivor Novello, Marie Ault, Arthur Chesney

Votes: 13,405

14. The Horror of Party Beach (1964)

Approved | 78 min | Horror, Musical

Sea creatures created from radioactive sludge terrorize a beach community.

Director: Del Tenney | Stars: John Lyon, Alice Lyon, Allan Laurel, Eulabelle Moore

Votes: 3,195

15. 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

16. A Quiet Place to Kill (I) (1970)

Not Rated | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

A troubled race-car driver plots to kill her ex-husband at the behest of his new wife, but their scheme quickly goes awry.

Director: Umberto Lenzi | Stars: Carroll Baker, Jean Sorel, Luis Dávila, Alberto Dalbés

Votes: 1,395

17. She-Wolf of London (1946)

Passed | 61 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery

A young heiress finds evidence suggesting that at night she acts under the influence of a family curse and has begun committing ghastly murders in a nearby park.

Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Don Porter, June Lockhart, Sara Haden, Jan Wiley

Votes: 3,032

18. Black Legion (1937)

Passed | 83 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he's seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates foreigners through violence.

Directors: Archie Mayo, Michael Curtiz | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan, Dick Foran, Erin O'Brien-Moore

Votes: 3,925

19. Satanik (1968)

Not Rated | 86 min | Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A withered old hag turns into a beautiful young woman after drinking a youth formula.

Director: Piero Vivarelli | Stars: Magda Konopka, Julio Peña, Umberto Raho, Luigi Montini

Votes: 427

20. The Killer of Dolls (1975)

98 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

A groundskeeper's son, who is mentally unstable due to childhood trauma, goes on a murdering spree where his perception of reality is distorted by imagining people as mannequins and vice versa.

Director: Miguel Madrid | Stars: David Rocha, Inma de Santis, Helga Liné, Elisenda Ribas

Votes: 392

21. Zombie Lake (1981)

R | 90 min | Horror

In a small village, somewhere in France, German soldiers, killed and thrown into the lake by the Resistance during WW II, come back.

Directors: Jean Rollin, Julian de Laserna | Stars: Howard Vernon, Pierre-Marie Escourrou, Anouchka, Antonio Mayans

Votes: 3,588

22. Jenny Lamour (1947)

Not Rated | 106 min | Crime, Drama

A flirtatious wife runs off to meet an older man and the husband closes in with intend to murder him, but finds the deed already done.

Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot | Stars: Louis Jouvet, Simone Renant, Bernard Blier, Suzy Delair

Votes: 6,415 | Gross: $0.03M

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. 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: 1,543

25. The Weekend Murders (1970)

R | 98 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

A family goes to a British estate to hear the reading of a will and while there they are murdered one by one.

Director: Michele Lupo | Stars: Anna Moffo, Ida Galli, Gastone Moschin, Peter Baldwin

Votes: 589

26. Faubourg 36 (2008)

PG-13 | 120 min | Drama, Music, Musical

When Chansonia, a nightclub, is shut down by the landlord, the stage manager Pigoil is forced to look for a new job. He finds hope when he discovers a young woman with a lovely singing voice.

Director: Christophe Barratier | Stars: Gérard Jugnot, Clovis Cornillac, Kad Merad, Nora Arnezeder

Votes: 2,936 | Gross: $0.85M

27. Goodbye Gemini (1970)

R | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

Unnaturally-close jet-setting twins become enmeshed in the Swinging London scene, where their relationship is strained after they befriend a predatory hustler and his girlfriend.

Director: Alan Gibson | Stars: Judy Geeson, Martin Potter, Michael Redgrave, Alexis Kanner

Votes: 462

28. The Mad Butcher (1971)

R | 81 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror

After being released from a mental hospital, Otto returns to his old job as a butcher. He tries to adjust to his new life, but after a bitter argument with his wife, he accidentally kills ... See full summary »

Director: Guido Zurli | Stars: Victor Buono, Franca Polesello, Brad Harris, Dario Michaelis

Votes: 469

29. Maigret voit rouge (1963)

87 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Division Commissioner Jules Maigret and his team hunt a ring of American racketeers sent to Paris to silence an embarrassing witness

Director: Gilles Grangier | Stars: Jean Gabin, Françoise Fabian, Roland Armontel, Paul Frankeur

Votes: 695

30. Le septième juré (1962)

90 min | Crime, Drama

In a moment of madness a respectable pharmacist kills a young woman who is sun-bathing by a lake. Unable to take in what he has done, he flees from the scene of the crime and behaves as if nothing has happened.

Director: Georges Lautner | Stars: Bernard Blier, Danièle Delorme, Maurice Biraud, Jacques Riberolles

Votes: 965

31. I Can Quit Whenever I Want (2019)

TV-MA | 98 min | Comedy

Three university teachers who have lost their jobs turn into drug dealers after one of them creates an experimental new pill.

Director: Carlos Therón | Stars: David Verdaguer, Ernesto Sevilla, Carlos Santos, Cristina Castaño

Votes: 1,941

32. Something to Hide (1972)

99 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A man having marital problems with his shrewish wife picks up a young, pretty and pregnant hitchhiker. Before he knows it, he's in over his head and mixed up in violence and murder.

Director: Alastair Reid | Stars: Peter Finch, Shelley Winters, Colin Blakely, John Stride

Votes: 233

33. Eat and Run (1986)

R | 85 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror

A 1940s-style detective traces missing persons to a tubby, man-eating alien who likes spicy food.

Director: Christopher Hart | Stars: Ron Silver, Sharon Sharth, Pat Ryan, John J. Fleming

Votes: 383

34. Dark Mountain (1944)

Approved | 56 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A woman doesn't realize that the man she has just married is a gangster. When she is implicated in a murder he committed, she turns to an ex-boyfriend, who is now a park ranger, for help.

Director: William Berke | Stars: Robert Lowery, Ellen Drew, Regis Toomey, Eddie Quillan

Votes: 368

35. Evil Eye (1975)

R | 106 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery

The police has to face some extremely brutal murders. How is the rich playboy Peter Crane (Jorge Rivero) involved in this? He suffers from horrible nightmares that make him believe that he is responsible for these murders.

Director: Mario Siciliano | Stars: Anthony Steffen, Richard Conte, Pilar Velázquez, Jorge Rivero

Votes: 400

36. Towards Zero (2007)

104 min | Comedy, Mystery

A wealthy woman holds a party at her estate for family and friends. When a solicitor and the hostess herself are both murdered, only the trusty Inspector Bataille can put together the pieces.

Director: Pascal Thomas | Stars: François Morel, Danielle Darrieux, Melvil Poupaud, Laura Smet

Votes: 682

37. T.M.A. (2009)

Not Rated | 100 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A man leaves his busy city life for the peace of the country home where he spent his early childhood. His new life is soon disturbed by strange events.

Director: Juraj Herz | Stars: Ivan Franek, Lenka Krobotová, Malgorzata Kozuchowska, Andrej Hryc

Votes: 207

38. Bulldog Drummond's Bride (1939)

Approved | 56 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A bank robbery in London prevents - again - the marriage of Bulldog Drummond and his girlfriend. But this time, after the robbers are caught, it will be celebrated at last.

Director: James P. Hogan | Stars: John Howard, Heather Angel, H.B. Warner, Reginald Denny

Votes: 525

39. I Hate Actors (1986)

PG | 90 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Hollywood in the 1940s. A tyrannical producer, a paranoid director, a starlet engaged twenty-four times, an actor who refuses to age - all against a backdrop of a series of murders.

Director: Gérard Krawczyk | Stars: Jean Poiret, Michel Blanc, Bernard Blier, Patrick Floersheim

Votes: 260

40. Night of the Dribbler (1990)

87 min | Comedy, Horror

The Watergate Plumbers, a poorly-performing college basketball team, lose their best players one by one to death and dismemberment at the hands of a mysterious masked stalker.

Director: Jack Bravman | Stars: Fred Travalena, Gregory Calpakis, Flavia Carrozzi, Cynthia Mantel

Votes: 208

41. Mrs. Amworth (1978)

29 min | Short, Horror, Mystery

A vampire terrorizes a quiet English town.

Director: Alvin Rakoff | Stars: Glynis Johns, Derek Francis, John Phillips, Pip Miller

Votes: 103

42. Vodkaa, komisario Palmu (1969)

100 min | Comedy, Crime

A TV reporter is murdered when he is eavesdropping on a secret Finnish-Soviet conference. The National Broadcasting Corporation enlists the help of police lieutenant Palmu, who comes out of... See full summary »

Director: Matti Kassila | Stars: Joel Rinne, Leo Jokela, Matti Ranin, Anna-Leena Mäki-Penttilä

Votes: 966

43. Dábelské líbánky (1970)

93 min | Comedy, Crime

A charming senior lecturer Kostohryz (Vlastimil Brodský) is an unquestionable star of the Research Institute of the Chemical Factories, admired by men and loved by women. There are two ... See full summary »

Director: Zdenek Podskalský | Stars: Vlastimil Brodský, Jana Brejchová, Iva Janzurová, Jirina Jirásková

Votes: 69

44. Vyvrazdení rodiny Greenu (2002 TV Movie)

88 min | Crime, Thriller

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Director: Jirí Strach | Stars: Josef Somr, Jirí Dvorák, Viktor Preiss, Alois Svehlík

Votes: 29

45. Prátelé Bermudského trojúhelníku (1987)

101 min | Comedy, Mystery, Sci-Fi

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Directors: Václav Krístek, Jan Prokop, Petr Sícha | Stars: Frantisek Husák, Martin Dejdar, Lubomír Kostelka, Jirí Helekal

Votes: 26

46. Hlavní prelícení (1971 TV Movie)

Crime, Drama

The story of a small-time First Republic crook with a weak mind, told by the creators of the TV adaptation in the form of a retrospective trial. A naive dreamer and a weakling with a desire... See full summary »

Director: Ivo Novák | Stars: Josef Somr, Jaroslava Tichá, Jaroslava Pokorná, Ilja Prachar

47. Neboztik si nepral kvety (1985 TV Movie)

80 min | Crime

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Director: Pavel Brabec | Stars: Marie Glázrová, Karel Hermánek, Hana Maciuchová, Jirí Nemecek

Votes: 15

48. Nekoho jsem zastrelil (1967 TV Movie)

85 min | Crime, Drama

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Director: Jaroslav Novotný | Stars: Jirí Adamíra, Irena Kacírková, Eduard Cupák, Ladislav Bohác

Votes: 15

49. Thriller (1973–1976)
Episode: Screamer (1974)

TV-14 | 73 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy

A young American girl on her way to visit friends in rural England is brutally attacked and raped. After spending the next few months in a mental institution trying to recover from her ... See full summary »

Director: Shaun O'Riordan | Stars: Pamela Franklin, Donal McCann, Frances White, Jim Norton

Votes: 206

50. 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