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1. Mindhunter (2017–2019)
TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
In the late 1970s, two FBI agents broaden the realm of criminal science by investigating the psychology behind murder and end up getting too close to real-life monsters.
Stars: Jonathan Groff, Holt McCallany, Anna Torv, Hannah Gross
Votes: 336,002
2. The Thin Blue Line (1988)
Not Rated | 101 min | Documentary, Crime
A film that successfully argued that a man was wrongly convicted for murder by a corrupt justice system in Dallas County, Texas.
Director: Errol Morris | Stars: Randall Adams, David Harris, Gus Rose, Jackie Johnson
Votes: 25,956 | Gross: $1.21M
3. American Psycho II: All American Girl (2002 Video)
R | 88 min | Horror, Thriller
A girl named Rachael Newman has developed a taste for murder and will stop at nothing to become a college professor's assistant.
Director: Morgan J. Freeman | Stars: Mila Kunis, William Shatner, Geraint Wyn Davies, Robin Dunne
Votes: 17,860
4. The Pink Panther 2 (2009)
PG | 92 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Insp. Jacques Clouseau teams up with a squad of International detectives who are just as bumbling as he is. Their mission: Stop a globe-trotting thief who specializes in stealing historical artifacts.
Director: Harald Zwart | Stars: Steve Martin, Jean Reno, Emily Mortimer, Andy Garcia
Votes: 48,299 | Gross: $35.92M
5. Signs of a Psychopath (2020– )
30 min | Crime
For every psychopath there are signs. Would you see them? Revisiting some of the most dangerous killers in modern history to see which psychopathic traits they exhibited. Featuring real archive footage.
Stars: Nameeta Sahni, Charles A. Morgan III, Chriscelyn Tussey, Chitra Raghavan
Votes: 462
6. Doctor Mordrid (1992)
R | 74 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror
An unspeakable evil has come into our dimension and wants to rule over Earth, and only a mysterious sorceror known as Doctor Mordrid can stop him.
Directors: Albert Band, Charles Band | Stars: Jeffrey Combs, Yvette Nipar, Jay Acovone, Keith Coulouris
Votes: 2,286
7. The Barbarian Invasions (2003)
R | 99 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
During his final days, a dying man is reunited with old friends, former lovers, his ex-wife, and his estranged son.
Director: Denys Arcand | Stars: Rémy Girard, Dorothée Berryman, Stéphane Rousseau, Marie-Josée Croze
Votes: 30,036 | Gross: $3.43M
8. The Other Me (2016)
101 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A professor of criminology tries to solve five completely unrelated murders whose only link is quotes from Pythagoras.
Director: Sotiris Tsafoulias | Stars: Pigmalion Dadakaridis, Dimitris Katalifos, Manos Vakousis, Ioanna Kolliopoulou
Votes: 12,670
9. The FBI Story (1959)
Approved | 149 min | Crime, Drama, History
A dedicated FBI agent recalls the agency's battles against the Klan, organized crime and Communist spies.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: James Stewart, Vera Miles, Murray Hamilton, Larry Pennell
Votes: 3,880
10. Born to Kill? (2005– )
60 min | Documentary, Crime
Each episode is a look into the childhood and life of serial killers.
Stars: Christopher Slade, Louis B. Schlesinger, Katherine Ramsland, Helen Morrison
Votes: 274
11. Anamorph (2007)
R | 103 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller
A psychological thriller based on the concept of anamorphosis, a painting technique that manipulates the laws of perspective to create two competing images on a single canvas.
Director: Henry Miller | Stars: Willem Dafoe, Scott Speedman, Don Harvey, James Rebhorn
Votes: 9,785 | Gross: $0.01M
12. A Night of Terror (1937)
86 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A lottery winner breaks up with her fiancé and marries a fortune hunter who proves to be dangerous.
Director: Rowland V. Lee | Stars: Ann Harding, Basil Rathbone, Binnie Hale, Bruce Seton
Votes: 640
13. Crime and Punishment (1935)
Not Rated | 88 min | Crime, Drama
Man is haunted by a murder he's committed.
Director: Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Edward Arnold, Peter Lorre, Marian Marsh, Tala Birell
Votes: 2,234
14. In the Footsteps of Killers (2021– )
TV-14 | 65 min | Documentary, Crime
Emilia Fox and Professor David Wilson use the latest forensic science and criminological research to shed new light on unsolved murder cases.
Stars: Emilia Fox, David Wilson, Graham Hill
Votes: 256
15. Tuno negro (2001)
R | 110 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Students of the university of Salamanca are brutally murdered by a black masked minstrel. Alex, an architecture student who has recently moved to Salamanca discovers a pattern behind the ... See full summary »
Directors: Pedro L. Barbero, Vicente J. Martín | Stars: Silke, Jorge Sanz, Fele Martínez, Patxi Freytez
Votes: 1,196
16. The Rockford Files: Friends and Foul Play (1996 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 120 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A friend of Jim's seeks his help for her murdered son, but when she winds up dead not long after an altercation with a mafioso, Jim must do what it takes to put both her soul and her son's to rest himself.
Director: Stuart Margolin | Stars: James Garner, Marcia Strassman, Joe Santos, David Proval
Votes: 262
17. All Light, Everywhere (2021)
Unrated | 105 min | Documentary
A far-ranging look at the biases in how we see things, focusing on the use of police body cameras.
Director: Theo Anthony | Stars: Theo Anthony, Keaver Brenai, Robert Cunniff, Ross McNutt
Votes: 883
18. The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938)
Approved | 87 min | Crime, Drama
A brilliant Park Avenue doctor becomes a criminal in order to do research into the criminal mind.
Director: Anatole Litvak | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Humphrey Bogart, Claire Trevor, Allen Jenkins
Votes: 2,982
19. Mr. Moto's Gamble (1938)
Passed | 72 min | Mystery
When the #1 heavyweight contender is mysteriously poisoned during a bout, Moto knows that identifying the gambler who placed large bets against him is the key to solving the murder.
Director: James Tinling | Stars: Peter Lorre, Keye Luke, Dick Baldwin, Lynn Bari
Votes: 813
20. Killing Spree (2014– )
60 min | Documentary, Crime
Examining the chain of events that led some of the most infamous killing sprees in criminal history.
Stars: Christopher Slade, Craig Jackson, Jack Levin, Tom Mauser
Votes: 28
21. Secrets of a Psychopath (2019)
TV-MA | Documentary, Crime
This is the story behind the most explosive murder to come before the courts in Irish criminal history. Extensive and intimate interviews with journalists, criminal experts, and observers reveal the horrendous nature of the case.
Stars: Natasha Reid, John O'Keeffe, Helen Bruce, Louise Liversey
22. Dobrodruzství kriminalistiky (1989–1998)
Crime, History
Follow the pioneers of criminalistics across four centuries, be a witness to groundbreaking discoveries that forever changed the world of crime-fighting. From fingerprints to forensic ballistics, from Vidocq to Pinkerton.
Stars: Petr Kostka, Pavel Rímský, Radoslav Brzobohatý, Ladislav Potmesil
Votes: 233
23. From Headquarters (1933)
TV-G | 64 min | Mystery, Drama
When a Broadway playboy is found dead, it's up to detective Jim Stevens to pick the murderer out of several likely candidates.
Director: William Dieterle | Stars: George Brent, Margaret Lindsay, Eugene Pallette, Robert Barrat
Votes: 366
24. Larvae (2022)
29 min | Short, Drama, History
Turin, 1909. Cesare Lombroso arrives at the isolated mansion of Lazar, an elderly illusionist. Lombroso, attracted to Spiritualism, challenges Lazar: to prove that the supernatural exists and that it may be the cause of a heinous crime.
Director: Alessandro Rota | Stars: Roberto Accornero, Stewart Arnold, Maurizio Corigliano, Cristiano Falcomer
Votes: 6
25. The Beaumont Children: What Really Happened (2018 TV Movie)
70 min | Documentary, Crime, History
Stars: Michael Usher, Roger Cardwell, Bill Hayes, Greg Hutchins
Votes: 9
26. Nancy Drew: The Deadly Device (2012 Video Game)
E10+ | Adventure, Mystery
Teen detective Nancy Drew investigates after a theoretical physicist is found electrocuted in a Colorado laboratory.
Director: Tim Burke | Stars: Lani Minella, Katherine Grant-Suttie, Marc Biagi, Sara Mountjoy-Pepka
Votes: 44
27. Anatomy of Evil (2019 TV Movie)
52 min | Documentary
What makes a normal person a serial killer? Why do some people like to torture others? Do some of us have evil in our genes? These questions have always kept people curious. The approaches ... See full summary »
Directors: Gerrit Jöns-Anders, Amrei Topçu | Stars: Steven Charles, Daniel Zagury, Anke Köbach, Nahlah Saimeh
Votes: 22
28. Criminologist Himura and Mystery Author Arisugawa 2019 (2019– )
Crime
Criminologist and subject matter expert is completely and utterly immersed in the area. He would be considered a foremost authority. The obsession has regressed to the point that he ash ... See full summary »
Stars: Masataka Kubota, Mari Natsuki, Takumi Saitô, Makita Sports
Votes: 11
29. The Wounded Healer (2018)
54 min | Documentary
Criminologist Dr. Dan Philipp has devoted his career to treating sex offenders and sex workers. His professional life has involved an encounter with evil, insanity, and transgression. Dan ... See full summary »
Director: Yochay Rosenberg | Star: Dan Philipp
30. Injustice: a film about crime, prison and us. (2017)
76 min | Documentary
Focusing on the stories of two ex-prisoners Injustice looks at the prisons crisis, analyses its causes and where prisons come from, and asks what we can do about it.
Director: Lee Salter
31. From the Desk of Langford Sloane
96 min | Mystery | Pre-production
Langford Sloane is from Atlanta, working to make his way in New York City - Until a mystery calls him home. Another murder without a suspect: Two rising stars, an "on-going feud," and a ... See full summary »
32. Skola detektívky (1989– )
Comedy, Crime
Anthology mini-series of various detective stories, in which the same two actors always play a different detective and his sidekick.
Stars: Marián Labuda, Martin Huba, Marta Sládecková, Dusan Blaskovic
33. Kids Who Kill (2014 TV Movie)
60 min | Documentary, Crime
The cases of British child murderers Daniel Bartlam, Santre Sanchez Gayle, the Doran brothers, the Victoria Station gang, and Robert Thompson & Jon Venables.
Director: Andy Dunn | Stars: Ben Daniels, Daniel Bartlam, David Canter, Albert Kirby
Votes: 19
34. Killers Behind Bars: The Untold Story (2012– )
60 min | Documentary, Crime
David Wilson is a professor emeritus of criminology at Birmingham City University in the UK. In this documentary series, he profiles convicted serial killers using the same methodology that... See full summary »
Stars: David Wilson, Craig Jackson, Jade Reynolds, Glenn Wilson
Votes: 27
35. Nápady ctenáre detektivek (1966)
26 min | Short, Comedy, Crime
One cold and damp day, a doctor visits the château of a noble family. The valet, named James, takes him to the library, which holds the family's most precious possession - a numerous ... See full summary »
Director: Václav Táborsky | Stars: Jirí Bruder, Frantisek Husák, Zdenek Procházka, Josef Somr
Votes: 12
36. Murder and Mysteries with Massnick (2019 Podcast Series)
Documentary, Crime
Murder and Mysteries with Massnick is a true crime podcast that dives into some of the most riveting true crime and serial murder cases. The program is hosted by criminologist Kimberlie ... See full summary »
Stars: Kimberlie A. Massnick, Larry Peoples Sr., Brenda Rante
37.
Dobrodruzství kriminalistiky (1989–1998)
Episode:
Antropologie
(1990)
50 min | Crime, History
Rural Germany, 1922: A skeleton turns up that has been buried for ca. 10 years. When Inspector Bauer starts his inquiries, farmer Emcke confesses a murder. But what is Bauer supposed to do if he doubts a cast-iron confession such as this?
Director: Antonín Moskalyk | Stars: Petr Vanek, Katja Riemann, Jirí Schmitzer, Otto Lackovic
Votes: 12
38.
Dobrodruzství kriminalistiky (1989–1998)
Episode:
Bertillonáz
(1989)
50 min | Crime, History
Director: Antonín Moskalyk | Stars: Ondrej Havelka, Jana Riháková, Josef Stefl, Petr Pelzer
Votes: 14
39.
Dobrodruzství kriminalistiky (1989–1998)
Episode:
Duplikát
(1991)
48 min | Crime, History
This is based on the Portuguese Bank Note Crisis of 1925, caused when criminal Arturo Alves Reis (Teply) forged documentation which persuaded the British printing firm Waterlow & Sons to ... See full summary »
Director: Antonín Moskalyk | Stars: Petr Kostka, Gustav Opocenský, Michal Docolomanský, Jan Teplý
Votes: 10
40.
Dobrodruzství kriminalistiky (1989–1998)
Episode:
Hon na rozhlasových vlnách
(1992)
48 min | Crime, History
Director: Antonín Moskalyk | Stars: Ladislav Frej, Daniela Kolárová, Michal Dlouhý, Josef Vinklár
Votes: 7
41.
Dobrodruzství kriminalistiky (1989–1998)
Episode:
Identifikacní kresba
(1990)
49 min | Crime, History
1932: when a conman fleeces businessmen and insurance companies in various Italian cities, a private investigator's chance encounter with an artistic nun leads to an early use of a police sketch, finally resulting in the conman's capture.
Director: Antonín Moskalyk | Stars: Peter Bongartz, Gustav Opocenský, Eduard Cupák, Vera Galatíková
Votes: 12
42.
Dobrodruzství kriminalistiky (1989–1998)
Episode:
Jed
(1989)
52 min | Crime, History
Director: Antonín Moskalyk | Stars: Anke Sevenich, Radovan Lukavský, Ladislav Frej, Viktor Preiss
Votes: 15
43.
Dobrodruzství kriminalistiky (1989–1998)
Episode:
Krev
(1989)
51 min | Crime, History
Director: Antonín Moskalyk | Stars: Josef Vinklár, Vladimír Dlouhý, Vlastimil Hasek, Oliver Stritzel
Votes: 15
44.
Dobrodruzství kriminalistiky (1989–1998)
Episode:
Krevní skupina
(1990)
50 min | Crime, History
Director: Antonín Moskalyk | Stars: Ulrich Matschoss, Kamil Halbich, Karel Pospísil, Vojtech Ron
Votes: 11
45.
Dobrodruzství kriminalistiky (1989–1998)
Episode:
Mechanoskopie
(1990)
50 min | Crime, History
Czechoslowakia, 1927: some safe-cracking crimes are solved, in part by using a the method of detailed examination of "tool marks" for the first time.
Director: Antonín Moskalyk | Stars: Karel Hermánek, Ondrej Vetchý, Václav Postránecký, Jan Teplý
Votes: 12
46.
Dobrodruzství kriminalistiky (1989–1998)
Episode:
Modus operandi
(1990)
50 min | Crime, History
A crime wave hits 1877 New York, culminating in a string of jewellery store break-ins. Investigating the case, detective Byrnes finds some well-connected men are trying to stop him. He needs to use a dirty trick in order to win this one.
Director: Antonín Moskalyk | Stars: Milos Vávra, Pavel Rímský, Ivan Vyskocil, Lubomír Kostelka
Votes: 12
47.
Dobrodruzství kriminalistiky (1989–1998)
Episode:
Neznámý
(1992)
48 min | Crime, History
Director: Antonín Moskalyk | Stars: Jirí Schmitzer, Despina Pajanou, Pavel Rímský, Pavel Pelzer
Votes: 9
48.
Dobrodruzství kriminalistiky (1989–1998)
Episode:
Otisk
(1989)
51 min | Crime, History
Director: Antonín Moskalyk | Stars: Petr Kostka, Miroslav Moravec, Radoslav Brzobohatý, Josef Somr
Votes: 11
49.
Dobrodruzství kriminalistiky (1989–1998)
Episode:
Padelek
(1991)
49 min | Crime, History
The notes were not forgeries, as such, just not officially authorised.
Director: Antonín Moskalyk | Stars: Siegfried Lowitz, Jirí Bábek, Ilja Racek, Ivan Vyskocil
Votes: 10
50.
Dobrodruzství kriminalistiky (1989–1998)
Episode:
Paprsek
(1990)
50 min | Crime, History
Amsterdam 1945: 20 years in prison for collaborating with the enemy, or a few years for art fraud? The police are not convinced van Meegeren is a genius forger, as he claims. They think he is just trying to avoid a much stiffer sentence.
Director: Antonín Moskalyk | Stars: Andrej Hryc, Zuzana Geislerová, Jan Hartl, Pavel Trávnícek
Votes: 11