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1. The Dark Knight (2008)
PG-13 | 152 min | Action, Crime, Drama
When the menace known as the Joker wreaks havoc and chaos on the people of Gotham, Batman must accept one of the greatest psychological and physical tests of his ability to fight injustice.
Director: Christopher Nolan | Stars: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Caine
Votes: 2,872,031 | Gross: $534.86M
2. Machete (2010)
R | 105 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
After being set-up and betrayed by the man who hired him to assassinate a Texas Senator, an ex-Federale launches a brutal rampage of revenge against his former boss.
Directors: Ethan Maniquis, Robert Rodriguez | Stars: Danny Trejo, Michelle Rodriguez, Robert De Niro, Jessica Alba
Votes: 204,105 | Gross: $26.59M
3. Annabelle: Creation (2017)
R | 109 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Twelve years after the tragic death of their little girl, a doll-maker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into their home, where they become the target of the doll-maker's possessed creation, Annabelle.
Director: David F. Sandberg | Stars: Anthony LaPaglia, Samara Lee, Miranda Otto, Brad Greenquist
Votes: 150,933 | Gross: $102.09M
4. The Blackcoat's Daughter (I) (2015)
R | 93 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Two girls must battle a mysterious evil force when they get left behind at their boarding school over winter break.
Director: Oz Perkins | Stars: Emma Roberts, Kiernan Shipka, Lucy Boynton, James Remar
Votes: 26,025 | Gross: $0.02M
5. Out of the Furnace (2013)
R | 116 min | Action, Crime, Drama
When Rodney Baze mysteriously disappears and law enforcement doesn't follow through fast enough, his older brother Russell takes matters into his own hands to find justice.
Director: Scott Cooper | Stars: Christian Bale, Casey Affleck, Zoe Saldana, Woody Harrelson
Votes: 125,132 | Gross: $11.33M
6. The Slumber Party Massacre (1982)
R | 77 min | Horror
A female high school student's slumber party turns into a bloodbath, as a newly escaped psychotic serial killer wielding a power drill prowls her neighborhood.
Director: Amy Holden Jones | Stars: Michele Michaels, Robin Stille, Michael Villella, Debra De Liso
Votes: 17,909
7. Texas Killing Fields (2011)
R | 105 min | Crime, Drama, History
In the Texas bayous, a local homicide detective teams up with a cop from New York City to investigate a series of unsolved murders.
Director: Ami Canaan Mann | Stars: Sam Worthington, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Chloë Grace Moretz, Jessica Chastain
Votes: 22,003 | Gross: $0.05M
8. Elite Squad 2: The Enemy Within (2010)
Not Rated | 115 min | Action, Crime, Drama
After a prison riot, former-Captain Nascimento, now a high ranking security officer in Rio de Janeiro, is swept into a bloody political dispute that involves government officials and paramilitary groups.
Director: José Padilha | Stars: Wagner Moura, Irandhir Santos, André Ramiro, Milhem Cortaz
Votes: 86,807 | Gross: $0.10M
9. Brooklyn's Finest (2009)
R | 132 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Three unconnected Brooklyn cops wind up at the same deadly location after enduring vastly different career paths.
Director: Antoine Fuqua | Stars: Richard Gere, Don Cheadle, Ethan Hawke, Wesley Snipes
Votes: 66,415 | Gross: $27.15M
10. Killer Workout (1987)
R | 85 min | Horror
Two years ago, a young woman named Valerie was burned after entering a tanning salon. Now, her twin sister, Rhonda, runs a local gym where, all of a sudden, people are being murdered.
Director: David A. Prior | Stars: Marcia Karr, David Campbell, Fritz Matthews, Ted Prior
Votes: 2,741
11. No Man's Land (1987)
R | 106 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A rookie cop goes undercover and infiltrates a car thief ring.
Director: Peter Werner | Stars: Charlie Sheen, D.B. Sweeney, Lara Harris, Randy Quaid
Votes: 5,435 | Gross: $2.88M
12. The Boys Next Door (1985)
R | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Roy and Bo leave their small California town the weekend after graduation for a short road trip to Los Angeles. Soon, they find themselves lashing out and leaving a trail of bodies behind them. The violence escalates throughout.
Director: Penelope Spheeris | Stars: Maxwell Caulfield, Charlie Sheen, Patti D'Arbanville, Christopher McDonald
Votes: 3,618
13. Veronica Guerin (2003)
R | 98 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
An Irish journalist writes a series of stories about drug dealers.
Director: Joel Schumacher | Stars: Cate Blanchett, Colin Farrell, Brenda Fricker, Ciarán Hinds
Votes: 21,898 | Gross: $1.57M
14. Retroactive (1997)
R | 91 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A psychiatrist makes multiple trips through time to save a woman that was murdered by her brutal husband.
Director: Louis Morneau | Stars: Jim Belushi, Kylie Travis, Shannon Whirry, Frank Whaley
Votes: 6,707
15. Buffet Froid (1979)
Not Rated | 89 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Alphonse lives in an empty building. Empty but for one neighbour, the police captain Morvandieu. When the man who have killed Alphonse's wife appears, the three men will be thrown in a serie of event in a surrealist world.
Director: Bertrand Blier | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Bernard Blier, Jean Carmet, Denise Gence
Votes: 6,505
16. Harvester (1996 Video Game)
M | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Amnesiac named Steve wakes up in a strange little town called Harvest, a place seemingly straight out of 1950s Americana but with a noticeably eerie and twisted pitch black dark side, that's preparing for the annual festival of blood.
Director: Gilbert P. Austin | Stars: Michael Napadano Jr., Pieter Van Der Vliet, M.R. Eudy, Tim Higgins
Votes: 236
17. Deadly Strangers (1975)
R | 88 min | Thriller
Amidst public warnings of a dangerous patient who's escaped from a mental hospital, a young Belle Adams (Hayley Mills) hitches rides on the highway with various assortment of motorists.
Director: Sidney Hayers | Stars: Hayley Mills, Simon Ward, Sterling Hayden, Ken Hutchison
Votes: 744
18. Dreamaniac (1986)
Not Rated | 82 min | Horror
A heavy-metal musician makes a deal with a satanic succubus to make him successful with women, in return for the succubus being able to feed on the girls.
Director: David DeCoteau | Stars: Thomas Bern, Ashlyn Gere, Sylvia Summers, Lauren Peterson
Votes: 660
19. Halloween Night (2006 Video)
TV-14 | 85 min | Horror
The film follows Chris Vale (Scot Nery), a young man who was wrongly convicted of murdering his family in 1982, and admitted into an insane asylum based largely on the fact that Chris had ... See full summary »
Director: Mark Atkins | Stars: Derek Osedach, Rebekah Kochan, Scot Nery, Sean Durrie
Votes: 1,165
20. Sirens (1999 TV Movie)
R | 105 min | Drama
A white woman relentlessly seeks justice against two racist policemen who accidentally killed her black ex-husband and had their department cover it up.
Director: John Sacret Young | Stars: Dana Delany, Keith Carradine, Justin Theroux, Vondie Curtis-Hall
Votes: 253
21. Reasonable Doubt: The Single-Bullet Theory and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy (1988)
51 min | Documentary, Crime, History
Director: Chip Selby | Stars: Mike Buchanan, Robert J. Groden, Robert R. Shaw, Cyril H. Wecht
Votes: 21
22. Image of an Assassination: A New Look at the Zapruder Film (1998 TV Movie)
88 min | Documentary, History
Abraham Zapruder's home-camera footage of the assassination of John F. Kennedy is treated to digital re-mastering. We also get to see the images hidden "between the sprocket holes, " making for a wider view of this much-analyzed event.
Stars: Peter Dean, Joseph Barabe, Phil Chamberlain, Jack Harrison
Votes: 191
23.
Starsky and Hutch (1975–1979)
Episode:
Pilot
(1975)
TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The two detectives, investigating a double homicide, discover that the man and woman who died in a car identical to Starsky's were mistakenly murdered - it was the detectives themselves who were the intended targets.
Director: Barry Shear | Stars: David Soul, Paul Michael Glaser, Michael Lerner, Morgan Sterne
Votes: 827
24.
The F.B.I. Files (1998–2009)
Episode:
Deadly Threat
(2002)
TV-PG | 51 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime
In the 1980s, Florida's cocaine imports were among the highest in the nation and regional territories were enforced with intimidation and murder. One dealer would stop at nothing to keep ... See full summary »
Director: Stuart Taylor | Stars: James Kallstrom, Susan Rae, Anthony D. Call, Craig Abraham
Votes: 28
25.
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates (1996–1998)
Episode:
Eye Witness
(1996)
TV-14 | 49 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A deaf-mute young man out bird-watching watches a couple necking in a car, but amusement turns to horror when he witnesses a murder.
Director: John Glenister | Stars: Patricia Routledge, Derek Benfield, Dominic Monaghan, John Graham-Davies
Votes: 157
26.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999– )
Episode:
Families
(2004)
TV-14 | 41 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A high school student is found murdered, and it appears she's the victim of incest.
Director: Constantine Makris | Stars: Christopher Meloni, Mariska Hargitay, Richard Belzer, Diane Neal
Votes: 1,135
27.
Midsomer Murders (1997– )
Episode:
The House in the Woods
(2005)
TV-14 | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A secluded old dark house, believed haunted by the residents of Midsomer Newton, becomes the scene of a double murder when a house-hunting yuppie couple is found garroted.
Director: Peter Smith | Stars: John Nettles, Jason Hughes, Jane Wymark, Barry Jackson
Votes: 999
28.
The F.B.I. Files (1998–2009)
Episode:
Deadly Secrets
(2002)
TV-PG | 50 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime
In 1992, a young mother was gunned down in front of her children and police were left baffled. The crime seemed unmotivated and random. But family members hinted that the victim, who had ... See full summary »
Director: Bertrand Morin | Stars: James Kallstrom, Anthony D. Call, Susan Rae, Nisha Banks
Votes: 37
29.
Crimes That Shook the World (2006– )
Episode:
Monster of Florence
(2009)
Documentary, Crime
The unsolved case of the Monster of Florence, who preyed on young couples and committed murders in and around the city in the early 1980s, but who has never been officially identified.
Director: Kathryn Ross | Stars: Aldo Innocenti, Douglas Perin, Christine De Melo, Louise Cattaneo
Votes: 13
30.
FBI: Criminal Pursuit (2011– )
Episode:
Sex and Candy
(2011)
TV-14 | 43 min | Documentary, Crime
After a date night with his wife, Inga, Bryan Wilson wakes up to find her missing from their home. She supposedly ran to the store for candy...but no one sees her again until she turns up ... See full summary »
Director: Christian Faber | Stars: Kevin L Simmons, Renee Benjamin, Matt Cohen, Helen Furlow
Votes: 16
31.
Gotham (2014–2019)
Episode:
Rogues' Gallery
(2015)
TV-14 | 42 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An unknown person in Arkham Asylum is experimenting on the inmates, while Oswald unexpectedly finds himself in jail.
Director: Oz Scott | Stars: Ben McKenzie, Donal Logue, David Mazouz, Zabryna Guevara
Votes: 3,855
33.
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000–2015)
Episode:
The Last Ride
(2015)
TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A murder victim is covered from head to toe in silver chrome paint, and the clues lead the team to a classic convertible in which a Las Vegas legend was murdered.
Director: Timothy Beavers | Stars: Ted Danson, Elisabeth Shue, George Eads, Jorja Fox
Votes: 348
34.
Crime Stories (1998– )
Episode:
Double-Cross
(2004)
Documentary, Crime
The double homicide of husband and wife Kenneth Stahl and Carolyn-Oppy Stahl on an isolated stretch of highway in Orange County, California.
Director: Richard Kroehling | Stars: Dennis Conway, Laurie Crutchfield, Gene Galusha, Brian Heaney
35.
Les petits meurtres d'Agatha Christie (2009–2024)
Episode:
Mélodie mortelle
(2018)
TV-PG | 90 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Alice goes undercover as a teeny bop back up singer. Adapted from "The Sittaford Mystery".
Director: Christophe Campos | Stars: Samuel Labarthe, Blandine Bellavoir, Elodie Frenck, Natacha Lindinger
Votes: 154
36.
Cold Justice (2013– )
Episode:
Covet
(2017)
TV-14 | Documentary, Crime, Reality-TV
The case of 30-year-old Jeff Veazea who was murdered in his car after attending church on Palm Sunday in Lake Charles, Louisiana in 2002.
Stars: Kelly Siegler, Aaron Sam, Mark Kraus, Kevin Kirkum
Votes: 29
37.
The Terror (2018–2025)
Episode:
Into the Afterlife
(2019)
TV-14 | 47 min | Adventure, Drama, Horror
As all seems lost, Henry and Asako must look to the past to provide answers to their current turmoil. Chester and Luz grapple with their identities in hopes of saving those who are dearest ... See full summary »
Director: Frederick E.O. Toye | Stars: Derek Mio, Kiki Sukezane, Cristina Rodlo, Shingo Usami
Votes: 748