Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "written-confession"

1. Flash Gordon (1980)

PG | 111 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

A football player and his friends travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyranny of Ming the Merciless to save Earth.

Director: Mike Hodges | Stars: Sam J. Jones, Melody Anderson, Max von Sydow, Topol

Votes: 61,456

2. Crooked House (2017)

PG-13 | 115 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

In Agatha Christie's most twisted tale, a spy-turned-private-detective is lured by his former lover to catch her grandfather's murderer before Scotland Yard exposes dark family secrets.

Director: Gilles Paquet-Brenner | Stars: Max Irons, Stefanie Martini, Glenn Close, Honor Kneafsey

Votes: 27,508

3. Death and the Maiden (1994)

R | 103 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A political activist is convinced that her guest is a man who once tortured her for the government.

Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Ben Kingsley, Stuart Wilson, Krystia Mova

Votes: 26,779 | Gross: $2.10M

4. Seven Days in May (1964)

Approved | 118 min | Drama, Thriller

United States military leaders plot to overthrow the President because he supports a nuclear disarmament treaty and they fear a Soviet sneak attack.

Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March, Ava Gardner

Votes: 17,308 | Gross: $7.96M

5. Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950)

Not Rated | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Det. Sgt. Mark Dixon wants to be something his old man wasn't: a guy on the right side of the law. Will Dixon's vicious nature get the better of him?

Director: Otto Preminger | Stars: Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, Gary Merrill, Bert Freed

Votes: 9,941

6. Second Wind (1966)

Not Rated | 150 min | Crime, Drama

A gangster escapes jail and quickly makes plans to continue his criminal ways elsewhere, but a determined inspector is closing in.

Director: Jean-Pierre Melville | Stars: Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Raymond Pellegrin, Christine Fabréga

Votes: 6,631

7. History Is Made at Night (1937)

Passed | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A wealthy divorcée falls for a charming Parisian, but her insanely jealous ex-husband will do anything to get her back.

Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Charles Boyer, Jean Arthur, Leo Carrillo, Colin Clive

Votes: 2,484

8. No Man of Her Own (1950)

Passed | 98 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance

A pregnant woman adopts the identity of a railroad-crash victim and starts a new life with the woman's wealthy in-laws, but is soon blackmailed by her devious ex.

Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, John Lund, Jane Cowl, Phyllis Thaxter

Votes: 2,900

9. Les vampires (1915)

Not Rated | 421 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

An intrepid reporter and his loyal friend battle a bizarre secret society of criminals known as The Vampires.

Director: Louis Feuillade | Stars: Musidora, Édouard Mathé, Marcel Lévesque, Jean Aymé

Votes: 5,426

10. Apache Rifles (1964)

Not Rated | 92 min | Western

A young cavalry officer is assigned the job of bringing in a band of Apaches who have been terrorizing the countryside.

Director: William Witney | Stars: Audie Murphy, Michael Dante, Linda Lawson, L.Q. Jones

Votes: 3,345

11. Old Shatterhand (1964)

89 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

Renegades trying to get the army to abandon their fort get the Indians addicted to whiskey, then convince them to attack and drive out the soldiers.

Director: Hugo Fregonese | Stars: Lex Barker, Pierre Brice, Daliah Lavi, Guy Madison

Votes: 1,801

12. Rage in Heaven (1941)

Approved | 85 min | Drama, Thriller

Robert Montgomery and George Sanders team-up to play against type in this probing psychological thriller that features Ingrid Bergman as the object of their obsessions.

Directors: W.S. Van Dyke, Robert B. Sinclair, Richard Thorpe | Stars: Robert Montgomery, Ingrid Bergman, George Sanders, Lucile Watson

Votes: 1,352

13. You Can't Get Away with Murder (1939)

Approved | 79 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Youthful tough Johnnie Stone has fallen under the influence of petty crook Frank Wilson, who involves him and robbery and murder using his sister's boyfriend's stolen gun.

Director: Lewis Seiler | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Gale Page, Billy Halop, John Litel

Votes: 1,285

14. Tomorrow at Seven (1933)

Passed | 62 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

People in an old, dark mansion are menaced by a maniac called "The Black Ace."

Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Chester Morris, Vivienne Osborne, Frank McHugh, Allen Jenkins

Votes: 406

15. Three Crosses Not to Die (1968)

98 min | Drama, Western

Jerry, Reno and Paco are in prison, where they meet a young Mexican man who claims he has been convicted for a crime he hasn't committed. Mysteriously, the three men are released of prison and proceed to prove the Mexican man's innocence.

Director: Sergio Garrone | Stars: Craig Hill, Ida Galli, Giovanni Cianfriglia, Jean Louis

Votes: 100

16. Adventures of Superman (1952–1958)
Episode: Through the Time Barrier (1955)

TV-G | 30 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

A nutty professor uses his time machine to send Clark, Lois, Jimmy, Perry and himself back to 50,000 B.C., along with a notorious gangster who decides he likes prehistoric times.

Director: Harry Gerstad | Stars: George Reeves, Jack Larson, Noel Neill, John Hamilton

Votes: 197

17. The Old Fox (1977– )
Episode: Diesmal war es Mord (1995)

57 min | Crime, Drama

Donny meets his baby sister!

Director: Hans-Jürgen Tögel | Stars: Rolf Schimpf, Michael Ande, Charles M. Huber, Markus Böttcher

Votes: 20

18. Bad Girls (1999–2006)
Episode: Back from the Brink (2001)

TV-14 | 57 min | Crime, Drama

G Wing is in uproar after Shell stabs Fenner then barricades her cell door. Helen tries to persuade Nikki to return to Larkhall instead of absconding.

Director: Mike Adams | Stars: Jack Ellis, Debra Stephenson, Simone Lahbib, Mandana Jones

Votes: 59

19. Hetty Wainthropp Investigates (1996–1998)
Episode: Digging for Dirt (1998)

TV-14 | 49 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

An elderly woman ignores eviction notices for the condemned apartment building she lives in as she hopes to prove that it was not built to code.

Director: Mike Vardy | Stars: Patricia Routledge, Derek Benfield, Dominic Monaghan, Suzanne Maddock

Votes: 88

20. Strange World (1999–2002)
Episode: Aerobe (1999)

TV-14 | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Turner and Major Reese, who feels guilty over Turner's condition, only have a few hours to stop a microbe that's eating through canisters of radioactive waste in a shady nuclear waste repository before the waste leaks and kills them.

Director: Dan Lerner | Stars: Tim Guinee, Sandra Quarterman, Vivian Wu, Kristin Lehman

Votes: 7

21. Dark Shadows (1966–1971)
Episode: Episode #1.805 (1969)

TV-G | 30 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Trask is tricked into signing a confession that he killed his wife Minerva.

Director: Henry Kaplan | Stars: Jonathan Frid, Nancy Barrett, Jerry Lacy, Humbert Allen Astredo

Votes: 26

22. Dark Shadows (1966–1971)
Episode: Episode #1.806 (1969)

TV-G | 23 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

As Charity looks at Quentin's portrait, its features change to look like those of a wolf.

Director: Dan Curtis | Stars: Grayson Hall, Nancy Barrett, Jerry Lacy, David Selby

Votes: 23

23. Dark Shadows (1966–1971)
Episode: Episode #1.810 (1969)

TV-G | 23 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Aristede's medallion fails to cure Quentin's daughter Lenore. Magda summons a spirit to help.

Director: Henry Kaplan | Stars: Grayson Hall, Nancy Barrett, David Selby, Marie Wallace

Votes: 24

24. Better Call Saul (2015–2022)
Episode: Waterworks (2022)

TV-14 | 58 min | Crime, Drama

The stakes are raised when a discovery is made that will send shockwaves far and wide.

Director: Vince Gilligan | Stars: Bob Odenkirk, Rhea Seehorn, Pat Healy, Tina Parker

Votes: 28,253

25. Deadly Women (2008– )
Episode: Predators (2008)

TV-14 | 45 min | Documentary, Crime

Insatiable greed turns a young woman into a systematic killer, the friendly lady next door has a backyard full of bodies and a lone woman stalks random victims on the highways of Florida.

Director: John Mavety | Stars: Janis Amatuzio, Dawn Botkins, John Cabrera, Merle Cannonball

Votes: 35

26. Blood, Lies and Alibis (2012– )
Episode: The Campus Killer (2012)

TV-14 | 43 min | Documentary, Crime

In 1980, Jamie Kellum kills college friend, Katherine Foster, in a fit of jealous rage. Two decades later, Kellum, now Jamie Letson, tells her AA sponsor of her crimes, leading police to make an arrest in a 20 year old case.

Director: Lowell Dean | Stars: Katherine Foster, Jamie Letson, Ian Michael Coulson, William Dill

27. One Bad Choice (2015– )
Episode: Belle Knox (2015)

TV-14 | 41 min | Drama

When faced with the possibility of dropping out of college, a studious girl solves her tuition problems through the adult industry.

Director: Jeremiah Crowell | Stars: Belle Knox, Abbi Snee, Deepa Purohit, Ian Blackman

Votes: 11

28. Forensic Files (1996–2011)
Episode: Burning Ambition (2000)

TV-14 | 22 min | Documentary, Crime

When a Seattle policeman's house goes up in flames Fire officials think it's arson. One month later, in an ironic twist, the officer arrests a low-level drug dealer who confesses to the ... See full summary »

Stars: Peter Thomas, Matt Bachmeier, Jeff Baird, Becky Gibbs

Votes: 104