Whodunit
by whodunitandwhy | created - 02 Jun 2021 | updated - 21 Sep 2021 | PublicPassionate of the genre, I always had troubles finding old whodunits. I decided to share my discoveries with other people that might need it
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1. The Canary Murder Case (1929)
Passed | 82 min | Crime, Mystery
A beautiful showgirl, nicknamed 'the Canary', is a scheming nightclub singer. Blackmailing is her game and soon ends up dead. But who killed 'the Canary'. All the suspects who knew her had ... See full summary »
Directors: Malcolm St. Clair, Frank Tuttle | Stars: William Powell, Jean Arthur, James Hall, Louise Brooks
Votes: 831
2. The Bishop Murder Case (1929)
Passed | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When the body of a man nicknamed "Cock Robin" is found with an arrow in the heart on an archery range along with a chess bishop as a clue, Philo Vance investigates.
Directors: David Burton, Nick Grinde | Stars: Basil Rathbone, Leila Hyams, Roland Young, Alec B. Francis
Votes: 856
3. The Greene Murder Case (1929)
Passed | 69 min | Crime, Mystery
At the end of each year, the extremely wealthy but odious Greene family gets together at the spooky old family castle to establish terms of a will, though they despise each other. This year... See full summary »
Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: William Powell, Florence Eldridge, Ullrich Haupt, Jean Arthur
Votes: 476
4. The Benson Murder Case (1930)
Passed | 65 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A ruthless, crooked stockbroker is murdered at his luxurious country estate, and detective Philo Vance just happens to be there. He decides to find out who killed him.
Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: William Powell, William 'Stage' Boyd, Eugene Pallette, Paul Lukas
Votes: 463
5. The Kennel Murder Case (1933)
Passed | 73 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Philo Vance, accompanied by his prize-losing Scottish terrier, investigates the locked-room murder of a prominent and much-hated collector whose broken Chinese vase provides an important clue.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: William Powell, Mary Astor, Eugene Pallette, Ralph Morgan
Votes: 4,079
6. The Dragon Murder Case (1934)
Passed | 67 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
The Stamm family gives a small party prior to daughter Bernice's marriage to socialite Monty, but all of the guests seem to be against the match.
Director: H. Bruce Humberstone | Stars: Warren William, Margaret Lindsay, Lyle Talbot, Eugene Pallette
Votes: 755
7. The Casino Murder Case (1935)
Passed | 82 min | Crime, Mystery, Romance
After socialite Lynn Llewellyn receives an anonymous threat, he is poisoned at his uncle's casino, and although he recovers, his wife is murdered by the same killer.
Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Paul Lukas, Alison Skipworth, Donald Cook, Rosalind Russell
Votes: 796
8. The Garden Murder Case (1936)
Passed | 61 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Two people with ties to rich murdered socialite Lowe Hammle die from unusual suicides but Vance suspects hypnosis and foul play.
Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Virginia Bruce, Benita Hume, Douglas Walton
Votes: 626
9. The Gracie Allen Murder Case (1939)
Approved | 78 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
The zany plot follows nitwit Gracie Allen trying to help master sleuth Philo Vance solve a murder. Allen's uncle fixes her up with Bill at a company picnic. When the two go out to a ... See full summary »
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Gracie Allen, Warren William, Ellen Drew, Kent Taylor
Votes: 256
10. Before Midnight (1933)
Passed | 63 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Detective tries to figure out who killed a man who predicted his own death.
Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: Ralph Bellamy, June Collyer, Claude Gillingwater, Bradley Page
Votes: 326
11. Girl in Danger (1934)
Passed | 57 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
Inspector Steve Trent tracks the stolen Cortez emerald, last pilfered by a murdered gangster.
Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Ralph Bellamy, Shirley Grey, Arthur Hohl, Charles Sabin
Votes: 51
12. The Crime of Helen Stanley (1934)
Passed | 58 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
An actress is murdered in the midst of shooting a dance sequence for her latest picture, with Inspector Steve Trent on the case.
Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Ralph Bellamy, Shirley Grey, Gail Patrick, Kane Richmond
Votes: 82
13. Murder on the Blackboard (1934)
Passed | 71 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
A pretty young music teacher is bludgeoned to death in Hildegarde's school, where she's reunited with Oscar, but the autopsy report says she was dying from poison too.
Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Edna May Oliver, James Gleason, Bruce Cabot, Gertrude Michael
Votes: 791
14. 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
15. Murder on a Bridle Path (1936)
Approved | 66 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
After Hildegarde proves that the accidental riding death on a Central Park bridle path is really murder, she's faced with a plethora of red herrings and a real killer.
Directors: William Hamilton, Edward Killy | Stars: James Gleason, Helen Broderick, Louise Latimer, Owen Davis Jr.
Votes: 529
16. The Plot Thickens (1936)
Passed | 69 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
A priceless Cellini silver cup is stolen from a local museum with both Hildegarde and Oscar on the case.
Director: Ben Holmes | Stars: James Gleason, Zasu Pitts, Owen Davis Jr., Louise Latimer
Votes: 387
17. Forty Naughty Girls (1937)
Passed | 63 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
While Oscar and Hildegarde are attending a Broadway show, a press agent is shot in an actress' dressing room and an actor is murdered onstage in full view of the audience. Oscar and Hildegarde are on the case.
Director: Edward F. Cline | Stars: James Gleason, Zasu Pitts, Marjorie Lord, George Shelley
Votes: 442
18. Murder Over New York (1940)
Passed | 65 min | Mystery
When Charlie's old friend from Scotland Yard is murdered when they attend a police convention in New York, Chan picks up the case he was working on.
Director: Harry Lachman | Stars: Sidney Toler, Marjorie Weaver, Robert Lowery, Ricardo Cortez
Votes: 1,379
19. Murder She Said (1961)
Unrated | 87 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
When Miss Jane Marple reports witnessing a murder through the window of a passing train, the police dismiss her as a dotty spinster when no trace of the crime can be found.
Director: George Pollock | Stars: Margaret Rutherford, Arthur Kennedy, Muriel Pavlow, James Robertson Justice
Votes: 8,569
20. The Westland Case (1937)
Approved | 62 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A detective must solve a case where a girl was murdered in a room--and all the doors and windows were locked from the inside.
Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: Preston Foster, Frank Jenks, Carol Hughes, Barbara Pepper
Votes: 150
21. The Black Doll (1938)
Approved | 66 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror
Dishonest mine owner Nicholas Rood finds a Black Doll on his desk and knows that vengeance is about to overtake him for murdering his former partner. He is knifed as he talks to his ... See full summary »
Director: Otis Garrett | Stars: Donald Woods, Nan Grey, Edgar Kennedy, C. Henry Gordon
Votes: 245
22. The Lady in the Morgue (1938)
Approved | 67 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A detective investigates the disappearance of a girl's body from the city morgue.
Director: Otis Garrett | Stars: Preston Foster, Patricia Ellis, Frank Jenks, Thomas E. Jackson
Votes: 172
23. Danger on the Air (1938)
Approved | 70 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Caesar Kluck, soft-drink magnate, is found dead in the office of a big radio-broadcasting company. Benjamin Franklin Butts, a sound engineer, discovers that Kluck met his death from ... See full summary »
Director: Otis Garrett | Stars: Nan Grey, Donald Woods, Jed Prouty, Berton Churchill
Votes: 226
24. The Last Warning (1938)
Approved | 63 min | Mystery
In their third and last teaming, Bill Crane and Doc Williams visit a country estate to investigate threatening letters from the mysterious 'Eye.'
Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Preston Foster, Frank Jenks, Kay Linaker, E.E. Clive
Votes: 50
25. Mystery of the White Room (1939)
Approved | 58 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
In the middle of an eye-surgery operation in a large hospital, the lights in the operating room go out and the chief surgeon is murdered. It is the job of Police-Detective Spencer to figure... See full summary »
Director: Otis Garrett | Stars: Bruce Cabot, Helen Mack, Joan Woodbury, Constance Worth
Votes: 81
26. The House of Fear (1939)
Approved | 67 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A detective goes undercover as a producer to investigate an actor's murder, which occurred during the performance of a play. The actor's body disappeared shortly after the crime, and his ghost is rumored to be haunting the theater.
Director: Joe May | Stars: William Gargan, Irene Hervey, Dorothy Arnold, Alan Dinehart
Votes: 146
27. The Crime Doctor's Strangest Case (1943)
Approved | 68 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The Crime Doctor must prove the innocence of a young man with a reputation for using poison.
Director: Eugene Forde | Stars: Warner Baxter, Lynn Merrick, Gloria Dickson, Barton MacLane
Votes: 367
28. Shadows in the Night (1944)
67 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A young woman wants The Crime Doctor to help her decipher her strange nightmares.
Director: Eugene Forde | Stars: Warner Baxter, Nina Foch, George Zucco, Edward Norris
Votes: 268
29. The Crime Doctor's Warning (1945)
70 min | Crime, Mystery
The Crime Doctor must prove the innocence of an artist accused of murdering his model during one of his blackout spells.
Director: William Castle | Stars: Warner Baxter, John Litel, Dusty Anderson, Coulter Irwin
Votes: 337
30. The Crime Doctor's Courage (1945)
70 min | Mystery
Dr. Ordway investigates the death of man whose first two wives were murdered.
Director: George Sherman | Stars: Warner Baxter, Hillary Brooke, Jerome Cowan, Mark Roberts
Votes: 350
31. Just Before Dawn (1946)
Approved | 65 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
In the 7th film of the "Crime Doctor" series based on the radio program, Dr. Robert Ordway (Warner Baxter) is summoned to take attend a diabetic, and gives an injection of insulin taken ... See full summary »
Director: William Castle | Stars: Warner Baxter, Adele Roberts, Martin Kosleck, Mona Barrie
Votes: 311
32. Crime Doctor's Man Hunt (1946)
Passed | 61 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
The Crime Doctor comes up against a criminal with a dual personality.
Director: William Castle | Stars: Warner Baxter, Ellen Drew, William Frawley, Frank Sully
Votes: 340
33. The Millerson Case (1947)
Approved | 72 min | Crime, Mystery
In the 8th film of Columbia's "Crime Doctor" series, Dr. Robert Ordway is vacationing in the Blue Ridge Mountains district of West Virginia when a typhoid epidemic breaks out. Three deaths ... See full summary »
Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Warner Baxter, Nancy Saunders, Clem Bevans, Griff Barnett
Votes: 303
34. The Crime Doctor's Gamble (1947)
Passed | 66 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
On a lecture/vacation visit to Paris, Dr. Ordway drops in on his friend, the Prefecture of Police. He becomes involved in a case involving the stabbing of an old man. The man's son, not all... See full summary »
Director: William Castle | Stars: Warner Baxter, Micheline Cheirel, Roger Dann, Steven Geray
Votes: 293
35. The Crime Doctor's Diary (1949)
Approved | 61 min | Crime, Drama
Dr. Ordway tries to prove that his patient was framed for arson.
Director: Seymour Friedman | Stars: Warner Baxter, Stephen Dunne, Lois Maxwell, Adele Jergens
Votes: 249
36. The Spanish Cape Mystery (1935)
Passed | 73 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Detective Ellery Queen's vacation is interrupted when murder strikes next door to his oceanside cabin.
Director: Lewis D. Collins | Stars: Helen Twelvetrees, Donald Cook, Berton Churchill, Frank Sheridan
Votes: 326
37. The Woman in Green (1945)
Approved | 68 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Sherlock Holmes investigates when young women around London turn up murdered, each with a finger severed. Scotland Yard suspects a madman, but Holmes believes the killings to be part of a diabolical plot.
Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Hillary Brooke, Henry Daniell
Votes: 6,872
38. The Stars Will Tell, Inspector Palmu (1962)
100 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Inspector Palmu investigates the death of an old astronomer, whose body is found on Helsinki's Observatory Hill, but the investigation is complicated by the media's spreading of false information concerning the case.
Director: Matti Kassila | Stars: Joel Rinne, Matti Ranin, Leo Jokela, Helge Herala
Votes: 1,294
39. The Inn on the River (1962)
92 min | Crime, Drama
Inspector Wade hunts down The Shark, a criminal equipped with a wetsuit and a speargun.
Director: Alfred Vohrer | Stars: Joachim Fuchsberger, Brigitte Grothum, Elisabeth Flickenschildt, Klaus Kinski
Votes: 1,027
40. Murder Most Foul (1964)
Unrated | 90 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
When Miss Jane Marple joins a theatrical company after a blackmailer is murdered, several members of the troupe are also dispatched by this mysterious killer.
Director: George Pollock | Stars: Margaret Rutherford, Ron Moody, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, Andrew Cruickshank
Votes: 6,311
41. Murder at the Gallop (1963)
Approved | 81 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
When a wealthy old man appears to have been "frightened to death" by a cat, Miss Jane Marple suspects one of his four relatives, all heirs to his estate, of his murder.
Director: George Pollock | Stars: Margaret Rutherford, Stringer Davis, Robert Morley, Flora Robson
Votes: 6,804
42. Murder Ahoy (1964)
Unrated | 93 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
After Miss Jane Marple is made a trustee of a merchant marine training vessel, a fellow trustee is poisoned, and ship's officers are later murdered after she comes on board.
Director: George Pollock | Stars: Margaret Rutherford, Lionel Jeffries, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, William Mervyn
Votes: 5,806
43. Inspector Palmu's Error (1960)
109 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
A closed room mystery begins when an infamous tycoon is found dead in his bath tub. The famous police lieutenant Palmu is summoned to investigate.
Director: Matti Kassila | Stars: Joel Rinne, Elina Pohjanpää, Matti Ranin, Leo Riuttu
Votes: 2,100
44. Kaasua, komisario Palmu! (1961)
99 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
A rich widow is found dead of gas poisoning in her flat in Helsinki. First the death is thought to be an accident, but lieutenant Palmu notices that the murderer has made a mistake, and ... See full summary »
Director: Matti Kassila | Stars: Joel Rinne, Matti Ranin, Leo Jokela, Elina Salo
Votes: 1,670
45. Clue of the Twisted Candle (1960)
61 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An unscrupulous businessman frames a rival for murder, then is himself found murdered in a locked room.
Director: Allan Davis | Stars: Bernard Lee, David Knight, Francis De Wolff, Colette Wilde
Votes: 108
46. Clue of the Silver Key (1961)
59 min | Mystery
The police investigate the murder of a wealthy old man.
Director: Gerard Glaister | Stars: Bernard Lee, Lyndon Brook, Finlay Currie, Jennifer Daniel
Votes: 102
47. The Thirteenth Chair (1929)
Passed | 72 min | Drama, Mystery
Although his murdered friend was by all accounts a scoundrel a true "bounder" Edward Wales is determined to trap his killer by staging a seance using a famous medium. Many of the 13 seance ... See full summary »
Director: Tod Browning | Stars: Conrad Nagel, Leila Hyams, Margaret Wycherly, Helene Millard
Votes: 730
48. The Unholy Night (1929)
Passed | 94 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
When a rash of murders depletes their number, a billionaire's employees are brought together at an Englishman's estate.
Director: Lionel Barrymore | Stars: Ernest Torrence, Roland Young, Dorothy Sebastian, Natalie Moorhead
Votes: 403
49. The Mystery of the Yellow Room (1930)
108 min | Crime, Mystery
A professor's daughter is attacked in her sealed bedroom.Her fiance is suspected but a cub journalist finds the surprising culprit.
Director: Marcel L'Herbier | Stars: Huguette Duflos, Kissa Kouprine, Maxime Desjardins, Marcel Vibert
Votes: 139
50. Grief Street (1931)
Passed | 64 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
Alvin Merle, a womanizing Broadway matinée idol, is found strangled in his dressing room. The door is locked from the inside and there is no possible other way into the room. Merle is ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Barbara Kent, John Holland, Dorothy Christy, Crauford Kent
Votes: 166
51. The Devil Plays (1931)
Passed | 63 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A murder mystery evolves during a weekend at an exclusive mansion.
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Jameson Thomas, Florence Britton, Thomas E. Jackson, Richard Tucker
Votes: 191
52. Convicted (1931)
Passed | 63 min | Crime, Mystery, Romance
Tony Blair, a producer of Broadway plays, is murdered on a California-bound passenger liner, and a series of events leads to an assumption that Claire Norvelle has committed the killing. ... See full summary »
Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: Aileen Pringle, Jameson Thomas, Dorothy Christy, Richard Tucker
Votes: 93
53. Murder at Midnight (1931)
Passed | 69 min | Crime, Mystery
A murder during a game of charades at a society party leads the police to begin the hunt through the guest list for a motive and culprit.
Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: Aileen Pringle, Alice White, Hale Hamilton, Leslie Fenton
Votes: 476
54. Discarded Lovers (1932)
Not Rated | 60 min | Mystery
Hollywood star Irma Gladden piles up the haters as she goes along her merry way-until she's found dead in her car.
Director: Fred C. Newmeyer | Stars: Natalie Moorhead, Russell Hopton, J. Farrell MacDonald, Barbara Weeks
Votes: 136
55. The Death Kiss (1932)
Passed | 75 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Murder during film shoot sparks search for a killer.
Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Bela Lugosi, David Manners, Adrienne Ames, John Wray
Votes: 1,418
56. The King Murder (1932)
Not Rated | 67 min | Crime, Mystery
A beautiful blonde makes a career of seducing, then blackmailing, wealthy married men. She is found murdered after demanding a $5000 payoff from her latest victim, and the detective ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Conway Tearle, Natalie Moorhead, Marceline Day, Dorothy Revier
Votes: 205
57. Secret of the Blue Room (1933)
Approved | 66 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Twenty years after 3 murders occur in a castle's "blue room", three men who each want to marry a beautiful girl decide to spend a night in the room to prove their bravery to her.
Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Lionel Atwill, Gloria Stuart, Paul Lukas, Edward Arnold
Votes: 1,167
58. Murder on the Campus (1933)
Passed | 73 min | Mystery
A popular young student finds herself accused of a series of murders that have occurred on the college campus. Her boyfriend, a reporter for the local newspaper, knows she didn't do it, and sets out to prove her innocence and catch the real killer.
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Shirley Grey, Charles Starrett, J. Farrell MacDonald, Ruth Hall
Votes: 309
59. Death at a Broadcast (1934)
71 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
When an actor is murdered at the BBC Inspector Gregory finds he has many suspects to choose from.
Director: Reginald Denham | Stars: Ian Hunter, Austin Trevor, Lilian Oldland, Henry Kendall
Votes: 365
60. The 9th Guest (1934)
Passed | 65 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Eight people are invited to dinner in a fashionable penthouse apartment. After they are wined and dined, a voice on the radio informs them that they will be murdered unless they manage to outwit the ninth guest: Death.
Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Donald Cook, Genevieve Tobin, Hardie Albright, Edward Ellis
Votes: 673
61. Green Eyes (1934)
Passed | 68 min | Mystery
The owner of a large mansion in the country throws a costume party for some of his friends, but the party turns sour when he is found stabbed to death in a closet. The police and a guest try to discover who committed the murder.
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Shirley Grey, Charles Starrett, Claude Gillingwater, John Wray
Votes: 341
62. Murder by Television (1935)
Passed | 53 min | Mystery, Thriller
James Houghland, inventor of a new method by which television signals can be instantaneously sent anywhere in the world, refuses to sell the process to television companies, who then send ... See full summary »
Director: Clifford Sanforth | Stars: Bela Lugosi, June Collyer, Huntley Gordon, George Meeker
Votes: 766
63. Murder in the Fleet (1935)
Passed | 69 min | Mystery, Comedy, Drama
Taylor is cast as Lt. Tom Randolph, one of several naval officers confined to his ship when a murder occurs. The victim was in the process of delivering the components for a new electrical ... See full summary »
Director: Edward Sedgwick | Stars: Robert Taylor, Jean Parker, Ted Healy, Una Merkel
Votes: 251
64. One Frightened Night (1935)
Passed | 66 min | Comedy, Mystery
An eccentric millionaire, unable to locate his only granddaughter, decides to divide his estate among a group of people less close to him: his niece and nephew, his attorney, his doctor, ... See full summary »
Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: Charley Grapewin, Mary Carlisle, Arthur Hohl, Wallace Ford
Votes: 454
65. Death from a Distance (1935)
Approved | 68 min | Mystery, Thriller
While a distinguished astronomer is giving a lecture in a planetarium, a shot rings out and one of the audience members is found dead. A tough detective and a brassy female reporter lock horns as they both try to break the case.
Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: Russell Hopton, Lola Lane, George F. Marion, Lee Kohlmar
Votes: 212
66. The Criminal Within (1936)
Approved | 67 min | Crime, Mystery, Romance
A famous detective is invited to a swanky party at an elegant mansion, but before the night is over he finds himself involved with gangsters, blackmail and murder.
Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: John Miljan, Irene Ware, Iris Adrian, Noel Madison
Votes: 304
67. Muss 'em Up (1936)
Passed | 70 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
A private detective is enlisted to find out who shot a dog and threatened its owner, but before long he's also involved in a kidnapping and murder plot.
Director: Charles Vidor | Stars: Preston Foster, Margaret Callahan, Alan Mowbray, Ralph Morgan
Votes: 217
68. The Princess Comes Across (1936)
Passed | 76 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
A woman pretends to be royalty in order to get aboard a cruise ship.
Director: William K. Howard | Stars: Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, Douglass Dumbrille, Alison Skipworth
Votes: 1,237
69. The Rogues' Tavern (1936)
Approved | 70 min | Horror, Mystery
A mad killer is on the loose in a hotel on a dark, gloomy night.
Director: Robert F. Hill | Stars: Wallace Ford, Barbara Pepper, Joan Woodbury, Clara Kimball Young
Votes: 557
70. It Couldn't Have Happened (But It Did) (1936)
Approved | 70 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
When a play's two producers are murdered, the playwright tries to solve the crime.
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Reginald Denny, Evelyn Brent, Jack La Rue, Inez Courtney
Votes: 153
71. Murder with Pictures (1936)
Passed | 69 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Suspected crime boss Nate Girard beats a murder rap, and newspaper photographer Kent Murdock is on the story. Girard and lawyer Redfield throw a party for the news men where Murdock ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Lew Ayres, Gail Patrick, Paul Kelly, Benny Baker
Votes: 403
72. Miracles for Sale (1939)
Not Rated | 71 min | Crime, Mystery
Retired performer Mike Morgan sells original illusions to fellow magicians, and although he believes in the supernatural, likes to expose sham psychics. This involves him in some mysterious murders.
Director: Tod Browning | Stars: Robert Young, Florence Rice, Frank Craven, Henry Hull
Votes: 845
73. Murder by Invitation (1941)
Passed | 67 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A wealthy woman has a murder mystery on her hands when her greedy relatives wind up dead after being invited to her home.
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Wallace Ford, Marian Marsh, Sarah Padden, Gavin Gordon
Votes: 499
74. The Nurse's Secret (1941)
Passed | 64 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Murder mystery with a nurse (Lee Patrick) moving into a mansion after an apparent suicide to care for the old mother. The mother is kind of spooky, but so is the butler, and the girlfriend,... See full summary »
Director: Noel M. Smith | Stars: Lee Patrick, Regis Toomey, Julie Bishop, Ann Edmonds
Votes: 233
75. The Panther's Claw (1942)
Passed | 70 min | Crime, Mystery
Members of an opera company are being blackmailed by someone called the Black Panther.
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Sidney Blackmer, Rick Vallin, Byron Foulger, Herbert Rawlinson
Votes: 317
76. Murder in the Blue Room (1944)
61 min | Comedy, Crime, Film-Noir
A party is thrown at a haunted mansion, people start to die, and a man who spent a night in the "blue room" disappears.
Director: Leslie Goodwins | Stars: Anne Gwynne, Donald Cook, John Litel, Grace McDonald
Votes: 395
77. Lady on a Train (1945)
Passed | 94 min | Comedy, Crime, Film-Noir
In New York, a woman who partially witnesses a killing from a train window seeks the aid of a crime novelist to solve the murder.
Director: Charles David | Stars: Deanna Durbin, Ralph Bellamy, David Bruce, George Coulouris
Votes: 2,565
78. The Cat Creeps (1946)
Passed | 58 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
A black cat is suspected of being possessed by the spirit of a elderly murdered woman.
Director: Erle C. Kenton | Stars: Noah Beery Jr., Lois Collier, Paul Kelly, Frederick Brady
Votes: 358
79. Green for Danger (1946)
Not Rated | 91 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
After the nurse who declares that a recent surgical death was a murder also dies, an enigmatic Scotland Yard inspector arrives to investigate.
Director: Sidney Gilliat | Stars: Alastair Sim, Sally Gray, Trevor Howard, Leo Genn
Votes: 5,619
80. The Big Frame (1952)
67 min | Mystery
During a London reunion of a World War II RAF unit, an American pilot gets into a fight with one of his buddies, who is drunk and belligerent. The next day the pilot wakes up in a strange ... See full summary »
Director: David MacDonald | Stars: Mark Stevens, Jean Kent, Garry Marsh, John Bentley
Votes: 202
81. Noose for a Lady (1953)
76 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A woman has been sentenced to death by hanging. Her cousin believes she is innocent and he works against time to prove it before she is executed.
Director: Wolf Rilla | Stars: Dennis Price, Rona Anderson, Ronald Howard, Pamela Alan
Votes: 282
82. Web of Evidence (1959)
Approved | 90 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A British-American returns to Britain after 20 years to discover that his father has been jailed since WW2 for a murder that took place in murky circumstances.
Director: Jack Cardiff | Stars: Van Johnson, Vera Miles, Emlyn Williams, Bernard Lee
Votes: 321
83. Sleuth (1972)
PG | 138 min | Mystery, Thriller
A man who loves games and theater invites his wife's lover to meet him, setting up a battle of wits with potentially deadly results.
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Stars: Laurence Olivier, Michael Caine, Alec Cawthorne, John Matthews
Votes: 50,174 | Gross: $4.08M
84. Murder by Decree (1979)
PG | 124 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Sherlock Holmes investigates the murders commited by Jack the Ripper and discovers a conspiracy to protect the killer.
Director: Bob Clark | Stars: Christopher Plummer, James Mason, David Hemmings, Susan Clark
Votes: 6,600
85. Knives Out (2019)
PG-13 | 130 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A detective investigates the death of the patriarch of an eccentric, combative family.
Director: Rian Johnson | Stars: Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis
Votes: 774,009 | Gross: $165.36M
86. Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Approved | 116 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A veteran British barrister must defend his client in a murder trial that has surprise after surprise.
Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester
Votes: 137,898 | Gross: $8.18M
87. The Dark Hour (1936)
Passed | 64 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A pair of detectives investigates the murder of an elderly millionaire who was the target of blackmail and death threats and find that there is no shortage of suspects, many of them in the victim's own family.
Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Ray Walker, Berton Churchill, Irene Ware, Hobart Bosworth
Votes: 359
88. The Inner Circle (1946)
Approved | 57 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
A private detective finds himself with a perfect new secretary. But after a notorious gossip columnist turns up murdered, she may prove too good to be true.
Director: Philip Ford | Stars: Adele Mara, Warren Douglas, William Frawley, Ricardo Cortez
Votes: 556
89. Death on the Diamond (1934)
Passed | 71 min | Drama, Mystery, Sport
Pop Clark is about to lose his baseball team, unless they can win the pennant so he can pay off debts. He hires ace player Larry Evans to ensure the victory. As well as rival teams, ... See full summary »
Director: Edward Sedgwick | Stars: Robert Young, Madge Evans, Nat Pendleton, Ted Healy
Votes: 338
90. Remember Last Night? (1935)
Passed | 81 min | Comedy, Mystery
After a night of wild partying at a friend's house, a couple wake up to discover the party's host has been murdered in his bed. A detective is called in to investigate, but his ... See full summary »
Director: James Whale | Stars: Edward Arnold, Robert Young, Constance Cummings, Sally Eilers
Votes: 605
91. The Preview Murder Mystery (1936)
Passed | 60 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
A public relations man for a movie studio uses an early form of television to help solve a murder.
Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Frances Drake, Reginald Denny, Gail Patrick, George Barbier
Votes: 305
92. The Arsenal Stadium Mystery (1939)
85 min | Comedy, Crime, Sport
When a star player drops dead during a charity football match between Arsenal and amateur side the Trojans, Inspector Slade of Scotland Yard is called in to solve the crime.
Director: Thorold Dickinson | Stars: Leslie Banks, Greta Gynt, Ian McLean, Liane Linden
Votes: 708
93. The Thin Man (1934)
TV-PG | 91 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Former detective Nick Charles and his wealthy wife Nora investigate a murder case, mostly for the fun of it.
Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O'Sullivan, Nat Pendleton
Votes: 32,549
94. Diabolique (1955)
Not Rated | 117 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
The wife and mistress of a loathed school principal plan to murder him with what they believe is the perfect alibi.
Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot | Stars: Simone Signoret, Véra Clouzot, Paul Meurisse, Charles Vanel
Votes: 69,411 | Gross: $1.09M
95. The Phantom of Crestwood (1932)
Passed | 76 min | Crime, Mystery
Jenny Wren is found dead after threatening to blackmail some prominent men, and it's up to a detective to find out what happened to Jenny.
Director: J. Walter Ruben | Stars: Ricardo Cortez, Karen Morley, Anita Louise, Pauline Frederick
Votes: 847
96. After the Thin Man (1936)
Passed | 112 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Private detective Nick Charles and his wealthy wife Nora are back home at last and hoping for a quiet New Year when there is a murder. The obvious suspect is his wife, Nora's cousin, Selma.
Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: William Powell, Myrna Loy, James Stewart, Elissa Landi
Votes: 12,124 | Gross: $4.34M
97. Another Thin Man (1939)
Passed | 103 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
An explosives manufacturer suspects a young man is out to kill him. He calls in new parents Nick and Nora to sort things out.
Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Virginia Grey, Otto Kruger
Votes: 8,164 | Gross: $3.32M
98. Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)
Passed | 97 min | Drama, Mystery
A jockey has been shot dead at the race track. Famous detective Nick Charles and his wife Nora happen to be on the scene and Lt. Abrahams asks for Nick's expert help.
Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Barry Nelson, Donna Reed
Votes: 6,894
99. The Thin Man Goes Home (1944)
Approved | 100 min | Comedy, Crime, Film-Noir
Nick and Nora head to Nick's hometown of Sycamore Springs to spend some time with his parents. His father, a prominent local physician, was always a bit disappointed with Nick's choice of ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Lucile Watson, Gloria DeHaven
Votes: 6,275 | Gross: $3.86M
100. Song of the Thin Man (1947)
Not Rated | 86 min | Comedy, Crime, Musical
Nick and Nora Charles are on a gambling boat when someone is murdered. The two main suspects are at large and come to Nick for help. Nick turns them in to the police but then sets out to figure out the mystery.
Director: Edward Buzzell | Stars: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Keenan Wynn, Dean Stockwell
Votes: 5,735 | Gross: $3.06M
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