Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "perfect-crime"

1. Inside Man (2006)

R | 129 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A police detective, a bank robber, and a high-power broker enter high-stakes negotiations after the criminal's brilliant heist spirals into a hostage situation.

Director: Spike Lee | Stars: Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster, Christopher Plummer

Votes: 397,915 | Gross: $88.51M

2. Minority Report (2002)

PG-13 | 145 min | Action, Crime, Mystery

John works with the PreCrime police which stop crimes before they take place, with the help of three 'PreCogs' who can foresee crimes. Events ensue when John finds himself framed for a future murder.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton, Max von Sydow

Votes: 584,366 | Gross: $132.07M

3. The Italian Job (2003)

PG-13 | 111 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

After being betrayed and left for dead in Italy, Charlie Croker and his team plan an elaborate gold heist against their former ally.

Director: F. Gary Gray | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Mark Wahlberg, Edward Norton, Charlize Theron

Votes: 388,517 | Gross: $106.13M

4. Rope (1948)

Approved | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Two men attempt to prove they committed the perfect crime by hosting a dinner party after strangling their former classmate to death.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger, Dick Hogan

Votes: 153,637

5. Inside Man: Most Wanted (2019)

R | 105 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

An NYPD hostage negotiator teams up with a federal agent to rescue dozens of tourists held hostage during a 10-hour siege at the U.S. Federal Reserve.

Director: M.J. Bassett | Stars: Aml Ameen, Rhea Seehorn, Roxanne McKee, Urs Rechn

Votes: 4,683

6. Going in Style (2017)

PG-13 | 96 min | Comedy, Crime

Desperate to pay the bills and come through for their loved ones, three lifelong pals risk it all by embarking on a daring bid to knock off the very bank that absconded with their money.

Director: Zach Braff | Stars: Michael Caine, Alan Arkin, Ann-Margret, Matt Dillon

Votes: 91,571 | Gross: $45.02M

7. Ten Little Indians (1965)

Not Rated | 91 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Ten people are invited to a luxury mountaintop mansion, only to find that an unseen person is killing them one by one. Could one of them be the killer?

Director: George Pollock | Stars: Hugh O'Brian, Shirley Eaton, Fabian, Leo Genn

Votes: 5,295

8. Family Plot (1976)

PG | 120 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A phony psychic/con artist and her taxi driver/actor boyfriend encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir in California.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Karen Black, Bruce Dern, Barbara Harris, William Devane

Votes: 24,834

9. 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: 2,674

10. Kansas City Confidential (1952)

Not Rated | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

An ex-con trying to go straight is framed for a million dollar armored car robbery and must go to Mexico in order to unmask the real culprits.

Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: John Payne, Coleen Gray, Preston Foster, Neville Brand

Votes: 8,139

11. Microwave Massacre (1979)

Not Rated | 76 min | Comedy, Horror

Fed up of his wife's bad cooking, Donald kills her and turns to cannibalism to satisfy his appetite.

Director: Wayne Berwick | Stars: Jackie Vernon, Loren Schein, Al Troupe, Marla Simon

Votes: 3,205

12. Compulsion (1959)

Approved | 103 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

Two wealthy law-school students go on trial for murder in this version of the Leopold-Loeb case.

Director: Richard Fleischer | Stars: Orson Welles, Dean Stockwell, Diane Varsi, Bradford Dillman

Votes: 7,498

13. The Fan (1982)

Unrated | 92 min | Drama, Horror, Music

The hero-worship that Simone has for a pop singer is built to a crescendo until she passes out when she finally sees him up-close in a crowd of fans. She is later shocked when he lets her know that he does not love her.

Director: Eckhart Schmidt | Stars: Désirée Nosbusch, Bodo Staiger, Simone Brahmann, Jonas Vischer

Votes: 1,921

14. Rebecca (1997)

TV-PG | 182 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

A British gentleman's innocent bride grapples with intrusive reminders of his deceased wife.

Stars: Charles Dance, Diana Rigg, Geraldine James, Emilia Fox

Votes: 1,587

15. Eugenie de Sade (1973)

X | 86 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

After a bashful young woman discovers that her famed wordsmith stepfather is a psychopathic deviant, she becomes an accomplice in his murderous sex games.

Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Soledad Miranda, Paul Muller, Andrea Montchal, Greta Schmidt

Votes: 1,156

16. The Brink's Job (1978)

PG | 104 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A fictional retelling of the infamous Boston Brink's Company robbery on January 17th, 1950, of $2.7M, and cost the American taxpayers $29M to apprehend the culprits with only $58,000 recovered.

Director: William Friedkin | Stars: Peter Falk, Peter Boyle, Allen Garfield, Warren Oates

Votes: 3,516 | Gross: $9.40M

17. Perfect Friday (1970)

R | 94 min | Comedy, Crime

The deputy manager of a London bank has worked out a way to rob the branch of £200,000. When he becomes involved with the attractive Lady Dorset he decides to go ahead with his plan. He ... See full summary »

Director: Peter Hall | Stars: Ursula Andress, Stanley Baker, David Warner, Patience Collier

Votes: 1,168 | Gross: $0.50M

18. Tension (1949)

Passed | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A meek pharmacist creates an alternate identity under which he plans to murder the bullying liquor salesman who has become his wife's lover.

Director: John Berry | Stars: Richard Basehart, Audrey Totter, Cyd Charisse, Barry Sullivan

Votes: 3,576

19. Dominique (1979)

PG | 100 min | Horror, Thriller

A millionaire, who drove his wife to commit suicide, starts believing that he is being haunted by her spirit.

Director: Michael Anderson | Stars: Cliff Robertson, Jean Simmons, Jenny Agutter, Simon Ward

Votes: 1,177

20. The Hidden Room (1949)

Approved | 96 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller

Clive Riordan plans a devilish revenge against his wife's lover.

Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: Robert Newton, Sally Gray, Phil Brown, Naunton Wayne

Votes: 2,674

21. The Swindle (1997)

Not Rated | 101 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller

Betty and Victor are a pair of scam artists. One day Betty brings in Maurice, a treasurer of a multinational company. Maurice is due to transfer 5 millions francs out of Switzerland, and Betty is convinced he plans to steal that money.

Director: Claude Chabrol | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Michel Serrault, François Cluzet, Jean-François Balmer

Votes: 2,989 | Gross: $0.23M

22. 11 Harrowhouse (1974)

PG | 94 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller

Independent diamond broker and his girlfriend attempt a heist at a major Diamond Exchange house in London.

Director: Aram Avakian | Stars: Candice Bergen, Charles Grodin, James Mason, Trevor Howard

Votes: 1,219 | Gross: $0.61M

23. Dear Murderer (1947)

Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A businessman plans to kill his cheating wife's lover and make it look like suicide.

Director: Arthur Crabtree | Stars: Eric Portman, Greta Gynt, Dennis Price, Maxwell Reed

Votes: 1,111

24. Man in the Dark (1964)

Not Rated | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

When the wife of a blind composer discovers that her husband will cut her out of his estate, if he discovers that she is having an affair with a young artist, she and her lover plan to commit the perfect murder.

Director: Lance Comfort | Stars: William Sylvester, Barbara Shelley, Elizabeth Shepherd, Alexander Davion

Votes: 243

25. 5 Against the House (1955)

Approved | 84 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Four vets attending college on the GI Bill and a cabaret singer try to rob a Reno Casino and pull off the perfect crime.

Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: Guy Madison, Kim Novak, Brian Keith, Alvy Moore

Votes: 2,054

26. Tom and Jerry Meet Sherlock Holmes (2010 Video)

TV-G | 50 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Miss Red is being blackmailed. When she asks Sherlock Holmes for help, he connects her case to a series of jewel thefts and tells his assistant Jerry the Mouse to work with Red's butler Tom the Cat for the duration of this case.

Directors: Spike Brandt, Jeff Siergey | Stars: Michael York, Malcolm McDowell, John Rhys-Davies, Grey Griffin

Votes: 2,059

27. A Singular Crime (2022)

113 min | Crime, Thriller

Rosario in the 80s. The disappearance of a man during the military dictatorship. Two young people from the court must do everything possible to solve the case while facing police corruption and various dangers that put their lives at risk.

Director: Lucas Combina | Stars: Alberto Ajaka, Joaquin Batista Yaber, César Bordón, Pol Bossi

Votes: 605

28. Les spécialistes (1985)

94 min | Adventure, Crime

During a routine transfer of prisoners from one jail to another, an accused cop killer, Paul Brandon, is temporarily chained to a con with only a year left to serve, Stéphane Carella. Paul ... See full summary »

Director: Patrice Leconte | Stars: Bernard Giraudeau, Gérard Lanvin, Christiane Jean, Maurice Barrier

Votes: 1,189

29. 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

30. Sweet Killing (1993)

R | 87 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A business man decides to kill his wife but the plan sets off a chain of weird events that cause his life to become a living hell.

Director: Eddy Matalon | Stars: Anthony Higgins, Leslie Hope, F. Murray Abraham, Michael Ironside

Votes: 124

31. Perfect Crimes (1991 TV Movie)

60 min | Crime

True stories about individuals seeking to commit a perfect crime.

Directors: Dan Jackson, Armand Mastroianni | Stars: Telly Savalas, Bruce Greenwood, Lisa Hartman, Dennis Farina

Votes: 18

32. Minority Report (2002 Video Game)

T | Action, Adventure, Drama

In the future, where crimes can be predicted and thus non existent, police chief John Anderton must go on the run when he's predicted to murder a man.

Stars: Clancy Brown, Quinton Flynn, Daran Norris, Jay Gordon

Votes: 163

33. Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime (1941)

Passed | 68 min | Mystery

Several days after one of his company's dams burst, ruining the life savings of several investors, a shady power company president is found stabbed to death. Ellery Queen gets to the bottom of the mystery.

Director: James P. Hogan | Stars: Ralph Bellamy, Margaret Lindsay, Charley Grapewin, Spring Byington

Votes: 161

34. Davids bog (1996)

97 min | Thriller

Henrik and Jacob have just finished high school, but they can't get into university, so Jacob gets a job as a waiter and Henrik helps his uncle clear out a rich man's villa after the owner ... See full summary »

Director: Lasse Spang Olsen | Stars: Tomas Villum Jensen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Camilla Overbye Roos, Torben Jensen

Votes: 142

35. Paper Gallows (1950)

Approved | 68 min | Crime, Thriller

A story of two brothers, both writers of crime novels, one a fine, upstanding gentleman and the other a moody, neurotic, psychopath. The other is determined to create a 'faked' version of a... See full summary »

Director: John Guillermin | Stars: Dermot Walsh, Rona Anderson, John Bentley, Michael Martin Harvey

Votes: 35

36. 5% de risque (1980)

95 min | Crime, Drama

A troubled gentleman named David ponders whether vegemite can be consumed undiluted without posing a health risk. Meanwhile his friend, a senior government official, returning from an ... See full summary »

Director: Jean Pourtalé | Stars: Bruno Ganz, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Aurore Clément, Pierre Michaël

Votes: 40

37. The Man Who Cried Wolf (1937)

Approved | 68 min | Crime, Drama

An actor continually confesses to murders he didn't commit, figuring that the police won't believe him when he confesses to a murder that he actually does intend to commit.

Director: Lewis R. Foster | Stars: Lewis Stone, Barbara Read, Tom Brown, Forrester Harvey

Votes: 70

38. Thirty Seconds (2020)

Short, Crime, Thriller

In the aftermath of a robbery, James and Victoria escape to a train station and enjoy a moment filled with ideas of the new life that money will bring to them. With love in their eyes, the ... See full summary »

Director: Christopher Long | Stars: Martina Karra, James Wesley Kern, Sean Kody, Hana Bae

39. Double Alibi (1940)

Approved | 60 min | Adventure, Crime, Mystery

A man's ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect.

Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Wayne Morris, Margaret Lindsay, William Gargan, Roscoe Karns

Votes: 63

40. Beneath the Veneer of a Murder (2010)

Unrated | 8 min | Short, Crime, Drama

A brief, tense phone conversation between politically connected powerhouse Tom Buchanan and a desperate lower-class thug named Judd over Buchanan's bisexual wife Daisy, her working-class ... See full summary »

Director: Angel Connell | Stars: Christy Scott Cashman, Eric Scheiner, Mark Grant, Jennifer McCartney

Votes: 37

41. The Stalker's Apprentice (1998 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 76 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Marcus Walwyn develops a fatal obsession for a young girl he meets on a train. Corrupted by a book he reads by the convicted serial killer Helmut Kranze he embarks on a murderous mission.

Director: Marcus D.F. White | Stars: Peter Davison, James Bolam, Paula Wilcox, Gideon Turner

Votes: 119

42. A Gigot (1975)

Short, Comedy, Crime

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Director: Jozefína Petrásová | Stars: Karel Augusta, Petr Cepek, Jirí Hrzán, Václav Kotva

43. An Impossible Crime (1954)

98 min | Crime

A famous novelist is murdered in a closed room inside and out. Suicide is ruled out, as there are signs of fighting and the shot that killed him was in the back.

Director: César Fernández Ardavín | Stars: José Suárez, Félix Fernández, Nani Fernández, Ángel Picazo

Votes: 24

44. Kleingeistganoven (2016)

7 min | Short, Comedy, Crime

Two friends are trying to plan the perfect crime, but they need more than an obsession with gangster movies to succeed.

Director: Dennis Vehlen | Stars: Dannie Lennertz, Dennis Vehlen, Ingeborg Vehlen

45. Hra se smrtí (1995 TV Movie)

58 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Over the course of a single night, the drama of two people who have never seen each other before unfolds in an empty house. An unknown man kidnaps a lonely woman and assaults her in her ... See full summary »

Director: Lucie Belohradská | Stars: Ilja Racek, Vilma Cibulková, Vera Budilová, Jitka Jezková

46. Novelty Man (1977)

Short, Crime, Mystery

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Director: Craig Lahiff | Stars: Edwin Hodgeman, Michael Moody

47. Straight and Narrow (1931)

Passed | 8 min | Short, Crime

A member of the "Ex-Convict's Club" is seen and heard telling the assembled club members how a certain "Perfect Crime" was committed.

Director: David D'Agostino | Stars: Allen Jenkins, Ed Robbins

48. Casebook: Episode III - Snake in the Grass (2009 Video Game)

Adventure, Crime, Mystery

Detective James Burton is convinced that Marlon Hapman has committed a brutal murder in the chapel of a small town called Garden. Investigate the case carefully and determine whether your partner is on the mark or jumping to conclusions.

Director: Sam Clarkson | Stars: Vivienne Aitken, David Corballis, Nick Duval-Smith, Rory Furlong

49. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985–1989)
Episode: Anniversary Gift (1987)

TV-PG | 30 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

In cahoots with her lover, a traitorous wife buys her pet-loving husband a deadly snake that looks like a non venomous one in an attempt to commit the perfect crime and get her husband's life insurance.

Director: Ryszard Bugajski | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Pamela Sue Martin, Peter Dvorsky, Paul Hubbard

Votes: 98

50. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999– )
Episode: Identity (2005)

TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

When a murdered gang member is linked to a sexual assault, Benson and Stabler find neither the alleged victim nor the alleged killer to be who they think.

Director: Rick Wallace | Stars: Christopher Meloni, Mariska Hargitay, Richard Belzer, Diane Neal

Votes: 1,413