Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "confessing-to-murder"

1. The Godfather Part III (1990)

R | 162 min | Crime, Drama

Follows Michael Corleone, now in his 60s, as he seeks to free his family from crime and find a suitable successor to his empire.

Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, Andy Garcia, Talia Shire

Votes: 424,289 | Gross: $66.67M

2. The Lion King (2019)

PG | 118 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama

After the murder of his father, a young lion prince flees his kingdom only to learn the true meaning of responsibility and bravery.

Director: Jon Favreau | Stars: Donald Glover, Beyoncé, Seth Rogen, Chiwetel Ejiofor

Votes: 267,184 | Gross: $543.64M

3. The Lie (2018)

R | 97 min | Drama, Thriller

A father and daughter are on their way to dance camp when they spot the girl's best friend on the side of the road. When they stop to offer the friend a ride, their good intentions soon result in terrible consequences.

Director: Veena Sud | Stars: Peter Sarsgaard, Mireille Enos, Joey King, Cas Anvar

Votes: 20,312

4. We Have Always Lived in the Castle (2018)

Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Merricat, Constance and their Uncle Julian live in isolation after experiencing a family tragedy six years earlier. When cousin Charles arrives to steal the family fortune, he also threatens a dark secret they've been hiding.

Director: Stacie Passon | Stars: Taissa Farmiga, Alexandra Daddario, Crispin Glover, Sebastian Stan

Votes: 9,546 | Gross: $7.67M

5. 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: 69,424 | Gross: $1.09M

6. The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976)

PG | 91 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A thirteen-year-old girl, who lives with her absentee father, befriends a disabled teenage amateur magician and invites him, gradually, into her tenuous struggle against a predatory local neighbor.

Director: Nicolas Gessner | Stars: Jodie Foster, Martin Sheen, Alexis Smith, Mort Shuman

Votes: 18,094

7. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)

Passed | 116 min | Drama, Romance

In 15th-century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her.

Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, Cedric Hardwicke, Thomas Mitchell

Votes: 12,286 | Gross: $3.27M

8. Back Roads (2018)

101 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

In 1993, Harley's dad is shot dead and his mom goes to prison. He has to earn money and look after his 3 kid sisters. No college. Over 2 years, family secrets are slowly revealed. Will a good therapist be enough?

Director: Alex Pettyfer | Stars: Alex Pettyfer, Jennifer Morrison, Nicola Peltz Beckham, Chiara Aurelia

Votes: 5,486

9. Bad Influence (1990)

R | 99 min | Drama, Thriller

A soft and hesitant young man is in danger when he tries to break toxic relationships with a mysterious stranger claiming to be his friend.

Director: Curtis Hanson | Stars: Rob Lowe, James Spader, Palmer Lee Todd, Rosalyn Landor

Votes: 10,874 | Gross: $12.63M

10. The Fly (1958)

Not Rated | 94 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

A scientist has a horrific accident when he tries to use his newly invented teleportation device.

Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: David Hedison, Patricia Owens, Vincent Price, Herbert Marshall

Votes: 25,680 | Gross: $3.00M

11. The Babysitter's Seduction (1996 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 85 min | Drama, Thriller

The mother of the family Michelle babysits for is shot. The widower asks the teen girl to continue looking after the children and gradually seduces her. Michelle finds herself enveloped in a web of lies until she becomes a suspect.

Director: David Burton Morris | Stars: Stephen Collins, Keri Russell, Phylicia Rashad, Tobin Bell

Votes: 1,758

12. Day of Wrath (1943)

Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, History

The young wife of an aging priest falls in love with his son amidst the horror of a merciless witch hunt in 17th-century Denmark.

Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer | Stars: Thorkild Roose, Lisbeth Movin, Sigrid Neiiendam, Kirsten Andreasen

Votes: 11,094

13. Three... Extremes (2004)

R | 125 min | Horror

An Asian cross-cultural trilogy of horror films from accomplished indie directors.

Directors: Fruit Chan, Park Chan-wook, Takashi Miike | Stars: Bai Ling, Lee Byung-hun, Kyoko Hasegawa, Pauline Lau

Votes: 20,877 | Gross: $0.08M

14. Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)

Passed | 74 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi

The resurrected Wolf Man, seeking a cure for his malady, enlists the aid of a mad scientist, who claims he will not only rid the Wolf Man of his nocturnal metamorphosis, but also revive the frozen body of Frankenstein's inhuman creation.

Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Lon Chaney Jr., Ilona Massey, Patric Knowles, Lionel Atwill

Votes: 9,960

15. The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)

Unrated | 116 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance

A man is reunited with his childhood friend and her husband who believes he knows the truth about the death of her rich aunt years earlier.

Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott, Kirk Douglas

Votes: 11,095

16. The Red House (1947)

Approved | 100 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery

An old man and his sister are concealing a terrible secret from their adopted teen daughter, concerning a hidden abandoned farmhouse, located deep in the woods.

Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Lon McCallister, Judith Anderson, Rory Calhoun

Votes: 4,951

17. Humanity (1999)

Not Rated | 141 min | Drama, Mystery

When an 11-year-old girl is brutally raped and murdered in a quiet French village, a police detective who has forgotten how to feel emotions--because of the death of his own family in some kind of accident--investigates the crime, which turns out to ask more questions

Director: Bruno Dumont | Stars: Emmanuel Schotté, Séverine Caneele, Philippe Tullier, Ghislain Ghesquère

Votes: 5,101 | Gross: $0.11M

18. The Sin of Nora Moran (1933)

Passed | 65 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

A young woman with a difficult past is sentenced for a murder she didn't commit, but revealing the truth could hurt people she loves.

Director: Phil Goldstone | Stars: Zita Johann, John Miljan, Alan Dinehart, Paul Cavanagh

Votes: 781

19. The Invisible Man Returns (1940)

Passed | 81 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.

Director: Joe May | Stars: Cedric Hardwicke, Vincent Price, Nan Grey, John Sutton

Votes: 5,298

20. The King (2005)

R | 105 min | Drama, Thriller

A motiveless malignancy? Elvis leaves the Navy and heads for Texas where he contacts his father Dave, whom he's never met. He is the pastor at a Christian community church. He tells Elvis ... See full summary »

Director: James Marsh | Stars: Gael García Bernal, William Hurt, Laura Harring, Derek Alvarado

Votes: 7,474 | Gross: $0.28M

21. The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (1945)

Passed | 80 min | Drama, Film-Noir

Bachelor Harry Quincey, head designer in a small-town cloth factory, lives with his selfish sisters, glamorous hypochondriac Lettie and querulous widow Hester. His developing relationship ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: George Sanders, Ella Raines, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Sara Allgood

Votes: 1,988

22. The Flame (1947)

Approved | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A woman falls for the victim of an intended blackmail plot.

Director: John H. Auer | Stars: John Carroll, Vera Ralston, Robert Paige, Broderick Crawford

Votes: 404

23. Mujer Perversa (2023)

95 min | Drama

Victoria. a fearless Latina in a narco-cartel world falls for her bodyguard and stepsister, Katy, leading to a risky love triangle. Amidst the danger, she must make tough choices for her survival.

Director: Danilo G. Santos | Stars: Norma Calix, Guillermo Quintanilla, Fernando Gaviria, Antonio Aguirre

Votes: 6

24. Too Close to Home (1997 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 115 min | Drama, Thriller

Obsessed with her adult son and angered by the idea of him leaving her and marrying a beautiful nurse, a mother does everything in her power to prevent his independence.

Director: Bill Corcoran | Stars: Judith Light, Ricky Schroder, Sarah Trigger, Dorothy Gordon

Votes: 430

25. Temptation (1946)

Approved | 98 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller

Ruby, a beautiful divorcee with a shady past, marries a rich Egyptologist, and while he continues excavating a Pharoah's tomb, she becomes bored until she falls for a debt-ridden, blackmailing Egyptian prince.

Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Merle Oberon, George Brent, Charles Korvin, Paul Lukas

Votes: 379

26. The Legend of Lucy Keyes (2006)

R | 93 min | Drama, Thriller

An urban family leaves city life behind for the confines of rural New England. Little do they know that their new home once belonged to the Keyes family, a clan who experienced the tragic loss of their daughter some 250 years ago.

Director: John Stimpson | Stars: Julie Delpy, Justin Theroux, Brooke Adams, Mark Boone Junior

Votes: 1,622

27. Suspense (1946)

Passed | 101 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance

Frank Leonard, the proprietor of an ice-skating revue promotes Joe Morgan, a peanut vendor at the show, to a management position based on suggestions he made to improve the act of the ... See full summary »

Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Belita, Barry Sullivan, Bonita Granville, Albert Dekker

Votes: 890

28. The Three Deaths of Marisela Escobedo (2020)

TV-MA | 109 min | Documentary, Crime

Follows a mother's tireless crusade to jail her daughter's murderer after Mexico's justice system failed to do so.

Director: Carlos Perez Osorio | Stars: Juan Manuel Fraire Escobedo, Alejandro Fraire, Blanca Escobedo, Patricia González

Votes: 1,973

29. House of Secrets (1993 TV Movie)

120 min | Mystery, Romance, Thriller

Marion Ravinel is trapped in an abusive spousal relationship. She forms a plan with her husband's former lover to kill him. However, the outcome turns out to be more than she planned on as ... See full summary »

Director: Mimi Leder | Stars: Melissa Gilbert, Bruce Boxleitner, Kate Vernon, Michael Boatman

Votes: 255

30. Condemned to Live (1935)

Approved | 67 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

After a series of unsolved murders, a man finds out that his mother was bitten by a vampire bat during her pregnancy, and he believes that he may be the vampire committing the murders.

Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: Ralph Morgan, Pedro de Cordoba, Maxine Doyle, Russell Gleason

Votes: 584

31. The Woman Condemned (1934)

Passed | 66 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Jerry, a young newspaper reporter, intrigued by the charm and beauty of Barbara, a girl accused of murder, sets out to prove her innocence in the face of a damaging array of circumstantial evidence.

Director: Dorothy Davenport | Stars: Claudia Dell, Lola Lane, Richard Hemingway, Jason Robards Sr.

Votes: 294

32. Crime Thief (1969)

TV-14 | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Married with two young children, Jean Girod, a "writer", partly escapes that family life when he secretly witnesses a young woman commit suicide. In that new other life, he rents a room ... See full summary »

Director: Nadine Trintignant | Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Robert Hossein, Giorgia Moll, Bernadette Lafont

Votes: 205

33. High Yellow (1965)

83 min | Drama

Cynthia Wood, a light-skinned 17-year-old girl, tries to pass as white after getting hired by wealthy movie magnate Mr. Langley, who has problems with his spoiled wife and promiscuous teenage daughter and son.

Director: Larry Buchanan | Stars: Cynthia Hull, Warren Hammack, Annabelle Weenick, Bob Brown

Votes: 71

34. Hoodoo Ann (1916)

65 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

An orphan girl, believing herself cursed with the hoodoo until she gets married, is adopted by a childless couple after the orphanage burns down. Boy-next-door meets girl-next-door, and all looks great until she finds a loaded gun.

Director: Lloyd Ingraham | Stars: Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, William H. Brown, Wilbur Higby

Votes: 938

35. My Right Older Brother (2021–2022)

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

Riyo (Yamaya Kasumi) is a university student who works part-time at a retail outlet. One day, while at work, she meets a young man named Kairi (Furukawa Yuta) who bears an uncanny ... See full summary »

Stars: Yuta Furukawa, Kasumi Yamaya, Arata Horii, Mirai Kitanosono

Votes: 13

36. The Valiant (1929)

66 min | Drama

After killing an unknown man for an unknown reason, a mysterious drifter turns himself to the law under a false name, intending to protect his own family's honor. But when the news of his ... See full summary »

Director: William K. Howard | Stars: Paul Muni, Marguerite Churchill, Johnny Mack Brown, DeWitt Jennings

Votes: 538

37. Dark Shadows (1944)

Passed | 21 min | Short, Crime, Drama

A police psychiatrist is enlisted to catch a homicidal killer.

Directors: Walter Hart, Paul Burnford | Stars: Henry O'Neill, Morris Ankrum, Arthur Space, Paul Guilfoyle

Votes: 222

38. A Dangerous Woman (1929)

Passed | 80 min | Drama, Romance

The commissioner of a remote outpost in Africa has a mistress who is so sexy and seductive that she has made several of the local white men kill themselves. She learns that the ... See full summary »

Director: Rowland V. Lee | Stars: Olga Baclanova, Clive Brook, Neil Hamilton, Clyde Cook

Votes: 61

39. Crossed Wires (I) (1915)

Not Rated | 31 min | Short, Drama, Mystery

An innocent man is accused of murdering his aunt.

Director: Frederick Sullivan | Stars: Inda Palmer, J. Morris Foster, Florence La Badie, Boyd Marshall

Votes: 50

40. Overtime (IV) (2020)

7 min | Short, Horror

Rachelle is working alone in the office after her co-worker, Virgo, leaves for a date. When Virgo returns, something has gone terribly wrong.

Director: Archie Enriquez | Stars: Virgo Cueto, Archie Enriquez, Rachelle Claire Melchor

41. Not Guilty! (1926)

Comedy, Short

Puffy and his girlfriend want to get married by a judge at the courthouse. However they go to a wrong door and he's mistaken for a defendant in a murder trial. Witnesses tell how he ... See full summary »

Director: Harry Sweet | Stars: Károly Huszár, Billy Franey, Harry Lorraine, Elsie Tarron

Votes: 12

42. One Step Beyond (1959–1961)
Episode: Image of Death (1959)

Approved | 30 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

An inspector is suspicious about the death of the wife of a Marquis, who, in fact, did kill her with his lover Charlotte as his accomplice. The Marquis becomes increasingly haunted by a ... See full summary »

Director: John Newland | Stars: Doris Dowling, Max Adrian, John Wengraf, Deirdre Owens

Votes: 185

43. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode: A Bullet for Baldwin (1956)

TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery

When an office worker is fired from his job, he shoots his boss to death, but when he returns to the office his boss is alive, and has no recollection of the incident.

Director: Justus Addiss | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, John Qualen, Sebastian Cabot, Phillip Reed

Votes: 1,052

44. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode: The Long Shot (1955)

TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery

Heavily indebted Charlie Raymond is hired to accompany a British visitor on a trip across the USA, and looks for a way to take advantage of his employer.

Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Peter Lawford, John Williams, Gertrude Hoffman

Votes: 1,223

45. Decoy (1957–1958)
Episode: Deadly Corridor (1957)

26 min | Crime, Drama

Casey poses as a prisoner in a women's jail in order to apprehend a murderer.

Director: Teddy Sills | Stars: Beverly Garland, Lois Nettleton, Peggy Feury, Colleen Dewhurst

Votes: 44

46. Homicide: Life on the Street (1993–1999)
Episode: Justice: Part 1 (1996)

TV-14 | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A murdered ex-cop's son decides to conduct his own investigation when Munch and Russert find themselves stumped in their search for the killer.

Director: Michael Radford | Stars: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Isabella Hofmann

Votes: 141

47. 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

48. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999– )
Episode: Taboo (2006)

TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

When a baby boy is discovered in the rubbish, detectives Benson and Stabler use a t-shirt found at the scene to trace the crime back to a well-to-do college student.

Director: Arthur W. Forney | Stars: Christopher Meloni, Mariska Hargitay, Richard Belzer, Diane Neal

Votes: 1,026

49. The Saint (1962–1969)
Episode: The Persistent Parasites (1965)

TV-PG | 48 min | Action, Crime, Drama

The Saint's invited to the wedding of his very rich friend, Waldo Oddington to a woman young enough to be his daughter. Waldo's invited his 3 ex-wives and his nephew, George McGeorge. When ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Tronson | Stars: Roger Moore, Cec Linder, Jan Holden, Ann Gillis

Votes: 130

50. Silk Stalkings (1991–1999)
Episode: Daddy Dearest (1993)

TV-14 | 48 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A sexually molested stepdaughter is suspected in the stabbing death of her stepfather.

Director: Ron Ames | Stars: Mitzi Kapture, Rob Estes, Gina Philips, Marta DuBois

Votes: 28