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1. 24 (2001–2010)

TV-14 | 44 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Counter Terrorism Agent Jack Bauer races against the clock to subvert terrorist plots and save his nation from ultimate disaster.

Stars: Kiefer Sutherland, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Carlos Bernard, Dennis Haysbert

Votes: 197,085

2. The Lobster (2015)

R | 119 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi

In a dystopian near future, according to the laws of The City, single people are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in 45 days or they're transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.

Director: Yorgos Lanthimos | Stars: Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Jessica Barden, Olivia Colman

Votes: 296,720 | Gross: $8.70M

3. Glass Onion (2022)

PG-13 | 139 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Tech billionaire Miles Bron invites his friends for a getaway on his private Greek island. When someone turns up dead, Detective Benoit Blanc is put on the case.

Director: Rian Johnson | Stars: Daniel Craig, Edward Norton, Kate Hudson, Dave Bautista

Votes: 441,631

4. A Simple Favor (2018)

R | 117 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Stephanie is a single mother with a parenting vlog who befriends Emily, a secretive upper-class woman who has a child at the same elementary school. When Emily goes missing, Stephanie takes it upon herself to investigate.

Director: Paul Feig | Stars: Anna Kendrick, Blake Lively, Henry Golding, Andrew Rannells

Votes: 162,705 | Gross: $53.55M

5. Sleepy Hollow (1999)

R | 105 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery

Ichabod Crane is sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate the decapitations of three people; the culprit is legendary apparition The Headless Horseman.

Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Miranda Richardson, Michael Gambon

Votes: 384,017 | Gross: $101.07M

6. Marlowe (2022)

R | 109 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

In late 1930s Bay City, a brooding, down on his luck detective is hired to find the ex-lover of a glamorous heiress.

Director: Neil Jordan | Stars: Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger, Jessica Lange, Brenda Rawn

Votes: 11,809

7. Body Heat (1981)

R | 113 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

During an extreme heatwave, a beautiful Florida woman and a seedy lawyer engage in an affair while plotting the murder of her rich husband.

Director: Lawrence Kasdan | Stars: William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Richard Crenna, Ted Danson

Votes: 40,152 | Gross: $24.06M

8. The Third Man (1949)

Approved | 93 min | Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller

Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime.

Director: Carol Reed | Stars: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Trevor Howard

Votes: 181,882 | Gross: $0.45M

9. Widows (2018)

R | 129 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Four women with nothing in common except a debt left behind by their dead husbands' criminal activities take fate into their own hands and conspire to forge a future on their own terms.

Director: Steve McQueen | Stars: Viola Davis, Michelle Rodriguez, Elizabeth Debicki

Votes: 104,145 | Gross: $42.40M

10. Three Colors: White (1994)

R | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

After his wife divorces him, a Polish immigrant plots to get even with her.

Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski | Stars: Zbigniew Zamachowski, Julie Delpy, Janusz Gajos, Jerzy Stuhr

Votes: 79,642 | Gross: $1.46M

11. Tenebrae (1982)

R | 101 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

An American novelist visiting Rome to promote his latest book is stalked and harassed by an obsessed fan who is committing a string of murders that appear to be tributes to his work.

Director: Dario Argento | Stars: Anthony Franciosa, Giuliano Gemma, John Saxon, Daria Nicolodi

Votes: 27,438

12. Cam (2018)

TV-MA | 94 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Alice, an ambitious camgirl, wakes up one day to discover she's been replaced on her show with an exact replica of herself.

Director: Daniel Goldhaber | Stars: Madeline Brewer, Patch Darragh, Melora Walters, Devin Druid

Votes: 36,090

13. Stonehouse (2023)

TV-14 | 60 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

A British politician fakes his own death.

Stars: Matthew Macfadyen, Simon Greenall, Kevin McNally, Dorothy Atkinson

Votes: 3,073

14. Danger: Diabolik (1968)

Not Rated | 105 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

A master thief and his sensual lover pull off heist after heist, all while an envious coalition of cops and gangsters is gunning for them.

Director: Mario Bava | Stars: John Phillip Law, Marisa Mell, Michel Piccoli, Adolfo Celi

Votes: 7,197

15. 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: 2,677

16. The Monster (1994)

R | 112 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

After a series of bizarre actions, Loris is mistaken for a serial killer. Jessica, a policewoman in undercover, will try to induce him to commit a murder.

Director: Roberto Benigni | Stars: Roberto Benigni, Michel Blanc, Nicoletta Braschi, Dominique Lavanant

Votes: 11,321 | Gross: $0.64M

17. The Vault of Horror (1973)

R | 87 min | Horror, Thriller

An anthology of five horror stories shared by five men trapped in the basement of an office building.

Director: Roy Ward Baker | Stars: Curd Jürgens, Terry-Thomas, Tom Baker, Dawn Addams

Votes: 6,256

18. The Amazing Mr. X (1948)

Passed | 78 min | Film-Noir, Horror, Thriller

On the beach one night, Christine Faber, two years a widow, thinks she hears her late husband Paul calling out of the surf; then meets a tall dark man Alexis, who seems to know all about such things.

Director: Bernard Vorhaus | Stars: Turhan Bey, Lynn Bari, Cathy O'Donnell, Richard Carlson

Votes: 2,223

19. Madhouse (1974)

PG | 89 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery

A horror movie star returns to his famous role after years in a mental institution. But the character seems to be committing murders independent of his will.

Director: Jim Clark | Stars: Vincent Price, Peter Cushing, Robert Quarry, Adrienne Corri

Votes: 4,519

20. Nothing Sacred (1937)

Passed | 77 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

An eccentric woman learns she is not dying of radium poisoning as earlier assumed, but when she meets a reporter looking for a story, she feigns sickness again for her own profit.

Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Carole Lombard, Fredric March, Charles Winninger, Walter Connolly

Votes: 7,264

21. Juggernaut (1974)

PG | 109 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

A blackmailer demands a huge ransom in exchange for information on how to disarm the seven bombs he placed aboard the transatlantic liner Britannic.

Director: Richard Lester | Stars: Richard Harris, Omar Sharif, David Hemmings, Anthony Hopkins

Votes: 6,326 | Gross: $1.56M

22. The Running Man (1963)

Approved | 103 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

An Englishman with a grudge against an insurance company for a disallowed claim fakes his own death, but is soon pursued by an insurance investigator.

Director: Carol Reed | Stars: Laurence Harvey, Lee Remick, Alan Bates, Felix Aylmer

Votes: 1,863

23. The Cannibal Club (2018)

81 min | Comedy, Horror

Otavio and Gilda's elite life falls in danger when Gilda accidentally discovers a secret from Borges, a powerful congressman, and the Club's leader.

Director: Guto Parente | Stars: Tavinho Teixeira, Ana Luiza Rios, Pedro Domingues, Zé Maria

Votes: 1,022

24. The Invisible Ray (1935)

Approved | 80 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A scientist becomes murderous after discovering, and being exposed to the radiation of, a powerful new element called Radium X.

Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Frances Drake, Frank Lawton

Votes: 3,029

25. The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958)

Not Rated | 90 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

Having escaped execution and assumed an alias, Baron Frankenstein transplants his deformed underling's brain into a perfect body, but the result proves to be mortally perilous.

Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Peter Cushing, Francis Matthews, Eunice Gayson, Michael Gwynn

Votes: 6,124

26. Legacy of Blood (1978)

Not Rated | 77 min | Horror

Horror movie about three wicked sisters and their equally unsavory husbands who all arrive at a remote inn where they mean to attend the reading of their uncle's will. One by one, the heirs are dispatched by an unknown killer.

Director: Andy Milligan | Stars: Elaine Boies, Louise Gallandra, Jeannie Cusick, Dale Hansen

Votes: 400

27. The Girl with a Pistol (1968)

M | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A Sicilian woman "dishonored" by her lover goes to England with a pistol intending to murder him.

Director: Mario Monicelli | Stars: Monica Vitti, Stanley Baker, Corin Redgrave, Anthony Booth

Votes: 1,727

28. The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes (1935)

Unrated | 75 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Holmes, retired to Sussex, is drawn into a last case when his arch enemy Moriarty arranges with an American gang to kill one John Douglas, a country gentleman with a mysterious past.

Director: Leslie S. Hiscott | Stars: Arthur Wontner, Lyn Harding, Leslie Perrins, Jane Carr

Votes: 805

29. Will to Die (1971)

R | 82 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

In order to qualify to inherit the family fortune, the four heirs, their in-laws, and the household servants must spend the night in the family estate. However, during the night someone starts killing them off.

Director: Carl Monson | Stars: Rodolfo Acosta, Merry Anders, Norman Bartold, Ivy Bethune

Votes: 904

30. Ghosts, Italian Style (1967)

G | 92 min | Comedy, Fantasy

Married couple Pasquale and Maria live in a palace supposedly haunted by ghosts and pay no rent. When Pasquale finds some food in the cupboard. he thinks the ghosts are at work, but it is ... See full summary »

Director: Renato Castellani | Stars: Sophia Loren, Vittorio Gassman, Mario Adorf, Aldo Giuffrè

Votes: 589

31. Shed No Tears (1948)

Passed | 70 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A wife convinces her husband to fake his death so they can collect on the life insurance. However, he doesn't know that she has been having an affair for some time, and she has plans for the money - and they don't include him.

Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Wallace Ford, June Vincent, Mark Roberts, Frank Albertson

Votes: 469

32. The Hidden Hand (1942)

Approved | 63 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery

Peter Thorne (Craig Stevens)is a young attorney who works for an eccentric old woman, Lorinda Channing (Cecil Cunningham), who uses her insane brother, John Channing (Milton Parsons), to ... See full summary »

Director: Benjamin Stoloff | Stars: Craig Stevens, Elisabeth Fraser, Julie Bishop, Willie Best

Votes: 676

33. Blind Spot (1958)

72 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A blind American Army officer becomes involved in a murder mystery and solves it after regaining his sight.

Director: Peter Maxwell | Stars: Robert MacKenzie, Delphi Lawrence, Gordon Jackson, Anne Sharp

Votes: 239

34. Hän varasti elämän (1962)

105 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A government official decides to steal a $25-million markka payroll (=$78,000 USD) and then fake his own death. However, in the process he is forced to kill an innocent bystander. He moves ... See full summary »

Director: Aarne Tarkas | Stars: Risto Mäkelä, Rauha Rentola, Rose-Marie Precht, Åke Lindman

Votes: 163

35. Bobo the Monkey (2021)

2 min | Animation, Short, Action

A monkey relies on ketchup and sheer audacity to escape from the zoo.

Director: Victoria Vincent | Star: Ari Goldberg

Votes: 81

36. Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode: Murder in Mesopotamia (2001)

TV-14 | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

While Poirot is on holiday in Iraq, the wife of the head scientist at an archaeological dig confides to him that she is the target of threatening letters.

Director: Tom Clegg | Stars: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Ron Berglas, Barbara Barnes

Votes: 2,296

37. Booker (1989–1990)
Episode: Mobile Home (1990)

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

Booker's friend Tony buys a house, which is promptly stolen and moved by the children of the original owner when they learn that their father may have stashed a fortune in stolen money ... See full summary »

Director: Christopher T. Welch | Stars: Richard Grieco, Marcia Strassman, Lori Petty, Carmen Argenziano

Votes: 25

38. The Golden Girls (1985–1992)
Episode: Mrs. George Devereaux (1990)

TV-PG | 24 min | Comedy, Drama

Blanche's late husband George suddenly turns up, claiming to have faked his own death, while Dorothy finds herself caught in a love triangle with two celebrities.

Director: Matthew Diamond | Stars: Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan, Estelle Getty

Votes: 562

39. Matlock (1986–1995)
Episode: The Black Widow (1989)

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

After seven years in prison for killing his wife Ann, Ken Wilson gets out and finds her working in a real estate office. Anne soon turns up dead and Ken is tried, once again, for killing his wife.

Director: Christopher Hibler | Stars: Andy Griffith, Nancy Stafford, Julie Sommars, Kene Holiday

Votes: 121

40. Miami Vice (1984–1989)
Episode: Everybody's in Show Biz (1987)

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

While under cover, Tubbs and a powerful drug lord are robbed and taken in the process is a brief case. Now the two brothers are marked for death by the drug lord.

Director: Richard Compton | Stars: Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Saundra Santiago, Michael Talbott

Votes: 337

41. Weird Science (1994–1998)
Episode: Show Chett (1997)

Approved | Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

Lisa turns Chett into a male stripper at the local 'Chip and Tales.'

Director: Tom Spezialy | Stars: Michael Manasseri, John Asher, Lee Tergesen, Vanessa Angel

Votes: 23

42. Monk (2002–2009)
Episode: Mr. Monk Is on the Run: Part 2 (2008)

TV-PG | 43 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Stottlemeyer tries to find proof against the man who framed Monk, and Natalie may ruin everything when she learns the truth.

Director: Randy Zisk | Stars: Tony Shalhoub, Traylor Howard, Jason Gray-Stanford, Ted Levine

Votes: 1,274

43. Riverdale (2017–2023)
Episode: Chapter Seventy-Two: To Die For (2020)

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

Alice begins shooting a documentary about Riverdale and the latest mystery involving one of its own; Betty, Archie and Veronica fall deeper into a web of lies as the investigation gets underway.

Director: Shannon Kohli | Stars: K.J. Apa, Lili Reinhart, Camila Mendes, Cole Sprouse

Votes: 981

44. Riverdale (2017–2023)
Episode: Chapter Seventy-Three: The Locked Room (2020)

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

Betty continues her Stonewall Prep takedown with the help of two unique allies; A tense confrontation leads to a tender reunion.

Director: Tessa Blake | Stars: K.J. Apa, Lili Reinhart, Camila Mendes, Cole Sprouse

Votes: 1,297

45. She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (2022)
Episode: Just Jen (2022)

TV-14 | 29 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Jen is a bridesmaid in a friend's wedding, a stressful event compounded by uniquely She-Hulk issues.

Director: Anu Valia | Stars: Tatiana Maslany, Ginger Gonzaga, Jameela Jamil, Renée Elise Goldsberry

Votes: 13,112

46. The Propaganda Report (2016– )
Actors Dan Fogler (Fantastic Beasts) & Josh Warren (Footloose) Join Us to Discuss the Covid-Con, 9/11, Qanon, Epstein, Tesla & Much More (2020 Podcast Episode)

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Stars: Monica Perez, Brad Binkley, Dan Fogler, Josh Warren

47. It's a Living (1980–1989)
Episode: A Very Scary It's a Living (1989)

TV-14 | Comedy

Dot is casting a horror movie so she has started watching horror movies to give her casting ideas but all they do is give her nightmares.

Director: Marc Sotkin | Stars: Barrie Youngfellow, Gail Edwards, Paul Kreppel, Crystal Bernard

Votes: 11

48. Van der Valk (2020–2023)
Episode: Blood in Amsterdam (2022)

TV-14 | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

When an employee of the Cuypers Diamonds is killed and his body delivered in pieces to the wealthy siblings and heirs to the company, Van der Valk must consider a tale of revenge against the family.

Director: André van Duren | Stars: Marc Warren, Maimie McCoy, Luke Allen-Gale, Elliot Barnes-Worrell

Votes: 372

49. Wednesday (2022– )
Episode: A Murder of Woes (2022)

TV-14 | 50 min | Comedy, Crime, Fantasy

Wednesday lands in trouble with Principal Weems, but that's just the start of her problems. To fight an ancient evil, she'll need all her friends' help.

Director: James Marshall | Stars: Jenna Ortega, Gwendoline Christie, Riki Lindhome, Jamie McShane

Votes: 9,213

50. 9-1-1 (2018– )
Episode: Treasure Hunt (2021)

TV-14 | 43 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

When a famous mystery writer dies, Athena, Bobby and the 118 respond to the chaos caused by a city-wide manhunt for buried treasure the author left behind.

Director: David Grossman | Stars: Angela Bassett, Peter Krause, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Oliver Stark

Votes: 777