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1. 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: 776,880 | Gross: $165.36M
2. Weird Science (1985)
PG-13 | 94 min | Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Two high-school nerds use a computer program to literally create the perfect woman, who promptly turns their lives upside-down.
Director: John Hughes | Stars: Anthony Michael Hall, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Kelly LeBrock, Bill Paxton
Votes: 97,772 | Gross: $23.83M
3. Now You See Me (I) (2013)
PG-13 | 115 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
An FBI agent and an Interpol detective track a team of illusionists who pull off bank heists during their performances, and reward their audiences with the money.
Director: Louis Leterrier | Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Common, Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson
Votes: 710,367 | Gross: $117.72M
4. A Haunting in Venice (2023)
PG-13 | 103 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
In post-World War II Venice, Poirot, now retired and living in his own exile, reluctantly attends a seance. But when one of the guests is murdered, it is up to the former detective to once again uncover the killer.
Director: Kenneth Branagh | Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Michelle Yeoh, Jamie Dornan, Tina Fey
Votes: 114,095
5. Queen of Hearts (2019)
Not Rated | 127 min | Drama
A successful lawyer jeopardizes her career and threatens to tear her family apart after engaging in an affair with her teenage stepson.
Director: May el-Toukhy | Stars: Trine Dyrholm, Gustav Lindh, Magnus Krepper, Liv Esmår Dannemann
Votes: 14,620
6. Clue (1985)
PG | 94 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Six guests are anonymously invited to a strange mansion for dinner, but after their host is killed, they must cooperate with the staff to identify the murderer as the bodies pile up.
Director: Jonathan Lynn | Stars: Eileen Brennan, Tim Curry, Madeline Kahn, Christopher Lloyd
Votes: 109,733 | Gross: $14.64M
7. The Invisible Guest (2016)
TV-MA | 106 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A successful entrepreneur accused of murder and a witness preparation expert have less than three hours to come up with an impregnable defense.
Director: Oriol Paulo | Stars: Mario Casas, Ana Wagener, Jose Coronado, Bárbara Lennie
Votes: 193,231
8. Marrowbone (2017)
R | 110 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A young man and his three younger siblings, who have kept secret the death of their beloved mother in order to remain together, are plagued by a sinister presence in the sprawling manor in which they live.
Director: Sergio G. Sánchez | Stars: George MacKay, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Heaton, Mia Goth
Votes: 39,871 | Gross: $0.00M
9. Kung Fu Hustle (2004)
R | 99 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy
In Shanghai, China in the 1940s, a wannabe gangster aspires to join the notorious "Axe Gang" while residents of a housing complex exhibit extraordinary powers in defending their turf.
Director: Stephen Chow | Stars: Stephen Chow, Wah Yuen, Qiu Yuen, Siu-Lung Leung
Votes: 151,258 | Gross: $17.11M
10. The Hot Spot (1990)
R | 130 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Upon arriving to a small town, a drifter quickly gets into trouble with the local authorities - and the local women - after he robs a bank.
Director: Dennis Hopper | Stars: Don Johnson, Virginia Madsen, Jennifer Connelly, Charles Martin Smith
Votes: 13,580 | Gross: $1.29M
11. Rebecca (I) (2020)
PG-13 | 123 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A young newlywed arrives at her husband's imposing family estate on a windswept English coast and finds herself battling the shadow of his first wife, Rebecca, whose legacy lives on in the house long after her death.
Director: Ben Wheatley | Stars: Lily James, Armie Hammer, Kristin Scott Thomas, Keeley Hawes
Votes: 46,740
12. Alarm für Cobra 11 - Die Autobahnpolizei (1996– )
90 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Two police inspectors and their team from a Bonn-Koeln precinct fight all sorts of criminals they encounter daily on major highways in Germany.
Stars: Erdogan Atalay, Gottfried Vollmer, Niels Kurvin, Dietmar Huhn
Votes: 5,852
13. Where the Truth Lies (2005)
R | 107 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Karen O'Connor, a young journalist known for her celebrity profiles, is consumed with discovering the truth behind a long-buried incident that affected the lives and careers of showbiz team Vince Collins and Lanny Morris.
Director: Atom Egoyan | Stars: Kevin Bacon, Colin Firth, Alison Lohman, David Hayman
Votes: 18,797 | Gross: $0.87M
14. Mulholland Falls (1996)
R | 107 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
In 1950's Los Angeles, a special crime squad of the LAPD investigates the murder of a young woman.
Director: Lee Tamahori | Stars: Nick Nolte, Melanie Griffith, Jennifer Connelly, Chazz Palminteri
Votes: 19,052 | Gross: $11.50M
15. Death at a Funeral (2010)
R | 92 min | Comedy, Drama
A funeral ceremony turns into a debacle of exposed family secrets and misplaced bodies.
Director: Neil LaBute | Stars: Chris Rock, Martin Lawrence, Keith David, Loretta Devine
Votes: 53,767 | Gross: $42.74M
16. Mindhorn (2016)
TV-MA | 89 min | Comedy, Thriller
A has-been actor best known for playing the title character in the 1980s detective series "Mindhorn" must work with the police when a serial killer says that he will only speak with Detective Mindhorn, whom he believes to be a real person.
Director: Sean Foley | Stars: Julian Barratt, Simon Farnaby, Essie Davis, Steve Coogan
Votes: 13,757
17. Passion (2012)
R | 102 min | Adventure, Drama, Horror
The rivalry between the manipulative boss of an advertising agency and her talented protégée escalates from stealing credit to public humiliation to murder.
Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Rachel McAdams, Noomi Rapace, Karoline Herfurth, Paul Anderson
Votes: 24,290 | Gross: $0.09M
18. Scoop (2006)
PG-13 | 96 min | Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
An American journalism student in London scoops a big story, and begins an affair with an aristocrat as the incident unfurls.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Scarlett Johansson, Hugh Jackman, Jim Dunk, Robert Bathurst
Votes: 87,742 | Gross: $10.53M
19. Paranoia (1969)
X | 91 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
A rich, alcoholic widow assuages her loneliness through a ménage à trois with two seductive step-siblings, whose true motives threaten her sanity and life.
Director: Umberto Lenzi | Stars: Carroll Baker, Lou Castel, Colette Descombes, Tino Carraro
Votes: 1,644
20. Kiss and Kill (2017)
Not Rated | 81 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A reckless night of indiscretion and lust leads a woman into the dark world of blackmail and murder.
Director: Dean McKendrick | Stars: Kira Noir, Kyle Knies, Megan Medellin, Damian Toofeek Raven
Votes: 1,046
21. Trilogy of Terror (1975 TV Movie)
Unrated | 72 min | Horror, Thriller
Three bizarre horror stories, all of which star Karen Black in four different roles playing four tormented women.
Director: Dan Curtis | Stars: Robert Burton, John Karlen, George Gaynes, Jim Storm
Votes: 8,755
22. Death Game (1977)
R | 91 min | Horror, Thriller
Two crazy women seduce and then torment a businessman in his plush San Francisco home.
Director: Peter S. Traynor | Stars: Sondra Locke, Seymour Cassel, Colleen Camp, Beth Brickell
Votes: 1,549
23. Oh, Ramona! (2019)
109 min | Comedy, Romance
A teenager named Andrei transitions from a teenager into an adult.
Director: Cristina Jacob | Stars: Aggy K. Adams, Ioachim Ciobanu, Holly Horne, Basil Eidenbenz
Votes: 9,633 | Gross: $2.50M
24. Avanti! (1972)
R | 144 min | Comedy, Romance
A successful businessman goes to Italy to arrange for the return of his tycoon father's body--and discovers that Dad died with his long-time mistress.
Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Jack Lemmon, Juliet Mills, Clive Revill, Edward Andrews
Votes: 11,707 | Gross: $3.30M
25. Meet the Applegates (1990)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Modelling themselves after an idyllic cookie-cutter suburban 1950s family, a colony of insects move from South America into the United States with the intent of getting access to the nation's nuclear resources.
Director: Michael Lehmann | Stars: Ed Begley Jr., Stockard Channing, Dabney Coleman, Bobby Jacoby
Votes: 2,628 | Gross: $0.49M
26. Consequences (2018)
TV-MA | 95 min | Drama
After being sent to a youth detention centre, 18-year-old Andrej has to fight for his place within the group of inmates while getting closer to Zeljko, their informal leader, and struggling to keep his repressed secret in the dark.
Director: Darko Stante | Stars: Matej Zemljic, Timon Sturbej, Gasper Markun, Lovro Zafred
Votes: 2,454
27. Mario (I) (2018)
124 min | Drama, Romance, Sport
Two young football players get caught up between the politics of the game and the politics of love.
Director: Marcel Gisler | Stars: Max Hubacher, Aaron Altaras, Jessy Moravec, Jürg Plüss
Votes: 5,289
28. Circus of Horrors (1960)
Approved | 88 min | Drama, Horror
Dr. Rossiter, a plastic surgeon wanted by the police, flees to France and under an assumed name acquires, by murder, a run-down circus. His first recruit is a woman criminal. He transforms her face by surgery and trains her.
Director: Sidney Hayers | Stars: Anton Diffring, Erika Remberg, Yvonne Monlaur, Donald Pleasence
Votes: 2,406
29. The Woman in the Window (1944)
Passed | 107 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
When a conservative middle aged professor engages in a relationship with a femme fatale, he's plunged into a nightmarish world of blackmail and murder.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond Massey, Edmund Breon
Votes: 17,837
30. Murder, My Sweet (1944)
Approved | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
After being hired to find an ex-con's former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply complex web of mystery and deceit.
Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley, Otto Kruger
Votes: 14,744
31. Blackmail (1929)
Not Rated | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
After killing a man in self-defense, a young woman is blackmailed by a witness to the killing.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Anny Ondra, John Longden, Sara Allgood, Charles Paton
Votes: 12,039
32. Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1971)
PG | 104 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A musician is stalked by an unknown homicidal maniac, who blackmails him for the accidental killing of another stalker.
Director: Dario Argento | Stars: Michael Brandon, Mimsy Farmer, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Aldo Bufi Landi
Votes: 9,935
33. Julie Darling (1982)
R | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A teenage girl whose inaction caused her mother's death arranges a similarly gruesome fate for her stepmother and brother.
Director: Paul Nicholas | Stars: Anthony Franciosa, Sybil Danning, Isabelle Mejias, Paul Hubbard
Votes: 832
34. The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun (2015)
Not Rated | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A woman must find out about a crime she is implicated, to prove her innocence.
Director: Joann Sfar | Stars: Freya Mavor, Benjamin Biolay, Elio Germano, Stacy Martin
Votes: 2,992 | Gross: $0.00M
35. Open Windows (2014)
Not Rated | 100 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A jilted fan soon finds himself pulled into a deadly game of cat-and-mouse after he accepts the opportunity to spy on his favorite actress via his laptop.
Director: Nacho Vigalondo | Stars: Sasha Grey, Elijah Wood, Neil Maskell, Adam Quintero
Votes: 15,112
36. Like.Share.Follow. (2017)
Not Rated | 97 min | Horror, Thriller
Garrett is a rising YouTube star. Shell is a deeply emotional fan. When they begin a romantic relationship, he's forced to question whether opening your life to strangers online is an ... See full summary »
Director: Glenn Gers | Stars: Keiynan Lonsdale, Ema Horvath, Abraham Benrubi, Michael Boatman
Votes: 2,396
37. The Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion (1970)
Not Rated | 96 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
The wife of a struggling businessman is blackmailed by a mysterious man into having a sadistic affair with him, or he will leak evidence implicating her husband of murder.
Director: Luciano Ercoli | Stars: Dagmar Lassander, Pier Paolo Capponi, Simón Andreu, Osvaldo Genazzani
Votes: 2,153
38. A Lizard in a Woman's Skin (1971)
Not Rated | 95 min | Mystery, Thriller
The potentially unhinged daughter of a British politician is accused of killing her hedonistic neighbor after she witnesses the murder in a dream.
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Florinda Bolkan, Stanley Baker, Jean Sorel, Silvia Monti
Votes: 5,818
39. Freebie and the Bean (1974)
R | 113 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
San Francisco police detectives Freebie and Bean are determined to bust local crime boss Red Meyers at any cost, even if this means destroying the whole city in the process.
Director: Richard Rush | Stars: Alan Arkin, James Caan, Loretta Swit, Jack Kruschen
Votes: 3,601
40. The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (1975)
PG | 91 min | Comedy, Crime, Music
The younger brother of the consulting detective tries to steal Sherlock's glory by solving an important case assisted by an eccentric Scotland Yard detective and a lovely but suspicious actress.
Director: Gene Wilder | Stars: Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn, Marty Feldman, Dom DeLuise
Votes: 7,324
41. The Family Vice (1975)
90 min | Comedy
Giosuè, a noble industrialist of the spaghetti of the Venetian province is about to die and his half-sister, Magda, his wife, Ines, and daughter, Suzie, the result of an old flirtation of ... See full summary »
Director: Mariano Laurenti | Stars: Edwige Fenech, Renzo Montagnani, Juliette Mayniel, Nieves Navarro
Votes: 333
42. The Big Bet (1987)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Romance
A 17-year-old high school student who's obsessed with sex tries to seduce both his beautiful older neighbor and the shy new girl in school over a bet, only to end up falling in love.
Director: Bert I. Gordon | Stars: Lance Sloane, Kim Evenson, Sylvia Kristel, Ron Thomas
Votes: 361
43. Between Your Legs (1999)
115 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Javier's life gets complicated when a something unexpected turns up in his car's trunk.
Director: Manuel Gómez Pereira | Stars: Victoria Abril, Javier Bardem, Carmelo Gómez, Juan Diego
Votes: 3,075
44. Erotic Boundaries (1997)
R | 94 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A married woman is pushed to her boundaries about her desires, but she is just an unwitting pawn in an elaborate conspiracy.
Director: Mike Sedan | Stars: Kathy Shower, Timothy Dale Agee, Chris Johnston, Chanda
Votes: 176
45. The Dark Corner (1946)
Passed | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A secretary tries to help her boss who's been framed for murder.
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Lucille Ball, Clifton Webb, William Bendix, Mark Stevens
Votes: 5,236
46. I Am What I Am (1967)
X | 104 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Bernard meets Jane in a night club, in London, and he likes her. Her father was killed in a car accident, but she thinks he has been killed because he was blackmailed for a picture of his ... See full summary »
Director: Tinto Brass | Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Ewa Aulin, Roberto Bisacco, Charles Kohler
Votes: 884
47. What Have They Done to Your Daughters? (1974)
R | 96 min | Action, Crime, Horror
Police investigate apparent suicide of teen girl and uncover details of a teenage prostitution racket. They go on the hunt for a motorcycle riding killer.
Director: Massimo Dallamano | Stars: Giovanna Ralli, Claudio Cassinelli, Mario Adorf, Franco Fabrizi
Votes: 2,409
48. 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: 1,593
49. 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: 4,528
50. Patrick Still Lives (1980)
92 min | Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi
Five people receive an anonymous letter revealing a secret of theirs and inviting them to come stay at a mansion that houses a clinic run by a corrupt doctor who experiments on the brain of his comatose son.
Director: Mario Landi | Stars: Sacha Pitoëff, Gianni Dei, Mariangela Giordano, Carmen Russo
Votes: 967