Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "dumping-a-dead-body-in-a-river"

1. Carlito's Way (1993)

R | 144 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A Puerto Rican former convict, just released from prison, pledges to stay away from drugs and violence despite the pressure around him and lead on to a better life outside of N.Y.C.

Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Al Pacino, Sean Penn, Penelope Ann Miller, John Leguizamo

Votes: 232,479 | Gross: $36.95M

2. Eastern Promises (2007)

R | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A teenager who dies during childbirth leaves clues in her journal that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family.

Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Naomi Watts, Viggo Mortensen, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Josef Altin

Votes: 261,246 | Gross: $17.11M

3. Cold Pursuit (2019)

R | 119 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

A grieving snowplow driver seeks out revenge against the drug dealers who killed his son.

Director: Hans Petter Moland | Stars: Liam Neeson, Laura Dern, Micheál Neeson, Michael Eklund

Votes: 78,100 | Gross: $32.14M

4. River's Edge (1986)

R | 99 min | Crime, Drama

A high school slacker commits a shocking act and proceeds to let his friends in on the secret. However, the friends' reaction is almost as ambiguous and perplexing as the crime itself.

Director: Tim Hunter | Stars: Crispin Glover, Keanu Reeves, Ione Skye, Daniel Roebuck

Votes: 20,703 | Gross: $4.60M

5. Dorian Gray (2009)

R | 112 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty eternally, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.

Director: Oliver Parker | Stars: Ben Barnes, Colin Firth, Rebecca Hall, John Hollingworth

Votes: 68,126

6. Striking Distance (1993)

R | 102 min | Action, Crime, Mystery

Coming from a police family, Tom Hardy ends up fighting his uncle after the murder of his father. Tom believes the killer is another cop and goes on the record with his allegations. Demoted then to river duty, the killer taunts Tom.

Director: Rowdy Herrington | Stars: Bruce Willis, Sarah Jessica Parker, Dennis Farina, Tom Sizemore

Votes: 45,540 | Gross: $23.80M

7. Nothing Underneath (1985)

R | 93 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A park ranger from Wyoming, whose twin sister is a fashion model in Milan, Italy, strongly senses that his sister is in mortal danger. Once he arrives in Milan, he discovers that his sister has disappeared.

Director: Carlo Vanzina | Stars: Tom Schanley, Renée Simonsen, Nicola Perring, Maria McDonald

Votes: 1,412

8. The Naked City (1948)

Not Rated | 96 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A step-by-step look at a murder investigation on the streets of New York.

Director: Jules Dassin | Stars: Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart, Don Taylor

Votes: 15,510

9. Clean Slate (1981)

Not Rated | 128 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A pathetic police chief, humiliated by everyone around him, suddenly wants a clean slate in life - and resorts to drastic means to do so.

Director: Bertrand Tavernier | Stars: Philippe Noiret, Isabelle Huppert, Stéphane Audran, Jean-Pierre Marielle

Votes: 6,718

10. The 25th Reich (2012)

85 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

In 1943, five US soldiers are recruited by the OSS for a time travel mission to save the world from the tyranny of Hitler's 25th Reich.

Director: Stephen Amis | Stars: Jim Knobeloch, Serge De Nardo, Angelo Salamanca, Jak Wyld

Votes: 1,198

11. Maniac (1963)

Not Rated | 86 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery

An American painter has an affair with a bar owner in a French village and agrees to help murder her husband, who has escaped from a prison for the criminally insane.

Director: Michael Carreras | Stars: Kerwin Mathews, Nadia Gray, Donald Houston, Liliane Brousse

Votes: 1,552

12. Jack the Ripper (1976)

R | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

A serial killer whose mother was a prostitute starts killing streetwalkers as a way of paying back his mother for her abuse.

Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Klaus Kinski, Josephine Chaplin, Herbert Fux, Lina Romay

Votes: 1,906

13. Wonder Man (1945)

Approved | 98 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Musical

After being murdered by gangsters, an exuberant nightclub entertainer returns as a ghost to persuade his meek twin brother to help bring his killers to justice.

Director: H. Bruce Humberstone | Stars: Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Vera-Ellen, Donald Woods

Votes: 2,492

14. Love Serenade (1996)

R | 101 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

In Sunray, a backwater town on Australia's Murray River, there's little to do but fish or listen to the local radio station. D.J. Ken Sherry arrives from the hustle of Brisbane to run the ... See full summary »

Director: Shirley Barrett | Stars: Miranda Otto, Rebecca Frith, George Shevtsov, John Alansu

Votes: 1,664 | Gross: $0.58M

15. Keeping Rosy (2014)

89 min | Drama, Thriller

All Charlotte wants from life is to be cut a slice of the media agency she has devoted herself to building. When Charlotte's life disintegrates, we follow her on a heart-racing journey of self-discovery, atonement and danger.

Director: Steve Reeves | Stars: Maxine Peake, Brooke Skylar Baptist, Delta Storm Baptist, Sam Hoare

Votes: 1,137

16. Tomboy (2007)

15 min | Short, Drama

Chloé is ten years old. She plays soccer, never cries and doesn't like other girls. One day, Marie, a sweet blond girl, participates for the first time to the games of Chloé and her boy ... See full summary »

Director: Claudine Natkin | Stars: Marty Siméon, Renaud Gouyet, Chloé Jager Berger, Laurent Lunes

Votes: 83

17. Spare Parts (2003)

Not Rated | 87 min | Drama

Embittered widower, Ludvik, spends his nights transporting illegal refugees in his van from Croatia, across Slovenia, and into Italy. The young and inexperienced Rudi acts as his helpmate. ... See full summary »

Director: Damjan Kozole | Stars: Peter Musevski, Aljosa Kovacic, Primoz Petkovsek, Valter Dragan

Votes: 655

18. Cold Case (2003–2010)
Episode: Late Returns (2004)

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

A man is found shot to death in his driveway. The team re-open a 1992 murder of a young woman, a Democratic worker, who went missing after leaving a political event on Election night.

Director: David Straiton | Stars: Kathryn Morris, Danny Pino, John Finn, Jeremy Ratchford

Votes: 422

19. Miami Vice (1984–1989)
Episode: El Viejo (1986)

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

Crockett and Tubbs have their hands full with an impatient old-timer (Willie Nelson) anxious to make a deal with a deadly Bolivian cocaine importer.

Director: Aaron Lipstadt | Stars: Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Saundra Santiago, Michael Talbott

Votes: 502

20. Miami Vice (1984–1989)
Episode: Lend Me an Ear (1987)

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

Crockett and Tubbs' investigation of a paranoid dealer is complicated by a surveillance expert who decides to play both sides against one another.

Director: James Quinn | Stars: Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Saundra Santiago, Michael Talbott

Votes: 417

21. Hitmen (2020–2021)
Episode: Birthday (2020)

TV-MA | 22 min | Comedy, Crime

It's Fran's birthday, and Jamie wants to celebrate but none of their friends are able to come to a celebratory dinner. This may be due to what happened last year when the duo went straight from a hit to a karaoke bar with UV lighting.

Director: Ollie Parsons | Stars: Mel Giedroyc, Sue Perkins, Asim Chaudhry, Tonya Cornelisse

Votes: 82

22. Gangland (2007–2010)
Episode: The Death Head (2009)

TV-14 | 45 min | Biography, Crime, History

For over 50 years the Hells Angels have reigned as America's largest and most deadly motorcycle gang. When the Angels sought to expand their empire across the border, they looked north for a booming hub of drugs and prostitution.

Stars: Julian Sher, Jerry Langton, Paul Cherry, André Bouchard

Votes: 15

23. Kill Thy Neighbour (2021– )
Episode: Pawel Relowicz (2021)

45 min | Crime, Documentary

A butcher living in the Polish community in Hull secretly had a history of depraved acts that went unpunished until the day a young woman went missing and he came up as the prime suspect.

Star: Miranda Nolan

Votes: 10

24. Crimes That Shook the World (2006– )
Episode: The Green River Killer (2006)

Documentary, Crime

The case of Green River killer Gary Leon Ridgeway who was arrested on 30 November 2001 after 19 years of police searches. The offender is recognized as the most prolific murderer in US history, having slayed at least 48 women.

Director: Eleanor Yule | Stars: Tim Pigott-Smith, Marc Church, Bill Hagland, Matt Haney

Votes: 16

25. The Boarding School (2007–2010)
Episode: El extraterrestre (2010)

85 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

As Marcos mourns the loss of Carolina, Rebeca recruits Maria into a dangerous plan, much against Fermin's wishes, and Martin encounters a familiar face he's never met.

Director: Alexandra Graf | Stars: Natalia Millán, Marta Torné, Cristina Marcos, Martiño Rivas

Votes: 40

26. True Crime Authors (2003– )
Episode: The Westies (2003)

Documentary

Adapted from the critically acclaimed true crime bestsellers, each author tells their infamous stories on-camera. Each story is told only from the author's perspective. Even among the Mob, ... See full summary »

Stars: T.J. English, Brian Bogulski, Jimmy Coonan, Roy DeMeo

27. Cold Case Files (1999– )
Episode: Obsession: Dave Reichert and the Green River Killer (2005)

TV-14 | 45 min | Documentary, Crime

One of the most prolific serial killers in U.S. history, dubbed "The Green River Killer," confessed to murdering 71 women in the Seattle area. Dave Reichert had reopened the case after ... See full summary »

Stars: Fabienne Brooks, Michael Brown, Ted Bundy, Melvyn Foster

Votes: 37

28. Twisted (2010– )
Episode: The Night Stalker (2011)

Documentary, Crime

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Director: Neil Edwards | Stars: Patricia Eakes, Fabienne Brooks, Ann Rule, Robert K. Ressler

29. Mafia's Greatest Hits (2012– )
Episode: Donnie Brasco (2012)

TV-PG | 50 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime

Former FBI agent Joe Pistone, who infiltrated the Mafia for six years as Donnie Brasco, reveals how his undercover work led to more than 100 convictions - and resulted in the death of underworld figure Dominick `Sonny Black' Napolitano.

Director: Ned Parker | Stars: Joseph D. Pistone, James Kallstrom, Selwyn Raab, Jim Kossler

Votes: 12

30. Berlin Station (2016–2019)
Episode: False Negative (2016)

TV-MA | 50 min | Action, Drama, Mystery

The CIA tries to cover its tracks after mission with Claire.

Director: John David Coles | Stars: Richard Armitage, Rhys Ifans, Leland Orser, Tamlyn Tomita

Votes: 303

31. Ozark (2017–2022)
Episode: The Gold Coast (2018)

TV-MA | 65 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Marty makes plans without telling Wendy. Darlene sends a message via Jonah. Wyatt learns the truth about his dad. Ruth realizes Cade must be stopped.

Director: Amanda Marsalis | Stars: Jason Bateman, Laura Linney, Ben Peck, Sofia Hublitz

Votes: 5,259