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

1. Basic Instinct (1992)

R | 127 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A violent police detective investigates a brutal murder that might involve a manipulative and seductive novelist.

Director: Paul Verhoeven | Stars: Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone, George Dzundza, Jeanne Tripplehorn

Votes: 219,892 | Gross: $117.73M

2. Vertigo (1958)

PG | 128 min | Mystery, Romance, Thriller

A former San Francisco police detective juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becoming obsessed with the hauntingly beautiful woman he has been hired to trail, who may be deeply disturbed.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore

Votes: 428,329 | Gross: $3.20M

3. The Bounty (1984)

PG | 132 min | Adventure, Drama, History

Fed up with their Captain's harsh discipline, a sailing ship's crew decides to take action.

Director: Roger Donaldson | Stars: Mel Gibson, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier, Edward Fox

Votes: 30,663 | Gross: $8.60M

4. Rebecca (1940)

Approved | 130 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

A self-conscious woman juggles adjusting to her new role as an aristocrat's wife and avoiding being intimidated by his first wife's spectral presence.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Judith Anderson

Votes: 147,141 | Gross: $4.36M

5. In the Heart of the Sea (2015)

PG-13 | 122 min | Action, Adventure, Biography

A recounting of a New England whaling ship's sinking by a giant whale in 1820, an experience that later inspired the great novel Moby-Dick.

Director: Ron Howard | Stars: Chris Hemsworth, Cillian Murphy, Brendan Gleeson, Ben Whishaw

Votes: 149,056 | Gross: $25.02M

6. A Very Long Engagement (2004)

R | 133 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

Tells the story of a young woman's relentless search for her fiancé, who has disappeared from the trenches of the Somme during World War One.

Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet | Stars: Audrey Tautou, Gaspard Ulliel, Jodie Foster, Dominique Pinon

Votes: 76,028 | Gross: $6.17M

7. Miss Marple: The Moving Finger (1985)

Not Rated | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The normally friendly village of Lymston is plagued by vile anonymous letters. When a mother of three takes her own life, following such a letter, Ms. Marple is not at all convinced things are as they seem.

Stars: Joan Hickson, Michael Culver, Deborah Appleby, Andrew Bicknell

Votes: 2,170

8. The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

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

Director: Albert Lewin | Stars: George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed, Angela Lansbury

Votes: 14,489

9. La piovra (1984–2001)

TV-14 | 360 min | Action, Crime, Drama

An epic crime saga of power, money, violence and corruption. the mafia controls everything through local and international networks like an octopus, anyone who tries to bring them down pays the ultimate price.

Stars: Remo Girone, Patricia Millardet, Michele Placido, François Périer

Votes: 3,972

10. The Mummy (1959)

Unrated | 88 min | Adventure, Horror

In 1895, British archaeologists find and open the tomb of Egyptian Princess Ananka with nefarious consequences.

Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Yvonne Furneaux, Eddie Byrne

Votes: 11,039

11. Jack the Ripper (1988)

TV-PG | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A Scotland Yard police inspector, battling the booze, investigates the Jack the Ripper murders and discovers a conspiracy that leads all the way up to the Queen.

Stars: Michael Caine, Armand Assante, Ray McAnally, Lewis Collins

Votes: 5,699

12. The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)

Passed | 80 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson investigate the legend of a supernatural hound, a beast that may be stalking a young heir on the fog-shrouded moorland that makes up his estate.

Director: Sidney Lanfield | Stars: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Richard Greene, Wendy Barrie

Votes: 11,721

13. Written on the Wind (1956)

Not Rated | 99 min | Drama

Alcoholic playboy Kyle Hadley marries the woman secretly loved by his poor but hard-working best friend, who in turn is pursued by Kyle's nymphomaniac sister.

Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone

Votes: 13,457

14. Village of the Damned (1960)

Not Rated | 77 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

In the English village of Midwich, the blonde-haired, glowing-eyed children of uncertain paternity prove to have frightening powers.

Director: Wolf Rilla | Stars: George Sanders, Barbara Shelley, Martin Stephens, Michael Gwynn

Votes: 19,177

15. A Dry White Season (1989)

R | 106 min | Drama, Thriller

A white middle class South African suburbanite with no interest in politics agrees to help his black gardener find his jailed son. His investigation opens his eyes to the horrors committed by the secret police and turns him into a target.

Director: Euzhan Palcy | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Janet Suzman, Zakes Mokae, Jürgen Prochnow

Votes: 6,224 | Gross: $3.77M

16. The Mangler (1995)

R | 106 min | Horror, Mystery

A laundry-folding machine has been possessed by a demon, causing it to develop homicidal tendencies.

Director: Tobe Hooper | Stars: Robert Englund, Ted Levine, Daniel Matmor, Jeremy Crutchley

Votes: 9,991 | Gross: $1.78M

17. The Gorgon (1964)

Not Rated | 83 min | Horror

In the early twentieth century, a Gorgon takes human form and terrorizes a small European village by turning its citizens to stone.

Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Richard Pasco, Barbara Shelley

Votes: 6,883

18. The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960)

Approved | 88 min | Horror

Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.

Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Paul Massie, Dawn Addams, Christopher Lee, David Kossoff

Votes: 3,378

19. Human Desire (1954)

Not Rated | 91 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance

A Korean War vet returns to his job as a railroad engineer and becomes involved in an affair with a co-worker's wife following a murder on a train where they meet.

Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Broderick Crawford, Edgar Buchanan

Votes: 6,385

20. A Woman's Vengeance (1948)

Approved | 96 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery

A cheating husband is charged in the poisoning death of his invalid wife, in spite of other women and suicide also being suspected.

Director: Zoltan Korda | Stars: Charles Boyer, Ann Blyth, Jessica Tandy, Cedric Hardwicke

Votes: 839

21. Wild in the Country (1961)

Not Rated | 114 min | Drama, Musical

A troubled young man discovers that he has a knack for writing when a counselor encourages him to pursue a literary career.

Director: Philip Dunne | Stars: Elvis Presley, Hope Lange, Tuesday Weld, Millie Perkins

Votes: 2,095

22. Wake of the Red Witch (1948)

Approved | 106 min | Action, Adventure, Romance

During the 1860s in the South Pacific, Capt. Ralls, skipper of the Red Witch, has a series of adventures involving sunken gold bullion, pearls, natives, an unscrupulous ship owner and a giant octopus.

Director: Edward Ludwig | Stars: John Wayne, Gail Russell, Gig Young, Adele Mara

Votes: 2,945

23. Scream of Fear (1961)

Approved | 81 min | Horror, Thriller

A wheelchair-bound young woman returns to her father's estate after 10 years, and although she's told he's away, she keeps seeing his dead body on the estate.

Director: Seth Holt | Stars: Susan Strasberg, Ann Todd, Ronald Lewis, Christopher Lee

Votes: 5,520

24. The Prowler (1951)

Approved | 92 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller

After Susan Gilvray reports a prowler outside her house police officer Webb Garwood investigates and sparks fly. If only her husband wasn't in the way.

Director: Joseph Losey | Stars: Van Heflin, Evelyn Keyes, John Maxwell, Katherine Warren

Votes: 4,117

25. Why Didn't They Ask Evans? (1980 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 180 min | Crime, Mystery, Romance

While golfing on the Welsh coast, Bobby Jones apparently hits a stranger who falls off the the sea cliff. His enigmatic last words are "Why didn't they ask Evans?"

Directors: John Davies, Tony Wharmby | Stars: Francesca Annis, John Gielgud, Bernard Miles, Eric Porter

Votes: 1,008

26. Storm Warning (1950)

Approved | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Marsha Mitchell, a traveling dress model, stops in a southern town to see her sister who has married a Ku Klux Klansman. Marsha witnesses the KKK commit a murder and helps District Attorney Burt Rainey bring the criminals to justice.

Director: Stuart Heisler | Stars: Ginger Rogers, Ronald Reagan, Doris Day, Steve Cochran

Votes: 2,687

27. Mark of the Vampire (1935)

Passed | 60 min | Horror, Mystery

When a nobleman is murdered, a professor of the occult blames vampires, but not all is what it seems.

Director: Tod Browning | Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Elizabeth Allan, Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill

Votes: 5,591

28. House by the River (1950)

Approved | 83 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A deranged writer murders a maid after she resists his advances. The writer engages his brother's help in hiding the body, causing unexpected problems for both of them.

Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Louis Hayward, Lee Bowman, Jane Wyatt, Dorothy Patrick

Votes: 4,196

29. The Silent Revolution (2018)

PG | 111 min | Drama, History

A group of twelfth-grade pupils in East Germany decide to show their solidarity with the victims of the 1956 Hungarian uprising by staging two minutes of silence during lessons.

Director: Lars Kraume | Stars: Leonard Scheicher, Tom Gramenz, Lena Klenke, Isaiah Michalski

Votes: 6,044

30. The Upturned Glass (1947)

Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Drama

A British brain surgeon punishes the murderess of his lover.

Director: Lawrence Huntington | Stars: James Mason, Rosamund John, Pamela Mason, Ann Stephens

Votes: 1,373

31. The Deadly Bees (1966)

Not Rated | 84 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Trouble strikes when an exhausted pop singer, sent on a vacation to a farm, realizes that the farm's owner raises deadly bees.

Director: Freddie Francis | Stars: Suzanna Leigh, Frank Finlay, Guy Doleman, Catherine Finn

Votes: 2,257

32. The Undying Monster (1942)

Not Rated | 63 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Surviving members of an aristocratic English family are threatened by a legendary monster when they venture out on chilly, foggy nights.

Director: John Brahm | Stars: James Ellison, Heather Angel, John Howard, Bramwell Fletcher

Votes: 1,551

33. The Snorkel (1958)

Not Rated | 74 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery

Although the police have termed her mother's death a suicide, a teenage girl believes her step-father murdered her.

Director: Guy Green | Stars: Peter van Eyck, Betta St. John, Mandy Miller, Grégoire Aslan

Votes: 1,806

34. The Leopard Man (1943)

Approved | 66 min | Film-Noir, Horror, Thriller

A seemingly-tame leopard used for a publicity stunt escapes and kills a young girl, spreading panic throughout a sleepy New Mexico town.

Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Dennis O'Keefe, Margo, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell

Votes: 5,967

35. The Web (1947)

Approved | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

An attorney acting as a body guard, apparently kills a man in defense of his employer's life, and later believes the victim was set up to be murdered.

Director: Michael Gordon | Stars: Ella Raines, Edmond O'Brien, William Bendix, Vincent Price

Votes: 1,482

36. Sweden: Heaven and Hell (1968)

X | 90 min | Documentary

It shows contraceptives for teen girls, lesbian nightclubs, wife swapping, porno movies, biker gangs, and Walpurgis Night celebrations. It also examines Sweden's purported drug, drinking and suicide problems.

Director: Luigi Scattini | Stars: Edmund Purdom, Enrico Maria Salerno, Jean Topart, Marie Liljedahl

Votes: 334

37. Lófej

Drama, Mystery, Thriller | Filming

After their chance encounter, Zsolt and Ildikó team up to uncover a mysterious person who wears a horse head and appears in a field every sunset.

Director: Tóth Milán | Stars: Tóth Zoltán, Vámos Mária, Tóth Viktória, Kolonits Ferenc

38. Hillsborough (1996 TV Movie)

100 min | Drama, History, Sport

A number of grieving families in the UK struggle to come to terms with the unexpected and tragic 1989 Hillsborough Disaster, in which 95 football fans were crushed to death.

Director: Charles McDougall | Stars: Tracey Wilkinson, Kevin Knapman, Mark Womack, Sarah Graham

Votes: 932

39. Mr. Denning Drives North (1951)

Approved | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A British aircraft engineer accidentally kills his daughter's nasty foreign boyfriend, then tries to cover up his deed.

Director: Anthony Kimmins | Stars: John Mills, Phyllis Calvert, Eileen Moore, Sam Wanamaker

Votes: 588

40. Deadly Desire (1991 TV Movie)

R | 93 min | Drama, Thriller

Ex-L.A. cop, Frank Decker, now works for a private security firm in San Diego. During the course of his job he meets the beautiful Angela who's married to a wealthy man who'll kill her if ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Correll | Stars: Jack Scalia, Kathryn Harrold, Will Patton, Joe Santos

Votes: 162

41. Nancy Drew... Reporter (1939)

Approved | 68 min | Comedy, Crime, Family

Nancy Drew, contest-reporter for the local newspaper, clears a young woman of murder charges.

Director: William Clemens | Stars: Bonita Granville, John Litel, Frankie Thomas, Dickie Jones

Votes: 1,466

42. Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935)

Approved | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

An opium-addicted choirmaster develops an obsession for a beautiful young girl and will not stop short of murder in order to have her.

Director: Stuart Walker | Stars: Claude Rains, Douglass Montgomery, Heather Angel, David Manners

Votes: 614

43. Cause of Death (2022– )

60 min | Documentary

A documentary series providing exclusive access to a Coroner, his officers, and the autopsies performed during an investigation into a cause of death.

Stars: Amanda Burton, Lesley Sharp

Votes: 30

44. Three Bad Sisters (1956)

Approved | 76 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A millionaire dies in an airplane crash, leaving all of his money to be divided among his three daughters. One of the daughters doesn't want to share any of it, so she plans to get rid of her two sisters.

Director: Gilbert Kay | Stars: Marla English, Kathleen Hughes, Sara Shane, John Bromfield

Votes: 266

45. The Sphinx (1933)

Passed | 64 min | Adventure, Crime, Mystery

A man known to be a mute is suspected of committing a murder, as he was noticed at the scene. However, witnesses saw and heard him talking as he was leaving the scene of the crime. The ... See full summary »

Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Lionel Atwill, Sheila Terry, Theodore Newton, Paul Hurst

Votes: 532

46. Woodstock Villa (2008)

Not Rated | 94 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

A businessman's wife approaches a cash-strapped man to kidnap her and test her husband's love for her, but was her unexpected death part of the plan?

Director: Hansal Mehta | Stars: Sikandar Kher, Neha Oberoi, Arbaaz Khan, Gulshan Grover

Votes: 433

47. Haunted Honeymoon (1940)

Passed | 83 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

A dead body is discovered in the newly-purchased home of a gentleman sleuth and his mystery-novelist bride.

Directors: Arthur B. Woods, Richard Thorpe | Stars: Robert Montgomery, Constance Cummings, Leslie Banks, Seymour Hicks

Votes: 884

48. The Unspeakable (2021)

90 min | Documentary

Documentary following four families in their struggle to find the truth about the death of their loved ones on September 11th, 2001.

Director: Dylan Avery | Stars: Tara Brinnier, William Brinnier, Matthew Campbell, Maureen Campbell

Votes: 103

49. The Phantom Fiend (1932)

Passed | 67 min | Action, Crime, Mystery

A landlady suspects that her new lodger is the madman killing women in London.

Director: Maurice Elvey | Stars: Ivor Novello, Elizabeth Allan, A.W. Baskcomb, Barbara Everest

Votes: 363

50. ...One Third of a Nation... (1939)

Approved | 79 min | Drama

A fire in a run-down tenement building injures young Joey Rogers. Wealthy passerby Peter Cortlant rushes the boy and his attractive older sister Mary to the hospital and pays the medical ... See full summary »

Director: Dudley Murphy | Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Leif Erickson, Myron McCormick, Hiram Sherman

Votes: 325