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1. Inglourious Basterds (2009)

R | 153 min | Adventure, Drama, War

In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a plan to assassinate Nazi leaders by a group of Jewish U.S. soldiers coincides with a theatre owner's vengeful plans for the same.

Director: Quentin Tarantino | Stars: Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Eli Roth, Mélanie Laurent

Votes: 1,585,475 | Gross: $120.54M

2. Nekromantik (1988)

Not Rated | 71 min | Horror

A street sweeper who cleans up after grisly accidents brings home a full corpse for him and his wife to enjoy sexually, but is dismayed to see that his wife prefers the corpse over him.

Director: Jörg Buttgereit | Stars: Bernd Daktari Lorenz, Beatrice Manowski, Harald Lundt, Collosseo

Votes: 10,990

3. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)

Unrated | 83 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

Arriving in Chicago, Henry moves in with ex-con acquaintance Otis and starts schooling him in the ways of the serial killer.

Director: John McNaughton | Stars: Michael Rooker, Tracy Arnold, Tom Towles, Mary Demas

Votes: 40,476 | Gross: $0.61M

4. The Big Heat (1953)

Passed | 89 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller

Tough cop Dave Bannion takes on a politically powerful crime syndicate.

Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Jocelyn Brando, Alexander Scourby

Votes: 29,195

5. The January Man (1989)

R | 97 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Two years after being forced out of NYPD, quirky Nick is rehired by the mayor to catch a serial killer after the 11th murder of a woman.

Director: Pat O'Connor | Stars: Kevin Kline, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Susan Sarandon, Harvey Keitel

Votes: 9,170 | Gross: $4.61M

6. Party Line (1988)

R | 91 min | Thriller

A rich brother and sister are crazed killers. She lures men into her bed, and he attacks them and murders them. A detective is assigned to find the killers and bring them in.

Director: William Webb | Stars: Richard Hatch, Shawn Weatherly, Leif Garrett, Greta Blackburn

Votes: 675 | Gross: $0.15M

7. Experiment in Terror (1962)

Not Rated | 123 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

A man with an asthmatic voice telephones and assaults clerk Kelly Sherwood at home and coerces her into helping him steal a large sum from her bank.

Director: Blake Edwards | Stars: Glenn Ford, Lee Remick, Stefanie Powers, Roy Poole

Votes: 6,641

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. Black Angel (1946)

Passed | 81 min | Adventure, Crime, Film-Noir

When Kirk Bennett is convicted of a singer's murder, his wife tries to prove him innocent...aided by the victim's ex-husband.

Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Dan Duryea, June Vincent, Peter Lorre, Broderick Crawford

Votes: 3,956

10. Street Girls (1975)

R | 74 min | Drama, Thriller

When a middle-aged father searches for his dropout daughter Angel, his quest takes him into the underworld of prostitutes, pimps, drug addicts, and thieves.

Director: Michael Miller | Stars: Carol Case, Paul Pumpian, Art Burke, Christine Souder

Votes: 190

11. Rawhide (1951)

Approved | 89 min | Drama, Romance, Western

A stagecoach stop employee and a stranded woman traveller find themselves at the mercy of four desperate outlaws intent on robbing the next day's gold shipment.

Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Tyrone Power, Susan Hayward, Hugh Marlowe, Dean Jagger

Votes: 3,140

12. Sinful (2020)

TV-MA | 74 min | Horror, Thriller

On the run after committing a horrific crime, newlywed couple Remy and Salem find themselves trapped in a mysterious house as a terrifying darkness closes in on them.

Director: Rich Mallery | Stars: Nicole D'Angelo, Chris Spinelli, Christina Lo

Votes: 2,409

13. Kahaani 2 (2016)

Not Rated | 127 min | Mystery, Thriller

A woman with a mysterious past is charged with kidnapping and murder.

Director: Sujoy Ghosh | Stars: Vidya Balan, Arjun Rampal, Jugal Hansraj, Kharaj Mukherjee

Votes: 6,073 | Gross: $0.28M

14. L'assassino è costretto ad uccidere ancora (1975)

Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller

Giorgio is a greedy adulterer who makes a deal with a serial killer to dispose of his wealthy wife, Nora. Unfortunately, a thrill-seeking young couple steal the killer's car with Nora's ... See full summary »

Director: Luigi Cozzi | Stars: George Hilton, Antoine Saint-John, Femi Benussi, Cristina Galbó

Votes: 1,357

15. The Curse of the Living Corpse (1964)

Approved | 84 min | Horror

Relatives gather in an old house for the reading of a will, but the "dead" man comes back to life and starts killing.

Director: Del Tenney | Stars: Roy Scheider, Helen Waren, Robert Milli, Margot Hartman

Votes: 840

16. Choke (2020)

73 min | Horror, Thriller

The lines between reality and fiction, and good and bad blur when both a nihilistic detective and a serial killer's affairs with a mysterious girl overlap.

Director: Gregory Hatanaka | Stars: Shane Ryan-Reid, Scott Butler, Sarah Brine, Lisa London

Votes: 4,565

17. Ladies in Retirement (1941)

Passed | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

The housekeeper to a retired actress tries at the same time to look after her own two emotionally disturbed sisters, with dramatic results.

Director: Charles Vidor | Stars: Ida Lupino, Louis Hayward, Evelyn Keyes, Elsa Lanchester

Votes: 1,810

18. Female Jungle (1955)

73 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Several persons, including an off duty policeman and a weird rich guy, are suspects in the murder of a beautiful actress.

Director: Bruno VeSota | Stars: Lawrence Tierney, Jayne Mansfield, John Carradine, Burt Kaiser

Votes: 604

19. My Nightmare Landlord (2020 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 87 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Lydia moves into a new apartment after breaking up with her long term boyfriend and finds herself more and more isolated as her apartment manager becomes obsessed with her.

Director: Dylan Vox | Stars: Caroline Harris, Ignacyo Matynia, Sinéad D'arcy, Spencer Belko

Votes: 467

20. Sweetheart Murders (1998)

R | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Two homicide detectives are investigating the murder of a beloved glamour model and everyone's a suspect, including her female co-workers, elderly boss and even his assistant who's also the girlfriend of one of the detectives.

Director: Markus Innocenti | Stars: Monique Parent, David Millbern, Fred Kronenberg, Don Bain

Votes: 63

21. Web of Fear (1964)

92 min | Crime, Mystery

A lonely widow longing for love.

Director: François Villiers | Stars: Michèle Morgan, Dany Saval, Simón Andreu, Maria Pacôme

Votes: 64

22. Beneath the Veneer of a Murder (2010)

Unrated | 8 min | Short, Crime, Drama

A brief, tense phone conversation between politically connected powerhouse Tom Buchanan and a desperate lower-class thug named Judd over Buchanan's bisexual wife Daisy, her working-class ... See full summary »

Director: Angel Connell | Stars: Christy Scott Cashman, Eric Scheiner, Mark Grant, Jennifer McCartney

Votes: 37

23. Embrace of the Scorpions

Short, Crime, Drama | Announced

The relationship between an obsessive widower and a self-destructive medical administrator reaches a crisis point when they discover dark secrets about each other during a one-night stand.

Director: Angel Connell | Stars: Marybeth Paul, Corey Wells

24. Akuemon (1993)

24 min | Animation, Short, Action

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Director: Macoto Tezuka | Stars: Masatô Ibu, Ken'ichi Ogata, Yuri Amano, Ken'ichi Ono

Votes: 18

25. Dutch Moves (1986)

53 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Experimental film about a TV channel surfer who's trying to simultaneously follow three seemingly separate stories about the murder of a young couple, medieval ambassadors discussing a crisis and two secret agents in hot pursuit.

Director: Dalibor Martinis

26. Fox Mystery Theater (1984)
Episode: The Corvini Inheritance (1984)

70 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Unstable security chief of an auction house becomes increasingly obsessed with his female neighbor, who's being stalked, and a supposedly cursed jewel that's being auctioned. Is he losing his mind or is the curse real?

Director: Gabrielle Beaumont | Stars: David McCallum, Jan Francis, Terence Alexander, Stephen Yardley

Votes: 125

27. Blue Murder (2003–2009)
Episode: Hit and Run (2004)

TV-MA | 83 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

DCI Lewis finds that a hit-and-run she witnessed that killed a young girl and the mutilation murder of an illegal immigrant lap dancer may be linked.

Director: Pip Broughton | Stars: Caroline Quentin, Ian Kelsey, Paul Loughran, Nicholas Murchie

Votes: 144

28. Charlie's Angels (1976–1981)
Episode: Angel in Hiding (1980)

Not Rated | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

The angels are hired to find a model by her father but she turns up murdered. The angels go undercover as models for a modeling agency to find out why she was murdered and by whom.

Director: Dennis Donnelly | Stars: Jaclyn Smith, Cheryl Ladd, Tanya Roberts, David Doyle

Votes: 209

29. Derrick (1974–1998)
Episode: Ein Objekt der Begierde (1993)

57 min | Crime, Drama

Karoline is very popular in the building where she takes her English lessons. But on one unlucky evening, a tenant returning home finds her at the bottom of the stairwell, strangled to death.

Director: Zbynek Brynych | Stars: Horst Tappert, Fritz Wepper, Willy Schäfer, Stefan Wigger

Votes: 53

30. Hart to Hart (1979–1984)
Episode: Cop Out (1979)

TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

When a prostitute is murdered, one of Jennifer's former sources asks her to investigate.

Director: Ralph Senensky | Stars: Robert Wagner, Stefanie Powers, Lionel Stander, Richard Herd

Votes: 156

31. The Mark of a Killer (2019– )
Episode: The Englewood Killer (2021)

Documentary, Crime

Chicago police are investigating the murders of several women, whose bodies are discovered in abandoned buildings barefoot. Evidence indicates there is one offender, now police need to locate him.

Directors: Chad Cunningham, Wendy Greene | Stars: Michael Steinbach, Frank Luera, Andrew Burns, Pat Lalama

Votes: 12

32. The Mark of a Killer (2019– )
Episode: The Tourniquet Killer (2021)

Documentary, Crime

A Houston killer taunts the media and authorities as he uses homemade ligatures to murder his victims.

Directors: Chad Cunningham, Wendy Greene | Stars: Arturo Mejia, Brian Rogers, Hal Kennedy, Dan Billingsley

Votes: 11

33. Lucy Worsley Investigates (2022– )
Episode: The Witch Hunts (2022)

History

What started Britain's century of bloody witch hunts? Lucy Worsley uncovers the story of one supposed witch, whose case lit the fuse for the state-sanctioned killing of thousands.

Director: Georgina Leslie | Stars: Lucy Worsley, Wendy Seager, Ryan Pirie, David Montgomery

Votes: 67

34. The Mentalist (2008–2015)
Episode: The Desert Rose (2013)

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

After Patrick discovers that Red John already knows about his list of seven suspects, his dangerous actions during a murder investigation get him and Lisbon banished to the sticks.

Director: Chris Long | Stars: Simon Baker, Robin Tunney, Tim Kang, Owain Yeoman

Votes: 2,290

35. Downtown Precinct (2011–2015)
Episode: Episode #2.9 (2014)

Action, Crime

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Director: Amir Mann | Stars: Amos Tamam, Efrat Dor, Moris Cohen, Meirav Shirom

36. The Sandra West Diaries (2016– )
Episode: License to Baby Sit (2017)

Action, Adventure, Comedy

Sandra West accepts a mission to bring Colonel White's precocious niece into the field to get some practical spy-field experience.

Director: Scott Rhodes | Stars: Olivia Dunkley, Chelsea Newman, Rosanna Rizzuto, Brynn Bromley

Votes: 18

37. Detective Anna (2016–2017)
Episode: Prince (2016)

47 min | Crime, Fantasy, Mystery

The prince was murdered. Under suspicion, almost everything, including Stolman. Anna evokes the spirit of the deceased and tries to unravel the mystery of his doom, and Stolman unravels the... See full summary »

Stars: Aleksandra Nikiforova, Dmitriy Frid, Sergey Druzyak, Irina Sidorova

Votes: 49

38. Wartime Crime (2017– )
Episode: The Blackout Killers (2017)

TV-14 | 43 min | Crime

During the WW2 blackouts in Berlin and London, police race to catch serial killers who use the darkness as cover.

Director: Alec Lindsell | Stars: Mike Bodie, Julian Boon, Angus Kennedy, Lucy Moorhouse

Votes: 13