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1. The Killer (2023)

R | 118 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

After a fateful near-miss, an assassin battles his employers and himself, on an international manhunt he insists isn't personal.

Director: David Fincher | Stars: Michael Fassbender, Tilda Swinton, Charles Parnell, Arliss Howard

Votes: 183,252

2. Mechanic: Resurrection (2016)

R | 98 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Bishop's most formidable foe kidnaps the love of his life in order to make him complete three impossible assassinations and make them look like accidents.

Director: Dennis Gansel | Stars: Jason Statham, Jessica Alba, Tommy Lee Jones, Michelle Yeoh

Votes: 93,368 | Gross: $21.22M

3. 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: 40,154 | Gross: $24.06M

4. Double Indemnity (1944)

Passed | 107 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A Los Angeles insurance representative lets an alluring housewife seduce him into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, an insurance investigator.

Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Byron Barr

Votes: 167,523 | Gross: $5.72M

5. Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

Passed | 108 min | Film-Noir, Thriller

A teenage girl, overjoyed when her favorite uncle comes to visit the family in their quiet California town, slowly begins to suspect that he is in fact the "Merry Widow" killer sought by the authorities.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Macdonald Carey, Henry Travers

Votes: 70,527

6. Thoroughbreds (2017)

R | 92 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Two upper-class teenage girls in suburban Connecticut rekindle their unlikely friendship after years of growing apart. Together, they hatch a plan to solve both of their problems-no matter what the cost.

Director: Cory Finley | Stars: Olivia Cooke, Anya Taylor-Joy, Anton Yelchin, Paul Sparks

Votes: 46,434 | Gross: $2.83M

7. Scorned (1993)

R | 100 min | Drama, Thriller

A vengeful widow is out to seduce the relatives of the man she blames for her husband's death.

Director: Andrew Stevens | Stars: Andrew Stevens, Shannon Tweed, Kim Morgan Greene, Daniel McVicar

Votes: 2,031

8. Murder by Contract (1958)

Approved | 81 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Claude is a ruthless and efficient contract killer - until he finds his next target is a woman.

Director: Irving Lerner | Stars: Vince Edwards, Phillip Pine, Herschel Bernardi, Caprice Toriel

Votes: 4,369

9. No Way Out (1950)

Passed | 106 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Two hoodlum brothers are brought into a hospital for gunshot wounds, and when one of them dies the other accuses their black doctor of murder.

Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Stars: Richard Widmark, Linda Darnell, Stephen McNally, Sidney Poitier

Votes: 6,284

10. Ugly, Dirty and Bad (1976)

Not Rated | 115 min | Comedy, Drama

Four generations of a family live in a shantytown in the outskirts of Rome. The household engages in various forms of sexual idiosyncrasies, land swindles, incest, drugs and adultery.

Director: Ettore Scola | Stars: Francesco Anniballi, Maria Bosco, Giselda Castrini, Alfredo D'Ippolito

Votes: 9,115 | Gross: $0.01M

11. A Quiet Place to Kill (I) (1970)

Not Rated | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

A troubled race-car driver plots to kill her ex-husband at the behest of his new wife, but their scheme quickly goes awry.

Director: Umberto Lenzi | Stars: Carroll Baker, Jean Sorel, Luis Dávila, Alberto Dalbés

Votes: 1,393

12. Prevenge (2016)

TV-MA | 88 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Widow Ruth is seven months pregnant when, believing herself to be guided by her unborn baby, she embarks on a homicidal rampage, dispatching anyone who stands in her way.

Director: Alice Lowe | Stars: Alice Lowe, Dan Renton Skinner, Jo Hartley, Tom Davis

Votes: 8,617

13. Nightmare Castle (1965)

Unrated | 90 min | Horror

A woman and her lover are tortured and killed by her sadistic husband. The pair return from the grave to seek vengeance.

Director: Mario Caiano | Stars: Barbara Steele, Paul Muller, Helga Liné, Marino Masé

Votes: 2,708

14. Comanche Station (1960)

Approved | 73 min | Drama, Western

A man saves a woman who had been kidnapped by Comanches, then struggles to get both of them home alive.

Director: Budd Boetticher | Stars: Randolph Scott, Nancy Gates, Claude Akins, Skip Homeier

Votes: 4,427

15. The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (1955)

Not Rated | 89 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

The delirious journey of a mentally disordered man, who is obsessed with committing the perfect crime.

Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Ernesto Alonso, Miroslava, Rita Macedo, Ariadne Welter

Votes: 5,892

16. Murder by Natural Causes (1979 TV Movie)

100 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Allison, the unfaithful wife of a famous mentalist with a heart problem, wants her lover to try to kill her husband by scaring him to death, but the whole thing goes downhill.

Director: Robert Day | Stars: Richard Anderson, Katharine Ross, Hal Holbrook, Barry Bostwick

Votes: 870

17. The Sweet Body of Deborah (1968)

R | 95 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A sexy newlywed couple visits the husband's hometown in Geneva, where they are subjected to threats stemming from the death of his former fiancée.

Director: Romolo Guerrieri | Stars: Carroll Baker, Jean Sorel, Ida Galli, Luigi Pistilli

Votes: 957

18. Lovers (2020)

102 min | Drama, Thriller

Set in Paris the story follows Lisa, who, while on vacation with her husband, rekindles a passionate affair with her ex-boyfriend. But that may lead to a murder.

Director: Nicole Garcia | Stars: Pierre Niney, Stacy Martin, Benoît Magimel, Christophe Montenez

Votes: 1,056

19. Trash Fire (2016)

R | 91 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror

When Owen is forced to confront the past he's been running from his whole adult life, he and his girlfriend, Isabel, become entangled in a horrifying web of lies, deceit and murder.

Director: Richard Bates Jr. | Stars: Adrian Grenier, Angela Trimbur, Fionnula Flanagan, AnnaLynne McCord

Votes: 3,305

20. The Oath (2016)

Not Rated | 103 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A troubled father working as a doctor decides to go to extreme measures to save his daughter from the devastating influence of her drug-dealer boyfriend.

Director: Baltasar Kormákur | Stars: Baltasar Kormákur, Hera Hilmar, Gísli Örn Garðarsson, Margrét Bjarnadóttir

Votes: 2,455

21. Dear Murderer (1947)

Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A businessman plans to kill his cheating wife's lover and make it look like suicide.

Director: Arthur Crabtree | Stars: Eric Portman, Greta Gynt, Dennis Price, Maxwell Reed

Votes: 1,114

22. The Road Killers (1994)

R | 89 min | Action, Crime, Drama

At a desert truck stop, a gang of joyriders kidnaps a man's family and kills his brother. The local sheriff is of no help, so the man goes after them himself.

Director: Deran Sarafian | Stars: Christopher Lambert, Craig Sheffer, David Arquette, Josh Brolin

Votes: 1,779

23. Gun-Shy (2003)

Unrated | 105 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Dito Tsintsadze's drama focuses on a loner whose life changes dramatically, when he gets to know a beautiful, but strange girl. Lukas, a young man doing "meals on wheels" instead of ... See full summary »

Director: Dito Tsintsadze | Stars: Fabian Hinrichs, Lavinia Wilson, Johan Leysen, Ingeborg Westphal

Votes: 633

24. Crucible of Horror (1971)

R | 91 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

A mother and daughter hatch a scheme to murder their family's domineering and sadistic patriarch.

Director: Viktors Ritelis | Stars: Michael Gough, Yvonne Mitchell, Sharon Gurney, Simon Gough

Votes: 1,144

25. Deadlier Than the Male (1956)

113 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

André Chatelin is a restaurant owner in Les Halles in Paris. One morning, a girl named Catherine asks to see him. She happens to be the daughter of his estranged wife, Gabrielle, that André... See full summary »

Director: Julien Duvivier | Stars: Jean Gabin, Danièle Delorme, Robert Arnoux, Liliane Bert

Votes: 1,694

26. The Lady Terrorist (2019)

Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

An elderly woman decides to act on her own with a rifle as she gets fed up with injustice.

Director: Radek Bajgar | Stars: Iva Janzurová, Martin Hofmann, Tatiana Dyková, Pavel Liska

Votes: 486

27. I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen (1970)

95 min | Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi

This futuristic science fiction comedy features an atomic bomb blast that causes women to grow beards and lose the ability to have children. A summit meeting is held at the United Nations, ... See full summary »

Director: Oldrich Lipský | Stars: Jirí Sovák, Jana Brejchová, Lubomír Lipský, Iva Janzurová

Votes: 574

28. Maria's Paradise (2019)

110 min | Drama, Thriller

The orphan Salome is the servant and devout follower of Maria Åkerblom, a charismatic sect leader. But as Salome befriends a rebellious outsider and starts to have doubts, Maria turns dangerous.

Director: Zaida Bergroth | Stars: Pihla Viitala, Satu Tuuli Karhu, Saga Sarkola, Elina Knihtilä

Votes: 430

29. Family Time (I) (2013)

21 min | Short, Drama, Thriller

In this modern day re-imagining of 'Oedipus'; Susan, a distraught and manipulative housewife, uses her powers of seduction to coerce her teenage son into doing her violent bidding.

Director: James Cullen Bressack | Stars: Calico Cooper, Tim Moran, Nicholas Adam Clark, Dmitri Schuyler-Linch

Votes: 31

30. Straziami ma di baci saziami (1968)

104 min | Comedy

Marino decided to go to Rome to win back his girlfriend. After many hardships their paths eventually crossed but to his shock, he discovered that she is now married to a deaf and mute man.

Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Nino Manfredi, Ugo Tognazzi, Pamela Tiffin, Moira Orfei

Votes: 611

31. Miss Golem (1972)

96 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance

The inventor Petr takes Vera to his laboratory. There he works on a machine to create perfect "golems" or "human doubles". Vera unwittingly creates her own golem.

Director: Jaroslav Balík | Stars: Jana Brejchová, Jan Tríska, Martin Ruzek, Josef Somr

Votes: 51

32. Spravedlnost pro Selvina (1968 TV Movie)

70 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A dark comedy about a man who, against his will, dedicated his life to the fight for justice.

Director: Jirí Weiss | Stars: Rudolf Hrusínský, Klaus Schwarzkopf, Jirina Sejbalová, Míla Myslíková

Votes: 40

33. Rendezvous (2019)

15 min | Short, Crime, Drama

An opportunistic congressman schemes to have his much younger wife killed, but she's already a step ahead of him.

Directors: Seth Kozak, Damian Veilleux | Stars: Katarina Morhacova, Chris Kerson, Mike Sutton, David Scott Lago

Votes: 24

34. The Devil Is Driving (1932)

Passed | 65 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

There is a garage in downtown New York City on the ground floor of an eight-story building, with a winding ramp, that serves as a cache for stolen automobiles. The second floor is the ... See full summary »

Director: Benjamin Stoloff | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Wynne Gibson, James Gleason, Lois Wilson

Votes: 179

35. The Tainted (2017)

11 min | Short, Horror

Tangled amid an apocalypse a father and his daughters are locked in their house in an attempt of survival. However they begin to fear the indoors with their abusive father, so they begin to... See full summary »

Director: Jack Carlin | Stars: David Childs, Tayla Kenyon, Julia Meola, Evelyn Roberts

36. Murder Czech Style (1967)

90 min | Comedy, Crime

A black comedy about a dull, overweight middle-aged clerk with a beautiful wife, who has requested that the marriage is not consummated for some time. When he discovers that she has a ... See full summary »

Director: Jirí Weiss | Stars: Rudolf Hrusínský, Kveta Fialová, Václav Voska, Vladimír Mensík

Votes: 79

37. He Was a Friend of Him (2015)

27 min | Short, Drama, Thriller

After failing to commit his first murder, an aspiring serial killer decides that the most rational way to get started is to kill a friend who totally trusts you. This is how a lonely mentally unstable guy meets a naive next-door boy.

Director: Evgeniy Puzyrevskiy | Stars: Sergey Pokhodaev, Kirill Polukhin, Ivan Mulin, Aleksey Kolubkov

Votes: 58

38. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985–1989)
Episode: The Hunted: Part 1 (1988)

TV-PG | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A man holds a real estate agent hostage in an office and threatens to shoot people from the window.

Director: Timothy Bond | Stars: Edward Woodward, Kate Trotter, Elizabeth Lennie, James Hobson

Votes: 99

39. The Carol Burnett Show (1967–1978)
Episode: Steve Lawrence and Paul Sand (1973)

TV-G | 22 min | Comedy, Family

Carol's guests are Paul Sand and Steve Lawrence. Highlights include: "Double Calamity", a parody of "Double Indemnity" with Steve in the role played in the original by Fred MacMurray and ... See full summary »

Director: Dave Powers | Stars: Carol Burnett, Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence, Lyle Waggoner

Votes: 41

40. Sincerely Yours in Cold Blood (2000–2005)
Episode: Poliisin poika (2002)

60 min | Crime, Drama

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Director: Minna Virtanen | Stars: Ville Virtanen, Antti Reini, Leena Uotila, Jukka Kärkkäinen

Votes: 7

41. Breaking Bad (2008–2013)
Episode: Seven Thirty-Seven (2009)

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

Walt and Jesse realize how dire their situation is. They must come up with a plan to kill Tuco before Tuco kills them first.

Director: Bryan Cranston | Stars: Bryan Cranston, Anna Gunn, Aaron Paul, Dean Norris

Votes: 26,833

42. Forensic Files (1996–2011)
Episode: Shoot to Thrill (2008)

TV-14 | 21 min | Documentary, Crime

Two teen boys murders one of the boys father in the winter in Minnesota.

Stars: Peter Thomas, Nathaniel Brovold, James Dougherty, Susan Gross

Votes: 80

43. Intruder (2021)
Episode: Episode #1.3 (2021)

45 min | Drama, Thriller

Bailey makes a breakthrough, but then hits a wall.

Director: Gareth Tunley | Stars: Elaine Cassidy, Tom Meeten, Helen Behan, Sally Lindsay

Votes: 53

44. Kin (2021– )
Episode: Episode 3 (2021)

TV-MA | 50 min | Crime, Drama

The Kinsellas bury one of their own as they prepare for an all-out war against the Cunninghams, Michael and Jimmy set a plan in motion for revenge, and Amanda orders her first hit.

Director: Diarmuid Goggins | Stars: Charlie Cox, Clare Dunne, Aidan Gillen, Emmett J Scanlan

Votes: 362

45. Bad Sisters (2022– )
Episode: The Cold Truth (2022)

TV-MA | 55 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller

Becka is determined to prove Eva wrong; Thomas and Matt wait for news of a breakthrough.

Director: Rebecca Gatward | Stars: Paul Bentall, Claes Bang, Sharon Horgan, Eva Birthistle

Votes: 672

46. The Carol Burnett Show (1967–1978)
Episode: Steve Lawrence (1974)

TV-G | 22 min | Comedy, Family

Highlights of this edition with guest Steve Lawrence include: a group of PTA mothers argue as to who's the best singer at a PTA audition; Harry Houdini's daughter (Carol) has some trouble ... See full summary »

Director: Dave Powers | Stars: Carol Burnett, Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence, Lyle Waggoner

Votes: 32

47. The Booth at the End (2011–2012)
Episode: Start. See What Happens (2010)

23 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A mysterious man offers to solve people's problems if they do a task for him. Some tasks aren't too bad - some are horrific.

Director: Jessica Landaw | Stars: Xander Berkeley, Matt Boren, Sarah Clarke, Jack Conley

Votes: 166

48. Kin (2021– )
Episode: Episode #2.3 (2023)

TV-MA | 49 min | Crime, Drama

Family loyalties are tested as Bren's influence seeps into each member of the Kinsella clan. Jimmy begins to take a side, as Michael's patience reaches a boiling point. Viking is told uncomfortable news.

Directors: Joe Lawlor, Christine Molloy | Stars: Charlie Cox, Clare Dunne, Aidan Gillen, Emmett J Scanlan

Votes: 203

49. Kin (2021– )
Episode: Episode #2.7 (2023)

TV-MA | 49 min | Crime, Drama

The chaos created by Bren reaches its peak and the Kinsellas are driven to mayhem, while Michael and Viking both suffer heartbreak, and Frank seeks a change.

Director: Felix Thompson | Stars: Charlie Cox, Clare Dunne, Aidan Gillen, Emmett J Scanlan

Votes: 192

50. Kin (2021– )
Episode: Episode #2.8 (2023)

TV-MA | 48 min | Crime, Drama

Conflict is put into overdrive as Michael and Jimmy find common ground. Amanda proposes an unexpected partnership for mutual survival. Anthony and Nikita try to come to terms with the consequences of their actions.

Director: Felix Thompson | Stars: Charlie Cox, Clare Dunne, Aidan Gillen, Emmett J Scanlan

Votes: 305