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1. 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: 427,682 | Gross: $3.20M

2. Reckless (1935)

Not Rated | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical

Wealthy Bob Harrison buys all the seats in the theatre to watch Mona Leslie's musical by himself. He loves her, her agent Ned Riley loves her. Conflict ensues.

Director: Victor Fleming | Stars: Jean Harlow, William Powell, Franchot Tone, May Robson

Votes: 1,509

3. 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: 13,440

4. 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: 831

5. Pursued (1947)

Passed | 101 min | Western

A boy haunted by nightmares about the night his entire family was murdered is brought up by a neighboring family in the 1880s. He falls for his lovely adoptive sister but his nasty adoptive brother and mysterious uncle want him dead.

Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Teresa Wright, Robert Mitchum, Judith Anderson, Dean Jagger

Votes: 3,838

6. Cast a Dark Shadow (1955)

Approved | 82 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller

Edward "Teddy" Bare is a delusional psychotic with a lust for wealth, older women and murder. Having committed what he thinks is the perfect murder of his elderly wife; Teddy sets his sights on new targets when her fortune goes elsewhere.

Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Margaret Lockwood, Kay Walsh, Kathleen Harrison

Votes: 3,138

7. The Phenix City Story (1955)

Passed | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A crime-busting lawyer and his initially reluctant attorney father take on the forces that run gambling and prostitution in their small Southern town.

Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: John McIntire, Richard Kiley, Kathryn Grant, Edward Andrews

Votes: 3,262

8. 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: 1,364

9. Edge of Eternity (1959)

Approved | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

In the 1950s, Arizona Deputy Sheriff Les Martin is pressured by his community to solve a string of mysterious murders around a mining ghost town in the Grand Canyon.

Director: Don Siegel | Stars: Cornel Wilde, Victoria Shaw, Mickey Shaughnessy, Edgar Buchanan

Votes: 1,132

10. Boomerang! (1947)

Passed | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

The true story of a prosecutor's fight to prove the innocence of a man accused of a notorious murder.

Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: Dana Andrews, Jane Wyatt, Lee J. Cobb, Cara Williams

Votes: 5,067

11. 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: 5,587

12. Warning Shot (1966)

Not Rated | 100 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

During a stakeout, an L.A. cop kills a doctor who presumably pulled a gun but the coroner's inquest finds no gun, forcing the cop to look for it to clear his name.

Director: Buzz Kulik | Stars: David Janssen, Ed Begley, Keenan Wynn, Sam Wanamaker

Votes: 1,023

13. 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: 1,543

14. Jack the Ripper (1959)

Not Rated | 84 min | Crime, Drama, History

A serial killer is murdering women in the Whitechapel district of London. An American policeman is brought in to help Scotland Yard solve the case.

Directors: Robert S. Baker, Monty Berman | Stars: Lee Patterson, Eddie Byrne, Betty McDowall, Ewen Solon

Votes: 967

15. Double Indemnity (1973 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 74 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A scheming wife lures an insurance investigator into helping murder her husband and then declare it an accident. The investigator's boss, not knowing his man is involved in it, suspects murder and sets out to prove it.

Director: Jack Smight | Stars: Richard Crenna, Lee J. Cobb, Robert Webber, Samantha Eggar

Votes: 616

16. The Great Flamarion (1945)

Approved | 78 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Part of an entertainment act, a beautiful but unscrupulous female performer manipulates all the men in her life in order to achieve her aims.

Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: Erich von Stroheim, Mary Beth Hughes, Dan Duryea, Steve Barclay

Votes: 1,460

17. Olivia (1951)

88 min | Comedy, Drama

Late nineteenth century in a finishing school for young girls near in France, the principal, the fascinating Miss Julie, sows confusion in the heart of the newcomer, Olivia.

Director: Jacqueline Audry | Stars: Edwige Feuillère, Simone Simon, Marie-Claire Olivia, Yvonne de Bray

Votes: 734 | Gross: $0.01M

18. My Forbidden Past (1951)

Passed | 70 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Barbara Beaurevel lives with her aunt and cousin in New Orleans in the late 1800s. In love with Mark Lucas, a research doctor at Tulane University, her plans to marry him are thwarted. ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Ava Gardner, Melvyn Douglas, Lucile Watson

Votes: 1,161

19. 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: 1,463

20. A Model Daughter: The Killing of Caroline Byrne (2009 TV Movie)

94 min | Crime, Drama, History

A grieving father embarks on a quest for justice in this Australian drama based on true events. When a model dies after falling from a clifftop, was it suicide or murder?

Director: Tony Tilse | Stars: Garry McDonald, David Lyons, Cariba Heine, Tiriel Mora

Votes: 532

21. The Oklahoman (1957)

Approved | 80 min | Western

A doctor stops in a small Southwestern town to bury his wife. He decides to stay there and start a practice, but soon runs into violent cattle ranchers.

Director: Francis D. Lyon | Stars: Joel McCrea, Barbara Hale, Brad Dexter, Gloria Talbott

Votes: 647

22. Heat Wave (1954)

68 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

An American writer living in England gets entangled in a scheme by a beautiful blonde to murder her rich husband.

Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Alex Nicol, Hillary Brooke, Sidney James, Susan Stephen

Votes: 811

23. They Were Sisters (1945)

115 min | Drama

The story of three sisters and the men they marry. One is happily married but childless; the second promiscuously escapes an unhappy, loveless marriage; the third is tortured by the mental cruelties inflicted by a domineering husband.

Director: Arthur Crabtree | Stars: Phyllis Calvert, James Mason, Hugh Sinclair, Anne Crawford

Votes: 342

24. Jungle Woman (1944)

Approved | 61 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Paula the ape woman (Acquanetta) is alive and well, and running around a creepy old sanitarium run by the kindly Dr. Fletcher (J. Carrol Naish), also reverting to her true gorilla form every once in a while to kill somebody.

Director: Reginald Le Borg | Stars: Evelyn Ankers, J. Carrol Naish, Samuel S. Hinds, Lois Collier

Votes: 548

25. If Winter Comes (1947)

Approved | 97 min | Drama

Laurie Anderson reflects on her relationship with her beloved terrier Lolabelle.

Director: Victor Saville | Stars: Walter Pidgeon, Deborah Kerr, Angela Lansbury, Binnie Barnes

Votes: 785

26. The Body in the Bag (2022 TV Movie)

67 min | Documentary

Documentary examining one of the most baffling unexplained deaths of recent years. In August 2010, Gareth Williams, a GCHQ employee on a 3-year secondment to MI6, was found dead inside a padlocked bag in the bath of his London flat.

Director: David O'Neill | Stars: Sule Rimi, Albert Coverdale, William Sebag-Montefiore, Norman Baker

Votes: 26

27. I Thank a Fool (1962)

Not Rated | 100 min | Crime, Drama

After prosecuting a doctor for mercy killing, a district-attorney hires the same doctor to care for his mentally ill wife.

Director: Robert Stevens | Stars: Susan Hayward, Peter Finch, Diane Cilento, Cyril Cusack

Votes: 412

28. Homicide (1949)

Approved | 77 min | Crime, Drama

Detective Landers (Robert Douglas), of the Los Angeles Homicide Bureau, suspects murder when the body of a transient ranch hand is found in a sleazy Los Angeles hotel. Unable to be assigned... See full summary »

Director: Felix Jacoves | Stars: Robert Douglas, Helen Westcott, Robert Alda, Monte Blue

Votes: 318

29. Mystery House (1938)

Approved | 56 min | Adventure, Crime, Mystery

When a prominent banker is murdered while on a hunting trip, the dead man's daughter, Gwen Kingery (Anne Nagel), calls in private eye Lance O'Leary (Dick Purcell) to investigate.

Director: Noel M. Smith | Stars: Dick Purcell, Ann Sheridan, Anne Nagel, William Hopper

Votes: 636

30. Sam Cooke: Legend (2003 TV Movie)

67 min | Biography, Drama, Music

The life and tragic death of popular R&B singer Sam Cooke, who topped the music charts in the US during the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Directors: Carl Franklin, Mary Wharton | Stars: Jeffrey Wright, Sam Cooke, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles

Votes: 60

31. Black Orchid (1953)

Not Rated | 58 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A doctor's ex-wife dies of nicotine poison.

Director: Charles Saunders | Stars: Ronald Howard, Olga Edwardes, John Bentley, Mary Laura Wood

Votes: 248

32. Aka Albert Walker (2002 TV Movie)

90 min | Thriller

After killing his English partner, a Canadian businessman (Scarfe) assumes his identity. Things begin to fall apart for him when the murdered man's body is found.

Director: Harry Hook | Stars: John Gordon Sinclair, Alan Scarfe, Sarah Manninen, Lesley Dunlop

Votes: 101

33. Expensive Women (1931)

Passed | 60 min | Drama

"Expensive Women" is a 1931 Pre-Code talking film drama directed by silent-film veteran Hobart Henley and stars Dolores Costello. It was Costello's final film as a leading lady and star for... See full summary »

Director: Hobart Henley | Stars: Dolores Costello, H.B. Warner, Warren William, Anthony Bushell

Votes: 278

34. 26 Men (1957–1959)
Episode: Terror in Paradise (1959)

26 min | Western

Two saloon girls witness a prominent business man murder his partner. After giving evidence at the coroner's hearing, an agent for the accused tries to bribe them to leave town. When they ... See full summary »

Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Tristram Coffin, Kelo Henderson, Gregg Palmer, I. Stanford Jolley

35. 26 Men (1957–1959)
Episode: Valley of Fear (1957)

26 min | Western

Travis poses as an outlaw in what seems to be a very peaceful valley to try to find the reason behind the disappearance of a U.S. Marshal.

Director: Reg Browne | Stars: Tristram Coffin, Kelo Henderson, William Forrest, Jim Canino

Votes: 6

36. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode: Murder Me Twice (1958)

TV-14 | Drama, Mystery

A woman who's been hypnotized at a house party picks up a pair of shears and stabs her husband in the back, apparently influenced by the spirit of a woman who committed the same crime over a hundred years before.

Director: David Swift | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Phyllis Thaxter, Tom Helmore, Alan Marshal

Votes: 519

37. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode: The Kind Waitress (1959)

TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery

Thelma Tompkins is a waitress in a hotel restaurant. She's a good waitress and has always been kind to old Mrs. Mannerheim who eats in the restaurant every evening. Thelma is shocked when ... See full summary »

Director: Paul Henreid | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Rick Jason, Olive Deering, Celia Lovsky

Votes: 527

38. Blue Murder (2001–2004)
Episode: All Saints (2001)

Drama, Crime

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Director: Larry A. McLean | Stars: Maria del Mar, Joel Keller, Jeremy Ratchford, Mimi Kuzyk

39. Perry Mason (1957–1966)
Episode: The Case of the Perjured Parrot (1958)

TV-PG | 52 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The only witness to a rich man's murder is his parrot, who keeps repeating the suspect's name. But in court, everyone is surprised at what the bird says next. Perry does his magic at an informal coroner's Inquest in a rural area.

Director: William D. Russell | Stars: Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale, William Hopper, William Talman

Votes: 386

40. Quincy M.E. (1976–1983)
Episode: A Star Is Dead (1976)

TV-PG | 75 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Actress, Roberta Rhodes, is found dead in her bedroom. The police think it was probably suicide, but a gossip-monger tells Quincy she died at the hand of a US Congressman, who's an old friend of his.

Director: Noel Black | Stars: Jack Klugman, Lynnette Mettey, Garry Walberg, Val Bisoglio

Votes: 181

41. Thriller (1960–1962)
Episode: Rose's Last Summer (1960)

TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

An aging actress is mysteriously found dead in a family's garden, and they may know more about her death than they will admit.

Director: Arthur Hiller | Stars: Boris Karloff, Mary Astor, Lin McCarthy, Jack Livesey

Votes: 227

42. The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady (1984– )
Episode: December (1984)

Biography, Drama, Romance

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Stars: Denyse Alexander, Isabelle Amyes, Terence Budd, Elisabeth Choice

43. Masterpiece Theatre: Bleak House (1985)
Episode: Episode #1.2 (1985)

Drama, Crime

Tulkinghorn inquires into the death of Nemo, whose handwriting was recognized by Lady Dedlock. Later, Gumpy expresses his feelings for Esther, to her discomfort. Finally, the wheels of justice at the Chancery are displayed.

Director: Ross Devenish | Stars: Diana Rigg, Denholm Elliott, Donald Sumpter, Christopher Whitehouse

Votes: 14

44. Deadliest Mums & Dads (2021– )
Episode: The Honour Killing (2021)

44 min | Documentary, Crime

When missing teenager Shafilea Ahmed's dismembered and decomposed remains are found in Cumbria, her parents seem devastated. Years later, police unravel the truth: of abuse, family honour and murder.

Director: Simon Gilchrist | Stars: Milo Twomey, Yulande Sukul

Votes: 9

45. Cracked (2013–2014)
Episode: Inquest (2013)

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

The coroner's inquest into the school bus incident where Aidan shot the perpetrator Dominik Laszlo dead, Laszlo's knife in the process which in turn killed student Jason Beckmire, is ... See full summary »

Director: Steve DiMarco | Stars: David Sutcliffe, Stefanie von Pfetten, Luisa d'Oliveira, Dayo Ade

Votes: 52

46. The Missing Evidence (2014)
Episode: Jack the Ripper (2014)

TV-14 | 45 min | Documentary

During a three-month period in 1888, a knife-wielding serial killer murdered six women on the streets of Whitechapel. Their throats were cut and their bodies horribly mutilated. He was ... See full summary »

Directors: Martin Pupp, Sam Taplin | Stars: Steven Mackintosh, Andy Griffiths, Christer Holmgren, Arthur Ingram

Votes: 61