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

1. See How They Run (2022)

PG-13 | 98 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

In the West End of 1950s London, plans for a movie version of a smash-hit play come to an abrupt halt after a pivotal member of the crew is murdered.

Director: Tom George | Stars: Kieran Hodgson, Pearl Chanda, Gregory Cox, Harris Dickinson

Votes: 64,146

2. Leave Her to Heaven (1945)

Passed | 110 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance

A writer falls in love with a young socialite and they're soon married, but her obsessive love for him threatens to be the undoing of them both as well as everyone around them.

Director: John M. Stahl | Stars: Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain, Vincent Price

Votes: 14,770

3. The Girl King (2015)

Not Rated | 106 min | Biography, Drama, History

THE GIRL KING paints a portrait of the brilliant, extravagant Kristina of Sweden, queen from age six, who fights the conservative forces that are against her ideas to modernize Sweden and who have no tolerance for her awakening sexuality.

Director: Mika Kaurismäki | Stars: Malin Buska, Sarah Gadon, Michael Nyqvist, Lucas Bryant

Votes: 4,467

4. Madame Bovary (1991)

PG-13 | 143 min | Drama, Romance

In nineteenth-century France, the romantic daughter of a country squire marries a dull country doctor. To escape boredom, she throws herself into love affairs with a suave local landowner and a law student, and runs up ruinous debts.

Director: Claude Chabrol | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Jean-François Balmer, Christophe Malavoy, Jean Yanne

Votes: 4,481 | Gross: $1.94M

5. The Second Woman (1950)

Approved | 91 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery

In flashback from a 'Rebecca'-style beginning: Ellen Foster, visiting her aunt on the California coast, meets neighbor Jeff Cohalan and his ultramodern clifftop house.

Director: James V. Kern | Stars: Robert Young, Betsy Drake, John Sutton, Florence Bates

Votes: 1,427

6. Thérèse (2012)

110 min | Drama

An unhappily married woman struggles to break free from social pressures.

Director: Claude Miller | Stars: Audrey Tautou, Gilles Lellouche, Anaïs Demoustier, Catherine Arditi

Votes: 3,898

7. GasLand (2010)

Not Rated | 107 min | Documentary

An exploration of the fracking petroleum extraction industry and the serious environmental consequences involved.

Director: Josh Fox | Stars: Josh Fox, Dick Cheney, Pete Seeger, Richard Nixon

Votes: 11,104 | Gross: $0.03M

8. 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: 823

9. Death in Small Doses (1995 TV Movie)

88 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

One night, Nancy Lyon awakes in pain and dies shortly after--poisoned with arsenic. Her family immediately suspects her husband Richard, who left her temporarily the year before because of ... See full summary »

Director: Sondra Locke | Stars: Richard Thomas, Shawn Elliott, Tess Harper, Glynnis O'Connor

Votes: 406

10. Pink String and Sealing Wax (1945)

Not Rated | 89 min | Drama, Thriller

A drunken, abusive tavern-keeper's adulterous wife uses the backward son of a rigid, puritanical pharmacist who makes his entire family miserable.

Director: Robert Hamer | Stars: Mervyn Johns, Mary Merrall, Gordon Jackson, Jean Ireland

Votes: 685

11. Wife, Mother, Murderer (1991 TV Movie)

PG-13 | 96 min | Drama

The life of Audrey Marie Hilley, who, in order to start a new life, took drastic action.

Director: Mel Damski | Stars: Judith Light, David Ogden Stiers, Kellie Overbey, David Dukes

Votes: 470

12. Ivan the Terrible (2014 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 52 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama

Orphaned in his childhood and treated abusively by higher-ranking Boyars, Tzar Ivan was a mercurial ruler who committed his first murder at the age of 13 and was feared for his random acts ... See full summary »

Director: Peter Moers | Stars: Erik Schäffler, Axel Petermann, Heidi Kastner, Andreas Kappeler

Votes: 290

13. Deadly Women (2005)

Documentary, Crime

A docu-series all about how women become murderers either by choice, mentality, influence or upbringing. Enthralling and enticing to all interested in crime, murder and mysteries. This ... See full summary »

Stars: Marsha Crenshaw, Candice DeLong, Janis Amatuzio, Georgina Anderson

Votes: 285

14. The Poisoning Angel (2016)

100 min | Biography, Drama, History

A serial killer strikes fear into the lives of residents of a quiet French community during the early 19th century.

Director: Stéphanie Pillonca | Stars: Déborah François, Benjamin Biolay, Jonathan Zaccaï, Catherine Mouchet

Votes: 228

15. Where the Truth Lies (1962)

83 min | Thriller

François is a vet surgeon on the Noirmoutier island. He is married to Catherine. One day, he is called by a mysterious attractive woman, Myriam, whose leopard is sick. They become lovers. ... See full summary »

Director: Henri Decoin | Stars: Juliette Gréco, Liselotte Pulver, Jean-Marc Bory, Georges Chamarat

Votes: 120

16. The Burning Court (1962)

110 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

A group of people visit a weird old man who is a student of the black arts. The man lives in an ancient, cursed castle. Soon people in the group start being killed off.

Director: Julien Duvivier | Stars: Nadja Tiller, Jean-Claude Brialy, Perrette Pradier, Edith Scob

Votes: 418

17. Crime Is Our Business (2008)

109 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Prudence Beresford is investigating another murder. Her aunt had witnessed it, but no body was found, and nobody trusted her word. Nobody, except Prudence, of course!

Director: Pascal Thomas | Stars: Catherine Frot, André Dussollier, Claude Rich, Chiara Mastroianni

Votes: 1,190

18. Anne & Alet (2013)

74 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime

A docudrama about the sisters Anne & Alet who killed several women with poison in the late 18th century. They were finally caught and judged to death by beheading.

Director: Stephan A. Hergel | Stars: Anne Windsland, Rikke Lydersen Simonsen, Helge Jordal, Cecilie F. Johnsen

Votes: 72

19. The Late Edwina Black (1964 TV Movie)

60 min | Crime, Drama

Edwina Black has died from arsenic poisoning, and Inspector Martin is determined to figure out who did it.

Stars: Ethel Gabriel, John Gray, Ron Haddrick, Anne Haddy

20. L'homme au parapluie (1956 TV Movie)

113 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

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Director: Claude Loursais | Stars: Gabrielle Fontan, Christiane Lénier, Pierre Mondy, Gérard Oury

21. L'homme au parapluie (1961 TV Movie)

Drama, Mystery, Thriller

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Director: Guy Lessertisseur | Stars: Pierre Destailles, Claire Guibert, Héléna Manson, Jean Topart

22. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode: Invitation to an Accident (1959)

TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery

A scaffold falls on a new bride, after her husband accuses her of rendezvousing with an old flame. Another former suitor suspects the husband faked the accident, and urges her to cut off ... See full summary »

Director: Don Taylor | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Gary Merrill, Joanna Moore, Alan Hewitt

Votes: 438

23. CSI: NY (2004–2013)
Episode: City of the Dolls (2005)

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

A teenage boy stumbles upon a dead body in a shop full of dolls. The man was the owner of the doll hospital. The room shows signs of a great struggle with dolls scattered all over the floor... See full summary »

Director: Norberto Barba | Stars: Gary Sinise, Melina Kanakaredes, Carmine Giovinazzo, Anna Belknap

Votes: 334

24. Da Vinci's Inquest (1998–2006)
Episode: An Act of God (2000)

44 min | Crime, Mystery, Drama

Da Vinci investigates the death of a young man working for his father's construction company. Shannon and Leary investigate a decomposed body discovered in the back of a stolen truck. Kosmo... See full summary »

Director: Scott Summersgill | Stars: Nicholas Campbell, Suleka Mathew, Gerard Plunkett, Sarah-Jane Redmond

Votes: 28

25. Fallen Angels (1993–1996)
Episode: Fly Paper (1995)

29 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

In 1929, a famed shamus known as the Continental Op is on the trail of a well-known socialite, who ran away with a notorious gangster and is now missing. The case takes the Continental Op to blackmail and murder.

Director: Tim Hunter | Stars: Christopher Lloyd, Laura San Giacomo, Peter Berg, Michael Rooker

Votes: 73

26. The Flying Doctors (1986–1992)
Episode: Sapphire (1987)

Drama

A cushy 3-day clinic run at the luxurious Manning property seems like Chris and Kate's idea of heaven - until it becomes evident that someone is trying to poison the host.

Director: Brendan Maher | Stars: Robert Grubb, Liz Burch, Lenore Smith, Peter O'Brien

Votes: 11

27. In the Heat of the Night (1988–1995)
Episode: A Necessary Evil (1988)

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

Gillespie and Tibb's reluctant investigation of a bigamy case becomes absurd with the accused's half dozen wives, and serious when he is found dead in his cell.

Director: Winrich Kolbe | Stars: Carroll O'Connor, Howard E. Rollins Jr., Alan Autry, Anne-Marie Johnson

Votes: 89

28. Perry Mason (1957–1966)
Episode: The Case of the Fiery Fingers (1958)

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

Louise Gordon believes husband George is having an affair and will not allow him into her room. Only cousin Vicky Braxton and nurse Nora Mae Quincey may see Louise. When Louise dies of arsenic poisoning, Nora Mae is charged with murder.

Director: Arthur Marks | Stars: Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale, William Hopper, William Talman

Votes: 400

29. Perry Mason (1957–1966)
Episode: The Case of the Runaway Corpse (1957)

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

Ed Davenport, on his deathbed, accuses his wife of poisoning him, then he expires. When Tragg arrives to investigate, the corpse has vanished, only to be found later, buried in a slit trench several miles away.

Director: Christian Nyby | Stars: Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale, William Hopper, William Talman

Votes: 434

30. Rederiet (1992–2002)
Episode: Vinna eller försvinna (1997)

40 min | Drama

Freja has been taken over by Silver, which immediately initiates staff cuts.

Director: Kjell Sundvall | Stars: Therese Akraka, Sara Alström, Bengt Bauler, Karin Bjurström

Votes: 11

31. Suspense (1949–1954)
Episode: Post Mortem (1949)

Not Rated | 30 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Following the sudden death of her husband, Josie marries Doc Archer, the man named beneficiary of her husband's life insurance policy. Investigator Westcott is suspicious after learning the... See full summary »

Director: Robert Stevens | Stars: Sidney Blackmer, Peggy Conklin, Richard Coogan, Julian Noa

Votes: 51

32. The Tall Man (1960–1962)
Episode: A Time to Run (1962)

30 min | Western

A meek middle-aged man walks into Garrett's office and demands to be arrested for robbery and provides a carpetbag full of money as evidence. He tells Garrett that he stole the money from a... See full summary »

Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Barry Sullivan, Clu Gulager, John Fiedler, Mark Tapscott

Votes: 10

33. P.J. (1997–2009)
Episode: Côté jardin (2004)

49 min | Crime, Thriller

A homeless man called Jean-Jean who sleeps in the public park wanted to stop a man who was destroying a children's playgrounds with an ax and has been wounded.Agathe and Franck think that ... See full summary »

Director: Gérard Vergez | Stars: Bruno Wolkowitch, Charles Schneider, Marc Betton, Valérie Bagnou-Beido

Votes: 5

34. Secrets of the Dead (2000– )
Episode: Death at Jamestown (2001)

TV-PG | Documentary, History, War

Scientists investigate what led to the demise of the British colony of Jamestown, VA around 1610. Were the starvation and outbreaks they faced caused by a string of unfortunate events or did Spain have something to do with it as well?

Director: Alexander Marengo | Star: Liev Schreiber

Votes: 20

35. Numb3rs (2005–2010)
Episode: Atomic No. 33 (2008)

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

Larry finds himself fighting his own bigotry when he assists Don and Charlie's investigation into the poisoning of cult members.

Director: Leslie Libman | Stars: Rob Morrow, David Krumholtz, Judd Hirsch, Alimi Ballard

Votes: 249

36. Women Behind Bars (2008– )
Episode: Roena Ashing & Connie Keel (2008)

TV-14 | 42 min | Documentary

A cabdriver and her four accomplices kill a handicapped man and set fire to his home after he accuses her of stealing $500. A teenager who waited in the car while her husband and his cousin robbed a liquor store and killed the store clerk.

Director: Richard Swindell | Stars: Kay Bess, Roena Ashing, Loretta Ralph, Jeff Connor

Votes: 16

37. Elizabeth R (1971)
Episode: The Lion's Cub (1971)

TV-14 | 85 min | Biography, Drama, History

The fragile succession heralds dangerous times for the young Princess Elizabeth. Having narrowly avoided implication in Sir Thomas Seymour's attempted abduction of her sickly half-brother, ... See full summary »

Director: Claude Whatham | Stars: Glenda Jackson, Daphne Slater, Ronald Hines, Rosalie Crutchley

Votes: 126

38. Deadly Women (2005)
Episode: Obsession (2005)

TV-PG | 42 min | Documentary, Crime

Deadly Women looks at four cases of women murderers driven by obsession: Elizabeth Báthory a Hungarian noble who craved blood for beauty, Vera Renczi a Romanian woman who poisoned men with ... See full summary »

Director: Chris Thorburn | Stars: Marsha Crenshaw, Georgina Anderson, Anika Contos, Christina Craig

Votes: 25

39. Deadly Women (2005)
Episode: Revenge (2005)

TV-PG | 42 min | Documentary, Crime

Deadly Women examines cases of women driven to murder by revenge including Katherine Knight who kills and skins her husband in Australia, Blanche Taylor Moore who killed her loved ones with... See full summary »

Director: Chris Thorburn | Stars: Marsha Crenshaw, Patsy Clayton-Fry, Garry Baker, Richie Cotton

Votes: 13

40. Deadly Women (2008– )
Episode: Predators (2008)

TV-14 | 45 min | Documentary, Crime

Insatiable greed turns a young woman into a systematic killer, the friendly lady next door has a backyard full of bodies and a lone woman stalks random victims on the highways of Florida.

Director: John Mavety | Stars: Janis Amatuzio, Dawn Botkins, John Cabrera, Merle Cannonball

Votes: 35

41. WWE Raw (1993– )
Episode: WWE ThunderDome: WWE Hell in a Cell 2020 Fallout (2020)

TV-PG | 127 min | Action, Sport

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Stars: Adeel Alam, Cassie Arneill, Charly Arnolt, C.J. Perry Barnyashev

Votes: 33

42. Deadly Women (2008– )
Episode: Dark Secrets (2008)

TV-14 | 45 min | Documentary, Crime

Some secrets can turn women into killers. A mother conceals her crimes for decades in her ruthless pursuit of profit, a woman resorts to murder to hide a scandalous secret and a nurse preys upon the most-vulnerable of patients.

Director: John Mavety | Stars: Janis Amatuzio, Ted Chamberlain, Candice DeLong, Vincent Di Maio

Votes: 36

43. Deadly Women (2008– )
Episode: Fatal Attraction (2008)

TV-14 | 45 min | Documentary, Crime

Sometimes lust can become lethal for a woman. A troubled woman uses poison to get her way, a mother's infatuation turns deadly for her children and passion twists two teens into cold-hearted killers.

Director: John Mavety | Stars: Jane Edwina Seymour, Janis Amatuzio, John Stark Bellamy II, Michael Bennett

Votes: 38

44. Murdoch Mysteries (2008– )
Episode: Let Us Ask the Maiden (2009)

TV-PG | 48 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

When a young Jewish man dies suddenly during prayers, Dr. Ogden suspects arsenic poisoning and concludes that others may be falling victim to a poisoner.

Director: Harvey Crossland | Stars: Yannick Bisson, Helene Joy, Thomas Craig, Jonny Harris

Votes: 321

45. Murder, Mystery and My Family (2018– )
Episode: Maybrick (2021)

Documentary, Crime, History

Sasha and Jeremy take another look at the case that they examined in the first episode of series four. A young American woman was executed in 1889 for killing her husband, a wealthy Liverpool cotton broker, with arsenic.

46. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000–2015)
Episode: House of Hoarders (2010)

TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Nick accidentally stumbles upon a badly decomposing dead body in the home of a mother with a severe hoarding disorder, but that is only the first of a number of grisly surprises the team finds in the house.

Director: Alec Smight | Stars: Laurence Fishburne, Marg Helgenberger, George Eads, Jorja Fox

Votes: 713

47. Boardwalk Empire (2010–2014)
Episode: Paris Green (2010)

TV-MA | 56 min | Crime, Drama

Van Alland remains suspicious of Sebso, the dying Commodore seeks a rapprochements with illegitimate son Jimmy, and Margaret leaves after a domestic argument with Nucky.

Director: Allen Coulter | Stars: Steve Buscemi, Michael Pitt, Kelly Macdonald, Michael Shannon

Votes: 2,185

48. Inspector Lewis (2006–2015)
Episode: The Gift of Promise (2011)

TV-PG | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

When a retired MI5 official writes her best-selling memoirs, a chapter in her book about an unsolved IRA cold case causes consternation and ultimately several murders.

Director: Metin Hüseyin | Stars: Matt Orton, Cherie Lunghi, Lucy Boynton, David Westhead

Votes: 615

49. Murdoch Mysteries (2008– )
Episode: Buffalo Shuffle (2011)

TV-PG | 48 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Ignoring a puzzling break-in at Station 4, Murdoch travels to Buffalo to help Dr. Ogden solve the suspicious death of a young cancer patient at a children's hospital.

Director: Yannick Bisson | Stars: Yannick Bisson, Helene Joy, Thomas Craig, Jonny Harris

Votes: 333

50. Femme Fatales (2011–2012)
Episode: The Clinic (2011)

TV-MA | 30 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Given only three months to live, an unsuspecting man is persuaded by his doctor and girlfriend to seek experimental treatment at a clinic in Mexico.

Director: Michael Hurst | Stars: Daniel Bess, Stacy Stas Hurst, Robin Sydney, Tyson Turrou

Votes: 101