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1. The Stranger (I) (2020)
TV-MA | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The secrets and lies of suburban families are made public by the appearance of a stranger.
Stars: Richard Armitage, Hannah John-Kamen, Siobhan Finneran, Jacob Dudman
Votes: 61,052
2. I Came By (2022)
TV-MA | 110 min | Thriller
Follows a young graffiti artist who discovers a shocking secret that would put him and the ones closest to him in danger.
Director: Babak Anvari | Stars: Antonio Aakeel, Alicia Ambrose-Bayly, Percelle Ascott, Franc Ashman
Votes: 33,386
3. A Study in Terror (1965)
95 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John H. Watson join the hunt for the notorious serial killer, Jack the Ripper.
Director: James Hill | Stars: John Neville, Donald Houston, John Fraser, Anthony Quayle
Votes: 2,482
4. Partners in Crime (2015)
55 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Agatha Christie's crime-fighting duo, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, solve mysteries and search for enemy spies in 1950s Britain.
Stars: Jessica Raine, David Walliams, James Fleet, Matthew Steer
Votes: 2,711
5. Prime Suspect: The Scent of Darkness (1995 TV Movie)
105 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A series of brutal sex murders disturbingly similar to the pattern of Superintendent Jane Tennison's (Dame Helen Mirren's) first major case leads to the awful suggestion that she may have caught the wrong man the first time.
Director: Paul Marcus | Stars: Helen Mirren, Pip Donaghy, Tim Woodward, Stephen Boxer
Votes: 2,669
6. 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: 1,002
7. Murder in Three Acts (1986 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Hercule Poirot attends a dinner party in which one of the guests clutches his throat and suddenly dies. The cause seems to be natural until another party with most of the same guests produces another corpse.
Director: Gary Nelson | Stars: Peter Ustinov, Tony Curtis, Emma Samms, Jonathan Cecil
Votes: 2,275
8. Dead Man's Folly (1986 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
During a murder hunt game at a country house, to which Hercule Poirot is invited as an "expert", a real murder occurs.
Director: Clive Donner | Stars: Peter Ustinov, Jean Stapleton, Constance Cummings, Tim Pigott-Smith
Votes: 2,263
9. Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective (1981 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 120 min | Comedy, Crime, Family
When D. C. Dangerous Davies, not held in high regard by his superiors, is assigned to find a notorious criminal kingpin, he uncovers the details of 15 year old cold case.
Director: Val Guest | Stars: Bernard Cribbins, Bill Maynard, Joss Ackland, Bernard Lee
Votes: 392
10. Lords of London (2014)
R | 90 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A London gangster must confront his ruthless father's past in order to alter the gritty, abusive path that his life is spiraling down after a shakedown goes awry.
Director: Antonio Simoncini | Stars: Glen Murphy, Ray Winstone, Serena Iansiti, Giovanni Capalbo
Votes: 861
11. The Saint's Vacation (1941)
Approved | 61 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
While on vacation, the Saint discovers a much-sought-after music box.
Director: Leslie Fenton | Stars: Hugh Sinclair, Sally Gray, Arthur Macrae, Cecil Parker
Votes: 591
12. The Saint in London (1939)
Passed | 72 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
The Saint returns to London and with the help of an American pickpocket and a beautiful adventuress breaks a counterfeiting ring.
Director: John Paddy Carstairs | Stars: George Sanders, Sally Gray, David Burns, Gordon McLeod
Votes: 995
13. The Saint Meets the Tiger (1941)
Approved | 70 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The last words uttered by by a conscience-stricken crook dying on the Saint's doorstep lead the detective in pursuit of gold smugglers and the master crook known as the Tiger.
Director: Paul L. Stein | Stars: Hugh Sinclair, Jean Gillie, Gordon McLeod, Clifford Evans
Votes: 603
14. Dick Francis: Twice Shy (1989 TV Movie)
Crime, Drama, Mystery
A fool-proof formula for picking winning horses on a computer disc is the Maguffin sought by Cleveland and others.
Director: Deirdre Friel | Stars: Ian McShane, Kate McKenzie, Karl Hayden, Dearbhla Molloy
Votes: 77
15. The Hour of 13 (1952)
Approved | 80 min | Crime, Mystery, Romance
A jewel thief tries to mislead police who suspect that his theft of a valuable emerald is related to the serial murder of 11 policemen.
Director: Harold French | Stars: Peter Lawford, Dawn Addams, Roland Culver, Derek Bond
Votes: 388
16. Marriage License? (1926)
Passed | 80 min | Drama
Wanda Heriot, a Canadian girl, is married to Marcus, an English nobleman whose family, dominated by ancestral traditions, rejects her as an outsider. Through the scheming of Lady Heriot, ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Alma Rubens, Walter McGrail, Richard Walling, Walter Pidgeon
17.
Partners in Crime (1983–1984)
Episode:
The Secret Adversary
(1983)
PG | 115 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
After two old friends accidentally meet and resolve to become investigators for hire, they quickly become embroiled in a missing treaty and a Bolshevik conspiracy.
Director: Tony Wharmby | Stars: James Warwick, Francesca Annis, Gavan O'Herlihy, Alec McCowen
Votes: 511
18.
Alleyn Mysteries (1990–1994)
Episode:
Death at the Bar
(1993)
TV-14 | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
During a display of dart throwing in a Cornish pub a man's hand is impaled by a dart, and he dies shortly afterward from cyanide although no one can explain how.
Director: Michael Winterbottom | Stars: Alan Gilchrist, Paul Brooke, Paul Bigley, Kevin McNally
Votes: 133
19.
Ruth Rendell Mysteries (1987–2000)
Episode:
The Lake of Darkness: Part 1
(1999)
TV-14 | 52 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Quiet accountant Martin wins the lottery, but things take a turn for the worse when he meets Francesca, who is not what she seems.
Director: Bruce MacDonald | Stars: Cal MacAninch, Jerome Flynn, Eric Flynn, Martha Cope
Votes: 87
20.
Ruth Rendell Mysteries (1987–2000)
Episode:
Front Seat
(1997)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When Cecily Branksome retires back to her old home town over her husband's objections she becomes involved with her boorish old boyfriend and a 30 year old murder.
Director: Sandy Johnson | Stars: Janet Suzman, Edward Hardwicke, Joyce Redman, Richard Johnson
Votes: 77
21.
Ruth Rendell Mysteries (1987–2000)
Episode:
The Fallen Curtain
(1999)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Richard Brazier has a mental block about his abduction as an eight year old and is haunted by what may or may not have happened.
Director: Matthew Evans | Stars: Max Brazier, Gregg Prentice, Barbara Ewing, Edna Doré
Votes: 73
22.
Ruth Rendell Mysteries (1987–2000)
Episode:
You Can't Be Too Careful
(1998)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Prim businesswoman Della Galway has a compulsive penchant for double-locking doors but her new roommate is careless about security.
Director: Matthew Evans | Stars: Serena Evans, June Barrie, Jane Hazlegrove, Les Doherty
Votes: 70
23.
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (2001–2007)
Episode:
A Great Deliverance
(2001)
TV-PG | 72 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
After a farmer is found decapitated, aristocratic Detective Inspector Lynley is assigned to the case with a resentful new partner, D.S. Barbara Havers.
Director: Richard Laxton | Stars: Nathaniel Parker, Sharon Small, Anthony Calf, Amanda Ryan
Votes: 593
24.
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (2001–2007)
Episode:
Payment in Blood
(2002)
TV-PG | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
After a playwright changes dialogue in her play just days before its opening, she is found brutally stabbed with other murders to follow.
Director: Kim Flitcroft | Stars: James McAvoy, Naomi Frederick, Ronald Pickup, Yvonne O'Grady
Votes: 486
25.
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (2001–2007)
Episode:
Well Schooled in Murder
(2002)
TV-PG | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When an old school friend contacts Lynley about a missing schoolboy, the inspector soon has to launch a murder inquiry.
Director: Robert Young | Stars: John Sessions, Lisa Stevenson, Curtis Woodruff, Paul Herzberg
Votes: 575
26.
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (2001–2007)
Episode:
For the Sake of Elena
(2002)
TV-PG | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When the deaf daughter of a Cambridge professor is found brutally murdered while jogging, Lynley finds she has led a promiscuous lifestyle.
Director: Richard Laxton | Stars: Samantha Baker, Cherie Lunghi, Nathaniel Parker, Sharon Small
Votes: 430
27.
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (2001–2007)
Episode:
Missing Joseph
(2002)
TV-PG | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Rev. Robin Sage dies after eating a meal prepared by Juliet Spence, an expert herbalist who should know the difference between wild parsnips and deadly hemlock.
Director: Richard Laxton | Stars: Pippa Haywood, Charlotte Salt, Tony Boncza, Joanna Dunn
Votes: 388
28.
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (2001–2007)
Episode:
Deception on His Mind
(2003)
TV-14 | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Sahlah is engaged to a young Pakistani man in an arranged marriage, but he ends up murdered as she is bearing the child of a local white man.
Director: Tim Leandro | Stars: Matthew Wait, Sharon Small, Anjalee Patel, Tanveer Ghani
Votes: 361
29.
Foyle's War (2002–2015)
Episode:
The White Feather
(2002)
TV-14 | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The arrest of a young girl on a sabotage charge brings Foyle into contact with a group of English Nazi sympathizers.
Director: Jeremy Silberston | Stars: Lisa Ellis, Anthony Howell, Charles Dance, Colin Tierney
Votes: 899
30.
The Last Detective (2003–2007)
Episode:
Tricia
(2003)
71 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Dangerous juggles several cases at the same time: a robbery, a reported murder, and a burglary.
Director: Pip Broughton | Stars: Peter Davison, Sean Hughes, Emma Amos, Rob Spendlove
Votes: 136
31.
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (2001–2007)
Episode:
A Suitable Vengeance
(2003)
Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Tommy and Helen go to his family estate for their engagement party, but long-hidden family secrets and a murder in the extended family disrupt the celebration.
Director: Edward Bennett | Stars: Peter Egan, Karl Picton, Gail Kemp, Nathaniel Parker
Votes: 377
32.
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (2001–2007)
Episode:
In the Presence of the Enemy
(2003)
Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
After the love child of a Liberal black MP and a white conservative newspaper editor is kidnapped, they're blackmailed into publishing details of their affair.
Director: Brian Stirner | Stars: James Hazeldine, Ken Bones, Sophie Okonedo, Simon Chandler
Votes: 342
33.
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (2001–2007)
Episode:
A Traitor to Memory
(2004)
Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Lynley is assigned to the hit and run of a woman while attending an anniversary party at his superior officer's house.
Director: Brian Stirner | Stars: Patrick Kennedy, David Calder, Rosalind Jones, Mandy More
Votes: 344
34.
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (2001–2007)
Episode:
In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner
(2004)
Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When the daughter of a retired police officer and a male friend are found beaten to death, Lynley brings in the recently demoted Havers to help.
Director: Sebastian Graham Jones | Stars: Tom Lawrence, Emma Willis, Nathaniel Parker, Sharon Small
Votes: 334
35.
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (2001–2007)
Episode:
A Cry for Justice
(2004)
Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Havers is reinstated as DS and immediately volunteers to go undercover in a case involving a murder made to look like suicide.
Director: Alrick Riley | Stars: Catherine McDonough, Steven Webb, Sharon Small, Al Weaver
Votes: 333
36.
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (2001–2007)
Episode:
The Seed of Cunning
(2005)
Not Rated | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Lynley and Havers investigate the beating death of a doorkeeper at Parliament.
Director: Jeremy Silberston | Stars: James Pearse, Sophie Bould, Glyn Williams, Paul Hickey
Votes: 294
37.
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (2001–2007)
Episode:
Word of God
(2005)
Not Rated | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An illegal Jordanian immigrant is found strangled in a meat locker with a page from the priceless "Golden Koran" is found on his person.
Director: Julian Simpson | Stars: Maggy Sherif, Khalid Laith, Sharon Small, Nathaniel Parker
Votes: 292
38.
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (2001–2007)
Episode:
In Divine Proportion
(2005)
Not Rated | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The unusual shotgun murder of an interior decorator is linked to the rape and subsequent suicide of her sister fifteen years earlier.
Director: Brian Stirner | Stars: Louise Hickson, Sylvestra Le Touzel, Craig Parkinson, Nathaniel Parker
Votes: 380
39.
Marple (2004–2013)
Episode:
By the Pricking of My Thumbs
(2006)
TV-PG | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Miss Marple joins forces with Tommy and Tuppence Beresford to find the murderer of Tommy's Aunt Ada.
Director: Peter Medak | Stars: Geraldine McEwan, Chloe Pennington, Oliver Jordan, Anthony Andrews
Votes: 1,862
40.
The Agatha Christie Hour (1982)
Episode:
The Case of the Discontented Soldier
(1982)
52 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
With the intervention of Mr. Parker Pyne, a retired major finds love and adventure helping a young lady to find a very precious African treasure.
Director: Michael Simpson | Stars: William Gaunt, Angela Easterling, Maurice Denham, Lally Bowers
Votes: 159
41.
The Agatha Christie Hour (1982)
Episode:
The Girl in the Train
(1982)
52 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
George Rowland hides a young girl on a train. She's escaping from her "uncle", an hulking brute who is very possibly a foreign spy. The girl gives to George an odd parcel and she disappears.
Director: Brian Farnham | Stars: Osmund Bullock, Sarah Berger, Ernest Clark, James Grout
Votes: 188
42.
Partners in Crime (1983–1984)
Episode:
Finessing the King
(1983)
TV-PG | 51 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
After seeing a suspicious coded message in the newspaper, Tuppence and Tommy attend a masked ball and find a costumed woman dying from a knife wound.
Director: Christopher Hodson | Stars: Francesca Annis, James Warwick, Benjamin Whitrow, Peter Blythe
Votes: 117
43.
Partners in Crime (1983–1984)
Episode:
The Ambassador's Boots
(1983)
TV-PG | 53 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The new U. S. Ambassador to Britain confides to the Beresfords that on the voyage there someone substituted another travel bag for his, a bag that only contained his boots.
Director: Paul Annett | Stars: Francesca Annis, James Warwick, Jennie Linden, T.P. McKenna
Votes: 121
44.
Partners in Crime (1983–1984)
Episode:
The Clergyman's Daughter
(1983)
TV-PG | 52 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
After a young woman's inherited manor house appears to be haunted, but Tommy and Tuppence try to prove the poltergeist to be corporeal.
Director: Paul Annett | Stars: Francesca Annis, James Warwick, Jane Booker, Reece Dinsdale
Votes: 118
45.
Partners in Crime (1983–1984)
Episode:
The Crackler
(1984)
TV-G | 51 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Scotland Yard recruits the Beresfords to infiltrate an exclusive gambling club and expose the mysterious and ruthless gang of counterfeiters operating there.
Director: Christopher Hodson | Stars: Francesca Annis, James Warwick, Shane Rimmer, Carolle Rousseau
Votes: 105
46.
Partners in Crime (1983–1984)
Episode:
The Sunningdale Mystery
(1983)
TV-PG | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
After a businessman is found dead on a golf course, stabbed through the heart with a hat-pin, the Beresfords try to prove that the accused woman, Doris Evans, is innocent.
Director: Tony Wharmby | Stars: Francesca Annis, James Warwick, Denis Lill, Emily Moore
Votes: 120
47.
Partners in Crime (1983–1984)
Episode:
The Unbreakable Alibi
(1983)
TV-PG | 51 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Monty Jones hires the Beresfords to help him win a bet and break a concocted alibi by beautiful Una Drake, who has agreed to marry him if he can.
Director: Christopher Hodson | Stars: Francesca Annis, James Warwick, Anna Nygh, Reece Dinsdale
Votes: 104
48.
Alleyn Mysteries (1990–1994)
Episode:
A Man Lay Dead
(1993)
TV-14 | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Alleyn cancels his holiday with Troy to investigate a murder connected to a stolen chalice, but he's called when a second murder occurs at uncle's estate.
Director: Sarah Pia Anderson | Stars: Martin Carroll, Michael Feast, Robert Reynolds, Matthew Lloyd Davies
Votes: 173
49.
Alleyn Mysteries (1990–1994)
Episode:
Dead Water
(1994)
TV-14 | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Alleyn's old French teacher, the landlord of an idyllic Scottish island is receiving death threats because she's blocking its development as a health spa.
Director: John Woods | Stars: Ewen Bremner, Jane Lapotaire, Eleanor David, Margaret Tyzack
Votes: 123
50.
Alleyn Mysteries (1990–1994)
Episode:
Hand in Glove
(1994)
TV-14 | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A divorced and disliked man living in a nobleman's estate is found in a sewer ditch after someone rolled a concrete pipe on his head.
Director: Martyn Friend | Stars: William Simons, Dominic Snowdon, Sandy Welch, Barbara Jefford
Votes: 117