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1. M (1931)
Passed | 99 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
When the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut, Otto Wernicke
Votes: 168,675 | Gross: $0.03M
2. The Pledge (I) (2001)
R | 124 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A retiring police detective pledges to catch the killer of a young child.
Director: Sean Penn | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Benicio Del Toro, Patricia Clarkson, Beau Daniels
Votes: 67,836 | Gross: $19.72M
3. Unit One (2000–2004)
75 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A mobile task force is dispatched across Denmark to help local police solve tough cases.
Stars: Charlotte Fich, Mads Mikkelsen, Lars Brygmann, Waage Sandø
Votes: 4,129
4. Child 44 (2015)
R | 137 min | Crime, Drama, History
A disgraced member of the Russian military police investigates a series of child murders during the Stalin-era Soviet Union.
Director: Daniel Espinosa | Stars: Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman, Noomi Rapace, Joel Kinnaman
Votes: 75,856 | Gross: $1.21M
5. Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996)
Not Rated | 150 min | Documentary, Crime
A horrific triple child murder leads to an indictment and trial of three nonconformist boys based on questionable evidence.
Directors: Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky | Stars: Tony Brooks, Diana Davis, Terry Wood, Dick Clay
Votes: 18,169
6. See No Evil: The Moors Murders (2006)
180 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A vivid drama which documents the notorious Moors murderers; Ian Brady and Myra Hindley.
Stars: Joanne Froggatt, Maxine Peake, Sean Harris, Matthew McNulty
Votes: 1,584
7. Don't Torture a Duckling (1972)
Not Rated | 105 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
When a southern Italian town is rocked by a string of child murders, the police and two urban outcasts search for the culprit amid scapegoating within the superstitious community.
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Florinda Bolkan, Barbara Bouchet, Tomas Milian, Irene Papas
Votes: 10,719
8. Prime Suspect 3 (1993)
104 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Assigned to a Vice squad, Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison (Dame Helen Mirren) investigates a child murder and discovers a sinister link to the police.
Stars: Helen Mirren, Tom Bell, Karen Tomlin, David Thewlis
Votes: 4,013
9. Bless the Child (2000)
R | 107 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Cody, a little girl abandoned by her mother and raised by her aunt, a nurse, is kidnapped. The girl's guardian, aided by an F.B.I. agent, learn that Cody has supernatural abilities, and the abductees are a Satanic cult willing to do anything to gain them.
Director: Chuck Russell | Stars: Kim Basinger, Jimmy Smits, Rufus Sewell, Holliston Coleman
Votes: 15,405 | Gross: $29.37M
10. The Believers (1987)
R | 114 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Cal Jamison, a police psychologist, is forced to deal with a series of ritualistic murders and a malevolent cult.
Director: John Schlesinger | Stars: Martin Sheen, Helen Shaver, Harley Cross, Robert Loggia
Votes: 8,121 | Gross: $18.75M
11. True Crime (1995 Video)
R | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Mary, a precocious high school senior, longs to be a cop. When a classmate dies and the case remains unsolved, Mary becomes obsessed and gets involved in the investigation.
Director: Pat Verducci | Stars: Alicia Silverstone, Kevin Dillon, Bill Nunn, Michael Bowen
Votes: 3,077
12. Small Sacrifices (1989)
159 min | Crime, Drama, History
A peculiar and disturbing case catches the attention of the police when a young mother and her children, all severely injured, show up in a hospital's emergency room.
Stars: Farrah Fawcett, Ryan O'Neal, Gordon Clapp, John Shea
Votes: 1,395
13. The Star Chamber (1983)
R | 109 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Frustrated with a legal system gone haywire, a secret society of judges hires hitmen to snuff out criminals who escape courtroom justice - but one young judge questions the ethics of their vigilante system.
Director: Peter Hyams | Stars: Michael Douglas, Hal Holbrook, Yaphet Kotto, Sharon Gless
Votes: 7,741 | Gross: $5.56M
14. Prime Suspect 5: Errors of Judgement (1996)
100 min | Crime, Mystery, Romance
Superintendent Tennison (Dame Helen Mirren) investigates a seemingly straightforward drug murder that she believes is linked to a smugly smooth crime boss.
Stars: Helen Mirren, John Brobbey, Julia Lane, David O'Hara
Votes: 3,025
15. Blackout (1985 TV Movie)
100 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A police officer suspects that a local husband and father who has recently undergone facial surgery because of injuries received in a car accident is in reality the same man who committed a quadruple murder several years before.
Director: Douglas Hickox | Stars: Richard Widmark, Keith Carradine, Kathleen Quinlan, Michael Beck
Votes: 1,082
16. The Untouchables (1993– )
60 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
In 1930s Chicago, the seemingly invincible crime boss Al Capone is opposed by a team of incorruptible U.S. Treasury Agents, led by the indefatigable Eliot Ness.
Stars: Tom Amandes, Paul Regina, John Newton, David James Elliott
Votes: 477
17. Strange Behavior (1981)
R | 87 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A scientist is experimenting with teenagers and turning them into murderers.
Director: Michael Laughlin | Stars: Michael Murphy, Louise Fletcher, Dan Shor, Fiona Lewis
Votes: 2,413
18. Judgment Day: The John List Story (1993 TV Movie)
96 min | Crime, Drama
The story of the notorious American mass murderer who killed his entire immediate family to hide his personal failures and hid for decades before he was finally arrested.
Director: Bobby Roth | Stars: Robert Blake, Beverly D'Angelo, David Caruso, Melinda Dillon
Votes: 257
19. M (1951)
Not Rated | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
In this Americanization of the 1931 German thriller, both the police and the criminal underworld stalk a mysterious serial killer who preys on little girls.
Director: Joseph Losey | Stars: David Wayne, Howard Da Silva, Martin Gabel, Luther Adler
Votes: 2,370
20. When the Bough Breaks (1994)
R | 105 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Police detectives investigate the apparent serial killing of several children after finding severed hands.
Director: Michael Cohn | Stars: Ally Walker, Martin Sheen, Ron Perlman, Tara Subkoff
Votes: 2,045
21. It Happened in Broad Daylight (1958)
97 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Having doubts about the guilt of the obvious suspect in the murder of an eight year old girl, a police detective decides to investigate the case on his own.
Director: Ladislao Vajda | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Sigfrit Steiner, Siegfried Lowitz, Michel Simon
Votes: 5,592
22. Close Your Eyes (2002)
R | 108 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
A hypnotherapist is caught up in the pursuit of a serial killer.
Director: Nick Willing | Stars: Goran Visnjic, Paddy Considine, Shirley Henderson, Miranda Otto
Votes: 3,239 | Gross: $0.04M
23. Slaughter of the Innocents (1993)
R | 104 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
A seasoned F.B.I. Agent's child-genius son assists him on catching a child-killer, a schizophrenic mohab nut who believes he's been chosen by god to be a new Noah.
Director: James Glickenhaus | Stars: Jan Broberg, Elizabeth Johnson, Jesse Cameron-Glickenhaus, Darlanne Fluegel
Votes: 1,135
24. Evilenko (2003)
Not Rated | 111 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A disgraced communist schoolteacher in Kyiv becomes a brutal, unfeeling serial killer. Based on the crimes of Andrei Chikatilo.
Director: David Grieco | Stars: Malcolm McDowell, Marton Csokas, Ronald Pickup, Ruby Kammer
Votes: 3,545
25. Swoon (1992)
Unrated | 93 min | Crime, Drama
The true story of gay lovers, Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold Jr. Who kidnapped and murdered a child in the early 1920s for kicks. The plot covers the months before the crime, the investigation, trial and final fate of the two men.
Director: Tom Kalin | Stars: Daniel Schlachet, Craig Chester, Ron Vawter, Michael Kirby
Votes: 1,922 | Gross: $0.34M
26. The Cold Light of Day (1996)
101 min | Drama, Thriller
A troubled detective befriends a single woman and her daughter with the intention of using them as bait for a serial killer.
Director: Rudolf van den Berg | Stars: Richard E. Grant, Lynsey Baxter, Perdita Weeks, Simon Cadell
Votes: 1,009
27. Night Sins (1997 TV Movie)
240 min | Drama, Thriller
A female FBI investigator takes over jurisdiction in Dear Lake, a small northern town just as a young boy is abducted. Her investigation leads to a bigger series of abductions and murders ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Allan Ackerman | Stars: Valerie Bertinelli, Harry Hamlin, Karen Sillas, Martin Donovan
Votes: 336
28. Murder in the Badlands (2022)
58 min | Documentary, Crime
Examines the unsolved murders of four women over four decades in Northern Ireland.
Stars: Jason Murphy, Susan McKay
Votes: 117
29. The Atlanta Child Murders (1985)
245 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The city of Atlanta, Georgia, is terrorized by a rash of child murders occurring in its black community. When a black photographer is arrested for the crimes, controversy erupts over ... See full summary »
Stars: Jason Robards, James Earl Jones, Rip Torn, Morgan Freeman
Votes: 487
30. El niño de barro (2007)
103 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Police try to hunt down a serial killer in 1912 Buenos Aires.
Director: Jorge Algora | Stars: Maribel Verdú, Daniel Freire, César Bordón, Chete Lera
Votes: 783
31. Boca (1994)
R | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An enthusiastic American journalist goes to Brazil as the Carnival starts to investigate mass executions of street kids. She meets a savage crime boss called Boca who seemingly wants to help the children and falls for his brutal charm.
Directors: Walter Avancini, Zalman King | Stars: Rae Dawn Chong, Martin Kemp, Tarcísio Meira, Martin Sheen
Votes: 277
32. Mannen på balkongen (1993)
91 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A serial-killer attacks and murders young girls in the public parks of Stockholm. The police has trouble finding any evidence to find the killer. But when a newsstand is robbed in one of ... See full summary »
Director: Daniel Alfredson | Stars: Gösta Ekman, Kjell Bergqvist, Rolf Lassgård, Niklas Hjulström
Votes: 1,348
33. Class Trip (1998)
96 min | Drama, Mystery
A schoolboy Nicholas always worries about something. When he goes on a school skiing trip, all his visions and nightmares take him over.
Director: Claude Miller | Stars: Clément van den Bergh, Emmanuelle Bercot, Yves Verhoeven, Lokman Nalcakan
Votes: 1,590
34. Who Killed Atlanta's Children? (2000 TV Movie)
105 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
In the early 1980s, there was someone killing the children of Atlanta. Eventually a single man was caught and convicted in one of the largest manhunts in our nation's history. Ever since, ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Robert Carner | Stars: Jim Belushi, Gregory Hines, Sean McCann, Shawn Doyle
Votes: 594
35. In the Company of Darkness (1993 TV Movie)
94 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
After young policewoman Gina Pulasky succeeds in handling a domestic fight particularly well, she's added to a small team of detectives assigned to a case of gruesome child killings. She ... See full summary »
Director: David Anspaugh | Stars: Helen Hunt, Steven Weber, Jeff Fahey, Juan Ramírez
Votes: 548
36. The Haunting of Lisa (1996 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy
A young girl experiences disturbing visions of a tragedy that took place 30 years earlier, that may be connected to a recent unsolved murder.
Director: Don McBrearty | Stars: Cheryl Ladd, Duncan Regehr, Aemilia Robinson, Don Allison
Votes: 316
37. The Confession of Fred Krueger (2015)
30 min | Short, Horror, Thriller
It is 1973 and the Springwood Police Dept. have just arrested a man they believe to be the notorious child murderer known as the Springwood Slasher.
Director: Nathan Thomas Milliner | Stars: Kevin Roach, Thomas Dunbar, Todd Reynolds, Steve Vessell
Votes: 168
38. Redball (1999)
Not Rated | 91 min | Thriller
Two detectives are assigned to solve a series of grisly murders of children committed by a killer dubbed "Mr. Creep
Director: Jon Hewitt | Stars: Belinda McClory, John Brumpton, Frank Magree, Peter Docker
Votes: 224
39. On the Trail of Blood (1970)
96 min | Crime
Major Kalas (Rudolf Hrusínský) from the Prague criminal intelligence service has been sent to a small town of Dubá in North Bohemia to help with the investigation of the puzzling death of a... See full summary »
Director: Petr Schulhoff | Stars: Rudolf Hrusínský, Hana Brejchová, Jana Vanková, Libuse Holeckova
Votes: 182
40. Es geschah am hellichten Tag (1997 TV Movie)
85 min | Crime, Drama
Several young girls were killed in a rural area. Thus Inspector Matthaei has to travel to the region where it happened and has to search for the killer. When all the people suspect a roamer... See full summary »
Director: Nico Hofmann | Stars: Joachim Król, Barbara Rudnik, Axel Milberg, Judith Thayenthal
Votes: 289
41. Cold as Summer (2002 TV Movie)
88 min | Drama
A female detective investigates the case of a young mother whose infant left behind has died.
Director: Jacques Maillot | Stars: Sarah Grappin, Nathalie Richard, Mika Tard, Eric Bonicatto
Votes: 173
42. Blair Witch Volume 1: Rustin Parr (2000 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Horror
Survival horror action adventure set in 1941 about Elspeth "Doc" Holliday and The Stranger from Nocturne (1999) investigating if the mythical Blair Witch truly caused villager Rustin Parr to murder a group of Burkittsville children.
Director: Joe Wampole | Stars: Candace Evans, Lynn Mathis, Sean Hennigan, Dameon Clarke
Votes: 105
44. Eyes of the Detective (2001 TV Movie)
50 min | Documentary, Crime
Albert Kirby, the retired Detective Superintendent who headed the investigation into the murder of James Bulger in 1993, reflects on his involvement with the case.
Director: Teresa Hunt | Stars: Albert Kirby, Alan Williams, Denise Fergus, Sue Kirby
Votes: 19
45.
Trial & Retribution (1997–2009)
Episode:
Trial & Retribution I - Part One
(1997)
TV-14 | 101 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A drama of a child murder from the discovery of the crime to police investigation, then through the ensuing trial.
Director: Aisling Walsh | Stars: David Hayman, Kate Buffery, John Abbott, Richard Addison
Votes: 284
46.
Beck (1997– )
Episode:
Lockpojken
(1997)
TV-14 | 94 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A man working at a garbage incinerator discovers the body of a dead man burned to ashes in the oven. Police detective Martin Beck handles the case. All he knows is that a brutal murder has ... See full summary »
Director: Pelle Seth | Stars: Peter Haber, Stina Rautelin, Mikael Persbrandt, Figge Norling
Votes: 1,762
47.
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
48.
Foyle's War (2002–2015)
Episode:
A Lesson in Murder
(2002)
TV-14 | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Foyle investigates the suicide of a pacifist and death threats to the judge who ruled against his conscientious objector status.
Director: David Thacker | Stars: Nicholas Audsley, Madeleine Worrall, Oliver Ford Davies, Ian Peck
Votes: 836
49.
Inspector Morse (1987–2000)
Episode:
Second Time Around
(1991)
TV-14 | 104 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Morse links the killing of a Deputy Assistant Commissioner on the night of his retirement to the 18 year old cold case murder of an 8 year old girl.
Director: Adrian Shergold | Stars: John Thaw, Kevin Whately, Jenny Laird, Oliver Ford Davies
Votes: 900
50.
Crimes That Shook Britain (2008– )
Episode:
James Bulger
(2012)
Documentary, Crime
In 1993, an innocent two-year old boy is abducted from a Liverpool shopping centre and later found dead and mutilated on a railway track. The subsequent investigation will lead to two young boys being jailed for murder.
Stars: Tom Roberts, Asher Baynard, Paul Bergquist, Charlie Cook
Votes: 18