Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "death-of-witness"

1. Breaker Morant (1980)

PG | 107 min | Drama, History, War

Three Australian lieutenants are court martialed for executing prisoners as a way of deflecting attention from war crimes committed by their superior officers.

Director: Bruce Beresford | Stars: Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson, John Waters, Bryan Brown

Votes: 14,440 | Gross: $7.14M

2. High Crimes (2002)

PG-13 | 115 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A successful lawyer's husband is arrested for murdering nine villagers in El Salvador in 1988 as a US soldier under a different name. She decides to defend him in military court and find out the truth about what happened.

Director: Carl Franklin | Stars: Jim Caviezel, Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd, Adam Scott

Votes: 48,275 | Gross: $41.54M

3. The Most Beautiful Wife (1970)

108 min | Crime, Drama

A young poor girl receives a marriage proposal from a mafia novice. She's going to refuse, but he's going to insist - at all cost.

Director: Damiano Damiani | Stars: Alessio Orano, Ornella Muti, Tano Cimarosa, Joe Sentieri

Votes: 1,023

4. The Enforcer (1951)

Approved | 87 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller

A crusading district attorney finally gets a chance to prosecute the organizer and boss of Murder Inc.

Directors: Bretaigne Windust, Raoul Walsh | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Zero Mostel, Ted de Corsia, Everett Sloane

Votes: 5,649

5. Horatio Hornblower: Retribution (2001 TV Movie)

98 min | Adventure, Drama, War

Hornblower and the other officers of the Renown must return to Jamaica to face a court-martial and possible execution for their actions in relieving their unstable captain.

Director: Andrew Grieve | Stars: Ioan Gruffudd, Robert Lindsay, David Warner, Nicholas Jones

Votes: 3,908

6. Blondie Maxwell Never Loses (2020)

87 min | Action, Crime, Sci-Fi

Blondie Maxwell is a future anticipation thriller. It explores the consequences of unreasonable use of technology and artificial intelligence while addressing concepts of the ultra uberisation of society and the privatization of justice.

Director: Julien Ivanowich | Stars: Léonie Langlart, Stéphane Dufourcq, Vincent Terrier, Boris de la Higuera

Votes: 70

7. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000–2015)
Episode: Grissom's Divine Comedy (2008)

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

The discovery of the body of a witness shot in a burned-out car could compromise the DA's case against the leader of a Latino gang. But was the gang really involved in the witness' murder?

Director: Richard J. Lewis | Stars: William Petersen, Marg Helgenberger, Gary Dourdan, George Eads

Votes: 727

8. Criminal Minds (2005– )
Episode: Tabula Rasa (2008)

TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A suspected serial killer who's been in a coma since 2004 due to an accident when he was arrested wakes up 4 years later, with no memory of his past, not even his name. While he is tried in court, in which Hotch is testifying against him, the rest of the team investigates his past further.

Director: Steve Boyum | Stars: Joe Mantegna, Paget Brewster, Shemar Moore, Matthew Gray Gubler

Votes: 2,757

9. Scary Tales of New York (2023– )
Episode: Haircut for a Mob Boss (2023)

Crime

Umberto "Albert" Anastasia, once the chief of the notorious "Murder Incorporated" crime firm, winds up the target of a mob hit in a barber shop chair.

Director: Steve Maher | Stars: Frank DiMatteo, Michael Cannell, Colm Meaney, Shane Serrano

10. Rizzoli & Isles (2010–2016)
Episode: Dance with the Devil (2013)

TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The decades-old death of a mother and child open a closet door revealing skeletons that threaten to complicate the start of Paddy Doyle's RICO trial.

Director: Jamie Babbit | Stars: Angie Harmon, Sasha Alexander, Brian Goodman, Jordan Bridges

Votes: 431

11. Mafia's Greatest Hits (2012– )
Episode: Vito Genovese (2012)

TV-PG | 49 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime

Raised in the slums with terrifying gangs. He grew to inherit a Mafia entity; only to be faced with murder, the electric chair and fierce rivalry.

Director: Gerry Pomeroy | Stars: Selwyn Raab, Joseph Coffey, Thomas Reppetto, Douglas Valentine

Votes: 13

12. Mafia's Greatest Hits (2012– )
Episode: Allen Dorfman: The Mafia's Banker (2012)

TV-PG | 44 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime

A close associate of longtime Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa and associated with the Chicago Outfit, Alan Dorfman embezzled millions for the mob and himself until he was violently murdered in 1983.

Director: Elliot McCaffrey | Stars: James W. Wagner, Leone J. Flosi, Kent Clifford, Douglas P. Roller

Votes: 8

13. Killing Eve (2018–2022)
Episode: Nice Face (2018)

TV-14 | 43 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

When a Russian politician is murdered, a bored MI5 security officer is tasked with protecting the only witness and soon finds herself on a collision course with a violent and extraordinary assassin.

Director: Harry Bradbeer | Stars: Jodie Comer, Giulia Patrignani, Paolo Roca Rey, Sandra Oh

Votes: 5,808