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1. Annabelle: Creation (2017)

R | 109 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Twelve years after the tragic death of their little girl, a doll-maker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into their home, where they become the target of the doll-maker's possessed creation, Annabelle.

Director: David F. Sandberg | Stars: Anthony LaPaglia, Samara Lee, Miranda Otto, Brad Greenquist

Votes: 151,089 | Gross: $102.09M

2. The Killing (1956)

Approved | 84 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Crook Johnny Clay assembles a five-man team to plan and execute a daring racetrack robbery.

Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards, Jay C. Flippen

Votes: 97,656

3. The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

Passed | 112 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A major heist goes off as planned, but then double crosses, bad luck and solid police work cause everything to unravel.

Director: John Huston | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen, James Whitmore

Votes: 30,024

4. The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)

Passed | 119 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A junkie must face his true self to kick his drug addiction.

Director: Otto Preminger | Stars: Frank Sinatra, Kim Novak, Eleanor Parker, Arnold Stang

Votes: 12,229

5. Man Bait (1952)

Not Rated | 78 min | Crime, Drama

The married owner of a bookstore is attracted to his sexy blonde clerk. He finally gives in to temptation and makes a pass at her, but that only results in him getting enmeshed in blackmail and murder.

Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: George Brent, Marguerite Chapman, Raymond Huntley, Peter Reynolds

Votes: 877

6. A Flash of Green (1984)

TV-MA | 121 min | Drama

A local reporter gets involved with a corrupt county commissioner.

Director: Victor Nunez | Stars: Ed Harris, Blair Brown, Richard Jordan, George Coe

Votes: 272

7. The Missing Corpse (1945)

Passed | 62 min | Comedy, Mystery

A feud between rival newspapermen Kruger (Bromberg) and McDonald (Guilfoyle) goes deadly when blackmailing McDonald ends up murdered and his corpse planted in the trunk of Kruger's car.

Director: Albert Herman | Stars: J. Edward Bromberg, Isabel Randolph, Frank Jenks, Eric Sinclair

Votes: 271

8. Give Me Your Heart (1936)

Passed | 88 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

An American lawyer's wife is reunited with her child and his father.

Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Kay Francis, George Brent, Roland Young, Patric Knowles

Votes: 337

9. The Famous Ferguson Case (1932)

Passed | 74 min | Crime, Drama

Reporters at a scandal sheet dwell on a murder case, with tragic results.

Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Joan Blondell, Grant Mitchell, Vivienne Osborne, Adrienne Dore

Votes: 466

10. Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes (2000–2001)
Episode: The White Knight Stratagem (2001)

90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Dr. Joseph Bell helps the police investigate the murder of a money lender; but old animosity between him and the officer in charge leads to conflict.

Director: Paul Marcus | Stars: Ian Richardson, Charles Edwards, Rik Mayall, Annette Crosbie

Votes: 379

11. Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode: The ABC Murders (1992)

Not Rated | 103 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Poirot receives taunting letters from a serial killer who appears to choose his victims and crime scenes alphabetically.

Director: Andrew Grieve | Stars: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, Donald Sumpter

Votes: 2,785

12. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode: A Woman's Help (1961)

TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery

When Elizabeth Burton catches her nurse pulling double duty with her husband, she fires the nurse and demands that husband Arnold find new candidates. She gladly hires an elderly applicant, but still might get a surprise.

Director: Arthur Hiller | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Scott McKay, Antoinette Bower

Votes: 418

13. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode: Final Arrangements (1961)

TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery

A man who's fed up with his invalid wife's incessant nagging plans her funeral and prepays for a stylish coffin.

Director: Gordon Hessler | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Martin Balsam, Vivian Nathan, O.Z. Whitehead

Votes: 445

14. The Asphalt Jungle (1961)
Episode: The Professor (1961)

60 min | Crime, Drama

Crime boss Doc Stehlemyer gets paroled from prison and goes back to his old haunts with a "foolproof" plan for a million-dollar jewel robbery. Unfortunately for Doc, this foolproof scheme begins to fall apart almost immediately.

Director: Herman Hoffman | Stars: Jack Warden, Arch Johnson, William Smith, Philip Carey

15. Mystery!: Cadfael (1994–1998)
Episode: The Potter's Field (1998)

TV-14 | 75 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A year after Brother Ruald answers his vocation and becomes a monk at Shrewsbury, a body, believed to be his deserted wife, is unearthed near his cottage.

Director: Mary McMurray | Stars: Derek Jacobi, Terrence Hardiman, Michael Culver, Julian Firth

Votes: 183

16. Night Gallery (1969–1973)
Episode: She'll Be Company for You (1972)

TV-PG | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

After years of caring for his invalid wife, newly widowed Henry Auden thinks he'll be happy living alone. His wife's friend sends him her orange tabby cat to keep him company while she's away on vacation, but the loneliness gets to him.

Director: Gerald Perry Finnerman | Stars: Leonard Nimoy, Lorraine Gary, Kathryn Hays, Bern Hoffman

Votes: 264

17. The Richard Boone Show (1963–1964)
Episode: The Fling (1963)

70 min | Drama

In a lonely desert stop in the Southwest, Jim Hensel (Boone), long devoted to his invalid wife (Leslie), still finds himself drawn to the tacky, flirtatious new waitress (Devon) at the local diner, run by his only friend (Morgan).

Director: Stuart Rosenberg | Stars: Robert Blake, Lloyd Bochner, Richard Boone, Laura Devon

Votes: 11

18. Suspense (1949–1954)
Episode: Telephone Call (1951)

30 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

The Haskells are throwing a drunken New Year's Eve party in their New York apartment. Next door, Everett Kelsey has had enough of tending to the bitter supposedly invalid wife who treats ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Stevens | Stars: Russell Collins, Phyllis Povah, Eileen Heckart, Robert Emhardt

Votes: 35

19. Hunderby (2012–2015)
Episode: Episode #1.7 (2012)

21 min | Comedy

In order to meet the terms of the inheritance, Dorothy tries to speed Helene's pregnancy up - with Biddy as a makeshift midwife. Edmund is distracted by a new companion to replace Geoff.

Director: Tony Dow | Stars: Julia Davis, Alexandra Roach, Alex Macqueen, Rufus Jones

Votes: 22