Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "knife-held-to-someone's-throat"

1. The Little Things (2021)

R | 128 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Kern County Deputy Sheriff Joe Deacon is sent to Los Angeles for what should have been a quick evidence-gathering assignment. Instead, he becomes embroiled in the search for a serial killer who is terrorizing the city.

Director: John Lee Hancock | Stars: Denzel Washington, Rami Malek, Jared Leto, Chris Bauer

Votes: 126,221

2. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)

R | 115 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A mother personally challenges the local authorities to solve her daughter's murder when they fail to catch the culprit.

Director: Martin McDonagh | Stars: Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, Caleb Landry Jones

Votes: 554,927 | Gross: $54.51M

3. First Blood (1982)

R | 93 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

A veteran Green Beret is forced by a cruel Sheriff and his deputies to flee into the mountains and wage an escalating one-man war against his pursuers.

Director: Ted Kotcheff | Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Brian Dennehy, Richard Crenna, Bill McKinney

Votes: 275,524 | Gross: $47.21M

4. Striptease (1996)

R | 115 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A stripper and single mother gets dragged into a dangerous situation after a congressman takes a fancy to her.

Director: Andrew Bergman | Stars: Demi Moore, Burt Reynolds, Armand Assante, Ving Rhames

Votes: 48,047 | Gross: $33.11M

5. Happy Death Day (2017)

PG-13 | 96 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery

A college student must relive the day of her murder over and over again, in a loop that will end only when she discovers her killer's identity.

Director: Christopher Landon | Stars: Jessica Rothe, Israel Broussard, Ruby Modine, Charles Aitken

Votes: 162,724 | Gross: $55.68M

6. Lord of War (2005)

R | 122 min | Crime, Drama

An arms dealer confronts the morality of his work as he is being chased by an INTERPOL Agent.

Director: Andrew Niccol | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Ethan Hawke, Jared Leto, Bridget Moynahan

Votes: 336,870 | Gross: $24.15M

7. The Babysitter: Killer Queen (2020)

TV-MA | 101 min | Comedy, Horror

Two years after Cole survived a satanic blood cult, he's living another nightmare: high school. And the demons from his past? Still making his life hell.

Director: McG | Stars: Judah Lewis, Samara Weaving, Jenna Ortega, Emily Alyn Lind

Votes: 50,910

8. Johnny Mnemonic (1995)

R | 96 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

A data courier, literally carrying a data package inside his head, must deliver it before he dies from the burden or is killed by the Yakuza.

Director: Robert Longo | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Dolph Lundgren, Dina Meyer, Ice-T

Votes: 76,169 | Gross: $19.08M

9. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004 Video Game)

M | Action, Crime

Carl "CJ" Johnson, a member of the Grove Street street gang, comes home after a family tragedy to find it overtaken by crime and corruption, which he must take back before things become worse.

Stars: Young Maylay, Faizon Love, Yolanda 'Yo-Yo' Whittaker, Clifton Powell

Votes: 44,491

10. The Wind and the Lion (1975)

PG | 119 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A Berber chieftain triggers an international incident, drawing the involvement of Theodore Roosevelt, when he kidnaps an American widow and her children in 1900s Morocco.

Director: John Milius | Stars: Sean Connery, Candice Bergen, Brian Keith, John Huston

Votes: 10,148 | Gross: $0.75M

11. Tenebrae (1982)

R | 101 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

An American novelist visiting Rome to promote his latest book is stalked and harassed by an obsessed fan who is committing a string of murders that appear to be tributes to his work.

Director: Dario Argento | Stars: Anthony Franciosa, Giuliano Gemma, John Saxon, Daria Nicolodi

Votes: 27,416

12. The Tournament (2009)

R | 95 min | Action, Thriller

A tournament is watched by dozens of wealthy men betting on which one of the 30 assassins will survive the next 24 hours "kill or die" and claim the USD10,000,000 prize. It takes place in an English town with plenty of CCTVs.

Director: Scott Mann | Stars: Ving Rhames, Robert Carlyle, Kelly Hu, Ian Somerhalder

Votes: 36,265

13. 91 Days (2016–2017)

TV-MA | 24 min | Animation, Action, Crime

The story takes place in Lawless, a town thriving on black market sales of illicitly brewed liquor. Avilio returns to Lawless after some time away, following the murder of his family in a mafia dispute there.

Stars: Austin Tindle, Takashi Kondô, Ian Mead Moore, Kazuhiro Yamaji

Votes: 5,462

14. Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964)

Not Rated | 85 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

A detective is assigned to protect a princess who prophecies the Earth's end with the arrival of a powerful space monster. Mothra and her fairies must persuade Godzilla and Rodan to set aside their differences or face the invader alone.

Director: Ishirô Honda | Stars: Yôsuke Natsuki, Yuriko Hoshi, Hiroshi Koizumi, Akiko Wakabayashi

Votes: 7,921

15. Q: The Winged Serpent (1982)

R | 93 min | Crime, Fantasy, Mystery

NYPD detectives Shepard and Powell are working on a bizarre case of a ritualistic Aztec murder. Meanwhile, something big is attacking people of New York and only greedy small time crook Jimmy Quinn knows where its lair is.

Director: Larry Cohen | Stars: David Carradine, Michael Moriarty, Candy Clark, Richard Roundtree

Votes: 9,461

16. Denmark (2019)

91 min | Comedy, Drama

A down-on-his-luck Welshman travels across Europe with one crazy goal: to get himself arrested and sent to a Danish prison where the beds are warm and the water is hot.

Director: Adrian Shergold | Stars: Rafe Spall, Simone Lykke, Joel Fry, Thomas W. Gabrielsson

Votes: 1,932

17. The Happiness of the Katakuris (2001)

R | 113 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

A family moves to the country to run a rustic mountain inn when, to their horror, the customers begin befalling sudden and unlikely fates.

Director: Takashi Miike | Stars: Kenji Sawada, Keiko Matsuzaka, Shinji Takeda, Naomi Nishida

Votes: 10,023

18. Control (2003)

R | 111 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A tale about a strange young man, Bulcsú, the fellow inspectors on his team, all without exception likable characters, a rival ticket inspection team and racing along the tracks - and a tale about love.

Director: Nimród Antal | Stars: Sándor Csányi, Eszter Balla, Zoltán Mucsi, Csaba Pindroch

Votes: 27,070 | Gross: $0.24M

19. Silent Trigger (1996)

R | 93 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Waxman is a former Special Forces soldier who is now working as a heavily armed assassin for a top secret government agency. When a covert mission goes terribly wrong, Waxman and fellow assassin Clegg become that agency's prime targets.

Director: Russell Mulcahy | Stars: Dolph Lundgren, Gina Bellman, Conrad Dunn, Christopher Heyerdahl

Votes: 4,477

20. Cleanskin (2012)

Not Rated | 108 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A British secret service agent is faced with the task of pursuing and eliminating a British-born suicide bomber and his terrorist cell.

Director: Hadi Hajaig | Stars: Sean Bean, Charlotte Rampling, Abhin Galeya, Tom Burke

Votes: 21,145

21. Island of Fire (1990)

R | 125 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A cop goes undercover to infiltrate a deadly prison where a team of mercenaries is being assembled.

Director: Yen-Ping Chu | Stars: Jackie Chan, Andy Lau, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Tony Ka Fai Leung

Votes: 3,918

22. House of the Rising Sun (2011)

R | 90 min | Action, Thriller

Ray, an ex-con, is starting a new life looking to stay out of trouble. One evening, on Ray's watch, the nightclub he works for is robbed and the owner's son is shot dead. As his criminal ... See full summary »

Director: Brian A. Miller | Stars: Dave Bautista, Amy Smart, Dominic Purcell, Craig Fairbrass

Votes: 3,752

23. Man in the Attic (1953)

Approved | 82 min | Mystery, Thriller

After an enigmatic, self-described pathologist rents the attic room of a Victorian house, his landlady begins to suspect her lodger is Jack the Ripper.

Director: Hugo Fregonese | Stars: Jack Palance, Constance Smith, Byron Palmer, Frances Bavier

Votes: 1,974

24. O.K. (1970)

80 min | Drama, War

A four-man US fire-team on patrol seizes a dying young Vietnamese girl and continue to torture, rape and kill her. One soldier refuses to take part and reports the incident.

Director: Michael Verhoeven | Stars: Gustl Bayrhammer, Hartmut Becker, Rolf Castell, Wolfgang Fischer

Votes: 205

25. Recruits (1986)

R | 90 min | Comedy

A Canadian sex comedy in the tradition of "Police Academy".

Director: Rafal Zielinski | Stars: Doug Annear, John Canada Terrell, Stephen Osmond, Alan Deveau

Votes: 394

26. The Heretics (2017)

87 min | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller

After she's kidnapped, a young woman begins to undergo a strange transformation.

Director: Chad Archibald | Stars: Nina Kiri, Ry Barrett, Jorja Cadence, Will King

Votes: 2,038

27. Kuchisake-onna (2007)

Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

A suburban town in Japan is the victim of what is supposedly just an urban legend, a woman's spirit with a horribly disfigured face who is intent on kidnapping children for unknown reasons.

Director: Kôji Shiraishi | Stars: Eriko Satô, Haruhiko Katô, Chiharu Kawai, Rie Kuwana

Votes: 3,048

28. Amazing Elisa (2022)

104 min | Drama, Fantasy, Thriller

Elisa, a girl of twelve who thinks she's a superhero, lives with her father after her mother's death.

Director: Sadrac González-Perellón | Stars: Ivan Massagué, Silvia Abascal, Asier Etxeandia, Milo Taboada

Votes: 122

29. Something of Value (1957)

Approved | 113 min | Drama, War

In British Colonial Kenya during the Mau Mau uprising, Peter and Kimani, who grew up together, find themselves on the opposite sides.

Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Rock Hudson, Dana Wynter, Wendy Hiller, Juano Hernandez

Votes: 1,307

30. Orphans (1998)

101 min | Comedy, Drama

Four siblings gathered together for their mother's funeral in Glasgow face individual torments over night during a tumultuous storm that rips the roof off the church.

Director: Peter Mullan | Stars: Douglas Henshall, Gary Lewis, Rosemarie Stevenson, Stephen McCole

Votes: 1,794 | Gross: $0.05M

31. Sneekweek (2016)

108 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery

Six friends party for a week during the "Sneekweek", but they get haunted by a serial killer because of a dark secret from their past..

Director: Martijn Heijne | Stars: Carolien Spoor, Jelle de Jong, Jord Knotter, Holly Mae Brood

Votes: 1,567

32. Inshite miru: 7-kakan no desu gêmu (2010)

107 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Ten people who agree to take the same lucrative "job" find themselves locked in an underground complex and forced to play a murder game for seven days.

Director: Hideo Nakata | Stars: Kin'ya Kitaôji, Nagisa Katahira, Shinji Takeda, Masanori Ishii

Votes: 1,389

33. Rancid Aluminum (2000)

R | 91 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Pete in London inherits a company. The ambitious accountant makes a deal with a Russian mafia boss. The Russian wants hard currency and grand-kids but kills his daughter's lovers. His daughter needs an Englishman like Sir Francis Drake.

Director: Edward Thomas | Stars: Joseph Fiennes, Rhys Ifans, Tara Fitzgerald, Sadie Frost

Votes: 1,114

34. Tuno negro (2001)

R | 110 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Students of the university of Salamanca are brutally murdered by a black masked minstrel. Alex, an architecture student who has recently moved to Salamanca discovers a pattern behind the ... See full summary »

Directors: Pedro L. Barbero, Vicente J. Martín | Stars: Silke, Jorge Sanz, Fele Martínez, Patxi Freytez

Votes: 1,196

35. Tomie: Re-birth (2001)

101 min | Horror

An art student disappears after murdering his model. Now his friends and family are being haunted by the resurrected woman, Tomie.

Director: Takashi Shimizu | Stars: Miki Sakai, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Kumiko Endô, Masaya Kikawada

Votes: 693

36. Asesinos inocentes (2015)

Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

In order to get out of an extreme situation, would you consider committing murder if the victim himself is asking for it?

Director: Gonzalo Bendala | Stars: Aura Garrido, Maxi Iglesias, Manolo Solo, Luis Fernández

Votes: 539

37. Ram Shastra (1995)

Action, Drama

Ram Sinha doesn't know that he can re-write his destiny by joining the police force, and at the same time make an enemy with a criminal don named Dhonga the Great. Dhonga swears to avenge ... See full summary »

Director: Sanjay Gupta | Stars: Jackie Shroff, Manisha Koirala, Deepti Bhatnagar, Aditya Pancholi

Votes: 111

38. Angel (1999–2004)
Episode: Five by Five (2000)

Unrated | 41 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy

Fed up with Angel meddling in their affairs, Wolfram and Hart hire newly arrived Faith to take him out.

Director: James A. Contner | Stars: David Boreanaz, Charisma Carpenter, Alexis Denisof, Julie Benz

Votes: 2,687

39. Babylon 5 (1993–1998)
Episode: The Geometry of Shadows (1994)

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

Ivanova deals with a Drazi custom, which only occurs once every 5 years. Techno-mages arrive on the station.

Director: Michael Vejar | Stars: Bruce Boxleitner, Claudia Christian, Jerry Doyle, Mira Furlan

Votes: 790

40. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003)
Episode: Choices (1999)

TV-PG | 43 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy

The Mayor takes Willow prisoner after Buffy and her friends steal away a box containing demonic energy needed for Ascension Day.

Director: James A. Contner | Stars: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Nicholas Brendon, Alyson Hannigan, Charisma Carpenter

Votes: 3,407

41. Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode: Space Seed (1967)

TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

While on patrol in deep space, Captain Kirk and his crew find and revive a genetically-engineered world conqueror and his compatriots from Earth's Twentieth Century.

Director: Marc Daniels | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Ricardo Montalban, Madlyn Rhue

Votes: 5,410

42. Supernatural (2005–2020)
Episode: Dead Man's Blood (2006)

TV-14 | 55 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

After John's mentor, a vampire hunter, is murdered, John shows up to help his sons solve the case. The vampires have taken an antique gun with supernatural powers. The Winchesters set out to retrieve the gun.

Director: Tony Wharmby | Stars: Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Warren Christie

Votes: 6,345

43. Supernatural (2005–2020)
Episode: Bloodlust (2006)

TV-14 | 50 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Sam and Dean encounter a vampire hunter whose obsession may get them all killed.

Director: Robert Singer | Stars: Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Sterling K. Brown, Amber Benson

Votes: 6,067

44. Dark Shadows (1966–1971)
Episode: Episode #1.792 (1969)

TV-G | 30 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Quentin and Magda summon Angelique to help them recover the missing hand of Count Petofi.

Director: Lela Swift | Stars: Grayson Hall, Lara Parker, Humbert Allen Astredo, David Selby

Votes: 24

45. Halifax: Retribution (2020)
Episode: Episode #1.2 (2020)

41 min | Crime, Drama

As the shooter claims two more victims, Jane Halifax suspects a killer from her past is responsible for her husband's murder.

Director: Fiona Banks | Stars: Rebecca Gibney, Claudia Karvan, Mavournee Hazel, Rick Donald

Votes: 96

46. The Walking Dead (2010–2022)
Episode: New Haunts (2022)

TV-MA | 45 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

The heroes experience Halloween in the Commonwealth; Daryl and Rosita undergo military training led by Mercer; Carol investigates Ezekiel's medical condition.

Director: Jon Amiel | Stars: Norman Reedus, Melissa McBride, Lauren Cohan, Christian Serratos

Votes: 6,694

47. Sijipeuseu: The Myth (2021)
Episode: Episode #1.10 (2021)

Not Rated | 68 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy

Tae Sul enters enemy quarters to retrieve Seo Hae. Learning she's been put in a dire condition, he turns to a grudging Mr. Park for assistance.

Director: Jin Hyuk | Stars: Cho Seung-woo, Park Shin-hye, Dawn Anderson, Kim Byeong-cheol

Votes: 147

48. Helsinki Crimes (2022– )
Episode: Harjunpää ja ahdistelija 2/2 (2022)

36 min | Crime, Drama

When two of the victims of the stalker die, Harjunpää and Nykänen are spurred on to catch the perpetrator. The lonely and desperate ambulance driver dwells in misogyny and plans vengeance.

Director: Matti Kinnunen | Stars: Olli Rahkonen, Olga Temonen, Tatu Sinisalo, Sanna Saarijärvi

Votes: 32

49. Star Trek: Picard (2020–2023)
Episode: Imposters (2023)

TV-MA | 54 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Caught by Starfleet and facing court martial, paranoia grows as Picard struggles to uncover whether a prodigal crewman from his past has returned as an ally - or an enemy hellbent on destroying them all.

Director: Dan Liu | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jeri Ryan, Michelle Hurd, Ed Speleers

Votes: 4,890

50. Strawberry Night (2012– )
Episode: Episode #1.8 (2012)

Crime, Drama, Mystery

Working out of a local precinct the investigative unit is digging into the past, actions and whereabouts of a man whose cause of death is inconclusive. Witnesses have helped, as have the ... See full summary »

Director: Jun'ichi Ishikawa | Stars: Yûko Takeuchi, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Keisuke Koide, Ken'ichi Endô