Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "man-strangles-woman"

1. Red Eye (2005)

PG-13 | 85 min | Thriller

A woman is kidnapped by a stranger on a routine flight. Threatened by the potential murder of her father, she is pulled into a plot to assist her captor in a political assassination.

Director: Wes Craven | Stars: Rachel McAdams, Cillian Murphy, Brian Cox, Laura Johnson

Votes: 141,379 | Gross: $57.89M

2. Hunter Hunter (2020)

Unrated | 93 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Joseph and his family live in the remote wilderness as fur trappers, but their tranquility is threatened when they think they are being hunted by the return of a rogue wolf, and Joseph leaves them behind to track it.

Director: Shawn Linden | Stars: Camille Sullivan, Summer H. Howell, Devon Sawa, Nick Stahl

Votes: 13,176

3. O (2001)

R | 95 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

An update of Shakespeare's 'Othello' with a young cast, set in an upper class prep school, & centered around basketball player Odin.

Director: Tim Blake Nelson | Stars: Mekhi Phifer, Julia Stiles, Martin Sheen, Josh Hartnett

Votes: 21,932 | Gross: $16.02M

4. Friend of the Family II (1996)

Unrated | 83 min | Thriller

Alex decides to have an affair with a woman named Linda while he is on business in New Orleans. When he returns home to his wife and child, he is surprised to find that his wife has hired ... See full summary »

Director: Fred Olen Ray | Stars: Paul Michael Robinson, Shauna O'Brien, Jenna Bodnar, Jeff Rector

Votes: 439

5. Countess Perverse (1975)

87 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

Two wealthy aristocrats lure a virginal girl to a Spanish island for a night of sex, death and cannibalism.

Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Alice Arno, Robert Woods, Howard Vernon, Tania Busselier

Votes: 721

6. Sound of Silence (2023)

93 min | Horror

Emma must uncover the dark secret behind a cursed radio to survive and protect her family.

Directors: Alessandro Antonaci, Daniel Lascar, Stefano Mandalà, T3 | Stars: Lucia Caporaso, Guido Carta, Chiara Casolari, Micol Damilano

Votes: 748

7. Reckoning (2019)

TV-MA | 46 min | Thriller

Explores the darkest corners of the male psyche through the eyes of two fathers, one of whom is a serial-killer.

Stars: Aden Young, Sam Trammell, Simone Kessell, Milly Alcock

Votes: 4,927

8. Craze (1974)

R | 96 min | Thriller

A nutty antiques dealer starts to sacrifice women to an African idol.

Director: Freddie Francis | Stars: Jack Palance, Diana Dors, Julie Ege, Edith Evans

Votes: 696

9. Picture Mommy Dead (1966)

Unrated | 82 min | Horror, Thriller

Teenage Susan Shelley is released from an asylum where she's been confined after the shock she suffered from her glamorous socialite mother Jessica's fiery death. Her father has a new wife,... See full summary »

Director: Bert I. Gordon | Stars: Don Ameche, Martha Hyer, Susan Gordon, Zsa Zsa Gabor

Votes: 730

10. The Good Time Girls (1960)

Not Rated | 100 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

Four Parisian women navigate the world of romance and daily life looking to fulfill their dreams but often find real-life to be inescapable.

Director: Claude Chabrol | Stars: Bernadette Lafont, Clotilde Joano, Stéphane Audran, Lucile Saint-Simon

Votes: 3,186 | Gross: $0.01M

11. The Strangler (1964)

Approved | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

An overweight lab technician with low self esteem, brought on by his dominant mother, becomes a serial killer of female nurses.

Director: Burt Topper | Stars: Victor Buono, David McLean, Diane Sayer, Davey Davison

Votes: 1,095

12. The Curse of the Living Corpse (1964)

Approved | 84 min | Horror

Relatives gather in an old house for the reading of a will, but the "dead" man comes back to life and starts killing.

Director: Del Tenney | Stars: Roy Scheider, Helen Waren, Robert Milli, Margot Hartman

Votes: 841

13. Impulse (1974)

PG | 87 min | Horror, Thriller

A paranoid, leisure-suit-wearing conman/gigolo named Matt Stone seduces lonely women, bilks them of their savings via an investment scam, then kills them. When he begins seeing an ... See full summary »

Director: William Grefé | Stars: William Shatner, Ruth Roman, Jennifer Bishop, Kim Nicholas

Votes: 671 | Gross: $0.08M

14. The Honeymoon Phase (2019)

89 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Struggling young lovers, Tom and Eve, must endure a 30-day scientific experiment. Room, board, $50,000 and a month alone together in research facility housing. What could possibly go wrong.

Director: Phillip G. Carroll Jr. | Stars: François Chau, Tara Westwood, Matthew Curtis, Chloe Carroll

Votes: 1,090

15. Bummer (1973)

R | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

A touring small-time rock band called The Group picks up a couple of groupies. One night, the band's drunken, hulking bass player goes nuts and rapes the girls. The band refuses to believe that he's trouble, which leads to more tragedy.

Director: William Allen Castleman | Stars: Kipp Whitman, Dennis Burkley, Connie Strickland, Carol Speed

Votes: 317

16. Psychopaths (2017)

85 min | Horror

Several psychopaths wreak havoc over the course of a violent night.

Director: Mickey Keating | Stars: Ashley Bell, James Landry Hébert, Mark Kassen, Angela Trimbur

Votes: 785

17. Killing Lust (2016)

22 min | Short, Thriller | Completed

Clark Andrews is under pressure to write his next best seller. He's known for creating a sexy, dangerous femme fatale character named Lust that appears in all of his novels. While fully ... See full summary »

Director: Pablo Bobadilla | Stars: Randy Spence, Morgan Graham, Emily DeForest, Thomas Clay Strickland

18. Five the Hard Way (1969)

M | 82 min | Action, Sport

Motorcycle racer Rommel seeks vengeance against JC, a madman who murdered the sidehacker's fiancee.

Director: Gus Trikonis | Stars: Ross Hagen, Diane McBain, Michael Pataki, Richard Merrifield

Votes: 2,078

19. VANish (2015)

79 min | Action, Crime, Horror

A kidnapped young woman is forced on a road trip full of murder and mayhem that takes place entirely in her captor's getaway van.

Director: Bryan Bockbrader | Stars: Maiara Walsh, Tony Todd, Danny Trejo, Austin Abke

Votes: 1,819

20. Night at the Golden Eagle (2001)

R | 87 min | Drama

An ex-convict's plans to turn legit go awry.

Director: Adam Rifkin | Stars: Vinny Argiro, James Caan, Donnie Montemarano, Natasha Lyonne

Votes: 2,621 | Gross: $0.02M

21. The Room Upstairs (1946)

115 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

The local building contractor Martin Roumagnac is fascinated by the fashionable Blanche Ferrand. To impress Blanche, Martin presents her with a villa. However, this ruins him financially. ... See full summary »

Director: Georges Lacombe | Stars: Marlene Dietrich, Jean Gabin, Jean d'Yd, Daniel Gélin

Votes: 525

22. Aksar 2 (2017)

127 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A husband's plan to break up his marriage so that he can be with another woman backfires with unexpected consequences.

Director: Anant Mahadevan | Stars: Zareen Khan, Gautam Rode, Lillete Dubey, Mukesh Hariawala

Votes: 485

23. La Soga: Salvation (2021)

92 min | Action, Crime, Drama

La Soga Salvation is a suspenseful thriller and love story, where a former hitman fights to rescue the love of his life, while confronting his inner demons and violent past.

Director: Manny Perez | Stars: Manny Perez, Sarah Jorge León, Hada Vanessa, Chris McGarry

Votes: 212

24. Beautiful Devils (2017)

119 min | Drama

A modern retelling of Shakespeare's Othello set within the music scene of East London. Oz and Ivan are lifelong friends and music producers. When Oz gets offered a lucrative recording ... See full summary »

Director: James Marquand | Stars: Iain Glen, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Greg Wise, Steven Waddington

Votes: 182

25. Lost Souvenirs (1950)

135 min | Drama

Suppose lost and found objects could talk... But they can! At least four of them... : -A statuette of Osiris remembers how two ex-lovers, a model and a good for nothing who claimed to be an... See full summary »

Director: Christian-Jaque | Stars: Bernard Blier, Pierre Brasseur, Suzy Delair, Danièle Delorme

Votes: 180

26. Embrace of the Scorpions

Short, Crime, Drama | Announced

The relationship between an obsessive widower and a self-destructive medical administrator reaches a crisis point when they discover dark secrets about each other during a one-night stand.

Director: Angel Connell | Stars: Marybeth Paul, Corey Wells

27. The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962–1965)
Episode: Bonfire (1962)

TV-PG | 49 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

A lonely young woman moves into her newly deceased aunt's home in a small town. A way-too-helpful, next-door neighbor becomes her guardian angel, yet with his own agenda in mind. He's a lay... See full summary »

Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Peter Falk, Dina Merrill, Patricia Collinge

Votes: 416

28. The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962–1965)
Episode: The Star Juror (1963)

TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

After killing a woman, a man is chosen to be a juror for the trial of the man accused of her murder.

Director: Herschel Daugherty | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Dean Jagger, Betty Field, Will Hutchins

Votes: 439

29. Derrick (1974–1998)
Episode: Ein Objekt der Begierde (1993)

57 min | Crime, Drama

Karoline is very popular in the building where she takes her English lessons. But on one unlucky evening, a tenant returning home finds her at the bottom of the stairwell, strangled to death.

Director: Zbynek Brynych | Stars: Horst Tappert, Fritz Wepper, Willy Schäfer, Stefan Wigger

Votes: 53

30. Dynasty (1981–1989)
Episode: The Threat (1983)

TV-PG | 48 min | Drama, Romance

A scandalous newspaper headline implicates Congressman McVane with a young girl in Washington; he realizes Alexis orchestrated his downfall. Kirby finds she is pregnant; Adam is alarmed to ... See full summary »

Director: Bob Sweeney | Stars: John Forsythe, Linda Evans, Pamela Sue Martin, John James

Votes: 95

31. Kommissar Rex (1994–2004)
Episode: Der Puppenmörder (1996)

48 min | Action, Crime, Mystery

The owner of a doll shop is obsessed with women and dolls, and he manipulates them to act like dolls before killing them. The body of a young woman is found, and the Homicide Department of ... See full summary »

Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel | Stars: Tobias Moretti, Heinz Weixelbraun, Wolf Bachofner, Gerhard Zemann

Votes: 118

32. Tales from the Crypt (1989–1996)
Episode: Mute Witness to Murder (1990)

Not Rated | 30 min | Comedy, Crime, Fantasy

Young woman Suzy looks out of the window of her apartment and witnesses a man murdering a woman in the apartment directly across from hers. Suzy is so traumatized by what she sees that ... See full summary »

Director: Jim Simpson | Stars: Richard Thomas, Patricia Clarkson, Reed Birney, Kristine Nielsen

Votes: 960

33. Thriller (1960–1962)
Episode: The Twisted Image (1960)

TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

Business executive Alan Patterson's life takes a surreal turn when two mentally disturbed people independently wind up with fixations on his life. One wants to marry him, and the other wants to be him.

Director: Arthur Hiller | Stars: Boris Karloff, Leslie Nielsen, George Grizzard, Natalie Trundy

Votes: 364

34. Soulmates (2020)
Episode: The (Power) Ballad of Caitlin Jones (2020)

TV-14 | 43 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi

After waiting for years, Caitlin gets matched with a handsome doctor who harbors a dark secret.

Director: William Bridges | Stars: Betsy Brandt, JJ Feild, Tom Goodman-Hill, Lorna Brown

Votes: 253

35. Balthazar (2018–2023)
Episode: Noces rouges (2020)

TV-14 | 52 min | Crime, Thriller

Janvier has escaped and Balthazar is devastated and furious. Bach's reservations about Maya remain, sending Delgado and Balthazar into grave danger.

Director: Vincent Jamain | Stars: Tomer Sisley, Hélène de Fougerolles, Yannig Samot, Philypa Phoenix

Votes: 94

36. Big Sky (2020–2023)
Episode: A Good Day to Die (2020)

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

Jenny and Cassie feel as if they're closing in on Legarski, but they are racing against the clock as he and Ronald are preparing to move the girls.

Director: Jennifer Lynch | Stars: Katheryn Winnick, Kylie Bunbury, Brian Geraghty, Dedee Pfeiffer

Votes: 803

37. In the Dark (2019–2022)
Episode: Going Up (2022)

TV-14 | Action, Crime, Mystery

Max and Murphy make plans for the future, and everything seems to be going according to plan at the fundraiser with Murphy and Darnell posing as an unhappy couple. Josh concocts his own plan and inserts himself in the middle of everything.

Director: Malakai | Stars: Perry Mattfeld, Casey Deidrick, Keston John, Morgan Krantz

Votes: 117

38. Dateline NBC (1992– )
Episode: The Secrets in the Suitcase (2010)

TV-PG | Documentary, News

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Stars: Keith Morrison, Brad Benson, Melody Fairbourne, Ed Owens

39. The Blacklist (2013–2023)
Episode: The Kingmaker (No. 42) (2014)

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

After a politician in Prague is framed for a murder, Red suspects it's the work of The Kingmaker - a strategist behind the rise of some of the world's most powerful politicians. While Red ... See full summary »

Director: Karen Gaviola | Stars: James Spader, Megan Boone, Diego Klattenhoff, Ryan Eggold

Votes: 2,384

40. Berlin Station (2016–2019)
Episode: The Dream of the Four Policemen (2019)

TV-MA | 50 min | Action, Drama, Mystery

Kirsch and Torres must risk their lives to secure their fallen comrade's location.

Director: Hagen Bogdanski | Stars: Rhys Ifans, Leland Orser, Keke Palmer, Ismael Cruz Cordova

Votes: 229