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1. Minority Report (2002)
PG-13 | 145 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
John works with the PreCrime police which stop crimes before they take place, with the help of three 'PreCogs' who can foresee crimes. Events ensue when John finds himself framed for a future murder.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton, Max von Sydow
Votes: 582,745 | Gross: $132.07M
2. Inside Man (2006)
R | 129 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A police detective, a bank robber, and a high-power broker enter high-stakes negotiations after the criminal's brilliant heist spirals into a hostage situation.
Director: Spike Lee | Stars: Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster, Christopher Plummer
Votes: 396,310 | Gross: $88.51M
3. The Italian Job (2003)
PG-13 | 111 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
After being betrayed and left for dead in Italy, Charlie Croker and his team plan an elaborate gold heist against their former ally.
Director: F. Gary Gray | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Mark Wahlberg, Edward Norton, Charlize Theron
Votes: 387,705 | Gross: $106.13M
4. Rope (1948)
Approved | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Two men attempt to prove they committed the perfect crime by hosting a dinner party after strangling their former classmate to death.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger, Dick Hogan
Votes: 153,123
5. Going in Style (2017)
PG-13 | 96 min | Comedy, Crime
Desperate to pay the bills and come through for their loved ones, three lifelong pals risk it all by embarking on a daring bid to knock off the very bank that absconded with their money.
Director: Zach Braff | Stars: Michael Caine, Alan Arkin, Ann-Margret, Matt Dillon
Votes: 91,330 | Gross: $45.02M
6. Family Plot (1976)
PG | 120 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A phony psychic/con artist and her taxi driver/actor boyfriend encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir in California.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Karen Black, Bruce Dern, Barbara Harris, William Devane
Votes: 24,742
7. Ten Little Indians (1965)
Not Rated | 91 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Ten people are invited to a luxury mountaintop mansion, only to find that an unseen person is killing them one by one. Could one of them be the killer?
Director: George Pollock | Stars: Hugh O'Brian, Shirley Eaton, Fabian, Leo Genn
Votes: 5,277
8. Microwave Massacre (1979)
Not Rated | 76 min | Comedy, Horror
Fed up of his wife's bad cooking, Donald kills her and turns to cannibalism to satisfy his appetite.
Director: Wayne Berwick | Stars: Jackie Vernon, Loren Schein, Al Troupe, Marla Simon
Votes: 3,188
9. Inside Man: Most Wanted (2019)
R | 105 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
An NYPD hostage negotiator teams up with a federal agent to rescue dozens of tourists held hostage during a 10-hour siege at the U.S. Federal Reserve.
Director: M.J. Bassett | Stars: Aml Ameen, Rhea Seehorn, Roxanne McKee, Urs Rechn
Votes: 4,618
10. Kansas City Confidential (1952)
Not Rated | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An ex-con trying to go straight is framed for a million dollar armored car robbery and must go to Mexico in order to unmask the real culprits.
Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: John Payne, Coleen Gray, Preston Foster, Neville Brand
Votes: 8,094
11. Compulsion (1959)
Approved | 103 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Two wealthy law-school students go on trial for murder in this version of the Leopold-Loeb case.
Director: Richard Fleischer | Stars: Orson Welles, Dean Stockwell, Diane Varsi, Bradford Dillman
Votes: 7,456
12. One on Top of the Other (1969)
R | 108 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
An unscrupulous doctor is accused of killing his asthmatic wife as part of an insurance scam, despite discovering that she has a doppelgänger who works as a stripper and call girl.
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Jean Sorel, Marisa Mell, Elsa Martinelli, Alberto de Mendoza
Votes: 2,653
13. Rebecca (1997)
TV-PG | 182 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A British gentleman's innocent bride grapples with intrusive reminders of his deceased wife.
Stars: Charles Dance, Diana Rigg, Geraldine James, Emilia Fox
Votes: 1,583
14. The Hidden Room (1949)
Approved | 96 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller
Clive Riordan plans a devilish revenge against his wife's lover.
Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: Robert Newton, Sally Gray, Phil Brown, Naunton Wayne
Votes: 2,659
15. Perfect Friday (1970)
R | 94 min | Comedy, Crime
The deputy manager of a London bank has worked out a way to rob the branch of £200,000. When he becomes involved with the attractive Lady Dorset he decides to go ahead with his plan. He ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Hall | Stars: Ursula Andress, Stanley Baker, David Warner, Patience Collier
Votes: 1,160 | Gross: $0.50M
16. Eugenie de Sade (1973)
X | 86 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
After a bashful young woman discovers that her famed wordsmith stepfather is a psychopathic deviant, she becomes an accomplice in his murderous sex games.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Soledad Miranda, Paul Muller, Andrea Montchal, Greta Schmidt
Votes: 1,150
17. The Brink's Job (1978)
PG | 104 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A fictional retelling of the infamous Boston Brink's Company robbery on January 17th, 1950, of $2.7M, and cost the American taxpayers $29M to apprehend the culprits with only $58,000 recovered.
Director: William Friedkin | Stars: Peter Falk, Peter Boyle, Allen Garfield, Warren Oates
Votes: 3,497 | Gross: $9.40M
18. 5 Against the House (1955)
Approved | 84 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Four vets attending college on the GI Bill and a cabaret singer try to rob a Reno Casino and pull off the perfect crime.
Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: Guy Madison, Kim Novak, Brian Keith, Alvy Moore
Votes: 2,047
19. Tension (1949)
Passed | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A meek pharmacist creates an alternate identity under which he plans to murder the bullying liquor salesman who has become his wife's lover.
Director: John Berry | Stars: Richard Basehart, Audrey Totter, Cyd Charisse, Barry Sullivan
Votes: 3,559
20. The Fan (1982)
Unrated | 92 min | Drama, Horror, Music
The hero-worship that Simone has for a pop singer is built to a crescendo until she passes out when she finally sees him up-close in a crowd of fans. She is later shocked when he lets her know that he does not love her.
Director: Eckhart Schmidt | Stars: Désirée Nosbusch, Bodo Staiger, Simone Brahmann, Jonas Vischer
Votes: 1,908
21. Dear Murderer (1947)
Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A businessman plans to kill his cheating wife's lover and make it look like suicide.
Director: Arthur Crabtree | Stars: Eric Portman, Greta Gynt, Dennis Price, Maxwell Reed
Votes: 1,095
22. The Swindle (1997)
Not Rated | 101 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Betty and Victor are a pair of scam artists. One day Betty brings in Maurice, a treasurer of a multinational company. Maurice is due to transfer 5 millions francs out of Switzerland, and Betty is convinced he plans to steal that money.
Director: Claude Chabrol | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Michel Serrault, François Cluzet, Jean-François Balmer
Votes: 2,969 | Gross: $0.23M
23. 11 Harrowhouse (1974)
PG | 94 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Independent diamond broker and his girlfriend attempt a heist at a major Diamond Exchange house in London.
Director: Aram Avakian | Stars: Candice Bergen, Charles Grodin, James Mason, Trevor Howard
Votes: 1,208 | Gross: $0.61M
24. Dominique (1979)
PG | 100 min | Horror, Thriller
A millionaire, who drove his wife to commit suicide, starts believing that he is being haunted by her spirit.
Director: Michael Anderson | Stars: Cliff Robertson, Jean Simmons, Jenny Agutter, Simon Ward
Votes: 1,168
25. A Singular Crime (2022)
113 min | Crime, Thriller
Rosario in the 80s. The disappearance of a man during the military dictatorship. Two young people from the court must do everything possible to solve the case while facing police corruption and various dangers that put their lives at risk.
Director: Lucas Combina | Stars: Alberto Ajaka, Joaquin Batista Yaber, César Bordón, Pol Bossi
Votes: 597
26. Man in the Dark (1964)
Not Rated | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
When the wife of a blind composer discovers that her husband will cut her out of his estate, if he discovers that she is having an affair with a young artist, she and her lover plan to commit the perfect murder.
Director: Lance Comfort | Stars: William Sylvester, Barbara Shelley, Elizabeth Shepherd, Alexander Davion
Votes: 236
27. The Casino Murder Case (1935)
Passed | 82 min | Crime, Mystery, Romance
After socialite Lynn Llewellyn receives an anonymous threat, he is poisoned at his uncle's casino, and although he recovers, his wife is murdered by the same killer.
Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Paul Lukas, Alison Skipworth, Donald Cook, Rosalind Russell
Votes: 788
28. Tom and Jerry Meet Sherlock Holmes (2010 Video)
TV-G | 50 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Miss Red is being blackmailed. When she asks Sherlock Holmes for help, he connects her case to a series of jewel thefts and tells his assistant Jerry the Mouse to work with Red's butler Tom the Cat for the duration of this case.
Directors: Spike Brandt, Jeff Siergey | Stars: Michael York, Malcolm McDowell, John Rhys-Davies, Grey Griffin
Votes: 2,047
29. Les spécialistes (1985)
94 min | Adventure, Crime
During a routine transfer of prisoners from one jail to another, an accused cop killer, Paul Brandon, is temporarily chained to a con with only a year left to serve, Stéphane Carella. Paul ... See full summary »
Director: Patrice Leconte | Stars: Bernard Giraudeau, Gérard Lanvin, Christiane Jean, Maurice Barrier
Votes: 1,183
30. Sweet Killing (1993)
R | 87 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A business man decides to kill his wife but the plan sets off a chain of weird events that cause his life to become a living hell.
Director: Eddy Matalon | Stars: Anthony Higgins, Leslie Hope, F. Murray Abraham, Michael Ironside
Votes: 122
31. Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime (1941)
Passed | 68 min | Mystery
Several days after one of his company's dams burst, ruining the life savings of several investors, a shady power company president is found stabbed to death. Ellery Queen gets to the bottom of the mystery.
Director: James P. Hogan | Stars: Ralph Bellamy, Margaret Lindsay, Charley Grapewin, Spring Byington
Votes: 159
32. Double Alibi (1940)
Approved | 60 min | Adventure, Crime, Mystery
A man's ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect.
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Wayne Morris, Margaret Lindsay, William Gargan, Roscoe Karns
Votes: 61
33. The Stalker's Apprentice (1998 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 76 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Marcus Walwyn develops a fatal obsession for a young girl he meets on a train. Corrupted by a book he reads by the convicted serial killer Helmut Kranze he embarks on a murderous mission.
Director: Marcus D.F. White | Stars: Peter Davison, James Bolam, Paula Wilcox, Gideon Turner
Votes: 119
34. Perfect Crimes (1991 TV Movie)
60 min | Crime
True stories about individuals seeking to commit a perfect crime.
Directors: Dan Jackson, Armand Mastroianni | Stars: Telly Savalas, Bruce Greenwood, Lisa Hartman, Dennis Farina
Votes: 18
35. Davids bog (1996)
97 min | Thriller
Henrik and Jacob have just finished high school, but they can't get into university, so Jacob gets a job as a waiter and Henrik helps his uncle clear out a rich man's villa after the owner ... See full summary »
Director: Lasse Spang Olsen | Stars: Tomas Villum Jensen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Camilla Overbye Roos, Torben Jensen
Votes: 141
36. 5% de risque (1980)
95 min | Crime, Drama
A troubled gentleman named David ponders whether vegemite can be consumed undiluted without posing a health risk. Meanwhile his friend, a senior government official, returning from an ... See full summary »
Director: Jean Pourtalé | Stars: Bruno Ganz, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Aurore Clément, Pierre Michaël
Votes: 39
37. Minority Report (2002 Video Game)
T | Action, Adventure, Drama
In the future, where crimes can be predicted and thus non existent, police chief John Anderton must go on the run when he's predicted to murder a man.
Stars: Clancy Brown, Quinton Flynn, Daran Norris, Jay Gordon
Votes: 162
38. Paper Gallows (1950)
Approved | 68 min | Crime, Thriller
A story of two brothers, both writers of crime novels, one a fine, upstanding gentleman and the other a moody, neurotic, psychopath. The other is determined to create a 'faked' version of a... See full summary »
Director: John Guillermin | Stars: Dermot Walsh, Rona Anderson, John Bentley, Michael Martin Harvey
Votes: 35
39. An Impossible Crime (1954)
98 min | Crime
A famous novelist is murdered in a closed room inside and out. Suicide is ruled out, as there are signs of fighting and the shot that killed him was in the back.
Director: César Fernández Ardavín | Stars: José Suárez, Félix Fernández, Nani Fernández, Ángel Picazo
Votes: 24
40. The Man Who Cried Wolf (1937)
Approved | 68 min | Crime, Drama
An actor continually confesses to murders he didn't commit, figuring that the police won't believe him when he confesses to a murder that he actually does intend to commit.
Director: Lewis R. Foster | Stars: Lewis Stone, Barbara Read, Tom Brown, Forrester Harvey
Votes: 69
41. Beneath the Veneer of a Murder (2010)
Unrated | 8 min | Short, Crime, Drama
A brief, tense phone conversation between politically connected powerhouse Tom Buchanan and a desperate lower-class thug named Judd over Buchanan's bisexual wife Daisy, her working-class ... See full summary »
Director: Angel Connell | Stars: Christy Scott Cashman, Eric Scheiner, Mark Grant, Jennifer McCartney
Votes: 37
42. Hra se smrtí (1995 TV Movie)
58 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Over the course of a single night, the drama of two people who have never seen each other before unfolds in an empty house. An unknown man kidnaps a lonely woman and assaults her in her ... See full summary »
Director: Lucie Belohradská | Stars: Ilja Racek, Vilma Cibulková, Vera Budilová, Jitka Jezková
43. Thirty Seconds (2020)
Short, Crime, Thriller
In the aftermath of a robbery, James and Victoria escape to a train station and enjoy a moment filled with ideas of the new life that money will bring to them. With love in their eyes, the ... See full summary »
Director: Christopher Long | Stars: Martina Karra, James Wesley Kern, Sean Kody, Hana Bae
44. Straight and Narrow (1931)
Passed | 8 min | Short, Crime
A member of the "Ex-Convict's Club" is seen and heard telling the assembled club members how a certain "Perfect Crime" was committed.
Director: David D'Agostino | Stars: Allen Jenkins, Ed Robbins
45. Kleingeistganoven (2016)
7 min | Short, Comedy, Crime
Two friends are trying to plan the perfect crime, but they need more than an obsession with gangster movies to succeed.
Director: Dennis Vehlen | Stars: Dannie Lennertz, Dennis Vehlen, Ingeborg Vehlen
46. A Gigot (1975)
Short, Comedy, Crime
Director: Jozefína Petrásová | Stars: Karel Augusta, Petr Cepek, Jirí Hrzán, Václav Kotva
47. Novelty Man (1977)
Short, Crime, Mystery
Director: Craig Lahiff | Stars: Edwin Hodgeman, Michael Moody
48. Casebook: Episode III - Snake in the Grass (2009 Video Game)
Adventure, Crime, Mystery
Detective James Burton is convinced that Marlon Hapman has committed a brutal murder in the chapel of a small town called Garden. Investigate the case carefully and determine whether your partner is on the mark or jumping to conclusions.
Director: Sam Clarkson | Stars: Vivienne Aitken, David Corballis, Nick Duval-Smith, Rory Furlong
49.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985–1989)
Episode:
Anniversary Gift
(1987)
TV-PG | 30 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
In cahoots with her lover, a traitorous wife buys her pet-loving husband a deadly snake that looks like a non venomous one in an attempt to commit the perfect crime and get her husband's life insurance.
Director: Ryszard Bugajski | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Pamela Sue Martin, Peter Dvorsky, Paul Hubbard
Votes: 98
50.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999– )
Episode:
Identity
(2005)
TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When a murdered gang member is linked to a sexual assault, Benson and Stabler find neither the alleged victim nor the alleged killer to be who they think.
Director: Rick Wallace | Stars: Christopher Meloni, Mariska Hargitay, Richard Belzer, Diane Neal
Votes: 1,389