Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "red-harring"

1. Quantico (2015–2018)

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

A look at the lives of young FBI recruits training at the Quantico base in Virginia when one of them is suspected of being a sleeper terrorist.

Stars: Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Jake McLaughlin, Johanna Braddy, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor

Votes: 63,869

2. Scream 3 (2000)

R | 116 min | Horror, Mystery

While Sidney and her friends visit the Hollywood set of Stab 3, the third film based on the Woodsboro murders, another Ghostface killer rises to terrorize them.

Director: Wes Craven | Stars: David Arquette, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, Liev Schreiber

Votes: 164,005 | Gross: $89.14M

3. Significant Other (2022)

R | 84 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Follows a young couple who take a remote backpacking trip through the Pacific Northwest and face sinister events leading them to realize that everything about the place is not as it seems.

Directors: Dan Berk, Robert Olsen | Stars: Maika Monroe, Jake Lacy, Matthew Yang King, Dana Green

Votes: 13,764

4. Midnight Sun (2016)

440 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The brutal murder of a French citizen sees French homicide investigator Kahina Zadi go to Kiruna, Sweden. Together with Rutger Burlin she begins an investigation that soon takes on staggering proportions.

Stars: Leïla Bekhti, Gustaf Hammarsten, Albin Grenholm, Jakob Hultcrantz Hansson

Votes: 5,382

5. Murder on the Blackpool Express (2017 TV Movie)

90 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

A Blackpool coach driver and a female tour guide get caught up in a whodunit mystery when someone starts bumping off their passengers, the elderly fans of a crime novelist who's showing them places that inspired his works, one by one.

Director: Simon Delaney | Stars: Susie Blake, Katy Cavanagh-Jupe, Matthew Cottle, Kevin Eldon

Votes: 1,588

6. Baffled (1972 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 90 min | Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller

A US racing champion is haunted by intense visions of an American woman in some kind of danger in a English mansion. A British ESP and occult expert believes that his visions will really happen and asks him to help her investigate them.

Director: Philip Leacock | Stars: Leonard Nimoy, Susan Hampshire, Rachel Roberts, Vera Miles

Votes: 440

7. Johnny Skidmarks (1998)

R | 96 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Johnny "Skidmark" Scardino is a free-lance crime-scene photographer and part-time blackmailer. When his associates begin to turn up murdered, he has a very short time to discover the killer before it is his turn.

Director: John Raffo | Stars: Peter Gallagher, Frances McDormand, John Lithgow, John Kapelos

Votes: 1,056

8. Ripper (1996 Video Game)

M | Adventure, Crime, Horror

Cyberpunk FMV adventure set in 2040. NYC reporter Jake Quinlan investigates a cyber serial killer inspired by Jack the Ripper. The game's three acts lead to an explosive climax in cyber space and four possible endings.

Director: Phil Parmet | Stars: Christopher Walken, Burgess Meredith, Karen Allen, David Patrick Kelly

Votes: 277

9. The Deceivers (1988)

PG-13 | 102 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

Fact-based account of a secret society of murderers, and of the man who exposed them in British India 1825.

Director: Nicholas Meyer | Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Saeed Jaffrey, Shashi Kapoor, Helena Michell

Votes: 1,270 | Gross: $0.35M

10. Love Kills (1991 TV Movie)

PG-13 | 88 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Unhappy wife has an affair with a stranger. He falls for her and reveals that he's in fact a hitman hired by her cheating husband to kill her. She confronts her husband, but he claims innocence. Who to trust?

Director: Brian Grant | Stars: Virginia Madsen, Lenny von Dohlen, Erich Anderson, Kate Hodge

Votes: 184

11. Contradiction: The Interactive Murder Mystery Movie (2015 Video Game)

Adventure, Crime, Mystery

FMV game about inspector Jenks, who's sent to a small English village to investigate the suspicious drowning of a student who attended the ominous local private personality development school, Atlas. He has one day to solve the mystery.

Director: Tim Follin | Stars: Rupert Booth, Paul Darrow, John Guilor, Huld Martha

Votes: 150

12. Attack of the Helping Hand! (1979)

6 min | Short, Comedy, Horror

General Mills' popular Hamburger Helper mascot also known as Helping Hand or Lefty, a four-fingered, left-hand white glove, which appears on the product's packaging, comes to life in a woman's kitchen and tries to grope her and kill her.

Director: Scott Spiegel | Stars: Linda Quiroz, Sam Raimi, Bruce Campbell

Votes: 192

13. Final Embrace (1991)

R | 83 min | Mystery, Thriller

A detective assigned to protect a pop singer gets romantically involved with her twin sister after the singer is murdered.

Director: Oley Sassone | Stars: Robert Rusler, Nancy Valen, Dick Van Patten, Dee McCafferty

Votes: 106

14. Santa Fe Mysteries: The Elk Moon Murder (1996 Video Game)

Adventure, Crime, Mystery

The player is a rookie Santa Fe police detective who along with his new experienced Native-American partner John Night Sky must solve the brutal murder of famous Native American artist Anna Elk Moon in five days or the game is over.

Director: Shannon Gilligan | Stars: Marc Alaimo, Bill Allen, Claudia Araujo, Lura Astor

15. Point of View (2001 Video Game)

Not Rated | Drama, Mystery, Romance

In an attempt to leave her traumatic past behind, Jane leads a low-key life. She takes interest in a cute sax player, but is too afraid to let him into her life. She's forced to deal with her issues, when someone begins stalking her.

Director: David Wheeler | Stars: Stefanie von Pfetten, Chris Bradford, Christopher Shyer, Sarah Rodgers

Votes: 62

16. Puzz 3D: Victorian Mansion (1999 Video Game)

Adventure, Crime, Mystery

Part of Puzz 3D video game series. Complete 3D jigsaw puzzles themed around a Victorian mansion to solve a murder that happened in the house. The game uses live action FMV clips to tell its murder mystery story.

Directors: Philippe-Andre Briere, Eric Ethier | Star: Paulina Abarca-Cantin

17. Tales from the Crypt (1989–1996)
Episode: Came the Dawn (1993)

Not Rated | 25 min | Comedy, Crime, Fantasy

A lecherous millionaire offers a lift to a beautiful seductress in the middle of nowhere with horrific consequences.

Director: Uli Edel | Stars: Brooke Shields, Perry King, Michael J. Pollard, Valerie Wildman

Votes: 711

18. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985–1989)
Episode: Fogbound (1988)

TV-PG | Crime, Drama, Mystery

On a fogbound night haunted by a serial killer, a man plans to seek revenge on the woman he blames for his girlfriend's murder.

Director: Mark Sobel | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Kathleen Quinlan, Stephen Mendel, Jonathan Crombie

Votes: 115

19. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985–1989)
Episode: Full Disclosure (1988)

TV-PG | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A former Vietnam War corespondent plans to write a tell all book about the government's dealings there. He immediately becomes a target but who exactly wants him dead quickly becomes less clear.

Director: Bill Corcoran | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Kevin Hicks, Robert Lansing, Al Waxman

Votes: 85

20. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985–1989)
Episode: Mirror Mirror (1989)

TV-PG | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A twin uses her sister's instability for seduction and murder.

Director: Richard J. Lewis | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Graham McPherson, Elizabeth Ashley, Robert Collins

Votes: 76

21. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985–1989)
Episode: Prisoners (1985)

TV-PG | Crime, Drama, Mystery

An introverted housewife befriends a tough escaped convict with a decent streak who broke into her fancy house to hide from police pursuit.

Director: Christopher Crowe | Stars: Yaphet Kotto, Cristina Raines, Steve Eastin, Larry McCormick

Votes: 120

22. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985–1989)
Episode: The Night Caller (1985)

TV-PG | 30 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A young divorcée, who's just moves in into a new building, must deal with a creepy ogler from the apartment across hers who may or may not be the stalker who's driving her insane with his obscene phone calls.

Director: John Byrum | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Linda Fiorentino, Michael O'Keefe, Tony Bill

Votes: 133

23. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985–1989)
Episode: Twisted Sisters (1988)

TV-PG | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A sorority president encounters tragedy when she tries to get revenge on a new member by taking her one night to a haunted house in a closed fun park where a pledge of hers had previously died.

Director: Timothy Bond | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Mia Sara, Carolyn Dunn, Marianna Pascal

Votes: 106

24. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985–1989)
Episode: User Deadly (1988)

TV-PG | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A grumpy luddite detective facing retirement investigates a string of brutal serial killings committed by a sadistic computer freak.

Director: Allan King | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Peter Spence, Harry Guardino, Geordie Johnson

Votes: 85

25. Miami Vice (1984–1989)
Episode: Asian Cut (1989)

TV-14 | 47 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Trudy poses as a prostitute to help Crockett and Tubbs catch a serial killer who they suspect is Asian because of the ritualistic way in which he mutilates his female victims.

Director: James A. Contner | Stars: Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Saundra Santiago, Michael Talbott

Votes: 298

26. Miami Vice (1984–1989)
Episode: Love at First Sight (1988)

TV-14 | 47 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Crockett and new bride Caitlin trade barbs as he goes undercover in the singles scene looking for a serial killer.

Director: Don Johnson | Stars: Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Saundra Santiago, Michael Talbott

Votes: 335

27. Mike Hammer, Private Eye (1997–1998)
Episode: Halloween (1997)

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

Hammer's new girlfriend is brutally murdered on Halloween. It appears that a satanic cult leader who's doing time for other murders is behind it. But Hammer knows it's never that simple.

Director: Jonathan Winfrey | Stars: Stacy Keach, Shane Conrad, Shannon Whirry, Kent Williams

Votes: 42

28. Night Visions (2001–2002)
Episode: If a Tree Falls.../The Occupant (2001)

TV-14 | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery

Three college friends drown in a lake and discover that they can still live as long as no one learns of their death. / Who keeps moving Mary's things and making noises in her house? Is someone invading her home, or is it all in her mind?

Directors: Joe Dante, Po-Chih Leong | Stars: Natasha Lyonne, Art Kitching, Jonathan Jackson, Bridget Fonda

Votes: 111

29. PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal (1996–2000)
Episode: Frozen Faith (1998)

TV-14 | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

While investigating a bizarre case of a young boy, whose room inexplicably froze along with him, Anton gets possessed by a playful, dangerous and unpredictable entity that may or may not be a fallen angel.

Director: Ron Oliver | Stars: Matt Frewer, Nancy Anne Sakovich, Barclay Hope, Colin Fox

Votes: 19

30. PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal (1996–2000)
Episode: Harlequin (1998)

TV-14 | 45 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

A capybara is killed in an animal shelter by what some believe to be the El Chupacabra. Dr. Bob Dalhousie, who runs the shelter, turns out to be Cooper's biggest fan, which becomes a problem.

Director: Ron Oliver | Stars: Matt Frewer, Nancy Anne Sakovich, Barclay Hope, Colin Fox

Votes: 17

31. PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal (1996–2000)
Episode: Heartland (1998)

TV-14 | 45 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

Something is creating dead zones on the land that's been given by the government to the Cree a long time ago, and people have now begun dying as well. Some believe it's supernatural, but the team has a more conspiratorial theory.

Director: Stephen Williams | Stars: Matt Frewer, Nancy Anne Sakovich, Barclay Hope, Colin Fox

Votes: 17

32. PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal (1996–2000)
Episode: Pentimento (1998)

TV-14 | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

A painting sketched by a traumatized artist in his own blood has something to do with a series of brutal killings. Meanwhile, Matt falls for a mystery woman.

Director: Vincenzo Natali | Stars: Matt Frewer, Nancy Anne Sakovich, Barclay Hope, Colin Fox

Votes: 19

33. PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal (1996–2000)
Episode: Valentine (1999)

TV-14 | 45 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

Lindsay falls for two men - a shady, charismatic nightclub owner and a charming, middle-aged widower, who are both connected to the case of a dead junkie drained of blood that the team is working on. Could one of them be a vampire?

Director: Ross Clyde | Stars: Matt Frewer, Nancy Anne Sakovich, Barclay Hope, Colin Fox

Votes: 19

34. PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal (1996–2000)
Episode: Wish I May (1997)

TV-14 | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

In the bayou, a man is somehow brought back from the dead, but he's still decomposing. The locals accuse his family of witchcraft. The team tries to help, but Hendricks, who's showing unusually high interest in the case, becomes unhinged.

Director: John Bell | Stars: Matt Frewer, Nancy Anne Sakovich, Barclay Hope, Colin Fox

Votes: 21

35. Popular (1999–2001)
Episode: I Know What You Did Last Spring Break (2001)

TV-14 | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Sam and Harrison claim they've spent their summer vacation in Yemen, so CDC agent Klein puts the school under quarantine in case of a viral infection. The two discuss their relationship. The rest of the gang is stalked by a masked killer.

Director: Ryan Murphy | Stars: Leslie Bibb, Carly Pope, Tamara Mello, Christopher Gorham

Votes: 77

36. The Ray Bradbury Theater (1985–1992)
Episode: The Lonely One (1992)

TV-14 | 23 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

After discovering the body of the latest victim of the serial killer known as The Lonely One, Lavinia persuades her friends to go to the movies to take their minds off the tragedy. The ... See full summary »

Director: Ian Mune | Stars: Joanna Cassidy, Sheila McCarthy, Maggie Harper, Stephen O'Rourke

Votes: 132

37. Sleepwalkers (1997–1998)
Episode: Eye of the Beholder (1998)

TV-14 | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

A woman keeps dreaming that her husband is trying to operate on her abdomen. The team discovers the presence of another person in her dreams, a confused man psychically linked to her. But why? Later, the team is hit by tragedy.

Director: William Malone | Stars: Naomi Watts, Daphne Ashbrook, Abraham Benrubi, Lorena Gale

Votes: 14

38. Tales from the Crypt (1989–1996)
Episode: Maniac at Large (1992)

Not Rated | 28 min | Comedy, Crime, Fantasy

A mousy librarian over-react reports of a serial killer.

Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: Blythe Danner, Salome Jens, Clarence Williams III, Obba Babatundé

Votes: 810

39. Tru Calling (2003–2005)
Episode: Murder in the Morgue (2004)

TV-14 | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

Tru faces her toughest test yet as Davis is shot in the morgue by a groom trying to cover up the truth about his bride's death on their wedding day. Tru's day rewinds just as the groom fires a bullet at Tru.

Director: David Solomon | Stars: Eliza Dushku, Shawn Reaves, Zach Galifianakis, A.J. Cook

Votes: 253

40. Twin Peaks (1990–1991)
Episode: Lonely Souls (1990)

TV-14 | 47 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Cooper and the One-Armed Man inspect guests at the Great Northern. Hawk finds Harold Smith dead - with a mysterious suicide note and the diary torn to shreds. Leo speaks to Bobby about "new shoes."

Director: David Lynch | Stars: Kyle MacLachlan, Michael Ontkean, Mädchen Amick, Dana Ashbrook

Votes: 6,430

41. VR.5 (1995–1997)
Episode: Dr. Strangechild (1995)

Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

On her first VR assignment for the Committee, Sydney must find an unhappy and spiteful teenage genius - who after making a momentous discovery has run away from the top secret weapons ... See full summary »

Director: Michael Katleman | Stars: Lori Singer, Michael Easton, Will Patton, David McCallum

Votes: 31

42. The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode: Schizogeny (1998)

TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A teenager becomes the prime suspect in his stepfather's odd murder. Mulder is not buying it since the man was literally swallowed by the ground. After another parent is killed, the suspicion falls on someone close to the kids.

Director: Ralph Hemecker | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Chad Lindberg, Sarah-Jane Redmond

Votes: 3,486

43. The New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show (1983–1985)
Episode: The Creature Came from Chem Lab/No Thanks Masked Manx (1983)

23 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Daphne's cousin asks the gang to help unravel the slimy monster, that haunts the high school. / The gang is invited to a party at Daphne's parents' home. A cat burglar plots to strike the party.

Directors: Oscar Dufau, George Gordon, Carl Urbano, John Walker, Rudy Zamora, Ray Patterson | Stars: Don Messick, Casey Kasem, Heather North

Votes: 60

44. Waking the Dead (2000–2011)
Episode: Double Bind: Part 1 (2007)

TV-14 | 58 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A badly decomposed body is discovered buried in a Hampstead garden, while a convicted murderer escapes from a secure psychiatric unit. The team is drawn back to a horrific double patricide from 1967.

Director: Andy Hay | Stars: Trevor Eve, Sue Johnston, Tara Fitzgerald, Wil Johnson

Votes: 130

45. Superman (1988)
Episode: Fugitive from Space/The Supermarket (1988)

24 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

As scientists try to decide which of a pair of aliens is a cop and which his prisoner, the bad guy hides eggs which will destroy the Earth in "Fugitive From Space." Ma Kent undertakes a shopping trip with baby Clark in "The Supermarket."

Directors: Cosmo Anzilotti, Bill Hutten, Tony Love, Charles Nichols | Stars: Jeannie Elias, Patrick Gorman, Tress MacNeille, Ginny McSwain

Votes: 44

46. Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? (2019–2021)
Episode: Space Station Scooby! (2020)

TV-PG | 22 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Scooby-Doo and the gang help science rock stars Bill Nye and Neil deGrasse Tyson save a team of astronauts trapped on a space station with a giant rampaging tardigrade on board.

Director: Sean Bishop | Stars: Frank Welker, Grey Griffin, Matthew Lillard, Kate Micucci

Votes: 96

47. Trial & Error (2017–2018)
Episode: The Verdict (2017)

TV-PG | 22 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

The trial is over and the verdict is finally announced. A key piece of evidence is found that answers the question, "Who killed Margaret Henderson".

Director: Jeffrey Blitz | Stars: Nicholas D'Agosto, Jayma Mays, Steven Boyer, Krysta Rodriguez

Votes: 210

48. The Twilight Zone (2019–2020)
Episode: Nightmare at 30,000 Feet (2019)

TV-MA | 37 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A journalist finds an MP3 player with a true crime podcast that details how the airplane he is currently on will disappear.

Director: Greg Yaitanes | Stars: Adam Scott, Chris Diamantopoulos, Dan Carlin, Katie Findlay

Votes: 4,997