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

1. A Simple Favor (2018)

R | 117 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Stephanie is a single mother with a parenting vlog who befriends Emily, a secretive upper-class woman who has a child at the same elementary school. When Emily goes missing, Stephanie takes it upon herself to investigate.

Director: Paul Feig | Stars: Anna Kendrick, Blake Lively, Henry Golding, Andrew Rannells

Votes: 164,449 | Gross: $53.55M

2. The Mentalist (2008–2015)

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

A famous "psychic" outs himself as a fake, and starts working as a consultant for the California Bureau of Investigation so he can find "Red John", the madman who killed his wife and daughter.

Stars: Simon Baker, Robin Tunney, Tim Kang, Owain Yeoman

Votes: 201,507

3. Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)

R | 206 min | Crime, Drama, History

When oil is discovered in 1920s Oklahoma under Osage Nation land, the Osage people are murdered one by one - until the FBI steps in to unravel the mystery.

Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Lily Gladstone, Jesse Plemons

Votes: 245,120

4. Fool Me Once (2024)

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

Widowed mum Maya is disturbed by an image of her late husband captured on her toddler's nanny cam.

Stars: Michelle Keegan, Adeel Akhtar, Richard Armitage, Emmett J Scanlan

Votes: 54,431

5. Glass Onion (2022)

PG-13 | 139 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Tech billionaire Miles Bron invites his friends for a getaway on his private Greek island. When someone turns up dead, Detective Benoit Blanc is put on the case.

Director: Rian Johnson | Stars: Daniel Craig, Edward Norton, Kate Hudson, Dave Bautista

Votes: 444,357

6. The Name of the Rose (1986)

R | 130 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

An intellectually nonconformist friar investigates a series of mysterious deaths in an isolated abbey.

Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud | Stars: Sean Connery, Christian Slater, Helmut Qualtinger, Elya Baskin

Votes: 117,756 | Gross: $7.15M

7. Identity Thief (2013)

R | 111 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Mild mannered businessman Sandy Patterson travels from Denver to Florida to confront the deceptively harmless looking woman who has been living it up after stealing Sandy's identity.

Director: Seth Gordon | Stars: Jason Bateman, Melissa McCarthy, John Cho, Amanda Peet

Votes: 141,143 | Gross: $134.51M

8. Disappearance at Clifton Hill (2019)

Unrated | 100 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Follows a troubled young woman returning to her hometown of Niagara Falls, where the memory of a long-ago kidnapping quickly ensnares her.

Director: Albert Shin | Stars: Addison Tymec, Mikayla Radan, Tim Beresford, Janet Porter

Votes: 5,115

9. Crooked House (2017)

PG-13 | 115 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

In Agatha Christie's most twisted tale, a spy-turned-private-detective is lured by his former lover to catch her grandfather's murderer before Scotland Yard exposes dark family secrets.

Director: Gilles Paquet-Brenner | Stars: Max Irons, Stefanie Martini, Glenn Close, Honor Kneafsey

Votes: 27,642

10. Dead Reckoning (1946)

Passed | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A soldier runs away rather than receive the Medal of Honor, so his buddy gets permission to investigate, and love and death soon follow.

Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Lizabeth Scott, Morris Carnovsky, Charles Cane

Votes: 8,817

11. The Stepfather (1987)

R | 89 min | Horror, Thriller

After murdering his entire family, a man marries a widow with a teenage daughter in another town and prepares to do it all over again.

Director: Joseph Ruben | Stars: Terry O'Quinn, Jill Schoelen, Shelley Hack, Charles Lanyer

Votes: 18,267 | Gross: $2.49M

12. Dream Lover (1993)

R | 103 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A successful businessman tries to uncover what is wrong with his wife.

Director: Nicholas Kazan | Stars: James Spader, Mädchen Amick, Fredric Lehne, Bess Armstrong

Votes: 6,116 | Gross: $0.26M

13. The Spencer Sisters (2023)

43 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Police officer Darby Spencer and her mystery novelist mother Victoria Spencer have opposite personalities but still embark on the unlikeliest of ventures: becoming partners in a private detective agency.

Stars: Lea Thompson, Stacey Farber, Thomas Antony Olajide, Edward Ruttle

Votes: 934

14. Deadly Invitations (2024)

89 min | Mystery, Thriller

An influencer comes across a VIP party invite not meant for her and dives headfirst into the side of the industry where secrets are worth killing for.

Director: Monika Mitchell | Stars: Natalie Brown, Lola Flanery, Nik Andrews, Lincoln McGowan

Votes: 45

15. Lady in White (1988)

PG-13 | 113 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery

An author tells the story of how, as a young boy growing up in a 1960s small town, he was haunted after witnessing the murder of a little girl.

Director: Frank LaLoggia | Stars: Lukas Haas, Len Cariou, Alex Rocco, Katherine Helmond

Votes: 8,078 | Gross: $1.71M

16. Aurora Teagarden Mystery: A Bone to Pick (2015 TV Movie)

TV-G | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Is librarian Roe the best sleuth in Real Murders Club? When Jane, a member of the club dies, Roe inherits her house, a skull hidden inside, and a mystery to solve.

Director: Martin Wood | Stars: Candace Cameron Bure, Lexa Doig, Marilu Henner, Bruce Dawson

Votes: 2,538

17. Fitzwilly (1967)

Not Rated | 102 min | Comedy, Romance

A butler and the staff of an eccentric aged philanthropist whose family wealth is exhausted engage in larceny and crimes to maintain her lifestyle and provide funds for her charitable activities.

Director: Delbert Mann | Stars: Dick Van Dyke, Barbara Feldon, John McGiver, Edith Evans

Votes: 2,055

18. True Crime (1995 Video)

R | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Mary, a precocious high school senior, longs to be a cop. When a classmate dies and the case remains unsolved, Mary becomes obsessed and gets involved in the investigation.

Director: Pat Verducci | Stars: Alicia Silverstone, Kevin Dillon, Bill Nunn, Michael Bowen

Votes: 3,083

19. Satan's School for Girls (1973 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 78 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery

A young woman investigating her sister's suicide at a private girls' school finds herself battling a Satanic cult.

Director: David Lowell Rich | Stars: Pamela Franklin, Kate Jackson, Lloyd Bochner, Jamie Smith-Jackson

Votes: 1,645

20. Devils of Darkness (1965)

Approved | 88 min | Horror

A secret vampire cult, which has its headquarters beneath the town cemetery, searches for victims for its human sacrifice rituals.

Director: Lance Comfort | Stars: William Sylvester, Hubert Noël, Carole Gray, Tracy Reed

Votes: 1,061

21. The Stepdaughter (2000 Video)

R | 92 min | Horror, Thriller

Growing up, Susan Heller survived countless foster homes and years of abuse and neglect with one burning goal: to someday find the birth mother who abandoned her--and get revenge.

Director: Peter Liapis | Stars: Andrea Roth, Lisa Dean Ryan, Jaimz Woolvett, Cindy Pickett

Votes: 617

22. The Cat and the Canary (1939)

Approved | 72 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery

When an eccentric family meets in their uncle's remote, decaying mansion on the tenth anniversary of his death for the reading of his will, murder and madness follow.

Director: Elliott Nugent | Stars: Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard, John Beal, Douglass Montgomery

Votes: 3,786

23. Along Came a Nanny (2014 TV Movie)

TV-G | 84 min | Mystery

The latest home invasion robbery in the Poplar Point neighborhood of Dillingham, Washington is the sixth in two months, this one the first that has left a resident, in this case Jim Donahoe... See full summary »

Director: Michael M. Scott | Stars: Cameron Mathison, Sarah Lancaster, Valin Shinyei, Jena Skodje

Votes: 1,029

24. Hangover Square (1945)

Passed | 77 min | Crime, Drama, Music

A promising classical musician finds his life poisoned by a music hall dancer -- and by the strange gaps in his memory.

Director: John Brahm | Stars: Laird Cregar, Linda Darnell, George Sanders, Glenn Langan

Votes: 4,155

25. She Says She's Innocent (1991 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 96 min | Drama

Three teenage friends get into a fight, and one of them accidentally gets killed. The two remaining girls promise each other to keep silent. As the police get more and more suspicious, the ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Correll | Stars: Katey Sagal, Jameson Parker, Robert Picardo, Alan Rachins

Votes: 506

26. The Riverbank (2012)

76 min | Mystery

A woman returns to her hometown following the death of her fathers second wife, which leads her to uncover dark family secrets.

Director: John L'Ecuyer | Stars: Rick Roberts, Kenneth Welsh, Kari Matchett, Cindy Doire

Votes: 200

27. Hollywood Story (1951)

Passed | 77 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

An independent producer unwisely opens a can of worms after he decides to make a movie about the unsolved murder of a famous silent film director in 1929.

Director: William Castle | Stars: Richard Conte, Julie Adams, Richard Egan, Henry Hull

Votes: 929

28. American Nightmare (1983)

R | 88 min | Horror, Crime, Thriller

A man investigates the disappearance of his sister with the help of her roommate. He uncovers a trail of prostitution, incest, blackmail...and murder.

Director: Don McBrearty | Stars: Lawrence Day, Lora Staley, Neil Dainard, Lenore Zann

Votes: 574

29. Family of Strangers (1993 TV Movie)

90 min | Drama

Julie must disclose her family's medical history before undergoing major surgery, but when she questions her family, she discovers that she was adopted; later she learns that she was conceived from rape.

Director: Sheldon Larry | Stars: Melissa Gilbert, Patty Duke, Martha Gibson, Gordon Clapp

Votes: 312

30. A Sister's Secret (2018 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 85 min | Drama

Based on true events. On their 30th birthday, twin sisters--one married with children, one single--secretly swap places. One of them is murdered. The survivor keeps up the masquerade by ... See full summary »

Director: D.J. Viola | Stars: Margaret Anne Florence, Donny Boaz, Paula Abdul, Josh Ventura

Votes: 554

31. Intruder (2020)

102 min | Mystery, Thriller

Seo-Jin is a popular architect. He suffers from a trauma when his younger sister Yoo-Jin went missing. 25 years after her disappearance, Yoo-Jin comes back to her family. Seo-Jin feels something is not right with Yoo-Jin.

Director: Sohn Won-Pyung | Stars: So Hee-jung, Lee Je-Yeon, Song Ji-hyo, Yang Mal-bok

Votes: 2,198

32. 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: 880

33. Girl on the Run (1953)

64 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery

Police investigate a murder that occurred in a burlesque theater.

Directors: Arthur J. Beckhard, Joseph Lerner | Stars: Richard Coogan, Rosemary Pettit, Frank Albertson, Harry Bannister

Votes: 262

34. Caroline? (1990 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 100 min | Drama

A mysterious woman claiming to be the deceased daughter of a rich man tries to solve the problems of his untrusting son and supposedly mentally handicaped daughter. But one question stands in her way: is she really Caroline?

Director: Joseph Sargent | Stars: Stephanie Zimbalist, Pamela Reed, George Grizzard, Patricia Neal

Votes: 518

35. Broken Vows (1987 TV Movie)

95 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

A ghetto priest has doubts about his calling and when he gives the last rites to a murder victim, he decides to help the man's girlfriend find his killers.

Director: Jud Taylor | Stars: Tommy Lee Jones, Annette O'Toole, M. Emmet Walsh, Milo O'Shea

Votes: 358

36. Nancy Drew... Reporter (1939)

Approved | 68 min | Comedy, Crime, Family

Nancy Drew, contest-reporter for the local newspaper, clears a young woman of murder charges.

Director: William Clemens | Stars: Bonita Granville, John Litel, Frankie Thomas, Dickie Jones

Votes: 1,467

37. Daddy's Girl (1996)

R | 95 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

A girl's bright smile masks a psychopathic soul that will eliminate anyone who comes between her and her doting father.

Director: Martin Kitrosser | Stars: William Katt, Michele Greene, Roxana Zal, Mimi Craven

Votes: 781

38. My Mom's Darkest Secrets (2019)

TV-PG | 85 min | Drama

Soon after meeting her long-lost biological mother, Ashley finds herself caught in a web of lies and deceit in which she isn't sure if her birth mother is innocent or guilty of a murder.

Director: Curtis Crawford | Stars: Laurie Fortier, Nia Roam, Kintaro Akiyama, Ash Catherwood

Votes: 200

39. The Death Kiss (1932)

Passed | 75 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Murder during film shoot sparks search for a killer.

Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Bela Lugosi, David Manners, Adrienne Ames, John Wray

Votes: 1,425

40. The Crooked Circle (1932)

Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Mystery

A group of amateur detectives sets out to expose The Crooked Circle, a secretive group of hooded occultists.

Director: H. Bruce Humberstone | Stars: Zasu Pitts, James Gleason, Ben Lyon, Irene Purcell

Votes: 383

41. No Man's Woman (1955)

Approved | 70 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery

The police investigates five possible suspects in the murder of a greedy and scheming woman who wronged them.

Director: Franklin Adreon | Stars: Marie Windsor, John Archer, Patric Knowles, Nancy Gates

Votes: 616

42. Slaves in Bondage (1937)

Passed | 70 min | Crime, Drama

Berrywood Roadhouse is a den of iniquity outside of town. Crooks use a beauty shop to recruit floozies into vice. The crooks target Dona Lee, who works at the beauty salon and is pursued by reporter wannabe Phillip as their next victim.

Director: Elmer Clifton | Stars: Lona Andre, Donald Reed, Wheeler Oakman, Florence Dudley

Votes: 243

43. Blood Will Tell (2019)

TV-MA | 113 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A thriller by film director-writer Miguel Cohan. A deadly duel within a family where there can be no winners.

Director: Miguel Cohan | Stars: Oscar Martínez, Dolores Fonzi, Diego Velázquez, Paulina García

Votes: 917

44. Easter (2023–2024)

Approved | Mystery

The mental illness of our sleuth, Pascha, pits him against his most formidable foe - himself.

Stars: Lnq, Reginald VelJohnson, Olkens Graham, Gina Martino

45. Crime Against Joe (1956)

Approved | 70 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller

A disreputable Korean War veteran is suspected of murder.

Director: Lee Sholem | Stars: John Bromfield, Julie London, Henry Calvin, Patricia Blair

Votes: 389

46. Fingerprints Don't Lie (1951)

Passed | 57 min | Drama

The killing of Mayor Palmer is being placed on Paul Moody by fingerprint expert Jim Stover as Moody's prints were found on the murder weapon. When reporter Brad Evans places doubt in ... See full summary »

Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Richard Travis, Sheila Ryan, Sid Melton, Tom Neal

Votes: 205

47. Deep Sleep (1990)

87 min | Mystery, Thriller

Shelly, institutionalized following the death of her father, returns home desperate for answers about his death. Her memories return, revealing long-repressed dark family secrets.

Director: Patricia Gruben | Stars: Megan Follows, Stuart Margolin, Patricia Collins, David Hewlett

Votes: 84

48. The Menace (1932)

Approved | 64 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Ronald Quayle escapes from prison. He was sent there for murdering his father, based on the testimony of his stepmother, Caroline. An explosion disfigures him, but plastic surgery gives him... See full summary »

Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: H.B. Warner, Walter Byron, Bette Davis, Natalie Moorhead

Votes: 629

49. Dying to Remember (1993 TV Movie)

PG-13 | 87 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A woman goes to a psychiatrist because she is plagued by recurring nightmares. The psychiatrist tells her that she was involved in a murder in San Francisco in a past life, and the ... See full summary »

Director: Arthur Allan Seidelman | Stars: Melissa Gilbert, Scott Plank, Christopher Stone, Jay Robinson

Votes: 180

50. Thrill of the Kill (2006 TV Movie)

88 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Brilliant New York crime author Graydon Jennings agrees to help Kelly Holden investigate her sister Allison's murder, which seems uncannily equal to one his anti-hero-lead character Carlton... See full summary »

Director: Richard Roy | Stars: Shiri Appleby, Chris Potter, Paul Hopkins, James Kidnie

Votes: 451