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

1. Psycho (1960)

R | 109 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin

Votes: 718,206 | Gross: $32.00M

2. The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

R | 99 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

A writer encounters the owner of an aging high-class hotel, who tells him of his early years serving as a lobby boy in the hotel's glorious years under an exceptional concierge.

Director: Wes Anderson | Stars: Ralph Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham, Mathieu Amalric, Adrien Brody

Votes: 886,492 | Gross: $59.10M

3. The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016)

R | 86 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A father and son, both coroners, are pulled into a complex mystery while attempting to identify the cause of death of a young woman who was apparently harboring dark secrets.

Director: André Øvredal | Stars: Brian Cox, Emile Hirsch, Ophelia Lovibond, Michael McElhatton

Votes: 139,168 | Gross: $0.01M

4. The Shack (I) (2017)

PG-13 | 132 min | Drama, Fantasy

A grieving man receives a mysterious, personal invitation to meet with God at a place called "The Shack."

Director: Stuart Hazeldine | Stars: Sam Worthington, Octavia Spencer, Tim McGraw, Radha Mitchell

Votes: 39,162 | Gross: $57.39M

5. Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

Not Rated | 118 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller

A Brooklyn writer of books on the futility of marriage risks his reputation after he decides to tie the knot. Things get even more complicated when he learns on his wedding day that his beloved maiden aunts are habitual murderers.

Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey, Jack Carson

Votes: 74,966

6. Psycho IV: The Beginning (1990 TV Movie)

R | 96 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Norman Bates recalls his childhood with his abusive mother while fearing his unborn child will inherit his split personality disorder.

Director: Mick Garris | Stars: Anthony Perkins, CCH Pounder, Henry Thomas, Olivia Hussey

Votes: 9,716

7. The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave (1971)

R | 103 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A rich, mentally-unstable man - with a penchant for playing deadly S&M games with women who resemble his dead wife - sparks off a chain of bizarre events after getting remarried.

Director: Emilio Miraglia | Stars: Anthony Steffen, Marina Malfatti, Enzo Tarascio, Giacomo Rossi Stuart

Votes: 2,923

8. The Traitor (2019)

R | 153 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

The real life of Tommaso Buscetta, the so-called "boss of the two worlds," the first mafia informant in Sicily in the 1980s.

Director: Marco Bellocchio | Stars: Pierfrancesco Favino, Maria Fernanda Cândido, Fabrizio Ferracane, Fausto Russo Alesi

Votes: 12,967

9. Murder Ahoy (1964)

Unrated | 93 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

After Miss Jane Marple is made a trustee of a merchant marine training vessel, a fellow trustee is poisoned, and ship's officers are later murdered after she comes on board.

Director: George Pollock | Stars: Margaret Rutherford, Lionel Jeffries, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, William Mervyn

Votes: 5,802

10. Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! (2015)

Not Rated | 139 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Detective Byomkesh Bakshy is set in the 2nd World War torn Calcutta during the 1940s. Enter a magical world of nostalgia and 'Expect the Unexpected'.

Director: Dibakar Banerjee | Stars: Sushant Singh Rajput, Anand Tiwari, Neeraj Kabi, Divya Menon

Votes: 24,372 | Gross: $0.58M

11. A Blueprint for Murder (1953)

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

Whitney Cameron suspects his sister-in-law has poisoned his brother and niece, but without proof how does he prevent the murder of his nephew?

Director: Andrew L. Stone | Stars: Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters, Gary Merrill, Catherine McLeod

Votes: 1,832

12. Hangup (1974)

R | 94 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A rookie cop on the undercover narcotic squad falls for the junkie who can help him nab a ruthless pusher/killer.

Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: William Elliott, Marki Bey, Cliff Potts, Michael Lerner

Votes: 82

13. Salvatore Giuliano (1962)

Not Rated | 125 min | Crime, Drama, History

The unclear and complicated twists between governal powers, independentist party and Mafia in the Sicily of the '40s culminate with the death of Salvatore Giuliano.

Director: Francesco Rosi | Stars: Frank Wolff, Salvo Randone, Frederico Zardi, Pippo Agusta

Votes: 3,705

14. Stolen Spring (1993)

Not Rated | 89 min | Drama

We follow 4 classmates in a strict boys' secondary school in 1950s Copenhagen, where a sadistic teacher torments his students. We meet them again at their 35 year class reunion.

Director: Peter Schrøder | Stars: Frits Helmuth, Tomas Villum Jensen, Jesper Langberg, Adam Simonsen

Votes: 2,306

15. Pink String and Sealing Wax (1945)

Not Rated | 89 min | Drama, Thriller

A drunken, abusive tavern-keeper's adulterous wife uses the backward son of a rigid, puritanical pharmacist who makes his entire family miserable.

Director: Robert Hamer | Stars: Mervyn Johns, Mary Merrall, Gordon Jackson, Jean Ireland

Votes: 685

16. The Crucifer of Blood (1991 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 103 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A beautiful young woman asks Holmes to help her father, a former army captain and hopeless opium addict break free of the curse surrounding a stolen treasure.

Director: Fraser C. Heston | Stars: Charlton Heston, Richard Johnson, Susannah Harker, Edward Fox

Votes: 594

17. The Maiden and the Wolves (2008)

110 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

At the end of World War I, 20 year-old Angèle is determined to become the first woman veterinarian. Her life is an adventurous one and she becomes the object of ruthless rivalry between the... See full summary »

Director: Gilles Legrand | Stars: Laetitia Casta, Jean-Paul Rouve, Stefano Accorsi, Miglen Mirtchev

Votes: 604

18. The Glass Tomb (1955)

Not Rated | 59 min | Mystery

Crowds flock to a carnival sideshow to see "The Starving Man", a heavyset man who claims he can go 70 days without eating. However, a couple of murders occur at the carnival, resulting in the police becoming involved.

Director: Montgomery Tully | Stars: John Ireland, Honor Blackman, Geoffrey Keen, Eric Pohlmann

Votes: 334

19. La poliziotta a New York (1981)

91 min | Comedy

A Texan travels to Rome to hire two police officers to impersonate a mobster's girlfriend and his most ruthless hitman.

Director: Michele Massimo Tarantini | Stars: Edwige Fenech, Alvaro Vitali, Giacomo Rizzo, Edith Peters

Votes: 286

20. New York Wildcats (2005 Video)

Unrated | 46 min | Drama

Chelsea Mundae runs an exotic New York club. Her star body-painted, exotic dancers include Kitty (Katie Jordan), Rattlesnake (Ruby LaRocca) and Pleasure the Peacock (Misty Mundae).

Director: Johnny Crash | Stars: Chelsea Mundae, John Paul Fedele, Katie Jordan, Ruby Larocca

Votes: 114

21. Crimes of Passion: Dangerous Dreams (2013 TV Movie)

92 min | Crime, Thriller

Puck has managed to get a job working for the eccentric Nobel Literature Prize laureate Andreas Hallman. Hallman is charming and genial, but also a neurotic tyrant. He forces his wife, his ... See full summary »

Director: Molly Hartleb | Stars: Tuva Novotny, Linus Wahlgren, Ola Rapace, Björn Andersson

Votes: 693

22. The Curtain Rises (1938)

99 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Isabelle, Cécilia and François are drama students at the "Conservatoire d'art dramatique". Cécilia is in love with François, but the young man is in love with Isabelle instead. Cécilia elaborates a desperate plan to get back at François.

Director: Marc Allégret | Stars: Louis Jouvet, Claude Dauphin, Odette Joyeux, Janine Darcey

Votes: 308

23. Hidden Killers of the Victorian Home (2013 TV Movie)

60 min | Documentary, History

Suzannah Lipscomb takes a tour of the Victorian home and unveils the hidden dangers that posed a deadly threat to Victorian life.

Director: Suzanne Phillips | Stars: Suzannah Lipscomb, Judith Flanders, Kate Williams, Andy Meharg

Votes: 215

24. Dinner with Family with Brett Gelman and Brett Gelman's Family (2015 TV Movie)

TV-MA | 23 min | Comedy, Horror

Brett Gelman (Brett Gelman) throws his parents a dinner and tribute show for their 40th anniversary with the help of legendary actors Tony Roberts and Patti Lupone.

Director: Jason Woliner | Stars: Brett Gelman, Tony Roberts, Patti LuPone, Barbara Gruen

Votes: 82

25. The True Meaning of Pictures: Shelby Lee Adams' Appalachia (2002)

75 min | Documentary

The meaning of art itself comes into question in this documentary about Shelby Lee Adams' controversial photos of families in Appalachia.

Director: Jennifer Baichwal | Stars: Shelby Lee Adams, Chad Baker, Donnie Benton, Burley Childers

Votes: 237

26. Vyvrazdení rodiny Greenu (2002 TV Movie)

88 min | Crime, Thriller

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Director: Jirí Strach | Stars: Josef Somr, Jirí Dvorák, Viktor Preiss, Alois Svehlík

Votes: 29

27. Jericho Road (2019)

16 min | Short, Horror, Thriller

When his car breaks down on an old country road, a wanted murderer preys upon an elderly widow's courtesies. As the two converse, her good deed descends into a desperate struggle for survival.

Director: Brian Petersen | Stars: Pamela Slagg, Abi Bais, Tyler Colfer, Dean Deck

28. Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode: The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1990)

TV-14 | 103 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Hastings renews his friendship with Poirot and involves him in the mysterious poisoning of the mistress of a manor house married to a man twenty years her junior.

Director: Ross Devenish | Stars: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, Beatie Edney

Votes: 2,312

29. The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (2001–2007)
Episode: A Suitable Vengeance (2003)

Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Tommy and Helen go to his family estate for their engagement party, but long-hidden family secrets and a murder in the extended family disrupt the celebration.

Director: Edward Bennett | Stars: Peter Egan, Karl Picton, Gail Kemp, Nathaniel Parker

Votes: 376

30. Commissaire Moulin (1976– )
Episode: Les zombies (1992)

91 min | Crime, Drama

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Director: Yves Rénier | Stars: Yves Rénier, Clément Michu, Francis Lax, Diane Simenon

Votes: 6

31. The New Mike Hammer (1984–1989)
Episode: Mike's Baby (1986)

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

Hammer finds an abandoned baby boy that is struggling to live, addicted to heroin. Searching for the boy's mother, Hammer finds her overdosed on heroin and strychnine. Who killed her, who's the boy's father and why did she really die?

Director: Bruce Kessler | Stars: Stacy Keach, Lindsay Bloom, Don Stroud, Kent Williams

Votes: 28

32. Starsky and Hutch (1975–1979)
Episode: The Heroes (1977)

TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Reporter Chris Phelps rides along with Starsky and Hutch in order to research an article on "the counter-culture cops, the new breed," as they investigate pushers that are cutting their drugs with strychnine.

Director: Georg Stanford Brown | Stars: David Soul, Paul Michael Glaser, Antonio Fargas, Bernie Hamilton

Votes: 225

33. Dark Shadows (1966–1971)
Episode: Episode #1.677 (1969)

TV-G | 22 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

The spirit of Quentin Collins poisons Chris. Julia and Barnabas find him unconscious.

Director: Lela Swift | Stars: Jonathan Frid, Grayson Hall, Don Briscoe, David Henesy

Votes: 33

34. Dark Shadows (1966–1971)
Episode: Episode #1.676 (1969)

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

Chris tells Barnabas of the night when he first changed into a werewolf.

Director: Lela Swift | Stars: Jonathan Frid, Clarice Blackburn, Don Briscoe, David Henesy

Votes: 35

35. The Bullwinkle Show (1959–1963)
Episode: The Back-seat Divers or Mashed Landing/Bullwinkle's Water Follies or Antlers Aweigh (1959)

TV-G | 30 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Rocky & Bullwinkle, "Jet Fuel" Part 13 Fractured Fairy Tales "The Brave Little Tailor" Peabody's Improbably History "Lucretia Borgia" Rocky & Bullwinkle, "Jet Fuel" Part 14

Directors: Gerard Baldwin, Jim Hiltz, William T. Hurtz, Ted Parmelee, Gerald Ray, Dun Roman, Rudy Zamora | Stars: Edward Everett Horton, June Foray, Paul Frees, William Conrad

Votes: 46

36. Numb3rs (2005–2010)
Episode: End of Watch (2007)

TV-PG | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The discovery of a presumed dead police officer's badge brings the LAPD and Don's team together to solve the mystery of what happened 17 years ago. Elsewhere, Alan is served in a lawsuit, ... See full summary »

Director: Michael W. Watkins | Stars: Rob Morrow, David Krumholtz, Judd Hirsch, Alimi Ballard

Votes: 261

37. Murder, Mystery and My Family (2018– )
Episode: Episode #2.10 (2019)

44 min | Documentary, Crime, History

Sasha and Jeremy re-examine the poisoning of a man by his wife in 1930s Lincolnshire, a crime that was exposed by an anonymous note to the police. 84 years on the cousin of the woman hanged for the crime wants answers.

Directors: James Brailsford, Simon Cooper | Stars: Tony Hirst, Sasha Wass, Jeremy Dein, David Radford

38. Deadly Women (2005)
Episode: Greed (2005)

TV-PG | 42 min | Documentary, Crime

Deadly Women examines cases of women driven to murder by greed including Belle Gunness in Indiana who poisoned suitors with strychnine, Catherine Flannigan and Margaret Higgins who killed ... See full summary »

Director: Chris Thorburn | Stars: Marsha Crenshaw, Zelda Smyth, Adam Lester, Natalie Elfes

Votes: 14

39. Toon in with Me (2021– )
Episode: Wow What a Day! (2021)

TV-PG | Animation, Comedy

Bill and Toony celebrate National Best Friends Day, World Oceans Day, and National Name Your Poison Day, with a cartoon lineup featuring Pests for Guests (1955), Broom-Stick Bunny (1956), Fresh Fish (1939), Little Nobody (1936), and Cat Feud (1958).

Director: Mike Schmiedeler | Stars: Bill Leff, Kevin Fleming, Leila Gorstein

Votes: 6

40. Unsolved Mysteries of World War II (1992– )
Episode: Drugs and the Fuher (1992)

14 min | Documentary, History, War

Under the influence of personal physician Professor Morrell, Adolf Hitler's mental and physical state dramatically deteriorated. Recent evidence raises new questions about Hitler's ... See full summary »

Stars: Patrick Allen, George Lofland, Deon Sams

Votes: 5

41. The Old Fox (1977– )
Episode: Schleichendes Gift (2011)

Crime, Drama

A young woman ,Laura Tiefensee, disappeared two years ago.Suddenly her brother Leon, who was looking pictures of women in internet, recognizes Laura and call all the family.Sybille asks her... See full summary »

Director: Ulrich Zrenner | Stars: Walter Kreye, Michael Ande, Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss, Markus Böttcher

Votes: 17

42. BumbleBee (2021– )
Episode: Top 10 Unusual Things that Took Place in the Wild Wild West (2021)

11 min | Documentary, History

The Wild Wild West was truly wild. In fact probably wilder than you think but not for the reasons you think. Let's bust of a few myths to make room for some really strange stories. Yes, ... See full summary »

Star: Taylor McWatters

43. Chucky (2021– )
Episode: Death on Denial (2022)

TV-MA | 49 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror

Tiffany's secrets are threatened by a surprise intervention.

Director: Don Mancini | Stars: Zackary Arthur, Bjorgvin Arnarson, Alyvia Alyn Lind, Brad Dourif

Votes: 1,285

44. Agatha Christie's Great Detectives Poirot and Marple (2004–2005)
Episode: Ejiputo-funbo no nazo (zenpen) Kodai kara no chôsenjô (2004)

Animation, Adventure, Crime

"The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb, Part 2: The Curse of Pharoah Men-her-Ra." Poirot, Hastings, and Mabel search for a murderer on an archaeological dig.

Directors: Yumi Kamakura, Naohito Takahashi | Stars: Masako Jô, Kôji Matoba, Hirofumi Nojima, Fumiko Orikasa

45. Curious and Unusual Deaths (2009– )
Episode: Death by the Great Outdoors (2012)

TV-14 | History, Mystery

Mother Nature isn't always nurturing and she was out to get an overly ambitious kite flyer. But a snake shouldn't kill after it's pickled in beer. And golf isn't a particularly lethal sport.

Director: Aaron Woodley | Stars: Steve Herringer, Scott Skinner, Lou Bloomfield, J. Whitfield Gibbons

Votes: 10

46. Death in Paradise (2011– )
Episode: Death Onboard (2013)

TV-PG | 62 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Camille's friend, singer Aimee, collapses and dies on a boat owned by local entrepreneur Stephen Morrison and his wife Eloise,also a vocalist. Aimee was poisoned and her flat has been ... See full summary »

Director: Keith Boak | Stars: Dexter Fletcher, Dylan Edwards, Jamelia, Sara Martins

Votes: 615

47. Midsomer Murders (1997– )
Episode: The Killings of Copenhagen (2014)

TV-14 | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Barnaby and Nelson join forces with two female Danish police detectives after Eric Calder is poisoned by Strychnine coating when opening one of his famous golden clusters.

Director: Alex Pillai | Stars: Neil Dudgeon, Gwilym Lee, Fiona Dolman, Tamzin Malleson

Votes: 831

48. The Knick (2014–2015)
Episode: Working Late a Lot (2014)

TV-MA | 52 min | Drama, History

Thackery's affair with Nurse Lucy Elkins continues. Bertie continues to pursue her. There is a shortage of cocaine due to the war in the Philippines and attacks on shipping. It has a ... See full summary »

Director: Steven Soderbergh | Stars: Clive Owen, André Holland, Jeremy Bobb, Juliet Rylance

Votes: 1,088

49. Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (2012–2015)
Episode: Death & Hysteria (2015)

TV-PG | 55 min | Crime, Drama, History

When Phryne's Aunt Prudence opens her home to psychiatrist and natural healer Hayden Samuels to conduct his sanatorium for 'hysterical' women, Phryne takes on more than she bargained for.

Director: Mat King | Stars: Essie Davis, Nathan Page, Ashleigh Cummings, Miriam Margolyes

Votes: 362

50. Rizzoli & Isles (2010–2016)
Episode: Sister Sister (2015)

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

When a dog trainer is found dead at home, her champion Rottweiler is the prime suspect. As the team investigates this unlikely killer, Maura has a peculiar interaction with Kent (recurring guest star ADAM SINCLAIR - 24: Live Another Day).

Director: Steve Robin | Stars: Angie Harmon, Sasha Alexander, Jordan Bridges, Idara Victor

Votes: 315