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

1. The Batman (2022)

PG-13 | 176 min | Action, Crime, Drama

When a sadistic serial killer begins murdering key political figures in Gotham, Batman is forced to investigate the city's hidden corruption and question his family's involvement.

Director: Matt Reeves | Stars: Robert Pattinson, Zoë Kravitz, Jeffrey Wright, Colin Farrell

Votes: 786,815 | Gross: $369.35M

2. Basic Instinct (1992)

R | 127 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A violent police detective investigates a brutal murder that might involve a manipulative and seductive novelist.

Director: Paul Verhoeven | Stars: Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone, George Dzundza, Jeanne Tripplehorn

Votes: 219,099 | Gross: $117.73M

3. Memories of Murder (2003)

Not Rated | 132 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

In a small Korean province in 1986, two detectives struggle with the case of multiple young women being found raped and murdered by an unknown culprit.

Director: Bong Joon Ho | Stars: Song Kang-ho, Kim Sang-kyung, Kim Roe-ha, Song Jae-ho

Votes: 216,296 | Gross: $0.01M

4. All Good Things (2010)

R | 101 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

David Marks, a real estate scion, is suspected of killing his wife Katie, who disappeared in 1982.

Director: Andrew Jarecki | Stars: Ryan Gosling, Kirsten Dunst, Frank Langella, Lily Rabe

Votes: 60,078 | Gross: $0.58M

5. Marcella (2016–2021)

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

Marcella Backland left the Metropolitan Police for the sake of her family, only to have her husband leave her. She returns to her job on the murder squad, investigating a case that seems disturbingly familiar to her.

Stars: Anna Friel, Ray Panthaki, Jack Doolan, Jamie Bamber

Votes: 37,227

6. The Stranger (II) (2022)

TV-MA | 117 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Two men who meet on a bus strike up a conversation that turns into friendship. For Henry Teague, worn down by a lifetime of physical labour and crime, this is a dream come true.

Director: Thomas M. Wright | Stars: Joel Edgerton, Sean Harris, Jada Alberts, Cormac Wright

Votes: 26,470

7. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)

R | 152 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A journalist is aided by a young female hacker in his search for the killer of a woman who has been dead for forty years.

Director: Niels Arden Oplev | Stars: Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace, Ewa Fröling, Lena Endre

Votes: 223,338 | Gross: $10.10M

8. The Girl Who Escaped: The Kara Robinson Story (2023)

TV-14 | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

It follows Kara Robinson as she survives an abduction and ultimately brings down a serial killer.

Director: Simone Stock | Stars: Katie Douglas, Cara Buono, Kristian Bruun, Erik Athavale

Votes: 3,797

9. Gaslight (1944)

Passed | 114 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Ten years after her aunt was murdered in their London home, a woman returns from Italy in the 1880s to resume residence with her new husband. His obsessive interest in the home rises from a secret that may require driving his wife insane.

Director: George Cukor | Stars: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, May Whitty

Votes: 33,885

10. The Drop (2014)

R | 106 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Bob Saginowski finds himself at the center of a robbery gone awry and entwined in an investigation that digs deeply into the neighborhood's past where friends, families, and foes all work together to make a living--no matter the cost.

Director: Michaël R. Roskam | Stars: Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, James Gandolfini, Matthias Schoenaerts

Votes: 162,037 | Gross: $10.72M

11. The Canyons (2013)

R | 99 min | Drama, Thriller

When Christian, an LA trust-fund kid with casual ties to Hollywood, learns of a secret affair between Tara and the lead of his film project, Ryan, he spirals out of control, and his cruel mind games escalate into an act of bloody violence.

Director: Paul Schrader | Stars: Lindsay Lohan, James Deen, Nolan Gerard Funk, Amanda Brooks

Votes: 11,773 | Gross: $0.05M

12. The Prowler (1981)

R | 89 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

An unknown killer, clad in World War II U.S. Army fatigues, stalks a small California town, bent on reliving a 35 year-old double murder by focusing on a group of college kids holding an annual graduation dance.

Director: Joseph Zito | Stars: Vicky Dawson, Christopher Goutman, Lawrence Tierney, Farley Granger

Votes: 13,000

13. Limbo (II) (2023)

108 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

'Limbo' follows the investigation of a twenty year-old outback cold case murder by jaded detective Travis Hurley.

Director: Ivan Sen | Stars: Simon Baker, Rob Collins, Natasha Wanganeen, Nicholas Hope

Votes: 1,582

14. The Pembrokeshire Murders (2021)

TV-14 | 48 min | Crime, Drama, History

DSU Steve Wilkins reopens two unsolved murder cases from the 1980s. Forensic methods link the crimes to a string of burglaries. Steve's team has to find more evidence before the perpetrator is released from prison.

Stars: Luke Evans, Keith Allen, Caroline Berry, Oliver Ryan

Votes: 10,845

15. Auto Focus (2002)

R | 105 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

The life of TV star Bob Crane and his strange friendship with electronics expert John Henry Carpenter.

Director: Paul Schrader | Stars: Greg Kinnear, Willem Dafoe, Maria Bello, Rita Wilson

Votes: 14,919 | Gross: $2.06M

16. Cold Justice (2013– )

TV-14 | 60 min | Documentary, Crime, Reality-TV

Reality series following former prosecutor Kelly Siegler and crime scene investigator Yolanda McClary as they crack cold cases across the U.S.

Stars: Kelly Siegler, Yolanda McClary, Steve Spingola, Alan Brown

Votes: 1,978

17. The Kid Detective (2020)

R | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

A once-celebrated kid detective, now 32, continues to solve the same trivial mysteries between hangovers and bouts of self-pity; until a naive client brings him his first 'adult' case to find out who brutally murdered her boyfriend.

Director: Evan Morgan | Stars: Kaitlyn Chalmers-Rizzato, Adam Brody, Kaleb Horn, Wendy Crewson

Votes: 22,514

18. Jennifer 8 (1992)

R | 124 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

John Berlin, a former Los Angeles homicide detective, investigates a multiple murder case in San Diego. The only witness is a blind girl to whom he is immediately attracted.

Director: Bruce Robinson | Stars: Andy Garcia, Uma Thurman, Lance Henriksen, Graham Beckel

Votes: 18,507 | Gross: $11.39M

19. The Silence (2010)

Not Rated | 118 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

13-year-old Sinikka vanishes on a hot summer night. Her bicycle is found in the exact place where a girl was killed 23 years ago. The dramatic present forces those involved in the original case to face their past.

Director: Baran bo Odar | Stars: Ulrich Thomsen, Claudia Michelsen, Wotan Wilke Möhring, Katrin Sass

Votes: 8,171 | Gross: $0.10M

20. Injustice (2011)

47 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A defense barrister is faced with the proposition: what can you do when you have defended the indefensible?

Stars: James Purefoy, Charlie Creed-Miles, Sasha Behar, Dervla Kirwan

Votes: 2,214

21. The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976)

Approved | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

The story of a hooded, berserk killer who terrorized the border town of Texarkana, Arkansas in 1946--leaving no fewer than five murder victims in his wake. He was never caught. Based on one of America's most baffling murder cases.

Director: Charles B. Pierce | Stars: Ben Johnson, Andrew Prine, Dawn Wells, Jimmy Clem

Votes: 9,784

22. Absence of Malice (1981)

PG | 116 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

When a prosecutor leaks to a Miami reporter that a liquor wholesaler is suspected in the murder of a union head, the man's life begins to unravel.

Director: Sydney Pollack | Stars: Paul Newman, Sally Field, Bob Balaban, Melinda Dillon

Votes: 14,759 | Gross: $40.72M

23. Jack the Ripper (1988)

TV-PG | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A Scotland Yard police inspector, battling the booze, investigates the Jack the Ripper murders and discovers a conspiracy that leads all the way up to the Queen.

Stars: Michael Caine, Armand Assante, Ray McAnally, Lewis Collins

Votes: 5,675

24. The Cat's Meow (2001)

PG-13 | 114 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Semi-true story of the Hollywood murder that occurred at a star-studded gathering aboard William Randolph Hearst's yacht in 1924.

Director: Peter Bogdanovich | Stars: Kirsten Dunst, Cary Elwes, Edward Herrmann, Eddie Izzard

Votes: 8,958 | Gross: $3.21M

25. The Girl in the Fog (2017)

PG-13 | 128 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Special agent Vogel is sent to an isolated town in a remote mountain valley to investigate the case of a sixteen years old's disappearance.

Director: Donato Carrisi | Stars: Toni Servillo, Alessio Boni, Lorenzo Richelmy, Galatea Ranzi

Votes: 13,014

26. Shock Corridor (1963)

Approved | 101 min | Drama, Mystery

Bent on winning a Pulitzer Prize, a journalist commits himself to a mental institution to solve a strange and unclear murder.

Director: Samuel Fuller | Stars: Peter Breck, Constance Towers, Gene Evans, James Best

Votes: 13,056

27. The Confession Killer (2019)

TV-14 | 48 min | Documentary, Crime

Henry Lee Lucas was known as America's most prolific serial killer, admitting to hundreds of murders, but, as DNA results contradict his confessions, will they expose the biggest criminal justice hoax in U.S. history?

Stars: Bob Prince, Nan Cuba, Hugh Aynesworth, Phil Ryan

Votes: 10,309

28. Mark of the Vampire (1935)

Passed | 60 min | Horror, Mystery

When a nobleman is murdered, a professor of the occult blames vampires, but not all is what it seems.

Director: Tod Browning | Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Elizabeth Allan, Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill

Votes: 5,578

29. Murder on Middle Beach (2020)

TV-MA | 66 min | Documentary, Crime, Mystery

A young man is determined to solve an unspeakable crime and absolve the people he loves, while looking for answers within his fractured family and community.

Stars: Madison Hamburg, Mark E. Safarik

Votes: 4,551

30. The Secret of Sinchanee (2021)

115 min | Horror

An industrial tow truck driver suffering from insomnia returns to his childhood home after the untimely death of his father, to discover that a paranormal presence has been living in the house and haunting the sacred land it was built on.

Director: Steven Grayhm | Stars: Steven Grayhm, Nate Boyer, Laila Lockhart Kraner, Tamara Austin

Votes: 4,160

31. Amber's Story (2006 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 88 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

Story about Amber Hagerman who was 9 years old when she was abducted while riding her bicycle, prompting her mother to seek out a system that alerts the nation of abducted children, we know that to be called an Amber Alert today.

Director: Keoni Waxman | Stars: Elisabeth Röhm, Teryl Rothery, Myron Natwick, Sophie Hough

Votes: 600

32. Duffle Bag Boy (2024)

Action, Adventure, Crime

Lost and forgotten, a homeless veteran hitchhikes his way into becoming an outlaw and goes to war with the kingpin of a criminal empire.

Director: Alexander Raye Pimentel | Stars: Alexander Raye Pimentel, Cheryce Livingston, James Anthony Perez, Don Tempesta

33. Creepy (2016)

Not Rated | 130 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

Takakura is a former detective. He receives a request from his ex-colleague, Nogami, to examine a missing family case that occurred six years earlier. Takakura follows Saki's memory. She is... See full summary »

Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Stars: Hidetoshi Nishijima, Yûko Takeuchi, Toru Baba, Ryôko Fujino

Votes: 5,984

34. Amber: The Girl Behind the Alert (2023)

TV-PG | 92 min | Documentary, Crime

Amber Hagerman's mother details her daughter's shocking murder and shares chilling documentary footage that captures the 9-year-old's final days; Amber's legacy is an alert system that has saved over a thousand children.

Director: Elizabeth Fisher | Stars: Dee Anderson, Deanna Boyd, Rae-Leigh Bradbury, George W. Bush

Votes: 490

35. Who Killed Jill Dando? (2023)

TV-MA | 46 min | Documentary, Crime, History

Revisit the shocking 1999 murder of beloved TV presenter Jill Dando, which continues to mystify experts and the public, in this in-depth documentary.

Stars: Jane Moore, Hamish Campbell, Gareth Snow, Jon Roseman

Votes: 2,398

36. Lost Souls (1998 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 90 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

As a family moves into their new country home, strange events occur, making them believe that their autistic daughter is communicating with the spirits of two murdered children.

Director: Jeff Woolnough | Stars: John Savage, Barbara Sukowa, Richard Lintern, Laura Harling

Votes: 298

37. Love Finds You in Sugarcreek (2014 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 92 min | Family, Mystery, Romance

Baseball player Micah Matthias and his young son Bobby are big Leeds United fans, lost in America. They end up in the quaint Amish community of Sugarcreek, Ohio under a set of aliases and ... See full summary »

Director: Terry Cunningham | Stars: Tom Everett Scott, Sarah Lancaster, Kelly McGillis, Thomas Kapanowski

Votes: 1,067

38. Moontide (1942)

Approved | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

In California, Bobo and his mooching pal Tiny are doing odd jobs and getting drunk and they hide a secret about the unsolved murder of sailor Pop Kelly but suicidal waitress Anna, saved by Bobo, unravels the mystery.

Directors: Archie Mayo, Fritz Lang | Stars: Jean Gabin, Ida Lupino, Thomas Mitchell, Claude Rains

Votes: 2,229

39. Where Sleeping Dogs Lie (1991)

R | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A murder mystery writer misreads the nervous man he bullies in a spooky Hollywood mansion.

Director: Charles Finch | Stars: Dylan McDermott, Tom Sizemore, Sharon Stone, Ron Karabatsos

Votes: 1,077

40. Who Is the Black Dahlia? (1975 TV Movie)

100 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

In Los Angeles in 1947, a police detective tries to solve the shocking and grisly murder of 22-year-old aspiring actress Elizabeth Short, whose nude body was dumped in a lot after being ... See full summary »

Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: Brooke Adams, Donna Mills, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Ronny Cox

Votes: 402

41. The Unguarded Moment (1956)

Approved | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A beautiful teacher is protective of a high school boy who sexually harassed her, and later he becomes a murder suspect.

Director: Harry Keller | Stars: Esther Williams, George Nader, John Saxon, Edward Andrews

Votes: 488

42. Dig Deeper - Das Verschwinden von Birgit Meier (2021)

236 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime

After Birgit Meier vanishes in 1989, police missteps plague the case for years. But her brother never wavers in his tireless quest to find the truth.

Stars: Wolfgang Sielaff, Harald Meier, Frederic Heidorn, Sandra Schreiber

Votes: 2,494

43. Deadly Hollywood Obsession (2019 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 87 min | Thriller

After saving 10-year-old Jack from an attempted kidnapping, Casey Wright (Sarah Roemer) is hired by Jack's famous father - "the" Sam Austin (Jon Prescott) - to be Jack's home-school teacher... See full summary »

Director: Daniel Ringey | Stars: Sarah Roemer, Jon Prescott, Hannah Barefoot, Adrian Gaeta

Votes: 254

44. In the Footsteps of Killers (2021– )

TV-14 | 65 min | Documentary, Crime

Emilia Fox and Professor David Wilson use the latest forensic science and criminological research to shed new light on unsolved murder cases.

Stars: Emilia Fox, David Wilson, Graham Hill

Votes: 256

45. Omar Killed Me (2011)

85 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

In the summer of 1991 an elderly woman Ghislaine Marchal is found murdered in the basement of her home with the message "Omar M'a Tuer" (Omar has kill me) written beside in her own blood. ... See full summary »

Director: Roschdy Zem | Stars: Sami Bouajila, Denis Podalydès, Maurice Bénichou, Salomé Stévenin

Votes: 1,595

46. The Unseen (1945)

Approved | 80 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Horror

A secretive widower hires a governess for his children, a willful boy and impressionable girl. Strange occurrences and the governess's curiosity lead her to unlock the secrets of the mysterious and uninhabited brownstone next door.

Director: Lewis Allen | Stars: Joel McCrea, Gail Russell, Herbert Marshall, Phyllis Brooks

Votes: 611

47. The Road (III) (2011)

R | 110 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

A 12 year old cold case is reopened when three teens are missing in an old abandoned road where a gruesome murder is left undiscovered for three decades.

Director: Yam Laranas | Stars: Carmina Villaroel, Rhian Ramos, TJ Trinidad, Barbie Forteza

Votes: 1,827 | Gross: $0.12M

48. John Doe: Vigilante (2014)

R | 93 min | Crime, Thriller

An ordinary man fights violence the only way he knows how - by killing one criminal at a time. Hero or villain? Justice or vengeance? You decide.

Director: Kelly Dolen | Stars: Jamie Bamber, Lachy Hulme, Gary Abrahams, Sam Parsonson

Votes: 8,696

49. A Crooked Somebody (2017)

R | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

An attention-seeking psychic is kidnapped and tries to use the situation to boost his popularity.

Director: Trevor White | Stars: Clifton Collins Jr., Ed Harris, Amanda Crew, Amy Madigan

Votes: 1,342

50. Double Xposure (2012)

105 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

When Song Qi stumbles upon her boyfriend's affair with her best friend, her life quickly starts falling apart and she is subsequently drawn into a quicksand of revenge and murder. Though ... See full summary »

Director: Yu Li | Stars: Bingbing Fan, Shaofeng Feng, Siyan Huo, Anlian Yao

Votes: 492