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51. Between Strangers (2002)
R | 95 min | Drama
Three women confront their pasts which changes their futures.
Director: Edoardo Ponti | Stars: Sophia Loren, Mira Sorvino, Deborah Kara Unger, Pete Postlethwaite
Votes: 1,115
52. The Sleepwalker Killing (1997 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 88 min | Crime, Drama
Can a sleepwalker commit murder? Mark Schall admits being guilty of murdering his mother-in-law. In his defense, a team of lawyers attempt to prove that while Mark did in fact carry out murder, he was not awake when it happened.
Director: John Cosgrove | Stars: Hilary Swank, Jeffrey Nordling, Charles Esten, Natalija Nogulich
Votes: 376
53. Running Wild (2006)
Not Rated | 124 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Hot-blooded district attorney Jin-woo and undisciplined cop Do-young want the same thing; justice. Their methods are completely different but they team up to catch and prosecute a powerful mafia boss and politician YOO.
Director: Kim Seong-soo | Stars: Kwon Sang-woo, Yoo Ji-tae, Son Byung-ho, Son Byung-wook
Votes: 868
54. Hotel Colonial (1987)
R | 104 min | Adventure, Drama
Marco Venieri receives word that his brother Luca, an ex-terrorist turned state's evidence, has killed himself in Columbia. Marco takes the journey to Columbia only to find a country permeated with poverty, corruption, racism and crime.
Director: Cinzia TH Torrini | Stars: John Savage, Rachel Ward, Massimo Troisi, Robert Duvall
Votes: 315
55. The Faith of Anna Waters (I) (2016)
TV-MA | 95 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
When young and successful reporter Jamie finds out that her sister has died in mysterious circumstances, she travels to Singapore to uncover the truth. There, she discovers multiple deaths ... See full summary »
Director: Kelvin Tong | Stars: Daeng Amer Omar, Darius Tan, Colin Borgonon, Elizabeth Rice
Votes: 2,102
56. L'homme en colère (1979)
97 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A man goes to Canada looking for his son. The corpse of his son is later discovered by the Canadian police.
Director: Claude Pinoteau | Stars: Lino Ventura, Angie Dickinson, Laurent Malet, Hollis McLaren
Votes: 358
57. Murder on a Honeymoon (1935)
Approved | 74 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
A schoolteacher and amateur sleuth suspects foul play when a fellow passenger on a sea-plane gets sick and dies.
Director: Lloyd Corrigan | Stars: Edna May Oliver, James Gleason, Lola Lane, George Meeker
Votes: 898
58. A Stranger to Love (1996 TV Movie)
PG | 96 min | Drama, Romance
Alan is a normal middleaged man with a wife and two kids. One night he is attacked and loses his memory. His family believes that he is dead when a dead body is found in the river.
Director: Peter Levin | Stars: Beau Bridges, Pam Dawber, Tess Harper, Erik von Detten
Votes: 272
59. Mister John (2013)
95 min | Drama
Escaping his foundering marriage in London, Gerry (Aidan Gillen) goes to Singapore to sort out the estate of his brother John, who owned a hostess bar there and has just died in mysterious circumstances.
Directors: Joe Lawlor, Christine Molloy | Stars: Aidan Gillen, Zoe Tay, Molly Rose Lawlor, Michael Thomas
Votes: 507
60. Pasca (1981 TV Movie)
80 min | Drama
After her husband dies, Maria invites his brother into her heart--and into her bed.
Director: Stanislav Párnicky | Stars: Jirí Bartoska, Jozef Adamovic, Anna Javorková, Libuse Safránková
Votes: 9
61. Für Mord kein Beweis (1979)
96 min | Crime, Mystery
A week after a fight with her husband of 20 years, a woman's naked body is found in a lake. Was it an accident, suicide or - murder?
Director: Konrad Petzold | Stars: Winfried Glatzeder, Peter Bause, Wolfgang Penz, Udo Schenk
Votes: 38
62.
Columbo (1971–2003)
Episode:
Death Lends a Hand
(1971)
TV-PG | 76 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Columbo matches his skills against Brimmer, a former cop turned private investigator with a quick temper who tries to blackmail a client's wife. When she refuses, he accidentally kills her and it's up to Columbo to nail him.
Director: Bernard L. Kowalski | Stars: Peter Falk, Robert Culp, Pat Crowley, Ray Milland
Votes: 3,786
63.
Ruth Rendell Mysteries (1987–2000)
Episode:
Road Rage: Part One
(1998)
TV-14 | 180 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A young German girl mysteriously disappears from outside a pub and a group of environmentalist stage a sit in to prevent a bypass from being built through a forest.
Director: Bruce MacDonald | Stars: George Baker, Louie Ramsay, Christopher Ravenscroft, Isobel Middleton
Votes: 111
64.
Marple (2004–2013)
Episode:
The Body in the Library
(2004)
TV-14 | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Dolly Bantry calls upon her old friend Miss Marple when the strangled corpse of an unknown blonde girl is found in the library of her home, Gossington Hall.
Director: Andy Wilson | Stars: Geraldine McEwan, Ian Richardson, Tara Fitzgerald, Jamie Theakston
Votes: 2,494
65.
Becker (1998–2004)
Episode:
Santa on Ice
(1999)
TV-PG | Comedy
A department store Santa drops by Dr. Becker's waiting room and drops off more than John expected. Also, Reggie's thinking of a Christmas party but will it be a thought that counts?
Director: Andy Ackerman | Stars: Ted Danson, Terry Farrell, Hattie Winston, Shawnee Smith
Votes: 115
66.
Inspector Morse (1987–2000)
Episode:
Last Bus to Woodstock
(1988)
TV-14 | 103 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A young blonde hitches a late lift from a bus stop and ends up dead in a pub car park.
Director: Peter Duffell | Stars: John Thaw, Kevin Whately, Anthony Bate, Terrence Hardiman
Votes: 904
67.
Inspector Morse (1987–2000)
Episode:
Service of All the Dead
(1987)
TV-14 | 103 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The members of a church who attended a particular service start to die one by one.
Director: Peter Hammond | Stars: John Thaw, Kevin Whately, Angela Morant, John Normington
Votes: 1,051
68.
The Last Detective (2003–2007)
Episode:
Christine
(2004)
69 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Dangerous investigates the arson murder of a former lotto winner who is burned to death while drunk in a locked room.
Director: Ferdinand Fairfax | Stars: Peter Davison, Tony Maudsley, Marc Small, Marlon Yearwood
Votes: 130
69.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999– )
Episode:
Families
(2004)
TV-14 | 41 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A high school student is found murdered, and it appears she's the victim of incest.
Director: Constantine Makris | Stars: Christopher Meloni, Mariska Hargitay, Richard Belzer, Diane Neal
Votes: 1,141
70.
M.I.T.: Murder Investigation Team (2003–2005)
Episode:
The Bigger the Lie
(2003)
TV-PG | 49 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The vicious murder of an investigate journalist exploring an old hate crime takes place in the same Bangladeshi neighbourhood.
Director: Nigel Keen | Stars: Lindsey Coulson, Samantha Spiro, Richard Hope, Richard Huw
Votes: 31
71.
Midsomer Murders (1997– )
Episode:
Death of a Hollow Man
(1998)
TV-14 | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Barnaby donates time to the local amateur dramatic society when Joyce is cast in a revival of "Amadeus," but complications arise when the leading man is murdered onstage.
Director: Jeremy Silberston | Stars: John Nettles, Daniel Casey, Jane Wymark, Laura Howard
Votes: 1,405
72.
One Foot in the Grave (1990–2001)
Episode:
One Foot in the Algarve
(1993)
TV-PG | 92 min | Comedy, Drama
The Meldrews and Mrs. Warboys embark upon a hellish holiday to Portugal. After an entanglement with the police, they finally arrive at their unpleasant villa.
Director: Susan Belbin | Stars: Richard Wilson, Annette Crosbie, Doreen Mantle, Peter Cook
Votes: 320
73.
Perry Mason (1957–1966)
Episode:
The Case of the Artful Dodger
(1959)
TV-PG | 52 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Allen Sheridan's aunt comes to Los Angeles to find out why he won't pay her the monthly stipend his dad required. Meanwhile, Sheridan is scheming to cheat other people out of their money at the same time he comes into his full inheritance.
Director: Arthur Marks | Stars: Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale, William Hopper, William Talman
Votes: 317
74.
Perry Mason (1957–1966)
Episode:
The Case of the Spurious Sister
(1959)
TV-PG | 52 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Bruce and Marie Chapman have marital trouble because of her compulsive gambling. After Bruce cuts off her funds and leaves town, Marie blackmails her former husband and his wife, Walter and Helen Sprague. He returns to find her dead.
Director: Arthur Marks | Stars: Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale, William Hopper, William Talman
Votes: 305
75.
A Touch of Frost (1992–2010)
Episode:
Another Life
(2003)
TV-14 | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A recently reinstated Frost re-teams with D.S. Lawson to investigate a corpse floating in the canal and a mutilated body in a discarded refrigerator.
Director: Roger Bamford | Stars: David Jason, Bruce Alexander, Sally Dexter, John Lyons
Votes: 281
76.
A Touch of Frost (1992–2010)
Episode:
Appropriate Adults
(1995)
TV-14 | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When an 8 year old girl disappears near the local woods, foul play is suspected as circumstances point to a seemingly harmless 20 year old with Down's Syndrome.
Director: Herbert Wise | Stars: David Jason, Bruce Alexander, Matthew Marsh, Rupert Holliday-Evans
Votes: 364
77.
A Touch of Frost (1992–2010)
Episode:
Dancing in the Dark
(2004)
TV-14 | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Frost must deal with a corpse found in a recycling dump and a smuggling ring of white slavers specializing in young Polish girls.
Director: Roy Battersby | Stars: David Jason, Bruce Alexander, Nicholas Burns, John Lyons
Votes: 281
78.
A Touch of Frost (1992–2010)
Episode:
Nothing to Hide
(1994)
TV-14 | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Although DCI Frost is initially advised that a young addict found in a public toilet died by choking on his own vomit, he later learns that he was beaten to death.
Director: John Glenister | Stars: David Jason, Bruce Alexander, Neil Dudgeon, David McKail
Votes: 369
79.
Waking the Dead (2000–2011)
Episode:
Subterraneans: Part 1
(2005)
TV-14 | 58 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Boyd and the team discover that two decomposed bodies -- one a suicide and the other a murder victim -- are linked to the same man, a medical researcher.
Director: Michael Offer | Stars: Trevor Eve, Sue Johnston, Wil Johnson, Esther Hall
Votes: 153
80.
Water Rats (1996–2001)
Episode:
A Day to Remember (Break Your Heart)
(2000)
TV-14 | 44 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The series resumes on a spectacular note with a helicopter crashing into an overcrowded pleasure boat. The fatality list is long but two survivors are trapped on the sinking craft unable to be moved.
Director: Peter Andrikidis | Stars: Steve Bisley, Dee Smart, Aaron Pedersen, Jay Laga'aia
Votes: 13
81.
Reinikainen (1982–1983)
Episode:
Soutuvenheellä Kiinaan
(1983)
30 min | Comedy
Directors: Neil Hardwick, Jouni Tuokkola | Stars: Tenho Saurén, Pentti Kultala, Mauri Kuosmanen, Keijo Lindroos
Votes: 20
82.
The Black Donnellys (2007)
Episode:
All of Us Are in the Gutter
(2007)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama
Tommy finally pursues his dream: art, as the assistant to Kate's friend, painter Munst. He seems to treat Tommy as a gopher, proves a good teacher but demands priority commitment. Nicky ... See full summary »
Director: T.J. Scott | Stars: Jonathan Tucker, Tom Guiry, Billy Lush, Olivia Wilde
Votes: 130
83.
Dark Shadows (1966–1971)
Episode:
Episode #1.675
(1969)
TV-G | 23 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
The sheriff takes Chris into custody and Barnabas attempts to provide an alibi.
Director: Lela Swift | Stars: Jonathan Frid, Grayson Hall, Nancy Barrett, Don Briscoe
Votes: 33
84.
Inspector Lewis (2006–2015)
Episode:
Old School Ties
(2007)
TV-PG | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A former criminal computer hacker turned best-selling celebrity and one of his student sponsors are murdered after being invited to lecture at Oxford.
Director: Sarah Harding | Stars: Owen Teale, Don Gallagher, James Russell, Frances Albery
Votes: 782
85.
Waking the Dead (2000–2011)
Episode:
Wren Boys: Part 2
(2007)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Boyd determines that Esther is the cause of the murder, but who killed her: McDonagh father or son or Killigan father or son?
Director: Tim Fywell | Stars: Trevor Eve, Sue Johnston, Tara Fitzgerald, Wil Johnson
Votes: 138
86.
Smiley's People (1982)
Episode:
A Mother's Assistance
(1982)
TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, Mystery
What is the connection between a penniless Russian woman in Paris and the brutal murder of an old man in a London park? And so begins a new conundrum for George Smiley to sort out.
Director: Simon Langton | Stars: Alec Guinness, Curd Jürgens, Eileen Atkins, Dudley Sutton
Votes: 204
87.
Hotel Swan Helsinki (2020– )
Episode:
Murhatutkimus
(2020)
60 min | Drama, Mystery
Director: Jukka-Pekka Siili | Stars: Oona Airola, Lauri Tilkanen, Milka Ahlroth, Roope Salminen
Votes: 6
88.
Riverdale (2017–2023)
Episode:
Chapter Sixty-One: Halloween
(2019)
TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A chilling mystery sweeps through Riverdale as the gang prepares for the mischief and mayhem of Halloween; Jughead gets caught in a sinister scheme.
Director: Erin Feeley | Stars: K.J. Apa, Lili Reinhart, Camila Mendes, Cole Sprouse
Votes: 1,065
89.
One Lane Bridge (2020– )
Episode:
Arrival
(2020)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy
When new arrival Detective Ariki Davis investigates a tragic death at Queenstown's treacherous one lane bridge, he inadvertently unleashes a mysterious gift.
Director: Peter Burger | Stars: Dominic Ona-Ariki, Joel Tobeck, Alison Bruce, Aidee Walker
Votes: 123
90.
Murdoch Mysteries (2008– )
Episode:
Still Waters
(2008)
TV-PG | 48 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The affluent and influential young man who recently replaced one of the rowers for the 1896 Olympic rowing team is found drowned in the river.
Director: Don McBrearty | Stars: Yannick Bisson, Helene Joy, Thomas Craig, Jonny Harris
Votes: 395
91.
Hawaii Five-0 (2010–2020)
Episode:
Ihea 'oe i ka wa a ka ua e loku ana?
(2020)
TV-14 | 41 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Five-0 enlists the help of Thomas Magnum to retrieve a stolen list of undercover CIA agents.
Director: Katie Boyum | Stars: Alex O'Loughlin, Scott Caan, Ian Anthony Dale, Meaghan Rath
Votes: 456
92.
Reacher (2022– )
Episode:
Welcome to Margrave
(2022)
TV-MA | 54 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Jack Reacher, recently discharged from the Army, travels to Margrave, GA where he discovers that the idyllic town is a cesspool of corruption. After it becomes personal, he vows to burn it down.
Director: Thomas Vincent | Stars: Alan Ritchson, Malcolm Goodwin, Willa Fitzgerald, Chris Webster
Votes: 7,369
93.
Waking the Dead (2000–2011)
Episode:
False Flag: Part 2
(2004)
Not Rated | 58 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Boyd and the team find that the murdered young man presumed to be Irish was really working for the English under a "false flag."
Director: Suri Krishnamma | Stars: Trevor Eve, Sue Johnston, Holly Aird, Claire Goose
Votes: 144
94.
Inspector Lewis (2006–2015)
Episode:
And the Moonbeams Kiss the Sea
(2008)
TV-PG | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The murder of a maintenance worker at the Bodleian Library and the death of a popular Art student seem to be linked.
Director: Dan Reed | Stars: Darren Clarke, Haydn Gwynne, Sam Alexander, Emily Beecham
Votes: 888
95.
Waking the Dead (2000–2011)
Episode:
Pietà: Part 2
(2008)
TV-MA | 58 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The team discovers that even though the war crimes occurred a decade earlier the deaths they're investigating are intertwined with s current drug deal.
Director: Philippa Langdale | Stars: Trevor Eve, Sue Johnston, Tara Fitzgerald, Wil Johnson
Votes: 125
96.
Vienna Blood (2019– )
Episode:
The Devil's Kiss
(2021)
TV-14 | 91 min | Crime, Drama, History
A beggar girl finds a mutilated corpse in the slums. Strasser warns Oskar that the investigation is not the concern of the Leopoldstadt police. Oskar receives anonymous messages relating to the murder
Director: Robert Dornhelm | Stars: Matthew Beard, Juergen Maurer, Luise von Finckh, Lucy Griffiths
Votes: 375
97.
Murdoch Mysteries (2008– )
Episode:
Shades of Grey
(2009)
TV-PG | 48 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A young woman's body is found in a drainage ditch clad in only a bracelet, showing signs of having undergone an abortion, and totally drained of blood.
Director: Don McBrearty | Stars: Yannick Bisson, Helene Joy, Thomas Craig, Jonny Harris
Votes: 375
98.
Inspector Lewis (2006–2015)
Episode:
The Quality of Mercy
(2009)
TV-PG | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Lewis investigates the murder of student Richard Scott. He was killed just before premiering The Merchant of Venice. During the investigation Lewis gets personally involved.
Director: Bille Eltringham | Stars: Jo Herbert, Bryan Dick, Ronan Vibert, Shaughan Seymour
Votes: 739
99.
Walker (2021–2024)
Episode:
Rule Number 17
(2021)
TV-14 | 42 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Walker and Captain James investigate a high stakes poker game where one of the players may have information on Emily's killer, but things takes a turn when Geri shows up
Director: Steve Robin | Stars: Jared Padalecki, Lindsey Morgan, Molly Hagan, Keegan Allen
Votes: 1,909
100.
Ruth Rendell Mysteries (1987–2000)
Episode:
Road Rage: Part Two
(1998)
TV-14 | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Wexford's wife Dora is released by the terrorists, but the body of young Roxanne is found dead, and young Ryan has apparently defected to the terrorists.
Director: Bruce MacDonald | Stars: George Baker, Louie Ramsay, Timothy Evans, Nigel Pegram
Votes: 51