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1. A Haunting in Venice (2023)
PG-13 | 103 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
In post-World War II Venice, Poirot, now retired and living in his own exile, reluctantly attends a seance. But when one of the guests is murdered, it is up to the former detective to once again uncover the killer.
Director: Kenneth Branagh | Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Michelle Yeoh, Jamie Dornan, Tina Fey
Votes: 112,829
2. A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)
R | 96 min | Fantasy, Horror
A psychiatrist familiar with knife-wielding dream demon Freddy Krueger helps teens at a mental hospital battle the killer who is invading their dreams.
Director: Chuck Russell | Stars: Heather Langenkamp, Robert Englund, Craig Wasson, Patricia Arquette
Votes: 90,453 | Gross: $44.79M
3. Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
PG | 128 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
In December 1935, when his transcontinental luxury train is stranded by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before, with a multitude of suspects.
Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, Sean Connery
Votes: 69,197 | Gross: $0.07M
4. Lethal Weapon 3 (1992)
R | 118 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh pursue a former LAPD officer who uses his knowledge of police procedure and policies to steal and sell confiscated guns and ammunition to local street gangs.
Director: Richard Donner | Stars: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Rene Russo
Votes: 178,672 | Gross: $144.73M
5. The Bar (2017)
102 min | Thriller
In bustling downtown Madrid, a loud gunshot and two mysterious deaths trap a motley assortment of common urbanites in a decrepit central bar, while paranoia and suspicion force the terrified regulars to turn on each other.
Director: Álex de la Iglesia | Stars: Blanca Suárez, Mario Casas, Carmen Machi, Secun de la Rosa
Votes: 28,919
6. The Merchant of Four Seasons (1972)
Not Rated | 88 min | Drama
Hans Epp is a self-destructive man who lives a dissatisfied life. He tries to find meaning as a fruit vendor, but a heart attack impedes his ability to work, which turns his dissatisfaction into despair.
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Stars: Hans Hirschmüller, Irm Hermann, Hanna Schygulla, Klaus Löwitsch
Votes: 5,266
7. Torrente, the Dumb Arm of the Law (1998)
Not Rated | 97 min | Comedy, Crime
José Luis Torrente, a former policeman fights against the oriental mafia in Madrid.
Director: Santiago Segura | Stars: Santiago Segura, Javier Cámara, Neus Asensi, Chus Lampreave
Votes: 13,585
8. Trouble in Mind (1985)
R | 111 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
The lives of an ex-con, a coffee-shop owner, and a young couple looking to make it rich intersect in the fictional and hypnotic Rain City.
Director: Alan Rudolph | Stars: Kris Kristofferson, Keith Carradine, Lori Singer, Geneviève Bujold
Votes: 2,427 | Gross: $0.02M
9. Torrente 5 (2014)
Not Rated | 105 min | Action, Comedy
Crooked cop Torrente gets out of jail in the year 2018 to find a different Spain from the one he knew.
Director: Santiago Segura | Stars: Santiago Segura, Julián López, Jesulín de Ubrique, Alec Baldwin
Votes: 4,525
10. Torrente 2: Misión en Marbella (2001)
Unrated | 99 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Torrente now lives in Marbella; after losing all his money, he returns to private investigation. One case puts him in the middle of a villain's missile plot to destroy the city and his own uncle's blackmail operation--and he knows nothing.
Director: Santiago Segura | Stars: Santiago Segura, Gabino Diego, Tony Leblanc, José Luis Moreno
Votes: 7,958
11. Torrente 3: El protector (2005)
Unrated | 91 min | Comedy, Crime
The horrendous spanish detective becomes a bodyward in his new third adventure.
Director: Santiago Segura | Stars: Santiago Segura, José Mota, Javier Gutiérrez, Carlos Latre
Votes: 6,276
12. Lies and Deception (2005 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 90 min | Thriller, Drama, Mystery
A private investigator helps a woman uncover the secret life of her dead husband.
Director: Louis Bélanger | Stars: Mädchen Amick, Andrew W. Walker, Joseph Kell, Ellen Dubin
Votes: 559
13. Torrente 4: Lethal Crisis (2011)
Unrated | 93 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
The rude, lewd and crude Spanish ex-police officer Torrente finds himself facing jail time. Can he survive a twisted irony that places him where he has put so many others, both guilty and innocent?
Director: Santiago Segura | Stars: Santiago Segura, Carlos Areces, Goyo Jiménez, Javier Gutiérrez
Votes: 5,467
14. Cop or Hood (1979)
PG | 107 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Commissaire Stanislas Borowitz is going undercover as gangster Antonio Cerutti in order to expose corrupted policemen.
Director: Georges Lautner | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Georges Géret, Jean-François Balmer, Claude Brosset
Votes: 3,107
15. Cry Vengeance (1954)
Not Rated | 82 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Violent ex-cop Vic Barron comes to Ketchikan, Alaska seeking revenge on an old enemy.
Director: Mark Stevens | Stars: Mark Stevens, Martha Hyer, Skip Homeier, Joan Vohs
Votes: 626
16. Hunt the Man Down (1950)
Passed | 69 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
The suspect in a 12-year-old murder case is finally caught and tried, but the witnesses are a bit hard to track down...
Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Gig Young, Lynne Roberts, Mary Anderson, Willard Parker
Votes: 1,051
17. A Game Without Rules (1967)
89 min | Crime
A robbery in a Prague jeweler's shop results in the shop manager Kubát and his deputy Litera being shot and wounded. The culprits take the jewelery away in a stolen car and that very night ... See full summary »
Director: Jindrich Polák | Stars: Svatopluk Matyás, Jirí Adamíra, Zdenek Kryzánek, Karla Chadimová
Votes: 85
18. The Old Crowd (1979 TV Movie)
62 min | Drama
George and Betty, a middle-class English couple, have just moved into a big Edwardian house in London and are throwing a party to celebrate. Unfortunately, after ten days none of their ... See full summary »
Director: Lindsay Anderson | Stars: John Moffatt, Isabel Dean, Philip Stone, Frank Grimes
Votes: 52
19. Murder in the Tarentaise Valley (2018 TV Movie)
90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The discovery of the 20-year-old remains of a missing boy rocks a small town.
Director: Laurent Dussaux | Stars: Grégori Derangère, Flore Bonaventura, Jérôme Anger, Charlie Dupont
Votes: 141
20. Ayaw matulog ng gabi (1990)
110 min | Action, Drama, Romance
Director: Carlo J. Caparas | Stars: Rudy Fernandez, Lorna Tolentino, Eddie Rodriguez, Chanda Romero
Votes: 16
21. National Street (2019)
100 min | Comedy, Drama
In 1989 Vandam was used to be called a national hero. Today, he is almost unknown, a loser like many others. His fight for the woman he loves is a fight for his dignity, and it will be his downfall.
Director: Stepan Altrichter | Stars: Hynek Cermák, Katerina Janecková, Jan Cina, Václav Neuzil
Votes: 336
22. A Touch of Treason (1962)
92 min | Drama
During his absence, secret (and normally undecipherable) documents have been stolen from Andrei Smoloff, a cultural attaché at the Soviet Embassy in Paris. Through an indiscretion, the ... See full summary »
Director: Édouard Molinaro | Stars: Roger Hanin, Pascale Audret, Dany Carrel, Claude Brasseur
Votes: 75
23. 2 Bullets (2017)
Short, Action
After an unsuccessful suicide attempt, an ex cop reluctantly puts her life on the line to save a young woman who in the end gives her a reason to live.
Director: Brandi Harkonen | Stars: Yan-Kay Crystal Lowe, Megan Hui, Thomas Newman, Cameron Forbes
24. Nevskiy (2016– )
45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Police captain Pavel Semyonov serves in one of the sleeping areas of St. Petersburg. Pavel is used to throwing drunken fights and going into drug addicts alone to make another arrest. He ... See full summary »
Stars: Anton Vasilev, Andrey Gulnev, Sergey Koshonin, Aleksandr Sayutalin
Votes: 100
26. Elektrický nuz (2000 TV Movie)
50 min | Drama
Director: Antonín Pridal | Stars: Ladislav Lakomý, Viktor Skála
27.
Maigret (1991–2005)
Episode:
Maigret et l'inspecteur Cadavre
(1998)
89 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Maigret travels ex officio to help the brother-in-law of commisionaire who is a friend of his. The brother-in-law is being anonymously accused of the murder of a man who died having been ... See full summary »
Director: Pierre Joassin | Stars: Bruno Cremer, Jacques Boudet, Nade Dieu, Philippe Bas
Votes: 100
28.
Maigret (1991–2005)
Episode:
Maigret et les sept petites croix
(2004)
87 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Mid-August in Paris, and Maigret is due to leave on vacation. His travel plans get interrupted when a 60-year-old woman is killed in her own apartment. The police suspect it may be the ... See full summary »
Director: Jérôme Boivin | Stars: Bruno Cremer, Rémi Martin, Didier Agostini, Alain Floret
Votes: 69
29.
The Old Fox (1977– )
Episode:
Der verlorene Sieg
(1991)
58 min | Crime, Drama
In a hotel of Munich the lawyer Martin Bertholt is giving a press conference.At his side Friedhelm Maus who has been accused and sentenced for the violation and murder of the wife of the ... See full summary »
Director: Helmuth Ashley | Stars: Rolf Schimpf, Michael Ande, Charles M. Huber, Markus Böttcher
Votes: 20
30.
The Old Fox (1977– )
Episode:
Die tote Hand
(1980)
59 min | Crime, Drama
The retiree Alois Bettler is an avid amateur photographer. One day he makes a macabre discovery on one of his idyllic nature photos: a human hand protruding from the forest floor. The old ... See full summary »
Director: Alfred Vohrer | Stars: Siegfried Lowitz, Michael Ande, Wolfgang Zerlett, Jacques Breuer
Votes: 44
31.
The Old Fox (1977– )
Episode:
Schatten der Vergangenheit
(1996)
46 min | Crime, Drama
Rescue teams try to save a teenager involved in a serious car accident and eye surgery is performed on a young child.
Director: Helmuth Ashley | Stars: Rolf Schimpf, Michael Ande, Charles M. Huber, Markus Böttcher
Votes: 20
32.
The Old Fox (1977– )
Episode:
Tod eines Polizisten
(2000)
Crime, Drama
Leo Kress and his team are collaborating with the police of Berlin because an important case of murder in Berlin: Kress is looking for Boris Barejew, the chauffeur of a Russian killer.On ... See full summary »
Director: Helmuth Ashley | Stars: Rolf Schimpf, Michael Ande, Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss, Markus Böttcher
Votes: 15
33.
Derrick (1974–1998)
Episode:
Attentat auf Derrick
(1983)
57 min | Crime, Drama
Derrick is shot and seriously injured in a drive-by.
Director: Zbynek Brynych | Stars: Horst Tappert, Fritz Wepper, Willy Schäfer, Christine Wodetzky
Votes: 75
34.
Derrick (1974–1998)
Episode:
Solo für Vier
(1990)
59 min | Crime, Drama
Three men and a lady, who live in a pension house, have a plan to acquire money to restore some class to the rest of their lives.
Director: Franz Peter Wirth | Stars: Horst Tappert, Fritz Wepper, Willy Schäfer, Carl Raddatz
Votes: 53
35.
Derrick (1974–1998)
Episode:
Wie kriegen wir Bodetzki?
(1989)
59 min | Crime, Drama
A strange murder is done in the parking hall at the airport. When the police come, the three men who found the victim are gone. They are automatically suspected, but nothing is as it first seems.
Director: Horst Tappert | Stars: Horst Tappert, Fritz Wepper, Willy Schäfer, Hans Putz
Votes: 53
36.
Lady Cop (1994–2006)
Episode:
Der Mörder mit dem Schleifchen
(2004)
Crime, Drama, Thriller
The murderer with the bow.
Director: Rolf Liccini | Stars: Hannelore Elsner, Thomas Scharff, Florian Martens, Ingrid Kaltenegger
37.
Lady Cop (1994–2006)
Episode:
Schwarze Liebe, roter Tod
(2004)
48 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Black love, red death.
Director: Karola Hattop | Stars: Hannelore Elsner, Thomas Scharff, Ursula Karven, Michael Evers
38.
Miami Vice (1984–1989)
Episode:
Tale of the Goat
(1985)
TV-14 | 48 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Crockett and Tubbs escort a coffin containing a criminal to his final Miami resting place ... until its learned that he has risen from the dead and has a similar zombie fate scheduled for Tubbs.
Director: Michael O'Herlihy | Stars: Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Saundra Santiago, Michael Talbott
Votes: 493
39.
Miami Vice (1984–1989)
Episode:
Lend Me an Ear
(1987)
TV-14 | 47 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Crockett and Tubbs' investigation of a paranoid dealer is complicated by a surveillance expert who decides to play both sides against one another.
Director: James Quinn | Stars: Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Saundra Santiago, Michael Talbott
Votes: 417
40.
Miami Vice (1984–1989)
Episode:
Out Where the Buses Don't Run
(1985)
TV-14 | 48 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Crockett and Tubbs stake out a drug dealer, an investigation that is being helped along by an ex-cop that seems to know a bit too much about the case.
Director: Jim Johnston | Stars: Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Saundra Santiago, Michael Talbott
Votes: 906
41.
Miami Vice (1984–1989)
Episode:
The Rising Sun of Death
(1987)
TV-14 | 46 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Crockett and Tubbs take on the Yakuza - the Japanese mafia - as they try to control Miami. A corrupt detective and a Japanese assassin on the path of revenge against the Yakuza leader there complicate matters.
Director: Leon Ichaso | Stars: Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Saundra Santiago, Michael Talbott
Votes: 337
42.
P.J. (1997–2009)
Episode:
Le fusible
(2004)
58 min | Crime, Thriller
When Agathe Monnier arrives at the police station she listens to a shot and goes to the restrooms where she finds Alain Porret with a bullet in the head,but Alain is still alive.The team ... See full summary »
Director: Gérard Vergez | Stars: Bruno Wolkowitch, Charles Schneider, Marc Betton, Valérie Bagnou-Beido
43.
Leipzig Homicide (2001– )
Episode:
Irrwege
(2002)
43 min | Crime
Werner Pankutz, a former policeman and murderer of his wife Erika, escaped from prison. The commissioner Trautzschke had arrested him and knows that Werner will take revenge on him.
Director: Patrick Winczewski | Stars: Andreas Schmidt-Schaller, Marco Girnth, Gabriel Merz, Melanie Marschke
Votes: 8
44.
P.J. (1997–2009)
Episode:
Jardins secrets
(2007)
Crime, Thriller
The Jenny's Bar has been burned by Molotov cocktail.A former prostitute and informer of Bernard Léonetti, Mylène,a 70 years old woman, has been seriously burned.A disabled horticulturist, ... See full summary »
Director: Claire de la Rochefoucauld | Stars: Charles Schneider, Marc Betton, Valérie Bagnou-Beido, Emmanuelle Bach
45.
The Old Fox (1977– )
Episode:
Polizistenmord
(2008)
Crime, Drama
The policewoman Sandra Fischer and the policeman Uwe Geyer are coming back to the police station.Anke Flemming , the friend of Sandra sees that Sandra is tired and says her that if she ... See full summary »
Director: Hartmut Griesmayr | Stars: Walter Kreye, Michael Ande, Markus Böttcher, Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss
Votes: 21
46.
Ang probinsyano (2015–2022)
Episode:
Paghihirap
(2021)
TV-14 | 30 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Finally waking up, Cardo sees Alyana's lifeless body for the first time. After tailing Art and Lily, Captain Salonga follows his instincts and attempts to infiltrate the warehouse where ... See full summary »
Directors: Albert Langitan, Coco Martin, Malu Sevilla, Mark Kevin A. De Vela, Jeffrey Sonora | Stars: Coco Martin, Susan Roces, Marc Abaya, Angel Aquino
47.
Help! My House Is Haunted (2018– )
Episode:
Law and Disorder
(2022)
44 min | History, Mystery, Thriller
In Bristol, Emma noticed mysterious hand-prints appearing in her home as well as other unusual phenomena. When she had the fingerprints dusted she discovered that they belonged to her neighbour's late father a former policeman.
Director: Ben Cole | Stars: Barri Ghai, Jayne Harris, Ian Lawman
Votes: 7
48.
The Old Fox (1977– )
Episode:
Lautloser Tod
(2012)
Crime, Drama
Alex Richter and Werner Riedmann were together this night in a bar.Alex left went home. A woman comes to the bar,she presents herself as Nicola and with Werner they begin to speak: suddenly... See full summary »
Director: Hartmut Griesmayr | Stars: Walter Kreye, Michael Ande, Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss, Markus Böttcher
Votes: 16
49.
Clona (2014– )
Episode:
První ohen
(2014)
Not Rated | 52 min | Crime, Thriller
The perpetrators of an armed robbery vanished without trace. Roman faces first trial by fire.
Director: Tomás Rehorek | Stars: Krystof Hádek, Vica Kerekes, Rostislav Novák Jr., David Novotný
Votes: 6
50.
Inga Lindström (2004– )
Episode:
Willkommen im Leben
(2016)
89 min | Drama, Romance
Luisa is a grass widow with two children Tina and Sam to care for and at the same time she is doing various jobs.When Ben arrives by mistake to Luisa's house, Luisa thinks that the Au-pair agency sends her Ben as a nanny.
Director: Udo Witte | Stars: Nike Fuhrmann, Pierre Kiwitt, Rüdiger Joswig, Julian Weigend
Votes: 24