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

1. Species (1995)

R | 108 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

A group of scientists try to track down and trap a killer alien seductress before she successfully mates with a human.

Director: Roger Donaldson | Stars: Natasha Henstridge, Michael Madsen, Ben Kingsley, Alfred Molina

Votes: 85,387 | Gross: $60.07M

2. Unknown (I) (2011)

PG-13 | 113 min | Action, Mystery, Thriller

When a man awakens from a coma only to discover that someone has taken on his identity, he teams up with a young woman to prove who he is.

Director: Jaume Collet-Serra | Stars: Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger, January Jones, Aidan Quinn

Votes: 269,517 | Gross: $63.69M

3. Blood & Gold (2023)

TV-MA | 98 min | Action, Drama, War

At the end of World War II, a German soldier is looking for his daughter while an SS troop is looking for a Jewish treasure.

Director: Peter Thorwarth | Stars: Jördis Triebel, Robert Maaser, Alexander Scheer, Marie Hacke

Votes: 17,310

4. Synchronic (2019)

R | 102 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Two New Orleans paramedics' lives are ripped apart after they encounter a series of horrific deaths linked to a designer drug with bizarre, otherworldly effects.

Directors: Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead | Stars: Anthony Mackie, Jamie Dornan, Katie Aselton, Ally Ioannides

Votes: 40,317

5. The Mirror Crack'd (1980)

PG | 105 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Miss Jane Marple comes to solve the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.

Director: Guy Hamilton | Stars: Angela Lansbury, Tony Curtis, Rock Hudson, Geraldine Chaplin

Votes: 9,471

6. Mom (I) (2017)

TV-MA | 146 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

After her daughter is sexually assaulted at a party, a furious mother sets out to destroy the lives of the four perpetrators who walked away free.

Director: Ravi Udyawar | Stars: Sridevi, Sajal Ali, Akshaye Khanna, Adnan Siddiqui

Votes: 11,856

7. Death Wish: The Face of Death (1994)

R | 95 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Paul Kersey is back at working vigilante justice when his fiancée, Olivia, has her business threatened by mobsters.

Director: Allan A. Goldstein | Stars: Charles Bronson, Lesley-Anne Down, Michael Parks, Chuck Shamata

Votes: 8,810 | Gross: $1.70M

8. Murder Most Foul (1964)

Unrated | 90 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

When Miss Jane Marple joins a theatrical company after a blackmailer is murdered, several members of the troupe are also dispatched by this mysterious killer.

Director: George Pollock | Stars: Margaret Rutherford, Ron Moody, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, Andrew Cruickshank

Votes: 6,329

9. The Cradle Will Fall (2004 TV Movie)

PG-13 | 93 min | Crime, Thriller

Charged with investigating the suicide of a pregnant woman, prosecutor Kate DeMaio unwittingly becomes entangled in a complex mystery involving cheating husbands, strange doctors and murder.

Director: Rob W. King | Stars: Angie Everhart, John Ralston, Philippe Brenninkmeyer, William B. Davis

Votes: 375

10. Hospital of the Transfiguration (1979)

90 min | Drama

The film is set in 1943 in an unusual mental asylum in the country. There are several incurable schizophrenic cases, the staff is bit strange, and a writer has voluntarily entered the ... See full summary »

Director: Edward Zebrowski | Stars: Piotr Dejmek, Jerzy Binczycki, Henryk Bista, Ewa Dalkowska

Votes: 436

11. I Hate Actors (1986)

PG | 90 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Hollywood in the 1940s. A tyrannical producer, a paranoid director, a starlet engaged twenty-four times, an actor who refuses to age - all against a backdrop of a series of murders.

Director: Gérard Krawczyk | Stars: Jean Poiret, Michel Blanc, Bernard Blier, Patrick Floersheim

Votes: 260

12. Madame Edouard (2004)

97 min | Comedy, Crime

In Brussels, the corpses of young women were discovered buried behind the graves of collectors of paintings. Each of them lacks the right forearm.

Director: Nadine Monfils | Stars: Michel Blanc, Didier Bourdon, Dominique Lavanant, Annie Cordy

Votes: 215

13. Vyvrazdení rodiny Greenu (2002 TV Movie)

88 min | Crime, Thriller

Add a Plot

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

Votes: 30

14. The Old Fox (1977– )
Episode: Eiskalt geplant (1988)

59 min | Crime, Drama

Ice cold planned.

Director: Günter Gräwert | Stars: Rolf Schimpf, Michael Ande, Charles M. Huber, Markus Böttcher

Votes: 22

15. The Old Fox (1977– )
Episode: Kein gutes Ende (1988)

59 min | Crime, Drama

Gerti Wallner has gone to the supermarket and has bought some food for the family.At home Erna Wallner , the mother of Gerti and grandmother of Peter Wallner is very bad tempered.Peter ... See full summary »

Director: Eberhard Itzenplitz | Stars: Rolf Schimpf, Michael Ande, Charles M. Huber, Agnes Fink

Votes: 23

16. Inspector Morse (1987–2000)
Episode: The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn (1987)

TV-14 | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The murder of a deaf university entrance examiner leads Morse and Lewis into a possible college cheating scandal.

Director: Brian Parker | Stars: John Thaw, Kevin Whately, Barbara Flynn, Michael Gough

Votes: 1,067

17. Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001–2011)
Episode: Legion (2003)

TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

After a father and son are found with their throats cut, detectives Goren and Eames find everyone in the victims' supposedly "low-crime" neighborhood strangely reluctant to cooperate with the murder investigation.

Directors: Frank Prinzi, Steve Shill | Stars: Vincent D'Onofrio, Kathryn Erbe, Jamey Sheridan, Courtney B. Vance

Votes: 332

18. Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001–2011)
Episode: Poison (2001)

TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Goren and Eames suspect a nurse of poisoning several hospital patients with cyanide.

Director: Gloria Muzio | Stars: Vincent D'Onofrio, Kathryn Erbe, Jamey Sheridan, Courtney B. Vance

Votes: 446

19. Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001–2011)
Episode: The Extra Man (2001)

TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A man found dead in a hotel room is thought to be an international con artist who has cheated a number of wealthy investors.

Director: Jean de Segonzac | Stars: Vincent D'Onofrio, Kathryn Erbe, Jamey Sheridan, Courtney B. Vance

Votes: 436

20. The Outer Limits (1995–2002)
Episode: The Choice (1995)

TV-PG | 45 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A young girl with strange, supernatural powers is shunned by her friends, but welcomed by a nanny with similar gifts, while her parents must decide what's ultimately best for the child.

Director: Mark Sobel | Stars: Thora Birch, Megan Follows, Page Fletcher, Sandra Nelson

Votes: 512

21. Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode: The Yellow Iris (1993)

TV-14 | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A man celebrates the two-year anniversary of his wife's sudden death by cyanide while in Argentina - a death which Poirot himself had witnessed, but could not solve at the time.

Director: Peter Barber-Fleming | Stars: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Pauline Moran, David Troughton

Votes: 1,521

22. Leipzig Homicide (2001– )
Episode: Risiken und Nebenwirkungen (2005)

44 min | Crime

On the same day two women have died poisoned by cyanide in the pills they used for headache. One woman lived alone. The second one was the spouse of Mr. Wolter who says that he had a quarrel with his wife.

Director: Oren Schmuckler | Stars: Andreas Schmidt-Schaller, Marco Girnth, Gabriel Merz, Melanie Marschke

23. The Saint (1962–1969)
Episode: The Miracle Tea Party (1964)

TV-PG | 49 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A man's killed in a phone booth at Waterloo station whilst Templar's making a call. But before dying ,he managed to slip a package of Miracle Tea into the bag of a young nurse who works at ... See full summary »

Director: Roger Moore | Stars: Roger Moore, Fabia Drake, Nanette Newman, Conrad Phillips

Votes: 153

24. The New Detectives: Case Studies in Forensic Science (1996–2005)
Episode: Elements of Murder (2002)

TV-PG | 50 min | Documentary, Crime

The cases of Susan Galloway, who was murdered in Montana in 1982; Lenora Robinson, who died in Nashville, Tennessee in 1997; and Jennifer McCready, who was murdered in Belpre, Ohio in 1996.

Director: John Kavanaugh | Stars: Gene Galusha, Leanna Chamish, Ken Anderson, Brigette Baldwin

Votes: 13

25. Very Scary People (2019– )
Episode: Jim Jones: Unholy Massacre Part 2 (2019)

TV-14 | 42 min | Documentary, Crime, History

More than 900 Americans died in an isolated jungle in northern Guyana in November 1978. The man responsible, Jim Jones, has gone down in history as a madman who drove his followers to ... See full summary »

Director: Renee Cullen | Stars: Donnie Wahlberg, Jeff Guinn, Laura Johnston Kohl, Stephan Jones

Votes: 36

26. Pushing Daisies (2007–2009)
Episode: Bitches (2007)

TV-PG | 41 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

When a dog breeder is poisoned to death, suspicion falls upon his four wives as well as a businessman who was planning to market his new breed of dog.

Director: Allan Kroeker | Stars: Lee Pace, Anna Friel, Chi McBride, Jim Dale

Votes: 795

27. Becoming Evil: Sisterhood of Murder (2019– )
Episode: Victims and the Media (2019)

TV-14 | 55 min | Documentary, Crime

We explore how serial killers choose their victim pool and the role the media plays in helping build the serial killer phenomenon including William Heirens who was the notorious Lipstick Killer.

Director: Ron Meyer | Stars: Frederic Reamer, Steven A. Egger, Kirk Gill, Jack Levin

Votes: 15

28. CSI: NY (2004–2013)
Episode: The Deep (2007)

TV-14 | 40 min | Action, Crime, Drama

The discovery of the bodies of two scuba instructors leads investigators to uncover a plot to detonate a bomb in Lower Manhattan.

Director: Oz Scott | Stars: Gary Sinise, Melina Kanakaredes, Carmine Giovinazzo, Anna Belknap

Votes: 317

29. All the Sins (2019– )
Episode: Boundaries of a Woman (2020)

45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Jussi Ritola begins to investigate a mysterious death, his wife discloses a troubling secret and the Millennium movement lands in town

Director: Mika Ronkainen | Stars: Inka Kallén, Maria Sid, Johannes Holopainen, Jari Virman

Votes: 62

30. The Sister (2020)
Episode: Episode #1.4 (2020)

46 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Nathan has to decide whether to confess or not.

Director: Niall MacCormick | Stars: Russell Tovey, Bertie Carvel, Amrita Acharia, Nina Toussaint-White

Votes: 139

31. Chicago Med (2015– )
Episode: I Will Do No Harm (2020)

TV-14 | 41 min | Drama

Dr. Charles and Dr. Manning treat a patient who is fully invested in pretending to be someone other than himself. Noah begins to doubt his abilities as a doctor. Dr. Marcel and Dr. Choi are... See full summary »

Director: Vanessa Parise | Stars: Nick Gehlfuss, Yaya DaCosta, Torrey DeVitto, Brian Tee

Votes: 291

32. The New Detectives: Case Studies in Forensic Science (1996–2005)
Episode: Deadly Chemistry (1996)

TV-PG | 53 min | Documentary, Crime

Using forensics to solve poisoning.

Director: Tom Naughton | Stars: Gene Galusha, Sue Baines, Amy Brookes, Richard Childress

Votes: 15

33. The Mentalist (2008–2015)
Episode: Red Brick and Ivy (2008)

TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

An acquaintance of Patrick requests his help in solving a murder related to a neurological science project which involves animal testing.

Director: Paris Barclay | Stars: Simon Baker, Robin Tunney, Tim Kang, Owain Yeoman

Votes: 1,753

34. Deadly Women (2008– )
Episode: Bad Medicine (2008)

TV-14 | 45 min | Documentary, Crime

A rogue nurse turns a children's ward into a killing field, medicine becomes a deadly weapon for a desperate housewife and a mother uses a medical diagnosis to hide a horrifying compulsion.

Director: John Mavety | Stars: Janis Amatuzio, Matthew Benns, Candice DeLong, Mike Dunbar

Votes: 38

35. 9-1-1: Lone Star (2020– )
Episode: Everyone and Their Brother (2021)

TV-14 | 43 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Owen and T.K. risk their lives to save two brothers trapped in a homemade minefield. Tommy interviews new candidates to fill the team's open EMT position. Paul's mother and estranged sister pay him an unexpected visit.

Director: Marcus Stokes | Stars: Rob Lowe, Gina Torres, Ronen Rubinstein, Sierra Aylina McClain

Votes: 549

36. Patton 360 (2009– )
Episode: Leading the Charge (2009)

TV-PG | 45 min | Documentary, History, War

Despite the conservative orders of his commanders Patton strives to destroy the German army before it can escape through the Falaise Gap and regroup east of the Seine. As Patton pursues the... See full summary »

Stars: Martin K.A. Morgan, David Robb, E.J. Snyder, Bryan Stefancyk

Votes: 8

37. Very Scary People (2019– )
Episode: The Iceman: The Murder Business Pt. 1 (2021)

TV-14 | 42 min | Documentary, Crime, History

He was a family man, living in a New Jersey suburb with his wife and three kids. But unbeknownst to his neighbors, Richard Kuklinski held a dark secret: he was the "Iceman"--a cold-blooded ... See full summary »

Director: Brett Kelly | Stars: Donnie Wahlberg, Robert J. Carroll, Patrick M. Kane, Bill Sanderson

Votes: 22

38. Very Scary People (2019– )
Episode: The Iceman: Trapping a Serial Killer Pt. 2 (2021)

TV-14 | 42 min | Documentary, Crime, History

For many years, the Iceman--Richard Kuklinski--had literally gotten away with murder, but now investigators were on to him.

Director: Brett Kelly | Stars: Donnie Wahlberg, Dominick Polifrone, Jay Dobyns, Bill Sanderson

Votes: 20

39. The Madame Blanc Mysteries (2021– )
Episode: Episode #1.1 (2021)

TV-14 | 47 min | Drama, Mystery

Antiques dealer Jean White arrives in France to uncover the mystery of her husband's death.

Director: Dermot Boyd | Stars: Sally Lindsay, Steve Edge, Sue Holderness, Robin Askwith

Votes: 207

40. Maria Kallio (2021– )
Episode: Rivo Satakieli (2021)

60 min | Crime, Drama

INDECENT NIGHTINGALE Maria investigates the murder of a poisoned prostitute on live TV. During an arrest, Maria shoots the main perpetrator of sex trafficking who is also the murder suspect. Maria relies on Koivu to survive the killing.

Director: Jojo Erholtz | Stars: Elena Leeve, Leo Sjöman, Markus Järvenpää, Petteri Summanen

Votes: 15

41. CSI: NY (2004–2013)
Episode: Redemption (2010)

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

Dr. Hawkes is trapped in a cell block during a security breach orchestrated by a familiar face from CSI's past, and the only person who can help him get to safety is the death row inmate who murdered his sister.

Director: Steven DePaul | Stars: Gary Sinise, Melina Kanakaredes, Carmine Giovinazzo, Anna Belknap

Votes: 329

42. Castle (2009–2016)
Episode: Law & Murder (2011)

TV-PG | 43 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Juror #7 Joe McUsic, who runs a halfway house, drops dead of cyanide-poisoning during Otis Williams's high-profile trial for the murder of heiress Lyla Addison. Juror #4 Tony Mueller runs ... See full summary »

Director: Jeff Bleckner | Stars: Nathan Fillion, Stana Katic, Susan Sullivan, Ruben Santiago-Hudson

Votes: 1,209

43. Tom Swift (2022)
Episode: ...And the Cost of Forgiveness (2022)

TV-14 | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Only hours are left before Tom must launch the rescue drone to save his father from outer space. But his plans are jeopardized by an anti-technology attack at Swift Enterprises' Black ... See full summary »

Director: Rose Troche | Stars: Tian Richards, Ashleigh Murray, Marquise Vilson, Albert Mwangi

Votes: 30

44. History's Greatest Mysteries (2020– )
Episode: The Chicago Tylenol Murders (2022)

TV-PG | Documentary, History, Mystery

History's Greatest Mysteries looks into the theories regarding the Tylenol Murders in Chicago 1982.

Stars: Laurence Fishburne, Adam Tod Brown, Amber Hunt, Clifford Pinkney

Votes: 53

45. Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (2012–2015)
Episode: Away with the Fairies (2012)

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

Death by poison among a women's magazine staff has Phryne and friends looking into more than unhappy mates of readers seeking advice.

Director: Emma Freeman | Stars: Essie Davis, Nathan Page, Hugo Johnstone-Burt, Ashleigh Cummings

Votes: 481

46. Walker: Independence (2022–2023)
Episode: Pax Romana (2022)

TV-PG | Action, Crime, Drama

Abby and Hoyt run an errand for Tom and expose the extent of the Davidson influence; Kate disrupts the town's balance of power using Founders Day; Kai receives a visitor from his past; Lucia and Calian help the other with family pressure.

Director: Sheelin Choksey | Stars: Katherine McNamara, Matt Barr, Katie Findlay, Greg Hovanessian

Votes: 736

47. The Mob Doctor (2012–2013)
Episode: Family Secrets (2012)

TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

With Paul Moretti out of the picture, Constantine Alexander (William Forsythe) calls on Grace (Jordana Spiro) to treat the fugitive mobster he's expecting to partner with in a shady video ... See full summary »

Director: Michael Dinner | Stars: Jordana Spiro, William Forsythe, James Carpinello, Zach Gilford

Votes: 100

48. Mobsters (1997–2012)
Episode: The Iceman: Richard Kuklinski (2012)

Documentary

Richard Kuklinski lived a shocking double life; suburban husband and father at home, and brutal contract killer on the streets.

Stars: Robert J. Carroll, Anthony Bruno, Barbara Kuklinski, Dominick Polifrone

Votes: 8

49. Les petits meurtres d'Agatha Christie (2009–2024)
Episode: Meurtre au Champagne (2013)

TV-PG | 94 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A famous movie star commits suicide during the shooting of her latest film. Alice replaces her on the set while Laurence investigates; adapted from "Sparkling Cyanide".

Director: Eric Woreth | Stars: Samuel Labarthe, Blandine Bellavoir, Élodie Navarre, Jean-Philippe Écoffey

Votes: 228

50. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000–2015)
Episode: Exile (2013)

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

While investigating the death of a Cuban singer's sister, CSI discovers that the case may be tied to a feud between two Cuban families.

Director: Jeffrey G. Hunt | Stars: Ted Danson, Elisabeth Shue, George Eads, Jorja Fox

Votes: 449