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1. Lethal Weapon (1987)
R | 109 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Two newly paired cops who are complete opposites must put aside their differences in order to catch a gang of drug smugglers.
Director: Richard Donner | Stars: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Gary Busey, Mitchell Ryan
Votes: 277,216 | Gross: $65.21M
2. The Long Shadow (2023)
TV-PG | 49 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
A desperate cat and mouse hunt ensues when Yorkshire is being haunted by a serial killer.
Stars: Jack Deam, Kris Hitchen, Lee Ingleby, Michael McElhatton
Votes: 7,767
3. Memory (I) (2022)
R | 114 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
An assassin-for-hire finds that he's become a target after he refuses to complete a job for a dangerous criminal organization.
Director: Martin Campbell | Stars: Liam Neeson, Guy Pearce, Taj Atwal, Harold Torres
Votes: 35,406
4. Cure (1997)
Not Rated | 111 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
A frustrated detective deals with the case of several gruesome murders committed by people who have no recollection of what they've done.
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Stars: Masato Hagiwara, Koji Yakusho, Tsuyoshi Ujiki, Anna Nakagawa
Votes: 23,467 | Gross: $0.09M
5. The Frozen Ground (2013)
R | 105 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
An Alaska State Trooper partners with a young woman who escaped the clutches of serial killer Robert Hansen to bring the murderer to justice. Based on actual events.
Director: Scott Walker | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Vanessa Hudgens, John Cusack, Dean Norris
Votes: 67,711
6. The Golden Glove (2019)
Not Rated | 115 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A serial killer strikes fear in the hearts of residents of Hamburg during the early 1970s.
Director: Fatih Akin | Stars: Jonas Dassler, Vasiliki Georgina Pseimada, Christine Jensen, Greta Sophie Schmidt
Votes: 18,391
7. Street Smart (1987)
R | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A New York journalist lies when his fake story about a pimp describes a real pimp up for murder.
Director: Jerry Schatzberg | Stars: Christopher Reeve, Kathy Baker, Mimi Rogers, Jay Patterson
Votes: 3,825 | Gross: $1.12M
8. Bundy and the Green River Killer (2019)
Not Rated | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A police detective consults with incarcerated madman Ted Bundy to help him catch The Green River Killer.
Director: Andrew Jones | Stars: Matthew Baunsgard, Oliver Berry, Lola Claire, Diana Franz
Votes: 1,311
9. Los héroes del mal (2015)
98 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Three teenagers, brought together by bullying, indulge in petty theft, sex and drugs. They inevitably realize they can resort to violence to take revenge on everyone who has humiliated them: students, teachers and other outcasts. One of them escalates to killing, and desires to kill again. Anyone can become his next victim. The other two face the question: should they resort to violence to stop ... See full summary »
Director: Zoe Berriatúa | Stars: Emilio Palacios, Jorge Clemente, Beatriz Medina, Macarena Gómez
Votes: 1,118
10. Getting Hurt (1998 TV Movie)
105 min | Crime, Thriller
The safe, secure, boring life of Charlie Cross, a wealthy, successful solicitor is irretrievably shattered when he embarks on an illicit, passionate affair with the beautiful, mysterious ... See full summary »
Director: Ben Bolt | Stars: Ciarán Hinds, Amanda Ooms, David Hayman, Nicholas Hope
Votes: 94
11. Hellfire (1995 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 85 min | Horror, Thriller
Gabriella finds an unfinished symphony that was written by her late uncle Octave Barron who found inspiration through murder. Thrilled by its possibilities she hires Marius (Ben Cross) to ... See full summary »
Director: David Tausik | Stars: Ben Cross, Jennifer Burns, Beverly Garland, Doug Wert
Votes: 176
12.
Biography (1987– )
Episode:
The Green River Killer
(2003)
TV-14 | Documentary, Biography, History
Stars: Jack Levin, Nancy Bartley, Dave Reichert, Neal Otey
Votes: 101
13.
Kommissar Rex (1994–2004)
Episode:
Über den Dächern von Wien
(1996)
46 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
A car crashes over a slope, the driver burns beyond recognition. A fire expert alarms Commissioner Moser and his team: There are inconsistencies in the accident.
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel | Stars: Tobias Moretti, Karl Markovics, Wolf Bachofner, Gerhard Zemann
Votes: 84
14.
Miami Vice (1984–1989)
Episode:
Asian Cut
(1989)
TV-14 | 47 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Trudy poses as a prostitute to help Crockett and Tubbs catch a serial killer who they suspect is Asian because of the ritualistic way in which he mutilates his female victims.
Director: James A. Contner | Stars: Don Johnson, Philip Michael Thomas, Saundra Santiago, Michael Talbott
Votes: 303
15.
Saving Grace (2007–2010)
Episode:
And You Wonder Why I Lie
(2007)
TV-MA | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy
Grace searches for the murderer of a suspected working girl, which is only complicated by her losing a bet with Earl requiring her to tell no lies.
Director: Gloria Muzio | Stars: Holly Hunter, Leon Rippy, Kenny Johnson, Bailey Chase
Votes: 158
16.
The Mark of a Killer (2019– )
Episode:
Collar and Leash Killer
(2020)
TV-14 | 43 min | Documentary, Crime
A string of women are found dead by the side of the road with a unique ligature. Detectives are stumped until a 17-year-old girl manages an escape from a vicious kidnapper, leading police to a serial killer.
Directors: Chad Cunningham, Wendy Greene | Stars: Cindy Brown, Stephen Cribb, J.T. Hunter, John Marsicano
Votes: 16
17.
The Mark of a Killer (2019– )
Episode:
Hunted to Death
(2020)
TV-14 | 43 min | Documentary, Crime
Tortured and murdered bodies of women have been showing up in remote areas of Alaska. All have been killed with the same kind of gun used by big game hunters.
Directors: Chad Cunningham, Wendy Greene | Stars: Frank Rothschild, Leland Hale, Maxine Farrell, Rollie Port
Votes: 12
18.
World's Most Evil Killers (2017– )
Episode:
Robert Lee Yates
(2020)
60 min | Documentary, Crime
A profile of the serial killer Robert Lee Yates, who narrowly avoided the death penalty for killing at least 13 sex workers during a horrific reign of terror.
Stars: Robert Lee Yates Jr., Elizabeth Yardley, Geoffrey Wansell, Bill Morlin
Votes: 16
19.
Domina (2021–2023)
Episode:
Happiness
(2021)
TV-MA | 58 min | Drama, History
As Livia tells her sons about their role in her Mission, the truth behind her part in Marcellus' death threatens to come out.
Director: David Evans | Stars: El Nitro 56, Philip Arditti, Anthony Barclay, Ben Batt
Votes: 216
20.
Detective De Luca (2008)
Episode:
Indagine non autorizzata
(2008)
110 min | Drama, War
At the seaside resort of Riccione in 1938 the body of a young prostitute is found on a beach, not far from Mussolini's holiday residence. The local chief of police, terrified that the news ... See full summary »
Director: Antonio Frazzi | Stars: Alessandro Preziosi, Kasia Smutniak, Rolando Ravello, Corrado Fortuna
Votes: 55
21.
Mind of a Monster (2019–2021)
Episode:
The Butcher Baker
(2020)
TV-14 | 85 min | Documentary, Crime
Between 1971 and 1983, meek and mild Robert Hansen seemed to have it all; a loving wife and children, a successful bakery business, and world-record hunting trophies bringing him respect ... See full summary »
Director: Alex Emslie | Stars: Robert Hansen, Marshall Ellison, John Daily, Susan
Votes: 54
22.
The Mark of a Killer (2019– )
Episode:
The I 40 Killer
(2021)
Documentary, Crime
A killer is murdering and mutilating young women along the Route 40 corridor in Delaware. But when investigators set up an undercover operation, the hunter soon becomes the hunted.
Directors: Chad Cunningham, Wendy Greene | Stars: Joseph Swiski, Kathleen Jennings, Nancy Miller, Nancy Reneé Seward
Votes: 20
23.
The Mark of a Killer (2019– )
Episode:
The Englewood Killer
(2021)
Documentary, Crime
Chicago police are investigating the murders of several women, whose bodies are discovered in abandoned buildings barefoot. Evidence indicates there is one offender, now police need to locate him.
Directors: Chad Cunningham, Wendy Greene | Stars: Michael Steinbach, Frank Luera, Andrew Burns, Pat Lalama
Votes: 13
24.
Women Behind Bars (2008– )
Episode:
Dolly Mae Clapp & Shaniqua Brown
(2009)
TV-14 | 42 min | Documentary
A woman convicted for the torture and murder of a prostitute, along with three other prostitutes and their pimp. Then, a teenage mother who played a role in a botched robbery scheme that ended with the murder of a Chinese food deliveryman.
Director: Richard Swindell | Stars: Ashley Crary, Dolly Mae Clapp, Luther Clapp, Gussie Neville
Votes: 18
25.
Mind of a Monster (2019–2021)
Episode:
The Happy Face Killer: Mind of a Monster
(2021)
TV-14 | 85 min | Documentary, Crime
Detective Rick Buckner has to prove Keith Jesperson is the serial killer known as Happy Face Killer, guilty of murdering a woman in 1995, and has to make sure he is apprehended before he kills again.
Director: Carl Hindmarch | Stars: Keith Hunter Jesperson, Michelle White, John Ingram, Doug Bates
Votes: 64
26.
Mind of a Monster (2019–2021)
Episode:
The Grim Sleeper
(2021)
TV-14 | 85 min | Documentary, Crime
In 2001, Los Angeles Police Department's cold case unit reopened the files on a series of unsolved murders from the 1980s. As police search for DNA evidence to unlock these homicides which ... See full summary »
Stars: Lonnie David Franklin Jr., Cliff Shepard, Jermaine Jackson, Ray Davis
Votes: 39
27.
Very Scary People (2019– )
Episode:
The Butcher Baker: The Girls Who Got Away Pt. 2
(2021)
TV-14 | 42 min | Documentary, Crime, History
For years, The Butcher Baker serial killer was hiding in plain sight.
Director: Brett Kelly | Stars: Donnie Wahlberg, John Daily, Leland Hale, Amy Beeman
Votes: 18
28.
The Mark of a Killer (2019– )
Episode:
The Interstate Killer
(2021)
Documentary, Crime
A killer crisscrosses the Midwest leaving a string of victims along the interstate. When investigators are hot on the highway killer's trail, the murderer suddenly changes his mark.
Directors: Chad Cunningham, Wendy Greene | Stars: Dan Colin, Gera-Lind Kolarik, Tim Nugent, Perry Hollowell
Votes: 14
29.
The Mark of a Killer (2019– )
Episode:
The Grim Sleeper
(2021)
Documentary, Crime
A cold blooded killer conceals his victim bodies with trash, discarding them like garbage in the back alleys across Los Angeles.
Directors: Chad Cunningham, Wendy Greene | Stars: Cliff Shepard, Dennis Kilcoyne, Paul Mize, Ana Garcia
Votes: 12
30.
The Mark of a Killer (2019– )
Episode:
The Monster
(2022)
Documentary, Crime
Investigators in East Baton Rouge, Louisiana, hunt for a serial murderer who carefully carves up and cuts the bodies of his victims after death.
Director: Chris Rowe | Stars: Mark Sturges, Max Schiele, Todd Morris, Bryan White
Votes: 10
31.
The Mark of a Killer (2019– )
Episode:
The Skull Crusher
(2022)
Documentary, Crime
Police in Hartford, Connecticut investigate a string of ruthless killings in the Asylum Hill area committed by a killer with a devastating mark that leaves his victims nearly unrecognizable.
Director: Chris Rowe | Stars: Tina A. Brown, Mark Pawlina, Henry C. Lee, Marilyn Roberts
Votes: 8
32.
First Blood (2022– )
Episode:
Robert Hansen: The Butcher Baker
(2022)
TV-14 | Documentary, Crime, History
Between 1971 and 1983, Robert Hansen abducted, raped and murdered at least seventeen women in and around Anchorage, Alaska. He was arrested and convicted in 1983, and was sentenced to 461 ... See full summary »
Director: David Bispham | Stars: James McCann, Larry Bivins, Brenda Lee Fowler, William Shaw
Votes: 10
33.
First Blood (2022– )
Episode:
Henry Louis Wallace: Bad Henry
(2022)
TV-14 | Documentary, Crime, History
Someone is killing young African American women in Charlotte, North Carolina, and the police seem unable to stop it. What they don't realize is that the cases all have a commonality, which is a connection with Henry Louis Wallace.
Director: David Bispham | Stars: Garry McFadden, Angela Wright-Shannon, Cathy Pickens, Gary Brucato
Votes: 10
34.
World's Most Evil Killers (2017– )
Episode:
Robert Hansen
(2022)
Documentary, Crime
The Alaska serial killer Robert Hansen, who murdered at least 17 women during a spree that lasted for more than a decade.
Stars: Robert Hansen, Leland Hale, James McCann, Geoffrey Wansell
Votes: 6
35.
Born to Kill? (2005– )
Episode:
Richard Cottingham: The Times Square Ripper
(2014)
44 min | Documentary, Crime
Over a thirteen-year span, computer programmer Richard Cottingham targeted women, mostly prostitutes from Times Square, New York, for sex and brutal slaughter up until 1980.
Director: Neil Edwards | Stars: Christopher Slade, Dennis Calo, Don Conway, Donald Conway
Votes: 21
36.
The Deuce (2017–2019)
Episode:
My Name Is Ruby
(2017)
TV-MA | 70 min | Drama
Vincent balks at getting in any deeper with Rudy; Candy sees the future of pornography.
Director: Michelle MacLaren | Stars: James Franco, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Chris Bauer
Votes: 1,052
37.
The Deuce (2017–2019)
Episode:
What Big Ideas
(2018)
TV-MA | 63 min | Drama
Ashley and Abby track down the identity of a young sex worker killed in a fire,
Director: Uta Briesewitz | Stars: James Franco, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Chris Bauer
Votes: 686
38.
Grantchester (2014–2025)
Episode:
Episode #4.2
(2019)
TV-14 | 52 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Sidney discovers he was the last person to see a woman alive during a drunken night. While he struggles to remember what happened, Geordie becomes concerned for his friend's troubled state of mind.
Director: Tim Fywell | Stars: James Norton, Robson Green, Al Weaver, Tessa Peake-Jones
Votes: 446