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1. After Hours (I) (1985)
R | 97 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
An ordinary word processor has the worst night of his life after he agrees to visit a girl in Soho he met that evening at a coffee shop.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Griffin Dunne, Rosanna Arquette, Verna Bloom, Tommy Chong
Votes: 82,087 | Gross: $10.60M
2. See How They Run (2022)
PG-13 | 98 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
In the West End of 1950s London, plans for a movie version of a smash-hit play come to an abrupt halt after a pivotal member of the crew is murdered.
Director: Tom George | Stars: Kieran Hodgson, Pearl Chanda, Gregory Cox, Harris Dickinson
Votes: 64,600
3. Nightwatch (1997)
R | 101 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A law student, who takes a job as a night watchman at a morgue, begins to discover clues that implicate him as the suspect of a series of murders.
Director: Ole Bornedal | Stars: Ewan McGregor, Nick Nolte, Anais Evans, Erich Anderson
Votes: 21,419 | Gross: $1.20M
4. Miracle in Cell No. 7 (2019)
TV-14 | 132 min | Drama
A story of love between a mentally-ill father who was wrongly accused of murder and his lovely six year old daughter. Prison will be their home. Based on the 2013 Korean movie Miracle in Cell No. 7 (2013).
Director: Mehmet Ada Öztekin | Stars: Aras Bulut Iynemli, Nisa Sofiya Aksongur, Deniz Baysal, Celile Toyon Uysal
Votes: 55,903
5. Passion (2012)
R | 102 min | Adventure, Drama, Horror
The rivalry between the manipulative boss of an advertising agency and her talented protégée escalates from stealing credit to public humiliation to murder.
Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Rachel McAdams, Noomi Rapace, Karoline Herfurth, Paul Anderson
Votes: 24,297 | Gross: $0.09M
6. Dirty Teacher (2013 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 85 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A high school senior becomes the victim of an elaborate frame-up after learning that her boyfriend is sleeping with their teacher.
Director: Doug Campbell | Stars: Josie Davis, Kelcie Stranahan, Cameron Deane Stewart, Darlene Vogel
Votes: 2,167
7. Pinocchio (2014–2015)
TV-14 | 59 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
A young boy, whose life and family has been destroyed by new media, gets adopted by a family in a rural area after being found lost at sea. He conceals his past for 13 years. But then the girl he loves, a reporter, finds out the truth.
Stars: Lee Jong-suk, Park Shin-hye, Kim Hae-sook, Kim Young-kwang
Votes: 9,032
8. Our Blooming Youth (2023)
16+ | 60 min | Drama, History, Mystery
A story about a prince who receives a book about ghost stories containing all kinds of curses of life and feels that the curse is happening one by one
Stars: Park Hyung-sik, Jeon So-nee, Pyo Ye-jin, Yun Jong-seok
Votes: 805
9. Fatal Acquittal (2014 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 88 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A woman accused of murdering her husband is found innocent, only to be terrorized by the real killer once she is set free.
Director: Sam Irvin | Stars: Joely Fisher, Patrick Muldoon, Denise Richards, Tabitha Morella
Votes: 289
10. Accused at 17 (2009)
TV-14 | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A teenager is accused of murdering a classmate and claims that she was framed by her best friend. Her mother must try to find the truth.
Director: Doug Campbell | Stars: Cynthia Gibb, Nicole Gale Anderson, Janet Montgomery, Stella Maeve
Votes: 1,394
11. Dishonored Lady (1947)
Approved | 85 min | Crime, Drama
A beautiful editor at a fashion magazine has a breakdown due to the pressures of her work and her disappointing love life. A psychiatrist recommends that she start life fresh by moving into a smaller apartment and under another name.
Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Hedy Lamarr, Dennis O'Keefe, John Loder, William Lundigan
Votes: 1,699
12. Hold Your Man (1933)
Passed | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A woman is sent to a reformatory when her con artist lover flees after killing a man during a botched blackmail scheme.
Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Jean Harlow, Clark Gable, Stuart Erwin, Dorothy Burgess
Votes: 1,819
13. The Escape (1978)
PG | 100 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
The lawyer Jean-Philippe Duroc visits his client, Martial Gaulard, sentenced to death for a murder he has not committed. At that moment, a mutiny happens inside the prison.
Director: Gérard Oury | Stars: Pierre Richard, Victor Lanoux, Raymond Bussières, Claude Brosset
Votes: 1,393
14. Luoyang (2021)
TV-PG | 45 min | Drama, History, Mystery
Gao Bingzhu (Huang Xuan) is involved in a case by mistake and becomes a suspect. When he tries to prove his innocence, he meets Baili Hongyi (Wang Yibo), who wants to find out the truth ... See full summary »
Stars: Xuan Huang, Yibo Wang, Victoria Song, Long Jiang
Votes: 942
15. Notre-Dame de Paris (1998 TV Movie)
150 min | Drama, Music, Musical
A musical adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel "Notre-Dame de Paris" which follows the gypsy dancer Esmeralda and the three men who vie for her love: the kind hunchback Quasimodo, the twisted priest Frollo, and the unfaithful soldier Phoebus.
Director: Gilles Amado | Stars: Hélène Ségara, Daniel Lavoie, Bruno Pelletier, Garou
Votes: 1,751
16. My Mother's Stalker (2019)
85 min | Thriller
Old friends gets together for a high school reunion, only for a crime to set off a series of tragic events.
Director: Mary Jackson | Stars: Kassianni Austin, Adam Ballantyne, Beverley Breuer, James Drew Dean
Votes: 130
17. All My Good Countrymen (1969)
120 min | Comedy, Drama
Various scenes in the life of a tight-knit community in Czechoslovakia exploring the human spirit in the backdrop of the political changes that they experience.
Director: Vojtech Jasný | Stars: Vlastimil Brodský, Radoslav Brzobohatý, Vladimír Mensík, Waldemar Matuska
Votes: 1,102
18. The Famous Ferguson Case (1932)
Passed | 74 min | Crime, Drama
Reporters at a scandal sheet dwell on a murder case, with tragic results.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Joan Blondell, Grant Mitchell, Vivienne Osborne, Adrienne Dore
Votes: 468
19. Gryphon (1990 TV Movie)
55 min | Family
When Rickey and his friends put a snake in the desk of the new substitute teacher, to their surprise, she lovingly picks it up and puts it around her neck. Soon her strange stories of the ... See full summary »
Director: Mark Cullingham | Stars: Alexis Cruz, Nico Hughes, Edward O'Connor, Virgilio Martí
Votes: 60
20. Hitz (1992)
R | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Music
A tough female juvenile court judge goes out of her way to try to aid a young man whom she believes has innocently gotten involved with a gang, which puts her life in mortal danger.
Director: William Sachs | Stars: Elliott Gould, Emilia Crow, Karen Black, Ed Lauter
Votes: 166
21. Club Dead (1994 Video Game)
M | Adventure, Crime, Mystery
A series of suspicious, bizarre suicides is plaguing Metacorp's elite cyberpunk hotel resort. Unhinged security chief Scudder has only one suspect in mind - ex con Sam Frost. To prove his innocence, Sam must crack this mystery himself.
Director: Gregory Harrison | Stars: Andrew Micheli, Wendy James, Nick Offerman, Jeffrey Frace
Votes: 21
22. On Promised Land (1994 TV Movie)
Drama
Set in the late 1950s, Floyd (Carl Lumbly), Martha Ree (Juanita Jennings), and Jimmy "Jim-Jam" Ween (Norman D. Golden II) live on land that was promised to Floyd's father and then to Floyd ... See full summary »
Director: Joan Tewkesbury | Stars: Robert Benedetti, Wayne Brady, Bill Coates, Norman D. Golden II
Votes: 93
23. Love in Flames of War (2022)
Drama
Set in a tumultuous time of war, it revolves around a heart-wrenching romance between young marshal Xiao Beichen and a young maiden Lin Hangjing.
Stars: Shawn Dou, Duling Chen, Jun Hu, Xuan Dong
Votes: 18
24. Anything Can Happen (1952)
Approved | 107 min | Comedy, Romance
Giorgi, a man of character, emigrates from Georgia, U.S.S.R. to the U.S. He and other Georgian immigrants there support one another while struggling to find work and become U.S. citizens. Giorgi falls for a cute reporter interested in his case.
Director: George Seaton | Stars: José Ferrer, Kim Hunter, Kurt Kasznar, Eugenie Leontovich
Votes: 164
25. Kid Dynamite (1943)
Passed | 66 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
When gamblers kidnap Muggs to throw a fight, friend Danny steps in and wins the scheduled boxing bout, leaving Mugs jealous, resentful and wrongfully suspicious.
Director: Wallace Fox | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan, Gabriel Dell
Votes: 612
26. Coral Reefs (1939)
95 min | Adventure, Drama
The adventures of a sailor (Lennard) from Mexico to a lagoon in the Pacific ocean, and the meeting with a lonely girl (Lilian White).
Director: Maurice Gleize | Stars: Jean Gabin, Michèle Morgan, Saturnin Fabre, Gina Manès
Votes: 202
27. Breaking Dawn (2019)
TV-G | 45 min | Crime
An undercover police officer works together with a special force agent to bring down an international crime syndicate.
Stars: Xingchen Lü, Feng Jiang, Yang Shize, Feng Jianyu
28. Redheads (1992)
R | 107 min | Thriller
A prominent lawyer has an affair with a girl from juvie who wants a way out. She's taping their tryst when someone enters and kills the lawyer. Now he's after her and the tape. Her only chance is a stand up female public defender.
Director: Danny Vendramini | Stars: Claudia Karvan, Catherine McClements, Alexander Petersons, Mark Hembrow
Votes: 89
29. Murder in My House (2006 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 93 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A retired lawyer investigates a murder that occurred in the house he has just moved into with his daughter, unaware the killer is watching him.
Director: Robert Malenfant | Stars: Barbara Niven, Gary Hudson, Daniel J. Travanti, Lisa Zane
Votes: 427
30. Quest for Love (1988)
94 min | Drama
Set against a political backdrop in Africa, the story spanning several years, unfolds around the powerful interaction between two women, their strong sexual allure, and their search to find meaning through it all.
Director: Helena Nogueira | Stars: Jana Cilliers, Sandra Prinsloo, Andrew Buckland, Joanna Weinberg
Votes: 42
31. One Boy, One Wolf, One Summer (1988 TV Movie)
24 min | Drama, Family
Hard-working small-time rancher Don asks his city slicker son Tim to shoot the wolf that's been killing their livestock but Tim, believing that the wolf is innocent, tries to stand up for the animal.
Director: Ken Jubenvill | Stars: Michael Ironside, Todd Caldecott, Anna Hagan, Lloyd Berry
32. Enjiya (2021)
Drama
What is it like to take revenge on the ones you got betrayed by? From the verge of suicide Tomoki's world learns new meanings to his life.
Stars: Nao Honda, Hayato Isomura, Shinji Kasahara, Noriko Aoyama
Votes: 21
33. Tulitikkuja lainaamassa (1938)
77 min | Comedy
Two farmers go to town and cause trouble all around. The rumors of their death make it even worse.
Directors: Yrjö Norta, T.J. Särkkä | Stars: Aku Korhonen, Uuno Laakso, Ester Toivonen, Siiri Angerkoski
Votes: 127
34. APO: Kingpin ng Maynila (1990)
R | Action, Crime, Drama
FROM THE UNTOLD RECORDS OF THE UNDERWORLD - A POLICEMAN PURSUES A HARDENED CRIMINAL WHO TURNS OUT THE BE HIS ESTRANGE.
Director: Marlon Bautista | Stars: Ramon Revilla, Ramon 'Bong' Revilla Jr., Lani Mercado, Alicia Alonzo
Votes: 10
35. Double Cross (1951)
85 min | Crime, Drama
Pietro, an honest businessman, is wrongly accused of the murder of his business associate and jailed. Actually the man is alive and has set him up to avoid bankruptcy. Pietro's life is ... See full summary »
Director: Riccardo Freda | Stars: Amedeo Nazzari, Gianna Maria Canale, Armando Francioli, Arnoldo Foà
Votes: 88
36. 800 Leagues Over the Amazon (1959)
104 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Director: Emilio Gómez Muriel | Stars: Carlos López Moctezuma, Rafael Bertrand, Elvira Quintana, Raúl Farell
Votes: 51
37. The Evidence of the Film (1913)
Not Rated | 15 min | Crime, Short
A messenger boy is wrongfully accused of stealing bonds worth $20,000.
Directors: Lawrence Marston, Edwin Thanhouser | Stars: William Garwood, Marie Eline, Florence La Badie, Riley Chamberlin
Votes: 439
38. The Face of Marble (1946)
Approved | 72 min | Horror
Dr. Randolph is so obsessed with re-animating the dead in his isolated old dark house and lab that he doesn't realize his wife is in love with his younger assistant.
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: John Carradine, Claudia Drake, Robert Shayne, Maris Wrixon
Votes: 382
39. Black Mirror III: Final Fear (2011 Video Game)
Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Darren alias Adrian is now possessed by the spirit of evil Mordred, so he teams up with a renegade female priest to try and find a way to exorcise and destroy Mordred and save himself.
Directors: Michael Holzapfel, Andrew Grant | Stars: Tony Babcock, Don Berns, Razie Brownstone, David Burfoot
Votes: 160
40. Good Partner: The Invincible Lawyer (2016– )
54 min | Mystery
Kento Sakisaka (Yutaka Takenouchi) is a partner at a law firm specializing in corporate law. He is strong with negotiations and as a mediator. He hates to lose and thinks his mission is to ... See full summary »
Stars: Yutaka Takenouchi, Yasuko Matsuyuki, Tetta Sugimoto, Kento Kaku
Votes: 19
41. Willaberta Jack (2007)
26 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
Director: David Tranter | Stars: Paul Henness, Lyle Jagamarra Gibson, Sabrina Nungarrayi Gibson, Alec Pitjara Peterson
42. We Did It (1936)
6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
While Betty Boop is away, the kittens get into mischief. Will Pudgy the Pup take the blame as usual?
Directors: Dave Fleischer, Willard Bowsky | Stars: Jack Mercer, Mae Questel
Votes: 189
43. Daumier's Law (1992)
15 min | Animation, Short, Crime
Paul McCartney's sketched short based on the works of artist Honoré Daumier. A man in a bookstore reads an allegorical story about a wrongfully convicted man, who must feed a giant called Gargantua until salvation comes.
Director: Geoff Dunbar
Votes: 17
44. Name the Woman (1934)
Approved | 60 min | Mystery
The fate of a city hangs upon the innocence of a girl charged with murder. A young, inexperienced, but adventurous newspaper reporter is bent on clearing her name by ripping the lid off a corrupt government machine.
Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Richard Cromwell, Arline Judge, Rita La Roy, Charles C. Wilson
45. Ao no jidai (1998– )
Crime, Mystery, Romance
Abandoned by his mother and having had to fend for himself, Ryuu is one of many Japanese youths that have turned to a life of petty crime in order to survive in Japanese society. Life on ... See full summary »
Stars: Kôsuke Toyohara, Masanobu Andô, Ryôko Shinohara, Megumi Okina
Votes: 13
46. Knetterende schedels (2017)
19 min | Short, Biography, Crime
Knetterende Schedels (Cracking Skulls) - short film 2018, direction and script by Kris J.Y. Verdonck, is the adaptation of the masterful collection of stories "Cracking Skulls" and the ... See full summary »
Director: Kris Verdonck | Stars: Dries De Win, Sam Bogaerts, Sara De Bosschere, Ludo Mich
47. Black and White: Featurette (2003 Video)
11 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
Stars: Robert Carlyle, Kerry Fox, Colin Friels, Craig Lahiff
48. Zólw (1974 TV Movie)
31 min | Drama
Director: Andrzej Kotkowski | Stars: Piotr Fronczewski, Wladyslaw Kowalski, Jerzy Januszewicz, Marian Godlewski
Votes: 13
49. The Man in the Net (1973 TV Movie)
99 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The small American town of Stoneville is home to a painter named John and his unstable wife Linda. One day Linda, who is admired by everyone, mysteriously disappears and the suspicion of ... See full summary »
Director: Jirí Sequens | Stars: Rudolf Jelínek, Marie Drahokoupilová, Hana Maciuchová, Josef Vinklár
Votes: 18
50. Katigoroumenos... o eros (1962)
101 min | Comedy, Romance
A kiss paired with a sharp slap leads to an unforeseen romance, as a young industrialist infiltrates a textile factory to win a woman who sues him when she uncovers his lie. Is there hope for the reluctant couple when love stands accused?
Director: Gregg G. Tallas | Stars: Anna Brazzou, Labros Konstadaras, Giorgos Pantzas, Vangelis Protopappas
Votes: 26