Best "murder plot" Movies of All Time

47 movies found (page 1/2):

Shooter(2007)

| 2h 4min | Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Crime

3.5/5 (with 2,154 votes)

A top Marine sniper, Bob Lee Swagger, leaves the military after a mission goes horribly awry and disappears, living in seclusion. He is coaxed back into service after a high-profile government official convinces him to help thwart a plot to kill the President of the United States. Ultimately double-crossed and framed for the attempt, Swagger becomes the target of a nationwide manhunt. He goes on the run to track the real killer and find out who exactly set him up, and why, eventually seeking revenge against some of the most powerful and corrupt leaders in the free world.

Directed by Antoine Fuqua - With Mark Wahlberg, Danny Glover, Ned Beatty, Michael Peña, Kate Mara, Elias Koteas, ...

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Double Indemnity(1944)

1h 48min | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

4.1/5 (with 769 votes)

A rich woman and a calculating insurance agent plot to kill her unsuspecting husband after he signs a double indemnity policy. Against a backdrop of distinctly Californian settings, the partners in crime plan the perfect murder to collect the insurance, which pays double if the death is accidental.

Directed by Billy Wilder - With Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Gig Young, Porter Hall, Fortunio Bonanova, ...

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The Trip(2021)

1h 53min | Comedy, Horror

3.4/5 (with 216 votes)

A dysfunctional couple head to a remote lakeside cabin under the guise of reconnecting, but each has secret designs to kill the other. Before they can carry out their respective plans, unexpected visitors arrive and the couple is faced with a greater danger than anything they could have plotted.

Directed by Tommy Wirkola - With Aksel Hennie, Noomi Rapace, Atle Antonsen, Christian Rubeck, André Eriksen, Stig Frode Henriksen, ...

Dial M for Murder(1954)

| 1h 45min | Crime, Thriller

4.0/5 (with 1,096 votes)

An ex-tennis pro carries out a plot to have his wife murdered after discovering she is having an affair, and assumes she will soon leave him for the other man anyway. When things go wrong, he improvises a new plan—to frame her for murder instead.

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock - With Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings, John Williams, Anthony Dawson, Patrick Allen, ...

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The Postman Always Rings Twice(1981)

| 2h 2min | Romance / Love, Crime, Drama

3.3/5 (with 205 votes)

The sensuous wife of a lunch wagon proprietor and a rootless drifter begin a sordidly steamy affair and conspire to murder her Greek husband.

Directed by Bob Rafelson - With Jack Nicholson, Jessica Lange, Michael Lerner, Anjelica Huston, Thomas Hill, Christopher Lloyd, ...

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The House on Telegraph Hill(1951)

| 1h 33min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

3.2/5 (with 25 votes)

Concentration camp survivor Victoria Kowelska finds herself involved in mystery, greed, and murder when she assumes the identity of a dead friend in order to gain passage to America.

Directed by Robert Wise - With Richard Basehart, Valentina Cortese, William Lundigan, Fay Baker, Steven Geray, Charles Wagenheim, ...

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Jezabel(2022)

1h 48min | Thriller, Crime, Mystery

3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Four upper-class high school students who live carefree between drugs, games and love until one of the girls, Eli, is brutally killed. Sixteen years later, the memory of the crime torments Alain, another member of the group.

Breaking the Girls(2013)

| 1h 23min | Crime, Thriller

2.7/5 (with 38 votes)

A naive college student loses a scholarship at the hands of a classmate and makes a pact with a mysterious friend to kill off each other's enemies.

Directed by Jamie Babbit - With Sam Anderson, Shawn Ashmore, Agnes Bruckner, Shanna Collins, Madeline Zima, Manish Dayal, ...

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Let's Kill Ward's Wife(2014)

| 1h 21min | Comedy

2.8/5 (with 68 votes)

Everyone hates Ward’s wife and wants her dead, Ward most of all. But when his friends’ murderous fantasies turn into an (accidental) reality, they have to deal with a whole new set of problems — like how to dispose of the body and still make their 3 p.m. tee time.

Directed by Scott Foley

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Scream for Help(1984)

1h 30min | Horror, Mystery, Crime, Thriller

2.8/5 (with 13 votes)

A teenaged girl discovers that her stepfather is trying to murder her and her mother, but when she tells people, no one will believe her.

Directed by Michael Winner

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Agatha and the Midnight Murders(2020)

PG-13

| 1h 31min | Mystery, TV Movie

3.3/5 (with 19 votes)

As bombs fall on London, writer Agatha Christie decides it is time to kill off her most famous creation.

Directed by Joe Stephenson - With Helen Baxendale, Jodie McNee, Blake Harrison, Jacqueline Boatswain, Gina Bramhill, Daniel Caltagirone, ...

Happy Ever After(1954)

| 1h 28min | Comedy

2.4/5 (with 5 votes)

The whole village mourns when General O'Leary, owner of a hunting estate in South Ireland, is killed in an accident. His nephew, Jasper O'Leary, takes over the state and soon has aroused the displeasure of all, with the exception of Serena McGluskey, as much a schemer as he is a cad. Led by Thady O'Heggarty, the villagers plot to drive Jasper away. They use the occasion of "O'Leary Night", when the ghost of the first O'Leary walks the halls, to create general chaos.

Directed by Mario Zampi - With David Niven, Yvonne De Carlo, Barry Fitzgerald, Liam Redmond, Robert Urquhart

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Rasputin and the Empress(1932)

| 2h 1min | Drama, History

2.9/5 (with 4 votes)

The story of corrupt, power-hungry, manipulative Grigori Rasputin's influence on members of the Russian Imperial family and others, and what resulted.

Directed by Ryszard Bolesławski, Charles Brabin - With John Barrymore, Ethel Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Ralph Morgan, Diana Wynyard, Edward Arnold, ...

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I Blame Society(2020)

| 1h 24min | Comedy, Horror

2.9/5 (with 10 votes)

A struggling filmmaker senses her peers are losing faith in her ability to succeed, so she decides to prove herself by finishing her last abandoned film and committing the perfect murder.

Portrait in Black(1960)

1h 52min | Drama, Thriller

3.2/5 (with 7 votes)

A pair of lovers plot to kill the woman's rich husband.

Directed by Michael Gordon - With Lana Turner, Anthony Quinn, Anna May Wong, John Saxon, John Wengraf, Lloyd Nolan, ...

In Broad Daylight(1971)

1h 15min | Crime, Drama, Thriller, TV Movie

3.3/5 (with 3 votes)

A newly blind actor discovers his wife is cheating on him with his best friend and hatches a plot to murder her and frame his friend for it.

Directed by Robert Day - With Richard Boone

Drop Dead Darling(1966)

| 1h 40min | Comedy, Crime

3.2/5 (with 5 votes)

Nick tries to kill his wife to get her money, but when learning of this, she plans the same for him!

Directed by Ken Hughes - With Tony Curtis, Rosanna Schiaffino, Lionel Jeffries, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Nancy Kwan, Fenella Fielding, ...

Like Mother Like Son: The Strange Story of Sante and Kenny Kimes(2001)

1h 30min | Drama, Crime, Thriller, TV Movie

3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

The real-life case based on the horrific crimes of Sante and Kenny Kimes, the mother and son duo who specialized in theft, fraud and murder.

Blame(2011)

1h 29min | Thriller

2.5/5 (with 7 votes)

A group of young vigilantes seeking revenge for a sexual betrayal fall far from grace. When the truth is out they find themselves on the dark side of justice.

Directed by Michael Henry - With Sophie Lowe, Kestie Morassi, Saskia Hampele

Bulldog Drummond's Peril(1938)

1h 6min | Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Romance / Love, Thriller

2.8/5 (with 6 votes)

Drummond's wedding with Phyllis is interrupted when the inspector guarding their gifts is killed. He tries to trace the killers and uncovers the mystery of diamond counterfeiters.

Directed by James P. Hogan

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Diary of the Dead(1976)

| 1h 33min | Thriller

3.7/5 (with 3 votes)

An unemployed man who lives with his wife and overbearing mother-in-law sees an opportunity to relieve himself of the old bat, which tangles him in a maze of deception.

Directed by Arvin Brown - With Geraldine Fitzgerald

Murder Once Removed(1971)

1h 14min | Drama, TV Movie, Crime

2.8/5 (with 3 votes)

Television thriller in which a scheming doctor murders once for love and then has to kill again to cover it up.

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Kaazhchakkappuram(1992)

2h 7min | Comedy

Lazy Viswanathan and his gang of friends decide to contest the elections to become rich and powerful overnight.

Directed by V. R. Gopalakrishnan - With Mukesh

Yemaali(2018)

2h 27min | Thriller, Romance / Love

1.8/5 (with 1 vote)

Yemaali is the story of Maali and his brother-from-another-mother, Aravind, and how they plan on killing Maali’s ex-girlfriend. They even call the ‘project’ Yemaali, a wordplay on both their names. But why do they want to kill this girl? Because she broke up with him, of course.

Directed by V. Z. Durai - With Samuthirakani, Bala Saravanan, Singampuli, Athulya Ravi, Roshni Prakash

Rasputin: Murder in the Tsar's Court(2016)

52min | Documentary, History, TV Movie

2.9/5 (with 3 votes)

St. Petersburg, Russia, December 30th, 1916. Grigori Rasputin is assassinated. The story of the humble peasant who became the most influential adviser to czarina Alexandra Feodorovna, wife of the last czar, Nicholas II Romanov.

The Late Edwina Black(1951)

| 1h 18min | Mystery, Drama

3.1/5 (with 5 votes)

When a sickly Victorian woman dies suddenly, a postmortem reveals that her body contains a fatal dose of arsenic. Suspicion falls on her husband and her companion, who are lovers. Inspector Martin of Scotland Yard solves the mystery of her death... over a cup of tea.

Directed by Maurice Elvey - With David Farrar, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Roland Culver

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