Best "witness" Movies of All Time

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Eraser(1996)

FSK: 16+ years

| 1h 55min | Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

3.0/5 (with 805 votes)

U.S. Marshall John Kruger erases the identities of people enrolled in the Witness Protection Program. His current assignment is to protect Lee Cullen, who's uncovered evidence that the weapons manufacturer she works for has been selling to terrorist groups. When Kruger discovers that there's a corrupt agent within the program, he must guard his own life while trying to protect Lee's.

Directed by Chuck Russell - With Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Caan, Vanessa Williams, James Coburn, Robert Pastorelli, James Cromwell, ...

Some Like It Hot(1959)

FSK: 16+ years

| 2h 2min | Comedy, Music, Romance / Love, Crime

4.1/5 (with 1,476 votes)

Two musicians witness a mob hit and struggle to find a way out of the city before they are found by the gangsters. Their only opportunity is to join an all-girl band as they leave on a tour. To make their getaway they must first disguise themselves as women, then keep their identities secret and deal with the problems this brings - such as an attractive bandmate and a very determined suitor.

Directed by Billy Wilder - With Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, George Raft, Pat O'Brien, Mike Mazurki, ...

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Pineapple Express(2008)

FSK: 16+ years

| 1h 51min | Action, Comedy, Crime

3.3/5 (with 1,653 votes)

A stoner and his dealer are forced to go on the run from the police after the pothead witnesses a cop commit a murder.

Directed by David Gordon Green - With Seth Rogen, James Franco, Danny McBride, Kevin Corrigan, Craig Robinson, Gary Cole, ...

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Body Double(1984)

FSK: 16+ years

| 1h 54min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

3.4/5 (with 349 votes)

After losing an acting role and his girlfriend, Jake Scully finally catches a break: he gets offered a gig house-sitting in the Hollywood Hills. While peering through the beautiful home's telescope one night, he spies a gorgeous woman dancing in her window. But when he witnesses the girl's murder, it leads Scully through the netherworld of the adult entertainment industry on a search for answers—with porn actress Holly Body as his guide.

Directed by Brian De Palma - With Craig Wasson, Melanie Griffith, Gregg Henry, Deborah Shelton, Dennis Franz, Al Israel, ...

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See No Evil, Hear No Evil(1989)

FSK: 12+ years

| 1h 43min | Comedy, Crime

3.4/5 (with 415 votes)

A murder takes place in the shop of David Lyons, a deaf man who fails to hear the gunshot being fired. Outside, blind man Wally Karue hears the shot but cannot see the perpetrator. Both are arrested, but escape to form an unlikely partnership. Being chased by both the law AND the original killers, can the pair work together to outwit them all?

Directed by Arthur Hiller - With Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder, Joan Severance, Kevin Spacey, Alan North, Anthony Zerbe, ...

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27 Dresses(2008)

FSK: 0+ years

| 1h 51min | Comedy, Romance / Love

3.2/5 (with 1,422 votes)

Altruistic Jane finds herself facing her worst nightmare as her younger sister announces her engagement to the man Jane secretly adores.

Directed by Anne Fletcher - With Katherine Heigl, James Marsden, Malin Åkerman, Edward Burns, Judy Greer, Brian Kerwin, ...

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16 Blocks(2006)

FSK: 12+ years

| 1h 42min | Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller

3.2/5 (with 857 votes)

An aging cop is assigned the ordinary task of escorting a fast-talking witness from police custody to a courthouse, but they find themselves running the gauntlet as other forces try to prevent them from getting there.

Directed by Richard Donner - With Bruce Willis, Mos Def, David Morse, Cylk Cozart, David Zayas, Casey Sander, ...

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Mr. Brooks(2007)

FSK: 18+ years

| 2h | Crime, Thriller

3.4/5 (with 739 votes)

A psychological thriller about a man who is sometimes controlled by his murder-and-mayhem-loving alter ego.

Directed by Bruce A. Evans - With Demi Moore, Dane Cook, William Hurt, Marg Helgenberger, Danielle Panabaker, Kevin Costner, ...

High Crimes(2002)

FSK: 12+ years

| 1h 55min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Crime

3.2/5 (with 335 votes)

A female attorney learns that her husband is really a marine officer awol for fifteen years and accused of murdering fifteen civilians in El Salvador. Believing her husband when he tells her that he's being framed as part of a U.S. Military cover-up, the attorney defends him in a military court.

Directed by Carl Franklin - With Ashley Judd, Morgan Freeman, Jim Caviezel, Adam Scott, Amanda Peet, Bruce Davison, ...

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The Driver(1978)

FSK: 16+ years

| 1h 31min | Action, Crime, Thriller

3.6/5 (with 168 votes)

The Driver specializes in driving getaway cars for robberies. His exceptional talent has prevented him from being caught yet. After another successful flight from the police a self-assured detective makes it his primary goal to catch the Driver. He promises pardons to a gang if they help to convict him in a set-up robbery. The Driver seeks help from The Player to mislead the detective.

Directed by Walter Hill - With Ryan O'Neal, Bruce Dern, Isabelle Adjani, Ronee Blakley, Felice Orlandi, Joseph Walsh, ...

North Country(2005)

FSK: 12+ years

| 2h 6min | Drama

3.6/5 (with 262 votes)

A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the United States -- Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines, where a woman who endured a range of abuse while working as a miner filed and won the landmark 1984 lawsuit.

Directed by Niki Caro - With Charlize Theron, Frances McDormand, Sean Bean, Richard Jenkins, Michelle Monaghan, Jeremy Renner, ...

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The Nile Hilton Incident(2017)

FSK: 12+ years

| 1h 51min | Thriller, Drama, Crime

3.3/5 (with 150 votes)

Cairo, 2011. A police officer investigates the murder of a woman in a luxurious hotel in the days leading up to the Egyptian revolution.

Directed by Tarik Saleh - With Fares Fares, Hania Amar, Slimane Dazi, Hichem Yacoubi, Ger Duany, Mari Malek, ...

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The Bodyguard from Beijing(1994)

FSK: 16+ years

| 1h 32min | Drama, Action, Thriller

3.3/5 (with 41 votes)

A corrupt businessman commits a murder and the only witness is the girlfriend of another businessman with close connections to the Chinese government, so a bodyguard from Beijing is dispatched to help two Hong Kong cops protect the witness.

Directed by Corey Yuen - With Jet Li, Christy Chung, Kent Cheng, Collin Chou, Joey Leung

Sisters(1973)

FSK: 16+ years

| 1h 33min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

3.3/5 (with 153 votes)

Inquisitive journalist Grace Collier is horrified when she witnesses her neighbor, fashion model Danielle Breton, violently murder a man. Panicking, she calls the police. But when the detective arrives at the scene and finds nothing amiss, Grace is forced to take matters into her own hands. Her first move is to recruit private investigator Joseph Larch, who helps her to uncover a secret about Danielle's past that has them both seeing double.

Directed by Brian De Palma - With Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt, Charles Durning, William Finley, Barnard Hughes, Dolph Sweet, ...

Dark Places(2015)

FSK: 16+ years

| 1h 53min | Thriller, Mystery, Drama, Crime

2.9/5 (with 585 votes)

A woman who survived the brutal killing of her family as a child is forced to confront the events of that day.

Directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner - With Andrea Roth, Charlize Theron, Chloë Grace Moretz, Christina Hendricks, Corey Stoll, Nicholas Hoult, ...

The Gauntlet(1977)

FSK: 16+ years

| 1h 49min | Drama, Action, Crime, Thriller

3.3/5 (with 215 votes)

Phoenix cop Ben Shockley is well on his way to becoming a derelict when he is assigned to transport a witness from Las Vegas. The witness turns out to be a belligerent prostitute with mob ties—and incriminating information regarding a high-ranking figure.

Directed by Clint Eastwood - With Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Pat Hingle, Mara Corday, William Prince, Bill McKinney, ...

The Trial of the Incredible Hulk(1989)

1h 40min | Adventure, Fantasy, Drama, Action, Science Fiction, TV Movie

3.3/5 (with 44 votes)

On the run again, Dr. David Banner is jailed for assault after interrupting a mugging. Blind attorney Matt Murdock enlists Banner's help in locating the muggers because he believes they work for his longtime foe, Fisk, the head of an international crime network. But David, afraid of public exposure, breaks out of jail as the Hulk. Tracking David down, Murdock reveals his own secret: His blindness came from a radioactive spill, and after developing his other senses so incredibly, he has become the amazingly athletic crime fighter called Daredevil. Fisk must now face off against Daredevil and the Incredible Hulk!

Directed by Bill Bixby - With Bill Bixby, Marta DuBois

Cut Bank(2014)

FSK: 16+ years

| 1h 32min | Thriller

2.9/5 (with 139 votes)

25-year-old Dwayne McLaren, a former athlete turned auto mechanic, dreams of getting out of tiny Cut Bank, Montana the coldest town in America. But his effort to do so sets in motion a deadly series of events that change his life and the life of the town forever...

Directed by Matt Shakman - With Liam Hemsworth

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Margaret(2011)

2h 29min | Drama

3.2/5 (with 122 votes)

A young woman witnesses a bus accident, and is caught up in the aftermath, where the question of whether or not it was intentional affects many people's lives.

Directed by Kenneth Lonergan - With Anna Paquin, Matt Damon, Mark Ruffalo, Kieran Culkin, Olivia Thirlby, Rosemarie DeWitt, ...

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The Fallen Idol(1948)

1h 36min | Drama, Thriller

3.6/5 (with 68 votes)

Phillipe, the son of an ambassador in London, idolizes Baines, his father's butler, a kind of hero in the eyes of the child, whose perception changes when he accidentally discovers the secret that Baines keeps and witnesses the consequences that adults' lies can cause.

Directed by Carol Reed - With Ralph Richardson, Michèle Morgan, Jack Hawkins, James Hayter, Bernard Lee, Bobby Henrey, ...

Songs from the Second Floor(2000)

FSK: 16+ years

| 1h 38min | Drama, Comedy

3.6/5 (with 120 votes)

A film poem inspired by the Peruvian poet César Vallejo. A story about our need for love, our confusion, greatness and smallness and, most of all, our vulnerability. It is a story with many characters, among them a father and his mistress, his youngest son and his girlfriend. It is a film about big lies, abandonment and the eternal longing for companionship and confirmation.

Directed by Roy Andersson - With Lars Nordh, Klas Gösta Olsson, Bengt C.W. Carlsson

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The Witness(2018)

1h 51min | Thriller

3.4/5 (with 36 votes)

An ordinary man witnesses a cruel murder and becomes entangled in circumstances out of his control.

With Lee Sung-min, Kim Sang-ho, Jin Kyeong

Cutter's Way(1981)

1h 45min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Crime

3.3/5 (with 55 votes)

Richard spots a man dumping a body, and decides to expose the man he thinks is the culprit with his friend Alex Cutter.

Directed by Ivan Passer - With Jeff Bridges, John Heard, Lisa Eichhorn, Stephen Elliott, Nina van Pallandt, Billy Drago, ...

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The Invisible Witness(2018)

1h 42min | Thriller, Mystery

3.5/5 (with 148 votes)

Adriano wakes up in a hotel room next to the dead body of his lover, Laura. The door is locked from the inside and there is no evidence of anybody else in the room.

Directed by Stefano Mordini - With Riccardo Scamarcio, Miriam Leone, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Maria Paiato, Sara Cardinaletti, Sergio Romano, ...

Ace the Case: Manhattan Mystery(2016)

1h 34min | Kids & Family, Mystery

2.4/5 (with 10 votes)

While her mother is away on business, a young girl home alone with her older brother witnesses her neighbor's kidnapping. But no one believes her--not her brother, not the cops. So she takes matters into her own hands putting her life at risk to save her neighbor.

Directed by Kevin Kaufman

Zero Tolerance(1999)

1h 48min | Action, Thriller, Crime

3.1/5 (with 24 votes)

Johan is a two-fisted Gothenburg cop who finds himself in a shoot-out with jewel robbers. After the smoke has cleared, one robber, shot by his accomplice, and an innocent bystander, are dead. Three witnesses, including Helen, identify thug extraordinaire Leo Gaut as being the dead crook's trigger-happy colleague. Gaut soon threatens the three witnesses, and only Johan, the badge-wearing hero, can save them.

Directed by Anders Nilsson - With Jakob Eklund, Peter Andersson, Marie Richardson

Kinatay(2009)

1h 45min | Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller

3.2/5 (with 21 votes)

A young man tries to make some money so he can marry his girlfriend. He takes a job for $2,000 and then soon realizes that this job involves killing a woman.

Directed by Brillante Mendoza - With Coco Martin, Maria Isabel Lopez, Jhong Hilario

Thondimuthalum Driksakshiyum(2017)

2h 16min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller

3.5/5 (with 23 votes)

Prasad and Sreeja are a couple planning to set up a new life in Kasargod. On a bus journey they end up being robbed by a thief also named Prasad and this lands them up in a police station.

Directed by Dileesh Pothan - With Fahadh Faasil, Suraj Venjaramoodu, Alencier Ley Lopez

Tight Spot(1955)

1h 37min | Drama, Thriller, Crime

3.2/5 (with 13 votes)

A former model, serving time in prison, becomes a key witness in a trial against a notorious gangster. She is put under protective watch by the District Attorney in a posh hotel, but the crime kingpin makes attempts to get to her.

Directed by Phil Karlson - With Ginger Rogers, Edward G. Robinson, Brian Keith, Lorne Greene, Eve McVeagh, Lucy Marlow, ...

The Witness(2015)

1h 26min | Documentary

3.4/5 (with 46 votes)

A brother's journey to unravel the truth about the mythic death and little known life of Kitty Genovese, who was reportedly murdered in front of 38 witnesses and has become the face of urban apathy.

Directed by James D. Solomon

Movies: Best "witness" Movies

Eraser(1996)

Some Like It Hot(1959)

Pineapple Express(2008)

Body Double(1984)

See No Evil, Hear No Evil(1989)

27 Dresses(2008)

16 Blocks(2006)

Mr. Brooks(2007)

High Crimes(2002)

The Driver(1978)

North Country(2005)

The Nile Hilton Incident(2017)

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The Bodyguard from Beijing(1994)

Sisters(1973)

Dark Places(2015)

The Gauntlet(1977)

The Trial of the Incredible Hulk(1989)

Cut Bank(2014)

Margaret(2011)

The Fallen Idol(1948)

Songs from the Second Floor(2000)

The Witness(2018)

Cutter's Way(1981)

The Invisible Witness(2018)

Ace the Case: Manhattan Mystery(2016)

Zero Tolerance(1999)

Kinatay(2009)

Thondimuthalum Driksakshiyum(2017)

Tight Spot(1955)

The Witness(2015)

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