Movies by Lists - 100 Best Catch A Killer Movies (110 [110]) 
| Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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| 21 BridgesAn embattled NYPD detective is thrust into a citywide manhunt for a pair of cop killers after uncovering a massive and unexpected conspiracy. | 2019 | Brian Kirk | Action, Thriller | 6.6 (60.4K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Along Came a SpiderWhen a senator's daughter under Secret Service protection is kidnapped from a private school, detective Alex Cross investigates the case even though he's recovering from the loss of his partner. | 2001 | Lee Tamahori | Drama, Thriller | 6.4 (83.1K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Arlington RoadA man begins to suspect his neighbors are not what they appear to be and their secrets could be deadly. | 1999 | Mark Pellington | Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.2 (85.3K votes) | 117 | 20211228 |
| BlitzA tough cop is dispatched to take down a serial killer who has been targeting police officers. | 2011 | Elliott Lester | Action, Crime, Thriller | 6.2 (85.8K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Blood SimpleThe owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings, lies and mischief ensues after he devises a plot to have them murdered. | 1984 | Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.6 (94K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Blow OutA movie sound recordist accidentally records the evidence that proves that a car accident was actually murder and consequently finds himself in danger. | 1981 | Brian De Palma (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.4 (50.3K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Blue VelvetThe discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child. | 1986 | David Lynch (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.7 (192.4K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Bone Collector, TheA quadriplegic ex-homicide detective and his partner try to track down a serial killer who is terrorizing New York City. | 1999 | Phillip Noyce | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.7 (164.8K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Boston StranglerLoretta McLaughlin was the reporter who first connected the murders and broke the story of the Boston Strangler. She and Jean Cole challenged the sexism of the early 1960s to report on the city's most notorious serial killer. | 2023 | Matt Ruskin | Crime, Drama, History, Thriller | 6.5 (20.2K votes) | 112 | 20230424 |
| Boston Strangler, TheA series of brutal murders in Boston sparks a seemingly endless and increasingly complex manhunt. | 1968 | Richard Fleischer | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.1 (9K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| BullittAn all-guts, no-glory San Francisco cop becomes determined to find the underworld kingpin that killed the witness in his protection. | 1968 | Peter Yates | Action, Crime, Thriller | 7.4 (66.8K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| Call, TheWhen a veteran 911 operator takes a life-altering call from a teenage girl who has just been abducted, she realizes that she must confront a killer from her past in order to save the girl's life. | 2013 | Brad Anderson | Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller | 6.7 (118.6K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Cell, TheAn F.B.I. Agent persuades a social worker, who is adept with a new experimental technology, to enter the mind of a comatose serial killer in order to learn where he has hidden his latest kidnap victim. | 2000 | Tarsem Singh | Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 6.4 (100.5K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| Chaser, The [Chugyeogja]A disgraced ex-policeman who runs a small ring of prostitutes finds himself in a race against time when one of his women goes missing. | 2008 | Na Hong-jin | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.8 (63.8K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| Child 44A disgraced member of the Russian military police investigates a series of child murders during the Stalin-era Soviet Union. | 2015 | Daniel Espinosa | Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller | 6.5 (69.6K votes) | 137 | 20211228 |
| ChinatownA private detective hired to expose an adulterer in 1930s Los Angeles finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder. | 1974 | Roman Polanski (*) | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 8.2 (315K votes) | 130 | 20211228 |
| Citizen XDuring the 1980s, Soviet authorities hunt for a serial killer who picks his victims in railway stations and commuter trains and lures them into the woods. | 1995 | Chris Gerolmo | Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller | 7.5 (19.3K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Clovehitch Killer, TheA picture-perfect family is shattered when the work of a serial killer hits too close to home. | 2018 | Duncan Skiles | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.6 (24.1K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| Confessions of Murder [Nae-ga sal-in-beom-i-da]Lee Du-seok publishes an autobiography describing murders he committed after the statute of limitations expires. A detective and one of the victim's mothers search for the author while another killer begins a spree of murders. | 2012 | Byung-gil Jung | Action, Crime, Thriller | 7.1 (10.1K votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
| CopAn obsessive, insubordinate homicide cop is convinced a serial killer is loose in the Hollywood area and disobeys orders in order to catch him. | 1988 | James B. Harris | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.4 (5.1K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Cop LandThe Sheriff of a suburban New Jersey community, populated by New York City police officers, slowly discovers the town is a front for mob connections and corruption. | 1997 | James Mangold | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.9 (91.3K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| CopycatAn agoraphobic psychologist and a female detective must work together to take down a serial killer who copies serial killers from the past. | 1995 | Jon Amiel | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.6 (58K votes) | 123 | 20211228 |
| Crimson Rivers, The [Les Rivieres Pourpres]A murder detective must follow the footsteps of a brutal killer within the secrets of a classist college. | 2000 | Mathieu Kassovitz | Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 6.9 (60.7K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| CruisingA police detective goes undercover in the underground S&M gay subculture of New York City to catch a serial killer who is preying on gay men. | 1980 | William Friedkin (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.5 (22.7K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Dark BlueA robbery homicide investigation triggers a series of events that will cause a corrupt LAPD officer to question his tactics. | 2002 | Ron Shelton (*) | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.6 (21.9K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Dark CityA man struggles with memories of his past, which include a wife he cannot remember and a nightmarish world no one else ever seems to wake up from. | 1998 | Alex Proyas | Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 7.6 (196.1K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Dead Zone, TheA man awakens from a coma to discover he has a psychic ability. | 1983 | David Cronenberg (*) | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 7.2 (67.6K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| DeceiverA hooker is found cut in two. Two cops give polygraph tests to the only suspect, James Wayland (Tim Roth), an unstable genius. After some time, the roles change. | 1997 | Jonas Pate, Josh Pate | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.6 (6.4K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| Deja VuAfter a ferry is bombed in New Orleans, an A.T.F. agent joins a unique investigation using experimental surveillance technology to find the bomber, but soon finds himself becoming obsessed with one of the victims. | 2006 | Tony Scott (*) | Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 7.1 (304.7K votes) | 126 | 20211228 |
| Detective, ThePolice detective Joe Leland investigates the murder of a gay man. While investigating, he discovers links to official corruption in New York City in this drama that delves into a world of sex and drugs. | 1968 | Gordon Douglas | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.5 (3.5K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| Dirty HarryWhen a madman calling himself "the Scorpio Killer" menaces the city, tough-as-nails San Francisco Police Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan is assigned to track down and ferret out the crazed psychopath. | 1971 | Don Siegel, Clint Eastwood | Action, Crime, Thriller | 7.7 (151.8K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| DisturbiaA teen living under house arrest becomes convinced his neighbor is a serial killer. | 2007 | D.J. Caruso | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.8 (231.5K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Edge of DarknessAs homicide detective Thomas Craven investigates the murder of his activist daughter, he uncovers a corporate cover-up and government conspiracy that attracts an agent tasked with cleaning up the evidence. | 2010 | Martin Campbell | Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.6 (93.3K votes) | 117 | 20211228 |
| Element of Crime, TheA cop in a dystopian Europe investigates a serial killings suspect using controversial methods written by his now disgraced former mentor. | 1984 | Lars von Trier (*) | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.8 (9.9K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| FargoMinnesota car salesman Jerry Lundegaard's inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen's bungling and the persistent police work of the quite pregnant Marge Gunderson. | 1996 | Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | Crime, Thriller | 8.1 (654.8K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| FrailtyA mysterious man arrives at the offices of an FBI agent and recounts his childhood: how his religious fanatic father received visions telling him to destroy people who were in fact "demons." | 2001 | Bill Paxton | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.2 (82.2K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| FrenzyA serial murderer is strangling women with a necktie. The London police have a suspect, but he is the wrong man. | 1972 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Thriller | 7.4 (44.4K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| FrequencyAn accidental cross-time radio link connects father and son across 30 years. The son tries to save his father's life, but then must fix the consequences. | 2000 | Gregory Hoblit | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 7.3 (105.7K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| From HellIn Victorian-era London, a troubled clairvoyant police detective investigates the murders of Jack the Ripper. | 2001 | Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 6.8 (152.3K votes) | 122 | 20211228 |
| Frozen Ground, TheAn 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. | 2013 | Scott Walker | Crime, Thriller | 6.4 (61.7K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Fugitive, TheDr. Richard Kimble, unjustly accused of murdering his wife, must find the real killer while being the target of a nationwide manhunt led by a seasoned U.S. Marshal. | 1993 | Andrew Davis | Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.8 (284.5K votes) | 130 | 20211228 |
| Gangster, the Cop, the Devil, The [Akinjeon]A crime boss teams up with a cop to track down a serial killer. | 2019 | Won-Tae Lee | Action, Crime, Thriller | 6.9 (11.3K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| GangstersA crime boss teams up with a cop to track down a serial killer. | 2019 | Won-Tae Lee | Action, Crime, Thriller | 6.9 (15.6K votes) | 109 | 20221228 |
| Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, TheJournalist Mikael Blomkvist is aided in his search for a woman who has been missing for forty years by Lisbeth Salander, a young computer hacker. | 2011 | David Fincher (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.8 (449.8K votes) | 158 | 20211228 |
| Gone Baby GoneTwo Boston area detectives investigate a little girl's kidnapping, which ultimately turns into a crisis both professionally and personally. | 2007 | Ben Affleck | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.6 (266.6K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| HannibalLiving in exile, Dr. Hannibal Lecter tries to reconnect with now disgraced F.B.I. Agent Clarice Starling, and finds himself a target for revenge from a powerful victim. | 2001 | Ridley Scott (*) | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.8 (267.4K votes) | 131 | 20211228 |
| Holy SpiderA journalist descends into the dark underbelly of the Iranian holy city of Mashhad as she investigates the serial killings of sex workers by the so called ""Spider Killer"", who believes he is cleansing the streets of sinners. | 2022 | Ali Abbasi | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.3 (15.2K votes) | 118 | 20230328 |
| I Saw The DevilA secret agent exacts revenge on a serial killer through a series of captures and releases. | 2010 | Jee-woon Kim (*) | Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller | 7.8 (123.5K votes) | 144 | 20211228 |
| IdentityStranded at a desolate Nevada motel during a nasty rain storm, ten strangers become acquainted with each other when they realize that they're being killed off one by one. | 2003 | James Mangold | Mystery, Thriller | 7.3 (239.7K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| In the Electric MistA detective in post-Katrina New Orleans has a series of surreal encounters with a troop of ghostly Confederate soldiers while investigating serial killings of local prostitutes, a 1965 lynching, and corrupt local businessmen. | 2009 | Bertrand Tavernier | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.1 (18.1K votes) | 117 | 20211228 |
| In the Shadow of the MoonA Philadelphia police officer struggles with a lifelong obsession to track down a mysterious serial killer whose crimes defy explanation. | 2019 | Jim Mickle | Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 6.2 (52.4K votes) | 115 | 20220723 |
| InsomniaTwo Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen. | 2002 | Christopher Nolan (*) | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.2 (288.1K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Investigation of a Citizen Above SuspicionA chief of detectives, homicide section, kills his mistress and deliberately leaves clues to prove his own responsibility for the crime. | 1970 | Elio Petri | Crime, Drama | 8.1 (10.8K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Jennifer 8John Berlin, a former Los Angeles homicide detective, investigates a multiple murder case in San Diego. The only witness is a blind girl to whom he is immediately attracted. | 1992 | Bruce Robinson | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.3 (16.6K votes) | 124 | 20211228 |
| Kiss Kiss Bang BangAfter being mistaken for an actor, a New York thief is sent to Hollywood to train under a private eye for a potential movie role, but the duo are thrown together with a struggling actress into a murder mystery. | 2005 | Shane Black | Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 7.5 (223.5K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Kiss The GirlsPolice hunting for a serial kidnapper are helped when a victim manages to escape for the first time. | 1997 | Gary Fleder | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.6 (71.6K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Limehouse Golem, TheIn Victorian London, a Scotland Yard inspector hunts down the sadistic killer behind a series of gory, Jack the Ripper-Like murders. | 2016 | Juan Carlos Medina | Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 6.3 (20.8K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| Lost GirlsWhen Mari Gilbert's daughter disappears, police inaction drives her own investigation into the gated Long Island community where Shannan was last seen. Her search brings attention to over a dozen murdered sex workers. | 2020 | Liz Garbus | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.1 (21.7K votes) | 95 | 20220723 |
| MWhen the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt. | 1931 | Fritz Lang (*) | Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 8.3 (153.3K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| ManhunterFormer FBI profiler Will Graham returns to service to pursue a deranged serial killer dubbed "the Tooth Fairy" by the media. | 1986 | Michael Mann (*) | Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 7.2 (71.5K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| MarshlandTwo cops lost in the deep south of Spain. One serial killer to catch. A lot of secrets and lies to disclose. | 2014 | Alberto Rodríguez | Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 7.3 (33.1K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| MementoA man with short-term memory loss attempts to track down his wife's murderer. | 2000 | Christopher Nolan (*) | Mystery, Thriller | 8.4 (1.2M votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| Memories of Murder [Salinui chueok]In a small Korean province in 1986, two detectives struggle with the case of multiple young women being found raped and murdered by an unknown culprit. | 2003 | Bong Joon Ho (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 8.1 (166.8K votes) | 132 | 20211228 |
| Mississippi BurningTwo F.B.I. Agents with wildly different styles arrive in Mississippi to investigate the disappearance of some civil rights activists. | 1988 | Alan Parker | Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller | 7.8 (97K votes) | 128 | 20211228 |
| Mother [Madeo]A mother desperately searches for the killer who framed her son for a girl's horrific murder. | 2009 | Bong Joon Ho (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.8 (60.6K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
| Mr. & Mrs. SmithA well-respected businessman is sometimes controlled by his murder and mayhem-loving alter ego. | 2007 | Bruce A. Evans | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.3 (148.5K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Mr. BrooksA well-respected businessman is sometimes controlled by his murder and mayhem-loving alter ego. | 2007 | Bruce A. Evans | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.3 (148.6K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Mulholland FallsIn 1950's Los Angeles, a special crime squad of the LAPD investigates the murder of a young woman. | 1996 | Lee Tamahori | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.3 (16.9K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| Murder By NumbersTwo gifted high school students execute a "perfect" murder - then become engaged in an intellectual contest with a seasoned homicide detective. | 2002 | Barbet Schroeder | Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 6.2 (56.3K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Mystery RoadAn indigenous detective returns to the Outback to investigate the murder of a young girl. | 2013 | Ivan Sen | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.6 (7.4K votes) | 121 | 20211228 |
| Mystic RiverThe lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them has a family tragedy. | 2003 | Clint Eastwood (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.9 (444.2K votes) | 138 | 20211228 |
| Negotiator, TheIn a desperate attempt to prove his innocence, a skilled police negotiator accused of corruption and murder takes hostages in a government office to gain the time he needs to find the truth. | 1998 | F. Gary Gray | Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.3 (138.1K votes) | 140 | 20211228 |
| No Country For Old MenViolence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon a drug deal gone wrong and more than two million dollars in cash near the Rio Grande. | 2007 | Ethan Coen, Joel Coen | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 8.1 (924.5K votes) | 122 | 20211228 |
| Out of TimeA Florida police chief must solve a vicious double homicide before he himself falls under suspicion. | 2003 | Carl Franklin | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.5 (59.7K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Pledge, TheA retiring police detective pledges to catch the killer of a young child. | 2001 | Sean Penn | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.8 (56.7K votes) | 124 | 20211228 |
| Primal FearAn altar boy is accused of murdering a priest, and the truth is buried several layers deep. | 1996 | Gregory Hoblit | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.7 (205.1K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
| PrisonersWhen Keller Dover's daughter and her friend go missing, he takes matters into his own hands as the police pursue multiple leads and the pressure mounts. | 2013 | Denis Villeneuve (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 8.1 (675K votes) | 153 | 20220414 |
| Q&ADirty cop, Mike Brennan thinks he got away with murder. But during a routine Q&A, the righteous assistant DA finds a clue that sets them both on a collision course. | 1990 | Sidney Lumet (*) | Unknown | 6.5 (6.2K votes) | 132 | 20220711 |
| Raven, TheWhen a madman begins committing horrific murders inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's works, a young Baltimore detective joins forces with Poe to stop him from making his stories a reality. | 2012 | James McTeigue | Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 6.4 (84.4K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Rear WindowA wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his Greenwich Village courtyard apartment window, and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder, despite the skepticism of his fashion-model girlfriend. | 1954 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Mystery, Thriller | 8.5 (474.2K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Red DragonA retired FBI agent with psychological gifts is assigned to help track down "The Tooth Fairy", a mysterious serial killer. Aiding him is imprisoned forensic psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter. | 2002 | Brett Ratner | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.2 (265.8K votes) | 124 | 20211228 |
| Red Riding - In The Year Of Our Lord 1974Rookie journalist Eddie Dunford is determined to find the truth in an increasingly complex maze of lies and deceit surrounding the police investigation into a series of child abductions. | 2009 | Julian Jarrold | Crime, Drama, History | 6.9 (12.8K votes) | 102 | 20220723 |
| Red Riding - In The Year Of Our Lord 1980The Home Office bring in senior Manchester detective Peter Hunter to conduct a secret review of the Ripper investigation to date. | 2009 | James Marsh | Crime, Drama, History | 7.1 (9K votes) | 93 | 20220723 |
| Red Riding - In The Year Of Our Lord 1983When another child goes missing, washed-up solicitor John Piggott unwittingly provides a catalyst for Detective Chief Superindent Maurice Jobson to start to right some wrongs. | 2009 | Anand Tucker | Crime, Drama, History | 7.2 (7.8K votes) | 100 | 20220723 |
| Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974A rookie Yorkshire journalist sets out to solve the case of a child murderer. | 2009 | Julian Jarrold | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.0 (12.4K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Righteous KillTwo veteran New York City detectives work on a case of serial executions of criminals who escaped justice. | 2008 | Jon Avnet | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.0 (87.3K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| SawTwo strangers awaken in a room with no recollection of how they got there, and soon discover they're pawns in a deadly game perpetrated by a notorious serial killer. | 2004 | James Wan | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 7.6 (404.7K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Secret In Their Eyes, The [El secreto de sus ojos]A retired legal counselor writes a novel hoping to find closure for one of his past unresolved homicide cases and for his unreciprocated love with his superior - both of which still haunt him decades later. | 2009 | Juan José Campanella (*) | Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller | 8.2 (205.7K votes) | 129 | 20220414 |
| SevenTwo detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his motives. | 1995 | David Fincher (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 8.6 (1.6M votes) | 127 | 20211228 |
| Sherlock HolmesDetective Sherlock Holmes and his stalwart partner Watson engage in a battle of wits and brawn with a nemesis whose plot is a threat to all of England. | 2009 | Guy Ritchie (*) | Action, Adventure, Mystery | 7.6 (612.9K votes) | 128 | 20211228 |
| Shoot to KillAn F.B.I. Agent teams up with a tracker to pursue a murderer after he vanishes into the mountains and infiltrates a hiking group. | 1988 | Roger Spottiswoode | Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.8 (13.1K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Shutter IslandIn 1954, a U.S. Marshal investigates the disappearance of a murderer who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane. | 2010 | Martin Scorsese (*) | Mystery, Thriller | 8.2 (1.2M votes) | 138 | 20211228 |
| Silence of the Lambs, TheA young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims. | 1991 | Jonathan Demme (*) | Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller | 8.6 (1.4M votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Silencing, TheA reformed hunter living in isolation on a wildlife sanctuary becomes involved in a deadly game of cat and mouse when he and the local Sheriff set out to track a vicious killer who may have kidnapped his daughter years ago. | 2020 | Robin Pront | Action, Crime, Thriller | 6.2 (18.9K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Sleepy HollowIchabod Crane is sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate the decapitations of three people, with the culprit being the legendary apparition, The Headless Horseman. | 1999 | Tim Burton (*) | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery | 7.3 (349.1K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Small Town CrimeAn alcoholic ex cop finds a woman on the roadside, left for dead. He offers to find the killer pro bono as P.I. Her granddad hires him. Things get nasty. | 2017 | Eshom Nelms, Ian Nelms | Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 6.6 (11K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Source CodeA soldier wakes up in someone else's body and discovers he's part of an experimental government program to find the bomber of a commuter train within 8 minutes. | 2011 | Duncan Jones | Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 7.5 (506.6K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Strangled [A martfüi rém]True story of a serial killer in 1950-60s Hungary. | 2016 | Árpád Sopsits | Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 7.0 (5.9K votes) | 121 | 20211228 |
| Summer of 84After suspecting that their police officer neighbor is a serial killer, a group of teenage friends spend their summer spying on him and gathering evidence, but as they get closer to discovering the truth, things get dangerous. | 2018 | François Simard, Anouk Whissell, Yoann-Karl Whissell | Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 6.7 (38.4K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Summer Of SamSpike Lee's take on the "Son of Sam" murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American Northeast Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another. | 1999 | Spike Lee (*) | Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller | 6.7 (38K votes) | 142 | 20211228 |
| SwitchbackAn FBI agent tries to catch a serial killer who kidnapped his son. | 1997 | Jeb Stuart | Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 6.4 (13.7K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Taking LivesAn FBI profiler is called in by French Canadian police to catch a serial killer who takes on the identity of each new victim. | 2004 | D.J. Caruso | Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 6.2 (87.9K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Thesis [Tesis]While doing a thesis about violence, Ángela finds a snuff video where a girl is tortured until death. Soon she discovers that the girl was a former student in her faculty... | 1996 | Alejandro Amenábar | Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 7.4 (38K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, MissouriA mother personally challenges the local authorities to solve her daughter's murder when they fail to catch the culprit. | 2017 | Martin McDonagh | Comedy, Crime, Drama | 8.1 (478.7K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| UntraceableFBI agent Jennifer Marsh is tasked with hunting down a seemingly untraceable serial killer who posts live videos of his victims on the Internet. As time runs out, the cat and mouse chase becomes more personal. | 2008 | Gregory Hoblit | Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 6.2 (49.6K votes) | 101 | 20220414 |
| US MarshallsU.S. Marshal Samuel Gerard and his team of Marshals are assigned to track down Sheridan, who has been accused of a double-murder. | 1998 | Stuart Baird | Action, Crime, Thriller | 6.6 (101.9K votes) | 131 | 20211228 |
| Vanishing, TheThe boyfriend of an abducted woman never gives up the search as the abductor looks on. | 1993 | George Sluizer | Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 6.3 (24.8K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| Vanishing, TheRex and Saskia, a young couple in love, are on vacation. They stop at a busy service station and Saskia is abducted. After three years and no sign of Saskia, Rex begins receiving letters from the abductor. | 1988 | George Sluizer | Mystery, Thriller | 7.7 (37.6K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| Wind RiverA veteran hunter helps an FBI agent investigate the murder of a young woman on a Wyoming Native American reservation. | 2017 | Taylor Sheridan | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.7 (234.7K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| ZodiacBetween 1968 and 1983, a San Francisco cartoonist becomes an amateur detective obsessed with tracking down the Zodiac Killer, an unidentified individual who terrorizes Northern California with a killing spree. | 2007 | David Fincher (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.7 (512.1K votes) | 157 | 20211228 |