Movies by Lists - 50 Greatest Movie Villains (50 [50]) 
| Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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| 99 River StreetA former boxer turned cab driver has to hide from the police when his badgering wife is murdered by the jewel thief she was having an affair with. | 1953 | Phil Karlson (*) | Action, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.4 (2.9K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| All This And Heaven TooA duchess' irrational behavior toward her children's governess triggers tragic events that will change her family's lives forever. | 1940 | Anatole Litvak (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.6 (4.8K votes) | 141 | 20211228 |
| AvengersEarth's mightiest heroes must come together and learn to fight as a team if they are going to stop the mischievous Loki and his alien army from enslaving humanity. | 2012 | Joss Whedon (*) | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 8.0 (1.3M votes) | 143 | 20211228 |
| Batman BeginsAfter training with his mentor, Batman begins his fight to free crime-ridden Gotham City from corruption. | 2005 | Christopher Nolan (*) | Action, Crime, Drama | 8.2 (1.4M votes) | 140 | 20211228 |
| Bride of FrankensteinMary Shelley reveals the main characters of her novel survived: Dr. Frankenstein, goaded by an even madder scientist, builds his monster a mate. | 1935 | James Whale (*) | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi | 7.8 (46.9K votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
| Brighton RockIn Brighton in 1935, small-time gang leader Pinkie Brown murders a journalist and later desperately tries to cover his tracks but runs into trouble with the police, a few witnesses, and a rival gang. | 1948 | John Boulting | Crime, Drama | 7.3 (6K votes) | 92 | 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 |
| CliffhangerA botched mid-air heist results in suitcases full of cash being searched for by various groups throughout the Rocky Mountains. | 1993 | Renny Harlin | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 6.5 (126.8K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| DetourChance events trap hitchhiking nightclub pianist Al Roberts in a tightening net of death, deception and blackmail. | 1945 | Edgar G. Ulmer (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 7.4 (16.9K votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
| Die Hard I - Die HardAn NYPD officer tries to save his wife and several others taken hostage by German terrorists during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles. | 1988 | John McTiernan (*) | Action, Thriller | 8.2 (847.3K votes) | 132 | 20211228 |
| Don't Bother to KnockAfter being dumped by his girlfriend, an airline pilot pursues a babysitter in his hotel and gradually realizes she's dangerous. | 1952 | Roy Ward Baker | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller | 6.9 (6.8K votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
| Double IndemnityA Los Angeles insurance representative lets an alluring housewife seduce him into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, an insurance investigator. | 1944 | Billy Wilder (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller | 8.3 (152.5K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| Dr. NoA resourceful British government agent seeks answers in a case involving the disappearance of a colleague and the disruption of the American space program. | 1962 | Terence Young | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 7.2 (161.3K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Dr. StrangeloveAn insane American general orders a bombing attack on the Soviet Union, triggering a path to nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically tries to stop. | 1964 | Stanley Kubrick (*) | Comedy, War | 8.4 (474.6K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Drop, TheBob Saginowski finds himself at the center of a robbery gone awry and entwined in an investigation that digs deep into the neighborhood's past where friends, families, and foes all work together to make a living - no matter the cost. | 2014 | Michaël R. Roskam | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.1 (149.5K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| Erin BrockovichAn unemployed single mother becomes a legal assistant and almost single-handedly brings down a California power company accused of polluting a city's water supply. | 2000 | Steven Soderbergh (*) | Biography, Drama | 7.4 (190.4K votes) | 131 | 20211228 |
| Foolish WivesA con artist masquerades a Russian nobility and attempts to seduce the wife of an American diplomat. | 1922 | Erich von Stroheim (*) | Drama, Thriller | 7.0 (3.5K votes) | 117 | 20211228 |
| GaslightTen years after her aunt was murdered in their London home, a woman returns from Italy in the 1880s to resume residence with her new husband. His obsessive interest in the home rises from a secret that may require driving his wife in | 1944 | George Cukor (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller | 7.8 (27.4K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| Guest, TheA soldier introduces himself to the Peterson family, claiming to be a friend of their son who died in action. After the young man is welcomed into their home, a series of accidental deaths seem to be connected to his presence. | 2014 | Adam Wingard | Action, Mystery, Thriller | 6.7 (98K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| JawsWhen a killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community off Long Island, it's up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down. | 1975 | Steven Spielberg (*) | Adventure, Thriller | 8.0 (573.2K votes) | 124 | 20211228 |
| Key LargoA man visits his war buddy's family hotel and finds a gangster running things. As a hurricane approaches, the two end up confronting each other. | 1948 | John Huston (*) | Action, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.8 (39.8K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| L.A. ConfidentialAs corruption grows in 1950s Los Angeles, three policemen - one strait-laced, one brutal, and one sleazy - investigate a series of murders with their own brand of justice. | 1997 | Curtis Hanson (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 8.2 (563.7K votes) | 138 | 20211228 |
| Leon [The Professional]12-year-old Mathilda is reluctantly taken in by Léon, a professional assassin, after her family is murdered. An unusual relationship forms as she becomes his protégée and learns the assassin's trade. | 1994 | Luc Besson (*) | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 8.5 (1.1M votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Letter, TheThe wife of a rubber plantation administrator shoots a man to death and claims it was self-defense, but a letter in her own hand may prove her undoing. | 1940 | William Wyler (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Romance | 7.6 (12.8K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Little Foxes, TheThe ruthless, moneyed Hubbard clan lives in, and poisons, their part of the deep South at the turn of the twentieth century. | 1941 | William Wyler (*) | Drama, Romance | 8.0 (11.6K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| 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 |
| Manchurian Candidate, TheAn American POW in the Korean War is brainwashed as an unwitting assassin for an international Communist conspiracy. | 1962 | John Frankenheimer (*) | Drama, Thriller | 7.9 (74.3K votes) | 126 | 20211228 |
| Most Dangerous Game, TheA psychotic big game hunter deliberately strands a luxury yacht on a remote island, where he begins to hunt its passengers for sport. | 1932 | Irving Pichel, Ernest B. Schoedsack | Action, Adventure, Horror, Thriller | 7.1 (12K votes) | 63 | 20211228 |
| Mr. Smith Goes to WashingtonA naive youth leader is appointed to fill a vacancy in the U.S. Senate. His idealistic plans promptly collide with corruption at home and subterfuge from his hero in Washington, but he tries to forge ahead despite attacks on his char | 1939 | Frank Capra (*) | Comedy, Drama | 8.1 (113.2K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
| No Way OutA coverup and witchhunt occur after a politician accidentally kills his mistress. | 1987 | Roger Donaldson | Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller | 7.1 (39.1K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| NotoriousThe daughter of a convicted Nazi spy is asked by American agents to gather information on a ring of Nazi scientists in South America. How far will she have to go to ingratiate herself with them? | 1946 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance, Thriller | 8.0 (98.8K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Once Upon a Time in The WestA mysterious stranger with a harmonica joins forces with a notorious desperado to protect a beautiful widow from a ruthless assassin working for the railroad. | 1968 | Sergio Leone (*) | Western | 8.5 (319.7K votes) | 165 | 20211228 |
| Peeping TomA young man murders women, using a movie camera to film their dying expressions of terror. | 1960 | Michael Powell (*) | Drama, Horror, Thriller | 7.7 (34.2K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Pirates Of The Caribbean - Dead Man's ChestJack Sparrow races to recover the heart of Davy Jones to avoid enslaving his soul to Jones' service, as other friends and foes seek the heart for their own agenda as well. | 2006 | Gore Verbinski | Action, Adventure, Fantasy | 7.3 (687.3K votes) | 151 | 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 |
| Prowler, TheAfter Susan Gilvray reports a prowler outside her house police officer Webb Garwood investigates and sparks fly. If only her husband wasn't in the way. | 1951 | Joseph Losey (*) | Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.2 (3.4K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Purple Noon [Plein Soleil]Tom Ripley is a talented mimic, moocher, forger and all-around criminal improviser; but there's more to Tom Ripley than even he can guess. | 1960 | René Clément (*) | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.8 (15.8K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Red EyeA woman is kidnapped by a stranger on a routine flight. Threatened by the potential murder of her father, she is pulled into a plot to assist her captor in a political assassination. | 2005 | Wes Craven (*) | Thriller | 6.5 (117.6K votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Rosemary's BabyA young couple trying for a baby move into an aging, ornate apartment building on Central Park West, but find themselves surrounded by peculiar neighbors. | 1968 | Roman Polanski (*) | Drama, Horror | 8.0 (207.9K votes) | 137 | 20211228 |
| Shadow of a DoubtA teenage girl, overjoyed when her favorite uncle comes to visit the family in their quiet California town, slowly begins to suspect that he is in fact the "Merry Widow" killer sought by the authorities. | 1943 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.8 (63.8K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Snow White and the Seven DwarvesExiled into the dangerous forest by her wicked stepmother, a princess is rescued by seven dwarf miners who make her part of their household. | 1937 | William Cottrell, David Hand, Wilfred Jackson, Larry Morey, Perce Pearce | Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance | 7.6 (192.9K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Something WildA free-spirited woman "kidnaps" a yuppie for a weekend of adventure. But the fun quickly takes a dangerous turn when her ex-convict husband shows up. | 1986 | Jonathan Demme (*) | Comedy, Crime, Romance, Thriller | 6.9 (17.6K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| Stepfather, TheAfter murdering his entire family, a man marries a widow with a teenage daughter in another town and prepares to do it all over again. | 1987 | Joseph Ruben | Horror, Thriller | 6.8 (15.1K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Sting, TheTwo grifters team up to pull off the ultimate con. | 1973 | George Roy Hill (*) | Comedy, Crime, Drama | 8.3 (254.4K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
| Strangers on a TrainA psychopath forces a tennis star to comply with his theory that two strangers can get away with murder. | 1951 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 8.0 (131K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Street SmartA New York journalist lies when his fake story about a pimp describes a real pimp up for murder. | 1987 | Jerry Schatzberg | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.4 (3.1K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Terminator I - The TerminatorA human soldier is sent from 2029 to 1984 to stop an almost indestructible cyborg killing machine, sent from the same year, which has been programmed to execute a young woman whose unborn son is the key to humanity's future salvation | 1984 | James Cameron (*) | Action, Sci-Fi | 8.0 (830.8K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| Vagabond, The [Awaara]A poor young man named Raj joins a criminal gang to feed his mother. But when he falls in love with Rita, he decides to reform himself for her. | 1951 | Raj Kapoor | Drama, Musical, Romance | 7.9 (4K votes) | 193 | 20211228 |
| Wait Until DarkA recently blinded woman is terrorized by a trio of thugs while they search for a heroin-stuffed doll they believe is in her apartment. | 1967 | Terence Young | Thriller | 7.8 (29.9K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| West Of ZanzibarA magician seeks vengeance upon the man who paralyzed him and the illegitimate daughter he sired with the magician's wife. | 1928 | Tod Browning (*) | Drama, Mystery | 7.2 (1.8K votes) | 65 | 20211228 |