Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "attempted-blackmail"

1. Parasite (2019)

R | 132 min | Drama, Thriller

Greed and class discrimination threaten the newly-formed symbiotic relationship between the wealthy Park family and the destitute Kim clan.

Director: Bong Joon Ho | Stars: Song Kang-ho, Lee Sun-kyun, Cho Yeo-jeong, Choi Woo-sik

Votes: 961,250 | Gross: $53.37M

2. Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

PG-13 | 113 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

A soldier fighting aliens gets to relive the same day over and over again, the day restarting every time he dies.

Director: Doug Liman | Stars: Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Bill Paxton, Brendan Gleeson

Votes: 737,687 | Gross: $100.21M

3. Marlowe (2022)

R | 109 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

In late 1930s Bay City, a brooding, down on his luck detective is hired to find the ex-lover of a glamorous heiress.

Director: Neil Jordan | Stars: Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger, Jessica Lange, Brenda Rawn

Votes: 11,845

4. T2 Trainspotting (2017)

R | 117 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

After 20 years abroad, Mark Renton returns to Scotland and reunites with his old friends Sick Boy, Spud, and Begbie.

Director: Danny Boyle | Stars: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle

Votes: 133,048 | Gross: $2.40M

5. Lamb (2021)

R | 106 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A childless couple discovers a mysterious newborn on their farm in Iceland.

Director: Valdimar Jóhannsson | Stars: Noomi Rapace, Hilmir Snær Guðnason, Björn Hlynur Haraldsson, Ingvar Sigurdsson

Votes: 38,469

6. Thoroughbreds (2017)

R | 92 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Two upper-class teenage girls in suburban Connecticut rekindle their unlikely friendship after years of growing apart. Together, they hatch a plan to solve both of their problems-no matter what the cost.

Director: Cory Finley | Stars: Olivia Cooke, Anya Taylor-Joy, Anton Yelchin, Paul Sparks

Votes: 46,451 | Gross: $2.83M

7. Escape to Athena (1979)

PG | 125 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A World War II adventure involving a group of Allied P.O.W.s, Nazis, black market priceless art treasures, Greek resistance, a Greek monastery, and a secret German rocket base.

Director: George P. Cosmatos | Stars: Roger Moore, Telly Savalas, David Niven, Stefanie Powers

Votes: 5,843

8. Where the Truth Lies (2005)

R | 107 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Karen O'Connor, a young journalist known for her celebrity profiles, is consumed with discovering the truth behind a long-buried incident that affected the lives and careers of showbiz team Vince Collins and Lanny Morris.

Director: Atom Egoyan | Stars: Kevin Bacon, Colin Firth, Alison Lohman, David Hayman

Votes: 18,775 | Gross: $0.87M

9. The Dark Half (1993)

R | 122 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A writer's fictional alter ego wants to take over his life...at any price.

Director: George A. Romero | Stars: Timothy Hutton, Amy Madigan, Michael Rooker, Julie Harris

Votes: 19,359 | Gross: $9.58M

10. Room at the Top (1958)

Not Rated | 115 min | Drama, Romance

An ambitious young accountant plots to wed a wealthy factory owner's daughter despite falling in love with a married older woman.

Director: Jack Clayton | Stars: Laurence Harvey, Simone Signoret, Heather Sears, Donald Wolfit

Votes: 7,335

11. Paris When It Sizzles (1964)

Approved | 110 min | Comedy, Romance

The sprightly young assistant of a Hollywood screenwriter helps him over his writer's block by acting out his fantasies of possible plots.

Director: Richard Quine | Stars: William Holden, Audrey Hepburn, Grégoire Aslan, Raymond Bussières

Votes: 9,466

12. The Cat o' Nine Tails (1971)

GP | 112 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Two journalists try to solve a series of murders connected to a pharmaceutical company's secret experiments, becoming targets of the killer themselves.

Director: Dario Argento | Stars: James Franciscus, Karl Malden, Catherine Spaak, Pier Paolo Capponi

Votes: 13,034

13. Three on a Match (1932)

Passed | 63 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery and drugs.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Joan Blondell, Ann Dvorak, Bette Davis, Warren William

Votes: 4,396

14. Hidden Agenda (1990)

R | 108 min | Drama, Thriller

When an American human rights lawyer is assassinated in Belfast, it remains for the man's girlfriend, as well as a tough, no nonsense, police detective to find the truth.

Director: Ken Loach | Stars: Frances McDormand, Maurice Roëves, Robert Patterson, Bernard Bloch

Votes: 4,611 | Gross: $1.03M

15. Madhouse (1974)

PG | 89 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery

A horror movie star returns to his famous role after years in a mental institution. But the character seems to be committing murders independent of his will.

Director: Jim Clark | Stars: Vincent Price, Peter Cushing, Robert Quarry, Adrienne Corri

Votes: 4,521

16. Homicide (1991)

R | 102 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

A Jewish homicide detective investigates a seemingly minor murder and falls in with a Zionist group as a result.

Director: David Mamet | Stars: Joe Mantegna, William H. Macy, Vincent Guastaferro, J.J. Johnston

Votes: 8,176 | Gross: $2.97M

17. Mannequin (1937)

Passed | 95 min | Drama

Affluent Hennessey falls for Jessie who is married to good-for-nothing Eddie. To provide a better life for Jessie Hennessey wants to marry her, and Eddie even approves of the plan, hoping to profit from it financially.

Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Joan Crawford, Spencer Tracy, Alan Curtis, Ralph Morgan

Votes: 1,490

18. Boomerang! (1947)

Passed | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

The true story of a prosecutor's fight to prove the innocence of a man accused of a notorious murder.

Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: Dana Andrews, Jane Wyatt, Lee J. Cobb, Cara Williams

Votes: 5,065

19. Mystery Street (1950)

Passed | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A small-town policeman is assisted by a Harvard professor after the discovery of a human skeleton on a Massachusetts beach.

Director: John Sturges | Stars: Ricardo Montalban, Sally Forrest, Bruce Bennett, Elsa Lanchester

Votes: 3,455

20. The Great Impostor (1960)

Approved | 113 min | Comedy, Drama

Ferdinand Waldo Demara Jr. is a versatile man who gets his kicks out of impersonating a marine, a monk, a navy surgeon and a prison warden, eventually getting in trouble with the law for it.

Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Tony Curtis, Karl Malden, Edmond O'Brien, Arthur O'Connell

Votes: 1,710

21. Out 1 (1971)

Not Rated | 776 min | Drama, Mystery

Following the May 1968 civil unrest in France, a deaf-mute and a con artist simultaneously stumble upon the remnants of a secret society.

Directors: Jacques Rivette, Suzanne Schiffman | Stars: Michèle Moretti, Hermine Karagheuz, Karen Puig, Pierre Baillot

Votes: 1,554 | Gross: $0.03M

22. The Mad Magician (1954)

Not Rated | 72 min | Drama, Horror

An illusionist becomes homicidal when his best kept magic secrets are stolen by his rival.

Director: John Brahm | Stars: Vincent Price, Mary Murphy, Eva Gabor, John Emery

Votes: 2,198

23. Meet the Hollowheads (1989)

PG-13 | 86 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi

The Hollowheads, a slightly darker and more satirical 80s take on The Jetsons (1962), have their hands full when the head of the family's sleazy and abusive boss invites himself to their family dinner.

Director: Thomas R. Burman | Stars: John Glover, Nancy Mette, Richard Portnow, Matt Shakman

Votes: 865

24. Ladies in Retirement (1941)

Passed | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

The housekeeper to a retired actress tries at the same time to look after her own two emotionally disturbed sisters, with dramatic results.

Director: Charles Vidor | Stars: Ida Lupino, Louis Hayward, Evelyn Keyes, Elsa Lanchester

Votes: 1,810

25. Perry Mason: The Case of the Lost Love (1987 TV Movie)

96 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

An old flame of Mason's is up for a government position. A man tries to blackmail her, telling her husband her secret will prevent her appointment. When the husband approaches him, he finds he is dead and gets himself charged with murder.

Director: Ron Satlof | Stars: Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale, William Katt, Jean Simmons

Votes: 556

26. La Chienne (1931)

Not Rated | 95 min | Crime, Drama

Maurice Legrand, a meek cashier married to a nagging wife, has a secret passion: he's a Sunday painter. He falls in love with Lulu, a young woman dominated by Dédé, the pimp who she works for. Dédé pushes Lulu into a relationship with him.

Director: Jean Renoir | Stars: Michel Simon, Janie Marèse, Georges Flamant, Roger Gaillard

Votes: 4,840

27. The Black Candle (1991 TV Movie)

103 min | Drama

Yorkshire in the 1880's: Joe Skinner marries Lily Whitmore, the woman he has long admired, to give a name to her illegitimate child by Lionel Fillmore, the opportunistic son of an ... See full summary »

Director: Roy Battersby | Stars: Cathy Sandford, Nathaniel Parker, James Gaddas, Bob Smeaton

Votes: 355

28. Fearless (1978)

R | 93 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

An Italian private investigator tries to get to the bottom of a suspicious kidnapping case with the help of an exotic dancer.

Director: Stelvio Massi | Stars: Maurizio Merli, Joan Collins, Franco Ressel, Werner Pochath

Votes: 421

29. High Wall (1947)

Approved | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

After a brain-damaged man confesses to murder and is committed, Dr. Ann Lorrison tries to prove his innocence.

Director: Curtis Bernhardt | Stars: Robert Taylor, Audrey Totter, Herbert Marshall, Dorothy Patrick

Votes: 1,933

30. The Phantom of Crestwood (1932)

Passed | 76 min | Crime, Mystery

Jenny Wren is found dead after threatening to blackmail some prominent men, and it's up to a detective to find out what happened to Jenny.

Director: J. Walter Ruben | Stars: Ricardo Cortez, Karen Morley, Anita Louise, Pauline Frederick

Votes: 847

31. I Found Stella Parish (1935)

Approved | 85 min | Drama, Romance

A theatrical star abruptly leaves England to escape her secret past, while a newspaper reporter follows her trail to America to get the scoop.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Kay Francis, Ian Hunter, Paul Lukas, Sybil Jason

Votes: 579

32. This Woman Is Dangerous (1952)

Approved | 97 min | Drama

A tough lady gangster learns that she will be totally blind within a week. She seeks help from the one eye surgeon who may be able to save her sight. In the process, he also causes her to have a change of heart.

Director: Felix E. Feist | Stars: Joan Crawford, Dennis Morgan, David Brian, Richard Webb

Votes: 1,184

33. Jim Jefferies: This Is Me Now (2018 TV Special)

TV-MA | 70 min | Comedy

The gleefully irreverent Jefferies skewers "grabby" celebrities, political hypocrisy and his own ill-advised career moves in a brash stand-up special.

Director: Scott Zabielski | Star: Jim Jefferies

Votes: 4,472

34. She Had to Say Yes (1933)

Unrated | 65 min | Drama, Romance

In the depth of the Depression, Sol Glass has the idea that the girls in the stenographic department should be used to entertain the clients. It seems that the clients are tiring of the ... See full summary »

Directors: George Amy, Busby Berkeley | Stars: Loretta Young, Winnie Lightner, Lyle Talbot, Regis Toomey

Votes: 534

35. Stolen Holiday (1937)

Approved | 80 min | Drama, Romance

Nicole Picot is working as a model in a Paris dress salon when she is picked by Stefan Orloff to help him convince a wealthy investor that he is well connected. She is to wear an expensive ... See full summary »

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Kay Francis, Claude Rains, Ian Hunter, Alison Skipworth

Votes: 621

36. Smart Girls Don't Talk (1948)

Passed | 81 min | Crime, Music, Mystery

A socialite in financial trouble gets involved with a nightclub and gambling club owner, whose hoodlums are not afraid to kill, only to regret it and finally help a police lieutenant incriminate him and his gunman.

Director: Richard L. Bare | Stars: Virginia Mayo, Bruce Bennett, Robert Hutton, Tom D'Andrea

Votes: 370

37. Good Girls Go to Paris (1939)

Passed | 75 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A Midwesterner waitress, scheming to gold-dig her way to Paris, gets mixed up with a wealthy New York family.

Director: Alexander Hall | Stars: Melvyn Douglas, Joan Blondell, Walter Connolly, Alan Curtis

Votes: 594

38. The Wild Scene (1970)

R | 96 min | Drama

Dr. Virginia Grant is a psychiatrist dealing with five case studies about the misguided, hedonistic, radical and naive youth and the generation gap between their hippie generation and that of their parents. The fifth story is her own.

Director: William Rowland | Stars: Richard Tate, Alberta Nelson, Gary Pillar, Anita Eubank

Votes: 36

39. Vodkaa, komisario Palmu (1969)

100 min | Comedy, Crime

A TV reporter is murdered when he is eavesdropping on a secret Finnish-Soviet conference. The National Broadcasting Corporation enlists the help of police lieutenant Palmu, who comes out of... See full summary »

Director: Matti Kassila | Stars: Joel Rinne, Leo Jokela, Matti Ranin, Anna-Leena Mäki-Penttilä

Votes: 966

40. Das Feuerschiff (1963)

84 min | Crime, Drama

Religiously principled Captain Freytag must choose between his morals and the safety of his crew and his young son, when three ruthless criminals on the run take over his lighthouse.

Director: Ladislao Vajda | Stars: James Robertson Justice, Helmut Wildt, Dieter Borsche, Pinkas Braun

Votes: 26

41. L'assaut (1936)

73 min | Drama

Alexandre Mérital, the leader of a political party, finds himself under attack from Frépeau, one of his opponents. The latter has indeed discovered that Mérital committed a theft in his ... See full summary »

Director: Pierre-Jean Ducis | Stars: Charles Vanel, Alice Field, André Alerme, Madeleine Robinson

Votes: 39

42. Mädchen im Eis (2015)

92 min | Drama, Thriller

A young German woman follows her Russian lover unbeknownst to him to Russia. There she is confronted with notions of law and morals completely differing from her own ones.

Director: Stefan Krohmer | Stars: Lucie Heinze, Aleksey Guskov, Yuri Kolokolnikov, Anton Pampushnyy

Votes: 93

43. Thriller (1973–1976)
Episode: Lady Killer (1973)

TV-14 | 67 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy

A shy, lonely American girl marries a charming man she meets while on vacation in England, unaware that he has sinister plans for her.

Director: Bill Hays | Stars: Robert Powell, Barbara Feldon, Linda Thorson, T.P. McKenna

Votes: 379

44. CSI: NY (2004–2013)
Episode: Hush (2005)

TV-14 | 43 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A woman's death leads our detectives to a school for sexual fetishes such as bondage and spanking.

Director: Deran Sarafian | Stars: Gary Sinise, Melina Kanakaredes, Carmine Giovinazzo, Vanessa Ferlito

Votes: 341

45. Dallas (1978–1991)
Episode: The Prodigal (1982)

TV-PG | 49 min | Drama, Romance

Katherine teams up with J.R. in fighting Cliff, who has seized control of Wentworth Tool and Die. Donna uncovers a dark secret in the pasts of the Ewings and Culvers. Clayton investigates to determine whether Cliff is worthy of Sue Ellen.

Director: Michael Preece | Stars: Barbara Bel Geddes, Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray, Larry Hagman

Votes: 136

46. Fantasy Island (1977–1984)
Episode: Man-Beast/Ole Island Opry (1981)

TV-G | 60 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

David Tabori learns that his recurring nightmares have been telling him that he's a werewolf; and Jennie Rowlands, whose father Charlie wants her to be a country music star, would rather be a photographer.

Director: George W. Brooks | Stars: Ricardo Montalban, Hervé Villechaize, Jimmy Dean, Anne Francis

Votes: 66

47. I'll Fly Away (1991–1993)
Episode: Master Magician (1992)

Drama

John Morgan plans a post-victory magic show for Forrest, while Lilly considers the possibility that the gains earned by casting a vote could just be an illusion.

Director: Eric Laneuville | Stars: Sam Waterston, Regina Taylor, Jeremy London, Ashlee Levitch

48. Law & Order (1990– )
Episode: Competence (1994)

TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Van Buren kills an intellectually disabled, unarmed teenager at an ATM. She claims it was a robbery attempt, and that there's a second, armed suspect on the loose. But not everyone believes her.

Director: Fred Gerber | Stars: Jerry Orbach, Chris Noth, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston

Votes: 313

49. Mannix (1967–1975)
Episode: Only Giants Can Play (1969)

TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

The case of a man's death (accident or murder?) sends Mannix to another State and in the middle of political turmoil. The presumptive next Governor is being blackmailed, but by whom and for what is the question.

Director: Allen Reisner | Stars: Mike Connors, Gail Fisher, John Dehner, Slim Pickens

Votes: 120

50. Monsters (1988–1990)
Episode: Werewolf of Hollywood (1991)

TV-14 | 21 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

A frustrated, ambitious scriptwriter plans to use the information that one of the top producers in the Hollywood studio he's working for might be a werewolf to finally advance his career.

Director: Thomas J. Whelan | Stars: Richard Belzer, David Leary, Geraldine Leer, Shelley Berman

Votes: 84