Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "dead-body-on-a-beach"

1. Us (II) (2019)

R | 116 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Adelaide Wilson and her family are attacked by mysterious figures dressed in red. Upon closer inspection, the Wilsons realize that the intruders are exact lookalikes of them.

Director: Jordan Peele | Stars: Lupita Nyong'o, Winston Duke, Elisabeth Moss, Tim Heidecker

Votes: 341,278 | Gross: $175.08M

2. Operation Mincemeat (2021)

PG-13 | 128 min | Drama, War

During WWII, two intelligence officers use a corpse and false papers to outwit German troops.

Director: John Madden | Stars: Colin Firth, Matthew Macfadyen, Kelly Macdonald, Rufus Wright

Votes: 35,218

3. Swiss Army Man (2016)

R | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

A hopeless man stranded on a deserted island befriends a dead body, and together they go on a surreal journey to get home.

Directors: Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert | Stars: Paul Dano, Daniel Radcliffe, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Antonia Ribero

Votes: 133,632 | Gross: $4.21M

4. Biutiful (2010)

R | 148 min | Drama, Romance

A man dying of cancer tries his best to leave the world on his own terms.

Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu | Stars: Javier Bardem, Maricel Álvarez, Hanaa Bouchaib, Guillermo Estrella

Votes: 94,628 | Gross: $5.10M

5. These Final Hours (2013)

R | 87 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A self-obsessed young man makes his way to the party-to-end-all-parties on the last day on Earth, but ends up saving the life of a little girl searching for her father. Their relationship ultimately leads him on the path to redemption.

Director: Zak Hilditch | Stars: Jessica De Gouw, Nathan Phillips, David Field, Lauren Cleary

Votes: 18,972

6. Daughters of Darkness (1971)

R | 87 min | Horror

While passing through a vacation resort, a newlywed couple encounters a mysterious, strikingly beautiful countess and her aide.

Director: Harry Kümel | Stars: Delphine Seyrig, John Karlen, Danielle Ouimet, Andrea Rau

Votes: 7,050

7. S.O.B. (1981)

R | 122 min | Comedy, Drama

A successful movie director makes the most expensive film in his career and it becomes a huge flop. He tries to salvage his career by reshooting the film as an erotic production, where its family-friendly star takes her top off.

Director: Blake Edwards | Stars: Julie Andrews, William Holden, Marisa Berenson, Larry Hagman

Votes: 6,481 | Gross: $14.87M

8. What We Did on Our Holiday (2014)

PG-13 | 95 min | Comedy, Drama

A family of five heads to Granddad's big 75th-birthday party at an uncle's estate in rural Scotland. The parents are separated and hope their three kids won't mention it. The kids love, can talk with, and would do anything for Granddad.

Directors: Andy Hamilton, Guy Jenkin | Stars: Rosamund Pike, David Tennant, Billy Connolly, Ben Miller

Votes: 24,600

9. Young and Innocent (1937)

Not Rated | 83 min | Crime, Mystery, Romance

A man on the run from a murder charge enlists the help of a beautiful stranger who must put herself at risk for his cause.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Nova Pilbeam, Derrick De Marney, Percy Marmont, Edward Rigby

Votes: 10,860

10. Terminal Island (1973)

R | 88 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

After the abolishment of the death penalty, California murderers are dumped on an island to spend the rest of their lives unsupervised. There, two groups are formed, one lead by a psychopath, and another group determined to bring him down.

Director: Stephanie Rothman | Stars: Don Marshall, Phyllis Davis, Ena Hartman, Marta Kristen

Votes: 1,509

11. The Blue Lagoon (1949)

Not Rated | 101 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

In the Victorian period, two children are shipwrecked on a tropical island in the South Pacific and fall in love while growing up together.

Director: Frank Launder | Stars: Jean Simmons, Donald Houston, Susan Stranks, Peter Rudolph Jones

Votes: 651

12. Vortex (2022)

324 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy

After reconnecting with his dead wife through a glitch in virtual reality, a police officer tries to negate the mysterious accident that cost her life.

Stars: Tomer Sisley, Camille Claris, Zineb Triki, Éric Pucheu

Votes: 4,011

13. Five Dolls for an August Moon (1970)

Not Rated | 82 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery

An industrialist invites his colleagues to his private island so they can exploit a resin formula invented by one of the guests, but a killer within the group disrupts the proceedings.

Director: Mario Bava | Stars: William Berger, Ira von Fürstenberg, Edwige Fenech, Howard Ross

Votes: 3,458

14. The Man Who Never Was (1956)

Approved | 103 min | Drama, War

In order to fool the Germans into thinking the Allied invasion of Sicily will take place elsewhere, British Military Intelligence comes up with a cunning ruse.

Director: Ronald Neame | Stars: Clifton Webb, Gloria Grahame, Robert Flemyng, Josephine Griffin

Votes: 5,787

15. White Fire (1984)

R | 101 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Two Russian siblings living in Istanbul, Turkey, who work in the diamond fencing business, scheme to steal the newly discovered legendary diamond White Fire, but their rivals have other plans in mind.

Director: Jean-Marie Pallardy | Stars: Robert Ginty, Fred Williamson, Belinda Mayne, Jess Hahn

Votes: 987

16. Remember Me (2014)

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

Tom Parfitt fakes an injury in order to escape from his monotonous lifestyle and head to a care centre. However, upon his arrival, the staff experiences several strange instances, including a murder.

Stars: Michael Palin, Mark Addy, Jodie Comer, Julia Sawalha

Votes: 1,869

17. Venus in Furs (1969)

R | 86 min | Horror, Thriller

A jazz trumpeter becomes obsessed with a beautiful woman whose corpse he discovers on a beach, after which she seemingly returns to life to take revenge on those responsible for her death.

Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: James Darren, Barbara McNair, Maria Rohm, Klaus Kinski

Votes: 2,219

18. The Grilling (1981)

87 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A police inspector, suspecting an attorney of two child sex murders, has him held for a questioning session that goes on for hours.

Director: Claude Miller | Stars: Lino Ventura, Michel Serrault, Romy Schneider, Guy Marchand

Votes: 5,343

19. The Reckless Moment (1949)

Not Rated | 82 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

After discovering the dead body of her teenage daughter's lover, a housewife takes desperate measures to protect her family from scandal.

Director: Max Ophüls | Stars: James Mason, Joan Bennett, Geraldine Brooks, Henry O'Neill

Votes: 5,657

20. The Beach Girls and the Monster (1965)

Unrated | 70 min | Horror

Surfers are being brutally murdered. Is the culprit a sea monster or just one of the teens' jealous parents?

Director: Jon Hall | Stars: Jon Hall, Sue Casey, Walker Edmiston, Elaine DuPont

Votes: 1,091

21. The Mistress of Spices (2005)

PG-13 | 92 min | Drama, Romance

An immigrant in San Francisco brings Indian magic with her through spices. To keep the magic, she must never leave the spice store or touch another's skin. One day, a handsome architect bachelor enters her store.

Director: Paul Mayeda Berges | Stars: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Dylan McDermott, Nitin Ganatra, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

Votes: 5,605

22. The Slasher ...is the Sex Maniac! (1972)

X | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

A serial killer is on the loose. His victims are unfaithful wives and he always leaves compromising photographs at the crime scene.

Director: Roberto Bianchi Montero | Stars: Farley Granger, Sylva Koscina, Silvano Tranquilli, Annabella Incontrera

Votes: 1,093

23. City in the Sea (1965)

Unrated | 84 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Horror

In 1903 Cornwall, a group of locals discover an underwater city, dating back to 1803, that hides a society of smugglers and aquatic creatures.

Directors: Jacques Tourneur, Ishirô Honda | Stars: Vincent Price, Tab Hunter, David Tomlinson, Susan Hart

Votes: 2,602

24. Because of the Cats (1973)

R | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A gang of wealthy ne'er do wells rape and terrorize women for fun and force their husbands to watch. A police detective tries to catch them, but can he break their twisted loyalty to one another?

Director: Fons Rademakers | Stars: Bryan Marshall, Alexandra Stewart, Edward Judd, Sebastian Graham Jones

Votes: 506

25. Terraferma (2011)

R | 88 min | Drama

A Sicilian family deals with the arrival of a group of immigrants on their island.

Director: Emanuele Crialese | Stars: Filippo Pucillo, Donatella Finocchiaro, Giuseppe Fiorello, Mimmo Cuticchio

Votes: 3,212

26. Bed & Breakfast (1991)

PG-13 | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Three generations of women (Talia Shire, Nina Siemaszko, and Colleen Dewhurst) run a failing bed and breakfast in this gentle romantic comedy. Everything changes when a charming mysterious stranger (Sir Roger Moore) shows up on the scene.

Director: Robert Ellis Miller | Stars: Roger Moore, Talia Shire, Colleen Dewhurst, Nina Siemaszko

Votes: 440

27. Hourglass (1995 Video)

R | 87 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A business executive gets mixed up with a killer female and her lesbian roommate, who plot to take over his fashion business.

Director: C. Thomas Howell | Stars: C. Thomas Howell, Sofia Shinas, Anthony Clark, Colette O'Connell

Votes: 304

28. Beyond the Reef (1979)

PG | 91 min | Adventure, Romance

Tikoyo lives by the Bora Bora lagoon in the South Pacific, where he found a man-eating tiger shark when it was an orphaned baby, just a foot long. He named it Manidu, and it grew to be ... See full summary »

Director: Frank C. Clarke | Stars: Dayton Ka'ne, Maren Jensen, Kathleen Swan, Keahi Farden

Votes: 229 | Gross: $0.55M

29. They Were So Young (1954)

Approved | 80 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

A model agency in Rio de Janeiro is actually a front for a white-slavery ring that kidnaps European women and sells them on the South American sex market.

Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Scott Brady, Johanna Matz, Raymond Burr, Ingrid Stenn

Votes: 233

30. In Like Flynn (1985 TV Movie)

100 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery

Life is one cliff-hanger after another for a bright and beautiful woman and the reluctant young man who joins her in defying death as they investigate a series of baffling murders and ... See full summary »

Director: Richard Lang | Stars: Jenny Seagrove, Murray Cruchley, Robert Webber, Eddie Albert

Votes: 88

31. Remember Me (1995 TV Movie)

96 min | Drama, Thriller

Set in a Victorian haunted mansion, Kelly McGillis as a grieving Mom is being driven mad by a vocal but unseen entity. She believes it to be her son.

Director: Michael Switzer | Stars: Kelly McGillis, Cotter Smith, Shanna Reed, Michael T. Weiss

Votes: 194

32. Canaries (2017)

84 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi

The first wave of an alien invasion coincides with a New Years Eve party in a Welsh valley.

Director: Peter Stray | Stars: Robert Pugh, Hannah Daniel, Sophie Melville, Robert Boulter

Votes: 645

33. Dischord (2001)

Not Rated | 102 min | Drama, Music, Thriller

On the brink of her world tour, at the height of her success, alternative rock violinist, Gypsy, put down her violin and walked away... A man brutally beats his girlfriend to death and ... See full summary »

Director: Mark Wilkinson | Stars: Thomas Jay Ryan, Annunziata Gianzero, Richard Bakalyan, Andrew Borba

Votes: 92

34. Anametrisi (1982)

90 min | Crime, Mystery, Romance

During his summer vacation in Mytilene, a young and lonely small-time clerk, Kostas, becomes bewitched by a femme fatale, Anna Parisi, a thirty-five-year-old German woman married to a wealthy local businessman.

Director: Giorgos Karypidis | Stars: Zoi Laskari, Aris Retsos, Spyros Fokas, Stefanos Stratigos

Votes: 27

35. Graven (2010)

10 min | Short, Comedy, Horror

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Director: Anders Ekedahl | Stars: Robert Nordin, Johan Johansson, Anders Ekedahl

36. This View (2019)

4 min | Short, Drama, Music

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Directors: Sharna Bass, Luke Biggins | Stars: Rodrig Andrisan, Sharna Bass

37. Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode: Evil Under the Sun (2001)

TV-14 | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Poirot's rehabilitative health retreat on an island resort becomes an even more stimulating mental exercise when a flirtatious film star is found strangled on a nearby beach.

Director: Brian Farnham | Stars: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, Pauline Moran

Votes: 2,681

38. The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (2001–2007)
Episode: Deception on His Mind (2003)

TV-14 | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Sahlah is engaged to a young Pakistani man in an arranged marriage, but he ends up murdered as she is bearing the child of a local white man.

Director: Tim Leandro | Stars: Matthew Wait, Sharon Small, Anjalee Patel, Tanveer Ghani

Votes: 360

39. Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode: The ABC Murders (1992)

Not Rated | 103 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Poirot receives taunting letters from a serial killer who appears to choose his victims and crime scenes alphabetically.

Director: Andrew Grieve | Stars: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, Donald Sumpter

Votes: 2,779

40. CSI: Miami (2002–2012)
Episode: Spring Break (2003)

TV-14 | 44 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Two teenagers die during a Spring Break trip to the Miami beach.

Director: Deran Sarafian | Stars: David Caruso, Emily Procter, Adam Rodriguez, Khandi Alexander

Votes: 518

41. Foyle's War (2002–2015)
Episode: Fifty Ships (2003)

TV-14 | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

After Foyle is a guest at a friend's home at a dinner for an important American industrialist, a suicide victim and German agent both are discovered near the house.

Director: Giles Foster | Stars: Honeysuckle Weeks, Rebecca Johnson, Steven O'Donnell, Marlene Sidaway

Votes: 776

42. I Spy (1965–1968)
Episode: Court of the Lion (1966)

60 min | Action, Adventure

Scotty and Kelly combat a ruthless gang of smugglers who have co-opted an entire fishing village into their scheme. Although totally unarmed, with a little help from the villagers they might have a chance.

Director: Robert Culp | Stars: Robert Culp, Bill Cosby, Godfrey Cambridge, Miko Mayama

Votes: 61

43. The Saint (1962–1969)
Episode: The Best Laid Schemes (1967)

TV-PG | 49 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Several weeks after the body of her husband was pulled from the sea, Arlene Fleming receives calls allegedly from him. The Saint discovers the main beneficiary to Fleming's will is his ... See full summary »

Director: John Llewellyn Moxey | Stars: Roger Moore, Sylvia Syms, Paul Daneman, Gabrielle Drake

Votes: 144

44. Water Rats (1996–2001)
Episode: Die for Me (1998)

TV-14 | 44 min | Action, Crime, Drama

While Holloway is away in Melbourne for a job interview, Goldie and Tavita hunt down a serial killer.

Director: Steve Mann | Stars: Colin Friels, Catherine McClements, Brett Partridge, Peter Bensley

Votes: 14

45. Water Rats (1996–2001)
Episode: For Old Times' Sake (1998)

TV-14 | 44 min | Action, Crime, Drama

When Liz is nearly run down in front of him, Frank, fearing for her safety following her husband's murder in prison, suggests that she stay with him.

Director: Mark Piper | Stars: Colin Friels, Catherine McClements, Brett Partridge, Peter Bensley

Votes: 16

46. Water Rats (1996–2001)
Episode: Soft Target (1998)

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

Goldie investigates the disappearance of a young girl and the subsequent murder of the woman suspected of her kidnapping.

Directors: Chris Martin-Jones, Stephen Wallace | Stars: Colin Friels, Catherine McClements, Aaron Jeffery, Brett Partridge

Votes: 16

47. Numb3rs (2005–2010)
Episode: Undercurrents (2006)

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

The bodies of young Asian girls wash up on the beach, including one with bird flu. Amita gets a job offer.

Director: J. Miller Tobin | Stars: Rob Morrow, David Krumholtz, Judd Hirsch, Alimi Ballard

Votes: 268

48. Lost (2004–2010)
Episode: The Shape of Things to Come (2008)

TV-14 | 43 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

The team from the ship attacks Locke's camp looking for Ben, with Alex as a hostage. The doctor from the ship washes up on shore at Jack's camp and Faraday provides some distressing news.

Director: Jack Bender | Stars: Naveen Andrews, Henry Ian Cusick, Jeremy Davies, Emilie de Ravin

Votes: 6,374

49. Monk (2002–2009)
Episode: Mr. Monk and the Naked Man (2007)

TV-PG | 42 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Monk is asked to consult on the murder of a woman, but his issues with nudity hamper his skills.

Director: Randy Zisk | Stars: Tony Shalhoub, Traylor Howard, Jason Gray-Stanford, Ted Levine

Votes: 1,245

50. Forensic Files (1996–2011)
Episode: A Cinderella Story (2007)

TV-14 | 22 min | Documentary, Crime

The victim had been sexually assaulted and stabbed to death on the beach, just ten yards from the hotel where she was staying. A pair of men's tennis shoes was discovered near her body. ... See full summary »

Stars: Peter Thomas, Thomas Berry, Celeste Bethmann, Mark Boodee

Votes: 93