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1. Dial M for Murder (1954)

PG | 105 min | Crime, Thriller

A former tennis star arranges the murder of his adulterous wife.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings, John Williams

Votes: 189,167 | Gross: $0.01M

2. Forgotten (2017)

TV-MA | 108 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

When his abducted brother returns seemingly a different man with no memory of the past 19 days, Jin-seok chases after the truth behind the kidnapping.

Director: Jang Hang-jun | Stars: Kang Ha-neul, Yeon Je Hyung, Kim Mu-yeol, Nam Myung-ryul

Votes: 46,286

3. Brighton Rock (1948)

Not Rated | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

In 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.

Director: John Boulting | Stars: Richard Attenborough, Hermione Baddeley, William Hartnell, Harcourt Williams

Votes: 6,833 | Gross: $0.22M

4. Cast a Dark Shadow (1955)

Approved | 82 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller

Edward "Teddy" Bare is a delusional psychotic with a lust for wealth, older women and murder. Having committed what he thinks is the perfect murder of his elderly wife; Teddy sets his sights on new targets when her fortune goes elsewhere.

Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Margaret Lockwood, Kay Walsh, Kathleen Harrison

Votes: 3,139

5. Blind Faith (1990)

190 min | Thriller

A wealthy businessman is accused of murdering his wife to collect insurance money to pay gambling debts. Although his three sons initially believe his innocence, his actions and court evidence soon begin to prove otherwise.

Stars: Robert Urich, Joanna Kerns, David Barry Gray, Jay Underwood

Votes: 398

6. Delitti a luce rossa (1996)

82 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Italian erotic thriller in which a cheating husband wants to have his hotelier wife murdered so that he can be with his mistress.

Director: Pasquale Fanetti | Stars: Gabriella Barbuti, Gianluigi Ghione, Vassili Karis, Gaetano Russo

Votes: 57

7. Dial 'M' for Murder (1981 TV Movie)

98 min | Thriller

A London businessman concocts an intricate plan to murder his unfaithful wife for her money.

Director: Boris Sagal | Stars: Angie Dickinson, Christopher Plummer, Anthony Quayle, Michael Parks

Votes: 270

8. Experiment Perilous (1944)

Approved | 91 min | Film-Noir, Romance, Thriller

In 1903, a doctor suspects murder in the gothic Bederaux family.

Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Hedy Lamarr, George Brent, Paul Lukas, Albert Dekker

Votes: 2,130

9. Guilty Conscience (1985 TV Movie)

Approved | 104 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

While an unfaithful criminal lawyer considers killing his wife, his spouse develops some schemes of her own.

Director: David Greene | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Blythe Danner, Swoosie Kurtz, Donegan Smith

Votes: 1,015

10. The Psycho Lover (1970)

R | 80 min | Crime, Horror

A psychiatrist plots to murder his wife, but with a new twist: he will brainwash a patient he is treating into committing the crime.

Director: Robert Vincent O'Neil | Stars: Lawrence Montaigne, Jo Anne Meredith, Elizabeth Plumb, Frank Cuva

Votes: 223

11. Dial M for Murder (1967 TV Movie)

120 min | Drama, Mystery

An ex-tennis pro carries out a plot to murder his wife. When things go wrong, he improvises a brilliant plan B.

Director: John Llewellyn Moxey | Stars: Laurence Harvey, Diane Cilento, Hugh O'Brian, Cyril Cusack

Votes: 41

12. Kill Her Gently (1957)

Approved | 75 min | Crime, Thriller

Two convicts who have just escaped from prison are picked up by a motorist. He recognizes the men from descriptions given of them on the radio, but instead of turning them over to the police, he proposes to hire them to murder his wife.

Director: Charles Saunders | Stars: Marc Lawrence, George Mikell, Griffith Jones, John Gayford

Votes: 248

13. Ciénaga (1993)

92 min | Drama

Observes a somewhat wealthy extended family spending a summer cramped together in an isolated, wet.

Director: José Ángel Bohollo | Stars: Ángel de Andrés López, Santiago Ramos, Marcela Osorio, José Soza

Votes: 29

14. The Plot Sickens (1961)

6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

A nebbish plots to murder his overbearing wife.

Directors: Seymour Kneitel, Irv Spector | Stars: Eddie Lawrence, Corinne Orr

Votes: 23

15. Dial M for Murder (1960 TV Movie)

An ex-tennis pro carries out a plot to murder his wife. When things go wrong, he improvises a brilliant plan B.

Star: Kevin Stoney

16. The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962–1965)
Episode: How to Get Rid of Your Wife (1963)

TV-PG | 48 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

Gerald Swinney is a henpecked husband suffering under the constant verbal abuse of his overbearing wife. Gerald devises a plan to rid himself of her and begin his life over again, but the results have unexpected consequences.

Director: Alf Kjellin | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Bob Newhart, Jane Withers, Joyce Jameson

Votes: 448

17. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode: Back for Christmas (1956)

TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery

Before leaving on a trip to America, a man kills his wife and buries her in the basement. Once in the United States, he receives correspondence. Has he gotten away with his crime?

Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, John Williams, Isobel Elsom, Arthur Gould-Porter

Votes: 1,156

18. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode: Hooked (1960)

TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery

Ray Marchand is married to an older woman but he is quite attracted to Nyla Foster, a very attractive college student spending the summer working at her father's fishing camp. She tells Ray... See full summary »

Director: Norman Lloyd | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Robert Horton, Anne Francis, Vivienne Segal

Votes: 526

19. The Hunger (1997–2000)
Episode: Room 17 (1997)

TV-MA | 26 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A traveling salesman rents Room 17 at the Limbo Hotel. When he orders an adult channel on the cable television, he gets more than he bargained for.

Director: Erik Canuel | Stars: Terence Stamp, Curtis Armstrong, Kim Feeney, Penny Mancuso

Votes: 111

20. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000–2015)
Episode: Leapin' Lizards (2007)

TV-PG | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

CSI discovers that a woman may have been murdered, and her head mounted on a wall as a trophy, because the killer was convinced that she was actually a powerful alien reptile.

Director: Richard J. Lewis | Stars: William Petersen, Marg Helgenberger, Gary Dourdan, George Eads

Votes: 762

21. Whispering Smith (1961)
Episode: Hired to Die (1961)

Approved | 25 min | Western

A not-so-devoted husband hires a Kansas City killer to travel to Denver to murder his wife when the couple arrive by stagecoach several days later. After the young woman dies, he sets about... See full summary »

Director: Francis D. Lyon | Stars: Audie Murphy, Guy Mitchell, Sam Buffington, Arthur Franz

Votes: 26

22. The Investigators (2000– )
Episode: The Devil's Courthouse (2005)

Documentary, Crime, Drama

After the police investigation into the murder of Wendy Owen Kratzert in 1995 goes cold, her husband, Edward George Kratzert, hires maverick private investigator Chuck Chambers to solve the case.

Director: Uri L. Schwarz | Stars: Gene Galusha, Wendy Kratzert, Ed Kratzert, Jim Boyette