Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "wanted-for-murder"

1. Django Unchained (2012)

R | 165 min | Comedy, Drama, Western

With the help of a German bounty-hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal plantation owner in Mississippi.

Director: Quentin Tarantino | Stars: Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington

Votes: 1,697,724 | Gross: $162.81M

2. Mud (2012)

PG-13 | 130 min | Adventure, Drama

Two young boys encounter a fugitive and form a pact to help him evade the vigilantes that are on his trail and to reunite him with his true love.

Director: Jeff Nichols | Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Tye Sheridan, Jacob Lofland, Sam Shepard

Votes: 188,964 | Gross: $21.59M

3. Videodrome (1983)

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

A programmer at a Toronto TV station that specializes in adult entertainment searches for the producers of a dangerous and bizarre broadcast.

Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: James Woods, Debbie Harry, Sonja Smits, Peter Dvorsky

Votes: 103,145 | Gross: $2.12M

4. Battle Royale (2000)

Not Rated | 114 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill one another under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.

Director: Kinji Fukasaku | Stars: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda, Tarô Yamamoto, Chiaki Kuriyama

Votes: 194,614

5. Breathless (1960)

Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Drama

A small-time crook, hunted by the authorities for a car theft and the murder a police officer, attempts to persuade a hip American journalism student to run away with him to Italy.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Van Doude, Jean-Luc Godard

Votes: 88,018 | Gross: $0.34M

6. Operation Napoleon (2023)

102 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

A lawyer is sucked into an international conspiracy after being accused of a murder she didn't commit. Her only chance of survival lies in uncovering the secret of an old German WWII airplane, discovered on Iceland's largest glacier.

Director: Óskar Thór Axelsson | Stars: Vivian Ólafsdóttir, Jack Fox, Iain Glen, Wotan Wilke Möhring

Votes: 2,770

7. Pierrot the Fool (1965)

Not Rated | 110 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina, Graziella Galvani, Aicha Abadir

Votes: 36,975

8. Queen & Slim (2019)

R | 132 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A couple's first date takes an unexpected turn when a police officer pulls them over.

Director: Melina Matsoukas | Stars: Daniel Kaluuya, Jodie Turner-Smith, Bokeem Woodbine, Chloë Sevigny

Votes: 34,638

9. Safe in Hell (1931)

Passed | 73 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

After accidentally killing the man who raped her and forced her into prostitution, a New Orleans woman flees to a Caribbean island. While she awaits her fiancé, the vicious local police chief sets his sights on her.

Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Dorothy Mackaill, Donald Cook, Ralf Harolde, John Wray

Votes: 2,042

10. The Last Sunset (1961)

Approved | 112 min | Drama, Romance, Western

At a Mexican ranch, fugitive O'Malley and pursuing Sheriff Stribling agree to help rancher Breckenridge drive his herd into Texas where Stribling could legally arrest O'Malley, but Breckenridge's wife complicates things.

Director: Robert Aldrich | Stars: Rock Hudson, Kirk Douglas, Dorothy Malone, Joseph Cotten

Votes: 3,733 | Gross: $6.54M

11. The Naked Spur (1953)

Passed | 91 min | Drama, Thriller, Western

A bounty hunter trying to bring a murderer to justice is forced to accept the help of two less-than-trustworthy strangers.

Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: James Stewart, Janet Leigh, Robert Ryan, Ralph Meeker

Votes: 12,671

12. The Grand Duel (1972)

R | 98 min | Action, Drama, Mystery

A grizzled ex-sheriff helps a man framed for murder to confront the powerful trio of brothers who want him dead.

Director: Giancarlo Santi | Stars: Lee Van Cleef, Alberto Dentice, Jess Hahn, Horst Frank

Votes: 3,455

13. King Solomon's Mines (1950)

Passed | 103 min | Action, Adventure, Romance

Adventurer Allan Quartermain leads an expedition into uncharted African territory in an attempt to locate an explorer who went missing during his search for the fabled diamond mines of King Solomon.

Directors: Compton Bennett, Andrew Marton | Stars: Deborah Kerr, Stewart Granger, Richard Carlson, Hugo Haas

Votes: 7,026

14. Love and a .45 (1994)

R | 101 min | Crime, Romance, Thriller

A small time crook flees to Mexico to evade the authorities, loan sharks, and his murderous ex-partner with only his fiancé and a trusted Colt .45.

Director: C.M. Talkington | Stars: Gil Bellows, Renée Zellweger, Rory Cochrane, Jeffrey Combs

Votes: 4,863

15. Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955)

Passed | 79 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Two bumbling Americans stumble on the discovery of a lifetime when their search for a mummy leads them to a sacred medallion that holds the key to buried treasure.

Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Marie Windsor, Michael Ansara

Votes: 6,316

16. The Fugitive (1947)

Approved | 104 min | Drama, History

Anti-Catholic and anti-cleric policies in the Mexican state of Tabasco lead the revolutionary government to persecute the state's last remaining priest.

Directors: John Ford, Emilio Fernández | Stars: Henry Fonda, Dolores Del Río, Pedro Armendáriz, J. Carrol Naish

Votes: 2,588

17. Lamb of God (2020)

114 min | Drama

Only a few priests and interns remain in a secluded run-down boys religious boarding school in North Argentina in 1961. Arrives Father Martin, who's intentions are not as clear as he claims they are.

Director: Iván Noel | Stars: Santiago Acevedo, Tino Leunda, Matias Benedetti, Emanuel Renzini

Votes: 107

18. The Magnus Archives (2016 Podcast Series)

Drama, Horror, Mystery

The Magnus Archives is a weekly horror fiction anthology examining the mysteries within the archives of London based The Magnus Institute, an organization dedicated to documenting and ... See full summary »

Stars: Jonathan Sims, Alexander J. Newall, Frank Voss, Lydia Nicholas

Votes: 456

19. Magnet of Doom (1963)

102 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

Broke French ex-paratrooper turned amateur boxer Michel Maudet becomes bodyguard for the fugitive corrupt banker Ferchaux.

Director: Jean-Pierre Melville | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Vanel, Michèle Mercier, Malvina Silberberg

Votes: 1,764

20. Girl on the Run (1953)

64 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery

Police investigate a murder that occurred in a burlesque theater.

Directors: Arthur J. Beckhard, Joseph Lerner | Stars: Richard Coogan, Rosemary Pettit, Frank Albertson, Harry Bannister

Votes: 260

21. Más que amor, frenesí (1996)

101 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller

Not Love Just Frenzy is a fast, funny adventure through the wild Euroclub scene in the style of the scandalous Pedro Almodovar. A group of hot, horny twentysomething friends looking for ... See full summary »

Directors: Alfonso Albacete, Miguel Bardem, David Menkes | Stars: Nancho Novo, Cayetana Guillén Cuervo, Ingrid Rubio, Beatriz Santiago

Votes: 676

22. Wanted for Murder (1946)

Approved | 103 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A woman becomes the target of a man who is gradually becoming insane, unable to resist his urge to strangle women to death, but who appears to be purposely leaving pieces of evidence behind.

Director: Lawrence Huntington | Stars: Eric Portman, Dulcie Gray, Derek Farr, Roland Culver

Votes: 805

23. A Shriek in the Night (1933)

Unrated | 66 min | Crime, Mystery, Romance

Pat Morgan and Ted Kord are rival newspaper reporters always trying to outscoop each other. They join together to solve a series of murders being committed in an apartment building.

Director: Albert Ray | Stars: Ginger Rogers, Lyle Talbot, Harvey Clark, Purnell Pratt

Votes: 1,091

24. Flesh (1932)

Passed | 96 min | Drama, Romance

Gifted German wrestler Polokai falls in love with ex-con Laura, who persuades him to emigrate to America and gets him involved with crooked promoters.

Director: John Ford | Stars: Wallace Beery, Ricardo Cortez, Karen Morley, Jean Hersholt

Votes: 735

25. Million Dollar Weekend (1948)

Approved | 72 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

2 people - a middle-aged stockbroker and a young widow are passengers on the same flight from California to Hawaii. For different reasons, they've both fled the state with secrets. Neither ... See full summary »

Director: Gene Raymond | Stars: Gene Raymond, Osa Massen, Francis Lederer, Robert Warwick

Votes: 387

26. Two O'Clock Courage (1945)

Not Rated | 68 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A confused man with a gash on his head stumbles into the taxi cab of Patty Mitchell. He says that he can't recall his own name, any facts about his life or even what he was doing before he got in the cab.

Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: Tom Conway, Ann Rutherford, Richard Lane, Lester Matthews

Votes: 1,378

27. Arctic Blue (1993)

R | 95 min | Action, Thriller

A man from Los Angeles, California gets a job as ecologist in Alaska's wilderness. He takes part in arresting and transporting a trapper wanted for murder. But the trapper, Ben Corbett (Rutger Hauer), and his friends will do anything to free him.

Director: Peter Masterson | Stars: Rutger Hauer, Dylan Walsh, Rya Kihlstedt, Johnny Cuthbert

Votes: 1,130

28. The Vintage (1957)

Approved | 92 min | Crime, Drama

Two Italian brothers flee to France and hide out in a vineyard with two sisters and their family.

Director: Jeffrey Hayden | Stars: Pier Angeli, Mel Ferrer, John Kerr, Michèle Morgan

Votes: 155

29. Jubilee Trail (1954)

Approved | 103 min | Western

A wild west trader and his New York City wife head out for California by wagon train. The trader is killed en route, and his wife finds herself pregnant. She continues on, hoping to find a man and a home.

Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Vera Ralston, Joan Leslie, Forrest Tucker, John Russell

Votes: 252 | Gross: $1.30M

30. La bandera (1935)

Approved | 88 min | Drama, Romance, War

Pierre Gilieth has committed a murder in Paris. He flees to Barcelona, where he runs out of money. So he joins the Spanish Foreign Legion. He meets there two fellow countrymen, Mulot and ... See full summary »

Director: Julien Duvivier | Stars: Annabella, Jean Gabin, Robert Le Vigan, Raymond Aimos

Votes: 734

31. In the Kingdom of the Blind, the Man with One Eye Is King (1995)

R | 99 min | Crime, Drama

Al is hired by an acquaintance who happens to be the local mob boss to track down his own brother who's wanted by the mafia for the murder of an important gangster figure. Is blood thicker than water?

Director: Nick Vallelonga | Stars: Michael Biehn, William Petersen, Leo Rossi, Paul Winfield

Votes: 305

32. The White Huntress (1954)

Not Rated | 80 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

British settlers travel to Masai country in Kenya.

Director: George P. Breakston | Stars: Robert Urquhart, John Bentley, Susan Stephen, Alan Tarlton

Votes: 108

33. Wanted Sabata (1970)

88 min | Action, Thriller, Western

Villainous bounty hunter Jim Sparrow kills his brother and frames Sabata for the murder.

Director: Roberto Mauri | Stars: Brad Harris, Vassili Karis, Elena Pedemonte, Gino Lavagetto

Votes: 81

34. Panic (1963)

Not Rated | 69 min | Crime, Drama

A London jewelry exchange is robbed. The exchange owner is shot, and his secretary knocked out. When she comes to, she finds herself with a dead boss and no memory.

Director: John Gilling | Stars: Janine Gray, Glyn Houston, Dyson Lovell, Duncan Lamont

Votes: 97

35. A Child of the Prairie (1915)

63 min | Western

In the wild west, Tom's wife, Nell, yearns to return to big city life. Slippery Jim offers her a way--and she takes the couple's young daughter with her. Will Tom ever see his child again?

Director: Tom Mix | Stars: Tom Mix, Louella Maxam, Norma Maxam, Ed Brady

Votes: 23

36. City Girl (1938)

Approved | 63 min | Crime, Drama

A racketeer uses a waitress to get information from the district attorney whom she comes to love.

Director: Alfred L. Werker | Stars: Ricardo Cortez, Phyllis Brooks, Robert Wilcox, Douglas Fowley

Votes: 28

37. Riders of the Pony Express (1949)

Approved | 60 min | Western

In a rigged gunfight Tom Blake is forced to shoot a man in self defense and is then hunted for murder. After a long trip fleeing the posse he uses a false name and joins the Pony Express ... See full summary »

Director: Michael Salle | Stars: Ken Curtis, Shug Fisher, Cathy Douglas, William 'Billy' Benedict

Votes: 24

38. Pimeys odottaa (1985)

79 min | Crime, Thriller

A triangle drama involving a young unlucky drifter, a nightclub singer and a corrupt police officer.

Director: Pauli Pentti | Stars: Pekka Valkeejärvi, Riitta Havukainen, Arno Virtanen, Heikki Peltonen

Votes: 85

39. Va-Room Service (1966 TV Short)

5 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Wilbur the Wanted checks into the Potted Palms Hotel, where Moe Hare, the Bent-Eared Rabbit, is working as a bellboy.

Director: Hal Seeger | Star: Bob McFadden

40. Highlander (1992–1998)
Episode: Deadly Medicine (1992)

TV-14 | 49 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

On his way home from the grocery store, Duncan is the victim of a hit and run. He is rushed to the hospital in critical condition, but due to his remarkable recovery time he is able to ... See full summary »

Director: Ray Austin | Stars: Adrian Paul, Alexandra Vandernoot, Stan Kirsch, Amanda Wyss

Votes: 252

41. Maverick (1957–1962)
Episode: Dodge City or Bust (1960)

TV-G | 60 min | Western

On his way to the bank to collect a gambling debt, Bart rescues a petulant young woman from a runaway horse. On returning to the bank, Bart and the woman find that the bank president has ... See full summary »

Director: Irving J. Moore | Stars: Jack Kelly, Roger Moore, Peter Whitney, Diana Millay

Votes: 69

42. Schlitz Playhouse (1951–1959)
Episode: The Long Trail (1954)

30 min | Comedy, Drama

Texas Ranger Walden accepts the hospitality of an Oregon sheriff and his daughter while on the trail of a man wanted for murder. He learns his quarry, Sam Gates, is nearby and the sheriff ... See full summary »

Director: Justus Addiss | Stars: Anthony Quinn, Robert Armstrong, Maxine Cooper, John Bryant

Votes: 10

43. Screen Directors Playhouse (1955–1956)
Episode: No. 5 Checked Out (1956)

25 min | Drama

A young deaf women confronts desperate crooks who are using one of her remote resort cabins for a hideout.

Director: Ida Lupino | Stars: Teresa Wright, Peter Lorre, William Talman, Ralph Moody

Votes: 155

44. Stagecoach West (1960–1961)
Episode: The Bold Whip (1961)

60 min | Western

While attempting to open up a stagecoach route to a northern Army fort, Luke, Simon and Davey are beset by troubles on their initial trip. The men discover that one of the passengers is not... See full summary »

Director: Don McDougall | Stars: Wayne Rogers, Richard Eyer, Robert Bray, John Kellogg

Votes: 17

45. Whiplash (1960–1961)
Episode: Stage Fright (1961)

25 min | Western

Mowamba flats is the start of a new coach run for Cobb. At stake is a lucrative mail run. Some of the passengers do not appear to be what they claim, and the addition of corpse to be ... See full summary »

Director: Peter Maxwell | Stars: Peter Graves, Tony Wickert, Barry Linehan, Margo Lee

46. Zane Grey Theatre (1956–1961)
Episode: Debt of Gratitude (1958)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

When Marshal Tolby learns that Ben Kincaid is wanted for murder, he feels he must arrest him and take him to Prescott for trial, even though Kincaid is regarded as a hero by the townsfolk and beg Tolby to let him go free.

Director: William D. Faralla | Stars: Steve Cochran, James Whitmore, Walter Sande, Robert Ellenstein

Votes: 33

47. Everglades! (1961–1962)
Episode: A Day's Occupation (1962)

30 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Two bank robbers capture Linc and plan to force him to guide them around the police patrols closing in to capture them.

Director: Jack Herzberg | Stars: Ron Hayes, Val Avery, James Greene, Joy Fegregs

48. The F.B.I. Files (1998–2009)
Episode: The Initiation (2003)

TV-PG | 50 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime

Three men murder a innocent man as part of an initiation into a Cleveland Ohio biker gang.

Director: Joe Wiecha | Stars: James Kallstrom, Anthony D. Call, Stephen Kemble, Stuart Shoaff

Votes: 29

49. NCIS (2003– )
Episode: Lost & Found (2007)

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

While McGee gives his den of Youth Rangers a tour of the NCIS headquarters, one of his boys pops up in a missing-persons database; Gibbs and company investigate. The team find lies, deception, a fugitive, a new murder, and the real killer.

Director: Martha Mitchell | Stars: Mark Harmon, Michael Weatherly, Cote de Pablo, Pauley Perrette

Votes: 839

50. Murdoch Mysteries (2008– )
Episode: Rough and Rowdy Ways (2021)

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

Inspector Brackenreid learns that his youngest son, Bobby, is wanted for murder, while the Murdochs and Crabtree suspect old enemies are returning to harm them.

Directors: Yannick Bisson, Harvey Crossland, Eleanore Lindo, Laurie Lynd, Peter Mitchell | Stars: Yannick Bisson, Helene Joy, Thomas Craig, Jonny Harris

Votes: 238