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173 films tagged murder, showing 50
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1972 · Crime
The ageing head of a New York crime family starts handing the business to his sons, and the youngest, who wanted no part of it, is pulled in. Much of it plays out in quiet rooms, in conversations about loyalty and who owes what to whom.
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2025 · Horror
Four years on, Gwen is dreaming about murders at a winter camp she has never been to, so she takes her brother and a friend there. A blizzard shuts them in, and the dead phone starts ringing again.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Horror
A year after a group of friends cover up the crash they caused on a cliff road, a note arrives saying somebody knows. Then a fisherman with a hook starts working through them.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2023 · Drama
A man falls from the top floor of a chalet in the Alps and his wife goes on trial, with their partly sighted son the only other person in the house. Most of it is courtroom argument about a marriage.
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2025 · Crime
A former dock workers' union leader refuses to believe his old friend died of a heart attack, and pulls at the thread until it reaches a gold smuggling ring. Nearly three hours, and mostly action.
AI estimate, not yet described
Little-known
2025 · Horror
A killer who hunts couples every Valentine's Day mistakes two coworkers at a work dinner for a date. Half romantic comedy, half slasher, and it keeps swapping between the two.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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Little-known
2025 · Mystery
Five years on, Stephanie is a true crime vlogger when Emily turns up at a book signing and asks her to be maid of honour at a wedding in Capri. Sharp and silly, with a big cast and a lot of plot.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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Little-known
2025 · Horror
A teenager moves to a small Missouri town where the adults blame the local kids for burning down the factory, and someone in the town's clown mascot suit starts killing them off. A straight-ahead slasher.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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Little-known
2025 · Horror
In 1988 an outcast at Shadyside High signs up to run for prom queen against the popular clique, and a masked killer starts working through the candidates. A straight-ahead slasher, most of it on prom night.
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Little-known
2025 · Thriller
A violent Mumbai police officer works out who killed a fellow officer, then loses his memory in a crash before he can say the name. He is put back on the case and has to build it again, learning what he used to be like as he goes.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
AI estimate, not yet described
Little-known
2025 · Mystery
A congressman's daughter is found murdered in San Francisco's Chinatown in 1900, and the killing suits everyone who wants the district shut down. A young detective and a local man work the case, in a comedy with a real whodunnit inside it.
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2025 · Crime
A man is found stabbed to death in a Valencia car park, and the detective on the case keeps coming back to his young widow. Based on a real Spanish case, and told as a police investigation.
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2025 · Mystery
A lawyer takes on the case of her friend's husband, an unarmed Black man shot dead, and works it with her boyfriend, who is a detective. It plays as a mystery, with the two of them turning over what everyone involved is hiding.
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Little-known
2025 · Drama
The true story of Willy Monteiro Duarte, a 21-year-old of Cape Verdean descent beaten to death in an Italian town while stepping in to defend a friend. Drawn from Federica Angeli's book on the case.
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Little-known
2025 · Comedy
Four hapless Jakarta police officers, one bungled raid away from losing their jobs, go undercover in a nursing home to find out who killed the mayor's son. An Indonesian comedy with a big cast of residents.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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Little-known
2025 · Horror
Bodies start turning up in the canals of Amsterdam, killed by someone who works underwater, and the detective who handled the same kind of case decades ago is called back in. A slasher with boat chases.
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Little-known
2025 · Thriller
A Hong Kong private detective working in Malaysia takes three jobs at once, all of them men who want to know who their partner is really seeing, while a cop works a murder nearby. Two threads running side by side.
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2018 · Thriller
Seven strangers check into a faded hotel on the Nevada state line in 1969, none of them there for the reason they gave at the desk. It plays out room by room, in chapters, mostly at night.
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Little-known
2025 · Mystery
Bodies have been turning up headless in a lake by a village in 19th-century Vietnam, and the villagers blame a spirit in the water. When a young woman goes missing, her aunt sends for a detective who does not believe in spirits.
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Little-known
2025 · Science fiction
Paris in 2045 has been split into zones by class and the police take their orders from an artificial intelligence. When the man who built the system is murdered, two investigators are put on the case together.
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2025 · Drama
Ten years into a sentence for killing her sister, a woman who says she remembers almost none of it joins a criminologist's study of family crimes. Most of it is the two of them talking in a prison.
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2025 · Mystery
Four residents of a retirement village meet weekly to pick over cold cases, and then a man behind the plan to redevelop the village is murdered. Comfortable and chatty, more sleuthing than danger.
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2025 · Thriller
An accountant who keeps books for criminals is pulled in when a federal official is murdered with "find the accountant" written on his arm. He calls in his estranged brother, who kills people for a living.
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Little-known
2025 · Horror
Maya wakes in a small-town hospital after being stabbed by three masked strangers, and they have come to finish it. A straight chase through a town whose sheriff would rather this went away.
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2015 · Crime
A Boston gangster becomes an FBI informant and uses the arrangement to take over the city, while the agent who signed him up keeps covering for him. Cold and talky, with long scenes of men at tables.
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Little-known
2025 · Drama
In French Algeria a young Frenchman buries his mother without visibly feeling much, and is later accused of killing an Arab man. Slow and cool, and more about his indifference than about the crime.
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Little-known
2025 · Horror
Here Peter Pan is a killer who steals children away to Neverland, and when he takes her younger brother Wendy Darling goes looking for him. A straight slasher: chases, hiding places and a lot of blood.
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Little-known
2013 · Thriller
A man living out of his car hears that the person who killed his parents is being let out of prison, and drives home to do something about it. Very little talking, and he is not good at any of it.
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2014 · Action
A retired hitman is pulled back in after some young men break into his house and take the one thing he had left. It runs on a strict underworld etiquette that the film never stops to justify.
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2022 · Horror
A group of rich twenty-somethings ride out a hurricane at a family mansion and start a party game where one of them is secretly the killer. Mostly one house, in the dark, with a lot of bickering.
AI estimate, not yet described
Little-known
2025 · Science fiction
A woman whose daughter was murdered uses a machine to cross into parallel universes and kill the same man again and again, until a teenage runaway attaches herself to the trip. Small, grim science fiction, mostly on the road.
AI estimate, not yet described
Little-known
2025 · Documentary
A documentary about the killing of Javier Chocobar, a Chuschagasta leader in the fight for indigenous land rights in Argentina, and about who owns the land he died on. It is as much about the history of colonialism as about the crime.
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2026 · Horror
Sidney Prescott has a husband, a coffeehouse and children in small-town Indiana until Ghostface calls again, this time going after her teenage daughter. Phone calls, chases and knife fights, as before.
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2026 · Comedy
The masked killer from the first Scary Movie turns up again, and Cindy Campbell, now a paranoid shut-in, is dragged out by the friends and family around her. Gag after gag, aimed squarely at the first two films.
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2026 · Mystery
A shepherd in an English village is found dead outside his trailer, and his flock, who have had murder mysteries read to them for years, set out to work out who did it. A village whodunnit, told largely by the sheep.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2026 · Science fiction
In a Los Angeles where an artificial intelligence tries violent crimes, a detective is strapped into a chair and given ninety minutes to argue it out of executing him for his wife's murder. Mostly one room and a clock.
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2026 · Thriller
A Miami narcotics team searching a house for hidden cash finds twenty million dollars in the attic, and their lieutenant tells each of them a different number. Most of it is the team in that house, working out who to trust.
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2026 · Thriller
A luxury suit salesman in New York finds he is still in line for a $28 billion family fortune, and starts killing his way up the list. A black comedy that works through the plan one relative at a time.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2026 · Comedy
Two estranged half-brothers, a Navy SEAL and a suspended detective, meet at their private-investigator father's funeral in Hawaii and start pulling at the case that killed him. It is a buddy comedy with fights, and it moves fast.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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Little-known
2026 · Thriller
A failing director takes his wife to their lakeside cabin planning to kill her, and finds she has been planning the same thing for him. Then other people start turning up at the cabin.
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Little-known
2026 · Horror
Having survived the masked strangers once already, Maya is trying to get out of a small Oregon town and going after them at the same time. It is the last part of a trilogy, and it is violent all the way through.
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Little-known
2026 · Thriller
An actress comes back to her family's suite in a tower hotel as a strange mist swallows the city, bringing with it a killer in diamond gloves. Mostly the hotel, the film set, and her father's circle.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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Little-known
2026 · Horror
An ice cream truck arrives in a seaside town and the children who eat from it start killing the adults, leaving three who did not eat to get away. Gory and fast, and it does not let up.
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Little-known
2026 · Horror
A Kansas highway patrol officer sees her husband murdered by the serial killer the papers call the Satanic Slasher, and follows his trail across the Midwest. The chase is straightforward and the killings are not spared.
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Little-known
2026 · Crime
A widowed crime writer's eight-year-old son is taken, and he turns to his estranged father, a retired detective, for help. The case starts to line up with one from decades ago, a convicted serial killer called the Whisper Man.
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Little-known
2026 · Horror
A content moderator at a video app keeps flagging execution clips that look far too real, and nobody at work will take her seriously. She posts them on Reddit instead, and they take off.
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Little-known
2026 · Horror
Sent to live with his grandfather Geppetto after his parents die, a fourteen-year-old is given a wooden friend built never to leave him. The puppet decides to rid the world of bad things, and takes that literally.
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2026 · Drama
The daughter of the man counted as the 58th victim of the 2009 Maguindanao massacre tells the story of a father whose body was never found. It mixes archive footage with acted scenes, all of it animated over the top.
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2026 · Drama
The last eleven days of Samuel Paty, a French history teacher, after a student's father names him online for showing Charlie Hebdo cartoons in a lesson on free speech. It goes day by day.
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2004 · Thriller
A Los Angeles cab driver picks up a smooth passenger who offers good money for a night of stops around the city, and the first stop goes badly. It is one night, mostly the two of them in the car.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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