Highest-Rated Movies about 'Framed For Murder', Sort by Popularity

Murder! (1930), Written on the Wind (1956), Frenzy (1972), The Negotiator (1998), The Girl Who Played with Fire (2009), Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991), Hell Bent for Leather (1960), Cookie's Fortune (1999) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Framed For Murder movies.

#16. Out of Time (2003)

Storyline: Matt Whitlock, the police chief of the small town of Banyan Key, Florida, is separated from his wife, Alex, a police homicide detective in MIami. Matt's been having an affair with Ann Merai Harrison, a woman who's separated from her abusive husband, Chris, and says she has cancer, as well. When her doctor tells her of a new expensive treatment, Matt decides to give her the nearly half a million dollars in an evidence lock up that he seized from a local drug bust. When Ann and her husband turn up dead only days after naming Chief Whitlock as beneficiary on a million dollar Life insurance policy, things start heating up for Whitlock as the evidence his wife Alex is gathering stacks up against him. And as if things couldn't get worse, the D.E.A. now want the drug money a.s.a.p. Anxiety runs high for Whitlock as he scrambles to figure out who has set him up and also recover half a million dollars all while trying not to break a sweat or draw any suspicions. He's a man who is way out of ...

Plot Keywords: police chief, wife, mistress, football player, medical examiner, detective, tense ...

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#17. Death Race (2008)

Storyline: In 2012, amid economic chaos and high unemployment, Americans watch by the millions as criminals with life sentences race armored cars on Terminal Island. Two-thirds of the combatants die but the winner may earn his freedom. On the day he loses his job, steelworker Jensen Ames is arrested for his wife's murder. Sent to Terminal Island, he's offered an out by the steely and manipulative Warden Hennessey - race as the popular mask-wearing (but now dead) champion, Frankenstein, or rot in prison. Jensen makes the bargain. As the three-stage race approaches, he realizes that the whole thing may be a set up - can an anonymous man behind a mask get revenge and win his release?

Plot Keywords: race car driver, criminal, warden, convict, prisoner, innocent man, tense ...

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#18. The Oklahoma Kid (1939)

Storyline: McCord's gang robs the stage carrying money to pay Indians for their land, and the notorious outlaw "The Oklahoma Kid" Jim Kincaid takes the money from McCord. McCord stakes a "sooner" claim on land which is to be used for a new town; in exchange for giving it up he gets control of gambling and saloons. When Kincaid's father runs for mayor, McCord incites a mob to lynch the old man whom McCord has already framed for murder..—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>

Plot Keywords: son, outlaw, judge, brother, rousing, cheery, wild ...

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#19. The Art of Love (1965)

Storyline: Painter Paul Sloan feels he's a failure, since nobody will buy his paintings. His art dealer informs him, that the works of an artist become much more wanted and valuable if the artist is dead. Therefore, Paul, together with his friend Casey Barnett, plans to fake his own suicide. However, it starts looking like Casey has murdered Paul and when Casey starts making a move for Paul's fiancée, he decides to get revenge. However, Paul falls in love with Nikki, who has also tried to commit suicide.—Anders E Lundin

Plot Keywords: painter, roommate, girlfriend, fiancé, madam, witty, offbeat ...

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#20. Calling Dr. Kildare (1939)

Storyline: Dr. Gillespie tries to teach Jimmy Kildare a lesson by tossing him into a street clinic. Only Kildare gets called to take a bullet out of a suspected murderer, and when the cops collar him for it, he has to try and prove his patient's innocence, especially for his sister Rosalie's sake.—Kathy Li

Plot Keywords: intern, physician, nurse, patient, sister, criminal, melodramatic ...

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#21. Juke Girl (1942)

Storyline: Danny and Steve are migrant farm workers who wind up in Cat Tail, Florida. Cat Tail is run by Madden Packing and Danny works for Madden while Steve works for the underdog farmer named Nick. After the Tomato crop is destroyed by Madden, Steve takes Nick, Lola and the next crop to Atlanta where they sell it for big money. Danny is going up with Madden and thinks Steve is a sucker for working in the dirt. Lola stays in Atlanta while Nick and Steve go back to Cat Tail and the real trouble begins.—Tony Fontana <tony.fontana@spacebbs.com>

Plot Keywords: farmer, owner, girl, friend, farmhand, tense, melodramatic ...

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#22. Jennifer Eight (1992)

Storyline: A big-city cop from L.A. moves to a small-town police force and immediately finds himself investigating a murder. Using theories rejected by his colleagues, the cop, John Berlin, meets a young blind woman named Helena, who he is attracted to. Meanwhile, a serial killer is on the loose and only John knows it.

Plot Keywords: police detective, blind woman, old friend, wife, fbi agent, killer, brooding ...

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#23. Wrongfully Accused (1998)

Storyline: Ryan Harrison, a violin god, superstar and sex symbol does not want to cheat on sexy Lauren Goodhue's husband with her. Shortly after that Mr. Goodhue is found murdered and Ryan suddenly finds himself being the main suspect. After being sentenced to death he manages to flee while being transferred to his execution site. Now, all the world is after him as he stumbles from one unfortunate incident to the next in order to find the real murderer.

Plot Keywords: fugitive, violinist, wife, cop, murder victim, mercenary, hilarious ...

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#24. Murder by Numbers (2002)

Storyline: Richard Haywood, a Californian high school's coolest kid, secretly teams up with another rich kid in his class, brilliant nerd Justin 'Bonaparte' Pendleton, whose erudition, specially in forensic matters, allows them to plan elaborately perfect murders, just for the kick, for which they set up Richard's marijuana supplier, their school's janitor Ray Feathers, as a psychotic serial killer. The case is assigned to detectives Cassie 'the hyena' Mayweather, who carries a sequoia-size chip on the shoulder from her previous life, and her brilliant new partner, Sam Kennedy, who just transferred from the vice squad; they can work together very well, and even fit romantically, but fall out over different professional attitudes towards the investigation, which Captain Rod Cody and her understandably vindictive abused ex, Assistant D.A. Al Swanson, soon ban her from when she disobeys instructions and hand to him. When the plotting boys both dig class-mate Lisa Mills, their unnatural bond comes ...

Plot Keywords: serial killer, high-school student, detective, partner, police officer, brooding, suspenseful ...

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#25. Lucky Nick Cain (1951)

Storyline: American gambler Nick Cain arrives at the Mediterranean town of San Paola, and befriends an orphan Italian shoe-shine boy named Toni. He is puzzled by the reception and welcome he receives from the management of the casino until he finds he has been framed on a charge of murdering a U.S. Treasury Agent. He escapes with Kay Wonderly and they flee to a deserted village where he leaves Kay to hide out. Nick gets aid from a mysterious character named Massine, whom he suspects of trying to collect the reward offered on his capture. Nick discovers that the men responsible for the agent's death are members of an international counterfeiting ring, using the casino to pass the bogus money.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>

Plot Keywords: gambler, shoeshine boy, intricate, suspenseful, mediterranean coast, italy, casino ...

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#26. The Man on the Eiffel Tower (1949)

Storyline: In Paris, a down and out medical student Johann Radek (Franchot Tone) is paid by Bill Kirby (Robert Hutton) to murder his wealthy aunt. A knife grinder (Burgess Meredith) is suspected, but Radek keeps taunting the police until they realize that he is the killer. The police and Maigret (Charles Laughton) are led on chases through the streets and over the rooftops of Paris and finally up the girders of the Eiffel Tower.—Herman Seifer <alagain@aol.com>

Plot Keywords: inspector, student, niece, suspect, suspenseful, confident, engaging ...

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#27. Law of the Wolf (1941)

Storyline: Jim Conway, who works on a South American rubber plantation, leaves to meet a girl from the United States whom he is to marry. But he receives a telegram from her telling him she has married someone else. He goes to a waterfront café where he meets a singer, Joan Madison, and tells her his troubles. He asks her to marry him and return to the plantation with him using the name of the girl he was to marry. This strikes her as a great idea as she is a wanted fugitive.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>

Plot Keywords: brother, convict, police officer, killer, investor, melodramatic, intense ...

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#30. I Was Framed (1942)

Storyline: A newspaperman out to get the goods on a crooked politician winds up in jail, framed for a killing he didn't commit. He and another prisoner attempt an escape, but although the newspaperman gets away, his colleague is caught and returned to jail. Years later, the convict gets out of prison and winds up in the same town where his former cellmate is now a respected citizen and attempts to blackmail him.—frankfob2@yahoo.com

Plot Keywords: innocent man, cellmate, pregnant wife, corrupt businessman, politician, reporter, crafty ...

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