Highest-Rated Movies about 'Murder Suspect', Sort by Popularity

Revelations: Paradise Lost 2 (2000), The Kennel Murder Case (1933), The Big Scary "S" Word (2020), Contratiempo (2016), Frenzy (1972), Psycho Raman (2016), The Reckless Moment (1949), Home Room (2003) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Murder Suspect movies.

#16. 21 Bridges (2019)

Storyline: Thrust into a citywide manhunt for a duo of cop killers, NYPD detective Andre Davis begins to uncover a massive conspiracy that links his fellow police officers to a criminal empire and must decide who he is hunting and who is actually hunting him. During the manhunt, Manhattan is completely locked down for the first time in its history - no exit or entry to the island including all 21 bridges.

Plot Keywords: police officer, criminal, detective, murderer, family member, murder suspect, cool ...

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#17. The Clovehitch Killer (2018)

Storyline: A shocking revelation turns a teenage boy's world upside down in this chilling look at the evil that can lurk below even the most wholesome surface. Tyler Burnside is a Boy Scout, a volunteer at his local church, and the dutiful son of an upstanding, community leader dad. Only one thing troubles the quiet Kentucky town he lives in: the unsolved murders in which ten women were brutally tortured and killed by a psychopath known as Clovehitch, which rocked the community more than a decade ago. When Tyler discovers a cache of disturbing images in his father's possession, he begins to suspect that the man he trusts most in the world may be Clovehitch, and that his deadly rampage may not be over. With unrelenting tension, director Duncan Skiles crafts a picture-perfect vision of the all-American family and then piece by piece rips it to shreds.—Andrew Lauer

Plot Keywords: family, father, son, murder suspect, killer, chilling, creepy ...

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#18. Deewangee (2002)

Storyline: Raj is one of city's top lawyer known never to loose a case.He his introduced to Sargam during the launch of her new album by Ashwin Mehta owner of a music company.Next day Ashwin is found murdered and Tarang is held for the murder,Sargam and Tarang are childhood friends and she approaches Raj to fight for his case. During this period Raj notices that Tarang suffers from mental illness of split personality and when he suffers the attack he is not Tarang but Ranjeet and doesn't remember things he does when he turns Ranjeet.Tarang had killed Ashwin as the previous night he saw him forcing on Sargam but doesn't remember killing him as he was Ranjeet that time.Raj wins the case in court by proving Tarang innocent as he is suffering from mental illness.Tarang is due to release and gives Raj a shock to that he had planned everything regarding split personality as he was caught red handed on the site of murder.—alex.mjacko@gmail.com

Plot Keywords: murder suspect, lawyer, friend, pop star, suspenseful, rousing, brooding ...

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#19. Murder on the Orient Express (2017)

Storyline: Hercule Poirot, the best detective in the world decides to travel on the Orient Express. The train accidentally gets stopped because of a small avalanche. Little did he know that a murder was planned and that a person on this train was capable of committing such crime.

Plot Keywords: investigator, detective, passenger, murder suspect, governess, widow, brooding ...

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#20. Naked Alibi (1954)

Storyline: Questioned as a murder suspect, solid (but drunk) citizen Al Willis attacks his police questioners, is beaten, and swears vengeance against them. Next night, Lieut. Parks is murdered; Willis is the only suspect in the eyes of tough Chief Conroy, who pursues him doggedly despite lack of evidence. The obsessed Conroy is dismissed from the force, but continues to harass Willis, who flees to a sleazy town on the Mexican border. Of course, Conroy follows. But which is crazy, Conroy or Willis?—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>

Plot Keywords: baker, murder suspect, police chief, girlfriend, police officer, young boy, bleak ...

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#22. Postmark for Danger (1955)

Storyline: A car plunging over a cliff kills its two occupants identified as newspaperman Lewis Forrester and actress Alison Ford (Terry Moore). Surviving Lewis are his two brothers, Tim (Robert Beatty), a portrait painter, and Dave (William Sylvester), a pilot. Scotland Yard discovers that Lewis' death was engineered by a gang of international diamond smugglers he was about to expose. Before he died, he had sent someone in London a post card with a sketch of a woman's hand holding a Chianti bottle. Alison's father, John Smith (Henry Oscar) commissions Tim to paint her portrait from a photograph. While Tim is out, the supposedly-dead Alison enters his studio, but flees when she finds the body of Jill Stewart (Josephine Griffin), Tim's favorite model. Scotland Yard Inspector Colby (Geoffrey Kene) suspects Tim because whatever alibi evidence Tim presents vanishes before the Inspector can confirm it. Reg Dorking (William Lucas), a used-car dealer tries to blackmail Tim, offering the post card sent by Lewis. Alison surprises Tim in his studio with the news that the girl killed with Lewis must have been a hitch-hiker, as she had left the car before the crash upset because Lewis had charged her father as being part of the diamond-smuggling ring. She finds her father and he confesses to being as charged. In a phone call with a man named Nightingale, he says he is through with the ring, but leaps to his death when Alison leaves. Tim gets possession of the post card after a brutal fight with his brother Dave, who confesses he is in the gang also. He turns the card over to Scotland Yard who discover it is a list of the smugglers written in invisible ink. Alison goes to Tim's studio where she surprises Nightingale who begins to strangle her.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>

Plot Keywords: actress, artist, diamond smugglers, blackmailer, murder suspect, killer, melodramatic ...

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#23. Solace (2015)

Storyline: A psychic doctor, John Clancy (Sir Anthony Hopkins), works with an F.B.I. Special Agent (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) in search of serial killer Charles Ambrose (Colin Farrell). After having lived in isolation for two years, since the death of his daughter, Clancy is asked by his friend Joe, an F.B.I. Special Agent to help him solve several murders committed by a serial killer. The problem is that Ambrose is also psychic, and far ahead of Clancy.

Plot Keywords: fbi agent, murder victim, murder suspect, serial killer, detective, gripping, suspenseful ...

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#24. Ice Blues: A Donald Strachey Mystery (2008)

Storyline: Tim Callahan, aide to New York Senator Lauren Platt, is disappointed that all of the $3 million funding has been pulled from his latest pet project, a safe zone for children and youth. His personal partner, private investigator Donald Strachey, believes Tim's passion for the project stems from the fact of his own sister's troubled youth, she who has been missing since age seventeen. Tim believes his prayers have been answered when a man, identifying himself as a lawyer, tells him that he represents someone who wants to make a $3 million anonymous donation to the project. Those prayers turn into a nightmare when that lawyer is later found murdered, the dead body in Donald's car. The murdered man is Jake Lenigan, a third generation lawyer in a powerful family law firm. Jake's father was murdered twelve years earlier, the perceived suspect in that case being his wife Joan, who has since disappeared. Tim and Donald's situation becomes even more nightmarish when Tim anonymously receives that $3 million in untraceable Euro bonds. The murderer will do whatever is necessary to get that money back from Tim and Donald, the latter who is working with the police to find Lenigan's purpose in wanting to donate the money to Tim's cause, find if Jake's father's murder has anything to do with this case, discover the owner of the money and thus the probable murderer, and most importantly protect himself and his boyfriend from being possible murder victims.—Huggo

Plot Keywords: lawyer, private investigator, murderer, murder suspect, murder victim, dark, chilling ...

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#25. A Murder of Crows (1998)

Storyline: After a lawyer gets disbarred, he goes off to write a book about his experience. He meets a man who lets him read his manuscript. The man dies and the lawyer passes the book off as his. Just when the book becomes a big success. He gets arrested for the true life murders of the five lawyers in his book. He then finds himself, trying to prove that he is innocent of the murders.—Anonymous

Plot Keywords: defense attorney, novelist, murder suspect, prosecutor, detective, suspenseful, thrilling ...

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#26. True Story (2015)

Storyline: Jonah Hill plays Michael Finkel, a recently terminated New York Times journalist who's struggling for work after a story gone wrong. One day, he receives a phone call from a man regarding an FBI Most Wanted individual named Christian Longo, who's been captured and claimed to be living as Finkel. Longo and Finkel meet and form a potentially marriage shattering bond while Longo is in prison awaiting his trial. Finkel exchanges journalism tips for the real events behind Longo's alleged heinous acts of murdering his family. Through the twists and turns in the movie, only at the end will Finkel uncover the True Story.

Plot Keywords: journalist, thief, murder suspect, wife, police detective, judge, brooding ...

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#27. Crooked House (2017)

Storyline: In this classic Agatha Christie detective story, former diplomat Charles Hayward has returned from Cairo to London to become a private detective. When Aristide Leonides, a wealthy and ruthless tycoon, is poisoned in his own bed, Detective Hayward is invited to solve the crime. As the investigation deepens he must confront the shocking realization that one of the key suspects is Aristede's beautiful granddaughter, his employer and former lover; and must keep a clear head to navigate the sultry Sophia and the rest of her hostile family.

Plot Keywords: aristocratic lady, detective chief inspector, tycoon, granddaughter, ex-lover, murder suspect, suspenseful ...

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#30. The Arsenal Stadium Mystery (1939)

Storyline: During a charity soccer match between top professional side Arsenal and touring amateur side Trojans, the Trojan's new star player collapses. When he dies, Inspector Slade of Scotland Yard is called in and declares it was murder. It takes all his ingenuity and another death before the motive is discovered and the killer revealed.—Ian Harries <ih@doc.ic.ac.uk>

Plot Keywords: amateur, professional, murder victim, murder suspect, detective, gritty, melodramatic ...

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