12 Angry Men (1997), Another Thin Man (1939), The Thin Man (1934), Song of the Thin Man (1947), A Few Good Men (1992), My Cousin Vinny (1992), The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till (2004), Incident at Oglala (1992) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Murder Case movies.
Storyline: Doctors are being murdered in bizarre manners - bats, bees, a killer frog mask, etc. - which represent the nine Biblical plagues of Egypt. The crimes are orchestrated by an organ-playing, demented madman (from his home base, replete with a clockwork orchestra and help from a beautiful, mute assistant). Detectives are stumped until they find that all the slain doctors once assisted a Dr. Vesalius on an unsuccessful operation involving the wife of organist Dr. Phibes, killed in a car crash upon learning of his wife's death. He couldn't be the culprit, could he?
Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, revenge, murder, art, doctor, mystery ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Based on the true story of Lindy Chamberlain. During a camping trip to Ayers Rock in outback Australia, she claimed that she witnessed a dingo stealing her baby daughter, Azaria, from the family tent. Azaria's body was never found. Police noted some apparent inconsistencies in her story, and she was charged with murder. The case attracted a lot of attention, turning an investigation into a media circus, with the public divided in their opinions.—Murray Chapman <muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au>
Plot Keywords: true story, courtroom drama, australia, murder case, miscarriage of justice, family tragedy, public opinion ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Nancy Drew and Ted Nickerson solve a kidnapping case of a wealthy elderly lady. Ted has to disguise himself as a nurse while Nancy beomse a "widow" in order to locate the lady they are rescuing.—SM <smortens@ix.netcom.com>
Plot Keywords: detective, mystery, crime, adaptation, classic, black and white, 1930s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Madcap debutante Melsa Manton finds a body in a deserted house. Of course, the police don't believe her. Stung by Peter Ames's front page editorial decrying her "prank," Melsa enlists seven fellow debs to help her investigate. The wisecracking young ladies proceed to run circles around the police, the suspects, and the press.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: comedy, mystery, romance, crime, female lead, 1930s, new york ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: SPOILER: Reporter Curt Devlin loves sob sister Ellen Garfield but believes women are "bum newspapermen". When she learns the identity of a murdered arsonist, he calls it luck. When she goes after the murderer he gets enough evidence to have Maitland Coulter arrested. She finds a bunch of "not guilty" ballots and publishes the wrong story; he eavesdrops on the jury and gets the correct verdict. After being fired she gets a confession from the real killer and gets Coulter released.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: murder case, romance, comedy, 1930s, classic hollywood, gender roles, workplace competition ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Police detective Joe Leland investigates the murder of a homosexual man. While investigating, he discovers links to official corruption in New York City in this drama that delves into a world of sex and drugs.—Regis M. Donovan <regis@apocalypse.org>
Plot Keywords: crime, mystery, detective, film noir, action, thriller, murder case ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Journalist Torchy Blane and her fiance Lt. Steve McBride are trying to solve the murder of Tim Torgson, who was killed right before Torchy's eyes.—Stephan Eichenberg <eichenbe@fak-cbg.tu-muenchen.de>
Plot Keywords: comedy, detective, mystery, female lead, journalist, witty, 1930s ...
Movie Details Click Here !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: thriller, crime, mystery, legal, murder, lawyer, novel adaptation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In California, Cate McCall is an alcoholic lawyer who was on probation and rehab. She had an argument with a judge who made her take a breathalyzer test and put her on probation in a small office. Cate is also fighting to recover custody of her daughter who lives with her father, who is moving to Seattle. Cate is assigned to defend Lacey Stubbs, who has appealing against her wrongful conviction of murdering another woman on the basis of a since there was a trial error. Further, Lacey also tells that she was raped by a guard in the prison. Cate, who has never lost a case, investigates the case with her friend Bridges and they find evidence that might prove that Lacey is innocent and that her case had been fabricated. But is she really innocent?—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: legal thriller, courtroom drama, female lead, crime, suspense, drama, lawyer ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The Cisco Kid and Pancho hold up a stagecoach and kidnap Ellen Roth. They take the girl, who is wanted on a murder charge, to the mission where Padre Angelo will look after her. She tells Cisco of a mysterious Doctor Willis who called on an aged woman she had been nursing and gave her an overdose of sleeping pills. Convinced that Ellen is innocent, Cisco sets out to prove it. He goes to Bill Hastings where he makes a deal to turn Ellen in if Cisco gets part of the money Hastings will inherit when she is convicted. With Ellen safely in jail, Cisco and Pancho force the local newspaper to run a story saying that Doc Willis has been apprehended. Hastings makes another deal with Cisco to kill Ellen before she testifies against Doc.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: film noir, mystery, crime, murder case, 1940s, b movie, low budget ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In 1939, WBN, a fourth radio network, is about to take to America's airwaves. As if the confusion of the premiere night wasn't enough, Penny Henderson, the owner's secretary, must deal with an unhappy sponsor, an overbearing boss and a soon-to-be ex-husband who desperately wants her back. As the broadcast begins, a mysterious voice breaks the broadcast and suddenly members of the cast turn up dead. It's up to her husband Roger, to find out whodunit as the police chase him through the halls of WBN.—Kevin <Kibble@vm.temple.edu>
Plot Keywords: comedy, mystery, crime, murder case, retro, black comedy, detective ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Defense attorney Richard Ramsay takes on a personal case when he swears to his widowed friend, Loretta Lassiter, that he will keep her son Mike out of prison. Charged with murdering his father, Mike initially confesses to the crime. But as the trial proceeds, chilling evidence about the kind of man that Boone Lassiter really was comes to light. While Ramsay uses the evidence to get his client acquitted, his new colleague Janelle tries to dig deeper - and begins to realize that the whole truth is something she alone can uncover.
Plot Keywords: courtroom drama, mystery, thriller, legal, murder case, lawyer, truth ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A blackmailer with many enemies is murdered and his body placed in a trunk. A gentleman sleuth sets out to prove the innocence of a falsely accused man.
Plot Keywords: mystery, crime, detective, british film, black and white, classic, 1930s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Labor-rights activists battle Coca-Cola Co. over violations of international laws.
Plot Keywords: documentary, labor rights, human rights, investigation, social justice, workers' rights, murder case ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Nick and Nora Charles (William Powell, Myrna Loy) visit his hometown, sober, and link art and corpses to a spy ring.
Plot Keywords: comedy, mystery, crime, detective, classic film, black comedy, whodunit ...
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