Highest-Rated Movies about 'Murder Disguised As Accident'

Double Indemnity (1944), The Hunt for Red October (1990), The Naked City (1948), Violette (1978), The Secret War of Harry Frigg (1968), Peppermint Frappe (1967), Coma (1978), Child's Play (1988) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Murder Disguised As Accident movies.

#1. Double Indemnity (1944)

Storyline: In 1938, Walter Neff, an experienced salesman of the Pacific All Risk Insurance Co., meets the seductive wife of one of his clients, Phyllis Dietrichson, and they have an affair. Phyllis proposes to kill her husband to receive the proceeds of an accident insurance policy and Walter devises a scheme to receive twice the amount based on a double indemnity clause. When Mr. Dietrichson is found dead on a train track, the police accept the determination of accidental death. However, the insurance analyst and Walter's best friend Barton Keyes does not buy the story and suspects that Phyllis has murdered her husband with the help of another man.

Plot Keywords: murder disguised as accident, femme fatale, double cross, insurance, based on novel, los angeles california, insurance fraud ...

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#2. The Hunt for Red October (1990)

Storyline: The Soviets create a new nuclear submarine that runs silent due to a revolutionary propulsion system. The Russian sub Captain defects. His goal is taking it to the U.S. to prevent the Russians from using the sub to cause nuclear war against the U.S.

Plot Keywords: cold war era, u.s. navy, submarine, atlantic ocean, cia, race against time, based on novel ...

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#3. The Naked City (1948)

Storyline: Amid a semi-documentary portrait of New York and its people, Jean Dexter, an attractive blonde model, is murdered in her apartment. Homicide detectives Dan Muldoon and Jimmy Halloran investigate. Suspicion falls on various shifty characters who all prove to have some connection with a string of apartment burglaries. Then a burglar is found dead who once had an elusive partner named Willie. The climax is a very rapid manhunt sequence. Filmed entirely on location in New York City.

Plot Keywords: manhattan new york city, murder investigation, police detective, police surveillance, investigation, blonde, model ...

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#5. The Secret War of Harry Frigg (1968)

Storyline: Lovers Marianne and Jean-Paul spend their vacation in a villa near St.-Tropez. The main feature of the villa is a swimming pool, stage for most of the action. After a visit Marianne invites former lover Harry and his teenage daughter Penelope to stay. Tension between the grown-ups rises especially when Jean-Paul seduces Penelope. The consequences are deadly.—Peter Zunneberg <p.zunneberg@tip.nl>

Plot Keywords: sunbathing, female nudity, pushed into water, sports car, drunkenness, death by drowning, summer vacation ...

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#6. Peppermint Frappe (1967)

Storyline: Julian, a middle-aged single doctor, meets his childhood friend Pablo again. The latter is back from Africa and has just married a beautiful young blonde, Elena. Julian falls in love with her and tries to seduce her, but she mockingly pushes him away from her. He then finds that Ana, his nurse, bears a troubling resemblance to Elena. He decides to gradually transform Ana into Elena...—Guy Bellinger

Plot Keywords: spain, actress playing multiple roles, 360 degree pan, hairdresser, employer employee relationship, submissive woman, x ray vision ...

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#7. Coma (1978)

Storyline: A young doctor at a hospital, Susan Wheeler (played by Geneviève Bujold), starts noticing a pattern of strange occurrences with patients. Healthy patients are suddenly developing complications and ending up in comas. She starts investigating and what she reveals is astonishing.

Plot Keywords: conspiracy, title spoken by character, based on novel, black market, amateur detective, investigation, coma ...

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#8. Child's Play (1988)

Storyline: When Charles Lee Ray needs to get a quick escape from cop Mike Norris, he takes his soul and buries it into playful, seemingly good guy doll Chucky. Little does he know a little boy by the name of Andy Barclay will be the new owner of him soon-to-come. Charles confides in Andy while he commits numerous murders and once the adults accept Andy's story as truth, it's too late.

Plot Keywords: spell, supernatural power, apostrophe in title, remade, murder disguised as accident, bitten in the neck, bitten on the arm ...

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#9. Death Becomes Her (1992)

Storyline: In 1978, in Broadway, the decadent and narcissist actress Madeline Ashton is performing Songbird, based on Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth. Then she receives her rival Helen Sharp, who is an aspiring writer, and her fiancé Ernest Menville, who is a plastic surgeon, in her dressing-room. Soon Menville calls off his commitment with Helen and marries Madeline. Seven years later, Helen is obese in a psychiatric hospital and obsessed in seeking revenge on Madeline. In 1992, the marriage of Madeline and Menville is finished and he is no longer a surgeon but an alcoholic caretaker. Out of the blue, they are invited to a party where Helen will release her novel Forever Young and Madeline goes to a beauty shop. The owner gives a business card of the specialist in rejuvenation Lisle Von Rhuman to her. When the envious Madeline sees Helen thin in a perfect shape, she decides to seek out Lisle and buys a potion to become young again. Further, she advises that Madeline must take care of ...

Plot Keywords: egocentric woman, manipulative person, manipulative woman, murder disguised as accident, rejuvenation, betrayal, thunderstorm ...

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#10. Society (1989)

Storyline: Bill is worried that he is 'different' to his sister and parents. They mix with other 'upper class' people while Bill is more down to earth. Even his girlfriend seems a bit odd. All is revealed when Bill returns home to find a party in full swing. Not for the weak of stomach.

Plot Keywords: body horror, secret society, orgy, surrealism, sex doll, psychiatrist, nudity ...

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#14. The Final Conflict (1981)

Storyline: Now come into his full knowledge and power, the Anti-Christ in the body of Damien Thorne is about to strike his final blow. The Christ-child has been born again, on the Angel Isle, Great Britain (Scotland, England & Wales). The plan is simple, kill the Christ child to prevent him from growing up to bring the return of Christ and death of the Anti-Christ.

Plot Keywords: woman wears only a man's shirt, bible quote, genocide, falling to death, villain played by lead actor, stabbed in the back, fox hunt ...

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#15. The Perfect Guy (2015)

Storyline: After a painful breakup, successful lobbyist Leah Vaughn (Sanaa Lathan) jumps into a passionate relationship with a charming stranger (Michael Ealy). When her ex-boyfriend (Morris Chestnut) resurfaces in her life she has to figure out who she should trust and who she should fear.—Sony Pictures Entertainment

Plot Keywords: female protagonist, fatal attraction, psychopath, pushed down stairs, pump action shotgun, shot to death, home invasion ...

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