Highest-Rated Movies about 'Murder Disguised As Suicide'

Elevator to the Gallows (1958), Mulholland Dr. (2001), Baazigar (1993), The Constant Gardener (2005), Crossfire (1947), 13B (2009), Diggstown (1992), The Honey Pot (1967) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Murder Disguised As Suicide movies.

#16. The Detective (1968)

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: neo noir, police corruption, homophobia, murder investigation, homosexuality, bisexual, death penalty ...

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#17. Bad Samaritan (2018)

Storyline: In Portland, the amateurish photographer Sean Falco works with his best friend Derek Sandoval as valet at a fancy restaurant. His girlfriend Riley Seabrook studies in a university and he is estranged of his stepfather. Sean and Derek are also smalltime burglars, stealing the houses of the costumers while they are eating in the restaurant. One day, the obnoxious client Cale Erendreich arrives at the restaurant driving a Maserati and Sean drives his car back to his house using the computer and Derek watches Cale in the restaurant. While snooping around the house, Sean finds a locked room and when he opens the door, he stumbles upon a woman tied to a chair with chains and gagged. He unsuccessfully tries to release her but he is forced to return to the restaurant with the Maserati. Sean decides to call the police, but Cale lures the police officers and turns Sean's life upside-down.

Plot Keywords: burglar, captive, violence, tied feet, tied up while barefoot, hit with a shovel, hit with a baseball bat ...

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#18. Marlowe (1969)

Storyline: Quiet young Orfamay Quest from Kansas has hired private detective Philip Marlowe to find her brother. After two leads turn up with ice picks stuck in them, he discovers blackmail photos concerning TV star Mavis Wald. She rejects Marlowe's help, and this is forcibly underlined by her gangster boyfriend. So, wonders Marlowe, is there a link between Orfamay and Mavis?—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}

Plot Keywords: private detective, blackmail, neo noir, based on novel, police detective, dysfunctional family, gangster ...

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#19. Coldwater (2013)

Storyline: A teenage boy is sent to a juvenile reform facility in the wilderness. As we learn about the tragic events that sent him there, his struggle becomes one for survival with the inmates, the counselors, and with the retired war colonel in charge.—Anonymous

Plot Keywords: male rear nudity, male nudity, violence, punishment, humiliation, beating, nudity ...

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#20. Cleanskin (2012)

Storyline: Cleanskin: Ewan (Sean Bean) is a British Secret Service Agent faced with the task of pursuing and eliminating a British born Asian suicide bomber Ash (Abhin Galeya) and his terrorist cell, whilst Ash wrestles with his conscience and reflects on his journey to terrorism.

Plot Keywords: terrorism, undercover agent, man hits a woman, london england, conspiracy, terrorist, terrorist attack ...

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#21. Ricochet (1991)

Storyline: In this action thriller, Denzel Washington plays Nick Styles, the assistant district attorney of L.A. The film opens in his early days as a cop on the L.A.P.D. During a carnival, master criminal Earl Talbot Blake creates a scene after a botched drug deal. Styles and Blake confront each other, during which Blake is wounded by Styles and later sent to prison. Seven years later, Blake escapes from prison during a parole board hearing to carry out his revenge against Styles, and what follows is a violent series of events that destroys Styles' career. This sets the stage for one last bloody duel between Styles and Blake.

Plot Keywords: district attorney, violence, los angeles california, basketball, psychopath, psycho thriller, urban setting ...

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#22. 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: murder, absinthe, police detective, gay subtext, homoeroticism, homosexual subtext, disposing of a dead body ...

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#23. The Garden Murder Case (1936)

Storyline: Someone has shot and killed Lowe Hammle and everyone at his 22 room apartment is a suspect. The reasons are as varied as the number of people there. There is Dr. Garden, whose son Floyd was killed at the track in a mysterious way which is thought to be a suicide. There is Mrs. Fenwicke-Ralston who was supposed to complete a deal on a horse. There is the blackmailing Nurse Beeton and the niece Zalia, who knows that Uncle is trying to break up her relationship with Woode. Since there is no powder marks on the body, Vance knows that it is murder and believes that a woman did the job. But he has to find the killer and the motive.—Tony Fontana <tony.fontana@spacebbs.com>

Plot Keywords: based on novel, police, party, mother son relationship, millionaire, marriage proposal, maid ...

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#24. Calling Philo Vance (1940)

Storyline: Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to foreign powers. He grabs the plans with Archer's signature, but is captured by police before he can escape. Deported he comes back to America and plans to confront Archer, but Archer is found dead in his locked bedroom with a gun in his hand. While it looks like a suicide, Vance knows better and the coroner finds that Archer has been shot, hit with a blunt instrument and stabbed - making suicide unlikely. But Vance is on the case and is looking to see if government secrets have been sold and who has murdered Coe.—Tony Fontana <tony.fontana@spacebbs.com>

Plot Keywords: private detective, character name in title, reference to frankenstein, vienna austria, stabbing, ship, reporter ...

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#25. A Study in Scarlet (1933)

Storyline: In London, a secret society led by lawyer Thaddeus Merrydew collects the assets of any of its deceased members and divides them among the remaining members. Society members start dropping like flies. Sherlock Holmes is approached by member James Murphy's widow, who is miffed at being left penniless by her husband. When Captain Pyke is shot, Holmes keys in on his mysterious Chinese widow as well as the shady Merrydew. Other members keep dying--Malcom Dearing first, then Mr. Baker. There is also an attempt on the life of young Eileen Forrester, who became a reluctant society member upon the death of her father. Holmes' uncanny observations and insights are put to the test.—Gary Jackson <garyjack5@cogeco.ca>

Plot Keywords: sherlock holmes character, police, police inspector, murder, london england, gunfire, engagement ...

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#26. Curse of Chucky (2013)

Storyline: After the events of Seed of Chucky, Nica, a young woman forced to a wheelchair since birth, has to regroup her sister, Barb and her brother-in-law, Ian for a funeral after the death of her mother. While dealing with Barb, Ian, along with their 5-year-old daughter, Alice; Nica receives an odd package - a creepy doll. After people start showing up dead, the fearless Nica soon suspects that the creepy doll is much more than just a doll.

Plot Keywords: serial killer, lesbian kiss, adultery, family relationships, cemetery, killer doll, horror icon ...

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#27. The Intruder (2019)

Storyline: In San Francisco, the couple Scott and Annie are happily married. When Scott is promoted in his job, Annie asks him to move to Napa Valley to raise a family with children of their own. They negotiate and buy the old house that belongs to the structural engineer and widower Charlie Peck. But soon Scott notes that Charlie is always in his real estate and is hitting on Annie and he decides to investigate with his friend Mike who Charlie is.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Plot Keywords: big breasts, cleavage, sexy butt, loss of wife, killing an animal, deer, murder disguised as suicide ...

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#28. The Snowman (2017)

Storyline: When an elite crime squad's lead detective investigates the disappearance of a victim on the first snow of winter, he fears an elusive serial killer may be active again. With the help of a brilliant recruit, the cop must connect decades-old cold cases to the brutal new one if he hopes to outwit this unthinkable evil before the next snowfall.

Plot Keywords: promiscuous woman, hiked skirt, mini dress, long haired woman, topless female nudity, woman with long hair, woman undressing ...

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#29. Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (1992)

Storyline: A tough police sergeant's mother comes to visit him, and promptly starts trying to fix up his life, much to his embarrassment. For his birthday she buys him a machine gun out of the back of a van, and begins to further interfere with his job and love life, eventually helping him with a case he's on.

Plot Keywords: waving, gunshot, male female relationship, underwear, briefs, breakfast, male rear nudity ...

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