Highest-Rated Movies about 'Murder Victim'

Z (1969), Chinatown (1974), Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (1920), Sin City (2005), The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Bonnie and Clyde (1967), Birdman of Alcatraz (1962), The Long Good Friday (1980) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Murder Victim movies.

#16. Death Wish (1974)

Storyline: Open-minded architect Paul Kersey returns to New York City from vacationing with his wife, feeling on top of the world. At the office, his cynical coworker gives him the welcome-back with a warning on the rising crime rate. But Paul, a bleeding-heart liberal, thinks of crime as being caused by poverty. However his coworker's ranting proves to be more than true when Paul's wife is killed and his daughter is raped in his own apartment. The police have no reliable leads and his overly sensitive son-in-law only exacerbates Paul's feeling of hopelessness. He is now facing the reality that the police can't be everywhere at once. Out of sympathy his boss gives him an assignment in sunny Arizona where Paul gets a taste of the Old West ideals. He returns to New York with a compromised view on muggers...

Plot Keywords: gang rape, vigilante, home invasion, rape victim, street gang, serial killer, breasts ...

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#17. Last Tango in Paris (1972)

Storyline: While looking for an apartment, Jeanne, a beautiful young Parisienne, encounters Paul, a mysterious American expatriate mourning his wife's recent suicide. Instantly drawn to each other, they have a stormy, passionate affair, in which they do not reveal their names to each other. Their relationship deeply affects their lives, as Paul struggles with his wife's death and Jeanne prepares to marry her fiance, Tom, a film director making a cinema-verite documentary about her.

Plot Keywords: older man younger woman relationship, apartment, female nudity, sex scene, topless female nudity, elevator, female rear nudity ...

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#18. 48 Hrs. (1982)

Storyline: Oddball cop and tough guy, Jack Cates is the only survivor of a cop shooting and in hunting down the murderer collects Reggie Hammond from jail for 48 hours. Hammond is oddly motivated to help. The killer is searching for his stash of cash. Cates and Hammond who have the Black-white, cop-crook thing to work out make surprisingly good partners as they navigate through the city looking for their suspect.

Plot Keywords: cop, buddy cop, tough cop, maverick cop, police detective, action violence, bar fight ...

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#19. Mad Max (1979)

Storyline: Taking place in a dystopian Australia in the near future, Mad Max tells the story of a highway patrolman cruising the squalid back roads that have become the breeding ground of criminals foraging for gasoline and scraps. When his wife and child meet a grisly end at the hands of a motorcycle gang, Max sets out across the barren wastelands in search of revenge.

Plot Keywords: post apocalypse, woman wearing only a man's shirt, murder of wife, outlaw gang, dystopia, revenge, biker ...

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#20. Creepshow (1982)

Storyline: Five tales of terror are presented. The first deals with a demented old man returning from the grave to get the Father's Day cake his murdering daughter never gave him. The second is about a not-too-bright farmer discovering a meteor that turns everything into plant-life. The third is about a vengeful husband burying his wife and her lover up to their necks on the beach. The fourth is about a creature that resides in a crate under the steps of a college. The final story is about an ultra-rich businessman who gets his comeuppance from cockroaches.

Plot Keywords: anthology, revenge, part animation, based on comic book, torture, child abuse, meteorite ...

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#23. The Lovely Bones (2009)

Storyline: A 14-year-old girl in suburban 1970's Pennsylvania is murdered by her neighbor. She tells the story from the place between Heaven and Earth, showing the lives of the people around her and how they have changed all while attempting to get someone to find her lost body.

Plot Keywords: afterlife, investigation, serial murder, sexual predator, pedophile, child molester, sister sister relationship ...

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#24. A Shock to the System (1990)

Storyline: When you think you're at the top of the corporate ladder and then discover they have managed to pull that ladder away, sometimes you have to take it upon yourself to "level" the playing field, both professionally and personally. Sir Michael Caine delivers an electrifying performance as Graham Marshall, who quickly catches onto the possibilities as he clears all the hurdles to occupy the corner office.—Edgy01

Plot Keywords: advertising, new york city, murder, based on novel, hit by a train, money problems, money ...

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#25. The Shooting (1967)

Storyline: An ex- bounty hunter turned miner returns to his mine dig to find one of his partners dead, how brother has run away and the remaining partner is slightly simple and unclear as to what happened. warren is enlisted by a mysterious women to take her across the desert. The woman is strange and keeps changing her story about what she wants and why. On the journey they pick up a gunslinger the woman has hired. The party ends up tracking a rider who is ahead of them. Warren figures out that the trip is really to track down the rider. It's along hot trip across the desert with a purposeful woman,a homicidal gunslinger, the former bounty hunter and his simple sidekick and the unknown quarry.—Prairiekid

Plot Keywords: man murders a woman, tent, grave, scene during opening credits, telling someone to shut up, two word title, main character dies ...

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#26. Friday the 13th (1980)

Storyline: One summer at Camp Crystal Lake, a group of young counselors begin to get ready to lead campers. Unfortunately, someone isn't happy about what's going on in the camp and enjoys playing Kill the Counselor. As bodies fall to the ground in the camp, no one is safe.

Plot Keywords: 1970s, surprise ending, mother, slasher, actual animal killed, bare chested male, machete ...

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#28. Dick Tracy (1990)

Storyline: All Tess Trueheart wants is to settle down to a quiet life with her boyfriend, detective Dick Tracy. But there's something pretty rotten going on in town, with someone pretty rotten behind it, and Tracy has his hands full with the likes of villain Big Boy Caprice and with the almost irresistible Breathless Mahoney.

Plot Keywords: based on comic strip, detective, police detective, neo noir, femme fatale, gangster boss, police ...

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