Highest-Rated Movies about 'Reference To Jack The Ripper'

Se7en (1995), Vertigo (1958), Jaws (1975), The Man from Earth (2007), True Romance (1993), This Is Spinal Tap (1984), Jojo Rabbit (2019), The Philadelphia Story (1940) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Reference To Jack The Ripper movies.

#16. Scoop (2006)

Storyline: In the funeral of the famous British journalist Joe Strombel (Ian McShane), his colleagues and friends recall how obstinate he was while seeking a scoop. Meanwhile, the deceased Joe discloses the identity of the tarot card serial killer of London. He cheats Death (Pete Mastin) and appears to the American student of journalism Sondra Pransky (Scarlett Johansson), who is on the stage in the middle of a magic show of the magician Sidney Waterman (Woody Allen) in London, and tells her that the murderer is the aristocrat Peter Lyman (Hugh Jackman). Sondra drags Sid in her investigation, seeking for evidence that Peter is the killer. However, she falls in love with him and questions if Joe Strombel is right in his scoop.

Plot Keywords: implied sex, surprise ending, ghost, death, london england, swimming pool, poker the card game ...

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#17. Flic ou voyou (1979)

Storyline: When the local police inspector was found dead in a prostitute's house, police division commissioner Stan Borowitz is sent to investigate the situation. Posing as the prostitute's long-lost brother "Antonio Cerruti," he discovers a nest of police corruption. In fact, in this comedy thriller the whole town is corrupt. If they were closely examined, Stan's methods for pursuing this investigation might embarrass the police. For instance, he drives into a criminal's house in a fancy, expensive race car. In another incident, he callously blows up a casino owned by Musard , one of the town's crime bosses. On that occasion, he first forces Musard to remove his clothes, and the poor criminal watches his casino explode from across the square while standing naked in a phone booth. Meanwhile, Stan seduces the lovely Edmonde.—Canon y mus

Plot Keywords: police, corruption, investigation, planting evidence, suspect, murderous scheme, gay slur ...

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#18. Last Chance Harvey (2008)

Storyline: Harvey Shine is in London for the weekend for his daughter's wedding. His work in New York preoccupies him: he writes music for ads, and he knows his boss is pushing him aside for younger talent. With family he's also on the sidelines - long divorced, his wife remarried, her husband closer to his daughter than he. His path crosses that of Kate Walker, unmarried, her life becoming that of a spinster, set up by friends on blind dates leading nowhere. After Harvey's no good terrible day, he chats Kate up at a Heathrow bar. She's not interested. Where can this conversation lead? Back at his daughter's reception, the step-father rises to give a toast.

Plot Keywords: character name in title, trying on clothes, american abroad, no opening credits, speech, cell phone, london england ...

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#19. Copycat (1995)

Storyline: In San Francisco, the criminal psychologist Helen Hudson is specialized in serial-killers. During a trial, the accused Daryll Lee Cullum kills a police officer and tries to kill her and she becomes agoraphobic. Now Helen lives a reclusive life with her gay friend Andy that helps her. Sometime later, there is a wave of crimes and Detectives M.J. Monahan and Reuben Goetz are investigating the murder cases. Helen identifies that the murderer is copycatting notorious serial-killers and she anonymously contacts the Police Department. After fourteen phone calls, she is identified by the police. Detectives M.J. and Reuben visit her and Helen teams up with them and prepares the profile of the killer that wants to be famous. But soon the copycat killer Peter Foley contacts and stalks Helen and M.J. and Reuben give protection to her. Will they be capable to stop Foley before the next murder?

Plot Keywords: serial killer, psychopath, naked dead woman, fear, female protagonist, homosexual, psychological thriller ...

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#20. Red Eye (2005)

Storyline: This is the story of a young resourceful heroine named Lisa Reisert who hates to fly, but the terror that awaits her on the night flight to Miami has nothing to do with a fear of flying! Upon boarding the plane, Lisa is trapped on a red-eye flight with a creepy villainous handsome and charming man by the name of Jackson Rippner, who's playing middle-man in the plot to assassinate a Homeland Security official. He's got her father pinned down by a would-be killer, using that advantage to coerce Lisa into phoning the luxury resort where she works and arranging to move the target into a pre-set position.

Plot Keywords: flight, hotel manager, hotel, airport, stewardess, thunderstorm, watching tv ...

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#21. Throw Momma from the Train (1987)

Storyline: Larry Donner is an author and writing professor who tutors people that want to write books. Larry's life has become a misery when his ex-wife Margaret has published a book he wrote under her name and has gotten rich over it. Owen Lift, one of Larry's students, offers Larry to kill Margaret, and in return Owen, wants Larry to kill his horrible mother. Larry thinks it's a joke, until he learns Owen killed his ex-wife. And Larry has now become the prime suspect.

Plot Keywords: writing, directed by star, mother son relationship, domineering mother, resentment, black comedy, murder for hire ...

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#22. Resurrection (1999)

Storyline: Detective Prudhomme, and his partner are assigned to investigate the murder of a man who's arm was severed. After 2 more victims with missing body parts turn up, the detectives realise they're after a serial killer. Even worse; he's using the body parts to reconstruct the body of Christ..—Adam Thomas <adam_g_thomas@yahoo.com>

Plot Keywords: brutality, gore, rain, hospital, police partner, easter, detective ...

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#23. Chained (1934)

Storyline: Richard Field is a successful businessman who has become romantically involved with younger employee Diane Lovering, but he is unable to persuade his grasping wife to grant him a divorce out of his dysfunctional marriage. Diane meets dashing rancher Mike Bradley through his wise-cracking pal Johnnie on a South American ocean voyage, and they begin a shipboard romance that carries over to his Argentinian ranch. Diane decides to return to New York and tell Richard in person that she intends to marry Mike Bradley. When Diane gets there Richard surprises her with a wedding ring and the morning newspaper citing Mrs. Field is in Reno obtaining a divorce. Richard had to agree not only to a large monetary settlement but was forbidden to see his sons. Diane didn't have the heart to tell Richard about Mike and decides to marry him. Diane writes a "Dear John letter" to Mike explaining a calculated mercenary decision that she prefers the position and financial status that Field's can offer her over the love that Mike can. However, is she meant to be Mrs. Field or Mrs. Bradley?—duke1029@aol.com

Plot Keywords: cruise, telegram, bar, horseback riding, pipe smoking, newspaper headline, concert ...

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#24. The Wolfman (2010)

Storyline: Lawrence Talbot's (Benicio Del Toro's) childhood ended the night his mother died. His father sent him from the sleepy Victorian hamlet of Blackmoor to an insane asylum, then he goes to America. When his brother Ben's (Simon Merrells') fiancée, Gwen Conliffe (Emily Blunt), tracks him down to help find her missing love, Talbot returns to his father's estate to learn that his brother's mauled body has been found. Reunited with his estranged father Sir John Talbot (Sir Anthony Hopkins), Lawrence sets out to find his brother's killer, and discovers a horrifying destiny for himself. Someone or something with brute strength and insatiable blood lust has been killing the villagers, and a suspicious Scotland Yard Inspector named Aberline (Hugo Weaving) comes to investigate.

Plot Keywords: werewolf, asylum, full moon, jumping through a window, knocked out with a gun butt, letter, loss of loved one ...

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#25. The Lodger (2009)

Storyline: The tale of a serial killer in West Hollywood has two converging plot lines. The first involves an uneasy relationship between a psychologically unstable landlady and her enigmatic lodger; the second is about a troubled detective engaged in a cat-and-mouse game with the elusive killer, who is imitating the crimes of Jack the Ripper.—Anonymous

Plot Keywords: murder witness, murder weapon, murder suspect, mother daughter relationship, mortician, morgue, mistaken for gay ...

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#26. Bad Karma (2002)

Storyline: A young girl is abducted by a man. He claims that she was the one who killed him in a past life. When she denies what he is saying, he subjects her to electro shocks. Eventually her personality changes and she kills him and walks off. Years later she runs into a man and says that they were lovers in a past life. He of course thinks she's out of her mind. But she pursues him. She tells him that they were than lovers, they killed people together.—rcs0411@yahoo.com

Plot Keywords: reference to jack the ripper, handcuffed together, burned alive, locket, brothel, teddy bear, pool of blood ...

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