Movie | United Kingdom | 11/24/1974 | Crime | Murder
In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before.
Movie | United Kingdom | 10/06/1978 | Crime | Murder
The film features the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot played by Peter Ustinov. It takes place in Egypt, mostly on the Nile River. Many of the cultural highlights of Egypt are also featured in the film, such as the Great Pyramids, the Sphinx, and temples at Abu Simbal and Karnak.
Movie | United States | 09/19/1985
Movie | United States | 08/14/1987 | Crime | Murder
Navy Lt. Tom Farrell meets a young woman, Susan Atwell , and they share a passionate fling. Farrell then finds out that his superior, Defense Secretary David Brice, is also romantically involved with Atwell. When the young woman turns up dead, Farrell is put in charge of the murder investigation. He begins to uncover shocking clues about the case, but when details of his encounter with Susan surface, he becomes a suspect as well.
Movie | United States | 12/15/1983 | Crime | Murder
Movie | Russia | 07/25/1981 | Crime | Murder
The Hound of the Baskervilles is a 1981 Soviet film adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's novel The Hound of the Baskervilles. It was the third installment in the TV series about adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson. A potent streak of humour ran through the film as concerns references to traditional British customs and stereotypes, ensuring the film's popularity with several generations of Russophone viewers. Other features of this best entry in the series include excellent exterior shots which closely match the novel's setting in the Dartmoor marshland, as well as an all-star cast: in addition to the famous Livanov -Solomin duo as Holmes and Watson, the film stars the internationally acclaimed actor/director Nikita Mikhalkov as Sir Henry Baskerville and the Russian movie legend Oleg Yankovsky as the villain Stapleton.
Movie | United Kingdom | 01/14/1977 | Crime | Murder
When one of Regan's snouts complains that his girlfriend's recent suicide was murder, the flying squad detective feels compelled to investigate. He uncovers a conspiracy that reaches the heart of the government, and finds himself fitted up, suspended and under the scrutiny of Special Branch.
Movie | Czech Republic | 03/21/1979 | Crime | Murder
Movie | France | 08/23/1985 | Crime | Murder
Emile Chenal and his wife, Françoise, leaned on boxing manager Jim Fox Warner to cough up the considerable sum of money that he owes them, with both the police and the mob circling the situation. In the same hotel, Inspector Neveu looks into a murder that took place years before, and his storyline overlaps with the arc of the Chenals.
Movie | Czech Republic | 02/01/1980 | Crime | Murder
Movie | Czech Republic | 01/01/1982 | Crime | Murder
Movie | Czech Republic | 12/22/1978 | Crime | Murder
TV Show | United Kingdom | 04/24/1984 | Crime | Murder
Sherlock Holmes uses his abilities to take on cases by private clients and those that the Scotland Yard are unable to solve, along with his friend Dr. Watson.
TV Show | United States | 07/09/1986 | Crime | Murder
Series of adaptions of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories.
Movie | France | 10/31/1980 | Thriller | Murder
A man helps the victim of an auto accident, not realizing that the man has actually been shot. The men who shot him are now after the man who helped him, in order to eliminate him as a potential witness. Soon they are killing everyone he even comes in contact with in order to get him.
Movie | France | 12/19/1979 | Thriller | Murder
The film's plot is based on the Kennedy assassination and subsequent investigation. The film begins with the assassination of President Marc Jarry, who is about to be inaugurated for a second six-year term of office. Henri Volney, state attorney and member of the commission charged with investigating the assassination (based on the Warren Commission) refuses to agree to the commission's final findings. The film portrays the initial controversy about this, as well as Volney and his staff's reopening of the investigation.
Movie | United States | 10/04/1985 | Thriller | Murder
San Francisco heiress Page Forrester is brutally murdered in her remote beach house. Her husband Jack is devastated by the crime but soon finds himself accused of her murder. He hires lawyer Teddy Barnes to defend him, despite the fact she hasnt handled a criminal case for many years. Theres a certain chemistry between them and Teddy soon finds herself defending the man she loves.
Movie | United States | 09/29/1986 | Drama | Murder
Follows the true story of John and Reve Walsh who, after their child was murdered, fought to raise national awareness of the problem of missing children.
Movie | United Kingdom | 01/01/1978 | Thriller | Murder
In order to unmask a pathological killer who is targeting the beautiful centrefolds of Playbirds magazine, a sexy policewoman Lucy Sheridan puts her life and reputation on the line by sleeping with millionaire publisher Harry Dougan. The Chief Superintendant and Police Commissioner are keeping a close eye on her, but time is running out fast.
Movie | France | 03/14/1984 | Action | Murder
A former secret agent, who retired and wrote a first novel which tells the eventful adventures of his hero Le Léopard , comes back to work, reluctantly helped by an old maid.
Movie | Czech Republic | 01/01/1984 | Drama | Murder
Movie | United Kingdom | 10/06/1978 | Crime | Prison
Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made by his lawyer, his family, and the American government, or the \Midnight Express\.
Movie | United Kingdom | 11/01/1980 | Crime
Harold, a prosperous English gangster, is about to close a lucrative new deal when bombs start showing up in very inconvenient places. A mysterious syndicate is trying to muscle in on his action, and Harold wants to know who they are. He finds out soon enough, and bloody mayhem ensues.
Movie | United Kingdom | 03/07/1987 | Crime | Crime Drama
Mary Morstan has received a pearl in the post every year since her father's disappearance; this leads Holmes and Watson to the truth about a secret pact between four convicts during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
Movie | United Kingdom | 06/13/1986 | Crime | Noir
George has just been released from prison, and manages to get a job driving an expensive call girl from customer to customer. Initially they don't get on - he doesn't fit in with the high class customers Simone services. Will they ever get on?
Movie | United Kingdom | 09/06/1987 | Crime | Unfaithfulness
In 1940 Kenya as their country prepares for war, the local aristocratic social set lives a decadent, self-indulgent lifestyle, that leads to murder. The same events were also dramatised in the feature film White Mischief, which was released seven months after the first transmission of The Happy Valley.
Movie | United Kingdom | 12/06/1983 | Crime
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson try to track down the Great Mogul, the second-largest diamond in the world.
Movie | United Kingdom | 12/01/1983 | Crime | Heist
Stone (Peter Coyote) hits an armored truck without his usual driver. The ensuing getaway leads to the death of an innocent. The payback is swift and brutal. The wronged father hires a twisted, sociopathic assassin to avenge his loss. One by one the offenders are punished through grisly executions. Stone uses his wits to find a reclusive friend Terry (Mel Smith) just in time for a psychedelic funhouse showdown with his stalker.
Movie | United Kingdom | 02/01/1979 | Crime | Serial killer
Sherlock Holmes is drawn into the case of Jack the Ripper who is killing prostitutes in London's East End. Assisted by Dr. Watson, and using information provided by a renowned psychic, Robert Lees, Holmes finds that the murders may have its roots in a Royal indiscretion and that a cover-up is being managed by politicians at the highest level, all of whom happen to be Masons.