Wake Up Dead Man

2025

English

♡ 83

92%

When young priest Jud Duplenticy is sent to assist charismatic firebrand Monsignor Jefferson Wicks, it’s clear that all is not well in the pews. After a sudden and seemingly impossible murder rocks the town, the lack of an obvious suspect prompts local police chief Geraldine Scott to join forces with renowned detective Benoit Blanc to unravel a mystery that defies all logic.

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

2025

English

♡ 12

93%

When young priest Jud Duplenticy is sent to assist charismatic firebrand Monsignor Jefferson Wicks, it’s clear that all is not well in the pews. After a sudden and seemingly impossible murder rocks the town, the lack of an obvious suspect prompts local police chief Geraldine Scott to join forces with renowned detective Benoit Blanc to unravel a mystery that defies all logic.

Death Falls Lightly

♡ 4

After a wealthy businessman's wife is murdered by an unknown assailant, his advisors suggest that he go into hiding at a shuttered hotel; taking along his mistress, he is soon besieged by supernatural visions which seem to be drawing him into the hotel's own dark and murderous past.

Murder at the Embassy

♡ 10

1934. Private detective Miranda Green investigates a murder perpetrated in the British Embassy in Cairo, where a top secret document was stolen, risking to jeopardize both Buckingham Palace and the peace of the world. All those present in this closed place are suspected: the American photographer, the English student, the American actress, the Egyptian security guard, the ambassador interpreter, the Egyptian gardener and - why not? — the Ambassador himself. But who would have expected that a small group of Nazis would be behind a plot, risking to jeopardize both Buckingham Palace and the peace of the world?

Crazy Desires of a Murderer

1977

Italian

5.1

♡ 1

Filippo Walter Ratti Director

Ambrogio Molteni as

Patrizia Gori as Elsa Leiter

Adler Gray as Gretel Schanz

Isabelle Marchall as Ileana De Chablais

A group of hip friends gather at a Gothic castle owned by a wheelchair- bound older relative of one of the girls. One couple in the group, unbeknownst to the others, is smuggling heroin in some Chinese artifacts the protagonist has brought back from the Orient to give to her elderly relative. Meanwhile the deranged uncle of the protagonist, who supposedly killed the protagonist's mother (his own sister) and cut out her eyes, is wandering the catacombs spying on everyone. When one of the guests is murdered and her eyes subsequently disappear, suspicion naturally falls on the mad uncle. But is he being set up?

La gatta in calore

1972

Italian

5.4

♡ 6

Nello Rossati Director

Attilio Duse as

Lucia Smaniotto as

Franco Riccioni as

Ada Pometti as Friend of Massimo

A man returns home to his wife from a business trip only to find a dead body in their yard.

Night Has a Thousand Desires

1984

Spanish

5.0

♡ 8

Jesús Franco Director

Albino Graziani as Ahmed

Mari Carmen Nieto as (as Mamie Kaplan)

Daniel Katz as Fabián

Jesús Franco as Psiquiatra

A telepathic nightclub act becomes the backdrop for murder.

Town on Trial

1957

English

6.5

♡ 11

50%

John Guillermin Director

Geoffrey Keen as Charles Dixon

Oscar Quitak as David

Margaretta Scott as Helen Dixon

Meredith Edwards as Sgt. Rogers

When an attractive young girl is murdered, suspicion falls on several members of the local tennis club. It falls to Police Inspector Halloran to sort out all the red herrings, and finally after a confrontation at the top of the local church spire, arrest the culprit. Another fascinating look at what life was like in Britain during the 50's.

The Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion

1970

Italian

6.2

♡ 13

50%

Luciano Ercoli Director

Osvaldo Genazzani as Frank, the Commissioner

Dagmar Lassander as Minou

Frank Latimore as Peter

Pier Paolo Capponi as Peter

The wife of a financially struggling businessman is blackmailed by a mysterious man into having a sadistic relationship with him, or he will release damning evidence that suggests that her husband is a murderer.

Agatha and the Truth of Murder

2018

English

6.3

♡ 63

47%

husband wife relationship

Terry Loane Director

Ruth Bradley as Agatha Christie

Ralph Ineson as Detective Inspector Dicks

Pippa Haywood as Mabel

Samantha Spiro as Pamela

England, December 1926. Although her personal life is in tatters, the famous writer Agatha Christie decides to leave everything behind to help unravel an unsolved murder committed on a train six years ago, unable to imagine the disproportionate consequences that such a selfless act will cause.

A Quiet Place to Kill

1970

Italian

6.3

♡ 10

Umberto Lenzi Director

Carroll Baker as Helen

Jean Sorel as Maurice Sauvage

Manuel Díaz Velasco as Miguel

Lisa Halvorsen as Solange

A race-car driver who's down on her luck is invited by her ex-husband's wife to stay at their plush villa. The two women form a bond, and it's not long before their mutual dislike for the husband culminates into a plan to kill him. As it turns out, though, they're not alone in plotting murder

Giallo in Venice

1979

Italian

5.1

♡ 13

Mario Landi Director

Gianni Dei as Fabio

Leonora Fani as Flavia

Claudio Zucchet as Night Guard

Giovanni Morosi as Old witness

Inspector Angelo De Paul is assigned to investigate a horrifying series of murders that have gripped Venice and left the authorities baffled.

Raat Akeli Hai

2020

Hindi

7.2

♡ 43

100%

Honey Trehan Director

Nawazuddin Siddiqui as Jatil Yadav

Baljinder Kaur as Kalavati / Chunni's Grandmother

Shweta Tripathi as Karuna Singh

Gyanendra Tripathi as Ravi Sisodia

When a newly married landlord is murdered, a misfit cop’s investigation is complicated by the victim’s secretive family and his own conflicted heart.

Paranoia

1969

Italian

6.0

♡ 7

Umberto Lenzi Director

Sara Simoni as

Tino Carraro as Brian Sanders

Colette Descombes as Eva

Carroll Baker as Kathryn West

Following the death of her wealthy husband, American widow Kathryn West migrates to Italy and takes up a reclusive existence in a luxurious villa. After quickly succumbing to the charms of a local man, she lets him move into the villa and the two are later joined by his sister, which soon leads to complications.

The Arsenal Stadium Mystery

1939

English

6.2

♡ 4

54%

Thorold Dickinson Director

Terry Kilburn as Errand Boy

Anthony Bushell as John Doyce - Trojan Team Member

Esmond Knight as Raille - Trojan Team Member

Charles Rolfe as Witness

During a charity football match between Arsenal and touring amateur side Trojans, the Trojan's new star player collapses and dies. Inspector Slade of Scotland Yard is called in and declares it was murder. It takes all his ingenuity and another death before the motive is discovered and the killer revealed.

The Big Frozen Gumshoe

2018

English

5.0

♡ 1

Kat Brady Director

Dominic Anaya as Bro 1

Derek Russo as George

Riley O'Neal as Nurse Joy

Jason Galotti as Vape Shop Owner

Detective Dick is a 1940's private investigator who is frozen by a mysterious stranger for sixty-nine years. He defrosts in the modern world where he has to solve the case that put him on ice.

Inspector Palmu's Error

1960

Finnish

7.7

♡ 2

Action

based on novel or book

Matti Kassila Director

Pentti Irjala as Dahlberg

Arvo Lehesmaa as Gunnar Rygseck

Leo Riuttu as K. V. Laihonen

Esko Salminen as Poika uima-altaassa

A closed room mystery begins when an infamous tycoon is found dead in his bath tub. The famous police lieutenant Palmu is summoned to investigate.

Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case

1959

French

7.0

♡ 4

Action

based on novel or book

Jean Delannoy Director

Hélène Tossy as Adèle Gaultier

Jacques Marin as Albert - le chauffeur

Charles Bouillaud as Le garçon de café

René Hell as Le typographe

Police Commissioner Jules Maigret returns to the small village where he spent his childhood at the request of the Countess of Saint-Fiacre, who has received a disturbing anonymous letter.