Films about murder

1957 American film by Sidney Lumet

1995 film by David Fincher

1998 film directed by Tony Kaye

1988 film directed by Robert Zemeckis

2009 film directed by Ron Howard

2014 film directed by Wes Anderson

1990 film directed by Jerry Zucker

1986 film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud

1972 film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci

1967 film by Norman Jewison

Knives Out is a 2019 American mystery film written and directed by Rian Johnson. The film's eleven-actor ensemble cast is led by Daniel Craig as Benoit Blanc, a famed private detective who is summoned to investigate the death of a bestselling author. Police think his death is a suicide but Blanc suspects foul play and investigates to ascertain the true cause of it. Johnson produced Knives Out with his longtime collaborator Ram Bergman. Funding came from MRC and tax subsidies from the Massachusetts state government.

1948 film by Alfred Hitchcock

2023 film directed by Andy Muschietti

1974 film by Sidney Lumet

1984 film directed by Martin Brest

1944 US film by Billy Wilder

1985 film directed by Peter Weir

2005 film by Woody Allen

2005 film by Fernando Meirelles

1999 animated film directed by Trey Parker

2011 film by Jaume Collet-Serra

1945 film by Michael Curtiz

Five Nights at Freddy's is a 2023 American supernatural horror film based on the video game series of the same name created by Scott Cawthon. It was directed by Emma Tammi and written by Cawthon, Tammi and Seth Cuddeback. The film stars Josh Hutcherson as a troubled security guard who starts a job at a condemned pizzeria where he discovers that its animatronic mascots are possessed by the spirits of murdered children who were abducted by a serial killer decades prior. It additionally features Elizabeth Lail, Piper Rubio, Mary Stuart Masterson and Matthew Lillard in supporting roles.

2007 film directed by Farah Khan

2007 film by Edgar Wright

2021 film directed by Ridley Scott

2016 film directed by Tate Taylor

2006 anime film directed by Gorō Miyazaki

1973 film directed by Robin Hardy

1947 film by Orson Welles

1992 film directed by Jonathan Lynn

2006 film directed by Brian De Palma

2006 film directed by Nick Cassavetes

2016 film by Ben Stiller

1987 film directed by Danny DeVito

2005 film by John Singleton

2017 film directed by Fatih Akın

2010 film by Martin Campbell

1995 film by Michael Caton-Jones

2016 film by Oriol Paulo

2007 US film directed by Sidney Lumet

1998 film directed by Harold Becker

1997 film directed by Gregory Nava

2008 film by James Watkins

2006 film by Neil LaBute

Ready or Not is a 2019 American comedy horror film directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, and written by Guy Busick and R. Christopher Murphy. It stars Samara Weaving, Adam Brody, Mark O'Brien, Elyse Levesque, Nicky Guadagni, Henry Czerny and Andie MacDowell. It follows a young bride who is hunted by her spouse's wealthy family as part of a wedding night ritual to worship the Devil.

2018 film directed by Jaume Collet-Serra

2014 film directed by Scott Frank

2018 film by Drew Goddard

1997 film by Satoshi Kon

1989 film by Roger Spottiswoode

2024 film directed by Rose Glass

2024 film directed by Mark Molloy

2018 interactive film directed by David Slade

1996 film directed by Julien Temple

1948 film by Anatole Litvak

1949 film directed by Robert Hamer

2006 film directed by William Friedkin

2008 film by A. R. Murugadoss

a film that depicts murder for the express purpose of distribution and entertainment or financial exploitation