Films about murderers

Die Hard is a 1988 American action film directed by John McTiernan and written by Jeb Stuart and Steven E. de Souza, based on the 1979 novel Nothing Lasts Forever by Roderick Thorp. It stars Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Alexander Godunov, and Bonnie Bedelia, with Reginald VelJohnson, William Atherton, Paul Gleason, and Hart Bochner in supporting roles. Die Hard follows a New York City police detective, John McClane (Willis), who becomes entangled in a terrorist takeover of a Los Angeles skyscraper while visiting his estranged wife during a Christmas Eve party.

2019 musical film directed by Todd Phillips

1998 film directed by Tony Kaye

1992 film directed by Paul Verhoeven

1954 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock

2014 film directed by David Fincher

1994 film directed by Jan de Bont

1990 film directed by Renny Harlin

1997 film directed by Curtis Hanson

1991 film by Ridley Scott

1999 film by Anthony Minghella

2014 film by Dan Gilroy

2008 film directed by Timur Bekmambetov

1996 film directed by Robert Rodriguez

2004 film directed by Tony Scott

2024 film directed by Todd Phillips

2010 film directed by Ben Affleck

2009 film by F. Gary Gray

1999 film by Harold Ramis

1951 film by Alfred Hitchcock

2011 American black comedy film directed by Seth Gordon

1993 film directed by Brian De Palma

1988 film by Tom Holland

1995 film directed by Irwin Winkler

Bullitt is a 1968 American crime thriller film directed by Peter Yates, from a screenplay by Alan R. Trustman and Harry Kleiner, based on the 1963 novel Mute Witness by Robert L. Fish. It stars Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset, Don Gordon, Robert Duvall, Simon Oakland, and Norman Fell. In the film, San Francisco police detective Frank Bullitt (McQueen) investigates the murder of a witness he was assigned to protect.

2011 film by Brad Furman

2013 film by Andy Muschietti

1958 film by Orson Welles

1997 film by Adrian Lyne

1994 film directed by Peter Jackson

1981 film by Bob Rafelson

1989 film directed by Brian De Palma

2009 Dutch body horror film directed by Tom Six

1992 film by Phillip Noyce

1996 film directed by The Wachowskis

2007 film directed by Gregory Hoblit

2015 film by Rob Cohen

2003 drama film directed by Gus Van Sant

1980 US film directed by Brian De Palma

1976 film by John Schlesinger

2008 film directed by David Gordon Green

2002 film by Clint Eastwood

2012 film by Martin McDonagh

2009 film by Tony Scott

2015 film by Brian Helgeland

1975 Belgian film by Chantal Akerman

2022 film directed by Ti West

1971 British film by Mike Hodges

1974 film by Joseph Sargent

1992 film directed by Barbet Schroeder

2000 film by Stephen Kay

Heathers is a 1989 American teen satirical black comedy crime film written by Daniel Waters and directed by Michael Lehmann, in both of their respective film debuts. The film stars Winona Ryder, Christian Slater, Shannen Doherty, Lisanne Falk, Kim Walker and Penelope Milford. The plot revolves around four teenage girls—three of whom are named Heather—in a clique at an Ohio high school, one of whose lives is disrupted by the arrival of Jason "J.D." Dean, a misanthrope intent on murdering the popular students and staging their deaths as suicides.

2000 film directed by Jonathan Glazer

1995 film by Gus Van Sant

1998 film by Peter Berg

2018 film by Eli Roth

2010 film by Richard Berry

1989 film by Arthur Hiller

2004 film by Matthew Vaughn

2012 film by Mark Tonderai