Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "sexual-murder"

1. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999– )

TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

This series follows the Special Victims Unit, a specially trained squad of detectives in the New York City Police Department that investigate sexually related crimes.

Stars: Mariska Hargitay, Christopher Meloni, Ice-T, Dann Florek

Votes: 125,102

2. In the Realm of the Senses (1976)

NC-17 | 109 min | Drama, Romance

A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsessive and ultimately destructive sexual relationship.

Director: Nagisa Ôshima | Stars: Tatsuya Fuji, Eiko Matsuda, Aoi Nakajima, Yasuko Matsui

Votes: 22,813

3. Boston Strangler (2023)

R | 112 min | Crime, Drama, History

Loretta McLaughlin was the reporter who first connected the murders and broke the story of the Boston Strangler. She and Jean Cole challenged the sexism of the early 1960s to report on the city's most notorious serial killer.

Director: Matt Ruskin | Stars: Keira Knightley, Carrie Coon, Chris Cooper, Alessandro Nivola

Votes: 33,128

4. The Last House on the Left (1972)

R | 84 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller

Two teenage girls heading to a rock concert for one's birthday try to score marijuana in the city, where they are kidnapped and brutalized by a gang of psychopathic convicts.

Director: Wes Craven | Stars: Sandra Peabody, Lucy Grantham, David Hess, Fred J. Lincoln

Votes: 40,301 | Gross: $3.10M

5. 10 to Midnight (1983)

R | 101 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

An LAPD detective and his rookie partner are on the trail of a psychopathic young man who is murdering young women.

Director: J. Lee Thompson | Stars: Charles Bronson, Lisa Eilbacher, Andrew Stevens, Gene Davis

Votes: 9,360 | Gross: $7.10M

6. Femme Fatale (2002)

R | 114 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A woman tries to straighten out her life, even as her past as a con-woman comes back to haunt her.

Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Rebecca Romijn, Antonio Banderas, Peter Coyote, Eriq Ebouaney

Votes: 37,664 | Gross: $6.59M

7. Citizen X (1995 TV Movie)

R | 105 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

During the 1980s, Soviet authorities hunt for a serial killer who picks his victims in railway stations and commuter trains and lures them into the woods.

Director: Chris Gerolmo | Stars: Stephen Rea, Donald Sutherland, Max von Sydow, Jeffrey DeMunn

Votes: 22,321

8. The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh (1971)

R | 81 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery

An ambassador's wife discovers that one of the men in her life - either her husband, an ex-lover or her current lover - may be a vicious serial killer.

Director: Sergio Martino | Stars: George Hilton, Edwige Fenech, Conchita Airoldi, Manuel Gil

Votes: 5,451

9. The Killing of America (1981)

R | 90 min | Documentary, Crime

A documentary of the decline of America. It features footage (most exclusive to this film) from race riots to serial killers and much, much more.

Director: Sheldon Renan | Stars: Chuck Riley, Ed Dorris, Thomas Noguchi, Sirhan Sirhan

Votes: 2,371

10. The Witch Who Came from the Sea (1976)

R | 83 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

A disturbed woman is haunted by memories of childhood abuse, which culminates in a murder spree.

Director: Matt Cimber | Stars: Millie Perkins, Lonny Chapman, Vanessa Brown, Peggy Feury

Votes: 2,548

11. Mirror Images II (1993 Video)

R | 92 min | Drama, Thriller

Shannon Whirry stars as Carrie and Terrie, a pair of twins who were separated in youth when their father murdered their mother and was in turn killed by his own bad twin daughter. Now the ... See full summary »

Director: Gregory Dark | Stars: Shannon Whirry, Luca Bercovici, Tom Reilly, Eva LaRue

Votes: 644

12. Cairo Station (1958)

Not Rated | 77 min | Crime, Drama

A newspaper salesman at the train station in Cairo develops an unhealthy obsession with a woman who sells refreshments.

Director: Youssef Chahine | Stars: Farid Shawqi, Hind Rustum, Youssef Chahine, Hassan el Baroudi

Votes: 5,355

13. Born for Hell (1976)

Unrated | 92 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

A disturbed American war veteran arrives in Belfast during the Northern Ireland conflicts, and proceeds to terrorize a household of female nursing students.

Directors: Denis Héroux, Géza von Radványi | Stars: Mathieu Carrière, Debra Berger, Christine Boisson, Myriam Boyer

Votes: 999

14. Into the Deep (2020)

TV-MA | 90 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime

When journalist Kim Wall disappears after boarding inventor Peter Madsen's submarine, his changing story about her fate masks a terrifying truth.

Director: Emma Sullivan | Star: Peter Madsen

Votes: 4,144

15. Forbidden Sins (1999)

R | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Shannon Tweed stars as the divorced defense attorney who gets caught in a passionate love affair with an accused murderer.

Director: Robert Angelo | Stars: Michael A. Licata, Kirstin Pierce, Corbin Timbrook, Myles O'Brien

Votes: 579

16. Tenderness of the Wolves (1973)

Not Rated | 82 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

Using his status as a police informant to procure his victims, baby-faced, shaven-headed Fritz Haarmann dismembers their bodies after death and sells the flesh to restaurants, dumping the remainder out of sight.

Director: Ulli Lommel | Stars: Kurt Raab, Jeff Roden, Margit Carstensen, Ingrid Caven

Votes: 1,583

17. Five Women for the Killer (1974)

100 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A reporter comes home from an overseas assignment to find his baby in the hospital and his wife dead.

Director: Stelvio Massi | Stars: Francis Matthews, Pascale Rivault, Giorgio Albertazzi, Howard Ross

Votes: 489

18. The Sex Spa (2003 Video)

Not Rated | 85 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

A detective and her partner investigate the death of a wealthy and influential woman. All clues lead to a spa, where sex is offered along with health treatments.

Director: Yves Monroe | Stars: Chloe Nicole, Dale DaBone, Dru Berrymore, Dolorian

Votes: 137

19. Jacqueline Hyde (2005 Video)

R | 94 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror

Jackie, a lonely and shy telemarketer in her late twenties, gets a phone call informing her that her grandfather has just passed away. As his only living relative, she has inherited his ... See full summary »

Director: Rolfe Kanefsky | Stars: Gabriella Hall, Blythe Metz, Rebekah Ellis, James Ferris

Votes: 382

20. Chicago Massacre: Richard Speck (2007 Video)

R | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

A film based on the notorious mass killer Richard Speck, who systematically tortured, raped and murdered a group of student nurses from South Chicago Community Hospital in 1966.

Director: Michael Feifer | Stars: Corin Nemec, Amy Lyndon, Coley Feifer, Jake Riding

Votes: 933

21. Lila (1968)

R | 87 min | Crime, Horror, Romance

A topless dancer attracts, seduces, then murders the men she sleeps with. She does it with a twist, however; she kills them with garden tools.

Director: William Rotsler | Stars: Susan Stewart, Steve Vincent, James Brand, Vic Lance

Votes: 390

22. Aska Susayanlar: Seks ve Cinayet (1972)

60 min | Adventure, Crime, Mystery

An introvert party goer in '60s makes it a habit of kidnapping meretricious female models to hidden spots out to wild nature to rape them, and of returning them to their homes nevermore.

Director: Mehmet Aslan | Stars: Kadir Inanir, Yildirim Gencer, Meral Zeren, Eva Bender

Votes: 221

23. Roseanna (1993)

95 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A young woman is found dead in Göta kanal, Sweden's largest canal. Since there are hardly any clues or evidence at all it seems as if the murder can't be solved. Martin Beck and his men are... See full summary »

Director: Daniel Alfredson | Stars: Gösta Ekman, Kjell Bergqvist, Rolf Lassgård, Niklas Hjulström

Votes: 1,251

24. Death Scenes (1989 Video)

86 min | Documentary, Crime, War

Various pics and footage of real death

Director: Nick Bougas | Stars: Anton LaVey, Ross Alexander, David Bacon, Clyde Barrow

Votes: 212

25. Dangerous Passions (2003)

91 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Police detective Walt Hodges and his lusty girl friend, TV reporter Lorraine Lewis, investigate the murder of a music promoter Floyd Winslow, interviewing his lusty secretary and randy wife.

Director: Woquini Adams | Stars: Jezebelle Bond, Nikita Cash, Ben Gold, Bill Hindley

Votes: 70

26. Roseanna (1967)

104 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A dead and unknown woman is found in a canal. Police inspector Martin Beck becomes involved in the case. After several months the woman is identified. The police reconstruct the woman's last trip on the canal boat "Wilhelm Tham".

Director: Hans Abramson | Stars: Keve Hjelm, Hans Ernback, Tor Isedal, Gio Petré

Votes: 186

27. Reaper (2000)

R | 96 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Horror novelist Luke Sinclair retreats to a small town to finish writing his latest book. No sooner has he arrived, however, than a young woman is murdered in the woods nearby, in ... See full summary »

Director: John Bradshaw | Stars: Chris Sarandon, Catherine Mary Stewart, Vlasta Vrana, Joanna Noyes

Votes: 312

28. Killer Instinct (2001)

R | 88 min | Horror, Thriller

A series of unsolved crimes from the past prove to be the common thread in three stories that intertwine to reveal big problems in a small town.

Director: Ken Barbet | Stars: Corbin Bernsen, Dee Wallace, Paige Moss, Jeanine Meyers

Votes: 375

29. Dual Mania (2020)

R | 77 min | Thriller

A psychological thriller dealing with the dual persona a young man possesses and attempts to conceal throughout his ongoing sessions with his therapist.

Director: Joseph Strickland | Stars: Lara Phillips, Renee Domenz, Sia A. Moody, Yvonne Huff Lee

Votes: 37

30. Dödlig drift (1999)

105 min | Thriller

A present-day thriller about a man with a needle in his brain. This needle poisons his mind and tortures him with morbid thoughts and an urge to kill. When he finally commits a murder there... See full summary »

Director: Rolf Börjlind | Stars: Mikael Persbrandt, Stefan Sauk, Andrea Vagn Jensen, Kjell Bergqvist

Votes: 397

31. 7 (2008)

Unrated | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

Japanese WWII hostages, ritual killings for 20 years, one man's dreams and an innocent Malaysian reporter, are drawn together in a true life web of mystery that appears as a modern day conspiracy.

Director: Ingo Storm | Stars: Kylanie Lee, Lynn Lee, Lynzabel, Hiroki Onishi

Votes: 40

32. Dormi trezeste-te (2012)

65 min | Drama, Thriller

He killed her, but he fell in love with her first.

Director: Andrei Stefanescu | Stars: Miriam Rizea, Radu Craciun, Elena Vasilache

Votes: 144

33. Torture Toys (2008)

64 min | Horror

Torture Toys is an Exploitation film about a murderess who likes to seduce and sexually torture her victims before mutilating them. Inspired by bad films and B-rated slasher flicks of the 70.

Director: Josh Maldonado | Stars: Luci Caitence, Jeanne Cochran, Eric Crowl, Lynn Marz

34. First Kill/Last Kill (2014 TV Movie)

60 min | Documentary, Crime

A detailed and compelling look into the crimes of serial killer Kenneth Erskine aka. The Stockwell Strangler

Director: Nick Aarons | Stars: David Wilson, Marcus Roberts, Carole Anne, Sheila Breen

Votes: 14

35. The Old Fox (1977– )
Episode: Der verlorene Sieg (1991)

58 min | Crime, Drama

In a hotel of Munich the lawyer Martin Bertholt is giving a press conference.At his side Friedhelm Maus who has been accused and sentenced for the violation and murder of the wife of the ... See full summary »

Director: Helmuth Ashley | Stars: Rolf Schimpf, Michael Ande, Charles M. Huber, Markus Böttcher

Votes: 20

36. Linda (1984– )
Episode: Tüzes babák (1990)

47 min | Comedy, Crime

Linda is too busy at work, has not much time on Tamás, so she let him choose her newest case from a newspaper, and he picks an article about shop-window fires around Budapest. Seems to be a... See full summary »

Directors: György Gát, Miklós Szurdi | Stars: Nóra Görbe, Béla Szerednyey, Tamás Vayer, Miklós Tolnay

Votes: 14

37. Forensic Files (1996–2011)
Episode: Micro-Clues (1997)

TV-14 | 22 min | Documentary, Crime

After a day of fishing in a small, quiet village in Switzerland, a teenage boy did not return home as planned. The investigation revealed some important microscopic evidence in the water ... See full summary »

Director: Richard Monahan | Stars: Peter Thomas, Jocheim Hurlimann, Hans Peter Minnig, Daniel Wyler

Votes: 104