A Perfect Murder
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You're planning a perfect murder. Think about the best way to do it, considering your alibi, weapon, evidence, motive without leaving any suspicion towards you.
Which movie do you think have the most brilliant scenario of a perfect murder or how to get away with it? (whether they're successful or not)
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1. Dial M for Murder (1954)
PG | 105 min | Crime, Thriller
A former tennis star arranges the murder of his adulterous wife.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings, John Williams
Votes: 188,720 | Gross: $0.01M
Blackmail a guilty man to murder your victim and make it like a burglary situation. Invite someone to a party at the time as your alibi. When your plan goes teribly wrong, always have a brilliant plan B.
2. Rope (1948)
Approved | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Two men attempt to prove they committed the perfect crime by hosting a dinner party after strangling their former classmate to death.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger, Dick Hogan
Votes: 153,572
Make a party after the murder. Invite your victim's friends and families and act like nothing happened.
3. Strangers on a Train (1951)
PG | 101 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A psychopathic man tries to forcibly persuade a tennis star to agree to his theory that two strangers can get away with murder by submitting to his plan to kill the other's most-hated person.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Farley Granger, Robert Walker, Ruth Roman, Leo G. Carroll
Votes: 140,971 | Gross: $7.63M
Doing swap murder with a stranger you meet on a train to kill someone the other person wants disposed of. So you won't leave any motive.
4. Vertigo (1958)
PG | 128 min | Mystery, Romance, Thriller
A former San Francisco police detective juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becoming obsessed with the hauntingly beautiful woman he has been hired to trail, who may be deeply disturbed.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore
Votes: 426,748 | Gross: $3.20M
Make someone believe that your victim is someone else.
5. Double Indemnity (1944)
Passed | 107 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A Los Angeles insurance representative lets an alluring housewife seduce him into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, an insurance investigator.
Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Byron Barr
Votes: 167,404 | Gross: $5.72M
Commit the real murder before the "actual murder" happened, disguise yourself as your victim and talk to random people just to distract the real time of the murder.
6. Clue (1985)
PG | 94 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Six guests are anonymously invited to a strange mansion for dinner, but after their host is killed, they must cooperate with the staff to identify the murderer as the bodies pile up.
Director: Jonathan Lynn | Stars: Eileen Brennan, Tim Curry, Madeline Kahn, Christopher Lloyd
Votes: 109,242 | Gross: $14.64M
Gather with people with same motive as the murderer, so you can blend in.
7. Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
PG | 128 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
In December 1935, when his transcontinental luxury train is stranded by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before, with a multitude of suspects.
Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, Sean Connery
Votes: 69,117 | Gross: $0.07M
Gather with people with same motive as the murderer, so you can blend in. And distract the real time of the murder so you can always have an alibi.
8. Fracture (2007)
R | 113 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
After shooting his wife, Ted confesses his crime and asks the court to move his case to trial. He represents himself against Willy, a successful lawyer. But there's more to the case than meets the eye.
Director: Gregory Hoblit | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Ryan Gosling, David Strathairn, Rosamund Pike
Votes: 218,845 | Gross: $39.02M
Do not really kill your victim (yet) so you can't be prosecuted for murder at the court. Meanwhile, confess everything and act innocent while your evidence seems like will never be found. So you will get away with double jeopardy.
9. Minority Report (2002)
PG-13 | 145 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
John works with the PreCrime police which stop crimes before they take place, with the help of three 'PreCogs' who can foresee crimes. Events ensue when John finds himself framed for a future murder.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton, Max von Sydow
Votes: 584,169 | Gross: $132.07M
In a dystopian future where murder would be detected before it really happened, the only way to get away with it is to manipulate the system. You make the system detected another murder that happened before and you arrived and killed your victim in exactly the same manner as the first. The first act seen by the system and the later disregarded as an echo vision and would be ignored.
10. Primal Fear (1996)
R | 129 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An altar boy is accused of murdering a priest, and the truth is buried several layers deep.
Director: Gregory Hoblit | Stars: Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Edward Norton, John Mahoney
Votes: 246,924 | Gross: $56.12M
Blame it on the altar ego.
11. Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Approved | 116 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A veteran British barrister must defend his client in a murder trial that has surprise after surprise.
Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester
Votes: 137,786 | Gross: $8.18M
Use the most unlikely witness for prosecution.
12. Match Point (2005)
R | 124 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
At a turning point in his life, a former tennis pro falls for an actress who happens to be dating his friend and soon-to-be brother-in-law.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Emily Mortimer, Matthew Goode
Votes: 228,023 | Gross: $23.09M
Make a burglary situation that looks like your real victim is only accidentally murdered for witnessing another burglar's victim. So you it won't leave any motive toward you.
13. Following (1998)
R | 69 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A young writer who follows strangers for material meets a thief who takes him under his wing.
Director: Christopher Nolan | Stars: Jeremy Theobald, Alex Haw, Lucy Russell, John Nolan
Votes: 101,694 | Gross: $0.05M
Give a stranger your identity
14. Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
Not Rated | 106 min | Comedy, Crime
A distant poor relative of the Duke D'Ascoyne plots to inherit the title by murdering the eight other heirs who stand ahead of him in the line of succession.
Director: Robert Hamer | Stars: Dennis Price, Alec Guinness, Valerie Hobson, Joan Greenwood
Votes: 39,702
Study all the detail of your victims' family and find ways to weave in and out of their lives, gradually endearing yourself to them and gaining the access you need to carry out your murderous plot while you become the most trusted person of your victims.
15. The Woman in the Window (1944)
Passed | 107 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
When a conservative middle aged professor engages in a relationship with a femme fatale, he's plunged into a nightmarish world of blackmail and murder.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond Massey, Edmund Breon
Votes: 17,769
Do the conventional way, dispose the body somewhere far, remove the evidence that leads to you and there will never be any suspicion towards you because you've never met your victim before.
16. Diabolique (1955)
Not Rated | 117 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
The wife and mistress of a loathed school principal plan to murder him with what they believe is the perfect alibi.
Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot | Stars: Simone Signoret, Véra Clouzot, Paul Meurisse, Charles Vanel
Votes: 69,369 | Gross: $1.09M
Make your victim die naturally, seemingly without any intervention
17. And Then There Were None (1945)
Approved | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Seven guests, a newly hired secretary and two staff are gathered at a manor house on an isolated island by an unknown absentee host and are killed off one-by-one. They work together to determine who the killer is before it's too late.
Director: René Clair | Stars: Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston, Louis Hayward, Roland Young
Votes: 16,637
Disguise yourself as one of your victims
18. The Usual Suspects (1995)
R | 106 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The sole survivor of a pier shoot-out tells the story of how a notorious criminal influenced the events that began with five criminals meeting in a seemingly random police lineup.
Director: Bryan Singer | Stars: Kevin Spacey, Gabriel Byrne, Chazz Palminteri, Stephen Baldwin
Votes: 1,145,014 | Gross: $23.34M
The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist. And like that, poof. He's gone.
19. Body Heat (1981)
R | 113 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
During an extreme heatwave, a beautiful Florida woman and a seedy lawyer engage in an affair while plotting the murder of her rich husband.
Director: Lawrence Kasdan | Stars: William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Richard Crenna, Ted Danson
Votes: 40,120 | Gross: $24.06M
Kill your victim and move the dead body somewhere else, and blow up the place to remove all the evidence. Before doing that, check in some other place as your alibi, or have another identity as your freepass.
20. Headhunters (2011)
R | 100 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
An accomplished headhunter risks everything to obtain a valuable painting owned by a former mercenary.
Director: Morten Tyldum | Stars: Aksel Hennie, Synnøve Macody Lund, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Julie R. Ølgaard
Votes: 106,961 | Gross: $1.20M
Bring your victim to the place where lays another dead victim and set up the situation like your victim and "the dead body" killed each other.
21. Looper (2012)
R | 119 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
In 2074, when the mob wants to get rid of someone, the target is sent into the past, where a hired gun awaits - someone like Joe - who one day learns the mob wants to 'close the loop' by sending back Joe's future self for assassination.
Director: Rian Johnson | Stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt, Paul Dano
Votes: 602,839 | Gross: $66.49M
Abduct your targets and send them back in time 30 years (before time travel was invented) for a "looper" to kill them instantly and dispose of the body in an incinerator. Since the victim didn't exist in that past time period, he wouldn't be missed and there would be no disappearance to investigate. And of course, no body (or "tags", however that worked) to investigate in that future time the victim came from either.
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