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51. A Touch of Frost (1992–2010)
Episode: Line of Fire: Part 1 (1999)

TV-14 | 75 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

DI Frost investigates the murder of a policeman murdered during a sting of a ring of international; car thieves and someone murdering local pets.

Director: Robert Knights | Stars: David Jason, Bruce Alexander, Paul Jesson, Nicky Henson

Votes: 268

52. Poirot (1989–2013)
Episode: The Hollow (2004)

TV-14 | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Poirot stumbles on the murder scene of philandering Dr Christow in a country house as his wife stands next to him with a revolver in her hand.

Director: Simon Langton | Stars: David Suchet, Jonathan Cake, Megan Dodds, Sarah Miles

Votes: 2,568

53. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000–2015)
Episode: Coming of Rage (2003)

TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Teenager Brian Haddick is found on a construction site, skull fatally smashed, with an employee's hammer. Grissom's team checks on the construction crew as well as Brian's school crowd, ... See full summary »

Director: Nelson McCormick | Stars: William Petersen, Marg Helgenberger, Gary Dourdan, George Eads

Votes: 776

54. CSI: Miami (2002–2012)
Episode: Golden Parachute (2002)

TV-14 | 45 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Insurance agent Scott Eric Sommer's private plane crashes in the Everglades after his pilot was shot. Only Sommer himself is found alive. His accountant seems to have struggled and jumped out. The firm was under SEC investigation.

Director: Joe Chappelle | Stars: David Caruso, Emily Procter, Adam Rodriguez, Khandi Alexander

Votes: 764

55. Craig Kennedy, Criminologist (1952–1953)
Episode: The Case of Fleming Lewis (1952)

Crime, Drama, Mystery

A planned fishing trip turns into a murder mystery when Fleming Lewis, a wealthy chemist, who is host to Craig Kennedy, Walt Jameson, Evening Star reporter, and inspector J. J. Burke, is ... See full summary »

Director: Harry L. Fraser | Stars: Donald Woods, Sydney Mason, Lewis Wilson, Suzanne Dalbert

Votes: 11

56. Dobrodruzství kriminalistiky (1989–1998)
Episode: Strela (1989)

52 min | Crime, History

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Director: Antonín Moskalyk | Stars: Hana Maciuchová, Petr Cepek, Vlastimil Brodský, Ludek Munzar

Votes: 14

57. Dobrodruzství kriminalistiky (1989–1998)
Episode: Tým (1989)

51 min | Crime, History

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Director: Antonín Moskalyk | Stars: Jirí Ornest, Daniela Kolárová, Jirí Adamíra, Petr Svoboda

Votes: 12

58. Dragnet (1951–1959)
Episode: The Big Bar (1954)

Not Rated | 30 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A holdup man is sticking up bars. After he takes the money he kills many of his victims. Sargeant Friday has few leads other than that the holdup man likes a certain song on the jukebox and likes to drink scotch and water.

Director: Jack Webb | Stars: Jack Webb, Ben Alexander, Walter Sande, Eugene Iglesias

Votes: 65

59. Dragnet (1951–1959)
Episode: The Big Casing (1952)

Not Rated | 30 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Friday and Jacobs are called to the apartment of a man who phoned in the fatal shooting of his wife. He claims it was suicide, but upon looking at the crime scene and talking to neighbors they begin to wonder if it was murder.

Director: Jack Webb | Stars: Jack Webb, Barney Phillips, Harry Bartell, Herb Butterfield

Votes: 71

60. F2: Forensic Factor (2003– )
Episode: The Promised Land (2005)

TV-14 | 46 min | Crime, Drama

When a Russian prostitute, Luda Petashanko, is found murdered, Los Angeles Homicide detectives quickly find the case to be anything but routine. Following a tangled string of clues, ... See full summary »

Directors: George D'Amato, James Hyslop | Stars: John Robinson, Irena Angeloutsa, Peter Flynn, Maxim Ivashyn

61. Hec Ramsey (1972–1974)
Episode: A Hard Road to Vengeance (1973)

75 min | Drama, Mystery, Western

A lawman arrives in the town of New Prospect to tell the citizens his side of the story of how he shot the idolized outlaw they're about to honor with a monument.

Director: Alex March | Stars: Richard Boone, Rick Lenz, Harry Morgan, Stuart Whitman

Votes: 31

62. M.I.T.: Murder Investigation Team (2003–2005)
Episode: Moving Targets (2003)

TV-PG | 49 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

When a uniformed sergeant and a criminal are gunned down in a drive-by, the team first has to find which was the intended victim in order to find the killer.

Director: Michael Offer | Stars: Lindsey Coulson, Samantha Spiro, Richard Hope, Richard Huw

Votes: 54

63. Perry Mason (1957–1966)
Episode: The Case of the Singing Skirt (1960)

TV-PG | 52 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

In Rowena, CA where draw poker is legal, Manning Ennis pays a casino manager, Slim Marcus, $60,000 to settle his losses. The only witness to the game is the singing cigarette girl, Betty Roberts. When Ennis' wife is killed, she is charged.

Director: Arthur Marks | Stars: Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale, William Hopper, William Talman

Votes: 278

64. A Touch of Frost (1992–2010)
Episode: Hidden Truth (2003)

TV-14 | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Frost misplaces a winning lottery ticket while trying to find a security leak that lead to the murder of two key witness in a supposed safe house.

Director: Paul Harrison | Stars: David Jason, Bruce Alexander, Robert Glenister, John Lyons

Votes: 319

65. A Touch of Frost (1992–2010)
Episode: Unknown Soldiers (1996)

TV-14 | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

DC Frost has to deal with discovering the source of a handgun owned by a teenager, the culprits involved in an armored car heist, and a fatal accident on an army base.

Director: Adrian Shergold | Stars: David Jason, Bruce Alexander, John Lyons, Nicholas Jones

Votes: 324

66. Waking the Dead (2000–2011)
Episode: Anger Management: Part 1 (2004)

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

A probation officer is murdered in a halfway house, but it is made to look like a suicide.

Director: Andy Hay | Stars: Trevor Eve, Sue Johnston, Holly Aird, Claire Goose

Votes: 159

67. Waking the Dead (2000–2011)
Episode: Black Run: Part 1 (2005)

TV-14 | 58 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The team revisits the murder conviction for a dirty cop obtained eight years earlier by Boyd when he discovers the inmate is dying of cancer.

Director: Ben Bolt | Stars: Trevor Eve, Sue Johnston, Wil Johnson, Esther Hall

Votes: 143

68. Waking the Dead (2000–2011)
Episode: Multistorey: Part 1 (2003)

TV-14 | 59 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Boyd has to battle his demons when the case against a mass murderer, who killed his close friend, is reopened.

Director: Robert Bierman | Stars: Trevor Eve, Sue Johnston, Holly Aird, Claire Goose

Votes: 177

69. The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode: Anasazi (1995)

TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Mulder receives an encrypted computer tape containing the defense department's top secret files on extraterrestrial life and becomes a target. Scully takes him to a Navajo family that unearthed a buried secret to decipher the files.

Director: R.W. Goodwin | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Peter Donat, Floyd 'Red Crow' Westerman

Votes: 5,535

70. The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode: Duane Barry (1994)

TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A former FBI agent who claims he was abducted by aliens takes several people hostage. Mulder agrees to be the negotiator.

Director: Chris Carter | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Steve Railsback, Nicholas Lea

Votes: 5,695

71. The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode: The Blessing Way (1995)

TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A furious pursuit of Agent Mulder is underway, and more importantly, the government wants the data tape he carried. Agent Scully, against all odds, searches to uncover his whereabouts, persisting that he is alive when all others deny it.

Director: R.W. Goodwin | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, Peter Donat

Votes: 4,948

72. Forensic Files (1996–2011)
Episode: Buried Treasure (2004)

TV-14 | 21 min | Documentary, Crime

A man fond of square-dancing disappears exactly one year after starting an affair with his friend's wife. Fifteen years later, a hobbyist with a metal detector helps police find evidence proving what happened, and who was responsible.

Stars: Peter Thomas, Melvin Snyder, JoAnne Snyder, Angela Krom

Votes: 94

73. The Lawbreakers (1963– )
Episode: Boston, Massachusetts: December 30 - Double Shooting, Single Murder (1963)

30 min | Documentary, Crime

A youthful gang of criminals goes on a crime spree throughout the metropolitan Boston area, leaving two men dead while committing numerous robberies and car heists. The various police ... See full summary »

Director: Kenneth Gilbert | Stars: Lee Marvin, Daniel Colella, Les Kretman, Bill Miller

74. Secrets of the Dead (2000– )
Episode: Umbrella Assassin (2006)

TV-PG | 56 min | Documentary, History, War

The mysteries behind the apparent Cold War murder of political dissident and author, Georgi Markov, a vocal anti-communist Bulgarian defector assassinated in London in 1979, are revealed.

Director: Mark Radice | Stars: Dimitar Botschev, Rufus Crompton, Ole Damkjær, Christopher Green

Votes: 29

75. Waking the Dead (2000–2011)
Episode: Black Run: Part 2 (2005)

TV-14 | 58 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Despite his suspension for a hit-and-run charge, Boyd and the team continues to pursue the Vine case.

Director: Ben Bolt | Stars: Trevor Eve, Sue Johnston, Wil Johnson, Esther Hall

Votes: 126

76. Waking the Dead (2000–2011)
Episode: Multistorey: Part 2 (2003)

TV-14 | 58 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The team finds additional exculpatory evidence on convicted spree killer and finds evidence of several cover-ups.

Director: Robert Bierman | Stars: Trevor Eve, Sue Johnston, Holly Aird, Claire Goose

Votes: 157

77. Murdoch Mysteries (2008– )
Episode: Elementary, My Dear Murdoch (2008)

TV-PG | 48 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Murdoch accompanies Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who is in Toronto on lecture tour for spiritualism, to a local clairvoyant who leads them to a freshly buried murder victim.

Director: Don McBrearty | Stars: Yannick Bisson, Helene Joy, Thomas Craig, Jonny Harris

Votes: 441

78. Crime 360 (2008–2009)
Episode: Fatal Feud (2008)

TV-14 | 45 min | Documentary, Crime, Mystery

Middle finger given to a neighbor leads to a spat, which escalates to a deadly shooting. Even the surviving neighbors' accounts of the incident disagree.

Directors: Rob Dorfmann, Craig Santy | Stars: Jeff Crewell, Walter Dandridge, A.M. Jackson, Deborah Kay

Votes: 7

79. Crime 360 (2008–2009)
Episode: Killing Field (2008)

TV-PG | 45 min | Documentary, Crime, Mystery

Who killed Fat Daddy, a 21-year-old drug dealer? Was it Goldmouth or Pac Man? Or could Fat Daddy merely be the unfortunate victim of a stray bullet during a July Fourth celebration?

Directors: Rob Dorfmann, Craig Santy | Stars: Bill Lloyd, Conrad Simms, Jessica Kline, Jeff Crewell

Votes: 6

80. Forensic Files (1996–2011)
Episode: Sands of Crime (2009)

TV-14 | 21 min | Documentary, Crime

A college student is abducted and murdered five days before Christmas. Eight years pass before a cell phone and a pair of running shoes implicates a suspect.

Stars: Peter Thomas, Juli Busken, Mary Jean Busken, Bud Busken

Votes: 99

81. Forensic Files (1996–2011)
Episode: Shoot to Thrill (2008)

TV-14 | 21 min | Documentary, Crime

Two teen boys murders one of the boys father in the winter in Minnesota.

Stars: Peter Thomas, Nathaniel Brovold, James Dougherty, Susan Gross

Votes: 80

82. Forensic Files (1996–2011)
Episode: The Magic Bullet (1996)

TV-14 | 23 min | Documentary, Crime

Sitting in the apparently safe lobby of his father's gun club, a teenage boy is mysteriously shot dead. Ballistics, laser technology, scale models and forensic animation reveal the bullet's amazingly tragic path - and who was responsible.

Director: Mike Werteen | Stars: Peter Thomas, Butch Cooley, Toni Cooley, David Taylor

Votes: 170

83. The Mark of a Killer (2019– )
Episode: The Grim Sleeper (2021)

Documentary, Crime

A cold blooded killer conceals his victim bodies with trash, discarding them like garbage in the back alleys across Los Angeles.

Directors: Chad Cunningham, Wendy Greene | Stars: Cliff Shepard, Dennis Kilcoyne, Paul Mize, Ana Garcia

Votes: 12

84. The Closer (2005–2012)
Episode: Dead Man's Hand (2009)

Not Rated | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Tension between Captain Raydor and Major Crimes escalates as Chief Pope asks Brenda to discretely investigate the abuse of one of Raydor's detectives. Meanwhile, Fritz has news that could change his and Brenda's life together.

Director: James Duff | Stars: Kyra Sedgwick, J.K. Simmons, Corey Reynolds, Robert Gossett

Votes: 336

85. Timewatch (1982– )
Episode: The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald (1993)

99 min | Documentary, History

A detailed look at the early life of Oswald and his movements on the day of the Kennedy assassination.

Stars: James P. Hosty, Gerald Posner, G. Robert Blakey, Evelyn Segal

Votes: 10

86. Penn & Teller: Bullshit! (2003–2010)
Episode: Criminal Justice (2010)

TV-MA | 26 min | Comedy, Documentary

Penn and Teller show that the criminal justice system is broken, and that forensic science is far from perfect.

Directors: Star Price, Tim Rogan, Ted Saad, Chip Selby, David Wechter | Stars: Penn Jillette, Teller, Jamie Bain, Radley Balko

Votes: 97

87. Crimes That Shook the World (2006– )
Episode: Monster of Florence (2009)

Documentary, Crime

The unsolved case of the Monster of Florence, who preyed on young couples and committed murders in and around the city in the early 1980s, but who has never been officially identified.

Director: Kathryn Ross | Stars: Aldo Innocenti, Douglas Perin, Christine De Melo, Louise Cattaneo

Votes: 13

88. Forensic Files (1996–2011)
Episode: Textbook Murder (2010)

TV-14 | 21 min | Documentary, Crime

A pregnant woman is murdered in her home, and suspicion logically falls on her fiancé. But shoe prints and ballistic testing prove otherwise.

Stars: Peter Thomas, Avis Banks, Frederick Banks, Frank Dillard

Votes: 89

89. Crime Scene Confidential (2022– )
Episode: Cracking Brian's Case (2022)

46 min | Documentary

When family man Brian Hughes falls dead in his living room it looks like a robbery gone wrong, the evidence soon suggests a plot hatched from inside his home and Alina deciphers the ballistics to give a silenced victim the final word.

Star: Alina Burroughs

Votes: 18

90. Forensic Files (1996–2011)
Episode: Catch 22 (2007)

TV-14 | 22 min | Documentary, Crime

A Wal-Mart shoe clerk is gunned down in her driveway with a 22-caliber weapon. Police suspect first her husband, then a coworker and spurned would-be lover half her age.

Stars: Peter Thomas, Merit Lajoie, Paul Lombardo, Virginia Maxwell

Votes: 91

91. Forensic Files (1996–2011)
Episode: Calculated Coincidence (2009)

TV-14 | 21 min | Documentary, Crime

A North Carolina woman is raped and strangled in her apartment. Authorities are unable to link the prime suspect to the homicide, until they discover a connection to an unsolved Michigan murder that was committed a few years earlier.

Stars: Peter Thomas, Stephanie Bennett, T. Carmon Bennett, Mark Boodee

Votes: 75

92. The Real Murders of Atlanta (2022– )
Episode: Murder in College Town (2023)

Documentary, Crime, Mystery

The teenage nephew of Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms is assassinated with a hail of bullets, wreaking havoc within his powerful family and the city of Atlanta.

Stars: Darian Bottoms, Keisha Lance Bottoms, Shuanya Chavis, Tyrone Dennis

Votes: 10

93. The Real Murders of Atlanta (2022– )
Episode: Deadly Turn (2023)

Documentary, Crime, Mystery

The Atlanta club scene is shaken when the wife of a popular DJ is executed in her sleep; detectives must determine if the victim had enemies or if her murder was part of a string of killings stemming from her husband's high-profile job.

Stars: Karmetria Burton, Cartrell Daniels, Pat Dutcher, Allyn Glover

Votes: 8

94. Inspector Lewis (2006–2015)
Episode: Entry Wounds: Part 1 (2014)

TV-PG | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Hathaway has been promoted to inspector after an extended break, and Lewis is enjoying retired life until he's asked to team up with his old colleague again.

Director: Nicholas Renton | Stars: Francesca Zoutewelle, Jonny Phillips, Jack Helsby, Elizabeth Rider

Votes: 518

95. Body of Evidence (2001–2008)
Episode: A Halloween Mystery (2003)

TV-14 | 22 min | Documentary, Crime

The case of 41-year-old womanizer, Donald Louis Robinson, who was shot and stabbed multiple times in his Port Orange home in 1988.

Stars: Michael Hannon, Dayle Hinman, Murray McDonald, Frank Surmaczewicz

96. The Investigators (2000– )
Episode: A Dangerous Game (2004)

Documentary, Crime, Drama

The case of a killer couple who target holidaymakers, luring them to their condominium to play with their fears and murder them for fun.

Directors: David Cargill, Jonathan B. Taylor | Stars: Gene Galusha, Martha Crutchley, Joshua Ford, Erika Sifrit

97. Major Crimes (2012–2018)
Episode: Hindsight, Part 2 (2016)

Not Rated | 43 min | Action, Crime, Drama

The team searches for more clues after the Uzi from the shootings is found in the church, but the bad blood between Hickman and Tao reaches the boiling point. Meanwhile, more clues indicate that Rusty's mom may be in danger.

Director: Stacey K. Black | Stars: Mary McDonnell, G.W. Bailey, Tony Denison, Michael Paul Chan

Votes: 245

98. Born to Kill? (2005– )
Episode: David Carpenter: The Trailside Killer (2014)

45 min | Documentary, Crime

Unimposing stutterer David Joseph Carpenter brutally raped and murdered in and around the 1980 San Francisco, California, area.

Director: Matt Grosch | Stars: Christopher Slade, Stoney Brook, David Carpenter, Albert Howenstein

Votes: 16

99. Cold Justice (2013– )
Episode: Beyond the Grave (2017)

TV-14 | Documentary, Crime, Reality-TV

The case of 22-year-old George Tyrone "Tye" Breland, who was found by his wife, Kathie, lying on the floor of their bedroom with a fatal gunshot wound to his chest in Pascagoula, Mississippi in 1975.

Stars: Kelly Siegler, Johnny Bonds, Matt Chapman, Darren Versiga

Votes: 30

100. Murder, Mystery and My Family (2018– )
Episode: Episode #1.4 (2018)

TV-14 | 44 min | Documentary, Crime, History

The case of the last man to be hanged at Newcastle Prison, John Dickman, is re-examined by the team. The local bookmaker was convicted of shooting dead a man on a train.

Director: Simon Cooper | Stars: Tony Hirst, Jeremy Dein, Sasha Wass, David Radford

Votes: 8