Movies and TvShows featuring "crime-literature-on-screen" theme.

When the CIA's most skilled operative, Court Gentry, accidentally uncovers dark agency secrets, a psychopathic former colleague puts a bounty on his head, setting off a global manhunt by international assassins.

While on vacation on the Nile, Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of a young heiress. In World War I, Poirot devises a strategy to advance his Belgian company but gets injured. In 1937, at a London club, Poirot watches a performance and sees Linnet Ridgeway dancing passionately with her fiance Simon Doyle. After six weeks, in Egypt, Poirot encounters his friend Bouc and joins them at the hotel to celebrate Linnet and Simon's wedding. Others join their honeymoon trip on the cruise ship S.S. Karnak. Linnet asks Poirot for protection from the obsessive Jackie, who has stalked them to Egypt. To escape Jackie, the group boards the Karnak. Poirot interrogates the guests and discovers their various motives to harm Linnet. Poirot investigates further, finding clues and uncovering the truth behind the murders. As the passengers disembark, Poirot is unable to voice his feelings to Salome. Six months later, he visits her club to watch her rehearse, alone in the dark.

Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte is a psychological thriller that follows a woman named Charlotte who is haunted by the past. After a traumatic event, Charlotte becomes secluded in her family mansion and is tormented by her own memories. As she uncovers family secrets and faces her own demons, she must confront her own sanity and determine who she can trust.

A young F.B.I. cadet, Clarice Starling, is tasked with presenting a questionnaire to the notorious Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a cannibalistic serial killer. In exchange for information about another serial killer, Buffalo Bill, Lecter demands personal details from Starling's traumatic childhood. As Starling investigates the serial killer, she uncovers horrifying details about his victims and must use all her skills to track him down and rescue his latest victim.

A chronicle of the crimes of Ted Bundy from the perspective of Liz, his longtime girlfriend, who refused to believe the truth about him for years. Opening in 1969, single mother Elizabeth Kendall (Lily Collins) is at a college bar when she meets a charming stranger named Theodore 'Ted' Robert Bundy (Zac Efron). Over the years, as Ted is arrested and stands trial for his crimes, Liz struggles to come to terms with the reality of who Ted really is.

Diabolique (1955) is a psychological thriller set in a boarding school, where the abusive headmaster's wife and his mistress conspire to murder him. However, their plan goes awry when the body mysteriously disappears, leading to a series of unexpected twists and turns.

A retired police detective pledges to catch a serial killer before his retirement party, but his obsession with the case leads him down a dangerous path of paranoia and self-destruction.

Mirage is a 1965 mystery thriller film about a man who wakes up in a skyscraper with amnesia and must unravel a corporate conspiracy while trying to recover his memory. As he delves deeper into the mystery, he discovers a sinister plot involving nuclear physicists, psychologists, and a bookstore. With the help of a private detective and a psychiatrist, he must race against time to uncover the truth before it's too late.

In an unnamed country that resembles Chile, Paulina Escobar lives with her husband Gerardo Escobar and a doctor named Miranda. One day, Dr. Miranda brings home a stranger, claiming that he had a flat tire. Paulina and Gerardo recognize him as the man who had held Paulina captive and raped her repeatedly when she was blindfolded and bound as a prisoner of war during a politically charged time in her country's history. Paulina takes him captive to find out the truth about what happened to her while Gerardo tries to question and reason with her.

This time the detectives deal with the case of a murdered professor. One day a cleaning woman finds him shot to death in his own study. The detectives will thus investigate whether the murder is connected with the victim's persistent effort for the removal of the University's quaestor because of the latter's strange machinations during the reconstruction of the University building. And they'll also want to know why the murderer took the great risk involved in killing the victim on the university soil. The search for the answer to the question who could wish the death of the peculiar but honest professor will take them farther than they have expected.

A car mechanic and an ex-convict team up to plan a daring heist at a casino on the French Riviera, but things go awry and the heist goes wrong. They must navigate through betrayal and complications to pull off the ultimate crime.

When a couple discovers a bag of stolen money in their dead tenant's apartment, they find themselves in the middle of a dangerous chain of events that involves criminals, police, and a deadly debt. As they struggle to survive, they must decide how far they are willing to go to keep the money and protect their own lives.

In Made in U.S.A, a female writer in Paris named Paula gets caught up in a mysterious crime involving a dead body, violence, and a female killer. As she investigates the crime, she encounters various characters and situations, including a stationary bike, a police officer, and a tape recorder. The film is set against the backdrop of the French New Wave and American crime literature.

Diabolique follows the story of a mistress and wife who plot to murder the abusive husband, but things take an unexpected turn when the body mysteriously disappears.