Movies and TvShows featuring "failed-murder-attempt" theme.

In R.A.I.D. Special Unit, a team of special forces known as RAID is tasked with saving the French president from an assassination attempt. The team must overcome various obstacles and navigate through a comedy of errors as they try to protect their target.

After being abandoned by her lover, a vengeful wife attempts to murder him but ends up in a series of comedic mishaps, leading to a nervous breakdown.

After losing his job, a man becomes desperate and starts eliminating his competition in order to secure a new position. The situation escalates when a murder is attempted and he must deal with the consequences.

In this comedic spoof, Sherlock Holmes' brother tries to solve a case involving a stolen document while dealing with various comedic mishaps. Along the way, he encounters Professor Moriarty, a murder attempt, and a female singer.

Ugly, Dirty and Bad (1976) is a dark comedy that tells the story of a large dysfunctional family living in poverty in Rome. The film explores themes of greed, promiscuity, and consumerism as the family members navigate their troubled relationships and the challenges of their daily lives.

Paranoiac is a 1963 psychological thriller about deception and manipulation. When a young man suspects that his deceased sister's husband is a fraud, he becomes entangled in a web of secrets and paranoia.

"The Mystery Cruise" centers around best friends and impending business partners, Alvirah Meehan (Gail O'Grady), a lottery winner turned amateur sleuth, and Regan Reilly (Michelle Harrison), a private investigator. After rescuing the diamond-collared pooch of a wealthy socialite (Carol Higgins Clark), the two heroines set off with their spouses to join Regan's mom, Nora Reilly (Colleen Winton), a world famous mystery writer, on a luxurious three day cruise around the San Juan Island off the coast of Washington. The cruise serves as the setting for a mystery game created to promote the release of Nora's latest book. As the boat calmly sets sail, everyone is enjoying getting into character, especially Alvirah, who may or may not be the games "murderess." But troubled waters lie ahead when Alvirah gets a hunch that a real killer may be on board and, together with Regan, the pair teams up to solve the high seas whodunnit.

Oliver is in trouble. He's been caught embezzling money from his father's company, and unless he can pay back the $250,000 he took (which he can't), he will be fired from his job, arrested and probably sent to jail. Meanwhile, his rich wife has not only refused to bail him out of this mess, she's planning to divorce him. Desperate, Oliver thinks up a way out. He takes out an insurance policy on his wife with him as the beneficiary, then hires a hit man to kill her. The only problem is that because the doctor who performed the examination is an incompetent fraud, the insurance policy is invalid. Desperate to call off the hit, Oliver tracks down the hit man, only to find that he's subcontracted the killing to another hit man. Tracking down that killer reveals that he, too, has hired it out to a third person, and so on, and so on. Just how many people are trying to kill Oliver's wife?

In the year 1888, a series of gruesome murders known as the Jack the Ripper killings terrorize the Whitechapel district of London. Scotland Yard inspector, along with a physician and an Irish woman, try to identify and capture the notorious serial murderer. As they delve deeper into the investigation, they find themselves questioning witnesses, encountering royal guards, and uncovering shocking secrets. Will they be able to stop the killer before more innocent lives are lost?

A criminal couple, hiding out on a remote property, become the unwitting victims of a blackmail plot by the most unlikely of conspirators.

A groundskeeper's son, who is mentally unstable due to childhood trauma, goes on a murdering spree where his perception of reality is distorted by imagining people as mannequins and vice versa.

Thomas is a good but low intelligence man. He is in love with Urania, a widow, whose stingy husband Sotiris is over a year dead, as the ship he was sailing in, sunk. When Sotiris appears, explaining that he was hiding so as to get the life insurance money. Urania, who already has a love affair, convinces Thomas to murder him, pretending she is in love with him. Thomas indeed tries unsuccessfully. Everything is revealed when Sotiris discovers that the insurance money have been stolen and appears screaming during his memorial service. A trial ensues, where Thomas admits that he is not only an imbecile but 'an imbecile and a half'.

Banaz, a young Kurdish woman in London, endures a life filled with oppression and domestic violence. When she falls in love with Rahmat, an Iraqi refugee, their love becomes a target of her own family's honor killing plot. Despite seeking help from the police, Banaz's pleas are ignored, leading to a tragic fate.

A sociopath who teams up with his girlfriend to kill her father and collect the insurance money. Unfortunately, they aren't very bright and all the wrong people end up dead.