Movies and TvShows featuring "hidden-corpse" theme.
A young boy witnesses a suicide and becomes the target of a mobster. He seeks the help of a lawyer to protect himself and his family.
Two brilliant young aesthetes, Brandon Shaw and Phillip Morgan, strangle their former classmate to death as an intellectual exercise. They hide the body in a chest and host a dinner party, with their guests including the victim's fiancée and father. Throughout the evening, their guest of honor, Rupert Cadell, starts to suspect and confronts them. As the tension increases, the truth is revealed and the police are called.
In 1922, a farmer plots to kill his wife to avoid losing his land, but the act and its aftermath lead to a series of haunting events. Guilt, paranoia, and supernatural occurrences grip the farmer as he struggles to keep his secret hidden.
When his teenage daughter is accused of murder, a loving father in Thailand must navigate through class differences, police corruption, and a corrupt justice system to prove her innocence and protect his family.
A physicist and a medium are hired to investigate the Belasco House, known as the Hell House, where previous investigations have led to death and madness. As they explore the mansion, they encounter paranormal phenomena and are confronted with the battle between science and the supernatural.
Bernie Tiede, a beloved mortician in a small Texas town, forms an unlikely friendship with a wealthy widow, but when their relationship takes a dark turn, Bernie becomes entangled in a murder trial.
When a man in Minnesota accidentally kills his brother-in-law, he goes on the run with his new bride, leading to a series of comedic and thrilling events.
In a 17th-century Lithuanian village plagued by the Black Death, a woman uses ancient Jewish folklore and Kabbalistic rituals to create a golem in order to protect her community. However, as the golem gains a mind of its own, it unleashes terror and chaos.
Stuck is a dark comedy about a man and woman who get stuck together after a hit-and-run accident. As they struggle to free themselves, they find themselves embroiled in a series of misadventures involving a hidden corpse, a garage fire, and a shocking discovery. Will they be able to escape their predicament and find redemption, or will they be forever trapped in their own twisted fate?
Jo (1971) is a dark comedy where chaos ensues as a couple accidentally kill someone and try to dispose of the body. They face obstacles such as hiding the corpse, dealing with a nosy police inspector, and unraveling a web of secrets and lies.
Drishyam is a crime drama movie about a man named Vijay Salgaonkar, who is a cable television operator and a family man. When his family gets involved in a murder, he tries to cover it up to protect them. As the police investigation intensifies, Vijay uses his intelligence and wit to create a web of lies and false alibis. Will he be able to outsmart the police and keep his family safe?
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.
A couple's baby is born as a mutant, and goes on a killing spree, leaving a trail of violence and death in its wake.
A recently released ex-convict finds himself involved in a theater performance, where he becomes entangled in a series of hilarious and chaotic events. As he tries to hide his criminal past, he must navigate the backstage drama, a chase for a winning ticket, and a hidden corpse. Based on the novel, the story takes place in 1960s Paris, in Montmartre. With surprising twists and turns, this comedy keeps the audience entertained until the very end.
Géo Paquet, aka The Gorilla, breaks from jail. Now an escaped convict, the elite agent must infiltrate a dangerous gang working for a foreign embassy as their leader, a spy enjoying diplomatic immunity, can't be arrested by regular police.
9/11 led to many advances in forensics science, as detailed in this documentary.
A sexually frustrated young man kills hookers.
In the midst of WW I, a doctor and a lawyer team up to turn a ramshackle old mountain chateau into a sanatorium/health spa that caters to the afflicted from most every stratum of European society, most of whom show up with false hope in their hearts and plenty of equally false identities. Even the proprietors have a few deceptions, chief among them is the part of the resort where they provide shelter for dying and horribly maimed soldiers. Still the atmosphere of this high-class convalescent home is that of great gentility that thinly disguises the seaminess of the guests' secret activities. Though much of the film is a quirky comedy, tragedy comes creeping in when people begin dying of unnatural causes, and not even the pure mountain air can save the owners and the residents.
Sten Lehtoja, a married, middle-aged businessman, picks up a young hitchhiker, Elsie, while driving to his summer home. Elsie spends the night and becomes his mistress. Later during the summer, Elsie also begins an affair with Reino, the teenage son of a local storekeeper. Sten offers to divorce his wife, and Elsie, attracted by the prospect of a secure social position, agrees to marry him when the divorce becomes final. One night when the couple are in bed, Reino climbs a ladder and attempts to force his way into their room; he falls and breaks his neck, and to avoid scandal Sten hides the body. But the strain of guilt ruins the romance, and Elsie contacts the police, who arrest her lover.