20 best movies like Murder in the First (1995)


List of the best movies like Murder in the First (1995): The Next Three Days, Lizzie, Legend, Galveston, The Divide, 22 July, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Dark Places, Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, Bad Country.

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Markimdb: 7.3
Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, crime
CountryUSA, France
Duration02:13

    A married couple's life is turned upside down when the wife is accused of a murder. Lara Brennan is arrested for murdering her boss with whom she had an argument. It seems she was seen leaving the scene of the crime and her fingerprints were on the murder weapon. Her husband, John would spend the next few years trying to get her released, but there's no evidence that negates the evidence against her. And when the strain of being separated from her family, especially her son, gets to her, John decides to break her out. So he does a lot of research to find a way.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:00

    Massachusetts, 1892. An unmarried woman of 32 and a social outcast, Lizzie lives a claustrophobic life under her father's cold and domineering control. When Bridget Sullivan, a young maid, comes to work for the family, Lizzie finds a sympathetic, kindred spirit, and a secret intimacy soon blossoms into a wicked plan.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
    Duration02:29

    Suave, charming and volatile, Reggie Kray and his unstable twin brother Ronnie start to leave their mark on the London underworld in the 1960s. Using violence to get what they want, the siblings orchestrate robberies and murders while running nightclubs and protection rackets. With police Detective Leonard "Nipper" Read hot on their heels, the brothers continue their rapid rise to power and achieve tabloid notoriety.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:35

    After a violent encounter, Roy finds Rocky and sees something in her eyes that prompts a fateful decision. He takes her with him as he flees to Galveston, an action as ill-advised as it is inescapable.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrehorror, fantastic, fantastic, thriller, thriller, drama, drama
    CountryUSA, Germany, Canada, France
    Duration02:02

    Survivors of a nuclear attack are grouped together for days in the basement of their apartment building, where fear and dwindling supplies wear away at their dynamic.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, history
    CountryNorway, Iceland, USA
    Duration02:45

    In Norway on 22 July 2011, right-wing terrorist Anders Behring Breivik murdered 77 young people attending a Labour Party Youth Camp on Utöya Island outside of Oslo. This three-part story will focus on the survivors of the attacks, the political leadership of Norway, and the lawyers involved.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:29

    A visiting city reporter's assignment suddenly revolves around the murder trial of a local millionaire, whom he befriends.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, France
    Duration02:31

    A woman who survived the brutal killing of her family as a child is forced to confront the events of that day.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:35

    A chronicle of the crimes of Ted Bundy, from the perspective of his longtime girlfriend, Elizabeth Kloepfer, who refused to believe the truth about him for years.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:40

    When Baton Rouge police detective Bud Carter busts contract killer Jesse Weiland, he convinces Jesse to become an informant and rat out the South's most powerful crime ring.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration01:56

    Earl Stone, a man in his eighties, is broke, alone, and facing foreclosure of his business when he is offered a job that simply requires him to drive. Easy enough, but, unbeknownst to Earl, he's just signed on as a drug courier for a Mexican cartel. He does so well that his cargo increases exponentially, and Earl hit the radar of hard-charging DEA agent Colin Bates.

    Markimdb: 5
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
    CountryFrance, Belgium, China, USA
    Duration02:21

    A foster family in South Central a few weeks before the city erupts in violence following the verdict of the Rodney King trial in 1992.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:32

    A gritty crime saga which follows the lives of an elite unit of the LA County Sheriff's Dept. and the state's most successful bank robbery crew as the outlaws plan a seemingly impossible heist on the Federal Reserve Bank.

    Markimdb: 8
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:34

    Semi-retired Michigan lawyer Paul Biegler takes the case of Army Lt. Manion, who murdered a local innkeeper after his wife claimed that he raped her. Over the course of an extensive trial, Biegler parries with District Attorney Lodwick and out-of-town prosecutor Claude Dancer to set his client free, but his case rests on the victim's mysterious business partner, who's hiding a dark secret.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:53

    Idealistic young attorney Adam Hall takes on the death row clemency case of his racist grandfather, Sam Cayhall, a former Ku Klux Klan member he has never met.

    Markimdb: 4.7
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:36

    Over the course of one feverish day, a harried narcotics detective and his reluctant partner frantically track down a recently released convict who knows a secret from the past.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, Hong Kong
    Duration02:28

    A grieving mother transforms herself into a vigilante following the murders of her husband and daughter, eluding the authorities to deliver her own personal brand of justice.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration02:50

    A disgraced former cop, fresh off a six-year prison sentence for attempted murder - returns home looking for redemption but winds up trapped in the mess he left behind.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Canada
    Duration01:56

    The tragic death of a beautiful young girl starts a tense and atmospheric game of cat and mouse between hunter John Moon and the hardened backwater criminals out for his blood.

    Markimdb: 5
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, France
    Duration01:32

    Red is an aging scam-artist who's just been released from prison together with Ronnie, a young and not-so-bright hoodlum who is easily manipulated. Their new business is to organize fake-money sales and then kill the buyer to take his money; but when Ronnie kills an undercover secret service agent, his partner Jimmy Mercer vows revenge and is given one week to catch the killers before being transferred. Written by Giancarlo Cairella

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:30

    When the rumored whereabouts of Osama bin Laden are revealed, the CIA readies a team of seasoned U.S. Navy SEALs for the mission of a lifetime. Despite inconclusive evidence that bin Laden is inside the compound, and ignoring the possible ramifications of an unannounced attack on Pakistani soil, the Pentagon orders the attack. The SEAL Team bands together to complete their mission of justice in a riveting final showdown.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, biography
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:01

    Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made by his lawyer, his family, and the American government, or the "Midnight Express".

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, biography
    CountryUSA, Germany
    Duration01:49

    Aileen Wuornos is an emotionally scarred highway hooker who shoots a sadistic trick who rapes her and ultimately becomes America's first female serial killer.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom
    Duration01:52

    Construction company owner John Matthews learns that his estranged son, Jason, has been arrested for drug trafficking. Facing an unjust prison sentence for a first time offender courtesy of mandatory minimum sentence laws, Jason has nothing to offer for leniency in good conscience. Desperately, John convinces the DEA and the opportunistic DA Joanne Keeghan to let him go undercover to help make arrests big enough to free his son in return. With the unwitting help of an ex-con employee, John enters the narcotics underworld where every move could be his last in an operation that will demand all his resources, wits and courage to survive.

    Markimdb: 4.3
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA

    Kenneth Bianchi, one of the two serial rapists and killers who terrorized the Los Angeles area in the late 1970s, is giving police station interviews to psychiatrist Samantha Stone, who has disquieting lifestyle issues of her own. It falls to her to delve into the details of the case to determine the veracity of Bianchi's claims of multiple personality disorder, but in so doing, she is forced to relive the horrific crimes, one of which occurs at her very doorstep.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA, Canada, France
    Duration01:53

    A newspaper photographer, Jean, researches the lurid and sensational axe murder of two women in 1873 as an editorial tie-in with a brutal modern double murder. She discovers a cache of papers that appear to give an account of the murders by an eyewitness.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA, Germany, United Kingdom, France
    Duration01:58

    An interpol agent and an attorney are determined to bring one of the world's most powerful banks to justice. Uncovering money laundering, arms trading, and conspiracy to destabilize world governments, their investigation takes them from Berlin, Milan, New York and Istanbul. Finding themselves in a chase across the globe, their relentless tenacity puts their own lives at risk.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, France
    Duration01:31

    A young drug dealer watches as his high-rolling life is dismantled in the wake of his cousin's murder, which sees his best friend arrested for the crime.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryFrance, Belgium
    Duration02:15

    Newly transferred to the bustling port city of Marseille to assist with a crackdown on organized crime, energetic young magistrate Pierre Michel is given a rapid-fire tutorial on the ins and outs of an out-of-control drug trade. Pierre's wildly ambitious mission is to take on the French Connection, a highly organized operation that controls the city's underground heroin economy and is overseen by the notorious —and reputedly untouchable— Gaetan Zampa. Fearless, determined and willing to go the distance, Pierre plunges into an underworld world of insane danger and ruthless criminals.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:42

    An ambitious lawyer finds himself caught in a power struggle between a corrupt pharmaceutical executive and his firm’s senior partner. When the case takes a deadly turn, he must race to uncover the truth before he loses everything.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:36

    A terrorist attack in London results in the capture of suspect, and the attorney general appoints Claudia Simmons-Howe as special advocate on his defence team. On the eve of the trial, the accused's attorney dies and a new one, Martin Rose, steps in. Martin and Claudia are former lovers—a fact which must remain hidden—and, as Martin assembles his case, he uncovers a sinister conspiracy that places him and Claudia in danger.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA, Spain, United Kingdom, France
    Duration02:24

    Eight years after fleeing the Congo following his assassination of that country's minister of mining, former assassin Jim Terrier is back, suffering from PTSD and digging wells to atone for his violent past. After an attempt is made on his life, Terrier flies to London to find out who wants him dead -- and why. Terrier's search leads him to a reunion with Annie, a woman he once loved, who is now married to an oily businessman with dealings in Africa.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryCanada, United Arab Emirates, USA
    Duration02:35

    Hard-nosed liberal lawyer Roman J. Israel has been fighting the good fight forever while others take the credit. When his partner – the firm’s frontman – has a heart attack, Israel suddenly takes on that role. He soon discovers some unsettling truths about the firm – truths that conflict with his values of helping the poor and dispossessed – and finds himself in an existential crisis that leads to extreme actions.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryChile, France
    Duration01:22

    How far will you go to protect your family? Jorge is a peaceful hard-working man who seeks a simple, quiet life for himself and his family. One day, he is mugged and humiliated by a gang of thugs led by Kalule, a delinquent from his neighborhood. This event infuriates his son as much for Jorge’s meek acceptance as for the act itself. The son, looking for retribution, ends up getting himself shot. Kalule is sent to jail and when he gets out 18 months later, begins a campaign of terror against Jorge and his family. The authorities do nothing, so Jorge decides to take matters into his own hands.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:46

    In the year 1935, a teen named Billy Bathgate finds first love while becoming the protégé of fledgling gangster Dutch Schultz.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genredrama, crime, biography
    CountryFrance, Germany
    Duration01:40

    In 1982, André Bamberski learns about the death of his 14 year-old daughter, Kalinka, while she was on vacation with her mother and stepfather in Germany. Convinced that Kalinka’s death was not an accident, Bamberski begins to investigate. A botched autopsy report raises his suspicions and leads him to accuse Kalinka’s stepfather, Dr Dieter Krombach, as the murderer. Unable to indict Krombach in Germany, Bamberski attempts to take the trial to France, where he will dedicate his life to Kalinka’s justice and the imprisonment of Krombach.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryFrance, Italy

    The film story depicts Emile Buisson, following the death of his wife and child, escaping from a psychiatric institution in 1947 and returning to Paris. Buisson, who three years later would become France's public enemy number one, begins a murderous rampage through the French capital.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:35

    A police raid in Detroit in 1967 results in one of the largest citizens' uprisings in the history of the United States.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountrySpain, France, USA

    Mario, an exemplary man, lives in a village on the Galician coast. In the old people’s home, where he works as a nurse, everyone appreciates him. When the best known narco in the area, Antonio Padín, recently released from prison, enters the residence, Mario tries to make Antonio feel at home. Now, Padín's two sons, Kike and Toño, are in charge of the family business. The failure of an operation will put Kike in jail and cause them to owe a large debt to a Colombian supplier. Toño will turn to the nurse to try to convince his father to assume the debt. But Mario has his own plans.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, biography, history
    CountryChile, Argentina, France, Spain, USA
    Duration02:00

    It’s 1948 and the Cold War has arrived in Chile. In the Congress, prominent Communist Senator and popular poet Pablo Neruda accuses the government of betraying the Party and is stripped of his parliamentary immunity by President González Videla. The Chief of Investigative Police instructs inspector Óscar Peluchonneau to arrest the poet. Neruda tries to escape from the country with his wife, the painter Delia del Carril, but they are forced to go underground.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA

    Kenneth Bianchi is a security guard whose attempts to become a police officer are repeatedly thwarted. He moves to California to live with his cousin Angelo and dates a string of women, becoming increasingly preoccupied with sex. Eventually the cousins decide to start an escort agency. After violently killing a prostitute they thought had betrayed them, Kenneth and Angelo begin committing a series of crimes that become a media sensation.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA, Belgium, Luxembourg, China, Germany
    Duration02:25

    Michael Mason is an American pickpocket living in Paris who finds himself hunted by the CIA when he steals a bag that contains more than just a wallet. Sean Briar, the field agent on the case, soon realises that Michael is just a pawn in a much bigger game and is also his best asset to uncover a large-scale conspiracy.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration01:35

    Unable, due to the seal of the confessional, to be forthcoming with information that would serve to clear himself during a murder investigation, a priest becomes the prime suspect.

    Markimdb: 5.1
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:01

    Based on true events, The Wannabe, a story about Thomas, a man obsessed with Mafia culture during the 1990s in New York City. When Thomas’s failed attempts to fix the trial of infamous mobster John Gotti gets him rejected by the people he idolizes most, he sets off on a drug infused crime spree with his girlfriend and longtime mob groupie, Rose, by brazenly robbing the local Mafia hangouts.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:37

    When a local drug dealer shoots a dishonest cop in self-defense, lawyer and renegade undercover cop join forces to clear him. But when their investigation leads them into a maze of greed and corruption, they learn that in a town where everything is for sale, anything can happen.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:41

    Freddy Heflin is the sheriff of a place everyone calls “Cop Land” — a small and seemingly peaceful town populated by the big city police officers he’s long admired. Yet something ugly is taking place behind the town’s peaceful facade. And when Freddy uncovers a massive, deadly conspiracy among these local residents, he is forced to take action and make a dangerous choice between protecting his idols and upholding the law.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:47

    Before a criminal lawyer knows what has happened, she is forced to defend a wife killer she knows is guilty.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:54

    The savage murders of three young children sparks a controversial trial of three teenagers accused of killing the kids as part of a satanic ritual.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrethriller, drama, biography
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

    A detainee at the U.S military's Guantanamo Bay detention center is held without charges for over a decade and seeks help from a defense attorney for his release.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genremelodrama, drama, crime, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:06

    When Colin Warner was wrongfully convicted of murder, his best friend Carl King devoted his life to proving his innocence.




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