Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
1603★ 9.9
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King Lear
1607★ 9.8
Crime and Punishment
1866★ 9.6
Macbeth
1606★ 9.4
Othello
1603★ 9.0
The Stranger
1942★ 8.9
Romeo and Juliet
1597★ 8.1
In Cold Blood
1966★ 8.0
The Name of the Rose
1980★ 7.7
Light in August
1932★ 7.2
Native Son
1940★ 7.2
Brighton Rock
1938★ 6.9
The Big Sleep
1939★ 6.9
Julius Caesar
1599★ 6.8
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
1981★ 6.8
An American Tragedy
1925★ 6.5
The Maltese Falcon
1929★ 6.5
The Day of the Owl
1961★ 6.5
The Hound of the Baskervilles
1902★ 6.4
The Secret History
1992★ 6.4
The Talented Mr. Ripley
1955★ 6.3
A Clockwork Orange
1962★ 6.3
American Psycho
1991★ 5.4
The Postman Always Rings Twice
1934★ 5.3
The Journalist and the Murderer
1990★ 5.3
And Then There Were None
1939★ 5.3
Murder on the Orient Express
1934★ 5.3
Double Indemnity
1936★ 5.2
The Pledge
1958★ 5.2
Devil in a Blue Dress
1990★ 5.1
Red Harvest
1929★ 5.1
Pop. 1280
1964★ 5.1
The Laughing Policeman
1968★ 4.9
Out
1997★ 4.9
Fatale
1977★ 4.9
Killings
1984★ 4.7
The Chill
1964★ 4.6
Tokyo Express
1958★ 4.5