The Perfect Crime/Murder
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Perfect crime is a colloquial term used in law and fiction (principally crime fiction) to characterize crimes that are undetected, unattributed to a perpetrator, or else unsolved as a kind of technical achievement on the part of the perpetrator.
In certain contexts, the concept of perfect crime is limited to just undetected crimes; if an event is ever identified as a crime, some investigators say it cannot be called 'perfect'.
A perfect crime should be distinguished from one that has merely not been solved yet or where everyday chance or procedural matters frustrate a conviction. There is an element that the crime is (or appears likely to be) unable to be solved.
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Double Indemnity
1944, in 37 top lists Check -
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The Man Who Cried Wolf
1937, in 0 top lists Check -
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Society Lawyer
1939, in 0 top lists Check -
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Double Alibi
1940, in 0 top lists Check -
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Whistling in the Dark
1941, in 0 top lists Check -
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I Wake Up Screaming
1941, in 2 top lists Check -
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Laura
1944, in 21 top lists Check -
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Gaslight
1944, in 12 top lists Check -
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The Woman in the Window
1944, in 8 top lists Check -
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Conflict
1945, in 1 top list Check -
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Scarlet Street
1945, in 10 top lists Check -
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And Then There Were None
1945, in 2 top lists Check -
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The Postman Always Rings Twice
1946, in 9 top lists Check -
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Boomerang!
1947, in 3 top lists Check -
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A Man About the House
1947, in 0 top lists Check -
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Rope
1948, in 10 top lists Check -
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Unfaithfully Yours
1948, in 6 top lists Check -
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Jigsaw
1949, in 1 top list Check -
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Tension
1949, in 1 top list Check -
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Obsession
1949 — a.k.a. The Hidden Room, in 2 top lists Check -
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Kind Hearts and Coronets
1949, in 21 top lists Check -
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Torment
1950, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Asphalt Jungle
1950, in 15 top lists Check -
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House by the River
1950, in 1 top list Check -
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The Clouded Yellow
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Strangers on a Train
1951, in 17 top lists Check -
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The Ringer
1952, in 0 top lists Check -
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Sudden Fear
1952, in 2 top lists Check -
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Mr. Denning Drives North
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Dangerous Crossing
1953, in 1 top list Check -
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Dial M for Murder
1954, in 9 top lists Check -
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Les diaboliques
1955 — a.k.a. Diabolique, in 21 top lists Check -
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5 Against the House
1955, in 1 top list Check -
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Du rififi chez les hommes
1955 — a.k.a. Rififi, in 18 top lists Check -
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The Killing
1956, in 15 top lists Check -
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A Kiss Before Dying
1956, in 1 top list Check -
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Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
1956, in 3 top lists Check -
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Town on Trial
1957, in 0 top lists Check -
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Witness for the Prosecution
1957, in 12 top lists Check -
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Vertigo
1958, in 42 top lists Check -
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Ascenseur pour l'échafaud
1958 — a.k.a. Elevator to the Gallows, in 10 top lists Check -
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Compulsion
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Seven Thieves
1960, in 0 top lists Check -
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Ocean's Eleven
1960, in 0 top lists Check -
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The League of Gentlemen
1960, in 2 top lists Check -
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Charade
1963, in 5 top lists Check -
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Topkapi
1964, in 2 top lists Check -
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Gambit
1966, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Thomas Crown Affair
1968 — a.k.a. The Crown Caper, in 3 top lists Check -
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The Italian Job
1969, in 4 top lists Check
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