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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Kind Hearts and Coronets
1949, in 21 top lists Check -
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The Sting
1973, in 17 top lists Check -
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Unfaithfully Yours
1948, in 6 top lists Check -
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Charade
1963, in 5 top lists Check -
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The Italian Job
1969, in 4 top lists Check -
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To Die For
1995, in 3 top lists Check -
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Clue
1985, in 2 top lists Check -
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Quick Change
1990, in 2 top lists Check -
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Topkapi
1964, in 2 top lists Check -
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Family Plot
1976, in 1 top list Check -
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The Anderson Tapes
1971, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Brink's Job
1978 — a.k.a. Big Stickup at Brink's, in 0 top lists Check -
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Crimen Ferpecto
2004 — a.k.a. Ferpect Crime, in 0 top lists Check -
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Deathtrap
1982, in 0 top lists Check -
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En ganske snill mann
2010 — a.k.a. A Somewhat Gentle Man, in 0 top lists Check -
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Gambit
1966, in 0 top lists Check -
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Kelly's Heroes
1970, in 0 top lists Check -
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A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
1979 — a.k.a. The Mayfair Bank Caper, in 0 top lists Check -
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Ocean's Eleven
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Perfect Friday
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Rien ne va plus
1997 — a.k.a. The Swindle, in 0 top lists Check -
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A Shock to the System
1990, in 0 top lists Check -
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Sweet Killing
1993, in 0 top lists Check -
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Whistling in the Dark
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The Whole Nine Yards
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