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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Conflict
1945, in 1 top list Check -
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Scarlet Street
1945, in 10 top lists Check -
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Rope
1948, in 10 top lists Check -
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Torment
1950, in 0 top lists Check -
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Strangers on a Train
1951, in 17 top lists Check -
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Sudden Fear
1952, in 2 top lists Check -
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Dial M for Murder
1954, in 9 top lists Check -
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Du rififi chez les hommes
1955 — a.k.a. Rififi, in 18 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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The League of Gentlemen
1960, in 2 top lists Check -
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Gambit
1966, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Anderson Tapes
1971, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
1974, in 6 top lists Check -
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Family Plot
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Body Heat
1981, in 7 top lists Check -
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A Shock to the System
1990, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Usual Suspects
1995, in 24 top lists Check -
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Bound
1996, in 6 top lists Check -
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Davids bog
1996 — a.k.a. David's Book, in 0 top lists Check -
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Rien ne va plus
1997 — a.k.a. The Swindle, in 0 top lists Check -
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Wild Things
1998, in 2 top lists Check -
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Double Jeopardy
1999, in 1 top list Check -
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Nueve reinas
2000 — a.k.a. Nine Queens, in 7 top lists Check -
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The Good Thief
2002, in 0 top lists Check -
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Murder by Numbers
2002, 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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Inside Man
2006, in 1 top list Check -
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Dolan's Cadillac
2009, in 0 top lists Check -
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Itaewon Salinsageon
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Crime d'amour
2010 — a.k.a. Love Crime, in 0 top lists Check
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