A Perfect Murder
A Perfect Murder
A Perfect Murder
Watch TrailerWatch Movie
1998
1h 47m
6.5(1487 votes)
Crime
Thriller
Drama

Overview

Millionaire industrialist Steven Taylor is a man who has everything but what he craves most: the love and fidelity of his wife. A hugely successful player in the New York financial world, he considers her to be his most treasured acquisition. But she needs more than simply the role of dazzling accessory.

Where to Watch

Buy

Apple TV
Google Play Movies
YouTube

Rent

Apple TV
Google Play Movies
YouTube
Amazon Video

Links & Resources

IMDbView

Social & External

IMDb

Production Companies

Warner Bros. Pictures

Videos & Trailers

2 videos

Cast & Crew

67 members
Acting

Michael Douglas

Steven Taylor

Michael Douglas
Acting

Gwyneth Paltrow

Emily Bradford Taylor

Gwyneth Paltrow
Acting

Viggo Mortensen

David Shaw

Viggo Mortensen
Acting

David Suchet

Mohamed Karaman

David Suchet
Acting

Sarita Choudhury

Raquel Martinez

Sarita Choudhury
Acting

Michael P. Moran

Bobby Fain

Michael P. Moran
Acting

Novella Nelson

Ambassador Alice Wills

Novella Nelson
Acting

Constance Towers

Sandra Bradford

Constance Towers
Acting

Will Lyman

Jason Gates

Will Lyman
Acting

Maeve McGuire

Ann Gates

Maeve McGuire
Acting

Stephen Singer

Effete Man at Met

Stephen Singer
Acting

Laurinda Barrett

Met Woman #1

Laurinda Barrett
Acting

Aideen O'Kelly

Met Woman #2

No Image
Acting

Reed Birney

Merchant Prince #1

Reed Birney
Acting

Robert Vincent Smith

Merchant Prince #2

Robert Vincent Smith
Acting

Bill Ambrozy

Merchant Prince #3

No Image
Acting

George Blumenthal

Merchant Prince #4

George Blumenthal
Acting

Iris Braydon

Guest at Met

Iris Braydon
Acting

Marion Blumenthal

Guest at Met

No Image
Acting

Andrew Sussman

Guest at Met

No Image
Acting

Robynn N. Sussmann

Guest at Met

No Image
Acting

Radney Tucker

Guest at Met

No Image
Acting

Beverly Tucker

Guest at Met

No Image
Acting

Bradford Billet

Guest at Met

No Image
Acting

Robert Bosco Cokljat

Croatian Delegate

No Image
Acting

Марат Юсим

Russian Delegate

No Image
Acting

Lee Wong

Japanese Diplomat

No Image
Acting

Roberta Orlandi

Italian Diplomat

Roberta Orlandi
Acting

Francis Dumaurier

French Delegate

Francis Dumaurier
Acting

Deen Badarou

African Delegate

No Image
Acting

Peter Hans Benson

Hansen

Peter Hans Benson
Acting

Jeff Williams

Nolan

Jeff Williams
Acting

David Eigenberg

Stein

David Eigenberg
Acting

Jean De Baer

Secretary

Jean De Baer
Acting

Michel Moinot

Maitre d'

No Image
Acting

Gerrit Vooren

Waiter

No Image
Acting

Monica Parker

Janice Moran

Monica Parker
Acting

Michael H. Ingram

Albert

No Image
Acting

Scott Dillin

Detective Scott

Scott Dillin
Acting

Starla Benford

Police Technican

Starla Benford
Acting

Bob Bowersox

Police Photographer

Bob Bowersox
Acting

Joanna Adler

Vyczowski

Joanna Adler
Acting

James Georgiades

Policeman #2

James Georgiades
Acting

José Ramón Rosario

Policeman #1

José Ramón Rosario
Acting

Gerry Becker

Roger Brill

Gerry Becker
Acting

William Bogert

Harrington

William Bogert
Acting

Adrian Martinez

Young Tough

Adrian Martinez
Acting

Dexter Brown

Porter

No Image
Acting

Evis Xheneti

Student (uncredited)

Evis Xheneti
Acting

Kelly AuCoin

Waiter at Met (uncredited)

Kelly AuCoin
Acting

Christian Chase

Passenger (uncredited)

No Image
Acting

Jason Cicardo

Subway Scene (uncredited)

No Image
Acting

Bill Corsair

Man In Taxi Dispute (uncredited)

No Image
Acting

Christopher Del Gaudio

Guest at Met (uncredited)

No Image
Acting

Marshall Factora

Patron in Coffee Shop (uncredited)

No Image
Acting

Barry Hirschberg

Background (uncredited)

No Image
Acting

Claude Jay

Forensic Detective (uncredited)

No Image
Acting

Spencer Kayden

Park Pedestrian (uncredited)

Spencer Kayden
Crew

John E. Mack

Paramedic (uncredited)

No Image
Acting

Taylor McCall

Pedestrian In Park (uncredited)

No Image
Acting

George F. Miller

Businessman in the Diner (uncredited)

George F. Miller
Acting

Josh Mowery

Gawker (uncredited)

Josh Mowery
Acting

Jack Mulcahy

Bartender (uncredited)

Jack Mulcahy
Acting

Davell J. Owens

Alley Drug Dealer (uncredited)

No Image
Acting

Antone Pagán

Taylor's Gardener (uncredited)

Antone Pagán
Acting

Todo Segalla

Waiter (uncredited)

Todo Segalla
Acting

Alex Ziwak

Blue Collar Worker (uncredited)

Alex Ziwak

Similar Movies

Primary Colors
6.3
1998

Primary Colors

In this adaptation of the best-selling roman à clef about Bill Clinton's 1992 run for the White House, the young and gifted Henry Burton is tapped to oversee the presidential campaign of Governor Jack Stanton. Burton is pulled into the politician's colorful world and looks on as Stanton -- who has a wandering eye that could be his downfall -- contends with his ambitious wife, Susan, and an outspoken adviser, Richard Jemmons.

Movie
Election
6.9
1999

Election

Tracy Flick is running unopposed for this year’s high school student election. But Jim McAllister has a different plan. Partly to establish a more democratic election, and partly to satisfy some deep personal anger toward Tracy, Jim talks football player Paul Metzler to run for president as well.

Movie
Le Divorce
5.0
2003

Le Divorce

While visiting her sister in Paris, a young woman finds romance and learns her brother-in-law is a philanderer.

Movie
Crying Freeman
6.3
1995

Crying Freeman

A lethal assassin for a secret Chinese organisation, who sheds tears of regret each time he kills, is seen swiftly and mercilessly executing three Yakuza gangsters by a beautiful artist. She is captivated by the grace of his kill and later falls in love with him. An intense power struggle for the leadership of the Yakuza Clans ensues as they seek vengeance for the death of their leader.

Movie
Lantana
6.7
2001

Lantana

Plagued with grief over the murder of her daughter, Valerie Somers suspects that her husband John is cheating on her. When Valerie disappears, Detective Leon Zat attempts to solve the mystery of her absence. A complex web of love, sex and deceit emerges -- drawing in four related couples whose various partners are distrustful and suspicious about each other's involvement.

Movie
Three
5.6
2005

Three

After a yachting accident, a millionaire and his wife are shipwrecked on a desert island along with their former deckhand, Manuel.

Movie
Firewall
5.8
2006

Firewall

State-of-the-art security system creator Jack Stanfield has cemented his reputation as a man who's thought of everything. But when a criminal finds a way into his personal life, everything Jack holds dear is suddenly at stake.

Movie
Lolita
7.1
1997

Lolita

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's teenaged daughter.

Movie
Kill the Poor
4.4
2003

Kill the Poor

When a marriage of convenience becomes the real thing, Joe moves his pregnant French wife to a tenement building on New York's Lower East Side. The street is like a war zone with none of the nostalgic appeal that Joe remembers from tales of his immigrant grandparents arriving in the same neighborhood with a new life. This is the urban frontier filled with comic mixture of gentrifies, homeboys, dealers and local residents simply bent on staying a float

Movie
Big Nothing
6.4
2006

Big Nothing

A frustrated, unemployed teacher joins forces with a scammer and his girlfriend in a blackmailing scheme.

Movie
From Here to Eternity
7.3
1953

From Here to Eternity

In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second in command are falling in love.

Movie
Little Man Tate
6.5
1991

Little Man Tate

Dede is a sole parent trying to bring up her son Fred. When it is discovered that Fred is a genius, she is determined to ensure that Fred has all the opportunities that he needs, and that he is not taken advantage of by people who forget that his extremely powerful intellect is harboured in the body and emotions of a child.

Movie
Pretty in Pink
6.7
1986

Pretty in Pink

Andie is an outcast, hanging out either with her older boss, who owns the record store where she works, or her quirky high school classmate Duckie, who has a crush on her. When one of the rich and popular kids at school, Blane, asks Andie out, it seems too good to be true. As Andie starts falling for Blane, she begins to realize that dating someone from a different social sphere is not easy.

Movie
Krásno
5.8
2014

Krásno

Story follows two best friend on private investigation. They are going to their hometown to prove that Michals mother was killed by his stepmother.

Movie
Body Language
4.5
1992

Body Language

The ambitious Betsy is happy: she gets promoted to a leading management position. Her happiness is spoiled only a little by problems with a boyfriend who feels neglected and an harassing boss. She realizes much too late that her secretary Norma is after her job and step by step tries to ruin her career and private life.

Movie
Where We Started
2014

Where We Started

When Will and Nora – both married to other people – meet at a motel one night, their initial attraction moves quickly into a flirtation. But over the course of the night, as their flirtation becomes something more, they are forced to confront their reasons for crossing a line they know they shouldn’t cross.

Movie
When a Man Loves a Woman
6.6
1994

When a Man Loves a Woman

An airline pilot and his wife are forced to face the consequences of her alcoholism when her addictions threaten her life and their daughter's safety. While the woman enters detox, her husband must face the truth of his enabling behavior.

Movie
Oh! My Assistant
6.7
2023

Oh! My Assistant

Webtoon writer Seon Ho loses his sex drive after creating steamy comics—until he hires Mu Young, a devoted fan. As sparks fly, so do complications in love.

Movie
Eddington
6.5
2025

Eddington

In May of 2020, a standoff between a small-town sheriff and mayor sparks a powder keg as neighbor is pitted against neighbor in Eddington, New Mexico.

Movie
The Scarlet Letter
6.1
1995

The Scarlet Letter

Set in puritanical Boston in the mid 1600s, the story of seamstress Hester Prynne, who is outcast after she becomes pregnant by a respected reverend. She refuses to divulge the name of the father, is "convicted" of adultery and forced to wear a scarlet "A" until an Indian attack unites the Puritans and leads to a reevaluation of their laws and morals.

Movie

Recommended Movies

Deranged
6.6
2012

Deranged

People binge eat and suffer from extreme thirst, which leads them to go crazy for water. They cannot control themselves because they are brainwashed by a parasite.

Movie
Frontier
5.2
2018

Frontier

Michael's perfect life changes dramatically when he discovers a portal wich allows him to travel in time. He travels back to the World War II to go through the quest of time and find his one and only beloved.

Movie
The Transfiguration
6.0
2016

The Transfiguration

When troubled teen Milo, who has a fascination with vampire lore, meets the equally alienated Sophie, the two form a bond that begins to blur Milo's fantasy into reality.

Movie
Universitari - Molto più che amici
5.7
2013

Universitari - Molto più che amici

Living among boys is easy, each of them with their own mess, unregimented lifestyle, and unique "method of study." The male universe in which they live, however, is about to be invaded by women. Giorgia is independent and receives little attention from her parents; Francesca is in a doomed relationship with an older professor, while Emma wants to be a famous performer. In this new mixed arrangement house, each character finds their place as they establish a confusing, but fun and tumultuous extended family - a family which none of them has ever truly had.

Movie
Bekçiler Kralı
7.2
1979

Bekçiler Kralı

The story of a guard who revolts because of exploiting reeve and tradespeople. People start to think he has an uncle working in the ministry of the interior.

Movie
Dead Mail
6.0
2024

Dead Mail

An ominous help note finds its way to a 1980s post office, connecting a dead letter investigator to a kidnapped keyboard technician.

Movie
Incoherence
7.0
1994

Incoherence

Over three episodes, three respectable middle-aged men find themselves behaving badly. A teacher hides his pornographic magazine from a female student. A jogger steals milk and blames it on a newspaper delivery boy. A drunk man desperately searches for a public toilet late at night.

Movie
Capulina Speedy González
6.9
1970

Capulina Speedy González

Pony Express mailman in old west discovers super-powered chiles, gets tangled up with bank robbers.

Movie
Tenderness
5.2
2009

Tenderness

A hardened cop tries to unravel the past to discover whether a violent teenager was responsible for the murder of his family. A confused fifteen-year-old runaway becomes enthralled with the young man.

Movie
Hallo
5.6
2007

Hallo

A brilliant lawyer turns alcoholic due to failure in love and ends up losing his job. His life changes for the better when a young woman approaches him to save her life and wealth.

Movie
Karl Lagerfeld Sketches His Life
6.5
2013

Karl Lagerfeld Sketches His Life

Karl Lagerfeld, seated at his desk, sketches the events of his life and career with comments and snippets of intimate, lively narratives.

Movie
And Never Let Her Go
6.6
2001

And Never Let Her Go

The true story of a woman's suspicious disappearance after ending an affair with a powerful, married attorney.

Movie
Door on the Left
4.0
2016

Door on the Left

Five women find themselves caught in a purgatorial game show, and there's only one way out.

Is Raat Ki Subah Nahin
4.0
1996

Is Raat Ki Subah Nahin

An advertising executive, Aditya (Nirmal Pandey) has a beautiful wife (Tara Deshpande) and a beautiful mistress (Smriti Mishra). This secret affair is the catalyst for much of the plot. Adi gets into a scuffle with a bunch of gangsters led by Ramanbhai, (Ashish Vidyarthi)

Movie
The American President
6.5
1995

The American President

Widowed U.S. president Andrew Shepherd, one of the world's most powerful men, can have anything he wants -- and what he covets most is Sydney Ellen Wade, a Washington lobbyist. But Shepherd's attempts at courting her spark wild rumors and decimate his approval ratings.

Movie
Buffalo Soldiers
6.3
2002

Buffalo Soldiers

A criminal subculture operates among U.S. soldiers stationed in West Germany just before the fall of the Berlin wall.

Movie
Mandingo
6.6
1975

Mandingo

Warren Maxwell, the owner of a run-down plantation, pressures his son, Hammond, to marry and produce an heir to inherit the plantation. Hammond settles on his own cousin, Blanche, but purchases a sex slave when he returns from the honeymoon. He also buys his father a new Mandingo slave named Mede to breed and train as a prize-fighter.

Movie
Don't Say a Word
6.3
2001

Don't Say a Word

When the daughter of a psychiatrist is kidnapped, he is horrified to discover that the abductors' demand is that he break through to a young woman, suffering from PTSD, who knows a secret six digit code number.

Movie
Mr. Holland's Opus
6.9
1995

Mr. Holland's Opus

In 1965, passionate musician Glenn Holland takes a day job as a high school music teacher, convinced it's just a small obstacle on the road to his true calling: writing a historic opus. As the decades roll by with the composition unwritten but generations of students inspired through his teaching, Holland must redefine his life's purpose.

Movie
A Perfect Enemy
6.4
2021

A Perfect Enemy

Famed architect Jeremy Angust is approached on his trip to the Paris Airport by a chatty girl named Texel Textor who needs a ride. He obliges and after they part ways at the airport entrance, he misses his flight. As he settles in the lounge, he encounters the mysterious young Texel again, who insists on telling her strange story — and the conversation grows stranger and more twisted until it turns sinister and deadly.

Movie