The Oxford Murders

On the Oxford campus a veteran professor and a driven graduate student team up after a wave of killings erupts. Each murder is marked by a deliberate sequence of mathematical symbols, suggesting a pattern rather than random chance. As clues accumulate, the pair finds themselves racing against a calculating killer who seems to anticipate their every move. The investigation drifts through hushed libraries, dim corridors, and late night streets, where logic and intuition clash. With the clock ticking, the symbols grow more intricate and the stakes higher, testing trust and safety. A hidden connection emerges between the symbols and a long buried university dispute, forcing them to question who can be trusted.

Directed by Álex de la Iglesia, The Oxford Murders adapts Guillermo Martinez's novel The Oxford Murders; released in 2008 with a budget of about $14.1 million. Elijah Wood and John Hurt star.

Box office data for The Oxford Murders is not widely publicized, reflecting a modest release that played primarily in select markets and delivered a relatively small gross.

Critics offered a mixed verdict, praising the mood and performances by Wood and Hurt, while some found the plotting uneven. The film weighs deduction and certainty and asks what happens when intellectual rigor collides with danger, and how belief in logic stands up under pressure.