Best Investigation movies

Actors : Julia Roberts, Nicole Kidman, Dean Norris, Chiwetel Ejiofor,
Directors : Billy Ray,

A tight-knit team of rising investigators, along with their supervisor, is suddenly torn apart when they discover that one of their own teenage daughters has been brutally murdered.

Actors : Cory Fernandez, Juan Carlos Hernández, Bruce Willis, Tracy Morgan,
Directors : Kevin Smith,

Jimmy's rare baseball card is robbed. Since it's his only hope to pay for his daughter's upcoming wedding, he recruits his cop partner Paul to track down the robber, a memorabilia-obsessed gangster.

Actors : Roger Moore, Kristina Wayborn, Maud Adams, Louis Jourdan,
Directors : John Glen,

A fake Fabergé egg and a fellow agent's death lead James Bond to uncover an international jewel-smuggling operation, headed by the mysterious Octopussy, being used to disguise a nuclear attack on N.A.T.O. forces.

Actors : Alan Arkin, Winston Duke, Iliza Shlesinger, Mark Wahlberg,
Directors : Peter Berg,

When two Boston police officers are murdered, ex-cop Spenser teams up with his no-nonsense roommate, Hawk, to take down criminals.

Actors : Kevin Bacon, Michael Gross, Fred Ward, Finn Carter,
Directors : Ron Underwood,

Natives of a small isolated town defend themselves against strange underground creatures which are killing them one by one.

Actors : Karl Urban, Dwayne Johnson, Deobia Oparei, Rosamund Pike,
Directors : Andrzej Bartkowiak,

Space Marines are sent to investigate strange events at a research facility on Mars but find themselves at the mercy of genetically enhanced killing machines.

Actors : James Franco, Eliza Dushku, Frances McDormand, Robert De Niro,
Directors : Michael Caton-Jones,

Vincent Lamarca, whose father was executed for a 1950s kidnapping of a child, grew up to become a police officer, only to see his own son become a murderer.

Actors : Mie Hama, Tetsurô Tanba, Sean Connery, Akiko Wakabayashi,
Directors : Lewis Gilbert,

Agent 007 and the Japanese secret service ninja force must find and stop the true culprit of a series of spacejackings before nuclear war is provoked.

Actors : Angelina Jolie, Michael Rooker, Queen Latifah, Denzel Washington,
Directors : Phillip Noyce,

A quadriplegic ex-homicide detective and his female partner try to track down a serial killer who is terrorizing New York City.

Actors : Beau Bridges, Ludacris, Mila Kunis, Mark Wahlberg,
Directors : John Moore,

Coming together to solve a series of murders in New York City are a police detective whose family was slain as part of a conspiracy and an assassin out to avenge her sister's death. The duo will be hunted by the police, the mob, and a ruthless corporation.

Actors : Sam Claflin, Rachel Weisz, Holliday Grainger, Iain Glen,
Directors : Roger Michell,

A young Englishman plots revenge against his late cousin's mysterious, beautiful wife, believing her responsible for his death. But his feelings become complicated as he finds himself falling under the beguiling spell of her charms.

Actors : Nicole Kidman, Zac Efron, Matthew McConaughey, John Cusack,
Directors : Lee Daniels,

A reporter returns to his Florida home-town to investigate a case involving a death row inmate.

Actors : Sean Young, Gene Hackman, Will Patton, Kevin Costner,
Directors : Roger Donaldson,

A coverup and witchhunt occur after a politician accidentally kills his mistress.

Actors : Richard Crenna, William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Ted Danson,
Directors : Lawrence Kasdan,

In the midst of a searing Florida heat wave, a woman persuades her lover, a small-town lawyer, to murder her rich husband.

Actors : Aubrey Plaza, Chris Evans, Margaret Qualley,
Directors : Ethan Coen,

A small-town private investigator delves into a series of strange deaths tied to a mysterious church.

Actors : Cate Blanchett, Beau Bridges, Tobey Maguire, George Clooney,
Directors : Steven Soderbergh,

While in post-war Berlin to cover the Potsdam Conference, an American military journalist is drawn into a murder investigation which involves his former mistress and his driver.

Actors : Yoo-rim Park, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Tôko Miura, Reika Kirishima,
Directors : Ryûsuke Hamaguchi,

Yusuke Kafuku is a stage actor and director happily married to his playwright wife. Then one day she disappears.

Actors : Eiza González, Aaron Paul, Iko Uwais,
Directors : Flying Lotus,

A woman wakes up on a distant planet and finds the crew of her space station viciously killed. Her investigation into what happened sets in motion a terrifying chain of events.

Actors : Dayo Okeniyi, JD Pardo, Ben Affleck, Alice Braga,
Directors : Robert Rodriguez,

A detective investigates a mystery involving his missing daughter and a secret government program.

Actors : Samantha Morton, Om Puri, Tim Robbins, Togo Igawa,
Directors : Michael Winterbottom,

A futuristic Brief Encounter (1945), this is a love story in which the romance is doomed by genetic incompatibility.