Best Investigation movies

Actors : Alexandra Shipp, Brianna Hildebrand, Jack Quaid, Kevin Durand,
Directors : Tyler MacIntyre,

A twist on the slasher genre, following two death-obsessed teenage girls who use their online show about real-life tragedies to send their small mid-western town into a frenzy and cement their legacy as modern horror legends.

Actors : Cris Lankenau, Robyn Rikoon, Trieste Kelly Dunn, Raúl Castillo,
Directors : Aaron Katz,

A guy who moves back to Portland, Oregon becomes involved in the mystery of his ex-girlfriend's disappearance.

Actors : Wood Moy, Peter Wang, Marc Hayashi, Laureen Chew,
Directors : Wayne Wang,

Two cabbies search San Francisco's Chinatown for a mysterious character who has disappeared with their $4000. Their quest leads them on a humorous, if mundane, journey which illuminates the...

Actors : Sheryl Crow, Owen Wilson, Dwight Yoakam, Dennis Haysbert,
Directors : Hampton Fancher,

A cold-blooded serial killer floats around the country and chooses his victims from people who complain about their lives and indicate a willingness to be killed. His murders are introduced...

Actors : Gil Bellows, Ellen Burstyn, Susan Sarandon, Topher Grace,
Directors : Jason Stone,

Detective Hazel Micallef hasn't had much to worry about in the sleepy town of Fort Dundas until a string of gruesome murders in the surrounding countryside brings her face to face with a serial killer driven by a higher calling.

Actors : Edward Norton, John Mahoney, Laura Linney, Richard Gere,
Directors : Gregory Hoblit,

An altar boy is accused of murdering a priest, and the truth is buried several layers deep.

Actors : Forouzan Jamshidnejad, Arash Ashtiani, Mehdi Bajestani, Zar Amir-Ebrahimi,
Directors : Ali Abbasi,

A journalist descends into the dark underbelly of the Iranian holy city of Mashhad as she investigates the serial killings of sex workers by the so called "Spider Killer", who believes he is cleansing the streets of sinners.

Actors : Emmanuelle Béart, Danielle Darrieux, Fanny Ardant, Catherine Deneuve,
Directors : François Ozon,

One murdered man, eight women, each seeming to be eager than the others to know the truth. Gimme, gimme, gimme some clues to make up my mind. And eventually enter the truth. Oh, thou cruel woman!

Actors : Jack Nicholson, Madeleine Stowe, Meg Tilly, Harvey Keitel,
Directors : Jack Nicholson,

The sequel to Chinatown (1974) finds Jake Gittes investigating adultery and murder... and the money that comes from oil.

Actors : Cathy Ang, Rachel Ogechi Kanu, Elsie Fisher, Amiah Miller,
Directors : Damon Thomas,

Teen best friends Abby and Gretchen grapple with an otherworldly demon that takes up residence in Gretchen's body.

Actors : Anjelica Huston, Hilary Duff, Maria Conchita Alonso, Haylie Duff,
Directors : Martha Coolidge,

Two wealthy sisters, both heiresses to their family's cosmetics fortune, are given a wake-up call when a scandal and ensuing investigation strip them of their wealth.

Actors : Kim Sungkyu, Mu-Yeol Kim, Dong-seok Ma, Gyu-ri Kim,
Directors : Won-Tae Lee,

A crime boss teams up with a cop to track down a serial killer.

Actors : Orlando Bloom, Zoe Saldana, Bill Paxton, Agnes Bruckner,
Directors : Frank E. Flowers,

In Cayman Island, the daughter of a powerful man - Andrea - and the fisherman Shy are in a deep but secret love, hidden from Andrea's parents. When Andrea's father sails in a fish-trip, ...

Actors : Samuel L. Jackson, Vanessa Williams, Jeffrey Wright, Christian Bale,
Directors : John Singleton,

New York City police detective John Shaft (nephew of the original 1970s detective) goes on a personal mission to make sure the son of a real estate tycoon is brought to justice after a racially-motivated murder.

Actors : Eddie Murphy, Kadeem Hardison, Allen Payne, Angela Bassett,
Directors : Wes Craven,

Maximillian is the only survivor from a race of vampires on a Caribbean Island, and as a vampire, he must find a mate to keep the line from ending. He knows that a child had been born to a ...

Actors : Rob Collins, Natasha Wanganeen, Nicholas Hope, Simon Baker,
Directors : Ivan Sen,

'Limbo' follows the investigation of a twenty year-old outback cold case murder by jaded detective Travis Hurley.

Actors : Chris Sarandon, Alex Vincent, Catherine Hicks, Brad Dourif,
Directors : Tom Holland,

A single mother gives her son a much sought after doll for his birthday, only to discover that it is possessed by the soul of a serial killer.

Actors : Radha Mitchell, Bruce Willis, Rosamund Pike, Ving Rhames,
Directors : Jonathan Mostow,

Set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots, a cop is forced to leave his home for the first time in years in order to investigate the murders of others' surrogates.

Actors : Kay Kay Menon, Pavan Malhotra, Dibyendu Bhattacharya, Aditya Srivastava,
Directors : Anurag Kashyap,

Black Friday is a film about the investigations following the 1993 serial Bombay bomb blasts, told through the different stories of the people involved --police, conspirators, victims, middlemen.

Actors : Britt Ekland, Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Diane Cilento,
Directors : Robin Hardy,

A police sergeant is sent to a Scottish island village in search of a missing girl whom the townsfolk claim never existed. Stranger still are the rites that take place there.