Best Investigation movies

Actors : Dermot Mulroney, William McNamara, Sigourney Weaver, Holly Hunter,
Directors : Jon Amiel,

An agoraphobic psychologist and a female detective must work together to take down a serial killer who copies serial killers from the past.

Actors : Stefanie Martini, Christina Hendricks, Glenn Close, Gillian Anderson,
Directors : Gilles Paquet-Brenner,

In Agatha Christie's most twisted tale, a spy-turned-private-detective is lured by his former lover to catch her grandfather's murderer before Scotland Yard exposes dark family secrets.

Actors : Dennis Quaid, Zoë Kravitz, Jack Reynor, Myles Truitt,

Chased by a vengeful criminal, the feds and a gang of otherworldly soldiers, a recently released ex-con, and his adopted teenage brother are forced to go on the run with a weapon of mysterious origin as their only protection.

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 : Robin Tunney, Brad Hunt, Tim Blake Nelson, Liz Phair,
Directors : Finn Taylor,

After a martini-induced rampage, a fantasy-prone young woman is placed under house arrest.

Actors : Antoine Olivier Pilon, Josh Hartnett, Jim Gaffigan, Stephen McHattie,
Directors : Daniel Roby,

In 1989, a Canadian journalist investigates the circumstances surrounding the suspicious arrest of a heroin addict imprisoned in a Thai jail.

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.

Actors : Sam Neill, David Warner, Julie Carmen, Jürgen Prochnow,
Directors : John Carpenter,

An insurance investigator begins discovering that the impact a horror writer's books have on his fans is more than inspirational.

Actors : Jean Reno, Nadia Farès, Dominique Sanda, Vincent Cassel,
Directors : Mathieu Kassovitz,

A murder detective must follow the footsteps of a brutal killer within the secrets of a classist college.

Actors : Orazio Orlando, Gianni Santuccio, Florinda Bolkan, Gian Maria Volontè,
Directors : Elio Petri,

A chief of detectives, homicide section, kills his mistress and deliberately leaves clues to prove his own responsibility for the crime.

Actors : Kiefer Sutherland, Reese Witherspoon, Bokeem Woodbine, Paul Perri,
Directors : Matthew Bright,

A twisted take on 'Little Red Riding Hood' with a teenage juvenile delinquent on the run from a social worker traveling to her grandmother's house and being hounded by a charming, but sadistic, serial killer/pedophile.

Actors : Will Smith, Lisa Boyle, Martin Lawrence, Michael Taliferro,
Directors : Michael Bay,

Two hip detectives protect a witness to a murder while investigating a case of stolen heroin from the evidence storage room from their police precinct.

Actors : Jake Busey, Luke Wilson, Catherine O'Hara, Drew Barrymore,
Directors : Dean Parisot,

Pregnant Sally unknowingly falls for the stepson of the deceased father of her baby and has to deal with his homicidal family.

Actors : Ray Winstone, James Cosmo, Robert Carlyle, Emma Thompson,
Directors : Robert Carlyle,

Barney Thomson, awkward, diffident, Glasgow barber, lives a life of desperate mediocrity and his uninteresting life is about to go from 0 to 60 in five seconds, as he enters the grotesque and comically absurd world of the serial killer.

Actors : Ralph Fiennes, Tom Sizemore, Juliette Lewis, Angela Bassett,
Directors : Kathryn Bigelow,

A former cop turned street-hustler accidentally uncovers a conspiracy in Los Angeles in 1999.

Actors : Andy Garcia, Lena Olin, Richard Dreyfuss, Ian Holm,
Directors : Sidney Lumet,

A newly elected District Attorney finds himself in the middle of a police corruption investigation that may involve his father and his partner.

Actors : James Franco, Felicity Jones, Maria Dizzia, Jonah Hill,
Directors : Rupert Goold,

When disgraced New York Times reporter Michael Finkel meets accused killer Christian Longo - who has taken on Finkel's identity - his investigation morphs into a game of cat-and-mouse.

Actors : Noble Willingham, Bruce Willis, Chelsea Field, Damon Wayans,
Directors : Tony Scott,

A down and out cynical detective teams up with a down and out ex-quarterback to try and solve a murder case involving a pro football team and a politician.

Actors : Dyan Cannon, Christopher Reeve, Irene Worth, Michael Caine,
Directors : Sidney Lumet,

A Broadway playwright puts murder in his plan to take credit for a student's script.

Actors : Greta Gerwig, Raffey Cassidy, Jodie Turner-Smith, Adam Driver,
Directors : Noah Baumbach,

Dramatizes a contemporary American family's attempts to deal with the mundane conflicts of everyday life while grappling with the universal mysteries of love, death, and the possibility of happiness in an uncertain world.