Best Investigation movies

Actors : Anne Bancroft, Anne Pitoniak, Meg Tilly, Jane Fonda,
Directors : Norman Jewison,

When a naive novice nun is discovered with a dead newborn in her convent quarters, a court-appointed psychiatrist investigates her case.

Actors : Britt Lower, Sydney Cole Alexander, Steve Buscemi,
Directors : Tolga Karaçelik,

A struggling writer in the midst of a divorce befriends a retired serial killer who incidentally becomes his marriage counselor by day, and killing counselor for his next book by night.

Actors : Avinash Tiwary, Rahul Bose, Parambrata Chattopadhyay, Tripti Dimri,
Directors : Anvita Dutt,

A man returns home after years to find his brother's child bride now grown up and abandoned, and his ancestral village plagued by mysterious deaths.

Actors : Keith David, Eric Thal, Julie Warner, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Stuart Orme,

The Earth is invaded by stingray-shaped alien "slugs" that ride on people's backs and control their minds.

Actors : Emily Montague, Tate Ellington, Callie Hernandez, James Jordan,

Two brothers return to the cult they fled from years ago to discover that the group's beliefs may be more sane than they once thought

Actors : Peter Sarsgaard, Tommy Lee Jones, John Goodman, Mary Steenburgen,
Directors : Bertrand Tavernier,

A detective in post-Katrina New Orleans has a series of surreal encounters with a troop of friendly Confederate soldiers while investigating serial killings of local prostitutes, a 1965 lynching, and corrupt local businessmen.

Actors : Mary Mitchel, Luana Anders, Bart Patton, William Campbell,
Directors : Francis Ford Coppola,

Whilst out on a rowboat with his wife Louise, John Haloran has a heart attack and dies. She casts his body overboard and hides his death telling the family he left on an urgent business ...

Actors : Dennis Hopper, Debra Winger, Sami Frey, Theresa Russell,
Directors : Bob Rafelson,

A federal investigator tracks down a gold digging woman who moves from husband to husband, kills them and collects the inheritance.

Actors : Jason Clarke, Olivia Thirlby, Kate Mara, Clancy Brown,
Directors : John Curran,

Ted Kennedy's life and political career become derailed after he is involved in a fatal 1969 car accident that claims the life of a young campaign strategist, Mary Jo Kopechne.

Actors : Chad Donella, Seth Peterson, Cindy Pickett, Bruce Davison,
Directors : Tommy Stovall,

Robbie Levinson and Trey McCoy suddenly encounter intolerance and hostility at the hands of their new neighbor, Chris Boyd, the son of a fundamentalist preacher. One evening, Trey sets out ...

Actors : Christoph Waltz, Vanessa Redgrave, Annette Bening, Corey Hawkins,
Directors : Christoph Waltz,

Ulrich Mott, an ambitious social climber, marries a wealthy widow in Washington D.C. in order to mix with powerful political players.

Actors : Paul Calderon, Denise Quiñones, Manny Perez, Juan Fernández,
Directors : Josh Crook,

A cop works against his country's corrupt government in order to find justice on a case.

Actors : James Best, Peter Breck, Gene Evans, Constance Towers,
Directors : Samuel Fuller,

Bent on winning a Pulitzer Prize, a journalist commits himself to a mental institution to solve a strange and unclear murder.

Actors : Paul Scherrer, Terence Knox, Ryan Bollman, Christie Clark,
Directors : David Price,

A journalist and his son travel to Nebraska to investigate the mysterious town of Gaitlin where, unbeknownst to them, a murderous cult of children are waiting in the corn fields.

Actors : Mel Gibson, Famke Janssen, Scott Eastwood, Kevin Durand, Tyrese Gibson,
Directors : David Hackl,

A reformed sociopath journeys to a remote island to investigate the mystery behind his brother's demise, but soon ends up facing off with more than he bargained for.

Actors : Colin Farrell, Josh Gad, Miranda Raison, Judi Dench,
Directors : Kenneth Branagh,

Artemis Fowl, a young criminal prodigy, hunts down a secret society of fairies to find his missing father.

Actors : Luke Arnold, Steve Davis, Bel Deliá, Andy Rodoreda,
Directors : Carlo Ledesma,

An investigation into a government cover-up leads to a network of abandoned train tunnels deep beneath the heart of Sydney. As a journalist and her crew hunt for the story it quickly becomes clear the story is hunting them.

Actors : Leonor Watling, Alex Brendemühl, Mercedes Sampietro, Luis Tosar,
Directors : Joaquín Oristrell,

A Freudian comedy set in Barcelona, 1913, that playfully questions sexual taboos through a Sherlock Holmes-style investigation.,

Actors : Fred Ward, J.A. Preston, Joel Grey, Wilford Brimley,
Directors : Guy Hamilton,

An officially "dead" cop is trained to become an extraordinarily unique assassin in service of the US president.

Actors : Samuel L. Jackson, Vincent Cassel, Gianni Capaldi,
Directors : Terry McDonough,

Chicago detective Dan Lawson travels to Scotland to link up with Scottish detective Glen Boyd following the resurgence of a serial killer whose crimes match an unsolved case he investigated 5 years previously.