Best Murder Mystery movies

Actors : Madeleine Stowe, James Cromwell, Timothy Hutton, John Travolta,
Directors : Simon West,

When the daughter of a well-known and well-respected base commander is murdered, an undercover detective is summoned to look into the matter and finds a slew of cover-ups at West Point.

Actors : Samuel L. Jackson, Tim Daly, Connie Nielsen, John Travolta,
Directors : John McTiernan,

A DEA agent investigates the disappearance of a legendary Army ranger drill sergeant and several of his cadets during a training exercise gone severely awry.

Actors : Delroy Lindo, Mekhi Phifer, Harvey Keitel, John Turturro,
Directors : Spike Lee,

Young drug pushers in the projects of Brooklyn live hard dangerous lives, trapped between their drug bosses and the detectives out to stop them.

Actors : Edward Burns, Kelsey Grammer, Robert De Niro, Avery Brooks,
Directors : John Herzfeld,

A homicide detective and a fire marshal must stop a pair of murderers who commit videotaped crimes to become media darlings.

Actors : Daniel Henshall, Lucas Pittaway, Bob Adriaens, Louise Harris,
Directors : Justin Kurzel,

Based on true events, 16 year-old Jamie falls in with his mother's new boyfriend and his crowd of self-appointed neighborhood watchmen, a relationship that leads to a spree of torture and murder.

Actors : Susan Sarandon, Mary-Louise Parker, Brad Renfro, Tommy Lee Jones,
Directors : Joel Schumacher,

A young boy who witnessed the suicide of a mafia lawyer hires an attorney to protect him when the District Attorney tries to use him to take down a mob family.

Actors : Eion Bailey, LL Cool J, Val Kilmer, Christian Slater,
Directors : Renny Harlin,

Trainees in the FBI's psychological profiling program must put their training into practice when they discover a killer in their midst.

Actors : Julia Roberts, John Heard, Sam Shepard, Denzel Washington,
Directors : Alan J. Pakula,

A law student uncovers a conspiracy, putting herself and others in danger.

Actors : Ed Harris, Gene Hackman, Clint Eastwood, Laura Linney,
Directors : Clint Eastwood,

A career thief witnesses a horrific crime involving the U.S. President.

Actors : Gary Oldman, Noomi Rapace, Tom Hardy, Joel Kinnaman,
Directors : Daniel Espinosa,

A disgraced member of the Russian military police investigates a series of child murders during the Stalin-era Soviet Union.

Actors : David Suchet, Viggo Mortensen, Michael Douglas, Gwyneth Paltrow,
Directors : Andrew Davis,

A remake of the Alfred Hitchcock classic Dial M for Murder (1954).

Actors : Brad Renfro, Nick Stahl, Bijou Phillips, Rachel Miner,
Directors : Larry Clark,

A pack of naïve teenagers conspire to murder a mutual friend, whose aggressive demeanor has proved too much.

Actors : Judy Parfitt, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Kathy Bates, Christopher Plummer,
Directors : Taylor Hackford,

A big-city reporter travels to the small town where her mother has been arrested for the murder of an elderly woman that she works for as a maid.

Actors : Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances McDormand, Brad Dourif,
Directors : Alan Parker,

Two F.B.I. Agents, with wildly different styles, arrive in Mississippi to investigate the disappearance of some civil rights activists.

Actors : Callum Keith Rennie, Tobin Bell, Hannah Emily Anderson, Matt Passmore,

Bodies are turning up around the city, each having met a uniquely gruesome demise. As the investigation proceeds, evidence points to one suspect: John Kramer, the man known as Jigsaw, who has been dead for over 10 years.

Actors : Michael Fassbender, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Rebecca Ferguson, Jonas Karlsson,
Directors : Tomas Alfredson,

Detective Harry Hole investigates the disappearance of a woman whose scarf is found wrapped around an ominous-looking snowman.

Actors : Colin Farrell, Denzel Washington, Lynda Gravatt, Carmen Ejogo,
Directors : Dan Gilroy,

Roman J. Israel, Esq., a driven, idealistic defense attorney, finds himself in a tumultuous series of events that lead to a crisis and the necessity for extreme action.

Actors : Dylan Schmid, Thomas Jane, Molly Parker, Kaitlyn Bernard,
Directors : Zak Hilditch,

A simple yet proud farmer in the year 1922 conspires to murder his wife for financial gain, convincing his teenage son to participate.

Actors : Andy Garcia, Emma Thompson, Derek Jacobi, Kenneth Branagh,
Directors : Kenneth Branagh,

An amnesiac and a private eye find they might have a past life connection.

Actors : Samuel L. Jackson, Julianne Moore, Edie Falco, Ron Eldard,
Directors : Joe Roth,

A black police detective must solve a strange case of a kidnapped boy and deal with a big racial protest.