| | L.A. Confidential (1997)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 90 | Earnings: $64.60M Lead Role: Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, Kim Basinger, | Director: Curtis Hanson, As corruption grows in 1950s LA, three policemen - one strait-laced, one brutal, and one sleazy - investigate a series of murders with their own brand of justice. |
| | Shutter Island (2010)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 63 | Earnings: $127.97M Lead Role: Leonardo DiCaprio, Emily Mortimer, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, | Director: Martin Scorsese, In 1954, a U.S. Marshal investigates the disappearance of a murderer, who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane. |
| | Knives Out (2019)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 82 | Earnings: $165.36M Lead Role: Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis, | Director: Rian Johnson, A detective investigates the death of a patriarch of an eccentric, combative family. |
| | Super 8 (2011)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 72 | Earnings: $126.98M Lead Role: Elle Fanning, AJ Michalka, Kyle Chandler, Joel Courtney, | Director: J.J. Abrams, During the summer of 1979, a group of friends witness a train crash and investigate subsequent unexplained events in their small town. |
| | I, Robot (2004)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 59 | Earnings: $144.80M Lead Role: Will Smith, Bridget Moynahan, Bruce Greenwood, Alan Tudyk, | Director: Alex Proyas, In 2035, a technophobic cop investigates a crime that may have been perpetrated by a robot, which leads to a larger threat to humanity. |
| | Blue Velvet (1986)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 76 | Earnings: $8.55M Lead Role: Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern, | Director: David Lynch, The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child. |
| | Gone Baby Gone (2007)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 72 | Earnings: $20.30M Lead Role: Morgan Freeman, Ed Harris, Casey Affleck, Michelle Monaghan, | Director: Ben Affleck, Two Boston area detectives investigate a little girl's kidnapping, which ultimately turns into a crisis both professionally and personally. |
| | Watchmen (2009)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 56 | Earnings: $107.50M Lead Role: Jackie Earle Haley, Patrick Wilson, Carla Gugino, Malin Akerman, | Director: Zack Snyder, In 1985 where former superheroes exist, the murder of a colleague sends active vigilante Rorschach into his own sprawling investigation, uncovering something that could completely change the course of history as we know it. |
| | Wind River (2017)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 73 | Earnings: $33.80M Lead Role: Kelsey Asbille, Jeremy Renner, Julia Jones, Teo Briones, | Director: Taylor Sheridan, A veteran tracker with the Fish and Wildlife Service helps to investigate the murder of a young Native American woman, and uses the case as a means of seeking redemption for an earlier act of irresponsibility which ended in tragedy. |
| | The Nice Guys (2016)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 70 | Earnings: $36.25M Lead Role: Russell Crowe, Ryan Gosling, Angourie Rice, Matt Bomer, | Director: Shane Black, In 1970s Los Angeles, a mismatched pair of private eyes investigate a missing girl and the mysterious death of a porn star. |
| | Flight (2012)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 76 | Earnings: $93.75M Lead Role: Denzel Washington, Nadine Velazquez, Don Cheadle, John Goodman, | Director: Robert Zemeckis, An airline pilot saves almost all his passengers on his malfunctioning airliner which eventually crashed, but an investigation into the accident reveals something troubling. |
| | Insomnia (2002)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 78 | Earnings: $67.26M Lead Role: Al Pacino, Robin Williams, Hilary Swank, Martin Donovan, | Director: Christopher Nolan, Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen. |
| | Gosford Park (2001)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 90 | Earnings: $41.30M Lead Role: Maggie Smith, Ryan Phillippe, Michael Gambon, Kristin Scott Thomas, | Director: Robert Altman, The lives of upstairs guests and downstairs servants at a party in 1932 in a country house in England as they investigate a murder involving one of them. |
| | Quiz Show (1994)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 88 | Earnings: $24.82M Lead Role: Ralph Fiennes, John Turturro, Rob Morrow, Paul Scofield, | Director: Robert Redford, A young lawyer, Richard Goodwin, investigates a potentially fixed game show. Charles Van Doren, a big time show winner, is under Goodwin's investigation. |
| | Black Friday (2004)| Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 76 | Earnings: $0.03M Lead Role: Kay Kay Menon, Pavan Malhotra, Aditya Srivastava, Dibyendu Bhattacharya, | Director: 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. |
| | The Guard (2011)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 78 | Earnings: $5.36M Lead Role: Brendan Gleeson, Don Cheadle, Mark Strong, Ronan Collins, | Director: John Michael McDonagh, An unorthodox Irish policeman with a confrontational personality is partnered with an up-tight F.B.I. agent to investigate an international drug-smuggling ring. |
| | Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 54 | Earnings: $310.68M Lead Role: Hayden Christensen, Natalie Portman, Ewan McGregor, Christopher Lee, | Director: George Lucas, Ten years after initially meeting, Anakin Skywalker shares a forbidden romance with Padmé, while Obi-Wan investigates an assassination attempt on the Senator and discovers a secret clone army crafted for the Jedi. |
| | Sleepy Hollow (1999)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 65 | Earnings: $101.07M Lead Role: Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Miranda Richardson, Michael Gambon, | Director: Tim Burton, Ichabod Crane is sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate the decapitations of 3 people with the culprit being the legendary apparition, the Headless Horseman. |
| | Beverly Hills Cop (1984)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 64 | Earnings: $234.76M Lead Role: Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, John Ashton, Lisa Eilbacher, | Director: Martin Brest, A freewheeling Detroit cop pursuing a murder investigation finds himself dealing with the very different culture of Beverly Hills. |
| | Deja Vu (2006)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 59 | Earnings: $64.03M Lead Role: Denzel Washington, Paula Patton, Jim Caviezel, Val Kilmer, | Director: Tony Scott, After a ferry is bombed in New Orleans, an A.T.F. agent joins a unique investigation using experimental surveillance technology to find the bomber, but soon finds himself becoming obsessed with one of the victims. |
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