Best Investigation movies of 1992

Actors : Fred Ward, Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Whoopi Goldberg,
Directors : Robert Altman,

A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?

Actors : Tom Cruise, Kevin Bacon, Demi Moore, Jack Nicholson,
Directors : Rob Reiner,

Neo military lawyer Kaffee defends Marines accused of murder; they contend they were acting under orders.

Actors : Joe Pesci, Mitchell Whitfield, Marisa Tomei, Ralph Macchio,
Directors : Jonathan Lynn,

Two New Yorkers are accused of murder in rural Alabama while on their way back to college, and one of their cousins--an inexperienced, loudmouth lawyer not accustomed to Southern rules and manners--comes in to defend them.

Actors : Brian McElroy, Frankie Acciarito, Peggy Gormley, Harvey Keitel,
Directors : Abel Ferrara,

While investigating a young nun's rape, a corrupt New York City police detective, with a serious drug and gambling addiction, tries to change his ways and find forgiveness.

Actors : Sharon Stone, Jeanne Tripplehorn, George Dzundza, Michael Douglas,
Directors : Paul Verhoeven,

A violent, suspended police detective investigates a brutal murder, in which a manipulative and seductive woman could be involved.

Actors : Mädchen Amick, Dana Ashbrook, Ray Wise, Sheryl Lee,
Directors : David Lynch,

A young FBI agent disappears while investigating a murder miles from Twin Peaks that may be related to the future murder of Laura Palmer; the last week of the life of Laura Palmer is chronicled.

Actors : JoBeth Williams, Sylvester Stallone, Roger Rees, Estelle Getty,
Directors : Roger Spottiswoode,

A tough police sergeant's overbearing mother comes to visit him and begins to meddle in his life and career.

Actors : Pat Morita, Sarah Jessica Parker, Nicolas Cage, James Caan,
Directors : Andrew Bergman,

On her deathbed, a mother makes her son promise never to get married, which scars him with psychological blocks to a commitment with his girlfriend. They finally decide to tie the knot in ...

Actors : Fred Ward, Graham Greene, Sam Shepard, Val Kilmer,
Directors : Michael Apted,

A young mixed-blood FBI agent is assigned to work with a cynical veteran investigator on a murder on a poverty-stricken Sioux reservation.

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 : Dana Delany, David Clennon, Susan Sarandon, Willem Dafoe,
Directors : Paul Schrader,

A drug dealer reconsiders his profession when his boss plans to go straight and an old flame reappears.

Actors : Angela Winkler, Ulrich Mühe, Ingrid Stassner, Arno Frisch,
Directors : Michael Haneke,

A 14-year-old video enthusiast is so caught up in film fantasy that he can no longer relate to the real world, to such an extent that he commits murder and records an on-camera confession for his parents.

Actors : Tracy Pollan, Eric Thal, John Pankow, Melanie Griffith,
Directors : Sidney Lumet,

Detective Emily Eden is a tough New York City cop forced to go undercover to solve a puzzling murder. Her search for the truth takes her into a secret world of unwritten law and unspoken ...

Actors : Samuel L. Jackson, Willem Dafoe, Mickey Rourke, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio,
Directors : Roger Donaldson,

A small southwestern town sheriff finds a body in the desert with a suitcase and $500,000. He impersonates the man and stumbles into an FBI investigation.

Actors : Graham Beckel, Uma Thurman, Andy Garcia, Lance Henriksen,
Directors : Bruce Robinson,

A big-city cop from L.A. moves to a small-town police force and immediately finds himself investigating a murder. Using theories rejected by his colleagues, the cop, John Berlin, meets a ...

Actors : Christopher Lambert, Daniel Baldwin, Diane Lane, Tom Skerritt,
Directors : Carl Schenkel,

A chess grandmaster is in a big tournament, and when his lover is found painted up and the blood drained out of her body he becomes a chief suspect. After he gets a call from the killer ...

Actors : Michael J. Pollard, Alastair Duncan, Rutger Hauer, Kim Cattrall,
Directors : Tony Maylam,

In a flooded dystopian future London, Detective Harley Stone hunts a serial killer who murdered his partner and has haunted him ever since. He soon discovers what he is hunting might not be human.

Actors : Olivier Gruner, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Tim Thomerson, Merle Kennedy,
Directors : Albert Pyun,

Alex, a burned out LA cyborg cop, is forced by commissioner Farnsworth to find his former cyborg partner and lover Jared who's about to deliver sensitive data to cyborg terrorists who wish to wage war against humans. Is he being played?

Actors : Sean Young, John Candy, James Belushi, Cybill Shepherd,
Directors : Eugene Levy,

Phoebe and fellow American Julian Peters meet in Rome, find a lost dog, and agree to return it to Monte Carlo to split the five thousand dollar reward. Discovering the dog's owner dead, ...

Actors : Michael Kirby, Craig Chester, Daniel Schlachet, Ron Vawter,
Directors : Tom Kalin,

The true story of gay lovers, Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold Jr. who kidnapped and murdered a child in the early 1920s for kicks. The plot covers the months before the crime, the ...