Best Investigation movies

Actors : Edward Burns, Robert De Niro, Kelsey Grammer, 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 : Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen, Forest Whitaker, Liam Neeson,
Directors : Olivier Megaton,

Ex-government operative Bryan Mills is accused of a ruthless murder he never committed or witnessed. As he is tracked and pursued, Mills brings out his particular set of skills to find the true killer and clear his name.

Actors : Josh Gad, Tamara Smart, Lara McDonnell, Ferdia Shaw,
Directors : Kenneth Branagh,

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

Actors : Elizabeth Olsen, Sigourney Weaver, Cillian Murphy, Robert De Niro,
Directors : Rodrigo Cortés,

Psychologist Margaret Matheson and her assistant study paranormal activity, which leads them to investigate a world-renowned psychic who has resurfaced years after his toughest critic mysteriously passed away.

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 : Bijou Phillips, Nick Stahl, Brad Renfro, 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 : Eoin Macken, Osamu Tanpopo, Stephanie Vogt, Natalie Dormer,
Directors : Jason Zada,

A woman goes into Japan's Suicide Forest to find her twin sister, and confronts supernatural terror.

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 : Elena Lyons, Jay Chandrasekhar, Bill Paxton, Kevin Heffernan,
Directors : Jay Chandrasekhar,

When a serial killer interrupts the fun at the swanky Coconut Pete's Coconut Beach Resort--a hedonistic island paradise for swingers--it's up to the club's staff to stop the violence...or at least hide it.

Actors : Nick Nolte, Sissy Spacek, James Coburn, Brigid Tierney,
Directors : Paul Schrader,

A deeply troubled small town cop investigates a suspicious hunting death while events occur that cause him to mentally disintergrate.

Actors : Junko Bailey, Zoe Fish, David Lawrence Brown, Tara Westwood,
Directors : Nicolas Pesce,

A house is cursed by a vengeful ghost that dooms those who enter it with a violent death.

Actors : Toni Collette, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Christian Bale, Ewan McGregor,
Directors : Todd Haynes,

In 1984, British journalist Arthur Stuart investigates the career of 1970s glam superstar Brian Slade, who was heavily influenced in his early years by hard-living and rebellious American singer Curt Wild.

Actors : Tom Sizemore, Benjamin Bratt, Carrie-Anne Moss, Val Kilmer,
Directors : Antony Hoffman,

Astronauts, and their robotic dog AMEE (Autonomous Mapping Evaluation and Evasion), search for solutions to save a dying Earth by searching on Mars, only to have the mission go terribly awry.

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 : Adam Brody, Wendy Crewson, Kaleb Horn, Kaitlyn Chalmers-Rizzato,
Directors : Evan Morgan,

A once-celebrated kid detective, now 32, continues to solve the same trivial mysteries between hangovers and bouts of self-pity. Until a naive client brings him his first 'adult' case, to find out who brutally murdered her boyfriend.

Actors : Douglas Silva, Jonathan Haagensen, Darlan Cunha, Rodrigo dos Santos,
Directors : Paulo Morelli,

Best buddies Acerola and Laranjinha, about to turn 18, discover things about their missing fathers' pasts which will shatter their solid friendship, in the middle of a war between rival drug gangs from Rio's favelas.

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

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

Actors : Joe Pesci, Rene Russo, Mel Gibson, Danny Glover,
Directors : Richard Donner,

With personal crises and age weighing in on them, LAPD officers Riggs and Murtaugh must contend with deadly Chinese triads that are trying to free their former leaders out of prison and onto American soil.

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.