Best Investigation movies of 1990s

Actors : Eb Lottimer, Christina Applegate, Jane Chung, David Mendenhall,
Directors : Katt Shea,

Serious, well-made story of runaways living in Venice, California, under the threat of a psychotic cop who is a serial killer of prostitutes.

Actors : Michael Rooker, Robert Patrick, Diane DiLascio, Louis Mandylor,
Directors : Martin Kunert,

An F.B.I. Agent (Michael Rooker) and a female cop (Diane DiLascio) join forces to stop renegade cops who are killing the bad guys. Robert Patrick is the leader of the renegades, and Louis ...

Actors : Josephine Byrnes, Hugo Weaving, Mitchell McMahon, Phil Collins,
Directors : Stephan Elliott,

Story of the ways in which insurance investigator Roland Copping interferes in and manipulates the lives of others with outrageous games and gimmicks. Eventually he becomes involved in an ...

Actors : Melora Walters, John Savage, Scott Plank, Brion James,
Directors : Michael Covert,

The desert can be a lonely place for the people who live there or for those who are traveling through. It is also the teller of different stories including the story of a traveling salesman...

Actors : Steve Ascher, Michael Blumenthal, Robert Gardner, Dee Dee Geraty,
Directors : Ross McElwee,

Forty year old documentary filmmaker Ross McElwee has a penchant for filming everything around him. Following the announcement of his impending marriage to his film-making partner Marilyn ...

Actors : Richard E. Grant, Lynsey Baxter, Simon Cadell, Perdita Weeks,
Directors : Rudolf van den Berg,

A troubled detective befriends a single woman and her daughter with the intention of using them as bait for a serial killer.

Actors : Linden Ashby, Megan Ward, Kristin Minter, John Ratzenberger,
Directors : Kevin Tenney,

A wealthy man becomes suspicious of his younger wife and hires a private detective in time to thwart her plans to have him killed.

Actors : Craig Chester, Raoul O'Connell, Michael Stock, Michael Gunther,
Directors : Todd Verow,

A first person narrative of the exploits of a gay serial killer in deeply disturbing, controversial drama about violence, sexuality, and the imagination. Dennis, the main character, whose ...

Actors : Kiefer Sutherland, Liz Fraser, Emily Lloyd, John Lahr,
Directors : Bernard Rose,

During World War II, an American serviceman in London decides to impress his English girlfriend by acting as an American gangster, which soon turns deadly.

Actors : Clotilde Courau, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Stéphane Boucher, Julie Delarme,
Directors : Guillaume Nicloux,

A private investigator (nicknamed Octopus after his long arms) travels to the small town of Angernaud with his bisexual girlfriend to collect the money he spent for the reconstruction of ...

Actors : Alain Chabat, Samuel Le Bihan, Caroline Proust, Patrick Timsit,
Directors : Alain Corneau,

Nounours is the nickname of a "cousin" an informer with a special arrangement with the police: he gets 10% of the drugs seized thanks to his help. When his personal contact, inspector ...

Actors : Barbara Hershey, Sam Shepard, Mary Beth Hurt, J.T. Walsh,
Directors : Martin Campbell,

A lawyer is hired to defend an old college friend accused of murdering her husband.

Actors : Ruby Wong, Simon Yam, YoYo Mung, Ching Wan Lau,
Directors : Tat-Chi Yau,

A group of inept Mainland criminals botch a jewelry store robbery. The cops, led by the straight-laced Ken and the wise-cracking Sam, begin to investigate the case and quickly confuse the ...

Actors : Mélanie Thierry, Vincent Elbaz, Richard Berry, Patrick Timsit,
Directors : Patrick Timsit,

Quasimodo the hunchback is mistaken as the serial killer of El Paris. Can he clear his name?

Actors : Javed Jaffrey, Jackie Shroff, Madhuri Dixit, Laxmikant Berde,
Directors : Partho Ghosh,

A young, clairvoyant woman has a vision of a murder and sets out to uncover the truth before the killer finds her.

Actors : Yôsuke Eguchi, Miwako Ichikawa, Takashi Kashiwabara, Yukiko Okamoto,
Directors : Jôji Iida,

A pair of hard-boiled Tokyo cops are investigating a gruesome murder: after killing the victim, the murderer cut his skull open and cooked his brain in a stew. As they try to track down the...

Actors : Geraldine Chaplin, Pete Postlethwaite, Stephen Baldwin, Sadie Frost,
Directors : George Sluizer,

Bobby Mahon is an actor playing a notorious serial killer on prime-time television. The show becomes a hit, which encourages the real-life murderer on whom it's based, to go on a spree to make it on screen.

Actors : David Wu, Billy Chow, Chikako Aoyama, Amy Yip,
Directors : Jamie Luk,

A mad scientist transfers his mind to a wicked robot, which then embarks on a program of kidnaping, rape and murder, during which a female detective is killed. To fight the robot, the ...

Actors : Kris Kristofferson, Drew Barrymore, Martin Landau, Illana Diamant,
Directors : Richard Danus,

Detective Joe Garvey is called in to a mysterious case: a ballerina has been slayed on stage during a performance, it seems she didn't even fight. At her house Garvey finds her 14 years old...

Actors : Fred Ward, Tim Thomerson, Cathy Moriarty, Patrick Muldoon,
Directors : Jeremy Haft,

Two FBI agents join a special team of operatives called Red Team that hunts serial killers. One of the suspects is soon found dead. The follow up investigation reveals that someone may be executing suspected serial killers.