Best Investigation movies of 1990s

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 : 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 : 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 : Hugo Weaving, Josephine Byrnes, 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 : 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 : 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 : Raoul O'Connell, Craig Chester, Michael Gunther, Michael Stock,
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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Barry Bostwick, Kane Hodder, John Marzilli, Kim Delaney,
Directors : Alessandro De Gaetano,

In 1974, an unhinged CIA agent injects himself with the werewolf blood he found. After a killing spree, his body is put in suspended animation, then thawed out 20 years later by his crazy boss and a team of unsuspecting doctors.

Actors : John Hurt, Louis Gossett Jr., Lindsay Frost, Bill Paxton,
Directors : John Eyres,

Two cops investigating the murder of a young boy become invloved in a very secret project involving alien life. Needless to say, the authorities don't want them to stick their noses into ...

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 : 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 : Beverly Penberthy, Joe Sharkey, Susann Fletcher, Jake Dengel,
Directors : Dean Tschetter,

Two cops and a detective's daughter go after a chainsaw killer.

Actors : Mei-Wah Wong, Wilson Lam, Kiu Wai Miu, Ching-Ying Lam,
Directors : Wei Tung,

A former cop rejoins the police department to investigate a drug ring that employs ghosts and vampires.

Actors : Famke Janssen, Mitchell Marchand, Rory Cochrane, Jeff Goldblum,
Directors : Paul Mones,

A beach runner and bookworm (Goldblum) has difficulty communicating with his son. He meets a psychic on a pier at the beach and soon his world turns topsy-turvy with a serial killer coming ...