Best Investigation movies of 1990s

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 : 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 : 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 : Raoul O'Connell, Craig Chester, 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 : John Savage, Scott Plank, Melora Walters, 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 : Penelope Milford, Neil Giuntoli, James Otis, Mike Houlihan,
Directors : Chuck Parello,

Henry II picks up where the original (Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer) left off. Henry (Neil Giuntoli) takes a thankless job at a port-o-john company where he meets husband and wife, Kai...

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : François Montagut, Gianni Garko, Joanna Pacula, Tomas Arana,
Directors : Lamberto Bava,

A homicide detective realizes that the brutal murders committed by a mysterious serial killer he's after have something to do with the late husband of a beautiful widow.

Actors : Gavin Hood, Vusi Kunene, Janine Eser, Nigel Hawthorne,
Directors : Gavin Hood,

With issues of his own, an ex-army officer-turned-lawyer defends an impoverished young cowherd of killing a baby.

Actors : Michael Shaner, Jeff Speakman, James Brolin, Alex Datcher,

Johnny's sister is brutally attacked and murdered by a sadistic serial killer. At the trial, he is sentenced to be electrocuted, but a bleeding heart liberal has the sentence commuted to a ...