Best Investigation movies of 1997

Actors : Lela Rochon, James Belushi, Tupac Shakur, Dennis Quaid,
Directors : Jim Kouf,

Two corrupt cops murder an undercover DEA agent by mistake, and frantically try to cover their tracks by framing a homeless man for the crime. That involves juggling evidence, coaching ...

Actors : Gisken Armand, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Stellan Skarsgård, Maria Mathiesen,
Directors : Erik Skjoldbjærg,

In a Norwegian city with a 24-hour daylight cycle a Swedish murder investigator has been brought in on a special case. Sleep deprived, he makes a horrible mistake which is discovered by the killer he has been hunting.

Actors : Dean Jones, Christina Ricci, George Dzundza, Doug E. Doug,
Directors : Bob Spiers,

A maid is kidnapped and scratches a message onto D.C. the cat's collar and when his owner Patti discovers this, she plays amateur detective with the help of D.C. to try to find the culprits.

Actors : Hector Elizondo, Brendan Gleeson, Ray Liotta, Lauren Holly,
Directors : Robert Butler,

After a shootout on a flight transporting prisoners, a stewardess must outwit a smooth-talking serial killer and land the plane herself.

Actors : Chris Graham, Paul Glover, Darien Takle, Paolo Rotondo,
Directors : Scott Reynolds,

A female psychologist wants to understand the minds of a confessed serial killer who spent the last five years in a mental hospital because of his state.

Actors : Daniel Kuzniecka, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Héctor Alterio, Cecilia Roth,
Directors : Marcelo Piñeyro,

A judge falls from the roof of the Federal Courthouse. A woman is murdered. Between them and the three sons of the judge there is a connection that will be investigated by a woman judge who...

Actors : Eric Kot, Karen Mok, Stephen Chow, Chingmy Yau,
Directors : Joe Ma,

Chan Mong-Gut, a famous Chinese lawyer, who must defend his apprentice Foon, who got framed for murder, in court.

Actors : Linda Cropper, Simon Lyndon, Laurence Breuls, Chris Haywood,
Directors : Steven Vidler,

When a young schoolgirl is raped and murdered, the mateship between a group of surfers is tested as the truth is slowly revealed.

Actors : Andrzej Seweryn, Michel Piccoli, Melvil Poupaud, Catherine Deneuve,
Directors : Raoul Ruiz,

At her son's funeral, Solange, a lawyer famous for losing hopeless cases, agrees to defend René, her son's age, accused of murdering his wealthy aunt, Jeanne, who's part of the ...

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 : Mel Johnson Jr., Jacqueline Lovell, Michael Citriniti, Rhonda Griffin,
Directors : Charles Band,

A group of rival collectors of severely deformed freakish human beings and the FBI agents that are investigating them must battle against some of their collections which aren't as dead as ...

Actors : Deborah Worthing, Karl Bury, Robert Patrick, Tom Poster,
Directors : James Seale,

A private investigator, mentally disturbed by his father's suicide, goes undercover in a mental institution to discover the murderer of a friend who was a doctor at the clinic.

Actors : Tomoka Kurotani, Rena Komine, Kotomi Kyôno, Tadanobu Asano,
Directors : Gakuryû Ishii,

Bus conductor Tomiko falls in love with driver Niitaka, even though she also suspects him of being a serial killer who killed his female conductors after tiring of them.

Actors : Akshay Kumar, Mohnish Bahl, Sonali Bendre, Amrish Puri,
Directors : Vimal Kumar,

Honest and diligent police inspector Ram Yadav investigations into the burning to death of a female college student lead him to conclude that Janardan the son of notorious gangster, Appa ...

Actors : Chuck Jeffreys, Frank Gorshin, Darren Shahlavi, Gary Daniels,
Directors : Siu-Hung Leung,

Martial arts action film finds a retired detective returning to action to stop a martial arts master with steel fingers who is killing champions from all sports.

Actors : Gabriel Dell Jr., Olivier Gruner, Alex Hyde-White, Shari Belafonte,
Directors : Jon Hess,

In the future, Mars has been colonized. A martial artist arrives to investigate what happened to his brother. A powerful mining company is the prime suspect.

Actors : Lorenzo Lamas, Brandon Smith, Gary Busey, Kristen Cloke,
Directors : Sidney J. Furie,

FBI Special Agent Travis is trying to catch a deranged serial killer and is doing his best despite having a new and unexperienced partner in the form of Kelly McCord. It turns out that the ...

Actors : Vanessa King, JoBeth Williams, William Russ, Michael Manasseri,
Directors : David E. Peckinpah,

A psych intern in the county jail bonds with a brilliant paranoid schizophrenic who shows up dead in her basement. She must solve his murder to clear her name.

Actors : Kristy Swanson, Ron Perlman, Joe Pantoliano, Arye Gross,
Directors : Tony Spiridakis,

In Hollywood it's all about who you know, and the only person two friends know is a serial killer.

Actors : Jeffrey Donovan, Jeff Fahey, Mario Ernesto Sánchez, Andrew Fiscella,
Directors : Rick King,

Undercover cop Doyle is working on a serial killer case that's left a trail of dead transvestites. Then, moonlighting as a private eye, Doyle and his girlfriend are hired by a rich young ...