Best Investigation movies

Actors : Veronica Cartwright, Travis Tope, Addison Timlin, Anthony Anderson,
Directors : Alfonso Gomez-Rejon,

65 years after a masked serial killer terrorized the small town of Texarkana, the so-called 'moonlight murders' begin again. Is it a copycat or something even more sinister? A lonely high ...

Actors : Anjelica Huston, Haylie Duff, Hilary Duff, Maria Conchita Alonso,
Directors : Martha Coolidge,

Two wealthy sisters, both heiresses to their family's cosmetics fortune, are given a wake-up call when a scandal and ensuing investigation strip them of their wealth.

Actors : Gil Bellows, Ellen Burstyn, Susan Sarandon, Topher Grace,
Directors : Jason Stone,

Detective Hazel Micallef hasn't had much to worry about in the sleepy town of Fort Dundas until a string of gruesome murders in the surrounding countryside brings her face to face with a serial killer driven by a higher calling.

Actors : Edward Norton, Laura Linney, John Mahoney, Richard Gere,
Directors : Gregory Hoblit,

An altar boy is accused of murdering a priest, and the truth is buried several layers deep.

Actors : Jack Quaid, Alexandra Shipp, Brianna Hildebrand, Kevin Durand,
Directors : Tyler MacIntyre,

A twist on the slasher genre, following two death-obsessed teenage girls who use their online show about real-life tragedies to send their small mid-western town into a frenzy and cement their legacy as modern horror legends.

Actors : Madeleine Stowe, Meg Tilly, Harvey Keitel, Jack Nicholson,
Directors : Jack Nicholson,

The sequel to Chinatown (1974) finds Jake Gittes investigating adultery and murder... and the money that comes from oil.

Actors : Robyn Rikoon, Cris Lankenau, Trieste Kelly Dunn, Raúl Castillo,
Directors : Aaron Katz,

A guy who moves back to Portland, Oregon becomes involved in the mystery of his ex-girlfriend's disappearance.

Actors : Embeth Davidtz, Denzel Washington, John Goodman, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Gregory Hoblit,

Homicide detective John Hobbes witnesses the execution of serial killer Edgar Reese. Soon after the execution the killings start again, and they are very similar to Reese's style.

Actors : Sheryl Crow, Owen Wilson, Dwight Yoakam, Dennis Haysbert,
Directors : Hampton Fancher,

A cold-blooded serial killer floats around the country and chooses his victims from people who complain about their lives and indicate a willingness to be killed. His murders are introduced...

Actors : Josh Hartnett, Antoine Olivier Pilon, Jim Gaffigan, Stephen McHattie,
Directors : Daniel Roby,

In 1989, a Canadian journalist investigates the circumstances surrounding the suspicious arrest of a heroin addict imprisoned in a Thai jail.

Actors : Kay Kay Menon, Pavan Malhotra, Dibyendu Bhattacharya, Aditya Srivastava,
Directors : Anurag Kashyap,

Black Friday is a film about the investigations following the 1993 serial Bombay bomb blasts, told through the different stories of the people involved --police, conspirators, victims, middlemen.

Actors : Dermot Mulroney, William McNamara, Holly Hunter, Sigourney Weaver,
Directors : Jon Amiel,

An agoraphobic psychologist and a female detective must work together to take down a serial killer who copies serial killers from the past.

Actors : Britt Ekland, Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Diane Cilento,
Directors : Robin Hardy,

A police sergeant is sent to a Scottish island village in search of a missing girl whom the townsfolk claim never existed. Stranger still are the rites that take place there.

Actors : Ronny Cox, Judge Reinhold, Eddie Murphy, Jürgen Prochnow,
Directors : Tony Scott,

Axel Foley returns to Beverly Hills to help Taggart and Rosewood investigate Chief Bogomil's near-fatal shooting and the series of "alphabet crimes" associated with it.

Actors : Glenn Close, Stefanie Martini, Christina Hendricks, Gillian Anderson,
Directors : Gilles Paquet-Brenner,

In Agatha Christie's most twisted tale, a spy-turned-private-detective is lured by his former lover to catch her grandfather's murderer before Scotland Yard exposes dark family secrets.

Actors : Chris Sarandon, Alex Vincent, Catherine Hicks, Brad Dourif,
Directors : Tom Holland,

A single mother gives her son a much sought after doll for his birthday, only to discover that it is possessed by the soul of a serial killer.

Actors : Radha Mitchell, Bruce Willis, Rosamund Pike, Ving Rhames,
Directors : Jonathan Mostow,

Set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots, a cop is forced to leave his home for the first time in years in order to investigate the murders of others' surrogates.

Actors : Robin Tunney, Brad Hunt, Tim Blake Nelson, Liz Phair,
Directors : Finn Taylor,

After a martini-induced rampage, a fantasy-prone young woman is placed under house arrest.

Actors : Julie Carmen, David Warner, Sam Neill, Jürgen Prochnow,
Directors : John Carpenter,

An insurance investigator begins discovering that the impact a horror writer's books have on his fans is more than inspirational.

Actors : Zoë Kravitz, Myles Truitt, Jack Reynor, Dennis Quaid,

Chased by a vengeful criminal, the feds and a gang of otherworldly soldiers, a recently released ex-con, and his adopted teenage brother are forced to go on the run with a weapon of mysterious origin as their only protection.