Best Investigation movies

Actors : Peter Sarsgaard, Tommy Lee Jones, John Goodman, Mary Steenburgen,
Directors : Bertrand Tavernier,

A detective in post-Katrina New Orleans has a series of surreal encounters with a troop of friendly Confederate soldiers while investigating serial killings of local prostitutes, a 1965 lynching, and corrupt local businessmen.

Actors : Dennis Hopper, Debra Winger, Sami Frey, Theresa Russell,
Directors : Bob Rafelson,

A federal investigator tracks down a gold digging woman who moves from husband to husband, kills them and collects the inheritance.

Actors : Paul Scherrer, Terence Knox, Ryan Bollman, Christie Clark,
Directors : David Price,

A journalist and his son travel to Nebraska to investigate the mysterious town of Gaitlin where, unbeknownst to them, a murderous cult of children are waiting in the corn fields.

Actors : Vanessa Redgrave, Christoph Waltz, Annette Bening, Corey Hawkins,
Directors : Christoph Waltz,

Ulrich Mott, an ambitious social climber, marries a wealthy widow in Washington D.C. in order to mix with powerful political players.

Actors : Denise Quiñones, Manny Perez, Juan Fernández, Paul Calderon,
Directors : Josh Crook,

A cop works against his country's corrupt government in order to find justice on a case.

Actors : Leonor Watling, Mercedes Sampietro, Alex Brendemühl, Luis Tosar,
Directors : Joaquín Oristrell,

A Freudian comedy set in Barcelona, 1913, that playfully questions sexual taboos through a Sherlock Holmes-style investigation.,

Actors : Craig Carlisle, Connie Britton, Edward Burns, Max Baker,
Directors : Edward Burns,

A high school baseball coach (Krumholtz) and a down-on-his-luck private investigator (Burns) form a bond as they scour New York City for the coach's wife, who's run away with a second-rate ...

Actors : Luke Arnold, Steve Davis, Bel Deliá, Andy Rodoreda,
Directors : Carlo Ledesma,

An investigation into a government cover-up leads to a network of abandoned train tunnels deep beneath the heart of Sydney. As a journalist and her crew hunt for the story it quickly becomes clear the story is hunting them.

Actors : Belén Rueda, Jose Coronado, Aura Garrido, Hugo Silva,
Directors : Oriol Paulo,

A detective searches for the body of a femme fatale which has gone missing from a morgue.

Actors : Gavin Brown, Phyllis Munro, Ethan Philbeck, Louie Lawless,
Directors : Scott Schirmer,

A horror-obsessed boy discovers his older brother is a serial killer.

Actors : Chad Donella, Seth Peterson, Cindy Pickett, Bruce Davison,
Directors : Tommy Stovall,

Robbie Levinson and Trey McCoy suddenly encounter intolerance and hostility at the hands of their new neighbor, Chris Boyd, the son of a fundamentalist preacher. One evening, Trey sets out ...

Actors : Aditya Srivastav, Radhika Apte, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Padmavati Rao,
Directors : Honey Trehan,

The film follows a small town cop who is summoned to investigate the death of a politician which gets complicated by the victim's secretive family and his own conflicted heart.

Actors : Michael Rooker, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Catherine Dent, Brandon James Olson,
Directors : Ringo Lam,

Scientists create a genetic clone of a serial killer in order to help catch the killer, teaming up with two cops.

Actors : Samuel L. Jackson, Vincent Cassel, Gianni Capaldi,
Directors : Terry McDonough,

Chicago detective Dan Lawson travels to Scotland to link up with Scottish detective Glen Boyd following the resurgence of a serial killer whose crimes match an unsolved case he investigated 5 years previously.

Actors : Colin Farrell, Josh Gad, Miranda Raison, Judi Dench,
Directors : Kenneth Branagh,

Artemis Fowl, a young criminal prodigy, hunts down a secret society of fairies to find his missing father.

Actors : Mary Mitchel, Luana Anders, Bart Patton, William Campbell,
Directors : Francis Ford Coppola,

Whilst out on a rowboat with his wife Louise, John Haloran has a heart attack and dies. She casts his body overboard and hides his death telling the family he left on an urgent business ...

Actors : Judy Davis, Juliette Lewis, Marcia Gay Harden, Lili Taylor,
Directors : Susan Seidelman,

Alone in a foreign city, Cassandra must solve a family's darkest, deepest secrets before she can confront her own past.

Actors : James Best, Gene Evans, Peter Breck, Constance Towers,
Directors : Samuel Fuller,

Bent on winning a Pulitzer Prize, a journalist commits himself to a mental institution to solve a strange and unclear murder.

Actors : Nicolas Duvauchelle, Mélanie Thierry, Benoît Magimel, Sylvie Testud,
Directors : Diane Kurys,

The story of the marriage between Michel and Lena, as told by their daughter Anne, with reflections on the mystery of abiding love.

Actors : Jason Clarke, Olivia Thirlby, Kate Mara, Clancy Brown,
Directors : John Curran,

Ted Kennedy's life and political career become derailed after he is involved in a fatal 1969 car accident that claims the life of a young campaign strategist, Mary Jo Kopechne.