Detective films about LGBT people

List of the best detective films about LGBT people according to visitors: Tom at the Farm, Thelma, Velvet Buzzsaw, Wynonna Earp, Fear Street: 1666, The Overnight, The New Mutants, Guilt, As You Are, Knife+Heart.

In the top there are new films of 2022, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrethriller, drama, detective
CountryFrance, Canada
Duration01:43

A young man travels to an isolated farm for his lover's funeral where he's quickly drawn into a twisted, sexually charged game by his lover's aggressive brother.

Markimdb: 7
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, melodrama, drama, detective
CountryNorway, France, Denmark, Sweden
Duration02:16

A college student starts to experience extreme seizures while studying at a university in Oslo, Norway. She soon learns that the violent episodes are a symptom of inexplicable, and often dangerous, supernatural abilities.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrehorror, thriller, comedy, detective
CountryUSA
Duration02:45

Big money artists and mega-collectors pay a high price when art collides with commerce. After a series of paintings by an unknown artist are discovered, a supernatural force enacts revenge on those who have allowed their greed to get in the way of art.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genreaction, thriller, fantasy, drama, western, detective
CountryCanada, USA
Duration01:01

Based on the IDW Comic, Wynonna Earp follows Wyatt Earp's great granddaughter as she battles demons and other creatures. With her unique abilities, and a posse of dysfunctional allies, she's the only thing that can bring the paranormal to justice.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrehorror, detective
CountryUSA, Canada

In 1666, a colonial town is gripped by a hysterical witch-hunt that has deadly consequences for centuries to come, and it's up to teenagers in 1994 to finally put an end to their town's curse, before it's too late.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrecomedy, detective
CountryUSA
Duration02:09

Alex, Emily, and their son, RJ, are new to Los Angeles. A chance meeting at the park introduces them to the mysterious Kurt, Charlotte, and Max. A family “playdate” becomes increasingly interesting as the night goes on.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, adventure, detective
CountryUSA

Five young mutants, just discovering their abilities while held in a secret facility against their will, fight to escape their past sins and save themselves.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genredrama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:30

When Natalie’s sister Grace becomes the prime suspect in her roommate Molly’s murder and popular target for the press and in social media, Natalie leaves her life in Boston and heads to London to defend her. With the help of an ethically questionable ex-pat lawyer Stan Gutterie, Natalie starts to question how innocent her sister may really be as more ugly truths start to come out.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genredrama, detective
CountryUSA

Set in the early 1990s, "As You Are" is the telling and retelling of a relationship between three teenagers as it traces the course of their friendship through a construction of disparate memories prompted by a police investigation.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrethriller, melodrama, crime, detective
CountryFrance, Mexico, Luxembourg
Duration02:12

In the summer of 1979, gay porn producer Anne sets out to film her most ambitious film yet, but her actors are picked off, one by one, by a mysterious killer.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genremelodrama, drama, detective
CountryGermany

A young man struggles with the pressure of caring for his terminally ill father while trying to unlock a secret that his father seems determined to keep from him. The story takes another dramatic turn when Ron, Burghardt’s long-lost friend from his youth, re-appears — and a well-kept family secret is uncovered.

Markimdb: 7
Genrefantasy, drama, detective
CountryCanada

A creative and driven teenager is desperate to escape his hometown and the haunting memories of his turbulent childhood.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genrefantastic, comedy, detective
CountryJapan

A high-school student Yoshiro has never got a spotlight in his life and spends his days aimlessly. What only shines in his life is a girl Sae at his school. Even if being completely disregarded by her, he still dreams of becoming her true love in the future. One day, he finds himself having a mind-reading psychic power. As he looks around, there seem more psychics born in the city, and somehow they are all virgins! One uses his psychokinetic power to fulfill his sexual desire or turns into a flasher using teleportation ability... On the arrival of the psychics like Yoshiro, the city gets gradually infested with the erotic terrorism evoked by a mysterious group. Knowing he has never got any attention from the girl of his dreams, Yoshiro determines to use his power to save the world from this steamy chaos and show off what he has got to the love of his life!

Markimdb: 6.6
Genremelodrama, drama, detective
CountryItaly

Two couples are enjoying their summer at the beach, but when the grown son of one couple arrives, it surprisingly stirs something in the husband of the other couple, will the forbidden feelings end badly?

Markimdb: 8.1
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective, history
CountrySouth Korea
Duration01:01

    1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation, a new girl (Sookee) is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress (Hideko) who lives a secluded life on a large countryside estate with her domineering Uncle (Kouzuki). But the maid has a secret. She is a pickpocket recruited by a swindler posing as a Japanese Count to help him seduce the Lady to elope with him, rob her of her fortune, and lock her up in a madhouse. The plan seems to proceed according to plan until Sookee and Hideko discover some unexpected emotions.

    Markimdb: 8.2
    Genrefantastic, cartoon
    CountryUSA, South Korea, Spain, Japan, Mexico

    A young boy takes his mother's place in a group of gemstone-based beings, and must learn to control his powers.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrehorror, thriller, western, detective
    CountryUSA

    A supernatural thriller set in the Western frontier of the late 1800s, The Wind stars Caitlin Gerard as a plains-woman driven mad by the harshness and isolation of the untamed land.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, detective
    CountryGermany, USA
    Duration01:27

    On the trail of a missing friend who had been experimenting with mind-altering drugs, a young journalist - aided by a rogue counter-culture writer, The Silence of The Lambs -- finds herself drawn into the dangerous world of top-secret government chemical research and the mystery of a disturbing radio signal of unknown origin. A fast-paced thriller blending fact and fiction, Banshee Chapter is based on real documents, actual test subject testimony, and uncovered secrets about covert programs run by the CIA.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryCanada, USA, Germany

    Ethan is suffering enormous guilt after his parents are killed in a car accident. He quits a promising future at MIT and work on a revolutionary experiment in order to care for his younger siblings.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genremelodrama, drama, detective
    CountryFrance, Russia, Ukraine
    Duration01:27

    After taking a wrong turn in their car, a young gay Russian couple witnesses what they believe is a vicious gay bashing; their quandary over what to do about it propels them into ever more dangerous territory. For Anton, the burden of what they may have witnessed outweighs Vlad's fear of probing too deeply into the incident. When the police prove indifferent, Anton talks his skeptical lover into launching their own amateur investigation into the incident. Their risky search for the truth has unexpected - and grim - consequences in this suspenseful drama that comments on the ongoing mistreatment of LGBT people in Russia.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genrethriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA

    In Los Angeles, a 40-year-old actress works to make it in the cutthroat business of Hollywood while contending with ever-youthful competition.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genrethriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:25

    A reclusive photojournalist lives quietly in a New York penthouse, until a smooth but sadistic criminal looking for a hidden fortune enters her life.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:41

      A woman turns to prescription medication as a way of handling her anxiety concerning her husband's upcoming release from prison.

      Markimdb: 8
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:08

      Follow the lives of two very different priests tackling one family’s case of terrifying demonic possession.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:30

      A crew of international astronauts are sent on a private mission to Jupiter's fourth moon.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genreaction, thriller, fantasy, drama, adventure, family, cartoon, detective, military
      CountryUSA, Australia
      Duration01:30

      Soren, a young barn owl, is kidnapped by owls of St. Aggie's, ostensibly an orphanage, where owlets are brainwashed into becoming soldiers. He and his new friends escape to the island of Ga'Hoole, to assist its noble, wise owls who fight the army being created by the wicked rulers of St. Aggie's. The film is based on the first three books in the series.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genreaction, thriller, comedy, adventure, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration00:52

      Single-camera comedy centering on a diverse group of survivors adjusting to being stranded on an uninhabited island, a dangerous new world where they must face many threats – mostly brought on by themselves. No longer plugged into the rest of the world, the group struggles to navigate their makeshift society while also learning to live without such modern comforts as indoor plumbing, Wi-Fi, social media and Chipotle.

      Markimdb: 4.4
      Genrefantastic, thriller, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:46

      4 would be astronauts spend 400 days in a land locked space simulator to test the psychological effects of deep space travel but, when something goes terribly wrong and they are forced to leave the simulation, they discover that everything on earth has changed. Is this real or is the simulation on a higher level than they could have ever imagined?

      Markimdb: 3.6
      Genreaction, thriller, crime, detective
      CountryUSA, Canada

      Crime boss Rex hires Frank and his crew to steal a priceless jewel stash — but the job goes wrong when someone tips off the cops. After Frank suffers a blow to the head, he wakes up to find the jewels gone and no memory of his attacker. Now, Frank must confront his team members one by one to find the traitor — before Rex covers his tracks by having Frank murdered.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA, China, Canada, Australia
      Duration02:29

      A nanny, working for a family whose son has just passed away, finds herself put in charge of caring for a lifelike doll that the couple treat as a real child.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA

      Jesse finds himself struggling to get his job back as the Paradise police chief, and he is forced to rely on his cop intuition to sort through a maze of misleading clues and hidden meanings as he attempts to solve a shocking and horrifying mob-related double homicide.

      Markimdb: 3.3
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryUSA

      When the new sheriff of Salem, Massachusetts discovers that he is the victim of a centuries-old curse, he must protect his family from the vengeful ghosts that torment his home.

      Markimdb: 5.3
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:32

      A group of young friends make an incomprehensible discovery in an abandoned mine, but the more they try to change the future, the more they seal their fate.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genredrama, adventure, family, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, France
      Duration02:06

      Orphaned and alone except for an uncle, Hugo Cabret lives in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. Hugo's job is to oil and maintain the station's clocks, but to him, his more important task is to protect a broken automaton and notebook left to him by his late father. Accompanied by the goddaughter of an embittered toy merchant, Hugo embarks on a quest to solve the mystery of the automaton and find a place he can call home.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genrefantastic, thriller, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:32

      After deciphering a message found in a satellite, genius cryptographer Alex Jacobs finds himself being stalked by government agents and otherworldly beings.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genreaction, fantasy, comedy, adventure, family, detective
      CountryUSA, Mexico, Australia
      Duration02:20

      Dora, a girl who has spent most of her life exploring the jungle with her parents, now must navigate her most dangerous adventure yet: high school. Always the explorer, Dora quickly finds herself leading Boots (her best friend, a monkey), Diego, and a rag tag group of teens on an adventure to save her parents and solve the impossible mystery behind a lost Inca civilization.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genredetective
      CountryCanada, USA

      Former attorney-turned-small-town-florist, Abby Knight, has a nose for sleuthing, quickly embroiled in a murder investigation, grateful for the help when she teams with retired private eye, Marco Salvare, who now owns a local bar and grill.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genredrama, documentary, detective, biography
      CountryUSA

      An examination of the infamous thirty-year-old cold case of Iowa paperboy Johnny Gosch, the first missing child to appear on a milk carton. The film focuses on Johnny’s mother, Noreen Gosch, and her relentless quest to find the truth about what happened to her son. Along the way there have been mysterious sightings, bizarre revelations, and a confrontation with a person who claims to have helped abduct Johnny.

      Markimdb: 5.3
      Genrehorror, fantastic, drama, detective
      CountryUSA

      Sixteen year old Jude discovers each and every one of his fears is true.

      Markimdb: 5.1
      Genrehorror, thriller, crime, detective
      CountryUSA

      During a Whiton University's pledge week, the carefree partying turns deadly when brutal murders start befalling the students, sending Ellery Scott into a race against time to uncover the truth behind the school's dark secrets and the horrifying meaning of a recurring symbol: a single exclamation mark.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrefantastic, comedy, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:40

      A malfunctioning time machine at a ski resort takes a man back to 1986 with his two friends and nephew, where they must relive a fateful night and not change anything to make sure the nephew is born.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrecomedy, detective
      CountryUSA

      When a boy invites 7 friends over to his Murder Mystery Themed Birthday Party, halfway through the evening, someone actually gets murdered, spurring on a full blown murder mystery.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, detective
      CountryItaly, USA
      Duration02:26

      A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the troupe's artistic director, an ambitious young dancer and a grieving psychotherapist. Some will succumb to the nightmare, others will finally wake up.

      Markimdb: 5
      Genredrama, western, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:49

      When a young woman learns her parents' killer has been released from jail, she is forced to revisit old wounds while discovering the destructive power of hate and the true cost of family secrets fully revealing themselves.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:43

      Bestselling novelist Mike Noonan, unable to cope after his wife's sudden death, returns to the couple's lakeside retreat in Maine, where he becomes involved in a custody battle between a young widow and her child's enormously wealthy grandfather. Mike inexplicably receives mysterious ghostly visitations, escalating nightmares and the realization that his late wife still has something to tell him.

      Markimdb: 4.2
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryBermuda, USA

      A C-list celebrity gets kidnapped and held hostage after a night-club appearance. When the police interrogate the man she accuses, they question whether she's after justice or a front-page story.

      Markimdb: 4.8
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA

      6 strangers are kidnapped and through governmental technology have proof they have all killed before and are told 5 will die this night, one may walk, and the six have 2 hours to decide who gets to live.

      Markimdb: 4.7
      Genrethriller, crime, detective
      CountryUSA, Poland, United Kingdom

      Tadek, a Polish detective, becomes suspicious of a controversial author when the incidents described in his unpublished novel resemble the inner workings of an unsolved murder.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrefantasy, short, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration00:08

      A magical girl, who exists outside of space and time, inhabits an odd, timeless landscape that is both old and modern, and spends her days playing and collecting objects from history, things that she loves.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrecomedy, family, cartoon, detective
      CountryUSA

      A relaxing spa getaway evolves into a prehistoric panic when Scooby-Doo and the gang uncover the horrible Phantosaur, an ancient legend come to life to protect hidden treasures buried in secret desert caves. But this scare-a-saurus doesn’t stand a chance with Shaggy around, after he finds his inner hero with the help of new-age hypnosis. Like, it makes him more brave and less hungry!




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