Detective films thrillers

The list of the best detective thrillers (films) selected by the visitors of our site: Mr. Brooks, The Ides of March, The Bank Job, Disconnect, L.A. Confidential, The Good Son, Lucky Number Slevin, The Skin I Live In, Bridge of Spies, A Few Good Men.

In the top there are new films of 2023, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:56

A psychological thriller about a man who is sometimes controlled by his murder-and-mayhem-loving alter ego.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrethriller, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:41

    Dirty tricks stand to soil an ambitious young press spokesman's idealism in a cutthroat presidential campaign where 'victory' is relative.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Australia
    Duration01:51

    Terry is a small-time car dealer trying to leave his shady past behind and start a family. Martine is a beautiful model from Terry's old neighbourhood who knows that Terry is no angel. When Martine proposes a foolproof plan to rob a bank, Terry recognises the danger but realises this may be the opportunity of a lifetime. As the resourceful band of thieves burrows its way into a safe-deposit vault at a Lloyds Bank, they quickly realise that, besides millions in riches, the boxes also contain secrets that implicate everyone from London's most notorious underworld gangsters to powerful government figures, and even the Royal Family. Although the heist makes headlines throughout Britain for several days, a government gag order eventually brings all reporting of the case to an immediate halt.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:55

      Disconnect interweaves multiple storylines about people searching for human connection in today’s wired world. Through poignant turns that are both harrowing and touching, the stories intersect with surprising twists that expose a shocking reality into our daily use of technology that mediates and defines our relationships and ultimately our lives.

      Markimdb: 8.2
      Genredrama, crime, detective, film noir
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:18

      Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night diner.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrethriller, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:27

      A young boy stays with his aunt and uncle, and befriends his cousin who's the same age. But his cousin begins showing increasing signs of psychotic behavior.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany
      Duration01:50

      Slevin is mistakenly put in the middle of a personal war between the city’s biggest criminal bosses. Under constant watch, Slevin must try not to get killed by an infamous assassin and come up with an idea of how to get out of his current dilemma. A film with many twists and turns.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountrySpain, USA
      Duration02:00

      A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genrethriller, drama, history
      CountryUSA, Germany, India
      Duration02:39

        During the Cold War, the Soviet Union captures U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers after shooting down his U-2 spy plane. Sentenced to 10 years in prison, Powers' only hope is New York lawyer James Donovan, recruited by a CIA operative to negotiate his release. Donovan boards a plane to Berlin, hoping to win the young man's freedom through a prisoner exchange. If all goes well, the Russians would get Rudolf Abel, the convicted spy who Donovan defended in court.

        Markimdb: 7.7
        Genrethriller, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:18

        When cocky military lawyer Lt. Daniel Kaffee and his co-counsel, Lt. Cmdr. JoAnne Galloway, are assigned to a murder case, they uncover a hazing ritual that could implicate high-ranking officials such as shady Col. Nathan Jessep.

        Markimdb: 6.9
        Genrethriller, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:02

        Danny Ocean's team of criminals are back and composing a plan more personal than ever. When ruthless casino owner Willy Bank doublecrosses Reuben Tishkoff, causing a heart attack, Danny Ocean vows that he and his team will do anything to bring down Willy Bank along with everything he's got. Even if it means asking for help from an enemy.

        Markimdb: 7
        Genrethriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:35

        When a promised job for Texan Michael fails to materialise in Wyoming, Mike is mistaken by Wayne to be the hitman he hired to kill his unfaithful wife, Suzanne. Mike takes full advantage of the situation, collects the money and runs. During his getaway, things go wrong, and soon get worse when he runs into the real hitman, Lyle.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:24

        While undergoing heart surgery, a man experiences a phenomenon called ‘anesthetic awareness’, which leaves him awake but paralyzed throughout the operation. As various obstacles present themselves, his wife must make life-altering decisions while wrestling with her own personal drama.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genrethriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA

        In Knockemstiff, Ohio and its neighboring backwoods, sinister characters converge around young Arvin Russell as he fights the evil forces that threaten him and his family.

        Markimdb: 7
        Genredrama, crime, detective
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
        Duration01:57

        Trying to find how a millionaire wound up with a phony diamond brings Hercule Poirot to an exclusive island resort frequented by the rich and famous. When a murder is committed, everyone has an alibi.

        Markimdb: 7.7
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, biography
        CountryUSA, Italy
        Duration02:10

        The real-life struggle of an honest New York City cop against a corrupt system.

        Markimdb: 7.9
        Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
        CountryUSA, France
        Duration02:01

        Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.

        Markimdb: 6.9
        Genrethriller, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:59

        A married man's one night stand comes back to haunt him when that lover begins to stalk him and his family.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genrethriller, drama, military, history
        CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, Canada, USA
        Duration02:18

        When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save the ship and prevent a nuclear disaster.

        Markimdb: 5.8
        Genrethriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:55

        Working-class waitress Slim thought she was entering a life of domestic bliss when she married Mitch, the man of her dreams. After the arrival of their first child, her picture perfect life is shattered when she discovers Mitch's hidden possessive dark side, a controlling and abusive alter ego that can turn trust, love and tranquility into terror. Terrified for her child's safety, Slim flees with her daughter. Relentless in his pursuit and enlisting the aid of lethal henchmen, Mitch continually stalks the prey that was once his family.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genrethriller, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:55

          A young woman with a mysterious past lands in Southport, North Carolina where her bond with a widower forces her to confront the dark secret that haunts her.

          Markimdb: 7
          Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, crime, biography
          CountryUSA, Germany, Canada
          Duration01:53

          Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. Television producer by day, CIA assassin by night, Chuck Barris was recruited by the CIA at the height of his TV career and trained to become a covert operative. Or so Barris said.

          Markimdb: 7
          Genrethriller, drama, crime
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:56

          John Quincy Archibald is a father and husband whose son is diagnosed with an enlarged heart and then finds out he cannot receive a transplant because HMO insurance will not cover it. Therefore, he decides to take a hospital full of patients hostage until the hospital puts his son's name on the donor's list.

          Markimdb: 6.7
          Genrethriller, drama, crime
          CountryUSA, France, Canada
          Duration01:51

          One day in 1984, Todd Bowden, a brilliant high school boy fascinated by the history of Nazism, stumbles across an old man whose appearance resembles that of Kurt Dussander, a wanted Nazi war criminal. A month later, Todd decides to knock on his door.

          Markimdb: 7.4
          Genrethriller, drama, crime
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:00

          A widescreen, Technicolor remake by Hitchcock of his 1934 film of the same title. A couple vacationing in Morocco with their young son accidentally stumble upon an assassination plot. When the child is kidnapped to ensure their silence, they have to take matters into their own hands to save him.

          Markimdb: 7.4
          Genrethriller, drama, crime
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:44

          A family man convicted of killing an intruder must cope with life afterward in the violent penal system.

          Markimdb: 6.1
          Genrethriller, comedy, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:36

          When recently single Steven moves into his new apartment, cable guy Chip comes to hook him up -- and doesn't let go. Initially, Chip is just overzealous in his desire to be Steven's pal, but when Steven tries to end the "friendship," Chip shows his dark side. He begins stalking Steven, who's left to fend for himself because no one else can believe Chip's capable of such behavior.

          Markimdb: 7.7
          Genrethriller, drama, adventure
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:01

          Four men from different parts of the globe, all hiding from their pasts in the same remote South American town, agree to risk their lives transporting several cases of dynamite (which is so old that it is dripping unstable nitroglycerin) across dangerous jungle terrain.

          Markimdb: 6.5
          Genrethriller, melodrama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:48

          When a willful young man tries to venture beyond his sequestered Pennsylvania hamlet, his actions set off a chain of chilling incidents that will alter the community forever.

          Markimdb: 7.1
          Genrethriller, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:32

          A young writer is interrogated by a sadistic secret policeman. She is accused of embedding political messages in her children's stories. The entire movie takes place in one room, with only the two actors. The movie is set in an unidentified, modern police state.

          Markimdb: 7.2
          Genrethriller, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:57

          Threats from sinister foreign nationals aren't the only thing to fear. Bedraggled college professor Michael Faraday has been vexed (and increasingly paranoid) since his wife's accidental death in a botched FBI operation. But all that takes a backseat when a seemingly all-American couple set up house next door.

          Markimdb: 7.1
          Genrethriller, drama, history
          CountryUnited Kingdom, Italy, USA
          Duration02:42

          Titus Andronicus returns from the wars and sees his sons and daughters taken from him, one by one. Shakespeare's goriest and earliest tragedy.

          Markimdb: 8
          Genrethriller, drama, western
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:25

          Will Kane, the sheriff of a small town in New Mexico, learns a notorious outlaw he put in jail has been freed, and will be arriving on the noon train. Knowing the outlaw and his gang are coming to kill him, Kane is determined to stand his ground, so he attempts to gather a posse from among the local townspeople.

          Markimdb: 7.5
          Genrethriller, drama, adventure, biography
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, France
          Duration01:33

          The true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston's remarkable adventure to save himself after a fallen boulder crashes on his arm and traps him in an isolated canyon in Utah.

          Markimdb: 6.2
          Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, crime
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:45

          Along with his new friends, a teenager who was arrested by the US Secret Service and banned from using a computer for writing a computer virus discovers a plot by a nefarious hacker, but they must use their computer skills to find the evidence while being pursued by the Secret Service and the evil computer genius behind the virus.

          Markimdb: 7.4
          Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:53

          In the midst of a searing Florida heat wave, a woman convinces her lover, a small-town lawyer, to murder her rich husband.

          Markimdb: 6.9
          Genrethriller, drama
          CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, USA
          Duration02:10

            Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her, the story advances the theory that it was in fact Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford who penned Shakespeare's plays.

            Markimdb: 7.7
            Genrethriller, drama, biography
            CountryUSA, United Kingdom
            Duration02:00

            As the Iranian revolution reaches a boiling point, a CIA 'exfiltration' specialist concocts a risky plan to free six Americans who have found shelter at the home of the Canadian ambassador.

            Markimdb: 7.8
            Genrethriller, drama, crime
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:58

              When Lou Bloom, desperate for work, muscles into the world of L.A. crime journalism, he blurs the line between observer and participant to become the star of his own story. Aiding him in his effort is Nina, a TV-news veteran.

              Markimdb: 7.3
              Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, crime
              CountryUSA, France
              Duration02:13

                A married couple's life is turned upside down when the wife is accused of a murder. Lara Brennan is arrested for murdering her boss with whom she had an argument. It seems she was seen leaving the scene of the crime and her fingerprints were on the murder weapon. Her husband, John would spend the next few years trying to get her released, but there's no evidence that negates the evidence against her. And when the strain of being separated from her family, especially her son, gets to her, John decides to break her out. So he does a lot of research to find a way.

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