Detective movies about criminals

List of the best detective movies about criminals, crimes and violators of the law, selected by visitors to our site: Three-Body, End of the Road, National Treasure: Edge of History, Magpie Murders, Coffin, Mindcage, Soft & Quiet, The Eternal Daughter, Murder Mystery 2, Bosch: Legacy.

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

Markimdb: 7.8
Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
CountryChina

Focuses on humans dealing with the incoming invasion of a highly-advanced alien civilization called Three-Body.

Markimdb: 4.8
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA

In this high-octane action thriller, a cross-country road trip becomes a highway to hell for Brenda and her family. Alone in the New Mexico desert, they have to fight for their lives when they become the targets of a mysterious killer.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genreaction, thriller, adventure, detective
CountryUSA

Jess Valenzuela, a 20-year-old Dreamer, sets off on an exploration to discover the mystery of her family history, and, with the help of her friends, seeks to recover historical lost treasure.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genredrama, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Republic of Ireland

Editor Susan Ryeland gets drawn into a web of intrigue and murder when she receives Alan Conway's unfinished manuscript of an Atticus Pünd mystery.

Markimdb: 3.7
Genrehorror, thriller, crime, detective
CountryUSA

Awakening from a deep sleep in the pitch black Sean Justice feels around him and realises that he is in a small wooden box and beside him lays his unconscious girlfriend. With only two hours of air time remaining a ransom demand is made of $500,000 dollars in cash for the location of their wooden prison.

Markimdb: 4.5
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA

When a copycat strikes, two detectives ask a top serial killer for help.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA

Playing out in real time, an elementary school teacher organizes a mixer of like-minded women, when she encounters a woman from her past, leading to a volatile chain of events.

Markimdb: 6
Genredrama, detective
CountryUSA, United Kingdom

Returning to a hotel now haunted by its mysterious past, an artist and her elderly mother confront long-buried secrets in their former family home.

Markimdb: 5.6
Genrecomedy, crime, detective
CountryUSA

After starting their own detective agency, Nick and Audrey Spitz land a career-making case when their billionaire pal is kidnapped from his wedding.

Markimdb: 8.5
Genreaction, thriller, crime, detective
CountryUSA

Bosch embarks on the next chapter of his career and finds himself working with his one-time enemy, Honey Chandler.

Markimdb: 7
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective
CountryUSA

Twenty years ago, a series of tragic events almost ripped Millwood apart. Now, in the present day, a brand-new set of Little Liars finds themselves tormented by an unknown assailant.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genreaction, thriller, crime, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

Brilliant but disgraced detective John Luther breaks out of prison to hunt down a sadistic serial killer who is terrorising London.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrecomedy, adventure, family, cartoon, detective
CountryUSA

With Coco and kitty in prison, Mystery Inc. thinks that they can finally enjoy a break.

Markimdb: 5.1
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:54

Having lived through traumatizing events during WWII, Father Lankester Merrin takes a sabbatical from the Church to conduct archaeological excavations in British-administered East Africa. Merrin unearths an ancient Byzantine church believed have been built and then immediately buried to keep down evil from the crypt below. The natives are convinced that uncovering the church has unleashed a demon, and begin to violently clash with the British military troops. As the village rapidly disintegrates into chaos and war, Merrin must face-off with the demon which has taken possession of somebody close to him.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrethriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA

A young woman is thrust into a world of old money and deadly secrets.

Markimdb: 4.9
Genrehorror, action, thriller, detective
CountryUSA

Follows Eden, who goes to a coveted 'Heaven and Hell' party, hoping to get a letter of recommendation to an elite university from the wealthy parents of her classmate, but the party quickly turns into a fight for her life.

Markimdb: 4.2
Genrethriller, crime, detective
CountryUSA

A detective on the verge of retirement teams with a professor of African Studies to track down a serial killer who is performing the ancient black magic practice of Muti.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA

A series of down-on-their-luck individuals enter the decrepit and spine-chilling Rialto theater, only to have their deepest and darkest fears brought to life on the silver screen by The Projectionist – a mysterious, ghostly figure who holds the nightmarish futures of all who attend his screenings.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, drama, adventure, detective
CountryCanada, USA

After an experimental gene therapy turns them into monsters, three twenty-somethings band together to hunt down the scientist responsible and force him to make them human again.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genreaction, crime, detective
CountryUSA

Follow a team of Naval criminal investigators who operate on the Hawaiian islands.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryGermany, Canada, USA
Duration01:45

An undercover narc dies, the investigation stalls, so the Detroit P.D. brings back Nick Tellis, fired 18-months ago when a stray bullet hits a pregnant woman. Tellis teams with Henry Oak, a friend of the dead narc and an aggressive cop constantly under the scrutiny of internal affairs. They follow leads and informants turn up dead.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrehorror, action, thriller, comedy, adventure, family, cartoon, short, crime, detective
CountryUSA, Uruguay

When things go bad in Beantown, top assassin Killer Bean is called to clean-up the mess. Detective Cromwell finds himself in the middle between Killer Bean and mob boss Cappuccino.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genredocumentary, crime, detective
CountryUSA

A young mother's mysterious death and her son's subsequent kidnapping blow open a decades-long mystery about the woman's true identity and the murderous federal fugitive at the center of it all.

Markimdb: 8.2
Genredrama, crime, detective
CountryUSA

Charlie has an extraordinary ability to determine when someone is lying. She hits the road with her Plymouth Barracuda and with every stop encounters a new cast of characters and strange crimes she can't help but investigate and solve.

Duration01:46

A family living on a farm finds mysterious crop circles in their fields which suggests something more frightening to come.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:28

Topper is once again tormented by a fun-loving spirit. This time, it's Gail Richards, who was accidentally murdered while vacationing at the home of her wealthy friend, Ann Carrington (Landis), the intended victim. With Topper's help, Gail sets out to find her killer with the expected zany results.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA

A devout detective's faith is tested as he investigates a brutal murder that seems to be connected to an esteemed Utah family's spiral into LDS fundamentalism and their distrust in the government.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrehorror, fantasy, cartoon, detective
CountryUSA

Occult detective John Constantine is trapped in the House of Mystery, a secret domain where none can escape from.

Markimdb: 4.4
Genrethriller, detective
CountryAustralia

A neighbourhood is plagued by mysterious tragedies when a young man becomes the conduit for an unknown spirit, the 'AIYAI' which lures victims to their chilling fates.

Markimdb: 7
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration02:14

After the murder of his beloved wife, a man in search of redemption is set adrift in a world where nothing is as it seems. On his journey, he befriends slacker Jimmy "The Finn", becomes involved in rescuing his neighbor Colette from her own demons, and gets entangled in a web of deceit full of unexpected twists and turns.

Markimdb: 7
Genredrama, detective, history
CountryTurkey

At a historic Istanbul hotel, a journalist is thrust into the past and must stop a plot that could change the fate of modern Turkey.

Markimdb: 8.8
Genredrama, crime, detective
CountryIndia

A pregnant woman from a primitive tribal community, searches desperately for her husband, who is missing from police custody. So as to find her husband and seek justice for them, as their voice, a High Court advocate rises in support. Will their battle for justice succeed?

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrefantasy, comedy, family, detective
CountryUSA

A single mom named Gabbie hires a tour guide, a psychic, a priest and a historian to help exorcise her newly bought mansion after discovering it is inhabited by ghosts.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:42

A Jewish homicide detective investigates a seemingly minor murder and falls in with a Zionist group as a result.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrethriller, drama, detective
CountryAustralia, USA

Leni and Gina are identical twins who have secretly swapped their lives since they were children, culminating in a double life as adults, but one of the sisters goes missing and everything in their perfectly schemed world turns into chaos.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrethriller, comedy, drama, detective
CountryRepublic of Ireland

A recently retired English professor discovers a real knack for investigation and cannot help but interfere with the cases assigned to her police detective son.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryGermany
Duration01:45

German students compete to enter one of the country's elite schools.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genreaction, comedy, crime, detective
CountryFrance

Diakité and Monge are police officers who are complete opposites, and get paired together to uncover an unexpectedly big criminal case.

Seo-joon, loses everything to voice phishing and infiltrates a organization in China to meet Kwak Pro, the designer behind this phishing system.

Markimdb: 7
Genrethriller, drama, detective
CountryIndia

A flying prodigy, Captain Vikrant Khanna's flight takes a stirring and mysterious trajectory after take-off from an international destination. Concurrently, it follows the tenacious Narayan Vedant in his pursuit to uncover the truth.

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