Detective movies about virtual reality

List of the best virtual reality detective movies selected by visitors to our site: Source Code, Inception, Non-Stop, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Searching, The Batman, The Da Vinci Code, Wind River, Frailty, L.A. Confidential.

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

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure, detective
CountryUSA, Canada, France, Germany
Duration01:33

    Decorated soldier Captain Colter Stevens wakes up in the body of an unknown man, discovering he's involved in a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train. He learns he's part of a top-secret experimental program that enables him to experience the final 8 minutes of another person's life. Colter re-lives the train incident over and over again, gathering more clues each time. But can he discover who is responsible for the attack before the next one happens?

    Markimdb: 8.8
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration02:28

      Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genreaction, thriller, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA, Canada
      Duration01:46

      Bill Marks is a burned-out veteran of the Air Marshals service. He views the assignment not as a life-saving duty, but as a desk job in the sky. However, today's flight will be no routine trip. Shortly into the transatlantic journey from New York to London, he receives a series of mysterious text messages ordering him to have the government transfer $150 million into a secret account, or a passenger will die every 20 minutes.

      Markimdb: 7.8
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA, Sweden, Norway
      Duration02:33

      This English-language adaptation of the Swedish novel by Stieg Larsson follows a disgraced journalist, Mikael Blomkvist, as he investigates the disappearance of a weary patriarch's niece from 40 years ago. He is aided by the pierced, tattooed, punk computer hacker named Lisbeth Salander. As they work together in the investigation, Blomkvist and Salander uncover immense corruption beyond anything they have ever imagined.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genrethriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA, Russia
      Duration02:32

      After David Kim's 16-year-old daughter goes missing, a local investigation is opened and a detective is assigned to the case. But 37 hours later and without a single lead, David decides to search the one place no one has looked yet, where all secrets are kept today: his daughter's laptop.

      Markimdb: 7.9
      Genrefantastic, action, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA

      In his second year of fighting crime, Batman uncovers corruption in Gotham City that connects to his own family while facing a serial killer known as the Riddler.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genreaction, thriller, detective
      CountryUSA, Italy, Malta, France, United Kingdom
      Duration02:29

      When the curator of the Louvre is found murdered in the famed museum's hallowed halls, Harvard professor, Robert Langdon and cryptographer, Sophie Neve must untangle a deadly web of deceit involving the works of Leonardo da Vinci.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genrethriller, crime, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada, USA

      An FBI agent teams with the town's veteran game tracker to investigate a murder that occurred on a Native American reservation.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrethriller, crime, detective
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration01:36

      A man confesses to an FBI agent his family's story of how his religious fanatic father's visions lead to a series of murders to destroy supposed "demons."

      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, crime, detective
      CountryFrance, USA
      Duration01:51

      A lawyer is asked to come to the police station to clear up a few loose ends in his witness report of a foul murder. "This will only take ten minutes", they say, but it turns out to be one loose end after another, and the ten minutes he is away from his speech become longer and longer.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genrethriller, crime, detective
      CountryDenmark, Germany, Sweden, Norway
      Duration01:54

      Copenhagen, Denmark, 2018. A frightening discovery is made in an old apartment. The subsequent investigation of Department Q members leads them to an infamous institution for girls that was suddenly closed in the early sixties.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:12

      Dolores Claiborne was accused of killing her abusive husband twenty years ago, but the court's findings were inconclusive and she was allowed to walk free. Now she has been accused of killing her employer, Vera Donovan, and this time there is a witness who can place her at the scene of the crime. Things look bad for Dolores when her daughter Selena, a successful Manhattan magazine writer, returns to cover the story.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA, France
      Duration02:15

      In the questionable town of Deer Meadow, Washington, FBI Agent Desmond inexplicably disappears while hunting for the man who murdered a teen girl. The killer is never apprehended, and, after experiencing dark visions and supernatural encounters, Agent Dale Cooper chillingly predicts that the culprit will claim another life. Meanwhile, in the more cozy town of Twin Peaks, hedonistic beauty Laura Palmer hangs with lowlifes and seems destined for a grisly fate.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrethriller, melodrama, crime, detective
      CountrySouth Korea

      A detective investigating a man's death in the mountains meets the dead man's mysterious wife in the course of his dogged sleuthing.

      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: 8.2
      Genrefantastic, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:47

      A psychological thriller about an eight year old boy named Cole Sear who believes he can see into the world of the dead. A child psychologist named Malcolm Crowe comes to Cole to help him deal with his problem, learning that he really can see ghosts of dead people.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genrethriller, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:53

      A young woman doctor discovers something sinister going on in her hospital. Relatively healthy patients are having 'complications' during simple operations and ending up in comas. The patients are then shipped off to an institute that looks after them. The young doctor suspects there is more to this than meets the eye.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genrehorror, fantastic, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:37

      An alien is on the run in America. To get his kicks, it kills anything that gets in its way, and uses the body as a new hiding place. This alien has a goal in life; power. Hotly pursued by another alien (who's borrowed the body of a dead FBI agent), lots of innocent people die in the chase.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrethriller, drama, detective
      CountryFrance

      A young and talented black box analyst is on a mission to solve the reason behind the deadly crash of a brand new aircraft.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genredetective
      CountrySoviet Union
      Duration02:16

      Sudden arrival of a police inspector in the middle of a bourgeois family's dinner party reveals various sordid and shameful secrets that may have contributed to the recent suicide of an impoverished young woman.

      Markimdb: 8.6
      Genreadventure, crime, detective
      CountrySoviet Union
      Duration02:34

      The Hound of the Baskervilles is a 1981 Soviet film adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's novel The Hound of the Baskervilles. It was the third installment in the TV series about adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson. A potent streak of humour ran through the film as concerns references to traditional British customs and stereotypes, ensuring the film's popularity with several generations of Russophone viewers. Other features of this best entry in the series include excellent exterior shots which closely match the novel's setting in the Dartmoor marshland, as well as an all-star cast: in addition to the famous Livanov -Solomin duo as Holmes and Watson, the film stars the internationally acclaimed actor/director Nikita Mikhalkov as Sir Henry Baskerville and the Russian movie legend Oleg Yankovsky as the villain Stapleton.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:45

      Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.

      Markimdb: 7.8
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom, France
      Duration02:25

      An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated gendarme on the assassin’s trail.

      Markimdb: 7.8
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountrySouth Korea
      Duration02:09

      A mother lives quietly with her son. One day, a girl is brutally killed, and the boy is charged with the murder. Now, it's his mother's mission to prove him innocent.

      Markimdb: 8.5
      Genrefantastic, drama, crime, detective
      CountrySouth Korea
      Duration01:42

      
Detectives from the present and a detective from the past communicate via walkie-talkie to solve a long-time unsolved case.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryGermany
      Duration01:30

      A young lawyer stumbles upon a vast conspiracy while investigating a brutal murder case.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genrethriller, crime, detective
      CountrySouth Korea
      Duration01:50

      Jin-seok, 21-year-old, moves into a new house with his family. He suffers from a slight schizophrenia but he carries an ordinary life under the warm care of the family. His older brother Yu-seok is a decent college student, a mentor, and role model for Jin-seok. One night, his beloved brother is kidnapped by unidentified assailants before Jin-seok’s eye. Jin-seok can’t recognize their faces, but can remember only the VIN that matches with no car. After long silence of 19 days, suddenly Yu-seok returns home, but remembers nothing which had happened in the meantime. And soon Jin-seok feels Yu-seok is a total stranger…

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountrySouth Korea
      Duration02:06

      The film is based on a true yet unsolved murder case from the early 1990s that is known among Koreans as the "disappearance of the frog children." In 1991, five elementary school students told their parents that they were going to hang out on a nearby mountain to catch frogs, and then they go missing.

      Markimdb: 7.8
      Genrethriller, drama, detective
      CountrySouth Korea
      Duration01:50

      In the DMZ separating North and South Korea, two North Korean soldiers have been killed, supposedly by one South Korean soldier. But the 11 bullets found in the bodies, together with the 5 remaining bullets in the assassin's magazine clip, amount to 16 bullets for a gun that should normally hold 15 bullets. The investigating Swiss/Swedish team from the neutral countries overseeing the DMZ suspects that another, unknown party was involved - all of which points to some sort of cover up. The truth is much simpler and much more tragic.

      Markimdb: 8.1
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountrySouth Korea
      Duration02:11

      1986 Gyunggi Province. The body of a young woman is found brutally raped and murdered. Two months later, a series of rapes and murders commences under similar circumstances. And in a country that had never known such crimes, the dark whispers about a serial murderer grow louder. A special task force is set up in the area, with two local detectives Park Doo-Man and Jo Young-Goo joined by a detective from Seoul who requested to be assigned to the case.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genredrama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA, Malta, United Kingdom

      Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot’s Egyptian vacation aboard a glamorous river steamer turns into a terrifying search for a murderer when a picture-perfect couple’s idyllic honeymoon is tragically cut short.

      Markimdb: 8.5
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:53

      Leonard Shelby is tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The difficulty, however, of locating his wife's killer is compounded by the fact that he suffers from a rare, untreatable form of memory loss. Although he can recall details of life before his accident, Leonard cannot remember what happened fifteen minutes ago, where he's going, or why.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrethriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration01:58

      Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.

      Markimdb: 8.6
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:54

      Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into a case and that Starling, as an attractive young woman, may be just the bait to draw him out.

      Markimdb: 8.2
      Genrethriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:18

      World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by his troubling visions and also by a mysterious doctor.

      Genredetective

      When her best friend vanishes during a girls' trip to Croatia, Beth races to figure out what happened. But each clue yields another unsettling deception.

      Markimdb: 7.9
      Genredrama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:49

      An African American detective is asked to investigate a murder in a racist southern town.

      Markimdb: 8.6
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:07

      Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the "seven deadly sins" in this dark and haunting film that takes viewers from the tortured remains of one victim to the next. The seasoned Det. Sommerset researches each sin in an effort to get inside the killer's mind, while his novice partner, Mills, scoffs at his efforts to unravel the case.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA

      Stranded at a rest stop in the mountains during a blizzard, a recovering addict discovers a kidnapped child hidden in a car belonging to one of the people inside the building which sets her on a terrifying struggle to identify who among them is the kidnapper.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genrethriller, crime, detective
      CountryFrance, Belgium

      In Paris, a young girl is found dead in a Parisian square, wearing an evening dress. Commissioner Maigret will try to identify him and then understand what happened to the victim.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA

      Deputy Sheriff Joe "Deke" Deacon joins forces with Sgt. Jim Baxter to search for a serial killer who's terrorizing Los Angeles. As they track the culprit, Baxter is unaware that the investigation is dredging up echoes of Deke's past, uncovering disturbing secrets that could threaten more than his case.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, Spain, USA
      Duration02:10

      A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.

      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: 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: 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: 5.1
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA

      In the film set miles from civilization, a blind teenager and the hunter he befriends are tormented by a mysterious creature lurking in the woods.

      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: 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: 5.8
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective, biography
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:27

      Lizzie Borden Took An Ax chronicles the scandal and enduring mystery surrounding Lizzie Borden, who was tried in 1892 for axing her parents to death. As the case rages on, the courtroom proceedings fuel an enormous amount of sensationalized stories and headlines in newspapers throughout the country, forever leaving Lizzie Borden’s name in infamy.




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