English movies about the investigation

List of the best English investigative movies selected by our site visitors: Death on the Nile, Scoob!, The Empty Man, Taking Lives, Sinister, Zone 414, Murder, Outlawed, Sherlock Gnomes, I, Anna.

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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: 5.6
Genrefantastic, fantasy, comedy, adventure, family, cartoon, crime, detective
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Canada

In Scooby-Doo’s greatest adventure yet, see the never-before told story of how lifelong friends Scooby and Shaggy first met and how they joined forces with young detectives Fred, Velma, and Daphne to form the famous Mystery Inc. Now, with hundreds of cases solved, Scooby and the gang face their biggest, toughest mystery ever: an evil plot to unleash the ghost dog Cerberus upon the world. As they race to stop this global “dogpocalypse,” the gang discovers that Scooby has a secret legacy and an epic destiny greater than anyone ever imagined.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrehorror, fantastic, detective
CountryUSA, South Africa, United Kingdom

After a group of teens from a small Midwestern town begin to mysteriously disappear, the locals believe it is the work of an urban legend known as The Empty Man. As a retired cop investigates and struggles to make sense of the stories, he discovers a secretive group and their attempts to summon a horrific, mystical entity, and soon his life—and the lives of those close to him—are in grave danger.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrethriller, crime, detective
CountryUSA, United Kingdom
Duration01:49

Recruited to assist Montreal police in their desperate search for a serial killer who assumes the identities of his victims, FBI profiler Illeana Scott knows it's only a matter of time before the killer strikes again. Her most promising lead is a museum employee who might be the killer's only eyewitness.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Canada
Duration01:45

    Found footage helps a true-crime novelist realize how and why a family was murdered in his new home, though his discoveries put his entire family in the path of a supernatural entity.

    Markimdb: 4.9
    Genrefantastic, thriller
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

    In the near future on a colony of state-of-the-art robots, a private investigator is hired by the colony's creator to bring his missing daughter home.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genredrama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration00:30

    Three different deaths. Three unique stories. Who is lying and who is telling the truth?

    Markimdb: 4.8
    Genreaction
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    An ex-Royal Marine Commando uncovers evidence that could bring down a corrupt official and put him behind bars for life. When his childhood sweetheart is kidnapped, his mission is to rescue her and let nothing stand in his way.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, musical, adventure, family, cartoon, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Canada
    Duration02:08

    Garden gnomes, Gnomeo & Juliet, recruit renown detective, Sherlock Gnomes, to investigate the mysterious disappearance of other garden ornaments.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Germany
    Duration01:33

    A noir thriller told from the point of view of a femme fatale, who falls for the detective in charge of a murder case.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genreaction, thriller, comedy, drama, adventure, crime, detective
    CountryUSA, Germany, United Kingdom, Australia
    Duration02:08

    There is a new criminal mastermind at large (Professor Moriarty) and not only is he Holmes’ intellectual equal, but his capacity for evil and lack of conscience may give him an advantage over the detective.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:47

    1921 England is overwhelmed by the loss and grief of World War I. Hoax exposer Florence Cathcart (Hall) visits a boarding school to explain sightings of a child ghost.

    Markimdb: 4.6
    Genrehorror, thriller
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:29

    An aspiring teen detective stumbles into her first real case, when investigating the mysterious new family in her neighborhood.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA, Belgium, Luxembourg, China, Germany
    Duration02:25

    Michael Mason is an American pickpocket living in Paris who finds himself hunted by the CIA when he steals a bag that contains more than just a wallet. Sean Briar, the field agent on the case, soon realises that Michael is just a pawn in a much bigger game and is also his best asset to uncover a large-scale conspiracy.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genreaction, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:52

    Based on the '70s UK TV show, The Sweeney is an action-packed British police thriller from the director of Football Factory. Jack Regan (Ray Winstone), a hardened cop who doesn’t play by the rules, is confronted with a criminal from his past. With sidekick George Carter (Ben Drew aka Plan B) they are put on the case of a jewellery store heist that ends in a killing. But is that killing really an execution in disguise? With pressure from his boss and the fact that Regan is having an affair with that boss’s wife, it’s not going to be easy for him to stay out of trouble.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrethriller, drama, biography
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    The true story of a Sunday school teacher and respectable dentist and pillar of the community, who formed a murderous partnership.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrecomedy, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    Over the course of the fun and vibrant series, Agatha will attempt to solve a number of mysteries in the Cotswolds, from the death of a local witch to the demise of a flirtatious young vet. The will-they-won’t-they relationship between Agatha and on-off love interest James will continue, meanwhile, as the pair pose as a married couple in order to solve a crime.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrefantasy, comedy, adventure, family, cartoon
    CountryCanada, USA, United Kingdom
    Duration02:13

    The charismatic Sir Lionel Frost considers himself to be the world's foremost investigator of myths and monsters. Trouble is, none of his small-minded, high-society peers seems to recognize this. Hoping to finally gain acceptance from these fellow adventurers, Sir Lionel travels to the Pacific Northwest to prove the existence of a legendary creature known as the missing link.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration00:43

    London cop and compulsive gambler Harry Clayton is on the verge of losing everything. On the night when his huge debts are to be called in, he meets the enigmatic Eve, who gives him a mysterious bracelet said to endow the wearer with immense luck. Harry's fortunes suddenly begin to shift, but he also soon finds himself sucked into a sinister crime wave sweeping through the city.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Spain, Republic of Ireland, USA

    After the death of her family in an airplane crash on a flight that she was meant to be on, Stephanie Patrick discovers the crash was not an accident. She then seeks to uncover the truth by adapting the identity of an assassin to track down those responsible.

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada

    The Bletchley Circle follows the journey of four ordinary women with extraordinary skills that helped to end World War II. Set in 1952, Susan, Millie, Lucy and Jean have returned to their normal lives, modestly setting aside the part they played in producing crucial intelligence, which helped the Allies to victory and shortened the war. When Susan discovers a hidden code behind an unsolved murder she is met by skepticism from the police. She quickly realises she can only begin to crack the murders and bring the culprit to justice with her former friends. The Bletchley Circle paints a vivid portrait of post-war Britain in this fictional tale of unsung heroes.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genredrama, crime, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:11

    A private investigator helps a former flame solve the murder of her wealthy grandfather, who lived in a sprawling estate surrounded by his idiosyncratic family.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genreaction, thriller, adventure
    CountryUSA, China, Hong Kong, Austria, United Kingdom, Morocco
    Duration02:29

      Ethan and team take on their most impossible mission yet, eradicating the Syndicate - an International rogue organization as highly skilled as they are, committed to destroying the IMF.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

      After a whirlwind romance with a wealthy widower, a naïve bride moves to his family estate but can't escape the haunting shadow of his late wife.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:32

      Thriller charting the moral collapse of a police family. Two cop brothers, smothered by the shadow of their former police chief father, must investigate a crime they themselves have committed.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, military
      CountryFrance, United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, Belgium

      A private security contractor in Iraq rejects the official explanation of his friend's death and decides to investigate.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Bulgaria
      Duration02:27

      Bill Pope is a CIA agent on a mission in London tracking down a shadowy hacker nicknamed "The Dutchman." When he gets mysteriously ambushed and killed, an experimental procedure is used to transfer his memories into dangerous ex-convict Jericho Stewart. When he wakes up with the CIA agent's memories, his mission is to find The Dutchman and eliminate him before the hacker launches ICBM's and starts World War III. But complications soon arise and the mission turns personal.

      Markimdb: 5.3
      Genrecomedy, crime, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      The Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates a series of murders in London in which the victims are killed according to their initials.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, military, biography
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Luxembourg, China
      Duration01:37

      The true story of British intelligence whistleblower Katharine Gun who—prior to the 2003 Iraq invasion—leaked a top-secret NSA memo exposing a joint US-UK illegal spying operation against members of the UN Security Council. The memo proposed blackmailing member states into voting for war.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Sweden, Canada, USA
      Duration01:49

      Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford is a pillar of the community in his small west Texas town, patient and apparently thoughtful. Some people think he is a little slow and maybe boring, but that is the worst they say about him. But then nobody knows about what Lou calls his "sickness": He is a brilliant, but disturbed sociopathic sadist.

      Markimdb: 8.6
      Genredrama, crime, detective, military
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      As WW2 rages around the world, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front as he investigates crimes on the south coast of England. Foyle's War opens in southern England in the year 1940. Later series sees the retired detective working as an MI5 agent operating in the aftermath of the war.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, military
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration02:39

      In 1942, an intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of war.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Japan
      Duration01:18

      The first manned spacecraft, fired from an English launchpad, is first lost from radar, then roars back to Earth and crashes in a farmer's field, and is found to contain only one of the three men who took off in it; and he is unable to talk but appears to be undergoing a torturous physical and mental metamorphosis.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genrethriller, crime, detective
      CountryItaly, France, Spain, United Kingdom

      Carol Hammond, the sexually frustrated wife of a successful London lawyer, is having bizarre, erotic dreams about her uninhibited neighbour, Julia Durer, who presides over noisy, sex and drug filled parties in the house next door. One night, Carol dreams culminate in violent death and she wakes to find her nightmares have become reality - Julia has been murdered and Carol is the main suspect. Was she set up, or did she really do it?

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:43

      An elderly ex-serviceman and widower looks to avenge his best friend's murder by doling out his own form of justice.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryRepublic of Ireland, United Kingdom
      Duration01:34

      Film archivist David and his wife are perfectly happy or so he believes. When a looming secret shatters their marriage at the same time as a turn-of-the-century film reel he is studying reveals their house to be the site of a 1902 multiple-murder, David begins to unravel, and the house’s eerie history threatens to repeat itself. Dripping with tension and chilling to the core, this visceral Irish ghost story is a visually arresting and genuinely shocking journey into the darkness within.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Germany
      Duration02:02

      A Chechen Muslim illegally immigrates to Hamburg and becomes a person of interest for a covert government team which tracks the movements of potential terrorists.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, adventure, cartoon, crime, detective, anime
      CountryJapan, Italy, United Kingdom, Mexico, Spain

      The Governor of Tokyo, Yuichiro Asakura, receives a threatening letter the day before the opening of Touto Line, a new train line for the Tokyo Metro. During the opening ceremony of the line, Conan Edogawa and the Detective Boys are driven by Professor Agasa and pass under the Touto Line. Conan, having heard about the threatening letter, notices explosives connected to the Touto railway; Using his original voice to inform the police as Shinichi Kudo, he is able to stop the train and divert traffic away from the explosives preventing any deaths.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Hungary
      Duration01:00

      Maigret plunges into the murky Parisian underworld.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrethriller, drama, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:26

      Beautiful and wealthy young socialite Iris Carr is used to being at the heart of her social group, but when her friends' raucous and unsociable behaviour escalates whilst on holiday in the Balkans she resolves to seek out some tranquillity and travel home alone. But her expectations of peace are short-lived when, at the railway station, Iris wavers in the scorching heat and constant jostle of passengers, fainting suddenly on the platform. She wakes in time to be rushed onto the train, but with a pounding head and a feeling of being almost in a dream. Whilst in this malaise she is comforted by an older English lady called Miss Froy, but when Iris falls asleep she awakes to find Miss Froy has gone and her fellow passengers denying she ever existed.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genreaction, thriller, detective
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom, France, China, Canada
      Duration01:55

      A businessman, on his daily commute home, gets unwittingly caught up in a criminal conspiracy that threatens not only his life but the lives of those around him.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrethriller, drama, adventure, crime, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration01:53

      Concerned about his friend's cocaine use, Dr. Watson tricks Sherlock Holmes into travelling to Vienna, where Holmes enters the care of Sigmund Freud. Freud attemts to solve the mysteries of Holmes' subconscious, while Holmes devotes himself to solving a mystery involving the kidnapping of Lola Deveraux.

      Markimdb: 5.5
      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:35

      A serial killer, who drains his victims for blood is on the loose in London, the Police follow him to a house owned by an eccentric scientist.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genremelodrama, drama, military, history
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

      A German soldier tries to determine if the Dutch resistance has planted a spy to infiltrate the home of Kaiser Wilhelm in Holland during the onset of World War II, but falls for a young Jewish Dutch woman during his investigation.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genredrama, biography, history
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration01:38

        Hitchcock follows the relationship between director Alfred Hitchcock and his wife Alma Reville during the making of his most famous film "Psycho" - and the trials and tribulations the director faced from Hollywood censors.

        Markimdb: 7.8
        Genreaction, thriller, comedy, crime, detective
        CountryUnited Kingdom

        Hannah plays DI Jack Cloth, who is called in to investigate an apparent series of serial killings alongside his new partner, DC Anne Oldman, described as a "plucky, no-nonsense sidekick". Playing with the cliches and conventions of British police dramas, subplots include Cloth dealing with visions of his dead wife and the bisexual DC Oldman coming to grips with her feelings for both her female fiancee and Cloth.

        Markimdb: 4.5
        Genrehorror, thriller
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration01:27

        In 1998, thirty four unidentified bodies were found in shallow graves in a remote Siberian forest. After subsequent investigations, no official explanation by the Russian authorities was ever offered about the circumstances of the deaths.

        Markimdb: 8
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Canada, Spain
        Duration02:26

        Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. K's discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard, a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genrethriller, crime, detective
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration01:35

        When Watson reads from the newspaper there have been two similar murders near Whitechapel in a few days, Sherlock Holmes' sharp deductive is immediately stimulated to start its merciless method of elimination after observation of every apparently meaningless detail. He guesses right the victims must be street whores, and doesn't need long to work his way trough a pawn shop, an aristocratic family's stately home, a hospital and of course the potential suspects and (even unknowing) witnesses who are the cast of the gradually unraveled story of the murderer and his motive.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genrecomedy, musical, adventure, family, crime, detective, music
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom
        Duration01:35

        Kermit and Fozzie are newspaper reporters sent to London to interview Lady Holiday, a wealthy fashion designer whose priceless diamond necklace is stolen. Kermit meets and falls in love with her secretary, Miss Piggy. The jewel thieves strike again, and this time frame Miss Piggy. It's up to Kermit and Muppets to bring the real culprits to justice.




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