Films about crime investigations

Films about crime investigations
List of the best crime investigation films selected by visitors to our site: Memoir of a Murderer, Reprisal, The Third Man, Sleuth, Zodiac, The Girl on the Train, Night Hunter, Flypaper, Unknown, The Kid Detective.

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

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountrySouth Korea
Duration01:35

A former serial killer Byung-su gets diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and when a series of murders occur near his town, he worries whether the killings are his doings. Then, he comes across Tae-ju and realizes that he’s the killer. He reports this to the police, only to learn that Tae-ju is one. Byung-su tries to find evidence against Tae-ju, only to raise the young killer’s interest on him and his dear daughter.

Markimdb: 4.2
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA, United Kingdom
Duration02:09

Jacob, a bank manager haunted by a violent heist that took the life of a coworker, teams up with his ex-cop neighbor, James, to bring down the assailant. While the two men work together to figure out the thief’s next move, Gabriel, the highly-trained criminal, is one step ahead. When Gabriel kidnaps Jacob’s wife and daughter, Jacob barrels down a path of bloodshed that initiates an explosive counterattack and brings all three men to the breaking point.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genrethriller, detective, film noir
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:44

In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to learn he has died. Martins develops a conspiracy theory after learning of a "third man" present at the time of Harry's death, running into interference from British officer Major Calloway, and falling head-over-heels for Harry's grief-stricken lover, Anna.

Markimdb: 8
Genrethriller, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration02:18

A mystery novelist devises an insurance scam with his wife’s lover – but things aren’t exactly as they seem.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration02:38

The true story of the investigation of the "Zodiac Killer", a serial killer who terrified the San Francisco Bay Area, taunting police with his ciphers and letters. The case becomes an obsession for four men as their lives and careers are built and destroyed by the endless trail of clues.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration02:21

Rachel Watson, devastated by her recent divorce, spends her daily commute fantasizing about the seemingly perfect couple who live in a house that her train passes every day, until one morning she sees something shocking happen there and becomes entangled in the mystery that unfolds.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrethriller, crime, detective
CountryCanada, USA

A Minnesota police officer crosses paths with a committed and tireless vigilante as he follows the trail of a ruthless predator responsible for several abductions and murders.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrecomedy, crime, detective
CountryGermany, USA
Duration01:25

A man caught in the middle of two simultaneous robberies at a bank desperately tries to protect the teller with whom he's secretly in love.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genreaction, thriller, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, France, USA
Duration01:53

An American biologist attending a conference in Berlin awakens from a coma after a car accident, only to discover that someone has taken his identity and that no one, not even his wife, believes him. With the help of an illegal immigrant and a former Stazi agent, he sets out to prove who he is and find out why people are trying to kill him.

Markimdb: 7
Genrecomedy, drama, detective
CountryCanada

A once-celebrated kid detective, now 31, continues to solve the same trivial mysteries between hangovers and bouts of self-pity. Until a naive client brings him his first 'adult' case, to find out who brutally murdered her boyfriend.

Markimdb: 7.9
Genrethriller, crime, detective, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:49

Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen. Before the complex case is over, Marlowe sees murder, blackmail, deception, and what might be love.

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: 6.7
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration02:29

    In Los Angeles at the turn of the 1970s, drug-fueled detective Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the disappearance of an ex-girlfriend.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:54

    Private investigator Matthew Scudder is hired by a drug kingpin to find out who kidnapped and murdered his wife.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration00:40

    A mysterious Inspector investigates the wealthy Birling family and their dinner guests following the suicide of a young woman.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrethriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:44

    Marcus (Philip WInchester) wakes up in the middle of a cemetery half naked and has no idea how he got there. Urgent questions pound inside his head. "Where was I last night? Who was I with?" Marcus suffers from parasomnia, a rare sleep disorder which causes him to do things in his sleep which he cannot remember the next day. His situation takes a horrifying turn when Marcus wakes up covered in blood with a knife at his side. Then, the wife of his best friend is found stabbed to death. Marcus is terrified to put together the pieces - could he have murdered her in his sleep to hide a dark secret between them? Mysterious phone calls make Marcus believe someone is watching him. He investigates his own nocturnal activities, desperate to figure out what happens after he goes to sleep at night. His journey to discover the truth ends in a shocking discovery.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:52

    Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his wife.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, detective
    CountryUSA, Germany
    Duration01:45

    New York detective Ichabod Crane is sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate a series of mysterious deaths in which the victims are found beheaded. But the locals believe the culprit to be none other than the ghost of the legendary Headless Horseman.

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genredrama, detective, film noir
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:28

    A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.

    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: 4.1
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA

    Mystery writer Grace Miller has killer instincts when it comes to motive - and she'll need every bit of expertise to help solve her sister's murder.

    Markimdb: 4.2
    Genrethriller, crime, detective
    CountryUSA

    On the 4th of July, a serial killer has a moral crisis when he discovers that his latest victim is a high-school student; simultaneously, a rookie cop and a seasoned detective race against the clock to save her life.

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genrecomedy, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:31

    A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrethriller, fantasy, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, New Zealand
    Duration02:15

    After being brutally murdered, 14-year-old Susie Salmon watches from heaven over her grief-stricken family -- and her killer. As she observes their daily lives, she must balance her thirst for revenge with her desire for her family to heal.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genreaction, thriller, crime, detective
    CountryHong Kong, China
    Duration01:27

    Picking up some time after the events in the first movie, Sean Lau is now the Commissioner of Police after the successful rescue operation. However, things turn bad when his wife and daughter are kidnapped. Sean has to seek help from former rival and retired DCP, Waise Lee, to return to his job to help save Sean`s wife and child.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrethriller, comedy, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:43

      A petty thief posing as an actor is brought to Los Angeles for an unlikely audition and finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation along with his high school dream girl and a detective who's been training him for his upcoming role...

      Markimdb: 5.1
      Genreaction, thriller, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:34

      Lockdown Follows a police officer who returns to duty after recovering from a gun shot wound to discover incriminating evidence of illegal activities against those closest to him. He quickly finds himself trapped inside his own precinct, hunted and in search of the truth, as the crooked cops stop at nothing to recover the evidence.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrethriller, comedy, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:34

      Clue finds six colorful dinner guests gathered at the mansion of their host, Mr. Boddy -- who turns up dead after his secret is exposed: He was blackmailing all of them. With the killer among them, the guests and Boddy's chatty butler must suss out the culprit before the body count rises.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrecomedy, drama, crime
      CountryGermany

      In the morning after a wild marriage between two police officers Franz Eberhofer finds himself woken from heavy-armed special forces, who arrest him because of suspected murder. His boss, inspector Barschl, was found dead, killed by Franz' knife in his back - furthermore he and Franz were known in the whole village as archrivals. Franz is lucky that his father can testify an alibi for him, so that he is released again. Together with his friend and colleague Rudi Birkenberger they try to prove his innocence and to find the true murderer. However, there are more Problems to be solved: like Paul, his grandma's young love, or his girlfriend Susi, who pushes for marriage.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrethriller, detective
      CountryFrance, Belgium

      Nine translators have been picked by a ruthless publisher and locked in a luxury bunker to translate the highly anticipated book of a famous author in record time. Although the translators are confined to prevent any kind of leak because of the high financial stakes, a crisis erupts when someone posts the first 10 pages of the novel online and blackmails the publisher to pay 5 million euros. A hunt for the culprit inside the bunker unfolds.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrethriller, crime, detective
      CountrySweden, Germany
      Duration01:45

      Erica's parents are killed in a traffic accident. She moves to Fjällbacka and discovers she has a brother.

      Markimdb: 6.6

      Not satisfied with the result of a murder investigation in Warsaw's gay community, an officer in 1980s communist Poland resolves to uncover the truth.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:54

      When 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in solving the case, the girl's aunt, Beatrice McCready hires two private detectives, Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. The detectives freely admit that they have little experience with this type of case, but the family wants them for two reasons - they're not cops and they know the tough neighborhood in which they all live. As the case progresses, Kenzie and Gennaro face drug dealers, gangs and pedophiles. When they are about to solve the case, they are faced with a moral dilemma that tears them apart.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genredrama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:50

      A teenage loner pushes his way into the underworld of a high school crime ring to investigate the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genredrama, crime
      CountryFinland

      Raid is a mysterious drifter and ex-criminal who comes and goes as he pleases. He has been away from the country for an extended period of time but learns on his return that his ex-girlfriend Tarja has presumably died in a fire that he soon discovers was a larceny. He is also contacted by inspector Jansson, who he knows from the past regarding the murder of a protestor. Raid begins his investigation and soon finds that there's more to the cases than meets the eye.. This movie is a sequel to the very popular Raid TV series.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrecomedy, crime, detective
      CountryItaly

      The suicide of a prominent wine producer unleashes a series of mysterious murders.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrethriller, detective
      CountryIndia

      Vidya Sinha (Vidya Balan) has only one obsession in life. She wants to see her teenage daughter Mini, who is paralysed waist-downwards, walk again. But, is this scenario as obvious as it seems? Or is Vidya an impersonator of Durga Rani Singh from Kalimpong, who is wanted for kidnapping and murder?

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genredrama
      CountryIndia

      Athira, a 25-year-old cop gets to investigate her best friend's missing case. The case turns out to be very mysterious when she suspects that her accident has been staged and that she has been murdered. After digging deep into the case, she gets to know shocking revelations about her and now she has to make some life-changing decisions.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryIndia

      Arun who has seen his lover in other man's arms cant forget her beauty and is always distracted by it. And wants to help her in any sought of situation even save her love from kidnappers.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genredrama, crime, detective
      CountryHong Kong

      Based on a real murder case where a dismembered corpse of a murdered 16 year-old prostitute girl was found in Hong Kong in 2008.

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