Films about mysterious crimes

The list of the best films about mysterious crimes selected by visitors of our site: Sherlock Holmes, Regression, 11:14, Taking Lives, Buried, Hot Fuzz, The Lovely Bones, Memoir of a Murderer, The Girl on the Train, Zodiac.

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

Markimdb: 7.6
Genreaction, thriller, comedy, drama, adventure, crime, detective
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Germany, Australia
Duration02:08

Eccentric consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes and Doctor John Watson battle to bring down a new nemesis and unravel a deadly plot that could destroy England.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountrySpain, Canada, USA
Duration02:16

    Minnesota, 1990. Detective Bruce Kenner investigates the case of young Angela, who accuses her father, John Gray, of an unspeakable crime. When John unexpectedly and without recollection admits guilt, renowned psychologist Dr. Raines is brought in to help him relive his memories and what they discover unmasks a horrifying nationwide mystery.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration01:26

    Tells the seemingly random yet vitally connected story of a set of incidents that all converge one evening at 11:14pm. The story follows the chain of events of five different characters and five different storylines that all converge to tell the story of murder and deceit.

    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: 7
    Genrethriller, drama, detective
    CountrySpain, United Kingdom, USA, France
    Duration01:35

    Paul is a U.S. truck driver working in Iraq. After an attack by a group of Iraqis he wakes to find he is buried alive inside a coffin. With only a lighter and a cell phone it's a race against time to escape this claustrophobic death trap.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genreaction, thriller, comedy, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France
    Duration02:01

    Top London cop, PC Nicholas Angel is good. Too good. To stop the rest of his team from looking bad, he is reassigned to the quiet town of Sandford, paired with simple country cop, and everything seems quiet until two actors are found decapitated. It is addressed as an accident, but Angel isn't going to accept that, especially when more and more people turn up dead.

    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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 6.3
    Genrethriller, crime, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    A series of murders has shaken the community to the point where people believe that only a legendary creature from dark times – the mythical Golem – must be responsible.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrecomedy, crime, detective
    CountryItaly

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

    Genredrama, crime, biography
    CountryNetherlands

    Television journalist Bas Haan creates his own monster when, in his investigation into the Deventer murder case, he is increasingly drawn into the camp of those who accuse 'the handyman' of murder. A media-smear campaign is the result of his TV report which turns the life of 'the handyman' and his wife into a true nightmare. Disconcerted by this 'trial by media' Bas decides to fight the conspiracies with the facts, but to his frustration the image is stronger than reality. He goes to extremes to get the truth out: has anyone been wrongly accused by the judges or is there an innocent victim?

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genrecomedy, crime
    CountryFrance

    Rayane is a scared and clumsy young cop who is constantly mocked by other cops. The day his doctor wrongly tells him that he has only thirty days to live, he understands that this is his last chance to become a hero within his police station and impress his colleague Stéphanie. The eternal fearful man then turns into a real hothead who will take all the risks to catch a big drug lord...

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountrySweden, Germany, Denmark, Morocco, France
    Duration01:35

    In Cairo, weeks before the 2011 revolution, Police Detective Noredin is working in the infamous Kasr el-Nil Police Station when he is handed the case of a murdered singer. He soon realizes that the investigation concerns the power elite, close to the President’s inner circle.

    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Germany

    When a man's only son goes missing, he travels to the town where his ex-wife lives in search of answers. To play a man whose life is clouded by mystery, McAvoy will not be given a script of dialogue.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryCanada, Belgium

    Three stories about the world of opioids collide: a drug trafficker arranges a multi-cartel Fentanyl smuggling operation between Canada and the U.S., an architect recovering from an OxyContin addiction tracks down the truth behind her son's involvement with narcotics, and a university professor battles unexpected revelations about his research employer, a drug company with deep government influence bringing a new "non-addictive" painkiller to market.

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA, Australia
    Duration02:18

    A story about friendship and loyalty, guilt and vengeance, and the fateful affect the past has on the present.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrethriller, detective
    CountryNetherlands, Luxembourg, United Kingdom

    A therapist loses her grip on reality when a ten-year-old boy claims he can control her future.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
    CountryFrance, United Kingdom
    Duration02:11

    A man receives a mysterious e-mail appearing to be from his wife, who was murdered years earlier. As he frantically tries to find out whether she's alive, he finds himself being implicated in her death.

    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: 5.7
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryCanada, Germany
    Duration01:31

    When up-and-coming District Attorney Mitch Brockden commits a fatal hit-and-run, he feels compelled to throw the case against the accused criminal who was found with the body and blamed for the crime. Following the trial, Mitch's worst fears come true when he realizes that he acquitted a guilty man, and he soon finds himself on the hunt for the killer before more victims pile up.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountrySweden, Denmark, Germany, Norway
    Duration02:27

    Swedish thriller based on Stieg Larsson's novel about a male journalist and a young female hacker. In the opening of the movie, Mikael Blomkvist, a middle-aged publisher for the magazine Millennium, loses a libel case brought by corrupt Swedish industrialist Hans-Erik Wennerström. Nevertheless, he is hired by Henrik Vanger in order to solve a cold case, the disappearance of Vanger's niece

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryFrance, Germany, United Kingdom
    Duration02:08

    A writer stumbles upon a long-hidden secret when he agrees to help former British Prime Minister Adam Lang complete his memoirs on a remote island after the politician's assistant drowns in a mysterious accident. In director Roman Polanski's tense drama, the author realizes that his discovery threatens some very powerful people who will do anything to ensure that certain episodes from Lang's past remain buried.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrefantastic, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:35

    An unsuspecting, disenchanted man finds himself working as a spy in the dangerous, high-stakes world of corporate espionage. Quickly getting way over-his-head, he teams up with a mysterious femme fatale.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrethriller, drama, detective
    CountryColombia, Spain
    Duration01:32

    A Spanish orchestra conductor deals with the mysterious disappearance of his girlfriend.

    Markimdb: 8
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountrySpain
    Duration01:49

    "The Invisible Guest” turns on a young businessman who wakes up in a hotel room locked from the inside with the dead body of his lover next to him. He hires a prestigious lawyer, and over one night they work together to clarify what happened in a frenetic race against time.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrethriller, detective
    CountryFrance, USA
    Duration02:14

    A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgangers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genreaction, drama, adventure, crime, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

    While searching for her missing mother, intrepid teen Enola Holmes uses her sleuthing skills to outsmart big brother Sherlock and help a runaway lord.

    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: 6.2
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:07

    Porter Wren is a Manhattan tabloid writer with an appetite for scandal. On the beat he sells murder, tragedy, and anything that passes for the truth. At home, he is a dedicated husband and father. But when Caroline, a seductive stranger asks him to dig into the unsolved murder of her filmmaker husband Simon, he is drawn into a very nasty case of sexual obsession and blackmail--one that threatens his job, his marriage, and his life.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genreaction, crime, detective
    CountryUSA

    Spenser, a former Boston patrolman who just got out from prison, teams up with Hawk, an aspiring fighter, to unravel the truth behind the death of two police officers.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:55

    It sounded like just another urban legend: A videotape filled with nightmarish images, leading to a phone call foretelling the viewer's death in exactly seven days. As a newspaper reporter, Rachel Keller was naturally skeptical of the story, until four teenagers all met with mysterious deaths exactly one week after watching just such a tape. Allowing her investigative curiosity to get the better of her, Rachel tracks down the video... and watches it. Now she has just seven days to unravel the mystery of the Ring.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genredrama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:44

    In 1964, a Catholic school nun questions a priest's ambiguous relationship with a troubled young student, suspecting him of abuse. He denies the charges, and much of the film's quick-fire dialogue tackles themes of religion, morality, and authority.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genreaction, thriller, crime, detective
    CountrySouth Korea

    Two rival detectives with different methods try to solve the murder of a missing girl after discovering her mutilated body in the tidelands of Incheon.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, detective
    CountryCanada, France
    Duration01:37

    A teenager is stuck in a time loop that is not quite the same each time. She must uncover the truth but her actions have consequences for herself and others.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrethriller, crime, detective
    CountryGermany
    Duration02:06

    Thriller set in the world of Forensic Pathology. Coroner Paul Herzfeld finds a capsule in the head of a heavily mutilated corpse, containing a phone number and single word: the name of his daughter.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountrySweden, Belgium

    The captivating story of Sweden's greatest judicial scandal ever, about one man who sacrificed everything in his hunt for the truth.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrefantastic, thriller, crime, detective
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration02:18

    In 1988, Philadelphia police officer Thomas "Locke" Lockhart, hungry to become a detective, begins tracking a serial killer whose crimes defy scientific explanation. When the killer mysteriously resurfaces nine years later, Locke's obsession with finding the truth threatens to destroy his career, his family, and possibly his sanity.

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