Investigation thrillers

List of the best investigative thriller movies selected by visitors to our site: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Contagion, Wicker Park, Fracture, The Departed, Changeling, The Life of David Gale, Bad Guys, Gone Girl, Last button 2.

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

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: 6.7
Genreaction, thriller, drama
CountryUSA, United Arab Emirates
Duration01:46

As an epidemic of a lethal airborne virus - that kills within days - rapidly grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control the panic that spreads faster than the virus itself.

Markimdb: 7
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:54

Matthew, a young advertising executive in Chicago, puts his life and a business trip to China on hold when he thinks he sees Lisa, the love of his life who left him without a word two years earlier, walking out of a restaurant one day.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA, Germany
Duration01:48

    A husband is on trial for the attempted murder of his wife, in what is seemingly an open/shut case for the ambitious district attorney trying to put him away. However, there are surprises for both around every corner, and, as a suspenseful game of cat-and-mouse is played out, each must manipulate and outwit the other.

    Markimdb: 8.5
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, Hong Kong
    Duration02:31

    To take down South Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own to infiltrate the underworld, not realizing the syndicate has done likewise. While an undercover cop curries favor with the mob kingpin, a career criminal rises through the police ranks. But both sides soon discover there's a mole among them.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective, biography, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:21

    Christine Collins is overjoyed when her kidnapped son is brought back home. But when Christine suspects that the boy returned to her isn't her child, the police captain has her committed to an asylum.

    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: 7.8
    Genreaction, thriller, crime, detective
    CountrySouth Korea

    To combat rising violent crimes, the Police Chief asks Detective Oh Goo Tak to form a team consisting of criminals. He is currently suspended from the police force for using excessive force. He then gathers team members: Park Woong Chul who is a gangster, Lee Jung Moon who is the youngest serial killer with extraordinary intelligence and Jung Tae Soo who is a contract killer. Police Inspector Yoo Mi Young also joins the team and she tries to have these guys work as a team by dealing with them rationally and sometimes emotionally.

    Markimdb: 8.1
    Genrethriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:29

      With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.

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      Genrefantastic, thriller, comedy
      CountryRussia

      After the events that took place in that ill-fated hut, 2 years pass. Brian, Nerd, and Olivia have moved into a new apartment and are living a quiet life. However, the Nerd is plagued by nightmares at night and decides to conduct his own independent investigation. After much thought, he finds a clue that reveals what secret plans are behind the YouTube corporation.

      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: 7.8
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:58

        When Lou Bloom, desperate for work, muscles into the world of L.A. crime journalism, he blurs the line between observer and participant to become the star of his own story. Aiding him in his effort is Nina, a TV-news veteran.

        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: 6.7
        Genrethriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:35

        Jordan Turner is an experienced 911 operator but when she makes an error in judgment and a call ends badly, Jordan is rattled and unsure if she can continue. But when teenager Casey Welson is abducted in the back of a man's car and calls 911, Jordan is the one called upon to use all of her experience, insights and quick thinking to help Casey escape, and not just to save her, but to make sure the man is brought to justice.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genrethriller, crime, detective
        CountryUSA, Spain, Hungary, Serbia
        Duration01:50

        A fictionalized account of the last days of Edgar Allan Poe's life, in which the poet is in pursuit of a serial killer whose murders mirror those in the writer's stories.

        Markimdb: 8.1
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:33

          When Keller Dover's daughter and her friend go missing, he takes matters into his own hands as the police pursue multiple leads and the pressure mounts. But just how far will this desperate father go to protect his family?

          Markimdb: 7.3
          Genrethriller, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:31

            Complete strangers stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm soon find themselves the target of a deranged murderer. As their numbers thin out, the travelers begin to turn on each other, as each tries to figure out who the killer is.

            Markimdb: 6.5
            Genrethriller, detective
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:36

              Mort Rainey, a writer just emerging from a painful divorce with his ex-wife, is stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger and would-be scribe who claims Rainey swiped his best story idea. But as Rainey endeavors to prove his innocence, he begins to question his own sanity.

              Markimdb: 6.8
              Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
              CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Italy
              Duration02:11

              After having successfully eluded the authorities for years, Hannibal peacefully lives in Italy in disguise as an art scholar. Trouble strikes again when he's discovered leaving a deserving few dead in the process. He returns to America to make contact with now disgraced Agent Clarice Starling, who is suffering the wrath of a malicious FBI rival as well as the media.

              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: 7.9
              Genrethriller, drama, detective
              CountryUSA, France
              Duration02:27

                After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesic, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.

                Markimdb: 7.3
                Genrethriller, drama
                CountryUSA, United Arab Emirates
                Duration02:18

                Commercial airline pilot Whip Whitaker has a problem with drugs and alcohol, though so far he's managed to complete his flights safely. His luck runs out when a disastrous mechanical malfunction sends his plane hurtling toward the ground. Whip pulls off a miraculous crash-landing that results in only six lives lost. Shaken to the core, Whip vows to get sober -- but when the crash investigation exposes his addiction, he finds himself in an even worse situation.

                Markimdb: 8.5
                Genrethriller, detective
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:52

                Professional photographer L.B. "Jeff" Jeffries breaks his leg while getting an action shot at an auto race. Confined to his New York apartment, he spends his time looking out of the rear window observing the neighbors. He begins to suspect that a man across the courtyard may have murdered his wife. Jeff enlists the help of his high society fashion-consultant girlfriend Lisa Freemont and his visiting nurse Stella to investigate.

                Markimdb: 7
                Genrethriller, drama, crime
                CountryUSA, Canada
                Duration01:56

                Earl Stone, a man in his eighties, is broke, alone, and facing foreclosure of his business when he is offered a job that simply requires him to drive. Easy enough, but, unbeknownst to Earl, he's just signed on as a drug courier for a Mexican cartel. He does so well that his cargo increases exponentially, and Earl hit the radar of hard-charging DEA agent Colin Bates.

                Markimdb: 8.2
                Genrethriller, drama, detective
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:28

                Initially, "Mulholland Dr." was to mark David Lynch's return to television. It is a retooling of a script originally shot as a 94-minute pilot for a TV series (co-written with TV screenwriter Joyce Eliason) for the channel ABC, which had approved the script, but chose not even to air the pilot once it was done in 1999, despite Lynch's labours to cut the project to their liking. It was left in limbo until 18 month later French company Studio Canal Plus (also producer of 'The Straight Story') agreed to pay ABC $7 million for the pilot, and budget a few million more to turn the pilot into a two-hour, 27-minute movie. The cost of the film doubled to $14 million as sets had to be reconstructed and actors recalled.

                Markimdb: 6.4
                Genreaction, thriller, crime
                CountryUSA, United Kingdom
                Duration01:42

                Armed men hijack a New York City subway train, holding the passengers hostage in return for a ransom, and turning an ordinary day's work for dispatcher Walter Garber into a face-off with the mastermind behind the crime.

                Markimdb: 6.8
                Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:44

                Kale is a 17-year-old placed under house arrest after punching his teacher. He is confined to his house, and decides to use his free time spying on his neighbors. Things start to get weird when guests enter the Turner's house and don't come back out. Kale and his friends, Ronnie and Ashley, start to grow more and more interested in what is actually happening within the house of Robert Turner.

                Markimdb: 7.7
                Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
                CountryUSA
                Duration02:00

                The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of criminals who have kidnapped her child.

                Markimdb: 7
                Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:33

                When his SUV breaks down on a remote Southwestern road, Jeff Taylor lets his wife, Amy, hitch a ride with a trucker to get help. When she doesn't return, Jeff fixes his SUV and tracks down the trucker -- who tells the police he's never seen Amy. Johnathan Mostow's tense thriller then follows Jeff's desperate search for his wife, which eventually uncovers a small town's murderous secret.

                Markimdb: 6.6
                Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
                CountryUSA, Germany, Canada
                Duration01:56

                Forensic psychologist Alex Cross travels to North Carolina and teams with escaped kidnap victim Kate McTiernan to hunt down "Casanova," a serial killer who abducts strong-willed women and forces them to submit to his demands. The trail leads to Los Angeles, where the duo discovers that the psychopath may not be working alone.

                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: 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.

                Markimdb: 6.4
                Genrethriller, drama, military
                CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, Canada, USA
                Duration02:08

                Part war movie, part courtroom thriller, this gripping drama finds a war hero put on trial for a rescue mission gone terribly wrong with only his doubtful friend and fellow marine to represent him.

                Markimdb: 6.3
                Genrethriller, drama, crime
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:50

                A misguided museum guard who loses his job and then tries to get it back at gunpoint is thrown into the fierce world of ratings-driven TV gone mad.

                Markimdb: 6.5
                Genrethriller, drama, crime
                CountryUSA
                Duration02:35

                Naomi Watts stars as Susan, a single mother of two, working as a waitress in a small town. Her son, Henry, is an 11-year-old genius who not only manages the family finances but acts as emotional support for his mother and younger brother. When Henry discovers that the girl next door has a terrible secret, he implores Susan to take matters into her own hands in this imaginative and emotional drama.

                Markimdb: 6.4
                Genrethriller, drama
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:27

                A young boy stays with his aunt and uncle, and befriends his cousin who's the same age. But his cousin begins showing increasing signs of psychotic behavior.

                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: 8.1
                Genrethriller, drama, crime
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:59

                A con man on the run from a vicious gangster takes cover from his past by assuming the identity of his prison cellmate, Pete, “reuniting” with Pete’s estranged family, a colorful, dysfunctional group that threatens to drag him into a world just as dangerous as the one he’s trying to escape - and, just maybe, give him a taste of the loving family he’s never had.

                Markimdb: 7.3
                Genrethriller, drama, crime
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:56

                A psychological thriller about a man who is sometimes controlled by his murder-and-mayhem-loving alter ego.

                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: 6.7
                Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
                CountryUSA, Canada
                Duration01:58

                Rookie cop, Amelia Donaghy reluctantly teams with Lincoln Rhyme – formerly the department's top homicide detective but now paralyzed as a result of a spinal injury – to catch a grisly serial killer dubbed 'The Bone Collector'. The murderer's special signature is to leave tantalizing clues based on the grim remains of his crimes.

                Markimdb: 5.9
                Genrethriller, drama, detective
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:30

                On a beautiful college campus, something ugly is about to be spread around. A bit of gossip that was told is starting to take a frightening turn. Who could it have offended and how far will the person on the other side of the gossip handle the embarrassing situation.

                Markimdb: 6.4
                Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:41

                Walter Sparrow is an animal control officer that becomes obsessed with a mysterious book that seems to be based on his own life. As soon as he opens the book, he notices strange parallels between what he reads and what he's experienced. But now he's worried that a fictional murder might materialize.

                Markimdb: 6.6
                Genrethriller, drama, crime
                CountryUSA, United Kingdom
                Duration01:47

                When two married business executives having an affair are blackmailed by a violent criminal, they are forced to turn the tables on him to save their families.

                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: 8
                Genrethriller, drama, history
                CountryUSA, France
                Duration03:01

                New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison discovers there's more to the Kennedy assassination than the official story.

                Markimdb: 7.5
                Genrethriller, drama, crime
                CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, France, USA, Japan
                Duration02:01

                Captivated by the lure of sudden wealth, the quiet rural lives of two brothers erupt into conflicts of greed, paranoia and distrust when over $4 million in cash is discovered at the remote site of a downed small airplane. Their simple plan to retain the money while avoiding detection opens a Pandora's box when the fear of getting caught triggers panicked behavior and leads to virulent consequences

                Markimdb: 8.2
                Genrethriller, drama, detective
                CountryUSA
                Duration02:10

                Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together.

                Markimdb: 7.3
                Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, crime
                CountryUSA, France
                Duration02:13

                  A married couple's life is turned upside down when the wife is accused of a murder. Lara Brennan is arrested for murdering her boss with whom she had an argument. It seems she was seen leaving the scene of the crime and her fingerprints were on the murder weapon. Her husband, John would spend the next few years trying to get her released, but there's no evidence that negates the evidence against her. And when the strain of being separated from her family, especially her son, gets to her, John decides to break her out. So he does a lot of research to find a way.

                  Markimdb: 6.7
                  Genreaction, thriller
                  CountryUSA, United Kingdom
                  Duration01:35

                    A soldier introduces himself to the Peterson family, claiming to be a friend of their son who died in action. After the young man is welcomed into their home, a series of accidental deaths seem to be connected to his presence.




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