Italian movies detective

List of the best Italian detective movies selected by visitors to our site: Illustrious Corpses, The Da Vinci Code, A Haunting in Venice, A Quiet Place to Kill, Nothing Underneath, Mirror, Naples in Veils, The Rite, Neverlake, Magical Nights.

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

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrethriller, crime, detective
CountryItaly, France
Duration02:00

A detective is assigned to investigate the mysterious murders of some Supreme Court judges.

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: 6.8
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Italy

Celebrated sleuth Hercule Poirot, now retired and living in self-imposed exile in Venice, reluctantly attends a Halloween séance at a decaying, haunted palazzo. When one of the guests is murdered, the detective is thrust into a sinister world of shadows and secrets.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective
CountryItaly, France, Spain
Duration01:34

A race-car driver who's down on her luck is invited by her ex-husband's wife to stay at their plush villa. The two women form a bond, and it's not long before their mutual dislike for the husband culminates into a plan to kill him. As it turns out, though, they're not alone in plotting murder

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrethriller, detective
CountryItaly
Duration01:30

Thriller in Milan, Italy, where a serial killer uses scissors to assassinate top-models. A Yellowstone park ranger, from Usa, arrives in the city to protect his sister, but she has vanished. The guy will meet a lot of people and will know the (sometimes dangerous) world of international jet-set. But soon the killer will search for him too...

Markimdb: 8
Genredrama, biography
CountrySoviet Union
Duration01:48

A dying man in his forties remembers his past. His childhood, his mother, the war, personal moments and things that tell of the recent history of all the Russian nation.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genremelodrama, drama, detective
CountryItaly

In a Naples suspended between magic and superstition, madness and rationality, a mystery envelops the existence of Adriana (Giovanna Mezzogiorno), overwhelmed by a sudden love and a violent crime.

Markimdb: 6
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA, Hungary, Italy
Duration01:54

Seminary student Michael Kovak (Colin O'Donoghue) reluctantly attends exorcism school at the Vatican. While he’s in Rome, Michael meets an unorthodox priest, Father Lucas (Anthony Hopkins), who introduces him to the darker side of his faith, uncovering the devil’s reach even to one of the holiest places on Earth.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genrehorror, drama, detective
CountryItaly

On a trip home to visit her father, Jenny is thrown into a world of mystery, horror and legend when she is called upon by 3000 year old spirits of the Neverlake to help return their lost artifacts and save the lives of missing children.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrecomedy, drama, detective
CountryItaly

Italy, 1990. On the night when Italy's national football team is eliminated from the World Cup by Argentina on penalty kicks, a well-known film producer is found dead in the Tiber River. The main suspects for the murder are three young aspiring screenwriters, hauled in front of the Carabinieri to tell their version of what happened.

Markimdb: 7
Genrethriller, drama, detective
CountryItaly
Duration01:37

The fates of an apparently random group of strangers who each come into contact with a mysterious figure who they believe possesses the power to grant any wish, in return for which they must carry out a task he assigns them.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryItaly

After a wildlife biologist (Marco Marchese) becomes trapped on the wrong side of the river while collecting data, he comes across an abandoned village. Taking shelter, he begins to suspect he may be sharing the grounds with more than just boar and deer.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
CountryItaly
Duration01:35

A chambermaid and a former cop meet at a speed dating event and a romance develops. But during a romantic getaway things suddenly take a turn for the worse when her mysterious past is revealed.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrethriller, detective
CountryItaly

The anomalous heat wave overwhelms everything, forcing everyone to reverse the pace of life: only during the hours of darkness it is possible to work, move, survive. And it is precisely in the middle of the night that Samantha emerges from the darkness that had swallowed her. A thirteen year old kidnapped and long held prisoner, Sam is now suddenly free and, traumatized and wounded, is hospitalized in a hospital room. Next to her, Dr. Green (Dustin Hoffman), an extraordinary profiler. Green in fact does not hunt monsters in the outside world, but in the minds of the victims. Because it is inside the memories of Sam that the clues able to lead to the capture of his jailer are hidden: the Man of the Labyrinth. But Dr. Green is not the only one chasing the monster. There is also Bruno Genko (Toni Servillo), a private investigator with an unexpected talent.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryItaly, West Germany, France
Duration01:54

A reporter and a blind, retired journalist try to solve a series of murders. The crimes are connected to experiments by a pharmaceutical company in secret research. The two end up becoming targets of the killer.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genremelodrama, drama, detective
CountryItaly, France, United Kingdom
Duration01:58

Lucy Harmon, an American teenager is arriving in the lush Tuscan countryside to be sculpted by a family friend who lives in a beautiful villa. Lucy visited there four years earlier and exchanged a kiss with an Italian boy with whom she hopes to become reacquainted.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrecomedy, crime, detective
CountryItaly

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

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrehorror, thriller, comedy, detective
CountryItaly, Spain

Valentina, a beautiful fashion model, takes an experimental drug as part of a scientific experiment. While influenced by the drug, Valentina has a vision of a young woman being brutally murdered with a viciously spiked glove. It turns out that a woman was killed in exactly the same way not long ago and soon Valentina finds herself stalked by the same killer.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrethriller, detective
CountryItaly

While walking along the beach, Christian and his girlfriend discover a mysterious woman washed ashore. The following day, Christian meets the woman again at a yacht party and soon finds himself entangled in a web of lust, intrigue and murder.

Markimdb: 4.7
Genreaction, comedy, melodrama, adventure, short, detective
CountryUSA, Italy
Duration02:36

Derek and Hansel are modelling again when an opposing company attempts to take them out from the business.

Markimdb: 7
Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, detective
CountryItaly

A tourist witnesses a murder and finds herself caught up in a series of bloody killings.

Markimdb: 5.6
Genrethriller, detective
CountryItaly

When a fashion model dies during an abortion, a series of murders begins, starting with her doctor. The next victims are connected to the modeling agency where she worked, Albatross, run by a hard edged and jealous bi-sexual, Gisella, married to a Farouk-like dissolute. One suspect is Carlo, a playboy photographer who has a hot temper and refuses to share information with the police. He becomes the lover of Magda, another photographer at the agency, who's probably in danger. The murderer wears a black motorcycle outfit and helmet. Will anyone discover the murderer's identity before the entire agency dies?

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrehorror, detective
CountryItaly

Samuel, a boy who lives with his mother Elena in Villa dei Laghi, an isolated manor surrounded by woods, feels trapped in the family routine, growing up seemingly protected, but unsatisfied and restless.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genrethriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA, Italy
Duration02:26

Set in 1950s Tuscany, Voice from the Stone is the haunting and suspenseful story of Verena, a solemn nurse drawn to aid a young boy who has fallen silent since the sudden passing of his mother.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, adventure, cartoon, crime, detective, anime
CountryJapan, Italy, United Kingdom, Mexico, Spain

Conan tries to track down Kaito Kid, who supposedly steals a replica of one of Van Gogh's Sunflowers paintings during an auction.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genredrama, detective
CountryFrance, Italy, Belgium, Iran
Duration02:10

After four years apart, Ahmad returns to his wife Marie in Paris in order to progress their divorce. During his brief stay, he cannot help noticing the strained relationship between Marie and her daughter Lucie. As he attempts to improve matters between mother and daughter Ahmad unwittingly lifts the lid on a long buried secret...

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective, biography
CountryUSA, Italy, United Kingdom, China
Duration02:08

The story of the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother to convince his billionaire grandfather Jean Paul Getty to pay the ransom.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom, Italy, USA
Duration02:19

Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. Opportunity knocks in the form of a wealthy U.S. shipbuilder who hires Tom to travel to Italy to bring back his playboy son, Dickie. Ripley worms his way into the idyllic lives of Dickie and his girlfriend, plunging into a daring scheme of duplicity, lies and murder.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genredrama, detective
CountryItaly
Duration01:35

Arriving on a deserted beach in the Mediterranean sea, in a time and a place unspecified, Kaspar Hauser is forced to confront the evil of a Grand Duchess who feels threatened by the power she exercises over the community.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrefantasy, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
CountryItaly, France, Luxembourg

In a little Sicilian village at the edge of a forest, Giuseppe, a boy of 13, vanishes. Luna, his classmate who loves him, refuses to accept his mysterious disappearance. She rebels against the silence and complicity that surround her, and to find him she descends into the dark world which has swallowed him up and which has a lake as its mysterious entrance.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrefantasy, drama, detective
CountryRussia, Germany, Japan, Italy, France, USA, United Kingdom
Duration02:20

Faust inhabits an earthy, 19th-century world of primitive autopsies and medical rituals. He becomes obsessed with the beautiful Margarete and desperately turns to a physically grotesque moneylender to conjure their union.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrethriller, detective
CountryItaly, Spain

The wife of a financially struggling businessman is blackmailed by a mysterious man into having a sadistic relationship with him, or he will release damning evidence that suggests that her husband is a murderer.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryItaly

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Markimdb: 6.6
Genrethriller, crime, detective
CountryItaly

A businessman must explain to his lawyers how he came to be found in a locked hotel room with his dead partner, whose body was covered in money.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrethriller, drama, detective
CountryItaly

A cop investigates the murder of a beautiful teen girl left naked by a lake.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genrecomedy, melodrama, adventure, detective
CountryItaly, Russia

The story is based on 2014 Mille Miglia and encompasses eighty-five years of the race, from early 1930s to the present day, mixing life, memories, mystery and excitement of its characters who are brought together by the love for cars and separated by long-time secrets. They are fascinated by the presence and the story of a fabulous OM 665 Superba - a car built in Brescia, who won the first edition in 1927 - taken to pieces and forgotten for so many years.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryItaly

A young restorer is commissioned to save a fresco representing the suffering of St. Sebastiano, which was painted on the wall of a local church by a mysterious, long-dead artist.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryItaly

A wealthy English lord is suffering a mental breakdown following the death of his red-headed wife, Evelyn, whom he feared was cheating on him. He tours local bars and dives, scouring for lovely red-heads willing to come back to his decaying castle in the country, where he seduces them, then tortures and kills them. His friend the doctor talks him into marrying again to help heal his slowly-rotting mind, which he does--but are the doctor's orders really what he needs?

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrethriller, detective
CountryItaly, Spain

A group of American tourists is traveling through Spain when two of them are murdered by a mysterious serial killer who removes an eyeball from every one of his victims. The tour presses on as the murders continue, with the travelers and the police trying to deduce which one of them is the killer.

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: 5.4
Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, adventure, crime, detective
CountryFrance, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom
Duration02:05

As the daring thief Arsène Lupin (Duris) ransacks the homes of wealthy Parisians, the police, with a secret weapon in their arsenal, attempt to ferret him out.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryItaly
Duration01:58

An elderly and retired police detective and a young amateur sleuth team up to find a serial killer whom has resumed a killing spree in Turin, Italy after a 17-year hiatus.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryFrance, Italy, West Germany

Using the interrogation of a US counterinsurgency agent as a backdrop, the film explores the consequences of the struggle between Uruguay's government and the leftist Tupamaro guerrillas.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrecomedy, crime, detective
CountryItaly, France
Duration01:53

A vicious serial sex killer is on the loose, and landscape gardener and shop-window outfitter Loris is the prime suspect, thanks to his unfortunate habit of getting caught in compromising situations (for which there is always a totally innocent explanation that the police fail to spot). Undercover policewoman Jessica is assigned by eccentric police psychologist Taccone to follow Loris and ...

Markimdb: 6
Genrefantastic, action, thriller, adventure, detective
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Italy
Duration01:42

    When gigantic robots attack New York City, "Sky Captain" uses his private air force to fight them off. His ex-girlfriend, reporter Polly Perkins, has been investigating the recent disappearance of prominent scientists. Suspecting a link between the global robot attacks and missing men, Sky Captain and Polly decide to work together. They fly to the Himalayas in pursuit of the mysterious Dr. Totenkopf, the mastermind behind the robots.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, detective
    CountryItaly

    Period giallo about a young cook who's accused of killing her wealthy husband.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrethriller, detective
    CountryItaly, Spain
    Duration01:31

    As a thirteen year old, Martha Caldwell witnessed the death of her parents in a terrible railway accident. Barely surviving the tragedy herself, Martha was struck dumb due to the shock. Now an adult, the still mute Martha lives with her uncle Ralph in the Spanish countryside. Martha's cousing Jenny arrives to be with the family but is quickly stabbed to death. It appears that a sex maniac is roaming the countryside; killing pretty young girls. The already traumatized Martha seems likely to be the next victim but the case turns out to be far more complicated than it would first seem.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genredrama, crime, detective
    CountryItaly, France

    On December 12, 1969, a bomb kills 17 people and injures many more at a major national bank in Milan. Others bombings soon follow, marking the beginning of the Years of Lead. Local anarchists are scapegoated for the massacre by police and the media, but an investigator uncovers a larger subversive project made of far-right fringe groups, corrupt secret services, and other interests that seek to undermine democracy.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrehorror, thriller, crime, detective
    CountryItaly, Spain, Austria

    When socialite and heiress Julie Wardh begins receiving blackmail letters attributed to a mysterious serial killer, she suspects her cruel and sadistic former lover Jean is behind them. With her husband Neil frequently out of town, she falls into the arms of her friend's cousin George, and as the unknown assassin begins to make his move, she fears that one of the three men in her life may be the killer.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, detective
    CountryItaly, USA
    Duration02:26

    A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the troupe's artistic director, an ambitious young dancer and a grieving psychotherapist. Some will succumb to the nightmare, others will finally wake up.




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