Genre "Detective Film" Movies
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| 1. A Little Trip to Heaven (year: 2005) |
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Three stories of human treachery are given an unexpected link in this dry comedy drama from Icelandic filmmaker Baltasar Kormakur. Holt (Forest Whitak ...
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| 2. Angel Heart (year: 1987) |
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The time is the 1950s: seedy Brooklyn private eye Harry Angel (Mickey Rourke) is hired by shady Louis Cyphre (Robert De Niro) to locate a pop singer w ...
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| 3. Basic (year: 2003) |
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The disappearance of a military leader and the death of four of his men leads two investigators to wade through a morass of deceptions and half-truths ...
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| 4. Beck (year: 1997) |
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Stockholm policeman Martin Beck (Peter Haber), created by novelists Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo, is seen in this thriller about the search for a pedoph ...
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| 5. Blackjack (year: 1949) |
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| 6. Blood Work (year: 2002) |
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A retired detective must battle former colleagues and his own failing health in order to bring a murderer to justice in this action drama produced and ...
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| 7. Brick (year: 2005) |
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A tough-talking teen attempts to uncover his ex-girlfriend's killer in director Rian Johnson's hard-boiled high-school noir, told in the style of a Da ...
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| 8. Cast a Deadly Spell (year: 1991) |
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This clever and well-crafted production (produced for Home Box Office) goes the distance with its innovative concept, which is equal parts Raymond Cha ...
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| 9. Chain of Fools (year: 2000) |
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In this independent comedy, a man finds stolen treasure cannot change his bad luck. A luckless barber (Steve Zahn), despondent over his life's downhil ...
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| 10. Chinatown (year: 1974) |
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"You may think you know what you're dealing with, but believe me, you don't," warns water baron Noah Cross (John Huston), when smooth cop-tu ...
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| 11. City Heat (year: 1984) |
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This standard, tongue-in-cheek, gangsters and good guys saga is carried on the star power and screen presence of Clint Eastwood as Lt. Speer, a tacitu ...
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| 12. Clean Slate (year: 1994) |
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Dana Carvey plays a private detective who forgets everything when he goes to sleep at night, waking up each morning with a "clean slate," in ...
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| 13. Courage Under Fire (year: 1996) |
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A soldier discovers how elusive the truth can be in this first major film about America's role in the Gulf War. Lt. Col. Nathaniel Serling (Denzel Was ...
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| 14. Exit to Eden (year: 1994) |
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This sexy farce stars Dan Aykroyd and Rosie O'Donnell as Fred Lavery and Sheila Kingston, a pair of cynical detectives investigating the disappearance ...
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| 15. Eye of the Beholder (year: 1999) |
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Part high-tech spy thriller and part psychological study, Eye of the Beholder was Ewan McGregor's first feature film following his mainstream breakthr ...
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| 16. Fallen (year: 1998) |
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Directed by Gregory Hoblit (Primal Fear), Fallen is a blend of the police drama and supernatural thriller genres. Homicide detective John Hobbes (Denz ...
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| 17. Fearless (year: 1978) |
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| 18. Finger Prints (year: 1914) |
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| 19. Gleaming the Cube (year: 1989) |
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Gleaming the Cube does for skateboarding what Over the Top did for arm wrestling — i.e. not a hell of a lot. Christian Slater is the skatebo ...
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| 20. Gone Baby Gone (year: 2007) |
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Ben Affleck's adaptation of Dennis Lehane's novel Gone, Baby, Gone stars Casey Affleck as Patrick Kenzie, a private investigator from working-class Bo ...
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| 21. Gorky Park (year: 1983) |
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In the dead of a Moscow winter, three bodies are found in Gorky Park. Police Inspector Renko (William Hurt) is unable to identify the corpses, since e ...
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| 22. Island In The Sky (year: 1938) |
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| 23. Just Cause (year: 1995) |
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The novel by John Katzenbach becomes this legal thriller starring Sean Connery as Harvard Law School professor Paul Armstrong. A legal expert whose da ...
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| 24. Kiss Me Deadly (year: 1955) |
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Regarded by many critics as the ultimate film noir, and by many more as the finest movie adaptation of a book by Mickey Spillane, Kiss Me Deadly stars ...
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| 25. Laura (year: 1944) |
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This adaptation of Vera Caspary's suspense novel was begun by director Rouben Mamoulien and cinematographer Lucien Ballard, but thanks to a complex se ...
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| 26. Livvakterna (year: 2001) |
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Jacob Eklund returns as hard-bitten cop Johan Falk in this sequel to the thriller Noll Tolerans. After causing a commotion with his last assignment, F ...
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| 27. Lord of Illusions (year: 1995) |
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A private investigator hired to protect a popular stage magician finds himself drawn into a dark, occult underworld in this supernatural horror film f ...
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| 28. Manhunter (year: 1986) |
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Red Dragon, the Thomas Harris novel that introduced serial killer Hannibal Lecter to the world, was adapted for the screen by Michael Mann as Manhunte ...
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| 29. Mataharis (year: 2007) |
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Take My Eyes and Flowers from Another World director Iciar Bollain takes the helm for this drama concerning a trio of female detective who are forced ...
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| 30. Mississippi Burning (year: 1988) |
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Mississippi Burning is an all-names-changed dramatization of the Ku Klux Klan's murders of three civil rights workers in 1964. Investigating the myste ...
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| 31. Motel (year: 1983) |
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| 32. Murder by Death (year: 1976) |
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As penned by Neil Simon, this satire of movie mysteries is set in motion when several prominent detectives are invited to the mansion of the reclusive ...
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| 34. Nick Knight (year: 1989) |
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A night beat cop, a good vampire who only drinks cows' blood, is after a bad vampire, who is sucking the blood of the city's human inhabitants.
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| 35. Roseanna (year: 1993) |
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This Swedish thriller is based upon one of a 10 part series of novels by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo. Two of their books have been made into films. In ...
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| 36. Second Sight (year: 1989) |
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| 37. Showdown in Little Tokyo (year: 1991) |
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Director Mark L. Lester modeled this police action drama on the Hong Kong style, guaranteeing plenty of over-the-top action sequences. Dolph Lundgren ...
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| 38. Sleepy Hollow (year: 1999) |
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Washington Irving's tale of Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman gets a few new twists in a screen adaptation directed by Tim Burton. In this versi ...
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| 39. Switchback (year: 1997) |
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Scripter Jeb Stuart (Die Hard) made his directorial debut with this thriller about an FBI agent in pursuit of a serial killer. Politically ambitious A ...
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| 40. The General's Daughter (year: 1999) |
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A murder on a military base unearths a netherworld of corruption in this thriller based on the novel by Nelson DeMille. General Joe Campbell (James Cr ...
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| 42. The Name of the Rose (year: 1986) |
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Adapted from Umberto Eco's best-selling novel, director Jean-Jacques Annaud's The Name of the Rose is a 14th century murder-mystery thriller starring ...
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| 43. The Norliss Tapes (year: 1973) |
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Author William F. Nolan and producer/director Dan (Dark Shadows) Curtis combined forces for the made-for-TV The Norliss Tapes. Roy Thinnes stars as Da ...
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| 44. The Return of the Pink Panther (year: 1975) |
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After several years at loggerheads with one another, director Blake Edwards and star Peter Sellers reteamed for the slapstick fiesta The Return of the ...
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| 45. The X-Files (year: 1998) |
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This 60-million-dollar science fiction suspense drama (marketed with an additional 25 million dollars), was adapted from the popular TV series The X-F ...
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| 46. This Hollow Sacrament (year: 2006) |
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Inspired by a series of real-life murders that shook Northern California in the late 1990s, director Greg William Stechman's harrowing crime thriller ...
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| 47. True Crime (year: 1999) |
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Investigative reporter Steve Everett (Clint Eastwood) has just relocated to the west coast after getting fired from the New York Times. Thanks to his ...
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| 48. Two For The Money (year: 1972) |
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