Highest-Rated Movies about 'Cold Case', Sort by Popularity

The Absent One (2014), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009), Kvinden i buret (2013), The Keeper of Lost Causes (2013), Department Q: A Conspiracy of Faith (2016), Hunt the Man Down (1950), Nancy Drew (2007), Lake Bodom (2016) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Cold Case movies.

#2. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)

Storyline: Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found, yet her uncle suspects murder and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family. He employs disgraced financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist and the tattooed, ruthless computer hacker Lisbeth Salander to investigate. When the pair link Harriet's disappearance to a number of grotesque murders from almost forty years ago, they begin to unravel a dark and appalling family history; but, the Vangers are a secretive clan, and Blomkvist and Salander are about to find out just how far they are prepared to go to protect themselves.

Plot Keywords: reporter, industrialist, investigator, executive, lawyer, gripping, subway ...

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#3. Kvinden i buret (2013)

Storyline: Chief detective Carl Mørck and his assistant Assad become involved in a five-year-old case concerning the mystery of politician Merete Lynggaard's disappearance - a journey that takes them deep into the undercurrent of abuse and malice that lurks beneath the polished surface of Scandinavia.

Plot Keywords: police officer, assistant, tense, scandinavia, cold case, missing persons, mystery ...

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#5. Department Q: A Conspiracy of Faith (2016)

Storyline: An old note is found in a bottle in Jutland which has traveled very long across the ocean a long time ago. The note is hard to decipher, but when the Danish investigator from Section Q receives it, the odd personalities within the section find a new angle on it and try to unveil yet another old and diabolic case even though the lead is cold.

Plot Keywords: detective, investigator, murder suspect, murder victim, criminal, thrilling, gripping ...

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#6. Hunt the Man Down (1950)

Storyline: Dishwasher 'Bill Jackson' thwarts a robbery; resulting publicity fingers him as the 12-years-missing Richard Kinkaid, wanted for murder. Kinkaid half-convinces public defender Paul Bennett of his innocence; but Paul knows he'll never convince a jury without the 7 witnesses who've had 12 years to vanish. It develops that these prosperous young folks have gone down in the world. Paul and his father, a one-armed ex-cop, have a week to find them...—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>

Plot Keywords: public defender, suspect, witness, woman, man, brooding, intricate ...

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#7. Nancy Drew (2007)

Storyline: Nancy Drew accompanies her father on a business trip to Los Angeles California. Nancy booked an abandoned house for them to stay in hiding the mystery of a movie star's murder from her father as a promise that she would stay out of trouble and be normal. Fitting into high school as a normal teen turns out to be harder than it sounds, for Nancy Drew. She soon befriends a younger boy and determines that the sleuthing world is where she belongs. While snooping through the attic, she finds a letter from the Hollywood star, Dehlia Draycott, written to someone named 'Z'. This leads Nancy on a wild goose chase as she comes to find out that Dehlia has a secret daughter, her daughter is to inherit everything and someone killed Dehlia because they were written out of the will.

Plot Keywords: nancy drew, father, friend, business partner, sleuth, movie star, emotional ...

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#9. City of Lies (2018)

Storyline: Based on the book, LAByrinth, by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Randall Sullivan, this compelling crime-thriller follows the investigation into the infamous murder of iconic rap artist Christopher Wallace aka The Notorious B.I.G. Oscar® nominee Johnny Depp stars as determined LAPD detective Russell Poole, who spent nearly 20 years trying to solve the murder, and Oscar® and Primetime Emmy® winner Forest Whitaker as Jack Jackson, a journalist who teams up with Poole in search of the elusive truth. Together they explore why the case remains cold -- and why a secret division of the LAPD is seemingly set on keeping it that way.

Plot Keywords: rapper, journalist, murderer, investigator, police officer, uneasy, brooding ...

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#10. The Dead Will Tell (2004)

Storyline: After a successful treatment of cancer of the girl Jaime Roland, the former hacker Stephen Roland is convinced by Dr. Caine to let her be submitted to a MRI scanner by the specialist Dr. Colleen O'Brian to check that she is totally cured. During the examination, Jaime has seizure and dies. Stephen has a meeting with the Director Dr. Jamison and requests explanations about the death of his daughter. He claims malpractice or malfunction of the equipment and Dr. Jamison tells that only after the autopsy it would be possible to know the true cause. Further, he introduces the responsible for the experimental MRI equipment Al Bercovicci that explains that the equipment is working perfectly. After the autopsy, Dr. Jamison accuses Dr. Caine of malpractice and tells that the girl had several tumors in her head. However Stephen does not buy the story and teams-up with Colleen. He uses his computer knowledge to investigate and finds a complex of power and economical interests involved to approve the scanner and buy it.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Plot Keywords: fiancé, lawyer, ghost, mother, widower, chilling, eerie ...

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#11. The Grudge (2020)

Storyline: After a young housewife murders her family in her own house, a single mother and young detective tries to investigate and solve the case. Later, she discovers the house is cursed by a vengeful ghost that dooms those who enter it with a violent death. Now, she runs to save herself and her son from demonic spirits from the cursed house in her neighborhood.

Plot Keywords: detective, partner, murder victim, ghost, terminally ill person, husband, chilling ...

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#12. Return to Horror High (1987)

Storyline: A few years ago, a mysterious serial-killer caused panic on Crippen High School. The killer was never caught. A movie company, Cosmic Pictures, has decided to make a feature movie about these events - on location, at the now abandoned school. Since members of cast and crew disappear without a trace, it seems as if history is repeating itself...—Mattias Thuresson

Plot Keywords: producer, killer, director, actress, police officer, actor, cheeky ...

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