The Lodger (1927), Betrayed (2018), Hard-Boiled (1992), Number 37 (2018), The Absent One (2014), Cure (1997), Terror at the Opera (1987), Prince of the City (1981) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Detective movies.
Storyline: When a landlady (Marie Ault) and her husband (Arthur Chesney) take in a new lodger (Ivor Novello), they're overjoyed: He's quiet, humble and pays a month's rent in advance. But his mysterious and suspicious behavior soon has them wondering if he's the killer terrorizing local blond girls. Their daughter, Daisy (June), a cocky model, is far less concerned, her attraction obvious. Her police-detective boyfriend (Malcolm Keen), in a pique of jealousy, seeks to uncover the lodger's true identity.
Plot Keywords: lodger, landlady, husband, daughter, detective, witness, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Russian gangsters kidnap a corrupt politician's daughter when they learn he's been cooperating with a rival cartel.
Plot Keywords: mayor, russian mobster, daughter, detective, brutal, confident, creative ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A police officer and an undercover colleague embark on a blood-splattered quest to crush a gun smuggling ring.
Plot Keywords: detective, undercover cop, mobster, smuggler, crew member, hit man, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A recent paraplegic is given binoculars by his girlfriend. When he witnesses a mob killing, he tries to blackmail the killer.
Plot Keywords: paraplegic, loan shark, blackmailer, girlfriend, detective, chilling, confident ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Detectives race to find a possible witness to a 20-year-old double homicide before the killers get to her.
Plot Keywords: detective, assistant, sociopath, thrilling, copenhagen, cold case, conspiracy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A Tokyo detective (Koji Yakusho) investigates a series of murders committed in exactly the same way by people who seem to have no connection.
Plot Keywords: detective, killer, police officer, victim, creepy, chilling, frightening ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A hooded figure forces a young diva (Cristina Marsillach) to watch as he murders performers in a production of Verdi's opera "Macbeth."
Plot Keywords: actress, opera singer, opera director, murderer, macbeth, detective, bleak ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: New York police officer Daniel Ciello (Treat Williams) is not a perfect cop. When Rick Cappalino (Norman Parker) from the U.S. Justice Department approaches him with a personal request to investigate police corruption, Ciello agrees -- provided he is not forced to turn in his fellow crooked cops. But as he delves deeper into the underbelly of drug crime, he realizes that it may be impossible to keep his promises. He will have to bring his friends down, or he'll end up going down himself.
Plot Keywords: detective, cop, junkie, drug dealer, wife, investigator, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Roman police detectives interrogate a series of potential perpetrators in their struggle to determine whom to arrest for the brutal murder of a beautiful prostitute whose body is discovered in a park on the day of a torrential rainstorm. One by one, the prime suspects -- girl-crazy teenager Nino (Giancarlo De Rosa), pickpocket Canticchia (Francesco Ruiu), a soldier on leave, a tourist and a pimp -- recount the events of the day to the police, each insisting he is innocent.
Plot Keywords: prostitute, pickpocket, detective, witness, soldier, teen boy, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A film about two homicide detectives' (Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt) desperate hunt for a serial killer who justifies his crimes as absolution for the world's ignorance of the Seven Deadly Sins. The movie takes us from the tortured remains of one victim to the next as the sociopathic "John Doe" (Kevin Spacey) sermonizes to Detectives Somerset and Mills -- one sin at a time. The sin of Gluttony comes first and the murderer's terrible capacity is graphically demonstrated in the dark and subdued tones characteristic of film noir. The seasoned and cultured but jaded Somerset researches the Seven Deadly Sins in an effort to understand the killer's modus operandi while the bright but green and impulsive Detective Mills (Pitt) scoffs at his efforts to get inside the mind of a killer...
Plot Keywords: police officer, detective, serial killer, wife, police chief, dark, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In Ireland, American lawyer Ingrid Jessner (Frances McDormand) and her activist partner, Paul Sullivan (Brad Dourif), struggle to uncover atrocities committed by the British government against the Northern Irish during the "Troubles." But when Sullivan is assassinated in the streets, Jessner teams up with Peter Kerrigan (Brian Cox), a British investigator acting against the will of his own government, and struggles to uncover a conspiracy that may even implicate one of Kerrigan's colleagues.
Plot Keywords: activist, detective, terrorist, lawyer, government official, partner, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Intrepid Japanese detective Maiku Hama is on the case in this adventure. Hama is suave, macho, and cold but he is a total klutz. His attempts at machismo always fall flat. When he's out on a case he spends more time getting beaten up than he does solving the case.
Plot Keywords: detective, waiter, criminal, brother, client, campy, frenetic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: John "Scottie" Ferguson is a retired San Francisco police detective who suffers from acrophobia, and Madeleine is the lady who leads him to high places. A wealthy shipbuilder who is an acquaintance from college days approaches Scottie and asks him to follow his beautiful wife, Madeleine. He fears she is going insane, maybe even contemplating suicide, as he believes she has been possessed by a dead ancestor who committed suicide. Scottie is skeptical, but agrees to the assignment after he sees the beautiful Madeleine.
Plot Keywords: detective, wife, friend, dead person, police officer, suspenseful, gripping ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Tony Montana manages to leave Cuba during the Mariel exodus of 1980. He finds himself in a Florida refugee camp but his friend Manny has a way out for them: undertake a contract killing and arrangements will be made to get a green card. He's soon working for drug dealer Frank Lopez and shows his mettle when a deal with Colombian drug dealers goes bad. He also brings a new level of violence to Miami. Tony is protective of his younger sister but his mother knows what he does for a living and disowns him. Tony is impatient and wants it all however, including Frank's empire and his mistress Elvira Hancock. Once at the top however, Tony's outrageous actions make him a target and everything comes crumbling down.
Plot Keywords: drug lord, friend, kingpin, detective, girlfriend, dark, brutal ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Detective Philo Vance sifts through clues and comes up with seven possible suspects in the murder of a sportsman.
Plot Keywords: detective, niece, brother, rival, competitor, murder suspect, suspenseful ...
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