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List of the latest detective movies in 2024 and the best detective movies of 2023 and earlier. Top detective movies to watch on Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, Disney+ & other Streaming services, out on DVD/Blu-ray or in cinema's right now.
- Prisoners. Director: Denis Villeneuve. Rotten Tomatoes Score: 81% A horrifying nightmare for parents, this film is a heavy watch, but it’s (debatably) the most captivating detective movie on this list.
- The Silence of the Lambs. Director: Jonathan Demme. Rotten Tomatoes Score: 95% A classic, and what some consider to be one of the greatest movies of all time, The Silence of the Lambs is an unforgettable detective flick.
- Gone Girl. Director: David Fincher. Rotten Tomatoes Score: 88% Definitely not your standard “detective” movie, director David Fincher brings us another brilliant film in Gone Girl.
- The Maltese Falcon. Director: John Huston. Rotten Tomatoes Score: 99% Although very old, this is still a must-watch and an absolute classic detective film.
- The Lady Vanishes
- Gosford Park
- Memories of Murder
- Brick
- Clue
- Sleuth
- Game Night
- The Thin Man
- Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
- Murder on The Orient Express
A criminally underrated Alfred Hitchcock flick, The Lady Vanishesis at once a thriller, a romance, and a comedy of manners. In a very Agatha Christie-esque setup, a rich young playgirl (Margaret Lockwood) begrudgingly boards a train in a fictional European country to travel to England where she’ll meet up with a fiancée she’s none-too-enthused to m...
If you were a fan of the mystery-in-a-mansion vibes of the first Knives Out mystery, you’re going to love Gosford Park. The film, set in a 1930s British manse, effectively deploys a murder to expose upstairs-downstairs dynamics, similar to the way Rian Johnson critiques class in his films. The all-star cast includes Helen Mirren, Maggie Smith, Cliv...
Though darker than other selections on this list, Bong-Joon Ho’s Memories of Murder is essential viewing for anyone who loves a mystery. Based on the real-life investigation of a serial-killer in the Gyunggi Province of Korea in 1986, Memories of Murder centers on an ill-equipped detective squad trying to puzzle through the clues. The three detecti...
If you’re a fan of Rian Johnson’s movies, you ought to check out the director’s urtext, a 2005 neo-noir murder mystery set in a high school. Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars a a loner teen who has to infiltrate various cliques in order to solve the murder of his ex-girlfriend. Johnson meshes the fast-paced dialogue of classic noir films with the deadpan ...
If you have never seen this classic entry in the murder-comedy genre, please treat yourself to this 1980s cult classic that brought a bunch of boardgame characters to life. Better yet, go to an interactive screening. Tim Curry turns in a satisfyingly gonzo performance as the butler in a house where the guests are falling like flies. Its chaotic end...
This one is admittedly nearly impossible to find to stream online—though it’s worth an Internet dive to find a DVD of this movie if you truly love detective stories. Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz (of All About Eve, Cleopatra, and Guys and Dolls fame) the movie a two-hander between Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine. Olivier plays an eccentric my...
Hollywood doesn’t seem particularly interested in producing screwball comedies anymore, which is too bad because stars like Rachel McAdams excel in that setting. Take Game Night,a movie in which an overly competitive set of friends fall down the rabbit hole of a “fake” murder mystery party that devolves into real violence and chaos. McAdams, Jason ...
This murder mystery based on a Dashiell Hammett novel is all about the chemistry between its married sleuths, Nick and Nora Charles (William Powell and Myrna Loy), who share a mutual love for their adorable dog, a well-made martini, and cracking a case (probably in that order). When Nick is dragged into a missing persons investigation by an old cli...
Arguably the start of the Downey-assaince: Robert Downey Jr. plays a thief posing as an actor who falls into the middle of a murder investigation. Val Kilmer, playing a private eye, verbally incinerates Downey over and over again and Michelle Monaghan rounds out the cast in the Shane Black movie that delivers the snark and violence its title promis...
We had to include an Agatha Christie story here, and the original 1974 version of Murder on the Orient Expressis arguably the best film adaptation of her work. For the uninitiated, famous detective Hercule Poirot must investigate murder suspects on a marooned train. As with all Christie’s work, there’s a twist. If you must watch the newer Kenneth B...
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