15 Best Detective Movies of All Time

It's our human nature to be curious and fear about the unknown. That's why we are always attracted by detective movies. No one don't know Sherlock Holmes, it's still very popular in nowadays. We can find detective stories at any medium. Such as books, comics, movies, TV shows, even in real life. The degree of terror from truth of life is no lower than the end in detective film or television. Even though, life need to be loved. Enjoy the movies Chilimovie list below.

Release Date
2003-04-25
  • Rate : 7.3
  • Production Companies : Konrad Pictures, Columbia Pictures Corporation
  • Director : Rick Avery, Sheila Waldron, James Mangold
  • Stars : John Cusack , Ray Liotta , Amanda Peet
  • Complete strangers stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm soon find themselves the target of a deranged murderer. As their numbers thin out, the travelers begin to turn on each other, as each tries to figure out who the killer is.
Release Date
2014-08-16
  • Rate : 3.3
  • Production Companies : CineTel Films, Zodiac Pictures
  • Director : W.D. Hogan, Shaun Moskie, Stephanie Brown
  • Stars : Joel Gretsch , Aaron Douglas , Reilly Dolman
  • Global disasters begin to occur after archaeologists unearth a 2,000-year-old astrology artifact. A rogue scientist is the key to deciphering the artifact to avert the end of the world.
Release Date
2010-02-19
  • Rate : 8.2
  • Production Companies : Paramount Pictures, Appian Way
  • Director : Martha Pinson, Joseph P. Reidy, Amy Herman
  • Stars : Leonardo DiCaprio , Mark Ruffalo , Ben Kingsley
  • World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by troubling visions and a mysterious doctor.
Release Date
2013-09-20
  • Rate : 8.2
  • Production Companies : Alcon Entertainment, Madhouse Entertainment
  • Director : Denis Villeneuve, Gail Hunter, Karen Davis
  • Stars : Hugh Jackman , Jake Gyllenhaal , Viola Davis
  • Keller Dover is facing every parent’s worst nightmare. His six-year-old daughter, Anna, is missing, together with her young friend, Joy, and as minutes turn to hours, panic sets in. The only lead is a dilapidated RV that had earlier been parked on their street.
Release Date
2008-10-24
  • Rate : 7.7
  • Production Companies : Imagine Entertainment, Malpaso Productions
  • Director : Clint Eastwood, Kerry Lyn McKissick, Donald Murphy
  • Stars : Angelina Jolie , John Malkovich , Jeffrey Donovan
  • Los Angeles, 1928. When single mother Christine Collins leaves for work, her son vanishes without a trace. Five months later, the police reunite mother and son. But when Christine suspects that the boy returned to her isn't her child, her quest for truth exposes a world of corruption.
Release Date
2007-10-19
  • Rate : 7.6
  • Production Companies : Miramax, LivePlanet
  • Director : Takahide Kawakami, Christopher Surgent, Matt Power
  • Stars : Casey Affleck , Michelle Monaghan , Morgan Freeman
  • When 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in solving the case, the girl's aunt, Beatrice McCready hires two private detectives, Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. The detectives freely admit that they have little experience with this type of case, but the family wants them for two reasons—they're not cops and they know the tough neighborhood in which they all live.
Release Date
1999-01-01
  • Rate : 8.2
  • Production Companies : Imagine Television Studios, Picture Factory
  • Director : David Lynch
  • Stars : Justin Theroux , Naomi Watts , Laura Harring
  • Initially, "Mulholland Dr." was to mark David Lynch's return to television. It is a retooling of a script originally shot as a 94-minute pilot for a TV series (co-written with TV screenwriter Joyce Eliason) for the channel ABC, which had approved the script, but chose not even to air the pilot once it was done in 1999, despite Lynch's labours to cut the project to their liking. It was left in limbo until 18 month later French company Studio Canal Plus (also producer of 'The Straight Story') agreed to pay ABC $7 million for the pilot, and budget a few million more to turn the pilot into a two-hour, 27-minute movie. The cost of the film doubled to $14 million as sets had to be reconstructed and actors recalled.
Release Date
1997-09-19
  • Rate : 8.2
  • Production Companies : Regency Enterprises, Wolper Organization
  • Director : Linda Montanti, Drew Ann Rosenberg, Curtis Hanson
  • Stars : Guy Pearce , Russell Crowe , Kevin Spacey
  • Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night diner.
Release Date
2006-05-19
  • Rate : 6.6
  • Production Companies : Columbia Pictures, Imagine Entertainment
  • Director : Tom Brewster, Todd Hallowell, Ron Howard
  • Stars : Tom Hanks , Audrey Tautou , Ian McKellen
  • A murder in Paris’ Louvre Museum and cryptic clues in some of Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous paintings lead to the discovery of a religious mystery. For 2,000 years a secret society closely guards information that — should it come to light — could rock the very foundations of Christianity.
Release Date
2006-03-24
  • Rate : 7.6
  • Production Companies : 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, Imagine Entertainment
  • Director : Rodney "Bear" Jackson, Mike Ellis, Shari L. Carpenter
  • Stars : Denzel Washington , Clive Owen , Jodie Foster
  • When an armed, masked gang enter a Manhattan bank, lock the doors and take hostages, the detective assigned to effect their release enters negotiations preoccupied with corruption charges he is facing.
Release Date
1991-02-14
  • Rate : 8.6
  • Production Companies : Orion Pictures, Strong Heart
  • Director : Mary A. Kelly, Gina Maria Leonetti, Kyle McCarthy
  • Stars : Jodie Foster , Anthony Hopkins , Scott Glenn
  • Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into a case and that Starling, as an attractive young woman, may be just the bait to draw him out.
Release Date
2011-12-16
  • Rate : 7.4
  • Production Companies : Village Roadshow Pictures, Silver Pictures
  • Director : Chad Stahelski, Elizabeth West, Guy Ritchie
  • Stars : Robert Downey Jr. , Jude Law , Noomi Rapace
  • There is a new criminal mastermind at large (Professor Moriarty) and not only is he Holmes’ intellectual equal, but his capacity for evil and lack of conscience may give him an advantage over the detective.
Release Date
2014-10-03
  • Rate : 8.1
  • Production Companies : Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, Regency Enterprises
  • Director : Sharron Reynolds-Enriquez, Courtenay Miles, Paul Schneider
  • Stars : Ben Affleck , Rosamund Pike , Neil Patrick Harris
  • With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.