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1. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
directed by John Huston
featuring Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, Ward Bond, Barton MacLane, Gladys George
After two previous film versions of Dashiell Hammett's detective classic The Maltese Falcon, Warner Bros. finally got it right in 1941--or, rather, ... More
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2. Sleepy Hollow (1999)
directed by Tim Burton
featuring Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Miranda Richardson, Michael Gambon, Casper Van Dien
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 ... More
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3. Chinatown (1974)
directed by Roman Polanski
featuring Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Perry Lopez, John Hillerman
"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-turned ... More
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4. The Name of the Rose (1986)
directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud
featuring Sean Connery, F. Murray Abraham, Christian Slater, Elya Baskin, Michel Lonsdale, Feodor Chaliapin, Jr., Ron Perlman, William Hickey
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 ... More
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5. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (2010)
directed by Niels Arden Oplev
featuring Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace, Lena Endre, Sven-Bertil Taube, Peter Haber, Peter Andersson, Marika Lagercrantz, Ingvar Hirdwall
A discredited journalist and a mysterious computer hacker discover that even the wealthiest families have skeletons in their closets while working to ... More
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6. Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
directed by Sidney Lumet
featuring Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, Sean Connery, Martin Balsam, Vanessa Redgrave
Like many of Agatha Christie's mysteries, Murder on the Orient Express is predicated on an actual event, in this case the Lindbergh kidnapping. In ... More
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7. Nancy Drew (2007)
directed by Andrew Fleming
featuring Emma Roberts, Josh Flitter, Max Thieriot, Rachael Leigh Cook, Tate Donovan
A resourceful teenage super-sleuth finds her investigative skills put to the ultimate test as director Andrew Fleming and screenwriter Tiffany ... More
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8. Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (2005)
directed by Shane Black
featuring Robert Downey, Jr., Val Kilmer, Michelle Monaghan, Corbin Bernsen, Dash Mihok
A thesp-turned-crook gets a chance at career in movies as well as crime scene investigation in this offbeat action comedy with nods to Raymond ... More
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9. The Girl Who Played With Fire (2010)
directed by Daniel Alfredson
featuring Noomi Rapace, Michael Nyqvist, Annika Hallin, Per Oscarsson, Lena Endre, Peter Andersson
The second installment of author Stieg Larsson's best-selling "Millennium" trilogy gets translated to the big screen with this tale of a prominent ... More
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10. Thunderheart (1992)
directed by Michael Apted
featuring Val Kilmer, Graham Greene, Sam Shepard, Sheila Tousey, Fred Ward, John Trudell, Chief Ted Thin Elk, Fred Dalton Thompson
Actor Robert De Niro started a production company to make films just like this one: stories which were unpopular with the establishment and which are ... More
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11. Death on the Nile (1978)
directed by John Guillermin
featuring Peter Ustinov, Jane Birkin, David Niven, Lois Chiles, Bette Davis, Angela Lansbury, Mia Farrow
Peter Ustinov began his long association with the Hercule Poirot character of murder mystery novelist Agatha Christie with this lavish but ... More
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12. Midsomer Murders [TV Series] (1998)
Based on the novels by Caroline Graham, the British mystery program Midsomer Murders starred John Nettles as Tom Barnaby, veteran detective chief ... More
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13. Mississippi Burning (1988)
directed by Alan Parker
featuring Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances McDormand, Brad Dourif, R. Lee Ermey
Mississippi Burning is an all-names-changed dramatization of the Ku Klux Klan's murders of three civil rights workers in 1964. Investigating the ... More
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14. Laura (1944)
directed by Otto Preminger
featuring Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, Vincent Price, Judith Anderson
This adaptation of Vera Caspary's suspense novel was begun by director Rouben Mamoulien and cinematographer Lucien Ballard, but thanks to a complex ... More
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15. The Guard (2011)
directed by John Michael McDonagh
featuring Brendan Gleeson, Don Cheadle, Rory Keenan, Liam Cunningham, David Wilmot
Confrontational Irish cop Gerry Boyle (Brendan Gleeson) reluctantly teams with uptight FBI agent Wendell Everett (Don Cheadle) to take down a gang of ... More
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16. Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame (2011)
directed by Tsui Hark
featuring Andy Lau, Carina Lau, Li Bingbing, Tony Leung Kar-Fai, Deng Chao, Jean-Michel Casanova, Teddy Robin Kwan
China's first master detective is looking for answers to some burning questions in this blend of historical drama and mystery from acclaimed director ... More
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17. Sherlock Holmes (2009)
directed by Guy Ritchie
featuring Robert Downey, Jr., Jude Law, Rachel McAdams, Mark Strong, Eddie Marsan, Kelly Reilly
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous super-sleuth, Sherlock Holmes, gets an update with this adaptation of Lionel Wigram's comic book series by writer ... More
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18. The Ice House (1998)
directed by Tim Fywell
featuring Daniel Craig, Corin Redgrave, Kitty Aldridge, Frances Barber, Penny Downie
Three women who are viewed with suspicion by their neighbors become the center of an investigation with deadly consequences in this made-for-TV drama ... More
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19. Sea of Love (1989)
directed by Harold Becker
featuring Al Pacino, Ellen Barkin, John Goodman, Michael Rooker, William Hickey
Sea of Love is a sexy, atmospheric thriller, very much in the style of Alfred Hitchcock, with involving characters, steamy love scenes, and ... More
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20. Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)
directed by Barry Levinson
featuring Nicolas Rowe, Alan Cox, Sophie Ward, Anthony Higgins, Susan Fleetwood
Also released under the title Young Sherlock Holmes and the Pyramid of Fear, this film follows the adventures of young John Watson (Alan Cox) when he ... More
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21. Winter's Bone (2010)
directed by Debra Granik
featuring Jennifer Lawrence, John Hawkes, Kevin Breznahan, Dale Dickey, Garret Dillahunt, Sheryl Lee
Her family home in danger of being repossessed after her meth-cooking dad skips bail and disappears, Ozark teen Ree Dolly (Jennifer Lawrence) breaks ... More
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22. The Return of the Pink Panther (1975)
directed by Blake Edwards
featuring Peter Sellers, Christopher Plummer, Catherine Schell, Herbert Lom, Peter Arne
After several years at loggerheads with one another, director Blake Edwards and star Peter Sellers reteamed for the slapstick fiesta The Return of ... More
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24. Blood Work (2002)
directed by Clint Eastwood
featuring Clint Eastwood, Jeff Daniels, Anjelica Huston, Wanda De Jesus
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 ... More
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25. Tower of Terror (1997)
directed by D.J. MacHale
featuring Steve Guttenberg, Kirsten Dunst, Nia Peeples
Steve Guttenberg stars in this thriller as a once-respected reporter who has fallen on hard times and is now working for a sleazy tabloid. He happens ... More
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