Mystery and Detective Films

Index for Films that falls under the Mystery Fiction and Detective Drama categories. See also the MysteryFiction.Film sub-page for more examples.

For tropes that often appear in these films, see Mystery Tropes and Crime and Punishment Tropes.

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Films

• 100 Tears
• 1994 Baker Street: Sherlock Holmes Returns
• 555
• 5 Card Stud
• 8mm
• Adele Hasn't Had Her Dinner Yet
• The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)
• Agnes of God
• The Alphabet Killer
• Anamorph
• Android Cop
• Anon
• Apartment 143
• Batman: Under the Red Hood
• The Bagman
• The Baker Street Dozen
• The Batman (2022)
• The Beast with Five Fingers
• Big Driver
• The Big Sleep
• The Big Store
• The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
• The Black Six
• The Black Belly of the Tarantula
• Blood and Black Lace
• The Blood Beast Terror
• Blood Cult
• Blood Slaughter Massacre
• Bloodsucking Pharaohs In Pittsburgh
• Bloody Parrot
• Blue Velvet
• Boarding School
• Brick
• Carry On Spying
• The Case of the Howling Dog
• The Case of the Curious Bride
• The Cheap Detective
• Chinatown
• Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers (2022)
• Circus of Fear
• Citizen X
• City in Panic
• Clegg
• Clue
• Cold Weather
• Cop
• Copycat
• Crime Doctor
• The Crime Doctor's Courage
• Crime Doctor's Man Hunt
• The Crime Doctor's Strangest Case
• Crooked House
• Cry Wolf (1947)
• Cure
• The Dark Wind
• Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
• Dead Reckoning
• Death at Broadcasting House
• Death Note Series
  • Death Note (2006)
  • Death Note: The Last Name
  • L: change the WorLd
  • Death Note: Light Up the New World
• Death Walks on High Heels
• Decision to Leave
• Deep Red
• Department Q: The Keeper of Lost Causes
• Detonator (2003)
• Devil in a Blue Dress
• Dial M for Murder
• Dick Tracy
• The Dick Tracy film series:
  • Dick Tracy, Detective
  • Dick Tracy vs. Cueball
  • Dick Tracy's Dilemma
  • Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome
• Don't Torture a Duckling
• Dr. Minx
• The Dry
• Elfie Hopkins: Cannibal Hunter
• Enola Holmes
  • Enola Holmes 2
• The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
• Fatherland
• The Firechasers
• The First Deadly Sin
• Footsteps in the Dark
• Force of Nature: The Dry 2
• Foul Play
• The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake
• The French Connection
  • Popeye Doyle
• The Frozen Ground
• The Fugitive
• The General's Daughter
• The Girl Who Knew Too Much (1963)
• The Glass Key
• Goldstone
• The Gore Gore Girls
• Gosford Park
• The Gray Man (2007)
• The Great Muppet Caper
• Green for Danger
• Guns, Girls and Gambling
• Harper
• He Knows You're Alone
• Hercule Poirot (Kenneth Branagh)
  • Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
  • Death on the Nile (2022)
  • A Haunting in Venice
• High and Low
• Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers
• Hollywood Homicide
• The Hound of the Baskervilles
• The Hound of the Baskervilles (1983)
• The Howling
  • The Howling (1981)
• In the Heat of the Night
• In the Valley of Elah
• Intruder in the Dust
• Invisible Avenger
• Jack Caffery cinematic adaptations:
  • The Treatment (Adaptation of The Treatment)
  • Ritual (Adaptation of Ritual)
• Judas Kiss
• The Kennel Murder Case
• Kid Detective (2020)
• Kiler
• Klute
• Knives Out
  • Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
• Lady in the Lake
• The Lady Vanishes
• The Leopard Man
• The Limehouse Golem
• The Lodger
• London After Midnight
• The Long Goodbye
• Lord of Illusions
• The Mad Magician
• The Mad Miss Manton
• Maigret (2022)
• The Maltese Falcon (1931)
• The Maltese Falcon (1941)
• Manhunter
• Man in the Attic
• The Man Who Knew Too Much
• Marlowe
• Marshland
• Masked Avengers
• Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears
• Miss Marple
  • Murder, She Said
• Miss Pinkerton
• Murder at the Baskervilles
• Murder by Death
• Murder by Decree
• Murder by Proxy
• Murder Mystery
• Murder on Flight 502
• Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
• Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
• Murders in the Zoo
• The Mystery of the Hooded Horsemen
• Mystery Road
• Nemesis Game
• The New York Ripper
• Night Moves
• Night Must Fall
• The Night of the Generals
• Night School (1981)
• Nine Dead
• An Officer and a Spy
• Perfect Assassins
• A Perfect Murder
• Performance
• The Phantom Express (1932)
• The Phantom of Crestwood
• Phenomena
• The Pink Panther
• Pokémon Detective Pikachu
• Pool of London
• President's Day
• Rehearsal for Murder
• The Return of Sherlock Holmes
• Ring of Fear
• The Ripper (1997)
• RRRrrr
• Ruben Brandt, Collector
• Running Out of Time (1999)
• Sapphire
• The Satan Bug
• Searching
• Sea of Love
• See How They Run
• Seven Murders for Scotland Yard
• The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
• Sherlock: Case of Evil
• Sherlock Holmes (1932)
• Sherlock Holmes (2009)
  • Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
• Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking
• Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace
• Shotgun (1989)
• The Sign of Four: Sherlock Holmes' Greatest Case
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes
• The Silence of the Lambs
• The Sleeping Cardinal
• So Sweet, So Dead
• Stripped to Kill
• A Study in Scarlet
• A Study in Terror
• Summer of '84
• Sunburn (1979)
• Suspect Zero
• Tenebre
• That Darn Cat!
• The Thin Man
  • After the Thin Man
  • Another Thin Man
  • Shadow of the Thin Man
• The Treatment (2014)
• Tony Rome
  • Lady in Cement
• The Vampire Bat
• The Wailing
• The Web (1947)
• What a Carve Up!
• What Have You Done to Solange?
• Whiteout
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit
• Who is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
• Wind River
• Without a Clue
• Wolfen
• Yesterday Was a Lie
• Young Sherlock Holmes
• Yuma
• Zero Effect
• Zodiac

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