Movies tagged with the "murder-investigation" keyword

Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller | Actors: Billy Bob Thornton, William Devane, Marcus Lyle Brown, Ray McKinnon, Tom Bower, John McConnell, Ron Flagge, Huey Alexander, Mark Krasnoff, Jerry Leggio, Rick Dial, Michael Arata, David Dahlgren, Michael Cahill, Marco St. John, Directors: Plot Summary: A sheriff (Thornton) begins an investigation into the death of a local transsexual after hearing that high ranking politicians may have been involved. Although he is homophobic, his investigation causes him to be rejected by others, forcing him to seek help from the people he once despised.

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Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller | Actors: Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone, George Dzundza, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Denis Arndt, Leilani Sarelle, Bruce A. Young, Chelcie Ross, Dorothy Malone, Wayne Knight, Daniel von Bargen, Stephen Tobolowsky, Benjamin Mouton, Jack McGee, Bill Cable, Directors: Paul Verhoeven,  Plot Summary: A former rockstar Johnny Boz is brutally killed during sex , and the case is assigned to the Detective Nick Curran of the SFPD . During the investigation , Nick meets Catherine Tramell , a crime novelist who was Boz's girlfriend when he died . Catherine proves to be a very clever and manipulative woman , and though Nick is more or less convinced that she murdered Boz , he is unable to find any evidence . Later , when Nilsen , Nick's rival in the police is killed , Nick suspects of Catherine's involvement in it . He then starts to play a dangerous lust-filled mind game with Catherine to nail her , but as their relationship progresses , the body count rises and contradicting evidences force Nick to start questioning his own suspicions about Catherine's guilt .

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Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller | Actors: Jennifer Lopez, Antonio Banderas, Kate del Castillo, John Norman, Irineo Alvarez, Richard Barela, Randall Batinkoff, Juan Diego Botto, Julio Cedillo, Dave Colon, Peter Gonzales Falcon, Juanes, Rene Rivera, Martin Sheen, Chris Talley, Directors: Gregory Nava,  Plot Summary: Lauren (Jennifer Lopez), an impassioned American reporter for the Chicago Sentinel heads to Juarez, a Mexican bordertown, in order to investigate a series of mysterious slayings involving young factory women from all over Mexico. As she discovers hundreds of victims, she gains the trust of local factory workers but falls into danger.

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Genres: Drama | Thriller | Actors: Nikki Reed, Jonathan Tucker, Julie Gonzalo, Michael O'Keefe, Haviland Morris, Dennis Boutsikaris, Frank Whaley, Alessa Neeck, Christopher Jon Martin, Patricia Lewis Browne, Billy Powell, Thomas Tripiciano, Nick Lang, Ferdinand Jay Smith, Sarah Anderson, Directors: Nicholas DiBella,  Plot Summary: Jordan Wells, a talented, seventeen-year-old photographer struggles between falling in line with his father's plans for his future and following his desire to pursue photography. After he gets throw out of his upscale prep school for taking provocative pictures of some of the girls in his class, he transfers into a public school and becomes involved with Shay, a beautiful girl from the other side of the tracks. As the passion of their relationship heats up, Jordan soon finds himself an accessory to murder —twice.

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Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller | Actors: Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Ian McKellen, Paul Bettany, Jean Reno, Etienne Chicot, Alfred Molina, Clive Carter, Seth Gabel, Daisy Doidge-Hill, Directors: Ron Howard,  Plot Summary: Professor Robert Langdon is in Paris on business when he's summoned to The Louvre. A dead body has been found, setting Langdon off on an adventure as he attempts to unravel an ancient code and uncover the greatest mystery of all time.

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Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller | Actors: Hend Ayoub, Brian Boland, Becky Ann Baker, Robert Mangiardi, Jay Patterson, Jay Whittaker, Michael Reilly Burke, James Urbaniak, Neko Parham, Seena Jon, Christian Stolte, Chavez Ravine, Patricia Buckley, Patrick Clear, Malik Bader, Directors: Gabriel Range,  Plot Summary: Years after the assassination of President George W. Bush in Chicago, an investigative documentary examines that as-yet-unsolved crime.

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Genres: Action | Thriller | Actors: Brent Roam, Shawn Woods, Christopher Bersh, Kiefer Sutherland, Rachel Ticotin, Beth Grant, Zach Chapman, Jamey Sheridan, Leslie Stefanson, Melora Walters, Buddy Quaid, Keith Diamond, Bill Sage, Aliza Waksal, Alan Gelfant, Directors: Richard Greenberg,  Plot Summary: The nature of temptation. Banks is a hit man, the best, usually working for Latin American drug cartels. He picks up solitary women, uses them briefly for a job, then kills them. He's in the Southwest, headed toward Mexico, when he picks up Bennie, a woman leaving an abusive marriage, going to Paradise, Arizona. The film follows three tracks: Banks's slow recruitment of Bennie, the set-up for the hit at a swank resort in Mexico, and the FBI's close pursuit of Banks, whom they want alive in hopes he'll rat out his bosses. Bennie may not be who she seems, and there may be a chink in Banks's tough-guy armor. Guns, money, and a chance at Paradise...

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Genres: Thriller | Actors: John Turturro, Deborah Kara Unger, Stephen McIntyre, William Allen Young, Gene Davis, Mark Houghton, Jacqueline Ramel, James Remar, Directors: Nicolas Winding Refn,  Plot Summary:

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Genres: Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Actors: Luke Goss, Alec Newman, Julie Delpy, Nicole Lewis, Monika Hilmerová, Donald Sutherland, William Hurt, Tomas Mastalir, Ian McNeice, Roger La Page, Milan Bahúl, Ondrej Koval, Directors: Kevin Connor,  Plot Summary: Two hundred years after Mary Shelley's novel the brilliant but mad Doctor (Thomas Kretschmann) has sustained his creature and himself over two centuries through genetic experimentation. In present-day America Detective O'Connor (Parker Posey) is investigating a series of horrific murders which leads her to the doctor and his creature. What she uncovers reveals the strange evolution the doctor and his creation undergo over the course of two centuries and the divergent paths creator and monster take in pursuing good or evil.

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Genres: Crime | Drama | Music | Actors: Steve John Shepherd, Ben Waters, Alec Newman, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Anjela Lauren Smith, Melanie Gutteridge, Georgia Mackenzie, Alicia Eyo, Freddie Annobil-Dodoo, Alun Armstrong, Geoffrey Beevers, Annette Bentley, John Blundell, Debbi Blythe, Karl Collins, Directors: John Strickland,  Plot Summary: Six London school-leavers attempt to make it in the world, balancing the challenge of trying to make a name for themselves in the music industry against the pressures and tragedies of everyday life.

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Genres: Action | Fantasy | Thriller | Actors: Matt Long, Raquel Alessi, Brett Cullen, Peter Fonda, Nicolas Cage, Donal Logue, Tony Ghosthawk, Hugh Sexton, Marcus Jones, Matt Norman, Lawrence Cameron Steele, Wes Bentley, Eddie Baroo, Jessica Napier, Laurence Breuls, Directors: Mark Steven Johnson,  Plot Summary: In order to save his dying father, young stunt cyclist Johnny Blaze sells his soul to Mephistopheles and sadly parts from the pure-hearted Roxanne Simpson, the love of his life. Years later, Johnny's path crosses again with Roxanne, now a reporter, and also with Mephistopheles, who offers to release Johnny's soul if Johnny becomes the fabled, fiery Ghost Rider, a supernatural agent of vengeance and justice. Mephistopheles charges Johnny with defeating the despicable Blackheart, Mephistopheles's nemesis and son, who plans to displace his father and create a new hell even more terrible than the old one.

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Genres: Action | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller | Actors: Will Smith, Bridget Moynahan, Alan Tudyk, James Cromwell, Bruce Greenwood, Adrian Ricard, Chi McBride, Jerry Wasserman, Fiona Hogan, Peter Shinkoda, Terry Chen, David Haysom, Scott Heindl, Sharon Wilkins, Craig March, Directors: Alex Proyas,  Plot Summary: Set in a future Earth (2035 A.D.) where robots are common assistants and workers for their human owners, this is the story of "robotophobic" Chicago Police Detective Del Spooner's (Smith) investigation into the murder of Dr. Alfred Lanning (James Cromwell), who works at U.S. Robotics, in which a robot, Sonny (Tudyk), appears to be implicated, even though that would mean the robot had violated the Three Laws of Robotics, which is apparently impossible. It seems impossible because.. if robots can break those laws, there's nothing to stop them from taking over the world, as humans have grown to become completely dependent upon their robots. Or maybe... they already have? Aiding Spooner in his investigation is a psychologist, Dr. Susan Calvin (Moynahan), who specializes in the psyches of robots.

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Genres: Crime | Horror | Mystery | Thriller | Actors: John Cusack, Ray Liotta, Amanda Peet, John Hawkes, Alfred Molina, Clea DuVall, John C. McGinley, William Lee Scott, Jake Busey, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Rebecca De Mornay, Carmen Argenziano, Marshall Bell, Leila Kenzle, Matt Letscher, Directors: James Mangold,