One of the most popular genres of cinema is a detective story. The plots of such films are full of mysteries, unpredictability and intricacies. Detective paintings can completely absorb and captivate the viewer in a world of mysteries, full of dangers.
Readers are presented detective films - list of the best works of our time.
10. The game | 1997 year
"A game" (1997) opens the top ten best detective films. The main storyline of the film is connected with the game in virtual reality. A successful businessman Nicholas Van Ortan receives a very unusual gift for his birthday - a ticket to participate in the Game, about which there is no information, except for a few positive reviews from friends. Unforgettable, vivid sensations promise Ortan. Having entered an unfamiliar Game, the hero realizes that all the events in the alternative world are truly real and extremely dangerous.
9. Secrets of Los Angeles | 1997 year
In ninth place in the list of the best films of detectives is a motion picture "Secrets of Los Angeles" (1997), filmed by James Ellroy, the best-seller of the same name. The art picture reveals the underworld of the glamorous metropolis of the 50s of the 20th century. Everything is sold and bought here, including honor, fame and even feelings ...
8. Sleepy Hollow | 1999 year
Sleepy Hollow (1999) - Tim Burton's detective thriller of the fantasy genre. The film is an adaptation of the Washington Irving short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." The main character of the picture, a young constable from New York, Ikabod Crane, is sent to a village called Sleepy Hollow, where a mysterious series of murders takes place, which, according to local residents, is carried out by the Headless Horseman. He leaves all his victims decapitated at the crime scene. Crane will face a dangerous criminal who cannot be killed or caught, since he has already died ...
7. Atonement | 2007 year
"Redemption" (2007) ranks seventh on the list of best detective films. The artwork was shot by Joe Wright based on the novel of the same name by Ian McEukan. In 2008, the film was awarded two Golden Globe statuettes, such as Best Film and Best Music. The picture unfolds in 1935 of the last century. The gifted thirteen-year-old girl, Briony, is writing plays. She is aware of the love affair between her older sister Cecilia and the son of a maid Robbie. When a cousin of Briony Lola is raped, she points to Robbie. He goes to prison, and an irreconcilable enmity arises between the sisters. From prison, Robbie is immediately sent to the front, while Cecilia, meanwhile, is working in a hospital. Young people have a second chance to find happiness. Briony begins to realize that she made a terrible mistake, once testified against Robbie and now decides to atone ...
6. Dogville | 2003 year
Dogville (2003) - one of the best detective thrillers Lars von Trier. It is the first part of the trilogy "USA - a country of opportunities." The film describes the events of the 30s of the last century. Trying to escape from the gangsters, the girl Grace finds herself in the small town of Dogville, located in a mountainous area. Local residents decide to shelter the refugee, provided that she will work for them. Gracefully, from a female worker, Grace turns into a slave imprisoned by cruel inhabitants. Meanwhile, the girl is wanted by the police, who accuse her of robbing a bank ...
5. Substitution | 2008 year
"Substitution" (2008) - Clint Eastwood's American detective thriller. The picture is based on real events that happened in the 1920s in Los Angeles. The woman is returned the abducted son, who is not her child. The main character makes every effort to find the missing baby, trying to attract the police to this, but to no avail. Then she decides to resort to the help of journalists. Local authorities are trying to hush up the case, accusing the woman that she is a bad mother and recognize her insane ...
4. Disappeared | year 2014
"Disappeared" (2014) ranks fourth in the list of best detective films. The film was shot based on the novel of the same name by Gillian Flynn, who remade her work into a screenplay. The events of the film begin with the fifth wedding anniversary of the spouses Amy and Nick Dunn. But after returning home, the husband does not find his wife at home and finds signs of violence. What happened is made public, and Nick becomes the main suspect in the disappearance of his wife. All evidence found by the police speaks against him. Nick stumbles at every step on the notes everywhere left by the disappeared. Judging by them, the insidious wife wants to take revenge on her husband for something, tying a ball of suspicions around him, which speak of his involvement in the incident ...
3. Sherlock Holmes | year 2009
"Sherlock Holmes" (2009) opens the top three best detective films. The artwork was based on the works of Arthur Conan Doyle about Sherlock Holmes. The events of the film unfold at the end of the 19th century. One of the most brilliant detectives of all history, Sherlock Holmes, together with his assistant Dr. Watson, stop the serial killer, preventing the last of six ritual sacrifices. The offender is sentenced to death, but he cunningly manages to escape punishment and escape. From Watson and Holmes, you will need incredible flair and the work of the mind to go back on the trail of the cunning warlock.
2. Seven | 1995 year
"Seven" (1995) ranks second in the list of best detective films. Old detective William Somerset is getting ready to retire and move away from the city and its sinful inhabitants. But a week before his retirement, two unpleasant news fell on the head of the detective: the newcomer Mills assigned to him and the brutal, strange murder. The instinct of an experienced detective tells him that the crime will be followed by a series of murders. And, indeed, Somerset’s assumptions are coming true soon. The handwriting of the killings makes the hero think that the maniac is punishing his victims for the mortal sins committed in the Bible. Somerset faces a difficult choice: to wait for retirement and to investigate, or to transfer the case to a young, inexperienced partner.
1. The silence of the lambs | 1990 year
The work of American filmmaker Jonathan Demmy "Silence of the Lambs" (1990) tops the list of best detective films. The artwork is the owner of five Oscars and the winner of the Silver Bear. The FBI is charged with investigating the chain of killers committed by a serial maniac. He was nicknamed Buffalo Bill for his habit of stripping the skin of slain victims. Having not found any clues, the federal service decides to seek help from a former psychiatrist and current patient in a psychiatric hospital, the brilliant cannibal killer Hannibal Lector. FBI novice agent Clarissa Starling is sent to him for a conversation. He agrees to help the investigation only if the girl patches the sick imagination of the psychopath with the details of her personal life. Between them, a strange psychological connection arises, which helps to solve a complicated business.
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