What good quality detective films? Probably by the fact that you never know what will happen next in such a film. It stimulates the imagination and makes watching detective films so exciting!
We suggest that you familiarize yourself with the TOP-20 best psychological detective films according to the opinion of the editorial board of the psychological portal PsSovet24.ru. If you have not seen any detective films from this list, be sure to check them out, because the pictures listed below are real masterpieces of the detective, action-packed and psychological genre!
So let's take a look at what kind of movie it is:
20. Photo magnification
A young and very talented photographer shoots everything that happens around. Once in the park, he takes photographs and accidentally an unusual couple gets into the frame. Only after viewing the photos there is a suspicion that behind the romantic facade is viewed crime.
The unfolding events of the film are intriguing, and the photographer wonders if what he saw in the photo, hidden from view, is reality, or is it just his imagination and erroneous opinion?
19. Secrets of Los Angeles
Los Angeles is known for its sunny beaches, the indescribable sense of freedom and the thriving world of crime, headed by a certain Mickey Cohen. The arrest of the head of the underworld leads to a series of mysterious deaths of all those who are trying to encroach on the place of retired authority.
The investigation of this case is entrusted to two policemen from the special department, but they very quickly become rivals when not only a number of strange murders become involved, but also a mysterious gorgeous woman.
18. Maltese Falcon
One day a client comes to detective Sam Slade, who asks him to trace one of the supposedly escaped persons. The case leads the detective to a standstill, but soon a mysterious person appears, with a no less strange request. Slade is commissioned to find a rare statuette of the Maltese Falcon. The detective immediately realizes that the stranger is hiding something, but agrees to this work. From this begins the dangerous adventures of Slade, who with every new detail in the investigation more and more immerse him in the cover of intrigue and mystery.
17. Crimson rivers
One of the best police commissioners, Pierre Niemens, is investigating a brutal murder case in a college in the Alps. At the same time, in another city, an equally horrendous crime occurs, an unknown person excavated and desecrated the grave of a ten-year-old girl. The local policeman Max Kerkerian takes up the case.
Despite the fact that these crimes are completely unrelated, both policemen are on the trail, which unites their efforts and leads to horrible discoveries. With each new lead in the investigation, they are increasingly immersed in an atmosphere of horror, against which all the atrocities they have seen before are fading.
16. The Silence of the Lambs
A series of brutal murders rolled across western America. The FBI are confident that all the crimes are committed by the same person, therefore, Clarissa Starling is charged with running the case.
The only person who can help get on the trail of the killer is Dr. Psychiatry Hannibal Lecturer, who is serving a life sentence for murder and cannibalism. Can a young FBI agent withstand Lector's sick and perverted imagination and get on the trail of a serial killer?
15. Identification
The raging thunderstorm brings together ten people who find shelter and overnight in a roadside hotel, but they soon realize that this place is deadly. A series of mysterious deaths suggests them that the killer is hiding among them.
In an attempt to prevent the mysterious death, they begin to realize that it is far from being the case that brought them under one roof. Will they be able to find the mysterious killer before he reaches the goal known only to him?
14. Isle of the Damned
Two bailiffs are sent to an island in Massachusetts to investigate the disappearance of one person. The woman who was the patient of a closed clinic for insane criminals mysteriously disappeared.
After arriving on the island and interviewing witnesses, the bailiffs realize that it will not be easy. A tangle of lies, riddles and intrigues will lead the investigation to ever more inexplicable facts that go beyond the limits of healthy perception.
God only knows where the bailiffs will investigate such a strange and mysterious case ...
13. Areas of darkness
Eddie lives in New York and is experiencing a real crisis that is inherent in all writers. Due to depression and hopelessness, he decides to try out the experimental drug NZT on himself.
From this point on, Eddie’s brain begins to work to its fullest, revealing to him everything that is hidden to ordinary people. Eddy in a matter of days achieves stunning success, but you have to pay for everything, and the side effect of the drug does not take long to wait.
Soon, Eddie realizes that the usual desire to diversify his stagnant life leads him into the dangerous world of mysterious secrets and intrigues, from which it is so easy not to extricate yourself.
12. Doubt
Sister Elosius is a school principal and a strict follower of monastic traditions. She faces the choice of her whole life when she learns that one of the priests insulted an African-American student. Will she be able to keep everything secret and reconcile with this incident or decide to openly accuse the priest, causing unwanted attention to the school?
Her personal struggle is further exacerbated when she begins to realize that there is more to this insult. The fight between Elosius and Flynn’s father will grow into a confrontation between faith and justice, in which only one will have to be chosen.
11. Illusionist
At the beginning of the 20th century, a mysterious man appears in Vienna, who declares himself the great illusionist Eisenheim. The audience enthusiastically perceives the show and tricks of Eisenheim, but it is suspicious of the crown prince Leopold.
Excessive attention of his future bride Sophie to the mysterious personality of an illusionist further aggravates the conflict.
Where will this unusual interest of the chosen one of the Crown Prince lead and is it a sudden impulse, or does it contain something more?
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10. Fight Club
The main character lives the usual boring life of office plankton. He is constantly depressed and also suffers from chronic insomnia. Trying to find a passion in life, he meets an extraordinary person named Tyler Durden, who is his complete opposite. He is convinced that self-help is a false goal, and you should devote yourself to self-destruction.
After some time, the usual fight with Tyler at the bar attracts attention, after which they have more and more like-minded people. All this leads to the organization of a secret Fight Club, which grows to an unprecedented scale. But the main character understands that there is something more behind the simple scuffle, and suspicions will lead him to completely unpredictable consequences.
9. Psycho
The girl is bored with a fleeting relationship with a divorced man who only gives her attention occasionally when she turns out to be passing through the city. Deciding to change something in her life, she steals a large amount of money at her work and decides to flee the city.
She has to spend the first night in an ordinary roadside hotel, but meeting her young owner does not promise anything good for her and will make her regret her deed.
8. Suspicious persons
Each crime has its own motive, and if an identification procedure takes place, then, at a minimum, there must be a suspect. But these rules are completely inapplicable to this crime.
Five criminals, being in one place, decided to go on an unusual case. Over time, they begin to realize that they were involved in a much larger game, which was started by one of the most frightening criminals in the world. They are not just suspicious individuals who accidentally decided to turn the easy task.
7. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: The Hound of the Baskervilles
Charles Baskerville was found dead near his family estate. The horror was distorted on his face, and the footprint of a large dog was clearly visible.
Very quickly, a rumor about the ancient curse that hung over the Baskervilles was spread around the district. Sherlock Holmes gets down to business to get to the bottom of the truth thanks to his extraordinary abilities and deductive method.
6. Oldboy
An ordinary businessman gets drunk at a bar in honor of his daughter's anniversary and starts a riot. Soon he finds himself at the police station, from where his childhood friend takes him. But soon the failed rowdy disappears, until the best friend tells his wife that he is all right.
Recovering, he realizes that he was a victim of abduction. In his cell there are absolutely no windows, and among the items there is only a bed, a bathroom and a TV. He has to understand who his captors are, and what goals they pursue.
5. Devil's Advocate
Kevin Lomax is a successful lawyer who has not lost a single case. He is young, ambitious and married to a beautiful woman. The peculiarity of his career is that he always spoke on the defense of the accused, freeing the notorious scoundrels from prison. Success leads him to New York, at the invitation of a mysterious businessman.
A new life in a big city, a huge apartment and a solid income make him happy, but he soon realizes that the people around him are far from as simple as they seem.
4. Seven
William Somerset, the legend of the criminal investigation department, dreams of waiting for a well-deserved retirement pension and living a quiet life in the suburbs. Only 7 days before retirement, two unpleasant events await him. In his companions give him a young detective named Mills, and also there is an unusual murder, which he will have to investigate. An experienced detective understands that this crime has the handwriting of a serial killer, and others will follow the first murder.
A resourceful criminal punishes his victims for the mortal sins they have committed. Before William Somerset appears a difficult choice: to investigate the last case or to retire and lead a much-desired way of life.
3. Prestige
The story of two magicians and their opposition. At the end of the 19th century in London, two young magicians - Robert and Alfred - compete with each other in skill and wage friendly competition, but the desire to outrun an opponent takes them very far, giving the confrontation features of a real war.
None of them wants to retreat, and tricks and stunts are becoming more and more difficult and dangerous. All this leads to the fact that their opposition acquires a maniacal nature, and the display of some tricks causes them to literally balance on the verge of life and death ...
2. Lie to the bottom in Bruges
Ray and Ken are real hired killers. Having failed miserably, they provoked the wrath of his boss Harry, who ordered them to lie low in Bruges. The killers relax and lead a completely relaxed lifestyle in the old Belgian city.
Ray of idleness meets the local beauty, and Ken just enjoys tucked vacation. At first glance, nothing foreshadows trouble, but soon the series of events begins to twist not in the best way.
1. 12 angry men
A young guy is accused of killing his own father. The courtroom brings together 12 jurors in order to determine the defendant's guilt.
Already at the first glance at the trial, the jury realizes that the young man is guilty, and this is beyond any doubt, but only one of them decides to express doubts about his guilt.
Eleven people "for" and only one - "against", obviously do not promise the guy anything good, but the jury's opinion may well change by the end of the process.
