At the dawn of cinematography, the heroes of detective stories certainly dressed in classic costumes with hats, incredulous squinted eyes, looking for the criminal, and wore colts in a holster. Over the past decades, the approach to the implementation of the genre has changed dramatically, and the best films of detective stories captivate the viewer with either the mystical unpredictability of storylines, or the comedic “highlight”.
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The best Russian films detectives
Streets of broken lanterns (1998-2016), Kamenskaya (1999-2011), Deadly Force (2000-2006), Mukhtar (2004- ...) - Russian-made detective series gather millions of people from blue screens. They are dynamic, close to the audience in spirit and “anemic,” unlike most modern multiseries abroad. The best modern Russian tapes.
State Counselor (2005)
A film adaptation of the novel by Boris Akunin, partially based on the real events of the sunset of the Russian Empire.
Klim (2015)
Domestic variation of the cult English series Luther with Konstantin Lavronenko in the title role. Despite the high rating, the audience’s reviews converge in too realistic kill scenes.
Execution cannot be pardoned (2017)
The story of the former scout Nina Muravyova (Maria Kozhevnikova), who became a severe avenger after the murder of her husband.
Films of Soviet cinema
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, 1979-1986
There are more than 210 adaptations of the famous novel about the great detective and his assistant, a doctor living on Baker Street, but not a single movie screen of the 20th century managed to repeat the success of the Soviet one. The brilliantly played actor Vasily Livanov (Sherlock Holmes) for the creation and masterful embodiment of the screen image was even accepted into the Order of the British Empire.
Soviet detectives in the history of cinema occupy a separate place: they are practically bloodless and multi-genre. Among these tapes are “blockbusters” of the Soviet screen.
The Diamond Arm, 1968
The comedy tape is based on the story of real Swiss smugglers. And although she is not a full-fledged detective story, the picture has everything necessary for this genre (crime, search and exposure of bandits, pursuit).
Watch out for the car, 1966
The role of the insurance agent Yuri Detochkin, engaged in hijacking cars, dishonestly acquired, their sale and transfer of funds received to orphanages, in the career of Innocent Smoktunovsky became truly stellar. It is interesting that this tape has its own background, but how true it is is not known.
The meeting place cannot be changed, 1979
The more “gangster” detective series with Vladimir Vysotsky (Gleb Zhiglov) and Vladimir Konkin (Volodya Sharapov) in the guise of a fearless captain and operative officer, respectively, is not inferior in popularity. The film was shot based on the work of the Weiner brothers, and they, in turn, “borrowed” the plot from the Soviet criminals - the gang of teenagers “Black Cat” and the Krasnogorovskaya gang Ivan Mitin, who kept Muscovites and residents of the Moscow Region in fear in the 1950s. last century.
Curious! "The meeting place ..." was not awarded cinematic awards, but the main performers and creators of the tape were awarded with diplomas of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
French movies in the detective genre
Leon, 1994
Intricate French detectives, whose heroes are on the verge of a nervous breakdown, are a kind of reflection of this nation's love for an explosive mixture of understatement and sophistication. On the account of the director and screenwriter Luc Besson, there is more than one box office film, the story of the merciless killer Leon (Jean Reno) and the little, orphaned girl Matilda (Natalie Portman) - one of them. Almost a quarter of a century has passed since the movie was released, but so far it has not been supplanted below the 27th line in the list of “250 Best Films According to IMDb”.
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From Paris with Love, 2010
In the film directed by Pierre Morrel (co-authored by Besson as well), John Travolta and Golden Globe Award winner Jonathan Rhys-Myers played the main roles.
Criminal Love, 2010
Headless Woman, 2008
A random road accident changes the life of a heroine named Vero (Maria Onetti) to “before” and “after”. A series of events and conjectures shown in the plot made it possible for critics to put the name of the director of the picture of Lucresia Mortel on a par with Alfred Hitchcock himself ...
American-made films
Colombo, 1968-2003
The undisputed leader in the ranking is a series about an up-to-date, rustic and crystal-clear lieutenant who, for more than thirty years, conducted one investigation after another in an unchangeable wrinkled coat and drove a car falling apart on the go. In the bottomless pockets of the cloak in different series, boiled eggs for breakfast, cigar ashes, material evidence and ... "something else, sir!"
There are few such cases in the acting environment, but Peter Falk, who played Colombo, more than once broke out of his entrenched role and participated in 109 films and TV shows in total.
Psychological detective films produced in the United States are multifaceted, but the top ranking of world famous paintings.
Silence of the Lambs, 1991
The film has a sequel - “Hannibal” (2001) and “Red Dragon” (2002), but none of these paintings made such a splash as the first part of the trilogy, which replenished the US National Film Register several years ago.
12 Angry Men, 1957
In the Russian cinema, the film “12” by Nikita Mikhalkov occupies a worthy place, but its idea is not originally new. In the mid-50s. The twentieth century with a demonstration of a “backstage” jury consisting of 12 men of various professions, temperaments and enriched by their own life experience, director Sidney Lumet made his debut. The worm of doubt about the guilt of the accused, as the plot develops, penetrates the hearts of all assessors, as a result of the alleged offender they are completely justified.
The detective tape has become one of the greatest legal films in the history of world cinema, the 5th in the ranking of the best films of all time, and also received three Oscar nominations.
Fracture, 2007
Anthony Hopkins, who played Tedi Crawford's cheated spouse, who shot his wife in the face, successfully leads the public prosecutor Willie Bichum (Ryan Gosling) for a long time. And when, it would seem, the case is hopelessly lost, an unexpected turn takes place in it ...
English detective films
The homeland of the modern detective is Great Britain, therefore it is not surprising that English detective films are represented by dozens of the most varied options - from comedic (Bolshoi Lebowski, 1998) to “heavy” and ambiguous (Crash, 2013-2016). In the TOP of recent years have hit.
Poirot (1989-2013)
Filmed from the works of Agatha Christie.
Sherlock (2010- ...)
The latest film adaptation of the famous work, adapted to modern society. It is curious that in all series, with the exception of one, the action takes place today.
Golem (2016)
The story of a series of murders committed by the eponymous mythical monster.
List of the best mystical detectives
Island of the Damned, 2009
The detective thriller by Martin Scorsese is a controversial picture in many respects, replete with script cliches, but nevertheless keeps the audience in suspense. In addition to a strong cast, the tape contains a lot of interesting statements, popularly sorted into quotes. “Which is better: live a monster or die a man?”, Asks the character Edward (Teddy) Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio), US Marshal, who arrived on Shutter Island, where criminals of all stripes live out their days in an impregnable mental hospital.
The tape divided the audience into two camps, where some are inclined to the frenzy of the protagonist, falling asleep amid the loss of his beloved wife, and others to his “normality” and unwillingness to agree with the accusations of doctors that make experimental rabbits out of patients. As the plot develops, Scorsese either “sends” the hero to the military past, when he participated in the release of prisoners of the Dachau concentration camp, then “helps” him with advice from the lips of the deceased wife, who died through the fault of an insane patient languishing in the walls of the hospital.
Other Top Rated Mystical Detectives
Asylum, 2008
The acting duo of Julianne Moore (who played a psychiatrist who refutes the theory of split personality) and Jonathan Rhys-Myers (her only many-faced patient whose clue to the illness costs a doctor of established family happiness) tickles her nerves for 112 minutes of viewing.
Twin Peaks, 2017
The popular detective series of the 90s, which was continued by the efforts of the ambiguous and ingenious David Lynch and Mark Frost last year, will give odds to any thematic picture in terms of the number of mystical moments.
Interesting! The two-hour premiere of the film at the Cannes Film Festival was greeted with a five-minute standing ovation.
Very strange things, 2016-2018.
A detective series with elements of horror and science fiction opened the world to “the second Natalie Portman”, with the famous heroine of which they compared the main character - the “strange” girl Ody (Millie Bobby Brown), who has paranormal abilities.
Surprising Movies
The best movies detective stories with an unexpected denouement, according to Internet users of popular movie sites, are:
Seven, 1995
The truly stellar cast (Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey and Gwyneth Paltrow), the brilliant directing of David Fincher, an exciting storyline provided the film with an honorable 22nd place in the list of 250 most rated IMDb films. According to the plot, wise experienced police detective William Somerset (Morgan Freeman) and his young, impulsive handsome team-mate David Mills (Brad Pitt) are trying to catch a killer who subtly punishes people who committed one of the seven deadly sins. As a result, the criminal will be found, but even such an ending is fully consistent with his plans ...
Dream House, 2011
A cozy house in the country, a loving wife, lovely children, a quiet life after retirement. Will Eitenten (Daniel Craig) would be quite happy with the latest changes, but some circumstances do not allow him to enjoy the family idyll. Neighbors bypass his house, teenagers perform obscure rituals in the basement, the police refuse to come ... Trying to figure out what is happening, the man finds out that a triple murder happened in his new home several years ago: the children and their mother died. But even worse than that, the head of the family, who turns out to be ... Will himself, is accused of a crime.
Sixth Sense, 1999
The genre of a detective film, horror and drama is closely intertwined in the film by M. Night Shyamalan with Bruce Williams and Haley Joel Osment in the lead roles. A confusing, multi-story film about a boy who sees ghosts and a child psychologist who received an honorary diploma for his work and a bullet from an old patient on one day ends very unexpectedly.
Psychological detectives of the world level
The world rental leader is also Silence of the Lambs. A little inferior to the tape.
Secret Window (2004) based on the novel by Stephen King
Loser Morton Rainey (Johnny Depp) - the former husband and owner of a good mansion, a once-famous writer with plagiarism behind him, becomes the victim of new charges, which he is desperately trying to refute. But, proving his own innocence, Rainey is faced with a number of troubles, for example, she finds killed a private investigator and the only witness to their conversation with the prosecutor and psychopath Cockney Shooter. The hero is scared in earnest and by all means wants to get rid of the dangerous and intrusive monster, which, in fact, turns out to be himself.
10 Little Indians, 1987
Detective thrillers based on the works of Agatha Christie are popular all over the world. In the two-part Soviet-made film, the characters, their stories and the reckoning for the crimes committed, described by the author, remained unchanged.
Citizen Kane, 1941
The cult picture of Orson Welles received the Oscar and the title of "best film of all time."
Great! The phrase "pink bud," dropped by Charles Kane (Orson Welles) in the movie "Citizen Kane," served as the plot for one of the Colombo series.
