Urban Murder Mystery Movies

Kinora's catalogue lists 54 films built around a murder mystery and set in cities, spanning 1941–2023. Each is tagged by where and when it takes place — filter by real-world setting, era, and environment, or open any film for its full tagged world.

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• 1957

  12 Angry Men

  New York City — 1950s
  Urbandir. Sidney Lumet
• 1964

  A Shot in the Dark

  1960s
  Urbandir. Blake Edwards
• 1992

  Basic Instinct

  San Francisco — 1990s
  Urbandir. Paul Verhoeven
• 1964

  Blood and Black Lace

  Rome — 1960s
  Urbandir. Mario Bava
• 1966

  Blow-Up

  London — 1960s
  Urbandir. Michelangelo Antonioni
• 2018

  Burning

  Seoul — 2010s
  Urban · Ruraldir. Lee Chang-dong
• 1963

  Charade

  Paris — 1960s
  Urbandir. Stanley Donen
• 1974

  Chinatown

  Los Angeles — 1930s
  Urbandir. Roman Polanski
• 1995

  Clockers

  New York City — 1990s
  Urbandir. Spike Lee
• 1949

  D.O.A.

  San Francisco · Los Angeles — 1940s
  Urbandir. Rudolph Maté
• 2022

  Decision to Leave

  Busan — 2020s
  Urban · Coastal Sea · Mountaindir. Park Chan-wook
• 1975

  Deep Red

  Rome — 1970s
  Urbandir. Dario Argento
• 1954

  Dial M for Murder

  London — 1950s
  Urbandir. Alfred Hitchcock
• 1996

  Fargo

  Minneapolis · North Dakota · Minnesota — 1980s
  Rural · Urbandir. Joel Coen
• 2007

  Gone Baby Gone

  Boston — 2000s
  Urbandir. Ben Affleck
• 1963

  High and Low

  Yokohama — 1960s
  Urbandir. Akira Kurosawa
• 1997

  Insomnia

  Tromsø — 1990s
  Urban · Coastal Seadir. Erik Skjoldbjærg
• 1971

  Klute

  New York City — 1970s
  Urbandir. Alan J. Pakula
• 1997

  L.A. Confidential

  Los Angeles — 1950s
  Urbandir. Curtis Hanson
• 1944

  Laura

  New York City — 1940s
  Urbandir. Otto Preminger
• 1993

  Manhattan Murder Mystery

  New York City — 1990s
  Urbandir. Woody Allen
• 2000

  Memento

  Los Angeles — 2000s
  Urbandir. Christopher Nolan
• 1945

  Mildred Pierce

  California — 1940s
  Suburban · Urbandir. Michael Curtiz
• 2002

  Minority Report

  Washington, D.C. — Near Future
  Urbandir. Steven Spielberg
• 2023

  Missing

  Los Angeles · Cartagena · Nevada — 2020s
  Urban · Suburbandir. Will Merrick
• 2023

  Monster

  2020s
  Urbandir. Hirokazu Kore-eda
• 2009

  Mother

  South Korea — 2000s
  Urbandir. Bong Joon Ho
• 1944

  Murder, My Sweet

  1940s
  Urban · Coastal Seadir. Edward Dmytryk
• 2003

  Mystic River

  Boston — 2000s
  Urbandir. Clint Eastwood
• 1975

  Night Moves

  Los Angeles · Florida Keys — 1970s
  Urban · Coastal Seadir. Arthur Penn
• 1996

  Primal Fear

  Chicago — 1990s
  Urbandir. Gregory Hoblit
• 1954

  Rear Window

  1950s
  Urbandir. Alfred Hitchcock
• 1998

  Ring

  Japan — 1990s
  Urban · Islanddir. Hideo Nakata
• 1948

  Rope

  New York City — 1940s
  Urbandir. Alfred Hitchcock
• 2011

  Source Code

  Chicago — 2010s
  Urbandir. Duncan Jones
• 1973

  Soylent Green

  New York City — 2020s
  Urbandir. Richard Fleischer
• 1945

  Spellbound

  Vermont · New York City · Rochester — 1940s
  Urban · Mountaindir. Alfred Hitchcock
• 1999

  Stir of Echoes

  Chicago — 1990s
  Urbandir. David Koepp
• 1946

  The Big Sleep

  Los Angeles — 1940s
  Urbandir. Howard Hawks
• 1980

  The Changeling

  Seattle — 1970s
  Urbandir. Peter Medak
• 2005

  The Constant Gardener

  Kenya · London — 2000s
  Urban · Wildernessdir. Fernando Meirelles
• 1993

  The Fugitive

  Chicago — 1990s
  Urbandir. Andrew Davis
• 1973

  The Long Goodbye

  Los Angeles · Mexico — 1970s
  Urban · Coastal Seadir. Robert Altman
• 1941

  The Maltese Falcon

  San Francisco — 1940s
  Urbandir. John Huston
• 1948

  The Naked City

  New York City — 1940s
  Urbandir. Jules Dassin
• 2009

  The Secret in Their Eyes

  Buenos Aires — 1970s · 1980s · 1990s
  Urban · Ruraldir. Juan José Campanella
• 1949

  The Third Man

  Vienna — 1940s
  Urban · Undergrounddir. Carol Reed
• 1996

  Thesis

  Madrid — 1990s
  Urbandir. Alejandro Amenábar
• 1958

  Touch of Evil

  1950s
  Urbandir. Orson Welles
• 2009

  Watchmen

  New York City · Antarctica — 1980s
  Urban · Off Worlddir. Zack Snyder
• 1988

  Who Framed Roger Rabbit

  Los Angeles — 1940s
  Urbandir. Robert Zemeckis
• 1957

  Witness for the Prosecution

  1950s
  Urbandir. Billy Wilder
• 2007

  Zodiac

  San Francisco — 1960s · 1970s · 1980s
  Urbandir. David Fincher
• 2016

  Zootopia

  2010s
  Urban · Ruraldir. Byron Howard