Detectives are immersed in the world of riddles and secrets, where each frame can hide the key to unraveling. The main characters, masterfully deciding complex puzzles, conduct spectators in confusing stories full of surprises and intrigues. These films capture attention, forcing them to ask the question: who is the real culprit?
The Detective genre is especially disposed to those who like to arrange a warm-up for their brain, solving riddles and collecting a mosaic of evidence in search of an answer “to the question Who is the killer?” It may turn out to be a butler, and even the “son of a mother of a friend”
Rating of the best detective films of 2026: TOP-4 according to Afisha-CP
With intriguing turns and ambiguous characters, detectives do not leave indifferent even the most sophisticated spectators. We bring to your attention our selection of films in this genre.
4. “Rio”
- Exit date: 2026
- Country: USA
- Director: Edward Berger
- Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Jake Jillenhaw, Michel Williams
Plot: The actor, who is experiencing a recession in his career, comes to his old businessman-businessman in Rio de Janeiro. There, he turns out to be drawn into a confusing story when he agrees to help a friend. The entrepreneur needs to convince everyone that he died.
An interesting fact: Benedict Cumberbatch was a volunteer in the Tibetan Buddhist Monastery in India. There, he taught English. His students were mostly locals.
3. “Rendezvous with Rama”
- Exit date: 2026
- Country: USA, UK, Czech Republic
- Director: Denis Vilnev
- Cast: No data
Plot: XX century. Human civilization continues to master space and does it successfully – several colonies have been created on other planets of the solar system. In the direction of the sun, a mysterious spaceship flies, which people first took to be a comet and called the frame. When it becomes clear that this is the ship, astronauts go to explore this object. They have to find out where the starship came from and what he does in the solar system. Once on the ship, “space detectives” are faced with many amazing things.
Interesting fact: The film was shot according to the novel by Arthur Clark, written in 1973. In 2001, a student of New York University, Aaron Ross, created a short cartoon based on this novel.
2. “Frank Bullit”
- Exit date: 2026
- Country: USA
- Director: Stephen Spielberg
- Cast: Bradley Cooper
Plot: The film will be the revival of the 1968 project about a detective named Frank Bullit. The main character has been serving in the San Francisco police for many years. He never follows the criminals and, under any circumstances, remains on the side of the law. The picture will not be a remake but a new look at the story. Frank protects an important witness planning to testify against the mafia. However, hired killers managed to eliminate him, and the detective will have to open the case. In the original 1968 film, Bullita was played by actor Steve McQueen.
Interesting fact: The son of actor Steve McQueen, Chad, and granddaughter Molly will become the producers of a new picture.
1. “Sherlock Holmes 3”
- Exit date: Presumably 2026
- Country: USA, Great Britain
- Director: Dexter Fletcher
- Cast: Robert Dauni-Ml., Jude Lowe, Rachel Macadams
Plot: Details of the plot of the picture are not known. It is planned that the film will become the final part of the adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. It is known that the action of the film will take place ten years after the events of the previous film, “Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows.” In the “Game of Shadows” was 1891. A series of terrorist attacks was arranged in Vienna and Strasbourg, the organization of which is prescribed to anarchists or nationalists. All over Europe at the same time, a wave of mysterious murders swept. Sherlock Holmes believes that behind all this is Professor James Moriarty – a mathematical genius, Napoleon of the criminal world.
Interesting fact: Director Dexter Fletcher, screenwriter Joe Penholl, and actor Robert Dauni-Ml.I Workedd on the script. It was planned to start shooting back in 2020, but the start of the project was postponed due to the Coronavirus.
The best films about the adventures of all time
Immediately say that we decided not to include films about James Bond in this list – it’s too difficult to choose one best (just in case, keep in mind that this is most likely the “spy that loved me”, “Royal casino” and “Skypholl coordinates”). And they decided not to include pure science fiction here, for example, “Avatar” (although there are still fantastic elements in some paintings from the list). We have classic adventures here.