10 great detective movies you can watch right now

polygon.com:

The Batman has been in wide release for over a week now, and by any measurable standard it’s a massive success. One of the big selling points for writer-director Matt Reeves’ take on the long-running comic book film franchise is that in this iteration, the audience finally gets to see why one of Batman’s many monikers is “The World’s Greatest Detective,” as the eternally popular DC character’s nearly superhuman powers of investigation and deduction are given much more of a focus than in previous films.

So if The Batman left you with a hunger for even more stories about sleuths and solving crimes with something other than brute force, we have a list for you. Compiled here are 10 great detective movies that you can stream right now from the comfort of your home! This list contains films from multiple countries and includes everything from old school gumshoes in fedoras to morally ambiguous cops on the edge, military investigators, whiz kids, and more. Some of them even share a little DNA with the costumed crime-fighter that inspired this list!

Director Joel Schumacher fell out of favor with audiences after his last run at Batman led to the nearly universally reviled Batman & Robin. Since his wildly colorful and proudly cartoonish endeavor landed with such a thud, it’s hard to not see his follow-up to it, the restlessly grim thriller 8mm, as a massive overcorrection back to adult fare. Nicolas Cage plays an investigator hired by the elderly widow of a powerful businessman to determine if a “snuff” film found among her late husband’s possessions is authentic or not, and just exactly what happened to the film’s innocent victim.

This leads Cage’s investigator into the late ’90s world of underground, black market pornography.