Story Structure
Investigation
Mystery driven by "why" more than "who"
33
Films
4.9
Avg Arcplot Score
126 min
Avg Runtime
1931-2025
Year Range
Films with Investigation Structure
7.6
The Phoenician Scheme
2025 • Wes Anderson
4.3
Last Night in Soho
2021 • Edgar Wright
3.4
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2017 • Martin McDonagh
2.8
Gone Girl
2014 • David Fincher
6.3
Prisoners
2013 • Denis Villeneuve
4.8
Incendies
2010 • Denis Villeneuve
4.5
Shutter Island
2010 • Martin Scorsese
3.9
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
2009 • David Yates
5.1
Hot Fuzz
2007 • Edgar Wright
3.5
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2004 • Chris Columbus
3.4
Memories of Murder
2003 • Bong Joon-ho
7.5
Oldboy
2003 • Park Chan-wook
3.9
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2002 • Chris Columbus
8.2
Insomnia
2002 • Christopher Nolan
2.7
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
2002 • George Lucas
5.7
Memento
2000 • Christopher Nolan
5.8
The Big Lebowski
1998 • Coen Brothers
4.3
L.A. Confidential
1997 • Curtis Hanson
5.9
Fargo
1996 • Coen Brothers
4.2
Se7en
1995 • David Fincher
4.3
The Usual Suspects
1995 • Bryan Singer
6.8
Pulp Fiction
1994 • Quentin Tarantino
5.2
The Silence of the Lambs
1991 • Jonathan Demme
3
Blade Runner
1982 • Ridley Scott
3.9
Chinatown
1974 • Roman Polanski
6.9
High and Low
1963 • Akira Kurosawa
6
Psycho
1960 • Alfred Hitchcock
5.2
Vertigo
1958 • Alfred Hitchcock
4.9
Witness for the Prosecution
1957 • Billy Wilder
4.8
Rear Window
1954 • Alfred Hitchcock
2.7
Double Indemnity
1944 • Billy Wilder
6
Citizen Kane
1941 • Orson Welles
5.8
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1931 • Fritz Lang