Connection
Detective is a film of genre Thriller directed by Jeethu Joseph with Suresh Gopi
Detective (2007)
If you like this film, let us know!
Add to a movie listDetective is a 2007 Malayalam suspense thriller film directed by Jeethu Joseph. The movie features Suresh Gopi in a dual role with Sindhu Menon in the lead role. The film received positive reviews and it was a hit at the box office.
Viewers originally did not show much interest in the film but it's popularity grew after it was screened on TV.
Synopsis
The movie introduces Mohan Kumar (Suresh Gopi), a young political firebrand whose power and influence is on the rise. His wife Reshmi (Sindhu Menon) reportedly commits suicide. Since the couple was not known to have had any marital discord, the police are entrusted with the task of unraveling the circumstances of her death.Actors
Suresh Gopi
(Shyam Prasad / Mohan Kumar)
Sindhu Menon
(Rashmi)
Jagathy Sreekumar
Saikumar
(James Joseph)
Cochin Haneefa
(Opposition Leader)
Comments
Leave comment :
Suggestions of similar film to Detective
There are 870 films with the same actors, 6 films with the same director, 16187 with the same cinematographic genres, 1126 films with the same themes, to have finally 70 suggestions of similar films.If you liked Detective, you will probably like those similar films :
Anwar (2010)
, 2h14Directed by Amal Neerad
Genres Thriller, Action
Themes Spy films, Films about terrorism
Actors Prithviraj Sukumaran, Paul Michael, Prakash Raj, Mamta Mohandas, Lal, Saikumar
Rating63%
The movie is about the journey of a Malayali youth Anwar (Prithviraj) into the clutches of anti-social elements. The protagonist has another hidden agenda in joining the terrorist outfit. The movie opens with the visuals of Coimbatore bomb blast and the introduction of a special team under Stalin Manimaran (Prakash Raj) who arrests Babu Sait (Lal), a local community leader as a suspect in the bomb blast case. Meanwhile, Anwar a Muslim youth is arrested while passing on with some Hawala money and is sent to jail with Babu Sait and his team. Anwar performs his Namaaz daily five times. He is also fascinated by the terrorist activities of Babu Sait. Babu Sait helps Anwar in getting a bail and lures him to his activities. Anwar is attracted towards Terror acts and even successfully terminates two local drug dealers. Soon he becomes the most trusted and obedient right hand of Babu Sait. Anwar succeeds in planting a bomb in the police Headquarters and is soon introduced to Basheer Bhai (Sampath Raj), who selects him to spearhead another big, but dangerous project of chain blasts. Their plans were to plant a series of chain blasts in Mumbai. Though Anwar goes on with their plans, he has a haunting flashback, which forms the twist in the story. Babu Sait Shows the pictures of the coimbatore blast, which diverts Anwar to his flashback. The Flashback goes like this: Anwar and his family is a family that lives in a rural area of Palakkad. Anwar, an NRI returns from America for his sister's wedding. There he meets his sister's best friend Ayesha (Mamta Mohandas), and falls for her. His family knows about this and proposes to her. She accepts. But when they go out for shopping to Coimbatore, Anwar goes out of the cloth shop for refreshing and a sudden blast happens, killing the whole family except him. Meanwhile, Ayesha is arrested & then Anwar goes out to Stalin for her bail. But he refuses and tell it could not be done owing to lack of proof. He then tells Stalin that he will assist in the discovery of the terrorists, which lead to the present part of the story. Both of them have a secret meeting about the bomb blasts planned by Babu Sait & Co. Stalin brings Ayesha so that they could meet after a long time. When Babu Sait's Men arrives, Stalin tells Anwar to act as if they were having a fight, and one of the Babu Sait's men shoot Stalin, hereby killing, thinking that Anwar was having a fight. But after that, Anwar was given the big responsibility of transporting the deadly terrorists to Mumbai, through a ship containing full of explosives & weapons. Anwar at first made them think that he was on their side, but soon he blasts the ship by firing on it and killing all of the terrorists. Babu Sait becomes furious, that Anwar cheated them. When Anwar says about his parents, their flashbacks, which Babu Sait commits suicide. Anwar then calls the phone of Stalin which is under the police custody. He tells that the mission is over. After that it is narrated that Stalin & his colleague got bravery awards but no one has recognised the near-death battle Anwar has played. The film ends when both Anwar & Ayesha are in a quiet place, living together in a small house. The end-credits rolls with the "Njan" song.
Enemy of the State (1998)
, 2h12Directed by Tony Scott
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Themes Spy films, Films about computing, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Political films, Road movies, Chase films
Actors Will Smith, Gene Hackman, Jon Voight, Jack Black, Gabriel Byrne, Regina King
Rating72%
In the 1990s, U.S. National Security Agency official Thomas Bryan Reynolds (Jon Voight) meets with congressman Phil Hammersley (R-NY) (Jason Robards) in a public park to discuss support for new counter-terrorism legislation the U.S. Congress is pushing that dramatically expands the surveillance powers of intelligence agencies on individuals and groups. Hammersley remains committed to blocking its passage, since he believes it would almost totally destroy the privacy of American citizens. Reynolds has his team murder Hammersley, spread heart pills over his car, place him in the car and push it in a lake to make it look like he had a heart attack. In the aftermath, they discover too late that wildlife researcher Daniel Zavits (Jason Lee) had a camera aimed in the woods at their location. Zavits inspects the footage, transfers the video to an innocuous video game disc and flees the apartment ahead of Reynolds's team.
The Iron Curtain (1948)
, 1h27Directed by William A. Wellman
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Documentary
Themes Spy films, Political films, Children's films
Actors Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, June Havoc, Edna Best, Berry Kroeger, Stefan Schnabel
Rating62%
Igor Gouzenko (Dana Andrews), an expert at deciphering codes, comes to the Soviet embassy in Ottawa, Canada in wartime 1943, along with a Soviet military colonel, Trigorin (Frederic Tozere), and a major, Kulin (Eduard Franz), to set up a base of operations.
Women Are Like That (1960)
, 1h35Directed by Bernard Borderie
Origin France
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Spy, Crime
Themes Spy films
Actors Eddie Constantine, André Luguet, Françoise Brion, Alfred Adam, Renaud Mary, Françoise Prévost
Rating55%
L'agent du F.B.I Lemmy Caution, qui arrive des États-Unis, et le général Rupert, chef du service français de contre-espionnage, s'occupent de la même affaire : retrouver un espion connu sous le nom de Varley. Malgré sa vivacité, son punch et son goût des boissons fortes, Lemmy sera coiffé au poteau par les services français et, de retour à Washington, pourra tenter de récupérer les fils embrouillés de cette histoire où la propre nièce de Rupert, Martine, était le sosie d'une aventurière et où Girotti, propriétaire d'un bar, n'était autre que le fameux Varley.
Shining Through (1992)
, 2h12Directed by David Seltzer
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action, Spy, Historical, Romance
Themes Spy films, Political films, Children's films
Actors Michael Douglas, Melanie Griffith, Liam Neeson, Joely Richardson, John Gielgud, Sheila Mathews Allen
Rating64%
In 1940, Linda Voss (Melanie Griffith), a young woman of Irish/German Jewish parentage, applies for a new job as a secretary with a New York law firm, but rejected as she didn't graduate from a prestigious women's college.
Spy Hunt (1950)
, 1h14Directed by George Sherman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Spy films
Actors Howard Duff, Märta Torén, Philip Friend, Philip Dorn, Robert Douglas, Walter Slezak
Rating62%
Enigma (1982)
, 1h38Directed by Jeannot Szwarc
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Spy
Themes Spy films, Politique, Political films
Actors Martin Sheen, Sam Neill, Brigitte Fossey, Derek Jacobi, Michael Lonsdale, Michel Auclair
Rating58%
Alex Holbeck (Martin Sheen) is recruited as a CIA agent. He is sent to East Berlin on a mission to steal an Enigma code scrambler. This is part of an attempt to stop the Russian assassination of five Soviet dissidents which is planned for Christmas Day. What Alex doesn't know is that the CIA already has a code scrambler. By stealing the scrambler in Berlin, they are trying to convince the Russians that they don't have it.
The Thirty Nine Steps (1978)
, 1h42Directed by Don Sharp
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Action, Spy, Crime
Themes Spy films, Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Robert Powell, David Warner, Eric Porter, Karen Dotrice, John Mills, Miles Anderson
Rating65%
In 1914, German spies are everywhere in London. After a spate of assassinations of important British politicians, a retired British intelligence officer, Colonel Scudder, realises his life and his mysterious black notebook are in danger. He turns to Richard Hannay, a mining engineer who is visiting Britain for a short time before returning to South Africa, who happens to be staying in a flat in the same building. Scudder tells Hannay of a plot by Prussian 'sleeper' agents, who are planning to pre-empt a war against the Triple Entente powers by assassinating a foreign minister of state visiting the UK.
Sneakers (1992)
, 2h6Directed by Phil Alden Robinson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Spy, Crime
Themes Spy films, Films about computing, Sécurité informatique, Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Robert Redford, Dan Aykroyd, Ben Kingsley, Mary McDonnell, River Phoenix, Sidney Poitier
Rating70%
In 1969, students Martin Brice and Cosmo are sneakers who hack into computer networks using university equipment, to redistribute conservative funds to various liberal causes. The police burst in and arrest Cosmo while Martin is out getting pizza, and Martin becomes a fugitive.
The Professional (1981)
, 1h48Directed by Georges Lautner
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Spy, Crime
Themes Films set in Africa, French war films, Spy films, Monde imaginaire, Politique, Transport en Île-de-France, Political films, Métro parisien dans la culture populaire
Actors Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Desailly, Robert Hossein, Élisabeth Margoni, Cyrielle Clair, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu
Rating73%
French secret agent Josselin Beaumont is sent to kill Colonel Njala, the dictator of Malagawi, a fictional African country. However, before he manages to accomplish his mission, the political situation changes drastically and the French secret service resorts to handing over Beaumont to the Malagawian authorities. After a long, unfair trial, during which Beaumont is injected with drugs, he is sentenced to long-term penal servitude at a "re-education camp".