Movies (171) tagged by 'Private Detective'
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Titillation (1982)
Brenda Weeks works for Felix Fitswilly, an old businessman who owns a large brass bra. Felix has already hired countless detectives to locate the woman he belie...
Chinatown (1974)
Director Roman Polanski's neo-noir detective story is set during a heat wave in 1930s Los Angeles, whose residents are suffering from a water shortage as a resu...
Wild at Heart (1990)
A love story. Sailor and Lula are amalgamations of distanciated American iconography. Their horizons are constituted by little more than TV; they think they're...
Angel Heart (1987)
Harry Angel has a new case, to find a man called Johnny Favourite. Except things aren't quite that simple, and Johnny doesn't want to be found. Let's just say ...
Trader Hornee (1970)
TRADER HORNEE is a titillating, wacky sex comedy in the guise of a detective story that leads Hamilton Hornee (Buddy Pantsari) and a band of eccentric explore...
Teenage Bride (1975)
Buxom nudist mistress Marie wants her lover to hire a private detective to tape the lover's wife with the lover's college dropout stepbrother. But while the men...
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
Two showgirls on the lookout for rich eligible bachelors run into numerous complications during a trip to Paris.
The Maltese Falcon (1947)
Sam Spade is a partner in a private-eye firm who finds himself hounded by police when his partner is killed whilst tailing a man. The girl who asked him to foll...
The Big Sleep (1946)
Summoned by the dying General Sternwood, Philip Marlowe is asked to deal with several problems that are troubling his family. Marlowe finds that each problem ce...
Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)
A mortgage and no job force a black war hero (Denzel Washington) to seek a mystery lady (Jennifer Beals) for a shady guy (Tom Sizemore) in 194...
Appointment with Death (1988)
Emily Boynton, step-mother to the three Boynton children and mother to Ginevra, blackmails the family lawyer, Jefferson Cope, into destroying a second will of h...
Hadh Kar Di Aapne (2000)
Anjali Khanna had always suspected her husband, Sanjay, of cheating on her, and flirting with other women. In order to keep an eye on him and his activities, sh...
Veronica Mars (2014)
Years after walking away from her past as a teenage private eye, Veronica Mars gets pulled back to her hometown - just in time for her high school reunion - in ...
Downtown - Die nackten Puppen der Unterwelt (1975)
In Puerto Rico, a down-on-his-luck private detective is hired by a woman to take compromising photos of her husband, a notorioous nightclub owner. After he fini...
Private Eye (2009)
The story takes place in occupied Korea at the start of the 20th century, where a young student in medicine discovers the murdered body of the son of a governme...
Love in the Afternoon (1957)
In Paris, detective Claude Chavasse is hired to follow a wife suspected of infidelity with the notorious American libertine Frank Flannagan. When the husband l...
Gone Baby Gone (2007)
Dorchester, one of the toughest neighborhoods in all of Boston, is no place for the weak or innocent. Its a territory defined by hard heads and even harder luc...
Framed for Murder (2007)
The bipolar June Baldwin hits her abusive unfaithful husband Tony with a statue and leaves home with her beloved son Sammy. When the police officer arrives, he ...
Dil Hai Ki Manta Nahin (1991)
A spoilt, stubborn daughter (Pooja Bhatt) of a shipping magnate (Anupam Kher) leaves home to run away with her boyfriend. Her panic-stricken dad files a missi...
Damien's Seed (1996)
A detective is hired to find a rich woman's step-sister.
Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951)
Boxer Tommy Nelson is accused of killing his manager. While detectives Bud and Lou investigate they come across an invisibility formula with which Tommy inject...
The Resurrected (1992)
Charles Dexter Ward's wife enlists the help of a private detective to find out what her husband is up to in a remote cabin owned by his family for centuries. T...
Peechha Karo (1986)
Hari and Giri are 2 detectives who suspect Brigadier of leaking defence secrets to outsiders who in turn is on an undercover mission to expose Boss number 1 who...
Blood Simple (1985)
Marty hires a private investigator to spy on his wife, who he suspects of cheating. When Marty hires the investigator to kill his wife and her lover, things ge...
Gopichand Jasoos (1982)
Gopichand Jasoos is a private detective. Bela who is Gopi's neighbour, is to marry Jeetendra on her fathers insistence. She wants Gopi to find out more about ...
Pour la peau d'un flic (1981)
No plot available for Pour la peau d'un flic
Cast a Deadly Spell (1991)
In a fantastical 40's where magic is used by everyone, a hard-boiled detective investigates the theft of a mystical tome.
Kill Me Again (1989)
Fay Forrester, an attractive young lady wants to escape from her violent and jealous boyfriend Vince. So she hires Jack Andrews, a second class private investi...
Zero Effect (1998)
Daryl Zero is a private investigator. Along with his assistant, Steve Arlo he solves impossible crimes and puzzles. Though a master investigator, when he is no...
Agatha Christie: Poirot - One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (1989)
Based on Agatha Christie's short stories, Hercule Poirot is a famous Belgian detective, who along with his faithful sidekick Capt. Hastings, always gets embroil...
The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother (1975)
More by good luck than good management, Sherlock's young brother (Gene Wilder) solves one of his sibling's cases. Wilder borrows from the master Mel Brooks' b...
The Long Goodbye (1973)
Elliott Gould stars as the famous chain-smoking, wisecracking detective Philip Marlowe in this complex film noir directed by Robert Altman. Th...
Cat Run (2011)
A top of the line escort doesn't come cheap and this girl knows it. As an escort, she comes upon a secret to a government cover up she has nothing to do with. I...
Mortelle randonnee (1983)
Beauvoir, lonely, aging private detective, is put on the bloody track of beautiful Catherine Leiris who kills and robs her rich husband(s) on their wedding nigh...
The Drowning Pool (1975)
Harper is brought to Louisiana bayou country to investigate an attempted blackmail scheme. He soon finds out that it involves an old flame of his and her helli...
Enola Holmes (2020)
When Enola Holmes-Sherlock's teen sister-discovers her mother missing, she sets off to find her, becoming a super-sleuth in her own right as she outwits her fam...
Without A Clue (1988)
This is a Sherlock Holmes story with a difference. Here Dr Watson is the ace detective and has been using an actor to play the part Holmes. Holmes is a drunken ...
Malibu Express (1985)
Cody Abiliene is a semi-successful private detective desperately in need of a big (and well-paying) case. When he's hired to solve the murder of Contessa Lucian...
Night Moves (1975)
A Los Angeles private eye (Gene Hackman) finds a runaway girl (Melanie Griffith) and murder in the Florida Keys.
Cry Uncle (1971)
Private detective takes on a case and gets mixed up in murder, sex and blackmail.
Crooked House (2017)
Based on the novel by Agatha Christie, private detective Charles Hayward is invited to solve a gruesome crime where nobody is above suspicion, including Sophia,...
The Wiggles Go Bananas (1980)
No plot available for The Wiggles Go Bananas
Poltergeist III (1987)
Miss Dipesto has been working at the agency for five years, Mr. Viola less than three months and he is doing casework when Dipesto finds out and the agency turn...
Murder in Three Acts (1986)
Hercule Poirot's assistant, Hastings, calls him down to Acapulco in Mexico where he can write his memoirs but Hastings drags him to a party populated with Hast...
Under Suspicion (1993)
In 1959 Brighton, disgraced cop turned P.I. Tony Aaron falsifies adulteries for use as evidence in divorce cases. His wife pretends to be painter Carlo Stasio...
Billion Dollar Brain (1967)
Harry Palmer no longer spies for the British and is instead a starving private detective. He receives a package of money which is followed by a mechanical voic...
Bees Saal Baad (1962)
Kumar has just returned from London to his "Haveli", and he experiences many strange and creepy things around the house. He is told that his haveli is haunted...
People Will Talk (1951)
A lovely movie featuring Cary Grant in one of his more inscrutable roles as an angel of mercy to the sick, recalling his work in THE BISHOP'S WIFE. PEOPLE WIL...
Columbo: Murder by the Book (1986)
Agatha Christie's agents propose that it's time for her to publish the manuscript she wrote thirty-five years earlier, a novel in which she finally kills off he...
Evil Angel (2009)
When the young woman Emma Carillo is stabbed five times, paramedic Marcus Galan feels a great empathy for her and unsuccessfully tries to save her life in the M...
Oh Heavenly Dog (1980)
Browning is a PI with a bad cold, who's sent to investigate a case by a mysterious client.He stumbles across the body of a young woman and is stabbed to death, ...
The missing person (2009)
Private detective John Rosow is hired to tail a man on a train from Chicago to Los Angeles. Rosow gradually uncovers the man's identity as a missing person; one...
Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! (2015)
The origin story of famous Bengali sleuth Byomkesh Bakshi created by Saradindu Bandopadhyay.
The Scent (2012)
A detective Seon-woo, who moonlights as a private investigator, has a beautiful new client Soo-Jin. The woman asks the detective to take photos of her husband i...
The Canary Murder Case (1929)
A beautiful showgirl, name "the Canary" is a scheming nightclub singer. Blackmailing is her game and with that she ends up dead. But who killed "the Canary". Al...
The Two Faces of January (2014)
A thriller centered on a con artist, his wife, and a stranger who flee Athens after one of them is caught up in the death of a private detective.
Cat Run 2 (2014)
Gritty and action-packed, Cat Run 2 stars the seductive Winter Ave Zoli (Sons of Anarchy), as a high-end call girl with a secret military connection. Better tha...
Playback (1996)
The marriage of David Burgess, a senior executive, and his beautiful wife, Sara Burgess, an interior designer, is under great strain because David is in the pro...
The Master Blackmailer (1992)
Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson attempt to identify and stop a very adept blackmailer who has ruined many families. His identity is unknown however and the d...
My Favorite Brunette (1947)
MY FAVORITE BRUNETTE, a spoof of the hardboiled detective genre. Hope plays a baby photographer who gets mixed up with gangsters after he pretends to be a pri...
The Mystery of Mr. Wong (1939)
Detective James Lee Wong (Karloff) investigates murder and mayhem when a precious gem, the "Eye of the Daughter of the Moon," is stolen from China. In order t...
The Caller (2008)
An energy business exec is assisted by a private investigator in his effort to expose his corporation's corrupt practices.
One Shoe Makes It Murder (1982)
A down-at-the-heels private detective is hired by a crime boss to find his missing wife. However, he soon finds out that everything isn't quite as cut and ...
The Return of Frank Cannon (1980)
Private detective Frank Cannon comes out of retirement to investigate the murder of an ex-girlfriend's husband.
International Crime (1938)
Lamont Cranston, amateur criminologist and detective, with a daily radio program, sponsored by the Daily Classic newspaper, has developed a friendly feud that ...
Revolution (1984)
In her third comedy concert tour, filmed live in 2003 at the Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles, comedian Margaret Cho returns with the same unbridled, no-holds-b...
Lady in the Lake (1947)
The camera shows Phillip Marlowe's view from the first-person in this adaptation of Raymond Chandler's book. The detective is hired to find a publisher's wife, ...
Murder (2004)
In the wealthy suburbs of Bangkok, lives Simran (Mallika Sherawat), along with her husband (Ashmit Patel) and their 5 year old son Kabir. Married, yet lonely,...
Samrat And Co. (2014)
A young, beautiful and rich girl, Dimpy Singh (Madalsa Sharma), approaches Samrat Tilakdhari (Rajeev Khandelwal), a private investigator, with a strange case. H...
The Dark Hour (1936)
A pair of detectives investigates the murder of an elderly millionaire who was the target of blackmail and death threats and find that there is no shortage of s...
For Crimin' Out Loud (1956)
The stooges are private detectives hired to protect a rich politician. After the man disappears, the boys wander around his spooky mansion confronting various v...
The Man Who Wouldn't Die (1942)
A private detective gets mixed up with a phony spiritualist racket.
Perry Mason Returns (1985)
When his former secretary (Barbara Hale) is accused of a murder, Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) gives up a judgeship to defend her.
Io so che tu sai che io so (1982)
Fabio Bonetti is married with Livia since almost 20 years. One day a private eye investigating on their neighbors, the Vitali family, by an error starts filming...
Hellzapoppin' (1941)
Ole and Chick are making a movie, but the director is not satisfied. So he brings them to a young writer, who outlines them an absurd story. They have to suppor...
After the Storm (2016)
Dwelling on his past glory as a prize-winning author, Ryota (Hiroshi Abe) wastes the money he makes as a private detective on gambling and can barely pay child ...
Sherlock Holmes and a Study in Scarlet (1983)
No plot available for Sherlock Holmes and a Study in Scarlet
I, the Jury (1982)
An old friend of a private detective is murdered. The detective, Mike Hammer, will make every effort to find out the killer. At each step he does, there is some...
Sexina Popstar PI (2007)
Teen pop sensation Sexina is also a private detective that fights evil in the music industry. When she finds out a missing scientist been forced to create a rob...
Sunny (2011)
New high-school transfer student Na-Mi comes from a small town in Jeolla Province to her new school in the capital city of Seoul. When she is nervous, her small...
Little Miss Millions (1993)
Private detective Nick is hired to bring back Heather, who ran away from her stepmother to find her real mother.
Sam Steele and the Junior Detective Agency (2009)
13-year-old Sam Steele Jr. forms his own private detective agency to emulate his father, Des Moines detective Sam Steele, and helps track down a jewel thief.
Mirror Images II (1993)
Shannon Whirry stars as Carrie and Terrie, a pair of twins who were separated in youth when their father murdered their mother and was in turn killed by his own...
City Hunter Ai to shukumei no Magnum (1989)
If Shinjuku's the place, then City Hunter is on the case! In this exciting adventure, Ryo and Kaori find themselves on a 'missing persons' case that could someh...
The Late Show (1977)
A grumpy semi-retired private investigator partners with a quirky female client to catch the people who murdered his partner.
Midnight Limited (1940)
The Phantom Robber gets a fortune in jewels and some valuable papers from a robbery on the crack train "The Midnight Limited" and Val Lennon and his pretty assi...
MacGuffin (2006)
A cynical private detective is hired to retrieve a rare stolen coin, but he's not the only one looking for it. Inspired by the fiction of Raymond Chandler.
Code 7 Victim 5 (1964)
Every Crime Shapes Up Different...Every Clue Has Twists and Curves!
Anachronox The Movie (2003)
Cutscenes and some gameplay footage are combined to tell the story of the cyberpunk futuristic rpg game Anachronox, about an off-world colony gumshoe P.I. hired...
Slow Burn (1986)
Jacob Asch is hired by Gerald McMurty to find his ex-wife Laine and their son in Palm Springs. Jacob finds Laine and a teenager named Donnie who may or may not ...
Tantei monogatari (2007)
Raita, a Japanese businessman, just moved into an apartment building where his next-door neighbor is another guy named Raita. But as a private detective, what t...
Black Eye (1974)
Private detective investigated a series of murders connected with a drug ring in Venice, California.
City Hunter Bay City Wars (1990)
Rival private eyes Ryo Saeba and Umibozu must find a way into a high-tech luxury hotel to rescue their friends who are being held hostage and stop a mad South A...
Sex Club International (1967)
Secret agent Lucky Bang Bang gets assigned to take down a combination blackmail and prostitution ring run by ruthless businesswoman Carol Kane and her mobster c...
The Cheap Detective (1978)
Lou Peckinpaugh, the Cheap detective has entered a world that is half Casablanca and half Maltese Falcon. A parody of Bogart's films in which Lou goes through a...
Poodle Springs (1998)
An aging Phillip Marlowe gets mixed up with blackmail & murder among elite social set in 1963.
Gotham (1988)
Eddie is a private detective. When a client asks him to help persuade his ex-wife to leave him alone, Eddie says yes. Nothing strange about that ?, well 'ex...
Love at Large (1990)
Vampish miss Dolan hires hardboiled P.I. Harry Dobbs to tail her shady boyfriend. Harry realizes that the man leads a double life but then his client disappears...
I Love Trouble (1948)
A wealthy man hires a detective to investigate his wife's past. The detective (Franchot Tone) discovers that the wife had been a dancer and left her home town w...
Everybody Wins (1990)
A seeming good Samaritan (Debra Winger) hires a private detective (Nolte) to prove a teen sitting in prison on a murder charge is innocent. His investigation di...
The Crooked Web (1955)
Government agent tries to trick a suspect into returning to Germany, the scene of his crimes.
Song of the Thin Man (1947)
Nick and Nora investigate the murder of a bandleader in New York.
Can It Be Love (1992)
Tim and David want to have fun during vacation so they join a private detective agency. Their first job is to find a delta girl who has inherited a fortune. But...
Vares: Private Eye (2004)
On the trail of a woman, Vares finds himself caught up with underworld characters who are on the trail of hidden millions.
The Inner Circle (1946)
A private detective finds himself with a perfect new secretary. But after a notorious gossip columnist turns up murdered, she may prove too good to be true.
Stolen Kisses (1968)
Antoine Doinel joined the army but has just been discharged. The film tells his reunion with Christine Darbon, the girl he was in love with before the beginning...
Venetian Bird (1952)
Private detective Edward Mercer goes to Venice at the request of a French insurance company to locate a brave Italian whom they wish to reward for his part in t...
Midnight Warning (1932)
Guests at a luxury hotel are horrified when they witness a man literally "disappear into thin air." The vanished man's relatives hire a detective, who...
Frozen with Fear (2001)
Katherine Sullivan, an acute agoraphobic, witnesses the murder of her husband and speaks with the investigating detective. Then both the body and the detective ...
The Living Ghost (1942)
Wise-cracking ex-detective Nick Trayne is called in to try to find the whereabouts of wealthy kidnap victim Walter Craig. Craig unexpectedly turns up alive but...
The Wrong Woman (1995)
A temporary secretary is wrongly accused of killing her boss.
So You Want to Be a Detective (1948)
Joe McDoakes imagines himself as a private detective on a murder case. Throughout the film, he spars verbally with narrator Art Gilmore.
Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror (1938)
Sexton Blake and Tinker foil criminal plot connected with the Tongs, and master-minded by "famous stamp collector" and millionaire.
Garfield's Babes and Bullets (1989)
Garfield the cat daydreams that he's an old-time private detective.
Lipton Cockton in the Shadows of Sodoma (1995)
The 21st-century tale centers on taciturn detective Lipton Cockton as he looks into a series of murders involving exploding victims.
Witch Hunt (1994)
In a twisted 1950's where everyone does magic, a private detective investigates a murder case without it.
Living to Die (1990)
A burned-out private detective in Las Vegas gets involved in blackmail and murder.
Murder Me, Murder You (1983)
Mickey Spillane's private eye Mike Hammer (Stacy Keach) probes his long-lost love's death while seeking their daughter.
Murder on Approval (1955)
J. D. Everleigh, a wealthy American, purchases a rare stamp in London from Geoffrey Blake, who says he represents Robert Coburn, a stamp agent. Everleigh begins...
Primal Scream (1987)
In the future, a private detective tries to stop a large corporation from mining an element whose side effects include igniting human flesh and destroying inter...
Body Fever (1969)
Down and out private detective is hired to catch a woman who dresses like Catwoman while committing robberies.
Sam Steele and the Crystal Chalice (2011)
When Sam Steele Junior gets a term paper assignment on a visit by the Soviet Premier to the Midwest in the late 1950s he's less than enthused. But when he l...
Murder at Glen Athol (1936)
A famous detective is invited to a swanky party at an elegant mansion, but before the night is over he finds himself involved with gangsters, blackmail and murd...
South Beach (1993)
A tough former cop and football star finds himself in trouble, and gets his old teammates to jump in.
The Burial Society (2004)
Sheldon Kasner gets drawn into the underworld of money laundering and concocts an elaborate scheme involving the "Chevrah Kadisha", the society of dev...
The Public Eye (1972)
When a straight-laced British accountant marries a free-spirited American, he starts trying to change her. His wife doesn't keep regular hours, so he suspec...
The Underground Man (1974)
A private detective goes after the kidnapers of his ex-girlfriend's son and becomes involved in a series of murders.
Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery (1941)
Jewlery smuggled into the United States from China.
Stormy Weathers (1992)
Shepherd is the detective hired by an aristocratic Italian to locate a relative and thereby solve an ancient inheritance problem. As she sinks into the case, ho...
Not My Life (2006)
After a car accident, a woman with a seemingly perfect life begins to have visions that suggest she is not who she thinks she is.
Double Exposure (1994)
Roger is cruel, violent and pathologically jealous and his wife Maria is suffering for it. He hires McClure, a P.I., to follow her and confirms his suspicions. ...
Feudin' Fools (1952)
Sach discovers that he is heir to a farm in rural hillbilly country. He and the boys go to the farm to check it out, and find themselves mixed up with feuding h...
Laguna Heat (1987)
After his partner is killed, private detective Tom Shephard returns to his home in Laguna Beach, California, where he finds himself embroiled in a series of nig...
Sherlock Holmes and the Sign of Four (1983)
When a woman receives a message apparently from the sender of a series of valuable pearls after the disappearance of her father, Sherlock Holmes is hired to inv...
Wolves of Kultur (1918)
Alice Grayson's uncle develops a wireless torpedo that can be controlled by radio. After he announces his invention to several of his colleagues, two of the...
Find the Blackmailer (1943)
John Rhodes (Gene Lockhart)hires private detective D. L. Trees (Jerome Cowan)to track down a talking blackbird owned by Fred Molner, who uses the bird as a mean...
The Hat Box Mystery (1947)
Susan Hart, assistant to private detective Russ Ashton, is given a camera concealed in a hat box and assigned to take a picture of a woman. A gun is accidentall...
Who Done It? (1956)
This movie debut for saucy British TV comic Benny Hill has Benny leaving his job as a sweeper after winning some money. He becomes a private detective and inves...
Mysterious Intruder (1946)
The fifth entry in the Columbia series based on the CBS radio program, "The Whistler", opens with kindly old music store owner Edward Stillwell (Paul ...
Story of a Love Affair (1950)
Paola is a young, beautiful woman married to a wealthy entrepreneur. She meets her former lover Guido after seven years, but their relationship is marked by tra...
The Turnaround (1995)
Private investigator Nick Sharman accepts a case which at first seems intriguing, but ends up causing him bitter regret.
The Big Store (1941)
A detective is hired to protect the life of a singer, who has recently inherited a department store, from the store's crooked manager.
Kill or Cure (1962)
An undercover private detective investigates a suspicious death at a shady health clinic.
Shooting Stars (1983)
Two television actors who play detectives are fired when the show's star gets upset that they are getting the better parts to play. So, they decide to try it fo...
Silver City (2004)
The discovery of a corpse threatens to unravel a bumbling local politician's campaign for governor of Colorado.
The Graveyard Story (1991)
After a rich man discovers a grave of a little girl, some unknown force drives him to discover the circumstances of her death. He hires a private eye to do so, ...
No Hands on the Clock (1941)
The first of three Pine-Thomas productions for Chester Morris finds him as wise-cracking private detective Humphrey Campbell who impresses his boss, Oscar Flack...
Smile Jenny, You're Dead (1974)
An ex-cop protects his ex-partner's supermodel daughter when she becomes the target of an obsessed psychopath who kills the men intimately involved with her.
The Shadow Returns (1946)
People are literally flying off balconies to their deaths as Lamont Cranston, aka the Shadow, tries to make sense out of a confusing jumble of murders, disappea...
Sirocco (1938)
Town trollop Safia, much against her better judgment, falls in love with Matteo, a beggar and mystic in the native quarter of Sirocco. She flees to France, firs...
There's That Woman Again (1938)
Bill Reardon, a private detective, is working on a case involving stolen items from a local jewelry store. The case takes a different turn when Bill's pryi...
Appointment with Murder (1948)
The Falcon is hired by an insurance company to recover two stolen paintings, a job that takes him across the country and then across the Atlantic to Italy. Befo...
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