Detective Film
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    Hollywoodland (2006)

    A detective (Adrien Brody) uncovers unexpected links to his own personal life as he probes the...

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    Down Three Dark Streets (1954)

    An FBI agent (Broderick Crawford) inherits three unsolved cases from a slain agent, cases which...

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    Circus of Fear

    A Scotland Yard inspector (Leo Genn) suspects a lion tamer (Christopher Lee), ringmaster (Heinz...

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    Charlie Chan in the Secret Service (1944)

    The Chinese detective (Sidney Toler) does a government job, about murder and missing plans.

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    Blood Work (2002)

    A former FBI agent (Clint Eastwood) comes out of retirement to find the killer who murdered his...

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    Breakheart Pass

    An undercover agent (Charles Bronson) rides an Old West train with troops, killers and a mystery on...

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    Detective Kitty O'Day

    The first of two Monogram comedy-mysteries built around the talents of perky Jean Parker, Detective...

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    Nancy Drew (2007)

    Accompanying her father on a business trip to Hollywood, the young sleuth (Emma Roberts)...

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    Clean Slate (1994)

    Mobsters trail an amnesiac private eye (Dana Carvey) and a mystery woman (Valeria Golino) searching...

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    Murder By Death (1976)

    A bored millionaire (Truman Capote) invites a gumshoe (Peter Falk), a Chinese detective (Peter...

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    Basic (2003)

    A DEA agent (John Travolta) investigates the disappearance of a fearsome sergeant (Samuel L....

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    Adventures of Kitty O'Day

    A telephone operator (Jean Parker) plays homicide detective with her boyfriend (Peter Cookson),...

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    Brick (2006)

    A teenage loner (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) infiltrates his high school's roughest circles to find the...

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    The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001)

    After making an insurance investigator (Woody Allen) fall for an efficiency expert, a hypnotist...

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    Chinatown (1974)

    A 1930s gumshoe named Jake (Jack Nicholson) sticks his nose into a sordid mess over Los Angeles land...

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    Fallen (1998)

    Detectives (Denzel Washington, John Goodman, Donald Sutherland) investigate murders committed in a...

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    Farewell, My Lovely (1975)

    Ex-convict Moose Malloy wants 1940s Los Angeles private eye Phillip Marlowe (Robert Mitchum) to find...

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    Doomed to Die (1940)

    A newswoman (Marjorie Reynolds) asks sleuth Mr. Wong (Boris Karloff) to look into the murder of a...

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    Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (2005)

    Hoping to land a movie role, a thief (Robert Downey Jr.) learns investigative techniques from a...

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    The Spirit (2008)

    Denny Colt, a murdered cop, is mysteriously reborn as the masked crime fighter called the Spirit. ...

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    Courage Under Fire (1996)

    A troubled officer (Denzel Washington) reviews the Medal of Honor candidacy of a female helicopter...

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    Deadly Force (1983)

    After being kicked off the force, Stoney Cooper (Wings Hauser) turns private detective for special...

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    Just Cause (1995)

    A law professor (Sean Connery) tries to prove a death-row inmate did not rape or murder a girl in...

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    The X-Files (1998)

    FBI agents Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson) probe events that may prove the...

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    The Broken Star

    A deputy marshal (Howard Duff) shoots a rancher in what looks like the line of duty.

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    Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995)

    A sacred white bat's disappearance begets bloodshed between African tribes and puts the goofy pet...

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    Gone Baby Gone (2007)

    Two private investigators (Casey Affleck, Michelle Monaghan) tread dangerous ground as they scour...

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    Innocent Lies (1995)

    Death at a mansion in 1930s France leads a British inspector (Adrian Dunbar) to investigate assorted...

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    Appointment With Death (1988)

    Agatha Christie's Belgian sleuth, Hercule Poirot (Peter Ustinov), solves a 1937 murder in the Holy...

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    Inside Out (1987)

    A New Yorker (Elliott Gould) holes up in his high-rise, living by remote control out of a fear of...

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    Damned River (1989)

    Four young adults on a rafting trip in Africa come into contact with a dangerous tour guide.

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    Clouds over Europe (1939)

    An eccentric Scotland Yard inspector (Ralph Richardson) thinks something beamed from a spy ship is...

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    Code 7, Victim 5

    In this action film, an American detective is hired by an aging millionaire to investigate the...

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    Klute (1971)

    A detective (Donald Sutherland) ties a friend's disappearance to a Manhattan call girl (Jane Fonda)...

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    Harper (1966)

    A rich woman (Lauren Bacall) hires gum-chewing Los Angeles private eye Lew Harper (Paul Newman) to...

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    The Maltese Falcon (1941)

    Private eye Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) encounters sundry characters (Mary Astor, Peter Lorre), all...

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    Mark of the Vampire (1935)

    A police inspector and a hypnotist (Lionel Barrymore) solve a Czech castle murder with a trick.

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    Criminal Investigator

    A better-than-average crime thriller from Poverty Row company Monogram, the plainly titled Criminal...

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    It's Not Cricket

    In this comedy, two soldiers find themselves dishonorably discharged after they accidently allow a...

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    Sleepy Hollow (1999)

    A Colonial-era constable (Johnny Depp) probes a series of grisly decapitations in an upstate New...

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    City Heat (1984)

    A police detective (Clint Eastwood) backs up his private-eye ex-partner (Burt Reynolds) on a...

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    Shaft (1971)

    A Harlem mob boss (Moses Gunn) hires a private eye (Richard Roundtree) to find his kidnapped...

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    The Cheap Detective (1978)

    Accused of murdering his partner, a private eye (Peter Falk) tries to clear his name in 1940s San...

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    The General's Daughter (1999)

    Two investigators (John Travolta, Madeleine Stowe) find an underworld of sex and cover-ups behind an...

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    Murder on the Orient Express (1974)

    Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot investigates an American industrialist's murder aboard the...

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    The Chinese Cat

    Detective Charlie Chan picks up the trail of jewel thieves who are using an abandoned fun house as a...

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    Cloudburst

    A former British commando (Robert Preston) tracks down the occupants of a hit-and-run car that...

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    The Haunted House (2004)

    Two filmmakers enlist four college students to partcipate in exploring a haunted house, while being...

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    The Assassin

    British private detective Richard Todd is sent to Venice, there to locate and a reward a wartime...

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    Martyn Green

    Martyn Green sang for many years with the D'Oyly Carte Opera and also worked as a dramatic actor. He...