Detective Film
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    The List of Adrian Messenger (1963)

    Scotland Yard and a retired spy (George C. Scott) hunt a master of disguise out to kill 12 heirs in...

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    Man on a Swing (1974)

    Man on a Swing, purportedly based on a true case, is a puzzling crime thriller concerning a...

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    Do You Like Hitchcock?

    A college film student, obsessed with the works of Alfred Hitchcock, investigates a murder committed...

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    Cheaper to Keep Her (1980)

    Marred by prejudice and derogatory stereoptypes of gays and Hispanics, this subpar drama by Ken...

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    Not For Publication (1984)

    If the Perils of Pauline were set in a campy New York City with a dash of trash added in, Not for...

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    Ordeal By Innocence (1985)

    Based on the novel by Agatha Christie and set in the late 1950s, this unevenly told film starts when...

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    The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu (1980)

    Peter Sellers gets to play both hero and bad guy at the same time in this comedy variation on Sax...

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    The Devil Strikes at Night (1958)

    A serial killer terrorizes Hamburg, Germany, during World War II. When the local police can't seem...

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    Cenizas del Paraiso

    After the apparent suicide of Judge Costa Makantasis, his three sons confess to the murder of a...

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    Zigzag (1970)

    An assistant district attorney's (Phylicia Rashad) co-worker lover (Philip Michael Thomas) plans to...

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    Roma A Mano Armata (1976)

    A tough, violent cop who doesn't mind bending the law goes after a machine-gun-carrying, hunchbacked...

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    The Seven Per-Cent Solution

    Sherlock Holmes (Nicol Williamson) and Dr. Watson (Robert Duvall) help Sigmund Freud (Alan Arkin)...

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    Contagion (2003)

    A doctor must find a cure when the president (Bruce Boxleitner) of the United States contracts a...

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    Hidden Agenda (1998)

    A German woman (Andrea Roth) with her own agenda aids a medical student (Kevin Dillon) investigating...

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    Sherlock Holmes and the Baskerville Curse

    In this animated tale, detective Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson investigate a cursed family.

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    Adventures of a Private Eye

    While a private detective is away on vacation, his not particularly bright assistant takes it upon...

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    I, the Jury (1982)

    Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer (Armand Assante), private eye, ties a war buddy's murder to a woman's...

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    God Told Me To (1976)

    A New York police detective (Tony Lo Bianco) ties a death rampage to a cult and its leader (Richard...

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    I, the Jury (1953)

    Mike Hammer, author Mickey Spillane's brutal-but-eloquent private eye, made his screen debut in this...

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    The Spreading Ground

    A mayor gives two detectives (Dennis Hopper, Frederic Forrest) 48 hours to nab a child killer,...

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    The Juggler (1953)

    A displaced survivor (Kirk Douglas) of a Nazi death camp becomes a fugitive in love with a woman...

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    Q (1982)

    A fleeing gangland flunky (Michael Moriarty) finds the New York nest of Aztec deity Quetzalcoatl,...

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    Little Boy Blue (1998)

    A young man (Ryan Phillippe) tries to shield his siblings and mother (Nastassja Kinski) from their...

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    Twilight (1998)

    An aging private eye (Paul Newman) learns that his movie-star friends (Susan Sarandon, Gene Hackman)...

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    Still of the Night (1982)

    A Manhattan psychiatrist (Roy Scheider) probes a patient's murder and falls for the victim's...

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    Jigsaw (1968)

    A private eye's (Harry Guardino) client is a think-tank scientist (Bradford Dillman) who wakes up...

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    Lady in Cement (1968)

    Miami private eye Tony Rome (Frank Sinatra) finds a Jane Doe in the bay, and a big guy (Dan Blocker)...

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    Devil in A Blue Dress (1995)

    A mortgage and no job force a black war hero (Denzel Washington) to seek a mystery lady (Jennifer...

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    The Return of the Pink Panther (1975)

    Bungling Inspector Clouseau (Peter Sellers) once again seeks the Pink Panther diamond and maddens...

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    Female Jungle (1956)

    Held back from release for nearly a year, The Female Jungle finally received bookings on the...