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Inside Man (2006)

An enigmatic woman (Jodie Foster) threatens to push past the breaking point a volatile game between...

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Miami Vice (2006)

A case involving drug lords and murder in South Florida turns personal for detectives Sonny Crockett...

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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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American Gangster (2007)

A Harlem mobster (Denzel Washington) combines ingenuity and strict business codes to dominate...

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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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Murder By Death (1976)

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

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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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Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen

Peter Ustinov plays the talented detective in San Francisco who attempts, with help/hindrance from...

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The Big Sleep (1978)

Private eye Philip Marlowe (Robert Mitchum) falls into a porno/blackmail/murder case in 1970s...

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The Innocent (1995)

An English engineer/spy (Campbell Scott) falls for a woman (Isabella Rossellini) who may jeopardize...

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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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Code 7, Victim 5

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

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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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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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Dick Tracy (1990)

The comic-strip detective (Warren Beatty) woos Tess Trueheart, dodges Breathless Mahoney (Madonna)...

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Sherlock Holmes (December 25, 2009)

Detective Sherlock Holmes and his stalwart partner Watson engage in a battle of wits and brawn with...

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Murder By Decree (1979)

The murders by the infamous British criminal, Jack the Ripper, catch the attention of Sherlock...

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Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943)

Watson (Nigel Bruce) brings in Holmes (Basil Rathbone) on a case of ritual murder at the old...

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The Hound of the Baskervilles

This first talkie version of Conan Doyle's classic thriller The Hound of the Baskervilles stars...

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Jim Bannon

Jim Bannon was a star athlete at Rockhurst College. After graduation, he became a sportscaster in...

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Evil Under the Sun (1982)

Agatha Christie's Belgian sleuth, Hercule Poirot (Peter Ustinov), solves the murder of an actress at...

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The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)

Holmes (Robert Stephens) and Watson (Colin Blakely) seem chummier than usual on a German-spy job for...

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The Formula (1980)

A police detective (George C. Scott) ties his buddy's murder to an oil tycoon (Marlon Brando) and a...

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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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Kiss the Girls (1997)

After escaping from a serial killer, a doctor (Ashley Judd) helps police and a forensic psychologist...

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The Mirror Crack'd (1980)

Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to...

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The Alphabet Murders (1966)

Fussy Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot (Tony Randall) probes slayings which seem to be in alphabetical...

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Along Came A Spider (2001)

A detective (Morgan Freeman) and a Secret Service agent (Monica Potter) investigate the abduction of...

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Sherlock Holmes and a Study in Scarlet

This film is an animated version of the story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle with Peter O'Toole as the...

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Sherlock Holmes and the Sign of Four

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A Study in Terror (1966)

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson join the hunt for the notorious serial killer, Jack The Ripper.

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Fuzz (1972)

Boston police detectives (Burt Reynolds, Jack Weston, Raquel Welch) hunt a mad bomber preying on...

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Death on the Nile (1978)

Agatha Christie's Belgian sleuth, Hercule Poirot (Peter Ustinov), solves the shipboard murder of an...

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The Long Goodbye (1973)

Raymond Chandler's private eye Philip Marlowe (Elliott Gould) meets a fun couple (Nina van Pallandt,...

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The Stone Killer (1973)

The John Gardner novel A Complete State of Death became this bloody crime flick that united frequent...

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Sherlock Holmes and the Valley of Fear

This is the second in a series of mystery stories specifically for children, based on Sir Arthur...

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Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1943)

An Englishman (Basil Rathbone) sneaks a bombsight inventor out of Zurich, then loses him to Nazi...

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Deadlier Than the Male (1967)

British sleuth Hugh ``Bulldog'' Drummond (Richard Johnson) plays life-size chess with a tycoon who...

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The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)

Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce) prowl foggy moors to save Sir Henry...

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Darwin Awards (2007)

A former police detective (Joseph Fiennes) and a cynical field agent (Winona Ryder) investigate...

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Questions and Answers

Raymond Chandler's private eye Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) follows two wealthy sisters (Lauren...

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The Hound of the Baskervilles

Sherlock Holmes (Peter Cook) and Dr. Watson (Dudley Moore) try to break a noble family's killer-dog...

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The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)

Sherlock Holmes (Peter Cushing) and Dr. Watson (Andre Morell) protect Sir Henry (Christopher Lee)...

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Father Brown (1954)

G.K. Chesterton's sleuth priest, Father Brown (Alec Guinness), loses a rare cross to a master thief...

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The Protagonists

In 1994, two public schoolboys carried out a grissly and apparently motiveless murder of a waiter in...

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Sherlock Holmes' The Sign of Four

Based on a Sherlock Holmes story, the Sign of Four is about an ex-convict out to wreak vengeance on...

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Bulldog Drummond's Bride

The British sleuth (John Howard) runs across rooftops after bank robbers while on his honeymoon in...

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Bulldog Drummond's Revenge

The dapper British sleuth (John Howard) beats a Scotland Yard colonel (John Barrymore) to the stolen...