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  • Manhattan Murder Mystery picture
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    Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993)

    A middle-aged couple suspects foul play when their neighbor's wife suddenly drops dead.

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    Clue (1985)

    Col. Mustard (Martin Mull), Miss Scarlet (Lesley Ann Warren), Mrs. Peacock (Eileen Brennan) and...

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    Modesty Blaise

    An archcriminal (Dirk Bogarde) wants diamonds being guarded by a British secret agent (Monica Vitti)...

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    Sea of Love (1989)

    Two New York detectives (Al Pacino, John Goodman) bait a lonely hearts killer; one of them falls for...

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    Alone in the Dark (2005)

    A paranormal investigator (Christian Slater), an anthropologist (Tara Reid) and a team of agents...

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    American Psycho (2000)

    A mentally unhinged yuppie (Christian Bale) in 1980s New York submits to an uncontrollable...

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    Appointment With Fear (1985)

    Director Ramzi Thomas had his name removed from this silly horror film from Halloween producer...

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    Bulldog Drummond (1929)

    Tired of his sedentary postwar existence, Col. Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond (Ronald Colman) offers his...

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    Laura (1944)

    An arrogant New York columnist (Clifton Webb) taunts a detective (Dana Andrews) obsessed with a...

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    The Thin Man (1934)

    Sophisticated Nick and Nora Charles (William Powell, Myrna Loy) solve a murder mystery with their...

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    'Til We Meet Again (1940)

    A dying woman (Merle Oberon) and condemned man (George Brent) fall in love on a ship from Hong Kong...

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    Blackjack

    Alternately titled Captain Black Jack, this Franco-American coproduction stars George Sanders as a...

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    Takers (February 26, 2010)

    A group of bank robbers find their $20 million plan interrupted by a hard-boiled detective.

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    Family Plot (1976)

    Two frauds (Bruce Dern, Barbara Harris) seeking a woman's heir cross paths with another couple...

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    Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)

    A gumshoe (Steve Martin) hunts a Nazi (Carl Reiner) for a svelte client (Rachel Ward) and meets...

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    Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978)

    Inspector Clouseau (Peter Sellers) tracks a French drug kingpin with the help of disguises and his...

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    The Detective (1968)

    A New York detective (Frank Sinatra) sends a sniveling suspect to the electric chair, then learns he...

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    The Wisdom of Crocodiles (2000)

    A murder suspect (Jude Law) with an appetite for blood plays a cat-and-mouse game with a police...

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    Trail of the Pink Panther (1982)

    A French TV newswoman (Joanna Lumley) interviews friends and foes of the missing Inspector Clouseau...

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    Clockers (1995)

    A Brooklyn man confesses to a drug dealer's murder, but a veteran detective (Harvey Keitel) instead...

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    Blue Streak (1999)

    A jewel thief (Martin Lawrence) returns to a construction site to retrieve his cache and finds a...

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    The Taking of Pelham 1, 2, 3 (1974)

    Four men hijack a crowded subway train and threaten to murder one hostage for every minute the...

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    I Heart Huckabees (2004)

    An environmental activist (Jason Schwartzman) and an executive hire existential detectives to...

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    The Crew (2000)

    Four retired gangsters fabricate a murder scene with a corpse at their apartment complex to keep new...

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    Peeper (1976)

    In this comedy drama that spoofs detective pictures from the 1940s, Tucker (Michael Caine) is a...

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    The Family Jewels (1965)

    An orphan heiress (Donna Butterworth) goes with her chauffeur (Jerry Lewis) to pick a guardian from...

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    The Death Kiss (1933)

    A Hollywood studio manager (Bela Lugosi) and writer (David Manners) join the plot of an actor shot...

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    The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932)

    Fiendish Fu (Boris Karloff) races archaeologists and a Scotland Yard inspector (Lewis Stone) to the...

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    My Favorite Brunette (1947)

    A baby photographer (Bob Hope) plays private eye to help a woman (Dorothy Lamour) find her uncle,...

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    Assignment to Kill (1968)

    Insurance investigator Richard Cutting (Patrick O'Neal) is summoned to look into the sinking of some...