Movies: Private detective

After receiving numerous death threats, the millionaire father of a young woman hires a private detective....

Detective Ken Dwight is after the infamous "Clown Face Killer." Will he stop and arrest the Killer? Or will the Killer strike again?...

A dancing gigolo gets involved with a wealthy lady and her young step-daughter, and murder is the result....

A private detective takes on one final case before retirement....

Tough Finnish detective Jussi Vares gets hired by a friend at a newspaper to investigate a 15 year old mystery regarding the disappearance of 3 girls....

Private detective Dirk Trent, a collector of cigarette butts, a "smooth" ladies man, a wearer of bad suits, and he's convinced there's more to an incident he caught on tape, where a man seemed about to murder his mistress with an axe. Delving deeper,...

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Two private eyes compete to find an heiress and bring her back, unmarried, to New York....

Charlie Chan comes out of retirement to investigate a murder case aboard the yacht of a wealthy Greek shipping tycoon....

A young artist receives an unusual visit from a detective....

A stolen bicycle case ends with drunken detective/lawyer Alexander 'Lex' Larsen having to clear Vigdis Wang of a murder charge. Unofficially based on the book Din, til døden, by Gunnar Staalesen....

When the world's worst cop is fired he becomes the world's worst private detective. For reasons unknown he finds himself the target of every criminal in town. He must overcome his incompetence and several character defects to solve the case and save ...

Áurea Diamantina, a movie star who has quarreled with her husband, stays at a grand hotel where, in order to get free publicity, conspires with her manager to simulate a kidnapping. Meanwhile, her jealous husband hires a private detective to keep an ...

A private investigator is confronted by the police AND the mob about the killing of a former private-eye associate....

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A group of public and private investigators looks into the suspicious death of the son of one of its members' wealthy girlfriends....

When a crooked lawyer wakes up in a large, pitch-dark container, he learns he has eight hours to scuttle a corporate land grab or see everyone he loves die horribly....

Five generations after Lupin the Third, Lupin the Eighth plies his trade in an airship that flies above a futuristic Paris....

A man is questioned on the "Claude killings" in Los Angeles....

A wistful PI reflects on the case of Alice Draper, a young starlet whose death he failed to solve....