Movies exhibiting Private Detective
England, 1884 - a world on the brink of change. On the morning of her 16th birthday, Enola Holmes (Millie Bobby Brown) wakes to find that her mother (
Helena Bonham Carter) has disappeared, leaving behind an odd assortment of gifts but no apparent clue as to where she's gone or why. After a…
When the young woman Emma Carillo is stabbed five times, paramedic Marcus Galan feels a great empathy for her and unsuccessfully tries to save her lif
e in the Mercy Hospital. Meanwhile the near death patient Caroline Kuntz awakes; kills two people; and leaves the hospital. When Marcus arrives home,…
Tags : hospital | gun
Gone Baby Gone (2007)
When 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in solving the case, the girl's aunt Beatrice McCready hi
res two private detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. The detective freely admit that they have little experience with this type of case, but the family wants them for two reasons - they're not cops and they know the tough Boston neighborhood in which they all live. As the case progresses, Kenzie and Gennaro face drug dealers, gangs and pedophiles. When they are about to solve their case, they are faced with a moral dilemma that could tear them apart.
Tags : surprise ending | kidnapping | private detective
Lord of Illusions (1995)
During a routine case in L.A., NY private investigator Harry D'Amour stumbles over members of a fanatic cult, who are waiting for the resurrection of
their leader Nix. 13 years ago, Nix was calmed down by his best trainee Swann. In the meantime Swann is advanced to a popular illusionist like David Copperfield and is married to the charming Dorothea. She hires D'Amour to protect Swann against the evil cult members. A short time later Swann is killed by one of his own tricks and the occurrences are turning over, and it crackles between Dorothea and D'Amour.
Tags : neo noir | private detective | cult
Can It Be Love (1992)
Tim and David want to have fun during vacation so they join a private detective agency. Their first job is to find a delta girl who has inherited a fo
rtune. But the job seems easier than it turned out to be... Written by Volker Boehm
Tags : vacation | detective
The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990)
Ford "Mr. Rock n' Roll Detective" Fairlane is experiencing problems, and it's not with the opposite sex. One of them is that all the rock st
ars pay him with drum sticks, koala bears, food processors and bicycle shorts. Another one of them is that all his employers that want him to find a girl named…
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Wicked Stepmother (1989)
A mother/daughter pair of witches descend on a yuppie family's home and cause havoc, one at a time since they share one body & the other must live
in a cat the rest of the time. Now it's up to the family's mother, a private detective and a suspended police officer to try and stop the witches.
Tags : cat
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
A toon-hating detective is a cartoon rabbit's only hope to prove his innocence when he is accused of murder.
Tags : sexy woman | private detective | rabbit | neo noir
Herbie Goes Bananas (1981)
The adorable little VW helps its owners break up a counterfeiting ring in Mexico.
Tags : private detective | car
The Man with Bogarts Face (1980)
A man with a fixation on Humphrey Bogart gets plastic surgery to make him look exactly like Bogart. Then he changes his name to Sam Marlowe (after Sam
Spade and Phillip Marlowe, two of Bogart's most famous characters), hires a ditzy blonde secretary, and opens up a detective agency. His first case…
Tags : secretary
Peeper (1975)
Set in the 1940s, the story follows a private eye on a case to find a long lost daughter of an oddball client. Two goons are on a mission to stop him.
The Drowning Pool (1975)
Harper is brought to Louisiana bayou country to help out an old girlfriend who is worried that her husband will find out that she is cheating on him.
What is more, he finds himself caught in a power struggle between the matriarch of the family and a greedy oil baron, who wants her property. Poor…
Tags : louisiana | detective | bikini | death
Klute 1971 (1971)
A small-town detective searching for a missing man has only one lead: a connection with a New York prostitute.
Tags : private detective | undressing | neo noir
Code 7 Victim 5 (1964)
When a millionaire's valet is murdered he hires a detective to discover by who and why he valet was killed.
Tags : mountain | revenge
Love in the Afternoon (1957)
In Paris, detective Claude Chavasse is hired to follow a wife suspected of infidelity with the notorious American libertine Frank Flannagan. When the
husband learns that his suspicions are accurate, he tells Claude of his plan to kill Flannagan. Claude's daughter Ariane overhears the threat and…
Tags : hotel
Who Done It (1956)
This movie debut for saucy British TV comic Benny Hill has Benny leaving his job as a sweeper after winning some money. He becomes a private detective
and investigates a plot to assassinate British scientists. Written by Steve Crook
Tags : scientist
The Crooked Web (1955)
Cafe owner Stan Fabian joins Joanie Daniel and her "brother" Frank in a scheme to unearth a "fortune in stolen gold buried by Frank&quo
t; in Germany during World War II, and Stan is unaware that Joanie and Frank are undercover agents trying to get a confession from Stan of a murder he committed in…
Tags : murder
Feudin Fools (1952)
Whe 'Sach' Jones inherits a rundown farm in the South, he becomes the target of a group of feuding hillbillies who want to find out if he is a member
of the Jones family they have killed or run away. "Sach" keeps his name a secret until a a gang of crooks, led by 'Big Jim', show up to use his place…
Tags : investigation
Mysterious Intruder (1946)
The fifth entry in the Columbia series based on the CBS radio program, "The Whistler", opens with kindly old music store owner Edward Stillw
ell (Paul E. Burns) hiring private detective Don Gale (Richard Dix) to find a girl Stillwell hasn't seen in seven years. Gale sends Freida Hanson (Helen…
Tags : apartment
The Bullfighters (1945)
The boys are detectives working in Mexico. Laurel happens to resemble a famous matador who has disappeared, and he is enlisted to replace him in the b
ullring. Written by Herman Seifer