Cinema HoundSniffing out great movies.Explore films with detective genres and themes.
Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 717 films · Page 10.
Thriller, thriller film
Arthur Bretnik is a mentally unstable conspiracy theorist and private investigator whose daughter was killed in a vehicle accident. Prior to becoming a conspiracy theorist, he was a detective who investigated the unusual death of an indivi…
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Detective Film, crime film, horror film, thriller film
In order to discover the killer of her mentor, a young investigator forms an alliance with a serial killer.
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Crime, Thriller, crime film, drama film, mystery film, thriller film
Reporter C.J. Nicholas built his career on an award-winning documentary about a pregnant teenage prostitute in Buffalo, New York, who died of an overdose after the death of her baby. Now a TV reporter in Shreveport, Louisiana, he works to …
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Animation, comedy film, comedy horror, detective film
Mystery Inc. attends the annual Coolsville Halloween carnival, where they encounter a magician called "The Amazing Krudsky". After he refuses to let Scooby-Doo see his latest show for causing an accident, Scooby and Shaggy Rogers retaliate…
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Daffy Comedy, Detective Film, Komödie, Romantic Comedy, comedy film, crime film
In 1940, C.W. Briggs is a veteran investigator at a Manhattan insurance company with a highly successful track record, owing to his intuition and network of informers. Efficiency expert Betty Ann Fitzgerald, who has been recently hired to …
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adventure film, comedy film, comedy horror, crossover fiction, detective film, thriller film
Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy and Scooby-Doo travel to an amusement park called Kiss World to see Kiss at their big Halloween concert and solve a mystery, mostly because Daphne has a crush on Starchild (Paul Stanley), much to Fred's annoyanc…
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Biographical picture, Crime, Thriller, crime film, drama film, thriller film
Conman Raymond Fernandez (Jared Leto) defrauds rich women through personal ads, and meets Martha Beck (Salma Hayek) who joins Raymond in his schemes, posing as his sister. They begin traveling the country, murdering over a dozen women who …
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Adventure, Cartoon, Family Comedy, Fantasy, Komödie, adventure film, comedy film, comedy horror, detective film, ghost film, thriller film
Shaggy discovers that his uncle Colonel Beauregard has died and has left him his country estate, Beauregard Manor, a Southern plantation. Shaggy, along with Scooby and Scrappy, head for the estate in order to claim Shaggy's inheritance. Be…
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Action, Drama, action film, buddy cop film, comedy film, detective film, drama film, martial arts film, thriller film
U.S. version Billy Wong is a Hong Kong-born officer with the New York Police Department. During a bar robbery gone awry, Billy kills the perpetrators but loses his partner Michael Alexander, drawing the ire of his superiors.
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Action, Komödie, action film, buddy cop film, buddy film, comedy film
In Kansas City, 1933, police lieutenant Speer goes to a diner for coffee. Two men arrive, looking for a former cop turned private eye named Mike Murphy. Speer and Murphy were good friends until the latter left the force.
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Crime, Komödie, Thriller, comedy film, comedy thriller, crime film, mystery film
On New Year's Eve, after Nick and Nora Charles return from New York City to their home in San Francisco, the couple are invited to dinner with Nora's aristocratic family. Nora's distraught cousin Selma Landis tells Nora that her playboy hu…
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Detective Film, Thriller, adventure film, crime film, drama film, mystery film
Dr John H. Watson becomes convinced that his friend Sherlock Holmes, the famous private detective, is delusional—particularly in his belief that the renowned mathematician Professor James Moriarty is a criminal mastermind—as a result of hi…
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Silly Movie, comedy film, comedy horror, detective film, horror film, parody film, slapstick
In the Edwardian era, in Hocombe Woods, Doris Mann and Albert Potter are courting. When Albert searches the woods for a peeping Tom, Doris is abducted by a monster named Oddbod, who leaves a finger behind. Albert finds the finger and rushe…
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Crime, Satire, comedy film, crime film, mystery film, thriller film
The film is divided into two separate, unequal stories. In the first and shorter of the two, in August 1887 Holmes is approached by Rogozhin, on behalf of a famous Russian ballerina, Madame Petrova. Madame Petrova is about to retire, and w…
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Detective Film, Gothic film, Horror, crime film, monster film, mystery film
Dr. Richard Mortimer recounts to Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson in Baker Street the legend of the Hell hound that killed the devilish Sir Hugo Baskerville in retaliation for his misdeeds, including murdering the daughter of a servant. H…
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Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, fantasy film, horror film, psychological thriller, science fiction film
Sam Reide witnesses a woman being killed, then awakens in an ice-filled bathtub, while his vital signs are monitored by his sister Jenna. Sam can travel back to any moment during his lifetime, with his consciousness inhabiting his younger …
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Action, Psychological Thriller, action film, crime film
Late one night, a woman is killed while babysitting a young boy; the killer then kidnaps the boy. A few months later a man and cleaning woman are killed at a motel in Amarillo, Texas. Amarillo's sheriff, Buck Olmstead, is up for reelection.
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Monster Film, fantasy film, horror film, kaiju
The Aztec god Quetzalcoatl, a winged reptilian monster, takes up residence in the art-deco spire of the Chrysler Building, with frequent jaunts in the midday sun to devour various helpless New Yorkers on the rooftops. The resulting bloody …
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action film, adventure film, comedy film, detective fiction, fantasy, sitcom, superhero film
Six superpowered young people with powers different from the Avengers want to make a positive impact in the world, even if they are not quite ready to be heroes. Tasked with protecting Cleveland, Ohio, their exploits are captured by a docu…
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Komödie, comedy film
Pregnant porn star Elektra Luxx is trying to make a living teaching sex classes to housewives. But her life is thrown into disarray when a flight attendant with ties to Elektra's past approaches her for a favor. Chaos ensues as fiancés, pr…
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Komödie, action film, comedy film, crime film, romance film
Molly Morris, a Dallas based private investigator, mostly takes photos of cheating men. FBI Agent Armon Ranford interferes with one of her investigations to offer her a job with the Bureau. The task is to watch over Alex Patrone, the daugh…
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drama film, mystery film, thriller film
Stephen Wilson, a.k.a. "The Eye", is an intelligence agent whose current assignment is to track down the socialite son of his wealthy boss and find out what trouble he has gotten himself into. This leads him to Joanna Eris, a serial killer…
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Action, Detective Film, Drama, Gangster Film, action film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
Stanley White is New York City's most decorated police captain and a Vietnam War veteran assigned to New York City's Chinatown. His personal mission to crack down on Chinese organized crime causes him to neglect his wife, Connie. White com…
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Detective Film, Parodie, comedy film, crime film, parody film, thriller film
Lou Peckinpaugh (Peter Falk), a bumbling San Francisco private detective, tries to prove himself innocent of his partner's murder while helping a bizarre array of characters recover a lost treasure. A large number of people are murdered in…
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