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 19.
Detective Film, Sherlock Holmes television program
Sherlock Holmes is awakened in modern times from suspended animation as a result of an earthquake. He is aided in his recovery by Dr. Amy Winslow, who lives in Baker Street in San Francisco.
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Crime, crime film
While dancing at a San Francisco New Year's party, the Saint spots an agent of Valerie Travers preparing to shoot someone, so Templar guns him down first at the stroke of midnight. Templar is placed by witnesses at the scene, so the San Fr…
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Crime, detective fiction
The Fein family of police, led by Paul Fein, now a police commissioner, investigate the murder of a local priest who had ties with the Russian Mafia, who proceed to try to draw the family off the case. Paul's eldest son Detective Ben and y…
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Komödie, comedy film
Lester March is a 25-year-old orphan who is an electronics repairman. However, his real passion is detective novels, and he dreams of becoming a detective himself someday. His best friend, Pete Flint, is a detective, and they see a televis…
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Crime, mystery film
Private investigator Mike Hammer assists a prostitute being assaulted. He cannot help noticing a unique ring on her finger. Later, when she is found murdered that ring is missing.
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Adventure, Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film
Sam Carter is a jeweller's clerk who dreams of stealing a fortune in diamonds and eventually does so, but he kills a man in the process. He then embarks on the high life, but is pursued across Europe by private detective Milo March, a woma…
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Crime, Detective Film, crime film
While playing tennis at a posh club in a town near London called Oakley Park, young and flirty Molly Stevens attracts considerable interest. The men ogle her and the women detest her. She is later found dead, strangled with a stocking.
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mystery film
Bubba Mabry (Mohr), a notoriously gullible private detective, is hired to snoop on a tabloid reporter by a mysterious celebrity known only as Mr. Aaron (Patrick). When the tabloid reporter is murdered, Mabry becomes the prime suspect in hi…
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drama film, film noir
After five years in San Quentin prison, former policeman Steve Rollins is released. Unjustly convicted of manslaughter in an arrested man's death, Steve is met by a friend from the force, Dan Bianco, and by wife Marcia, whom he shuns becau…
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Film Noir, detective film
After the Chief Deputy of the Department of Weights and Measures is nearly killed in a car accident engineered by corrupt politician Marty Cavanaugh, he enlists ex-boxer Johnny Cave to take over his position. Johnny learns from Joe Green, …
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comedy film
Alcoholic newspaperman Steve Bramley boards the ship San Capador for a restful cruise, hoping to quit drinking and begin writing a book. Also on board are Steve's friend Schulte, a private detective hoping to nab criminal Danny Checkett wi…
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Thriller, crime film
The film is centred almost entirely on the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits train the Rome Express, travelling between Paris and Rome. Just as the train is departing from a station in Paris, Zurta and his colleague Tony just manage…
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Crime, Detective Film, Drama, Film Noir, Thriller, film noir
Father Tomasino is stabbed to death. San Francisco traffic cop Joe Martini felt the priest was like an actual father to him. He speaks to homicide Lieutenant Kilrain about his hunch that restaurant owner Sylvio Malatesta could be involved …
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Komödie, Musical, Romantic Comedy, comedy film, musical film, romantic comedy film
Nazi spies have infiltrated the Hotel Vista del Rio, a resort on the Mexican border. They plan to use a radio broadcast by a famous guest, Ricardo Montera, to transmit coded messages to their cohorts. Doc and Wishy are stowaways in Montera…
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Film Noir, crime film
FBI agent Zach Stewart is assigned three new cases by his boss, John Ripley, which are added to his existing case load. One involves wanted fugitive Joe Walpo, who has killed a gas-station attendant. Another concerns a department store fas…
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Crime, drama film, mystery film
Mike is hired to protect Chris Jameson (Michelle Phillips), an old flame who he hasn't seen in almost 20 years. Chris heads up an all female high-risk courier agency that has become tied up in a dangerous exchange involving high-stakes bri…
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Crime Comedy, Detective Film, comedy film, crime film
In France, U.S. State Department employee Donald Free is caught trying to steal French state papers. Free is released from his job and is deported.
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Action, Blaxploitation, Crime, action film, drama film
A Chicago cop is dismissed from the force unfairly and needs to clear his name. Accused of theft, he goes after people who committed the crime. Now that he is out of the force, he is not bound by the rules as he goes after the drug lord (p…
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Crime, crime film, drama film, mystery film
Charlie Chan gets a chance to watch a popular opera performance. For seven years, opera star Gravelle has been locked in an insane asylum, his identity a mystery – even to himself. But when his memory unexpectedly returns, he begins to rec…
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Action, film noir
Ruthless killer Steve Michel is known to the public as "the Claw" for his way of killing his victims with his prosthetic hook. After his accomplices Ryan and Taylor have broken in and stolen furs from the Flawless Furs warehouse, Steve kil…
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Detective Film, Thriller
Cliff Hardy inquires into the disappearance of a beautiful woman's wealthy husband from Bondi Beach.
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drama film, mystery film
In San Francisco, policeman Lieutenant Riggs (Harold Huber) takes Mr. Moto, a detective and Lee Chan (Keye Luke), a student, to a prizefight between Bill Steele (Dick Baldwin) and Frank Stanton (Russ Clark), where the winner will take on t…
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Crime, crime film, drama film, mystery film
Thomas Harley, an ex-convict, is wrongfully arrested for a bank robbery he did not commit. The police have found fingerprints on the crime scene, incriminating Harley. Harley claims to have been summoned to a theatrical warehouse by Dave W…
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