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 21.
Crime, mystery film
After participating in an extensive archaeological expedition in the Mongolian desert, Dr. John Benton is in San Francisco to hold a presentation of the findings to his colleagues. The film material shows how the archaeological team discov…
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Detective Film, Drama, Mysterie
Crime, detective film
An American journalist works to expose a criminal gang in London. However, his investigation of their counterfeiting activities leads to his kidnapping by the gang.
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Crime, Horror, horror film
A dissatisfied Montreal director of TV commercials is taught to astrally project himself by a mysterious woman. But soon, he finds that he does it against his will when he sleeps, and while he does it, he commits savage acts against those …
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Detective Film, Modern-Day Fantasy, fantasy film, science fiction film, thriller film
Sean Nault is a detective in a world just like ours — except that magic rules the day and almost nothing is known of science. Someone is killing people using a device that can project a metal slug into the victim's body, the lead revealing…
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Romantic Comedy
action film, boxing film, detective film, drama film
Artyom Kolchin, the story's protagonist, is a boxer, who has become a contender for the world boxing championship. The whole country knows him and wants him to win. In the beginning of the film, while they are both waiting at a crosswalk f…
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Crime, crime film, mystery film
thumb|upright=1.2|Keye Luke and Warner Oland in Charlie Chan at the Circus Charlie Chan takes his wife and twelve children on an outing to a circus after receiving a free pass from one of the owners, Joe Kinney. Kinney wants Chan to find o…
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Mysterie, crime film, mystery film
A wealthy gem-collector, Brandon Edwards, gains possession of the largest star sapphire in the world, the 'Eye of the Daughter of the Moon', after it has been stolen in China. Edwards, at a party in his home, confides to Mr. Wong that his …
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Detective Film, mystery film
On a flight to New York for an annual police convention, Chan encounters his old Scotland Yard friend, Hugh Drake (Frederick Worlock). Drake is now a member of military intelligence trying to track down what he believes is a sabotage ring …
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Thriller, crime film
A female friend Judy Fenton asks the Saint for help and tells him that her fiance Keith Merton is being blackmailed by gangsters. She soon after ends up dead in a suspicious car accident. The Saint sets about investigating and discovers th…
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Erotic Thriller, crime film, drama film, neo-noir
In the evening, while returning to his home, Vincent Harris (Reedus) passes a taxi coming from his house. When he arrives, he finds his wife Ashley has been brutally murdered. Three years later, Vincent moves to New York, and his neighbor,…
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horror film
Giulio, a film student, spies on Sasha, an attractive neighbor, and rents Fritz Lang films for his thesis. He sees Sasha at the video store. She tries to rent Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train at the same time as another woman, Feder…
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Western film, silent film
thumb|thumbtime=0|The Great K & A Train Robbery (1926) Following a series of robberies of the K & A Railroad, detective Tom Gordon is hired to uncover the mystery. Disguised as a bandit, Tom boards the train of K & A President Cullen. Cull…
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Crime Comedy, comedy film, film noir, mystery film
Convicted murderer "Turk" (Stephen McNally) escapes from police custody, crashing through a washroom window as a train pulls into Grand Central Terminal in New York. He telephones his former girlfriend, Broadway star Mida King (Patricia Da…
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Criminal Comedy Film, Detective Film, Mysterie, parody film
Aboard a private aircraft, Dr. Gropinger – a parody of Henry Kissinger – is on a goodwill tour of Middle Eastern countries. He misplaces his diary and is thrown into a panic as, without the diary, he no longer knows what country he is abou…
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Adventure, Crime, Treasure Hunting, treasure hunt film
Mysterie, crime film
Crime, Sci-Fi
Detective Matthew Sikes and his Tenctonese partner George Francisco investigate a group of Tenctonese called the Eenos. The subplot involves Tenctonese binnaum Albert Einstein and his new bride May attempting to have a child (with George's…
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Adventure, mystery film
Charlie Chan must stop a spy from destroying the Panama Canal, trapping a Navy fleet on its way to the Pacific after maneuvers in the Atlantic. As the U.S. fleet prepares to navigate the waters of the Panama Canal, Panama City becomes rife…
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crime film, drama film, romance film
The film begins on the Rylott estate with gypsies camping on the grounds. Inside the mansion, Violet Stonor screams in her bedroom and then collapses in the hallway. She is discovered by her sister, Helen (Angela Baddeley).
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Detective Film, Mysterie, crime film, drama film
Hercule Poirot is hired by Lady Edgware an American actress who wants him to arrange a divorce from her aristocratic husband. In fact it turns out that Lord Edgware has already agreed to a divorce, only for him to be murdered the same nigh…
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mystery film
Perry is asked by an Australian bishop to take the case of a woman who was falsely accused of manslaughter 22 years ago. During his investigations, Perry gets involved in another murder for which Ida, the woman he is supposed to free, gets…
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Mysterie, crime film
Zarnoff, an international spy in the employ of "The Three Powers" (presumably a fictionalized reference to the Axis) is captured by Dick Tracy at the start of the serial, tried and sentenced to death. However, through the use of a rare dru…
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