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 23.
Mysterie, drama film
A detective teams up with a young female archaeologist to unravel the mysterious death of a 'bog body' found in a native swamp rumoured to have curative powers. It is the story of two wounded souls searching for healing and redemption.
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LGBT-related television series, LGBTQ-related film, thriller
At the home of John Rutka and Eddie Santin, Rutka is apparently shot. Later, private eye Donald Strachey arrives at a hospital to meet with a client. While there, he sees his partner, Tim Callahan, escorting his boss, a prominent New York …
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Crime Comedy
A retired private eye teams up with a former jewel thief to solve a murder.
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crime film, detective film
Julie Kenner had been raped a year ago and is still psychologically suffering. She repels her husband Don, takes a lot of tranquilizers and is regularly seeing a psychiatrist. When Dana, a charming neighbor, suggests rape was "every woman'…
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crime film, drama film, mystery film
An actor is killed during the performance of a play while critic Tony Woolrich (Dave O'Brien) is attending. Initially Woolrich is reluctant to investigate, even though he's encouraged to do so by his friend Romeo (Frank Jenks), who is also…
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crime film, detective film
Rick, Allie and Beejay are walking down the street looking for kicks. They harass a couple of young women to no avail. Rick, the leader of the three, reaches for a smoke, but has no light.
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Mysterie, mystery film
Phyllis Clavering, the girlfriend of Captain Drummond, is kidnapped. Murderer Mikhail Valdin and his sister, Irena Soldanis, seek revenge for the death of her husband, sent to the gallows a year ago through Drummond's actions. Though Valdi…
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Crime, Detective Film, Mysterie
crime film, detective film
Steve Abbott and Bill Richards are both lieutenants in the New Orleans police department, colleagues and rivals alike. Steve, seeking love letters his wife Ethel once wrote to a Phillip Wallace, finds the man's dead body and immediately be…
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Adventure, Mysterie, mystery film
Captain Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond, a British officer, while on a drive with his friend Algy Longworth and valet Tenny, is the first to discover a mysterious suitcase that has been parachuted from an aircraft above, minutes before the plane c…
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action film
Boroff is a mad scientist who has invented a "disintegrator gas" and plans to smuggle it to his buyers in Morovania. When his ship, the Carfax, gets stranded on outlying rocks in the first chapter, the Coast Guard comes to rescue him. Reco…
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crime film, detective film, silent film
crime film, mystery film
Bulldog Drummond is injured when his sabotaged car is involved in a crash. When Jack Pennington agrees to masquerade as the sleuth, he is enlisted to help Ann Manders find her jeweller grandfather who has been kidnapped by a gang of crooks…
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action film, adventure film, comedy film, detective film
Harriet Zapper is a detective hired by Jeremiah Horn to locate his missing daughter Pandora, who has in fact been murdered by gangland boss Kono. Attempting to investigate, her brother Septimus is also killed by Kono. With the help of thre…
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detective film
The plot follows an escaped black convict, James Lake, who was falsely imprisoned for murder. He avoids a police search and is picked up by Leslie Whitlock. Leslie takes James to a mansion owned by his wife, Ellen.
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crime film, detective film
Blair Vickers (O'Keefe) is head of the UAW union whose brother is killed during the bombing of the union headquarters. Gus Linden (O'Brien), a gangster determined to gain control of the UAW, is the man behind the bombing.
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detective film
Marty Brill's (Cameron Mitchell) Los Angeles gang plot to assassinate visiting Asian Prime Minister Gourem-Nara (Frank Lackteen). They break into the home of airport flight controller Hal Parker (John Lupton) and hold his family hostage. B…
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crime film
A bank official, whom a doctor had earlier hypnotized to obtain money from the bank's vault, is found murdered.
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Thriller, detective film
The quiet suburban world of Pam and John Allen is shattered when a strange man begins stalking them with late night phone calls and sudden disturbing appearances. It emerges that the man, Homer Trent, was a part of Pam's teenage past at an…
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Crime Comedy, crime film, mystery film
Eddie Mazda (Dirk Benedict) is a hard-nosed private investigator originally from Jersey City, New Jersey. After working a job for a widow named Nan Thompson (Amy Yasbeck), he soon after is confronted by mob boss Dom Gellatti (Ralph Drische…
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Action, Thriller
Sven Persson (Samuel Fröler), who owns a textile company in Estonia, hires Nikolaus Lehman (Christoph M. Ohrt) to take care of local gangsters who are attempting to pressure Persson into paying 'protection' money. To Persson's surprise and…
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crime film
At the request of Inspector Lestrade, Sherlock Holmes investigates a double murder at the Strand Theatre, with the assistance of Dr John Watson.
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mystery film
A disparate group of individuals are in a room; some are gambling, some are drinking coffee, others are chatting as if at a party. Curtains are removed from the windows to reveal bars. The group is in a prison to witness the execution of h…
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crime film, detective film
“Slick” Rawley is a professional criminal and murderer with a scarred and disfigured face; he has a good friend, ex-boxer “Gloves” Baker, and a tough girlfriend, Peggy Russell. While evading the police, he ducks into a college lecture hall…
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