| Dickensian (2015) | 7.7 | |
| Mad Dog (2017) | 7.6 | |
| Love Like the Galaxy (2022) | 8.4 | |
| Kitchenblock (2021) | 6.0 | |
| Jack Irish (2016) | 7.7 |
Private investigation movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant private investigation movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, psychological, detective, suspense, tense and suspenseful films and TV shows about / with private investigation, investigation, murder, murder investigation, murder mystery, uncover truth, crime investigation, crime solving, whodunit and murderer plots mostly in Mystery, Crime and Drama genres shot in USA, Canada, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as private investigation: Take Two (2018), My Life Is Murder (2019), The Pledge (2001), Vincent (2005), Agatha Raisin (2014), Mare of Easttown (2021), Small Town Crime (2017), Kitchenblock (2021), The Serpent (2021), Motherless Brooklyn (2019).
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
Sam Swift, the former star of a hit cop series whose epic breakdown is broadcast to the public and sends her to rehab. Desperate to restart her career, she talks her way into shadowing lone-wolf private investigator Eddie Valetik as research for a ...
Style:
light, captivating, feel good, sweet, detective
Plot:
private detective, private investigation, private investigator, investigation, partners against crime, crime investigation, couples, celebrity, woman with a gun, relationships, lifestyle change, new job ...
Place:
los angeles
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Investigator Alexa Crowe, cannot help fighting the good fight – whether it is solving murders or combatting the small frustrations of everyday life. Fearless and unapologetic, Alexa's unique skills and insights into the darker quirks of human ...
Style:
confusing, light, non-linear, detective, captivating ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
murder investigation, crime investigation, private investigation, female detective, investigation, uncover truth, friends, investigator, murder mystery, secrets, unsolved crime, escapades ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
australia, new zealand, oceania
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A police chief about to retire pledges to help a woman find her daughter's killer. Based on a story by Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, bleak, suspense, depressing ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, child murder investigation, investigation, murder mystery, child murder, plot twist, justice, private investigation, violent, small town, obsession ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
nevada, turkey, reno nevada
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story:
Vincent is an ITV drama series. An initial series was made and aired in 2005 and starred Ray Winstone, in the title role, and Suranne Jones as two members of a team of private eyes hired by people to spy on their partners or indeed anyone else they ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, crime drama, serious, rough ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
investigation, private detective, private investigation, partner, workaholic, private investigator, surveillance, moral ambiguity, urban, working class, domestic drama, corruption ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
england
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Burnt out on office politics, Agatha Raisin retires early to a picturesque village in the Cotswolds and soon finds a second career as an amateur detective investigating mischief, mayhem, and murder in her deceptively quaint town.
Style:
detective, witty, feel good, ironic, captivating ...
Plot:
amateur detective, amateur sleuth, private investigation, female detective, sleuth, suburbs, murder, homicide detective, investigation, crime investigation, private detective, rural setting ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A detective in a small Pennsylvania town investigates a local murder while trying to keep her life from falling apart.
Style:
suspense, captivating, deep, twisted, thrilling ...
Plot:
small town, murder investigation, small town life, homicide detective, murder mystery, female detective, murder, female police officer, ex husband ex wife relationship, crime investigation, mother daughter relationship, therapist ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
pennsylvania
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Mike Kendall, a disgraced ex-cop, is fighting a losing battle with the bottle. When he finds a woman left for dead at the side of a road, Kendall turns private eye to track down her killers, taking one last shot at redemption.
Style:
neo noir, disturbing, suspenseful, tense, psychological ...
Audience:
family friendly, date night
Plot:
private investigation, redemption, ex-cop, investigation, prostitute, murder, violence, danger, disorder, society, death, life is a bitch ...
Time:
year 2017
Place:
utah, idaho, mexico
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Summer 1980. While the Olympics held in the USSR, strange and horrible things are happening in a run-of-the-mill pioneer camp. It turns out pioneer vampires exist not only in horror stories. Smart beyond his years, independent, sensitive and ...
Style:
creepy, dark, suspense, atmospheric, scary ...
Plot:
private investigation, investigation, creature, camp, summer camp, supernatural, vampire, vampire hunter, child vampire, magical, good versus evil, atmosphere ...
Place:
ussr
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The remarkable story of how murderer Charles Sobhraj was captured. As the chief suspect in unsolved murders of young Western travellers across India, Thailand and Nepal’s ‘Hippie Trail’ in 1975 and 1976, Sobhraj had repeatedly slipped from the ...
Style:
suspenseful, rough, psychological, independent film, thrilling ...
Plot:
serial killer, tourist, private investigation, danger, murder investigation, incompetent police, police investigation, murder, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, incompetent official, criminal, medicine ...
Time:
70s
Place:
bangkok thailand, thailand, india, nepal, paris france ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
Lionel Essrog, a private detective living with Tourette syndrome, ventures to solve the murder of his mentor and best friend — a mystery that carries him from the gin-soaked jazz clubs of Harlem to the slums of Brooklyn to the gilded halls of New ...
Style:
neo noir, enigmatic, period piece, crime drama, detective ...
Audience:
family friendly, date night, adult
Plot:
private detective, murder investigation, interracial romance, politics, conspiracy, social injustice, homicide detective, private investigation, crime investigation, investigation, organized crime, racial segregation ...
Time:
50s, 1950s, year 2019, future, 20th century
Place:
brooklyn new york city, harlem, usa, new york
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Summer is usually a time for fun and games, but some teens get much more danger than they bargained for after beginning to suspect their neighbor is a serial murderer.
Style:
suspense, retro, disturbing, spooky, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, group of friends, friendship, private investigation, murder, psychopath, murder mystery, basement, murder suspect, surveillance, neighbor, child killer ...
Time:
year 1984, 2010s, 80s
Place:
oregon, usa
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Genre: Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
After the unusual attack on a school 'flower boy', Sung-min, on February 14, the same attacks begin to happen at different high schools on every month of the same day. Rumors say that the next victims will be at Neulparan High School.
Style:
captivating, semi serious, satirical, entertaining, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
private investigation, high school, satire, amateur detective, investigation, terrorist plot, crime solving, school, sleuth, teamwork, high school life, prank ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
south korea
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Genre: Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story:
Aurora/Roe Teagarden, a librarian and amateur sleuth, investigates and solves murders with help from her friends in Real Murders Club.
Style:
captivating, disturbing, tense
Plot:
female detective, amateur sleuth, amateur detective, private investigation, crime investigation, female protagonist, escapades, murder investigation, sleuth, mother daughter relationship, uncover truth, investigation ...
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Genre: Crime, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Russia
Duration: 92 min.
TV show
Story:
Nineteen-year-old Anna, living at the end of the nineteenth century in the town of Zatonsk, unexpectedly discovers that she possesses supernatural powers. The spirits of the dead literally haunt her, begging to help. Aided by her visions, Anna ...
Style:
captivating, mysterious, intellectual, breathtaking, detective ...
Plot:
female detective, murder investigation, investigation, murder, private investigation, murder mystery, twists and turns, supernatural ability, partners against crime, clairvoyance, danger, death ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1890s
Place:
russia
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The widow of a wise professor stumbles upon one of his inventions that's able to record and play a person's memory.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, melancholic, surprise ending, captivating ...
Plot:
widow, private investigation, investigation, murder, invention, empathy, professor, existentialism, flashback sequence, guilty conscience, murder investigation, repressed memory ...
Time:
near future
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 217 min.
TV show
Story:
Feluda and Topshe are to solve a case in Gangtok assigned by Mr. Sasadhar Bose. They are to look into the accidental death of his business partner Selvankar. What role does the Yamantaka idol play?
Style:
detective, captivating, thrilling, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot:
investigation, private investigation, feluda, private investigator, murder mystery, who done it, uncover truth, problem, crime solving, crime investigation, secret, murder investigation ...
Place:
india, himalaya
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa, France
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
After a group of teens from a small Midwestern town begin to mysteriously disappear, the locals believe it is the work of an urban legend known as The Empty Man. As a retired cop investigates and struggles to make sense of the stories, he discovers ...
Style:
suspense, psychological, tense, suspenseful, lovecraft ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
occult, investigation, suicide, cosmic horror, supernatural, supernatural horror, death, hospital, grief, danger, demonic possession, evil spirit ...
Time:
2020s, 90s, 2010s, year 2019, 20th century ...
Place:
missouri, himalaya
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Genre: Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A paranormal-obsessed man mounts his own investigation into the beyond with his depressed best friend, misfit nephew, a cable access medium and an overeager security guard.
Style:
horror comedy, humorous, captivating, semi serious, entertaining ...
Plot:
private investigation, ghost, belief in ghosts, halloween, ghost hunter, friendship, depression, depressed man, psychological manipulation, manipulative behavior, investigation, uncle nephew relationship ...
Time:
year 2016, 21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
year after manga master Fumiya Ajima's death, 50 unpublished sketches are discovered. The sketches appear to be the work of Fumiya Ajima, but the sketches shows details from several missing women cases that occurred 35 years earlier. Fumiya ...
Style:
tense, captivating, suspenseful, suspense, detective ...
Plot:
investigation, cold case, private investigation, crime investigation, uncover truth, hacker, professional wrestling, sleuth, police investigation, internet, partners against crime, teamwork ...
Time:
70s
Place:
japan
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Mystery writer Grace Miller has killer instincts when it comes to motive - and she'll need every bit of expertise to help solve her sister's murder.
Style:
disturbing, tense, captivating, suspense, detective ...
Plot:
investigation, murder, murder mystery, murder investigation, private investigation, life is a bitch, double life, sleuth, sister, secret life, crime solving, dual identity ...
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Two people per level. An unknown number of levels. A platform with food for all of them. Are you one of those who think too much when they are up? Or of those who have no guts when they are down? If you discover it too late, you will not live out of ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, psychological thriller, mind bending ...
Plot:
survival, struggle for survival, confined, food shortage, cannibalism, social injustice, prison, social differences, isolation, rivalry, danger, survival horror ...
Time:
future, 2010s
Place:
iberian peninsula
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Internet sensation and old family friend of Aurora Teagarden, Poppy Wilson, has returned to Lawrenceton to start her new embroidery business. But not everyone is happy with Poppy's success when she turns up dead. To find the killer, Roe must ...
Style:
light, entertaining, captivating, humorous, feel good ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
amateur detective, private investigation, murder investigation, librarian, murder, uncover truth, murder mystery, resourceful, escapades, death of friend, investigation, happy ending ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story:
Young Nancy Drew makes plans to leave her hometown for college after high school graduation, but finds herself drawn into a supernatural murder mystery.
Style:
captivating, enigmatic, tense, slasher, spooky ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
investigation, amateur detective, supernatural, danger, unsolved crime, crime investigation, friendship, teenager, murder, private detective, homicide detective, interracial ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
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Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
While searching for her missing mother, intrepid teen Enola Holmes uses her sleuthing skills to outsmart big brother Sherlock and help a runaway lord.
Style:
detective, costume drama, period piece, mysterious, gothic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, kids, family outing, teen drama
Plot:
victorian england, strong female lead, sherlock holmes, feminism, female detective, amateur detective, female protagonist, runaway teen, private detective, teenage protagonist, strong female character, obsessive quest ...
Time:
victorian era, future, 2020s, edwardian era, 1880s ...
Place:
london, england, scotland yard
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Friends hatch a plot to retrieve a stolen cat by posing as drug dealers for a street gang.
Style:
funny, parody, buddy comedy, absurd, intense ...
Plot:
kitten, cat, gunfight, dumb, african american, satire, animal, car chase, brothers, hitman, gangster, fight scenes ...
Time:
2010s, year 2016
Place:
usa, los angeles
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young woman, Dakota, is trying to move on with her life and get away from her past after being rescued from a grim basement, where she was kidnapped and abused by a monstrous man. However, when the normal life she had starts to unravel, Dakota ...
Style:
tense, psychological thriller, suspense, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
stalker, kidnapping, female protagonist, threat, investigation, private investigation, trauma, fear, survivor, problem, abduction, kidnapped woman ...
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
This mystery-of-the-week series follows Charlie Cale, who has an extraordinary ability to determine when someone is lying. She hits the road with her Plymouth Barracuda and with every stop encounters a new cast of characters and strange crimes she ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling, tense, psychological, crime thriller ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
female protagonist, crime investigation, private investigation, road trip, whodunit, lie detector, who done it, fighting crime, uncover truth, investigation, murder investigation, con trick ...
Place:
usa
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Genre: Crime, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A matriarch is poisoned during a family wedding reception and Aurora Teagarden vows to get to the bottom of the crime, especially when her mother, a friend of the dead woman, stands to inherit the bulk of the massive estate. 11th installment in ...
Style:
feel good, light, entertaining, humorous, captivating ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
amateur detective, private investigation, murder investigation, murder, uncover truth, murder mystery, happy ending, suspect, transformation, investigation, inheritance, family relations ...
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Genre: Mystery
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
At a gathering of mystery and true crime fans, Aurora Teagarden’s nephew, Phillip, is accused of murder when an unplanned onstage blackout during the play in which he is performing ends, revealing Phillip holding the bloody knife that has just ...
Style:
light, humorous, captivating, feel good, entertaining ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
amateur detective, private investigation, female detective, murder investigation, conference, uncover truth, investigation, professional rivalry, suspect, happy ending, suspicion of murder, brother sister relationship ...
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Genre: Crime, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Someone begins taunting Aurora Teagarden with cryptic clues left at crime scenes, so the librarian-turned-crime buff attempts to figure out who is behind the creepy “game.” But when the people closest to Aurora become targets, the game takes on ...
Style:
clever, captivating, suspenseful, feel good, exciting ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
amateur detective, private investigation, female detective, uncover truth, escapades, mysterious character, mind game, riddles and clues, male female relationship, possessed woman, uninhibited rivalry, danger ...
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