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The Rockford Files: I Still Love L.A. (1994)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Detective Jim Rockford works to uncover facts of the death of a wealthy socialite whose two grown children are accused of murdering her. Complicating matters are Rockford's omnipresent "friend" Angel, and Rockford's ex-wife Kit, ...
Style: detective
Plot: private investigator, lawyer, beach, attorney, basement, murder, baseball player, movie star, rolls royce, ex wife, private detective, ex husband ex wife relationship ...
Place: malibu california, los angeles
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 6.5
 3K
Tony Rome (1967)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Tony Rome, a tough Miami PI living on a houseboat, is hired by a local millionaire to find jewelry stolen from his daughter, and in the process has several encounters with local hoods as well as the Miami Beach PD.
Style: detective, neo noir, noir, retro, thrilling ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: private detective, private investigator, murder, deep south, sea, mysticism, prostitute, beach, investigation, redheaded woman, boat, violent content ...
Time: year 1967, 60s
Place: miami, florida, usa, miami beach
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 6.4
 2K
The Lost Son (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Xavier Lombard is a world-weary private eye in London, in exile from his native Paris; his best friend is Nathalie, a high-class call girl. He gets a call from an old friend from the Paris police department, now a businessman whose brother-in-law is ...
Style: erotic, detective, realistic, serious, gloomy ...
Plot: pedophile, private investigator, sexual abuse, real world, supernatural horror, prostitution, sex crime, murder, private detective, boy, pornographic video, haunted by the past ...
Time: 90s
Place: london, england, latin america, europe, mexico
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The Unfaithful Wife (1969)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Insurance executive Charles suspects his wife Hélène of playing the field, so he has a private detective locate his wife's lover, author Victor Pegala. Confronting Victor, Charles tries to adopt an air of indifference, but the conversation ...
Style: psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, suspense, cynical ...
Plot: infidelity, unfaithful wife, investigation, adultery, marriage, cheating wife, murder, husband wife relationship, extramarital affair, dysfunctional marriage, family problems, dishonesty ...
Time: year 1969, 60s
Place: france, paris france, versailles
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 6.5
 5K
City Hunter (2018)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Nicky Larson is tasked to recover the perfume of Cupid, a perfume that would make anyone who uses it irresistible.
Style: entertaining, humorous, light, colorful, stylized ...
Plot: private detective, private investigator, gangster, murder, womanizer, presumed dead, partner, gang, sex, fistfight, psychotherapist, chase ...
Place: france, monaco
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 6.2
 48K
Dark Places (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A woman who survived the brutal killing of her family as a child is forced to confront the events of that day.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, psychological, intense ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: stripper, serial killer, investigation, murder, murder of family, farm, private investigator, psychiatry, justice, brutality, police investigation, sibling relationship ...
Time: year 2015, year 1985, year 1999, 80s, year 1968 ...
Place: kansas, chicago, ireland, missouri, texas ...
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The Happytime Murders (2018)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, China
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When the puppet cast of a '90s children's TV show begins to get murdered one by one, a disgraced LAPD detective-turned-private eye puppet takes on the case.
Style: dark comedy, black comedy, action comedy, humorous, tense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: puppet, buddy cop, muppets, whodunit, police, adult humor, female detective, puppetry, private investigator, murder, serial killer, murder mystery ...
Place: los angeles
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Glup, una aventura sin desperdicio (2004)
Genre: Animation
Country: Spain
Duration: 70 min.
Story: "Buy, use and throw", this is the maximum of a world in which objects do not last more than twinkling of an eye. Shops are emptied and dumps filled. Alicia witnesses this unfortunate phenomenon, as her parents throw objects with only a few ...
Style: captivating, feel good, semi serious, humorous, independent film ...
Audience: kids
Plot: child hero, childhood, friendship, private investigator, child's point of view, good versus evil, villain, little girl, surrealism, friends who live together, mother, radio ...
Time: 2000s
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Vares: The Path of the Righteous Men (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The body of a young woman whose heart has been ripped out of her chest is found in a remote are in Finland. The finder of the body, a dismissed pastor, hires private investigator Jussi Vares to investigate the crime. Vares uncovers a criminal ring ...
Style: enigmatic, suspense, captivating, rough
Plot: preacher, murder, private investigator, sect, secret, psychiatrist, police, village idiot, religious fundamentalism, religious cult, private detective, nordic ...
Place: finland
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 8.4
 11K
Terriers (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Ex-cop and recovering alcoholic Hank Dolworth partners with his best friend, former criminal Britt Pollack, in an unlicensed private investigation business. The series is set in Ocean Beach, San Diego, California, although it is portrayed as a ...
Style: neo noir, suspenseful, dark comedy, detective, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: investigation, team, murder, private investigator, private detective, partner, suspicion, teamwork, buddies, investigator, lawyer, murder mystery ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa, los angeles, san diego california
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 7.1
 18K
Night Moves (1975)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Private detective and former football player Harry Moseby gets hired on to what seems a standard missing person case, as a former Hollywood actress whose only major roles came thanks to being married to a studio mogul wants Moseby to find and return ...
Style: neo noir, suspense, tense, psychological, detective ...
Audience: manly
Plot: private detective, investigation, murder, missing person, espionage, infidelity, female nudity, manipulation, loneliness, complex characters, crime gone awry, uncover truth ...
Time: 20th century, year 1975, 70s
Place: florida, usa, los angeles, key west florida
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Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In late 1940s Los Angeles, Easy Rawlins is an unemployed black World War II veteran with few job prospects. At a bar, Easy meets DeWitt Albright, a mysterious white man looking for someone to investigate the disappearance of a missing white woman ...
Style: neo noir, detective, dark, stylized, clever ...
Plot: private detective, african american, missing person, jazz club, black, gangster, murder, jazz, racism, home invasion, private investigator, cop ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1948
Place: los angeles, california, usa, malibu california
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Wong & Winchester (2023)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: An ex-cop turned private eye, Marissa Wong, ends up being forced to work with Sarah Winchester, an inexperienced young woman fresh out of university. Each episode, the unlikely duo to solve their client’s cases, which often end up being far more ...
Style: psychological, captivating, thrilling, entertaining
Plot: private detective, female detective, private investigator, ex cop, private investigation, crime investigation, uncover truth, police investigation, female protagonist, sleuth, murder investigation, teamwork ...
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 6.8
 11K
Harper (1966)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Harper is a cynical private eye in the best tradition of Bogart. He even has Bogie's Baby hiring him to find her missing husband, getting involved along the way with an assortment of unsavory characters and an illegal-alien smuggling ring.
Style: neo noir, suspense, cynical, detective, psychological ...
Plot: private detective, murder, investigation, kidnapping, missing person, twists and turns, uncover truth, dishonesty, adultery, divorce, ransom, private investigator ...
Time: 60s, year 1966, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california, las vegas, usa
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On the Other Hand, Death (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A mysterious client of private eye Don Strachey pays him cash to tail a woman who turns out to be an undercover officer; an older lesbian couple are victims of threats and vandalism; an old flame of his lover Tim shows up to support the older ...
Style: serious, realistic, detective, queer cinema
Plot: private detective, investigation, couples, fighting the system, couple relations, haunted by the past, lgbt, private investigator, lgbtq, vandalism, lesbian relationship, happy ending ...
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 5.7
 5K
The Big Take (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A reclusive movie star hires a private detective after he's anonymously blackmailed. Things turn violent when an aspiring writer is fingered for the crime in a dangerous case of mistaken identity.
Style: suspense, captivating, serious, tense, realistic ...
Plot: blackmail, murder, actor, hostage, screenwriter, extortion, private investigator, wiretap, hollywood, film producer, learning the truth, false accusation ...
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 7.2
 95K
Angel Heart (1987)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: The down-and-out private detective Harry Angel is ordered, by a mysterious man named Louis Cyphre, to go on a mission to find a missing person. His routine failure soon leads to a bloody spar with himself as Harry Angel goes on a supernatural ...
Style: psychological, atmospheric, detective, satanic, scary ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: investigation, twists and turns, private detective, satan, voodoo, devil, amnesia, missing person, incest, supernatural, nudity, plot twist ...
Time: year 1987, year 1955, 50s, 20th century, year 1918 ...
Place: new orleans, southern usa, new york, louisiana, usa ...
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 6.8
 4K
Cannon (1971)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Cannon is a CBS detective television series produced by Quinn Martin which aired from March 26, 1971 to March 3, 1976. The primary protagonist is the title character, private detective Frank Cannon, played by William Conrad. He also appeared on two ...
Style: detective, surprise ending
Plot: police, private investigator, cop, investigation, private detective, police officer, ex-cop, mental illness, multiple personality disorder, fat man, split personality, daughter ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: los angeles, new mexico, arizona, phoenix arizona, albuquerque new mexico
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Dick Spanner, P.I. (1987)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 6 min.
TV show
Story: Dick Spanner, P.I. is a 1986 British stop-motion animated comedy series which parodied Chandleresque detective shows. The title character and main protagonist was Dick Spanner, voiced by Shane Rimmer, a robotic private detective who works cases in a ...
Style: parody
Plot: robot, private investigator, stop motion, puppet animation
Time: future
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 7.3
 116
Buddy Faro (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Buddy Faro was the best private detective in the business, until he disappeared in 1978 after a case went bad. Twenty years later, he's brought back to Los Angeles by private detective Bob Jones and they reopen Buddy Faro Investigations.
Style: detective, stylized, humorous, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: private investigator, partner, investigation, private detective, detective agency, misfit, buddies, friends, fish out of water, disorder, culture shock, buddy cop ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, los angeles, california
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Illicit Sensations (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Robert is a successful architect who sleeps with every woman he meets. His wife Michelle can't stand her husband's infidelity and hires a private investigator to have solid proof of the affairs. But as the private investigator supplies ...
Style: suspense, emotional, disturbing, sexy, suspenseful
Plot: lust, erotica, sexual attraction, female nudity, infidelity, adultery, obsession, guilt, private investigator, stalking, telephone call, private detective ...
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Jack Taylor: Cross (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Ireland, Germany
Duration: 89 min.
TV show
Story: Jack is asked by Kate to meet with the family of a young man that is murdered by crucifiction.
Style: psychological, tense, atmospheric, stylized
Plot: murder investigation, private investigator, murder, crucifix, teenager, missing person, mind game, evidence, victim, manipulation, sadism, troubled ...
Place: ireland
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The Preacher's Mistress (2013)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Single mother gets involved with a married preacher and framed for his wife's murder.
Style: suspense, serious, suspenseful, realistic
Plot: murder, framed for murder, adultery, secret identity, private investigator, betrayal, mother daughter relationship, murder of wife, love, affair, single mother, minister ...
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The New Mike Hammer (1984)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, with Stacy Keach in the title role, is a television series that originally aired on CBS from January 28, 1984 to January 12, 1985. The series was 24 sixty minute episodes. The show follows the adventures of Mike ...
Style: detective
Plot: private detective, private investigator, woman with a gun, police, investigation, hard boiled
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 5.5
 937
Out Cold (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A comedy about an angry married couple, a private investigator, and a walk-in freezer.
Style: dark comedy, independent film, cynical, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: male pubic hair, private investigator, infidelity, halloween, partner, private detective, murder, frame up, male nudity, frozen body, hunting, love triangle ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
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Hickey & Boggs (1972)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Two veteran private eyes trigger a criminal reign of terror with their search for a missing girl.
Style: neo noir, detective, realistic, serious, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: private detective, murder, private investigator, investigation, blaxploitation, rescue, kidnapping, money, revenge, chase, vietnam veteran, suitcase of money ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
Place: los angeles
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 6.9
 15K
Zero Effect (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Daryl Zero is a private investigator. Along with his assistant, Steve Arlo he solves impossible crimes and puzzles. Though a master investigator, when he is not working, Zero doesn't know what to do with himself. He has no social skills, writes ...
Style: detective, neo noir, dark comedy, cult classic, witty ...
Plot: private detective, investigation, murder, private investigator, eccentricity, blackmail, ugly duckling, hidden truth, whodunit, fall in love, accountant, dating ...
Time: year 1998, 20th century, 90s
Place: oregon, usa, los angeles, portland oregon, san francisco
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 6.5
 209K
Secret Window (2004)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Mort Rainey, a writer just emerging from a painful divorce with his ex-wife, is stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger and would-be scribe who claims Rainey swiped his best story idea. But as Rainey endeavors to prove his ...
Style: psychological, twist ending, surprise ending, suspense, dark ...
Plot: psychology, insanity, twists and turns, split personality, stephen king, losing-it hero, isolation, paranoia, macabre, murder, mental illness, plot twist ...
Time: year 2004, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: mississippi, usa, tennessee, new york state
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 4.7
 694
No Alibi (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Bob Lessing is a successful businessman who becomes amorously entangled with a dangerous and mysterious woman. What Lessing doesn't realize is that she has been sent by her powerful criminal boyfriend Vic Haddock to collect a large sum of drug ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, captivating, serious
Plot: accusation, murder, husband wife relationship, corruption, brother brother relationship, betrayal, private investigator, loss of brother, party, best friend, fbi agent, striptease ...
Place: new york
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 6.5
 273
Feluda (2017)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Bangladesh
TV show
Story: In this 21st century adaptation of Satyajit Ray’s famous mystery novels, the brilliant private investigator navigates the busy streets of Dhaka to resolve a puzzling death of a Bangladeshi man in Kolkata.
Style: suspense, disturbing, tense, captivating
Plot: feluda, private investigator, multiple storylines, uncover truth, secret, murder investigation, crime investigation, murder mystery, investigation, crime solving
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