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List of amateur detective movies

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Elfie Hopkins (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: An aspiring teen detective stumbles into her first real case, when investigating the mysterious new family in her neighborhood.
Style: suspenseful, scary, suspense, tense, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: amateur detective, uncover truth, danger, life turned upside down, murder, investigation, cannibal, scared, violent, cannibalism, inspiration, unrequited love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
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Roxy Hunter and the Secret of the Shaman (2008)
Genre: Family, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Serenity Fall's favorite super sleuth is on the case again! The town is alarmed when a priceless crystal turns up missing. The only suspect seems to be a strange man living in the woods known as Shaman. It's up to Roxy Hunter (Aria ...
Style: detective, captivating, entertaining, sincere, feel good ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens
Plot: girl, youth, amateur detective, investigation, friendship, mischievous children, danger, woods, shaman, dog, escapades, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 5.0
 288
Nightwaves (2003)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Recently widowed Shelby Naylor (Sherilyn Fenn) listening to her husbands police scanner overhears a husband and wife arguing on the phone. The wife ends up dead and Widow Naylor points the finger endangering herself.
Style: psychological, serious, tense, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot: murder, amateur detective, woman in danger, false accusation, haunted by the past, couple relations, family problems, hitman, couples, infidelity, who done it, danger ...
Place: boston, usa
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 7.3
 1K
Gosick (2011)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Gosick is a Japanese light novel series by Kazuki Sakuraba, published by Fujimi Shobo. Set in a fictional European country in 1924, a Japanese exchange student meets a mysterious, brilliant girl who only leaves the library to sleep. Her brother, a ...
Style: anime, humorous, gothic, detective, captivating ...
Plot: friendship, amateur detective, occult, folklore, urban legend, high school life, city life, investigation, partner, couples, police, tragedy ...
Time: 20th century, 1920s
Place: europe
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 4.1
 2K
Riddle (2013)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Holly & Nathan Teller live in a small town in Pennsylvania. Holly is on the cheerleading team and has a close relationship with her younger brother Nathan, who is subjected to bullying at school. Nathan is taken for a car ride one day by ...
Style: serious, disturbing, rough, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot: missing person, uncover truth, investigation, college, small town, amateur detective, haunted by the past, social relations, riddles and clues, secret place, danger, unlikely criminals ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, pittsburgh, pennsylvania
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Undercover Kids (2004)
Genre: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Nicole and Nelson are twins with psychic powers. On the first day of school everyone is talking about the recent vandalism at school. Nicole and Nelson decide to go undercover to find the culprit. The twins get child genius George & his high ...
Style: semi serious, captivating, humorous, disturbing, independent film ...
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: twins, amateur detective, save the day, school, working undercover, prodigy, escapades, danger, heroes, rivalry, undercover, good versus evil ...
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 6.0
 1K
Sorted (2000)
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A young lawyer gets more than he bargains for while investigating his brother's mysterious death.
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, independent film
Plot: clubbing, nightclub, rave, murder, investigation, amateur detective, uncover truth, nightlife, life is a bitch, danger, drug use, death of brother ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: london, england
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Nobody Else But You (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The ambiguous suicide of a local beauty, weathergirl, cheese model, and Marilyn Monroe look-a-like finds an eager sleuth in David Rousseau, best-selling crime novelist. When Rousseau visits a remote Alps village for the reading of his friend's ...
Style: semi serious, erotic, sexy, captivating, melancholic ...
Plot: investigation, mysterious death, blonde, small town, suicide, psychiatrist, misogyny, model, nude model, voyeurism, sex, female nudity ...
Time: year 2001, year 2005, year 2000, year 1999, year 2009 ...
Place: france, europe
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Pornography: A Thriller (2009)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A Thriller weaves together three different but curiously related stories centering on the mysterious disappearance of quintessential “boy-next-door” porn star Mark Anton.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, rough, surreal, sexual ...
Plot: porn star, lgbt, investigation, amateur detective, actor's life, missing person, obsession, sexual relations, filmmaking, gay, lgbtq, lgbtqi ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brooklyn new york city
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 5.6
 221
Finding Kelly (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The surprisingly intricate, nimble plot is about a couple of kids who play amateur detectives one summer in the hopes of collecting a $5,000 reward offered to anyone able to find a missing 17 year old girl. The girl and boy are best friends who have ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, feel good, tense ...
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: missing person, amateur detective, uncover truth, young heroes, heroes, buddies, youth, missing child, danger, investigation, child's point of view, amateur sleuth ...
Time: 90s
Place: europe, england
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 5.5
 37K
The Innkeepers (2011)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: During the final days at the Yankee Pedlar Inn, two employees determined to reveal the hotel's haunted past begin to experience disturbing events as old guests check in for a stay.
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, atmospheric, spooky, dark ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, ghost, paranormal investigation, macabre, hotel, paranormal, ghost story, fear, paranormal activity, haunted, workplace, amateur detective ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, year 2000, 21st century
Place: new england, connecticut, usa
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 6.0
 3K
Dark Waters (1993)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Russia, UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A girl travels to an island, after the death of her father, to find out why the father funded a monestary on the island.
Style: gothic, lovecraft, atmospheric, bleak, surreal ...
Plot: nun, supernatural, convent, beast, amateur detective, island, isolation, woman in danger, unlikely criminals, friendship, religions or cults, good versus evil ...
Time: 90s
Place: ukraine
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Satan's School for Girls (2000)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A young woman enrolls at an all-girls college in New England to investigate her sister's suicide and is slowly lured into a witchcraft cult by a quartet of students wanting to make her their fifth member of their evil circle.
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, captivating, slasher ...
Plot: witch, college, amateur detective, loss of sister, supernatural, religions or cults, curses spells and rituals, woman in danger, danger, death in the family, death of sister, witchcraft ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, new england
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The Midnight Hour (2001)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Alex Sheppard, a college student who hosts a late-night talk show on the campus radio station, finds herself in dire straits when she enrolls in the school her recently murdered sister attended in order to track down the killer. Little does Alex ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, enigmatic, sexy ...
Plot: serial killer, amateur detective, woman in danger, law enforcement, dangerous attraction, danger, police investigation, psychopath, couples, who done it, stalking, voyeurism ...
Time: 90s
Place: california, los angeles, usa
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 6.0
 14K
Anatomy (2000)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Medical student Paula Henning wins a place at an exclusive Heidelberg medical school. When the body of a young man she met on the train turns up on her dissection table, she begins to investigate the mysterious circumstances surrounding his death, ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, scary, atmospheric ...
Plot: gory, serial killer, medical school, murder, medical, university, amateur detective, woman in danger, teenage life, death, secret society, professor ...
Time: 90s
Place: germany, europe
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Aurora Teagarden Mysteries (2015)
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: amateur sleuth, female detective, crime investigation, crime solving, amateur detective, escapades, murder investigation, sleuth, mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, uncover truth, investigation ...
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 6.2
 5K
A Dark Place (2018)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When a young boy turns up dead in a sleepy Pennsylvania town, a local sanitation truck driver, Donald, plays detective, embarking on a precarious and obsessive investigation to prove the boy was murdered.
Style: bleak, thought provoking, dark
Plot: dead child, child molester, investigation, missing child, amateur detective, secrets, drowning, injustice, parent child relationship, truck, small town, garbage collector ...
Place: pennsylvania
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Murder at the Gallop (1963)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Miss Marple and Mr Stringer are witness to the death of the very old and rich Mr. Enderby by heart attack. Yet they have their doubts about what happened. The police don’t believe them thus leading Miss Marple to yet again investigate by herself. ...
Style: black and white, slasher, crime drama, detective, suspenseful ...
Plot: private detective, whodunit, amateur detective, murder mystery, last will and testament, heart attack, horse riding, murder, hercule poirot, bike, oldtimer, spy ...
Time: year 1963
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Dead in 3 Days 2 (2008)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Austria
Duration: 95 min.
Story: One year ago, Nina survived the attacks of a serial killer. She wants to flee from these memories but one call at night recalls all memories and she is again in the middle of a murder mystery.
Style: slasher, scary, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, survival, escapades, amateur detective, psychopath, danger, woman in danger, riddles and clues, snow, puzzle, murder, winter ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, austria
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 7.6
 3K
Fillmore! (2002)
Genre: Action, Animation, Comedy, Crime, Family, Mystery, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Fillmore! is an American animated television series which was produced by Walt Disney Television Animation. The series was created by Scott M. Gimple and directed by Christian Roman. It was the last series produced by Walt Disney Television ...
Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious, exciting, parody ...
Audience: kids
Plot: problem solving, amateur detective, juvenile delinquency, unlikely partners, youth, starting over, african american, black, crossover, heroes, school, boss ...
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Roxy Hunter and the Myth of the Mermaid (2008)
Genre: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Roxy is at it again when, in pursuit of a local journalism award, she brings home a mysterious amnesiac who was found soaking wet outside of the local coffee shop. After ceremoniously naming her ANNIE NONYMOUS, Roxy takes the young lady home and ...
Style: feel good, humorous, entertaining, captivating, light ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens
Plot: youth, mermaid, amateur detective, investigation, memory loss, journalism, disorder, legends and myths, imaginary, female detective, girl, genius ...
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Don't Torture a Duckling (1972)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A reporter and a promiscuous young woman try to solve a series of child killings in a remote southern Italian town that's rife with superstition and distrust of outsiders.
Style: psychological, slasher, scary, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: murder, psychopath, serial killer, police investigation, journalism, obsession, amateur detective, small town, mind game, mysterious character, uncover truth, death ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: italy, southern italy, europe, milan italy
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Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson meet as boys in an English Boarding school. Holmes is known for his deductive ability even as a youth, amazing his classmates with his abilities. When they discover a plot to murder a series of British business men by ...
Style: clever, detective, serious, suspenseful, stylized ...
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: sherlock holmes, murder, private detective, friendship, school, who done it, boarding school, amateur detective, danger, investigation, high school friend, teenage life ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s, year 1985, 1870s, victorian era
Place: england, london, europe, big ben london, scotland yard
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Revelations (2005)
Genre: Fantasy, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Set just before the start of Armageddon, the mini-series will follow two central characters, a physicist and a nun, who are racing against the clock to see if the end of the world apocalypse can be averted. Bill Pullman plays Dr. Richard Massey, a ...
Style: atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, suspense, controversial ...
Plot: nun, supernatural, save the world, murder, amateur detective, uncover truth, physicist, apocalypse, society, chaos, clergy, danger ...
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Hidden Treasure of the Mississippi (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Will and Clayton witness a murder, but out of fear decide not to tell anyone. They and their friend Betsy, whose father has been wrongfully accused of the crime, go on a journey to find the real killer, and at the same time redeem themselves.
Style: humorous, exciting, realistic, semi serious, independent film
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: false accusation, murder, small town, amateur detective, adventurer, investigation, best friend, heroes, danger, youth, escapades, riddles and clues ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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The Weight of Water (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, France
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A newspaper photographer, Jean, researches the lurid and sensational axe murder of two women in 1873 as an editorial tie-in with a brutal modern double murder. She discovers a cache of papers that appear to give an account of the murders by an ...
Style: sexy, psychological, tricky, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: investigation, murder, infidelity, dangerous attraction, incest, women, amateur detective, family problems, couples, sexual relations, isolation, photograph ...
Time: 19th century, 90s, 1870s, 2000s, victorian era
Place: maine, new hampshire, europe, usa, new england
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Scooby-Doo in Where's My Mummy? (2005)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Scooby-Doo and the Mystery Inc. gang become involved in a supernatural mystery in Egypt.
Style: semi serious, humorous, entertaining, feel good, light ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, horror for children
Plot: scooby doo, mummy, adventurer, amateur detective, escapades, youth, supernatural, friends, partner, danger, young heroes, friendship ...
Time: 2000s
Place: egypt, africa, middle east
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 3.8
 170
Diamond Zero (2005)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A daft doctor concocts an offbeat scheme to make millions after he happens upon a method of turning cremated human remains into diamonds. But when the sawbones hires a pair of hapless thieves to collect the raw material, a string of calamities ...
Style: humorous, witty, semi serious, realistic, offbeat ...
Plot: hidden identity, crime gone awry, amateur detective, nothing goes right, heist, cons and scams, dishonesty, intrigue, unlikely criminals, buddies, criminal heroes, partner ...
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Little Erin Merryweather (2003)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Once upon a time, death preyed upon a New England college campus. Rumors swirl that "if you see a flash of red, you're dead!" Local golden boy, Peter Bloom (David Morwick) investigates the grisly killings until the stakes grow higher ...
Style: suspense, slasher, scary, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: serial killer, college, investigation, mind game, amateur detective, danger, survival, journalism, stalking, youth, rivalry, psychopath ...
Place: new england, usa, massachusetts
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Beneath the Darkness (2011)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After watching their best friend get murdered, a group of teens struggle to expose a local hero as the vicious killer and keep from becoming his next victims.
Style: serious, scary, suspense, bleak, psychotronic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, mortician, profanity, investigation, amateur detective, young heroes, danger, confined, youth, murder, cheerleader, social relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas, usa
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