Private Detective Movies

The son of famous detective Sam Spade carries on the family tradition of getting involved with the Maltese Falcon - and with the people who will stop...

The madam of a floating bordello hires private eye Peter Gunn to prove a gangster killed a crime boss.

This film noir tends to stay within very conventional plot lines, as the narration by the main protagonist, private detective Eugene Tarpon...

A private detective is hired in the USA to locate the heiress to a fortune worth millions. When he discovers that she has died of a heroin overdose, ...

"Mitch" Mitchell is an aviator who has been hired to take a child in a guardianship suit out of California into Mexico. He is accompanied by Maxine...

Private detective Germán Areta el Piojo gets a terminally ill client who wishes to see his long lost, runaway daughter before he dies.

A famous movie star's fan club secretary has been brutally murdered. She has in her office old newspaper clippings regarding a missing heiress. Did...

Susan Hart, assistant to private detective Russ Ashton, is given a camera concealed in a hat box and assigned to take a picture of a woman. A gun is...

Two private eyes compete to find an heiress and bring her back, unmarried, to New York.

A detective must solve a case where a girl was murdered in a room--and all the doors and windows were locked from the inside.

A Portland taxi dancer is a suspect in a series of murders involving her former customers.

This Robert Benchley 'How To' comedy short attempts to teach us how to profile criminals by physical characteristics.

Moosa, a private detective, faces many challenges while solving various cases. His only rival is his own brother-in-law, Peethambaran, who is a...

Charlie attempts to solve a triple murder in which a dead man's finger prints show up at all three murder sites, and all three victims were connected...

A group of public and private investigators looks into the suspicious death of the son of one of its members' wealthy girlfriends.

A private eye and his secretary probe a murder and find an international spy.

Private detective Michael Shayne is on the case again, but this time he's stuck on a jury for a murder trial. So, what does he do? Why, he skips out...

Broke, with his vintage Nash convertible repossessed, private eye Mike Hama is reduced to combing the mean streets of the Yokohama waterfront on a...

A private detective (Willard Parker) falls for the girlfriend (Allison Hayes) of a racketeer whom he believes has targeted him for death.

A former government agent in France, who has failed at an assignment and been disavowed, is deported back to the USA, where he can only find work at...