Movies: Private detective

"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 Rush, the secretary of the head of a private-detective agency who has been hired to care for the kid u...

A new assignment for private detective Norman Hope: A valuable burger has been stolen from an important client. Will Norman Hope succeed in finding the stolen item? And what is the story behind the mysterious man dressed all in white who follows the ...

Sach learns that he has inherited a farm in rural hillbilly country, and when he and the Boys arrive there, they find themselves mixed up with a hillbilly clan named Smith who'll shoot anybody named Jones, plus a gang of bank robbers....

Áurea Diamantina, a movie star who has quarreled with her husband, stays at a grand hotel where, in order to get free publicity, conspires with her manager to simulate a kidnapping. Meanwhile, her jealous husband hires a private detective to keep an ...

Five generations after Lupin the Third, Lupin the Eighth plies his trade in an airship that flies above a futuristic Paris....

A private detective goes after the kidnappers of his ex-girlfriend's son and becomes involved in a series of murders....

Private detective Ture Sventon is visited by his friend Mr. Omar of the Arabic desert. Sventon decides to travel with Mr. Omar on his flying carpet to Paris. However, Sventon almost exclusively lives on cream puffs, and to transport these across the ...

Travis McGee is a world-weary private eye trying to help boat skipper friend Van Harder salvage his reputation that sank when his boat ran aground, resulting in a death that might have been faked....

A sleazy private detective named Horatio Plugg is hired to keep watch over a brothel. Inspector Closer is onto him though....

A private detective takes on one final case before retirement....

A female private eye joins forces with a police detective to investigate the suspicious murder of a millionaire....

A private detective is hired to find a missing girl. The only thing is, the girl isn't who we think she is and everyone is out to get her....

A gritty whodunit drama that follows Spade, an old-fashioned detective who is on the search for a missing girl called Lucy with the assistance of Casey, his new senior detective. But as these two detectives dig deeper into the case, they are forced t...

A private eye (Robert Clarke) takes pictures for the publishers (Francine York, Syd Mason) of a scandal magazine....

A wistful PI reflects on the case of Alice Draper, a young starlet whose death he failed to solve....

A stolen bicycle case ends with drunken detective/lawyer Alexander 'Lex' Larsen having to clear Vigdis Wang of a murder charge. Unofficially based on the book Din, til døden, by Gunnar Staalesen....

Private detective Donegal Dawn is summoned by the police commissioner to solve the reasons for a crime wave in Chinatown....

A dancing gigolo gets involved with a wealthy lady and her young step-daughter, and murder is the result....

Someone is killing people related to a South American expedition. The means of murder are poison darts with rubber spiders attached to them. A writer and some police detectives investigate....

Detective John Sparkes receives a letter from Alex Spalding, leading him to a mysterious woods. Here, he meets Isabella, a practitioner of witchcraft, who diverts his attention from Alex and ensnare John's heart to fall in love with her....