Private Detective Movies

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

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

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

"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...

Legendary private eye Philip Marlowe takes on new cases.

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...

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

A San Francisco airplane bound for South America crashes, and among the scorched debris is found a shrunken native human head, neatly packaged. The...

Customers at the Melody Club are burgled while attending the the club. A detective investigates.

Private detectives Gus and Dick take a murder case where nearly everyone is trying to kill them.

A young artist receives an unusual visit from a detective.

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

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.

Áurea Diamantina, a movie star who has quarreled with her husband, stays at a grand hotel where, in order to get free publicity, conspires...

In this romantic thriller, blackmail, kidnapping, and fraud combine to give two lesbian private detectives (and lovers) their toughest case. Will...

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

A washed-up private detective, Jack Calloway, is pressured by mob boss Vince Lucarelli to find a man who has disappeared under federal protection....

A new assignment for private detective Norman Hope: A valuable burger has been stolen from an important client. Will Norman Hope succeed in finding...