Movies: Private detective

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 ...

Set in the sordid underworld of drug trafficking and prostitutes, this story involves Charlie Smith, private eye, whose job it is to find Carrie Friskine and fast! Carrie, a cat burglar, has ripped off the ring-leader of a drug racket and now he's af...

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Detective Barker has his work cut out for him when his red-haired nanny, Kate Blond, turns out to be a master thief in disguise. Barker’s close friends are a wealthy count and countess who has recently purchased a valuable piece of jewellery at an au...

A European royal couple come to New York to sell some of the royal family's crown jewels. A gang of international jewel thieves is planning to steal the gems, so a private detective is assigned to guard them. Unfortunately the private eye turns out t...

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

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

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

Joe McDoakes imagines himself as a private detective on a murder case. Throughout the film, he spars verbally with narrator Art Gilmore....

A young artist receives an unusual visit from a detective....

In this romantic thriller, blackmail, kidnapping, and fraud combine to give two lesbian private detectives (and lovers) their toughest case. Will their relationship survive? Produced by women for women....

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

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

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....

Action and excitement beckon as popular sleuth Mick Cardby goes on the trail of a missing girl, and finds himself in the clutches of a gang of blackmailers....

Rick R. Mortis, a cocky P.I., based in the seedy part of a world filled with classic movie monsters, has just been framed for murder. In 48 hours, he must use all his resources and connections to prove himself innocent and find the real killer: an ...

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Buddy, a private investigator, visits the home of a suspect in a kidnapping case as he grapples with the notions of justice and the allure of revenge....