Detective story

Explore our selection of movies and TV shows detective story

poster Suspense.
Suspense.
10mn - Drama, Thriller, Horror
An isolated house is too remote for a lone servant, who leaves a note, quietly exits the back door, and puts the key under the mat. Left alone in the house is a mother and her infant. A tramp has watched …
poster The Policemen's Little Run
The Policemen's Little Run
6mn - Crime, Comedy
A policeman spots a dog stealing a piece of meat from a butcher's shop, and gives chase. Soon several more policemen have joined the pursuit. But the chase does not turn out as the policemen expect.
poster Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes
(2.9/5)
103mn - Drama, Mystery
Sherlock Holmes is a master at solving the most impenetrable mysteries, but he has his work cut out for him on his latest case. As the famed detective investigates an alleged theft, he’s brought face to f…
poster The Adventure of the Hasty Elopement
The Adventure of the Hasty Elopement
15mn - Comedy, Mystery
An amateur detective's automobile is stolen by a young woman who is determined to elope, leading to a complicated chase involving several vehicles.
poster Stakeout
Stakeout
90mn - Crime, Drama
A young private investigator on the gritty streets of Los Angeles faces an impossible choice when he falls for the woman he's supposed to be surveilling for insurance fraud. With his sick mother's medical…
poster Madame Mystery
Madame Mystery
25mn - Comedy
A female secret agent has gotten ahold of a new type of explosive gas. She has to avoid the efforts of two men who are trying to steal it. They succeed in doing so, but the gas turns out to be not quite w…
poster Zigoto and the Affair of the Necklace
Zigoto and the Affair of the Necklace
(2.9/5)
8mn - Comedy
The film begins with the Count giving an actress a necklace. However, after her performance, the valuable necklace is missing and so the actress goes to hire some detectives to find it. I loved the strang…
poster I Love Trouble
I Love Trouble
(3.4/5)
93mn - Crime, Drama
A wealthy man hires a detective to investigate his wife's mysterious past.
poster A Study in Scarlet
A Study in Scarlet
(2.8/5)
71mn - Crime, Mystery, Thriller
When members of a secretive London society called the Scarlet Ring begin dying one by one according to a sinister counting rhyme, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are drawn into a deadly web of murder and g…
poster Behind That Curtain
Behind That Curtain
91mn - Crime, Mystery, Thriller
When headstrong heiress Eve Mannering defies her guardian to marry the charming but mysterious Eric Durand, she soon discovers her new husband is a philandering murderer who killed an investigator to hide…
poster The Inspector General
The Inspector General
(3.4/5)
102mn - Comedy, Music, Romance
An illiterate stooge in a traveling medicine show wanders into a strange town and is picked up on a vagrancy charge. The town's corrupt officials mistake him for the inspector general whom they think is t…
poster The Disappearance of Onésime
The Disappearance of Onésime
9mn - Comedy
When Onésime gets declared dead by drowning, the supposed-widow consults a private detective specialized in missing persons.
poster Hot Stuff
Hot Stuff
(3.2/5)
91mn - Comedy
When a police department's burglary task force is facing the possibility of being shut down because of their low conviction rate decides to try a new approach to apprehending their targets. They take over…
poster There It Is
There It Is
(3.5/5)
19mn - Horror, Comedy, Animation
When a mysterious figure appears to cause a series of disruptions at the Frisbie Home in New York, word goes out to Scotland Yard that the Fuzz-Faced Phantom is at work. Soon, Charley MacNeesha and his as…
poster The Invisible Men
The Invisible Men
8mn - Crime, Fantasy, Comedy
A scientist concocts a potion that can turn people invisible for short periods of time. Two crooks steal the potion and go on a crime spree.
poster Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes
117mn - Mystery, Crime
When a couple of scammers hold young Alice Faulkner against her will to discover the whereabouts of letters whose dissemination could cause a scandal affecting the royal family, Sherlock Holmes decides to…
poster Mr. Wong, Detective
Mr. Wong, Detective
(3/5)
70mn - Crime, Thriller, Mystery
A chemical manufacturer is killed just after asking detective James Wong to help him. So detective Wong decides to investigate this as well as two subsequent murders.
poster A Touch of Murder
A Touch of Murder
(2.7/5)
81mn -
A salvage worker with the psychic ability to see past events associated with items he touches sets the background story for this anthology. These items create a bridge between three seemingly unconnected …
poster C-Man
C-Man
(2.9/5)
75mn - Crime
A customs agent follows a jewel smuggler's trail of corpses from Paris to New York.
poster Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes
(3.8/5)
Nonemn - Mystery, Drama
When a condemned serial killer threatens to murder Sherlock Holmes before his own execution, the detective must unravel the deadly secret hidden within a seemingly innocent Christmas pudding that enables …
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