Private Detective Movies

"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...

In the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective is caught between a lying seductress and a lady jewel thief.

Playboy Larry Blendon introduces his grandmother Stella Blendon to his fiancée, radio singer Virginia Berneaux. Despite Larry's record of...

A private detective and a college student find themselves in hot water while investigating the murder of a night club owner.

A private eye becomes the target of both a Chinese syndicate and the police during an investigation into the mysterious death of an old friend.

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

The Falcon is framed for the murder of a banker and the theft of war bonds. He makes his escape into the mountains where he hides out in a rustic...

A burned-out private detective in Las Vegas gets involved in blackmail and murder.

Kang Tae-sik is a private detective who would do anything for money. One day, he gets framed for a murder by a ruthless boss of the criminal...

Hugh Beaumont stars as detective "Michael Shayne" in this 1946 B-film.

Lovestruck conservatory student Ariane pretends to be just as much a cosmopolitan lover as the worldly mature Frank Flannagan hoping that...

A private eye specializing in divorce cases falls for the woman he's been hired to frame.

In the second of the PRC "Michael Shayne" series,civic crusader Burton Stallings hires private detective Michael Shayne to locate the former's...

When the world's worst cop is fired he becomes the world's worst private detective. For reasons unknown he finds himself the target of every criminal...

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

The Falcon travels to Mexico where he gets involved with murder and a mysterious painting.

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.

Private eye Jerry Church is hired by a criminal defense lawyer after five mobsters he has gotten acquitted are apparently strangled by a serial...

A man is questioned on the "Claude killings" in Los Angeles.

Michael Shayne is a private detective who is disliked greatly by Pete Rafferty, local chief of police detectives. Rafferty notifies the newspaper...