How to Be a Detective

Strange Days

Former policeman Lenny Nero has moved into a more lucrative trade: the illegal sale of virtual reality-like recordings that allow users to experience

1995

Chinatown

Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite to inve

1974

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

'Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the studio hires detective Eddie Valiant to snoop on her.

1988

Danny Detective Inc.

Subrata Sharma is a reporter who leaves his job and joins a small time detective agency, Danny Detective Inc. in Kolkata. Working on a kidnapping case

2021

Cape Fear

Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? 14

1991

Big Rose

Rose Winters, a private detective out of Los Angeles, teams with Ed Mills, a somewhat inexperienced young detective, to find out who is blackmailing a

1974

So, You're Trying to Sleep During the Apocalypse

A simple guide to getting a good night's sleep during the early days of the pandemic

2020

The Pledge

A police chief about to retire pledges to help a woman find her daughter's killer.

2001

Thupparivaalan

Detective Kaniyan Poonkundran is hungry for a challenging case to investigate and the mystery of a murdered dog leads to a rival who could be the matc

2017

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

He's Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. Jim Carrey is on the case to find the Miami Dolphins' missing mascot and quarterback Dan Marino. He goes eyeball to e

1994

Armed and Dangerous

After policeman Frank Dooley is framed for theft and loses his job on the force, he joins a security guard agency and teams up with inept former defen

1986

The Thin Man

A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.

1934

Appointment with Death

Emily Boynton, the stepmother to three children, blackmails the family lawyer into destroying a second will of her late husband that would have freed

1988

The Initiate

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 Case

2024

Body Fever

Set in the sordid underworld of drug trafficking and prostitutes, this story involves Charlie Smith, private eye, whose job it is to find Carrie Frisk

1969

The Big Sleep

Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen. Before the comple

1946

The Maltese Falcon

A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.

1941

Lesbionage

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

1988

Diet Sprite, Please

A young private detective gets dragged into a larger mystery after taking on a missing person case in Phoenix, Arizona.

2023

Herbie Goes Bananas

The adorable little VW helps its owners break up a counterfeiting ring in Mexico.

1980