Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993), Stage Fright (1950), The Woman in Green (1945), The Assassination Bureau (1969), Fast and Loose (1939), Gaudi Afternoon (2001), Super Sleuth (1937), The Ghost Camera (1933) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Amateur Sleuth movies.
Storyline: Larry and Carol are fairly normal New Yorkers who have sent their son off to college. They meet an elderly couple down the hall and later in the week find that the wife has suddenly died. Carol becomes suspicious of Paul who seems to be too cheerful and too ready to move on. She begins her investigation. Larry insists she is becoming too fixated on their neighbor as all of the irregularities seem to have simple non-homicidal explanations. Ted, a recently divorced friend helps her investigation and Larry begins to become jealous of their relationship and agrees to help her.
Plot Keywords: husband, wife, son, writer, amateur sleuth, neighbor, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Jonathan Cooper is wanted by the police who suspect him of killing his lover's husband. His besotted friend Eve Gill offers to hide him and Jonathan explains to her that his real lover, actress Charlotte Inwood is the real murderer. Eve decides to investigate for herself, but when she meets the detective in charge of the case, she truly falls in love.
Plot Keywords: wrongly accused, ex-girlfriend, detective, actress, actor, amateur sleuth, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Holmes and Watson investigate a series of bizarre and apparently unconnected murders, and the death of a possible suspect. The trail leads to a society of hypnotists and a mysterious, glamorous woman. The fiendish Dr James Moriarty, though reported hanged in Montevideo, is suspected of being involved.—Michael Crew <m.crew@bbcnc.org.uk>
Plot Keywords: sherlock holmes, doctor watson, professor moriarty, beautiful woman, police detective, amateur sleuth, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The Assassination Bureau has existed for decades (perhaps centuries) until Sonya Winter (Dame Diana Rigg) begins to investigate it. The high moral standing of the Bureau (only killing those who deserve it) is called into question by her. She puts out a contract for the Bureau to assassinate its leader on the eve of World War I.—John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>
Plot Keywords: assassin, journalist, amateur sleuth, boss, thrilling, suspenseful, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The scrap of the Shakespeare manuscript is priceless. Nick Torrent owns it and is selling it. But then he is murdered and the manuscript is stolen. Joel Sloane is a rare book dealer and part time detective. Since he was trying to buy the manuscript for Mr. Oates, he is a suspect so he tries to solve the case. As the bodies pile up, Joel must solve the case or else Garda will be wearing black.—Tony Fontana <tony.fontana@spacebbs.com>
Plot Keywords: amateur sleuth, bookseller, wife, wealthy man, inspector, butler, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Cassandra, a solitary writer in Barcelona (a US ex-pat) gets a call for help from a stranger - a stylish woman named Frankie - who wants Cassandra to find her husband, so he can sign some important papers. Nothing Frankie says is true: the husband turns out to be a woman, the issue isn't legal papers but a child's custody, and even Frankie's most obvious identity, in red cape and red pumps, is a false front. But Cassandra keeps at it, at first to earn her promised fee, and then to help Frankie, then Frankie's ex, then the child. Along the way, this solitary and somewhat disconnected and bewildered writer frees herself to finish a novel and re-establish a broken relationship.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: expatriate, translator, lesbian, transgender woman, daughter, amateur sleuth, wild ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An actor who plays a detective in films soon finds himself out of his depth when he tries to investigate a real crime.
Plot Keywords: amateur sleuth, publicist, actor, criminologist, police officer, killer, lighthearted ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: As part of Rainey's circus, Dad Denton returns to the town where he is supposedly wanted for murder. When his old enemy McDonald spots him with out his clown makeup, he sets his men up to murder him during his high wire act at the next performance.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: chemist, amateur sleuth, young woman, detective, coroner, maid, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Jupiter Jones refuses to attend the surprise party his friends throw against his expressed wished. However he loves investigating an intruder, who gets away but without the clue he came looking for. It leads to another Californian ghost town and its "castle's" secret, which links to orphan Jupiter's parents.—KGF Vissers
Plot Keywords: mysterious girl, parent, villain, amateur sleuth, schoolboy, spirited, garage ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A 911 dispatch officer (Fiona Gubelmann) risks her life to investigate the murder of one of her callers.
Plot Keywords: amateur sleuth, telephone operator, murder suspect, chairman, detective, tense, shocking ...
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