Chinatown (1974), Dr. Mabuse, King of Crime (1922), Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005), The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939), Law Abiding Citizen (2009), The Nice Guys (2016), Beverly Hills Cop (1984), La isla mínima (2014) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Detective Work movies.
Storyline: A vicious serial-killer is on the loose in San Francisco and the police trace a link to the small town of San Paulo, which is further down the coast. When Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) upsets the press and the Mayor in his usual style, he's shipped out of town to investigate while the heat is on. With the help of his new .44 Magnum handgun, Harry goes on the trail leaving behind the usual trail of dead criminals along the way.
Plot Keywords: dirty harry callahan, cop, rapist, brother, victim, thrilling, brash ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The camera shows Phillip Marlowe's view from the first-person in this adaptation of Raymond Chandler's book. The detective is hired to find a publisher's wife, who is supposed to have run off to Mexico. But the case soon becomes much more complicated as people are murdered.—Ken Yousten <kyousten@bev.net>
Plot Keywords: private detective, editor, publisher, wife, boss, philip marlowe, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Young New York cop Dan falls in love with waterfront waitress Helen. Helen's sister Kate falls for gangster Duke. Dan must do in Duke.
Plot Keywords: detective, gangster, ex-girlfriend, sister, henchman, editor, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Matt Scudder is a former cop now a private eye. He is asked by a drug dealer to find the men who kidnapped his wife. It seems like they killed her even after he paid them. Scudder refuses. But the man later goes to see him and tells him how his wife was killed. Scudder takes the job. He does some research and thinks the men he is looking for have done this more than once. And that everyone they grabbed is connected to a drug dealer. He was about to give up when they grab another girl and Scudder tries make sure she's returned alive.
Plot Keywords: detective, client, drug trafficker, murder victim, murderer, friend, brooding ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A psychic doctor, John Clancy (Sir Anthony Hopkins), works with an F.B.I. Special Agent (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) in search of serial killer Charles Ambrose (Colin Farrell). After having lived in isolation for two years, since the death of his daughter, Clancy is asked by his friend Joe, an F.B.I. Special Agent to help him solve several murders committed by a serial killer. The problem is that Ambrose is also psychic, and far ahead of Clancy.
Plot Keywords: fbi agent, murder victim, murder suspect, serial killer, detective, gripping, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: New York's Odyssey Detective Agency is hired by two different clients to follow two women suspected of infidelity. Ladies' man John Russo trails Angela Niotes, the elegant wife of a wealthy Italian industrialist, while Charles Rutledge and Arthur Brodsky follow Dolores Martin, the beautiful young wife of a jealous husband. Their respective cases are complicated when John falls for Angela, and Charles falls for Dolores.—filmfactsman
Plot Keywords: detective, tycoon, wife, adulterer, cab driver, country singer, winsome ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A mysterious client of private eye Don Strachey pays him cash to tail a woman who turns out to be an undercover officer; an older lesbian couple are victims of threats and vandalism; an old flame of his lover Tim shows up to support the older couple; neighbors are angry at the couple for refusing to sell out to a developer; and, parents are angry at one of the couple, Dorothy, for being a good guidance counselor to gay teens. Her partner, Edith, wants to move away; Dorothy is adamant about staying. When someone dies in a fire in their barn, the stakes get higher. Don, who does not believe in coincidence, gives the police enough information to stay on their good side as he pursues the truth.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: detective, gay man, lesbian, young woman, suspenseful, thrilling, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Paul and Christine know: Their teenager daughter Sarah, thrown by their separation, is capable of about anything, including killing her best friend. Wanting to protect their daughter they thus decide to hide the crime. Their joined guilt forces the family back together creating a web of lies and deadly intentions without a way out.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: murder victim, parent, daughter, couple, murderer, teamwork, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A British agent's son is kidnapped and held for a ransom of diamonds. The agent finds out that he can't even count on the people he thought were on his side to help him, so he decides to track down the kidnappers himself.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
Plot Keywords: boss, son, adult, secret agent, teamwork, father, gripping ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In Philadelphia, Detective Bowden is still grieving for his wife and son, killed in a hit-and-run five years ago. When someone jumps from a skyscraper onto a truck, Bowden is sent to investigate. Meanwhile, five strangers are trapped in an elevator in the building where the jumper committed suicide. The communication radio in the elevator is broken but the guards, Lustig and Ramirez, observe the individuals via CCTV as events unfold. Tensions run high among those trapped, so Lustig calls the police and Detective Bowden assumes the case. Without being able to contact the individuals, he tries to work out who they are, but he can only account for four of them. Time is running out for the occupants of the elevator, as Bowden realizes he has to get them out quickly.
Plot Keywords: fiancé, ex-convict, devil, detective, salesman, mechanic, chilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Sardonic detective Shane, thrown out of one town for bringing trouble, heads for home and his ex-partner's detective agency. The business is in a sad way, and Shane, who has had the forethought to provide himself with a 250-dollar commission from an old lady on the train, is welcomed with open arms. When pretty Valerie Purvis walks in the next day willing to pay over the odds to put a tail on the man who did her wrong, Shane's way with the ladies looks like paying off yet again. But things start to go wrong when his partner is murdered, and Shane himself comes home to find his apartment wrecked by a gentlemanly crook who comes back to apologise -- and to tell him a fascinating fairy-story about the fabled Horn of Roland that looks like not being so mythical after all. Miss Purvis wants protection. The police want answers. And all sorts of people want the 'French horn'... but Shane is one jump ahead of everyone all the way. Well, almost.—Igenlode Wordsmith
Plot Keywords: private detective, pretty woman, client, partner, englishman, secretary, airy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Nancy Drew accompanies her father on a business trip to Los Angeles California. Nancy booked an abandoned house for them to stay in hiding the mystery of a movie star's murder from her father as a promise that she would stay out of trouble and be normal. Fitting into high school as a normal teen turns out to be harder than it sounds, for Nancy Drew. She soon befriends a younger boy and determines that the sleuthing world is where she belongs. While snooping through the attic, she finds a letter from the Hollywood star, Dehlia Draycott, written to someone named 'Z'. This leads Nancy on a wild goose chase as she comes to find out that Dehlia has a secret daughter, her daughter is to inherit everything and someone killed Dehlia because they were written out of the will.
Plot Keywords: nancy drew, father, friend, business partner, sleuth, movie star, emotional ...
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 reinstated police chief (Tom Selleck) battles his own demons while investigating the death of a teenage girl.
Plot Keywords: police chief, murder victim, suspect, ex-cop, police captain, ex-wife, brooding ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Detective Riley Parra grew up in the bad part of town, the crime-ridden No Man's Land. Now, as a cop in a corrupt department, she strives to make sure the rough streets she left behind aren't forgotten. One case leads her to the discovery that No Man's Land is a battleground between angels and demons, a supernatural war that's been waged for centuries. Thrown into a world she never believed could exist and told that she's the only chance of defeating evil.—Christin Baker
Plot Keywords: priest, love interest, demon, angel, police detective, crooked cop, dark ...
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