Sherlock Jr. (1924), The Great Mouse Detective (1986), The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976), Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011), The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939), The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939), The Pearl of Death (1944), The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Sherlock Holmes movies.
Storyline: The story is set in 1947, following a long-retired Holmes living in a Sussex village with his housekeeper and her young son. But then he finds himself haunted by a thirty-year old case. Holmes memory isn't what it used to be, so he only remembers fragments of the case: a confrontation with an angry husband, and a secret bond with his beautiful, but unstable wife.
Plot Keywords: old man, young boy, mysterious woman, sick person, moving, engaging, witty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Sherlock Holmes (Nicholas Rowe) and John Watson (Alan Cox) meet as boys in an English Boarding school. Holmes is known for his deductive ability even as a youth, amazing his classmates with his abilities. When they discover a plot to murder a series of British business men by an Egyptian cult, they move to stop it.
Plot Keywords: detective, friend, professor, cult leader, inventor, granddaughter, frenetic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Sir Charles Baskerville has suffered an unusual death, causing some to say he was yet another victim of the dreaded family curse, which warns of a fabled hellhound haunting the Scottish moors. Not one prone to superstition, Sherlock Holmes (Jeremy Brett) thinks something else is afoot. Being stuck in London himself, Holmes sends his colleague, Dr. Watson (Edward Hardwicke), to investigate instead. It soon becomes clear to them both that Baskerville's demise was no mere accident.
Plot Keywords: sherlock holmes, doctor watson, detective, nobleman, eerie, suspenseful, thrilling ...
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: When a Nazi saboteur jeeringly predicts to the nation new depredations via the radio 'Voice of Terror', the Homeland Security Inner Council summons Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) to help in the crisis. Holmes and his companion, Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce), receive a visitor on the first night of their investigation; a man falls dying from a knife in the back on their doorstep. His last word leads Holmes into the slums where he encounters Kitty (Evelyn Ankers), the sweetheart of the slain man, who promises to help the investigation in any way she can.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@sudenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: sherlock holmes, doctor watson, widow, impostor, spy, british intelligence agent, crafty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: While taking a holiday in the country with his mother, Dennis hits on a scheme to impress a girl so that she'll go away on a trip with him as his girlfriend. Although he fails to gain any interest from the girl, the police take a great interest in his story. From this point on, Dennis digs a deeper hole for himself at every turn.—Simon Rowell <srowell@tiac.net>
Plot Keywords: sherlock holmes, private detective, sidekick, brash, confident, creative, fascinating ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Sherlock Holmes' younger brother is annoyed that he has had to live in Sherlock's shadow for so long. When Sherlock goes to the continent, he sends a case to his brother who constantly tries with varying success, to imitate Sherlock's deductive and observational tricks.—John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>
Plot Keywords: opera singer, younger brother, sherlock holmes, detective, professor, sergeant, hilarious ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Card cheat Ronald Adair hears a disembodied voice coming from a painting of a cardinal threatening him with exposure and disgrace unless he becomes part of a criminal conspiracy involving counterfeit money. Adair is reluctant and is later found shot in the head in a bank. Holmes rightly suspects that his arch-enemy Moriarty, the master of disguise, is behind the plot.—duke1029@aol.com
Plot Keywords: diplomat, sister, doctor watson, detective, sidekick, villain, crafty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Holmes, retired to Sussex, is drawn into a last case when arch enemy Moriarty arranges with an American gang to kill one John Douglas, a country gentleman with a mysterious past. Holmes' methods baffle Watson and Lestrade, but his results astonish them. In a long flashback, the victim's wife tells the story of the sinister Vermissa Valley.
Plot Keywords: sherlock holmes, doctor watson, professor, police officer, gangster, wife, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In London, a secret society led by lawyer Thaddeus Merrydew collects the assets of any of its deceased members and divides them among the remaining members. Society members start dropping like flies. Sherlock Holmes is approached by member James Murphy's widow, who is miffed at being left penniless by her husband. When Captain Pyke is shot, Holmes keys in on his mysterious Chinese widow as well as the shady Merrydew. Other members keep dying--Malcom Dearing first, then Mr. Baker. There is also an attempt on the life of young Eileen Forrester, who became a reluctant society member upon the death of her father. Holmes' uncanny observations and insights are put to the test.—Gary Jackson <garyjack5@cogeco.ca>
Plot Keywords: sherlock holmes, doctor watson, lawyer, widow, pretty woman, intricate, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Sherlock Gnomes (Johnny Depp) and his assistant, Dr. Gnome Watson (Chiwetel Ejiofor), storm into London's natural history museum, where their nemesis, a pie mascot named Moriarty (Jamie Demetriou), is holding gnomes hostage, planning to smash them. After a brief battle, Moriarty is defeated by getting seemingly crushed by a dinosaur skeleton. Meanwhile, Gnomeo (James McAvoy) and Juliet (Emily Blunt), as well as the other gnomes, are moving to London. While there, Gnomeo and Juliet are declared the new leaders of the garden. Noticing that Juliet has cast him aside to improve the garden, Gnomeo leaves to find a flower as a centerpiece, but nearly gets caught in a shop, forcing Juliet to rescue him. Gnomeo and Juliet return to the garden, but then find out that all of the other gnomes have gone missing. Sherlock and Watson show up at the scene to investigate, and after Gnomeo and Juliet help them escape from a sewer flood, Sherlock agrees for them to team up.
Plot Keywords: investigator, gnome, couple, missing person, amusing, cheery, cheeky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A humorous take on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic mysteries featuring Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson.
Plot Keywords: nemesis, murder suspect, murder victim, professor, amusing, hilarious, outlandish ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1886, Sherlock Holmes (James D'Arcy) helps actress Rebecca Doyle (Gabrielle Anwar) get rid of blackmailer Professor Moriarty (Vincent D'Onofrio), chasing the criminal to his apparent death. Holmes' success makes headlines, and he is hired by a drug dealer, Ben Harrington (Struan Rodger), to find the serial killer who's murdering other drug pushers. While examining the bodies with coroner Dr. Watson (Roger Morlidge), Holmes suspects that Moriarty is alive and behind the killings.
Plot Keywords: sherlock holmes, doctor watson, professor moriarty, actress, drug dealer, brother, intricate ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The only thing deadlier than the blood sport of cockfighting is the political intrigue surrounding it. Oklahoma Senator, Michael Turner, is dragged into the political struggle over cockfighting when one of his constituents, a cock-fighter, is murdered. At the request of his ex-girlfriend, FBI agent Becky Lord, Turner seeks to unravel a web of corruption around a proposed law banning cockfighting pending in the State Legislature. It appears that murder is one way to settle this issue, which involves corruption all the way from the local sheriff to the Governor. The dead pool deepens as Turner's good intentions and political ambition lead him down a dead end road lined with murder, bribes and shady politicians.
Plot Keywords: sherlock holmes, king, sidekick, amusing, wedding, secret, scandal ...
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