The Kennel Murder Case (1933), Laura (1944), Sleuth (1972), Batman: Gotham Knight (2008), A Soldier's Story (1984), Alphaville (1965), Soylent Green (1973), Inherent Vice (2014) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Detective Story movies.
Storyline: A gang of criminals, which includes a piano player and an imposing former convict known as 'Gruesome', has found out about a scientist's secret formula for a gas that temporarily paralyzes anyone who breathes it. When Gruesome accidentally inhales some of the gas and passes out, the police think he is dead and take him to the morgue, where he later revives and escapes. This puzzling incident attracts the interest of Dick Tracy, and when the criminals later use the gas to rob a bank, Tracy realizes that he must devote his entire attention to stopping them.—Snow Leopard
Plot Keywords: crime, detective, film noir, mystery, action, thriller, serial killer ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A blackmailer with many enemies is murdered and his body placed in a trunk. A gentleman sleuth sets out to prove the innocence of a falsely accused man.
Plot Keywords: mystery, crime, detective, british film, black and white, classic, 1930s ...
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: mystery, adventure, teen, adaptation, book adaptation, crime, puzzle solving ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Harry is the latest generation of the Crumbs, famous and extremely talented detectives. Unfortunately talent seems to have skipped a generation and Harry is reduced to "gumshoe" work at a remote branch of the Crumb detective agency. Back at headquarters, Crumb executive Elliot Draison hatches an evil plan which requires the inclusion of an incompetent detective. With Harry Crumb on the case Draison thinks everything will run fine for him. Despite his best efforts Crumb actually makes some headway in the case...
Plot Keywords: comedy, crime, detective, humor, mystery, american film, 1980s ...
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: detective, sherlock holmes, dr. watson, mystery, crime, murder, deduction ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Captain Holling is relieved of command of his ship after he suffers a nervous breakdown. His replacement, Captain Downey, takes over the liner just as it is about to be used for an experiment in remote control. Professor Grimson has devised a system for controlling the ship from a laboratory on land. But as Grimson demonstrates the system and the special component that makes it work, a rival group is listening in, hoping to use the device for its own purposes. Shortly after the demonstration, the professor is attacked and fatally injured. Major Pope comes on board to investigate the attack, and he decides to come along on the planned trip. Soon the ship is full of passengers and crew--and at least two of the ship's occupants are really enemy agents.—Snow Leopard
Plot Keywords: detective, mystery, crime, suspense, film noir, murder, conspiracy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Forced to close his detective agency due to lack of business, Bill Reardon (Melvyn Douglas) returns to his former work as a lawyer, only to have his wife, Sally (Joan Blondell), successfully resurrect the agency. Wealthy socialite Lola Fraser (Mary Astor) hires Sally to spy on her husband, Walter. Sally's investigation, which Bill joins, uncovers a complex web around Walter. When Walter is murdered, Sally's information becomes essential to the police, the suspect -- and the killer.
Plot Keywords: crime, comedy, detective, rivalry, investigation, mystery, 1930s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A writer (Alex Nicol) meets a lakeside temptress (Hillary Brooke) who wants her rich husband (Sidney James) dead.
Plot Keywords: film noir, crime drama, detective story, murder mystery, hardboiled, femme fatale, corruption ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An arrogant New York columnist (Clifton Webb) taunts a detective (Dana Andrews) obsessed with a slain woman's (Gene Tierney) portrait.
Plot Keywords: murder mystery, film noir, detective story, psychological thriller, crime investigation, love triangle, high society ...
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