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: Detective Philo Vance sifts through clues and comes up with seven possible suspects in the murder of a sportsman.
Plot Keywords: murder mystery, detective story, classic film, 1930s, film noir, crime investigation, whodunit ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Detective Mark McPherson investigates the killing of Laura, found dead on her apartment floor before the movie starts. McPherson builds a mental picture of the dead girl from the suspects whom he interviews. He is helped by the striking painting of the late lamented Laura hanging on her apartment wall. But who would have wanted to kill a girl with whom every man she met seemed to fall in love? To make matters worse, McPherson finds himself falling under her spell too. Then one night, halfway through his investigations, something seriously bizarre happens to make him re-think the whole case.
Plot Keywords: film noir, murder mystery, detective story, psychological thriller, love triangle, classic hollywood, high society ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Andrew Wyke is a famous and successful author of detective novels. Milo Tindle comes to him with a strange request, that Mr Wyke divorce his wife so that Tindle can marry her. Mr Wyke is not particularly perturbed by this, he and his wife have drifted apart, and he is having an affair with another woman anyway, but uses the meeting and Mr Tindle's request as a chance to play a game, a game with potentially deadly consequences.
Plot Keywords: thriller, crime, psychological, mystery, drama, classic, british film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The Dark Knight (Kevin Conroy) battles Scarecrow, Killer Croc and Deadshot.
Plot Keywords: animation, action, superhero, dc comics, gotham city, anthology, crime ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A black soldier is killed while returning to his base in the deep south. The white people of the area are suspected at first. A tough black army attorney is brought in to find out the truth. We find out a bit more about the dead soldier in flashbacks - and that he was unpopular. Will the attorney find the killer ?—Colin Tinto <cst@imdb.com>
Plot Keywords: racial discrimination, race relations, african american, 1940s, hate crime, american south, detective story ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Lemmy Caution, an American private-eye, arrives in Alphaville, a futuristic city on another planet. His very American character is at odds with the city's ruler, an evil scientist named Von Braun, who has outlawed love and self-expression.
Plot Keywords: sci-fi, film noir, dystopian, artificial intelligence, existentialism, detective story, totalitarianism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In 2022, Earth is overpopulated and totally polluted; the natural resources have been exhausted and the nourishment of the population is provided by Soylent Industries, a company that makes a food consisting of plankton from the oceans. In New York City, when Soylent's member of the board William R. Simonson is murdered apparently by a burglar at the Chelsea Towers West where he lives, efficient Detective Thorn is assigned to investigate the case with his partner Solomon "Sol" Roth. Thorn comes to the fancy apartment and meets Simonson's bodyguard Tab Fielding and the "furniture" (woman that is rented together with the flat) Shirl and the detective concludes that the executive was not victim of burglary but executed. Further, he finds that the Governor Santini and other powerful men want to disrupt and end Thorn's investigation. But Thorn continues his work and discovers a bizarre and disturbing secret of the ingredient used to manufacture Soylent Green.
Plot Keywords: sci-fi, dystopian, thriller, crime, mystery, resource scarcity, human nature ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: During the psychedelic 60s and 70s Larry "Doc" Sportello is surprised by his former girlfriend and her plot for her billionaire boyfriend, his wife, and her boyfriend. A plan for kidnapping gets shaken up by the oddball characters entangled in this groovy kidnapping romp based upon the novel by Thomas Pynchon.
Plot Keywords: film noir, detective story, psychedelic, 1970s, los angeles, novel adaptation, crime ...
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: film noir, detective story, murder mystery, novel adaptation, 1940s, crime thriller, complex plot ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Struggling private investigator Louis Simo treats his work more as a means to make a living than a want to do right by what few clients he has. Through connections with the investigation firm for which he used to work, Simo is hired by Helen Bessolo to investigate the death of her son, actor George Reeves. Reeves was best known for his title role in Adventures of Superman (1952), a role which he always despised, in part since it typecast him as a "cartoon", despite it bringing him a certain fame. His June 16, 1959 death by a single gunshot wound while in his bedroom in his Los Angeles home was ruled a suicide by the police, the death which occurred when the house was filled with people. Reeves' story is told in part in flashback as Simo, who is trying to make a name for himself with this case, talks to or tries to talk to some of the players involved, most specifically the wife of MGM General Manager E.J. Mannix, Toni Mannix, with whom Reeves was having a relatively open and ...
Plot Keywords: murder mystery, detective story, golden age of hollywood, based on true events, film noir, scandal, celebrity culture ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Ace Ventura, emerging from self-imposed exile in a remote Himalayan hideaway, travels to Africa with explorer Fulton Greenwall to find a sacred bat which is told will avert a war between with Wachootoo and Wachati tribes. Of course, when Ace gets involved, all hell breaks loose...
Plot Keywords: comedy, adventure, animals, detective, humor, pets, africa ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A brave wartime copper (policeman) becomes a hero when he thwarts a plot to destroy a battleship. But then the rest of the police get the idea that he is one of the enemy agents.—Steve Crook <steve@brainstorm.co.uk>
Plot Keywords: comedy, crime, british, black and white, classic, police, humour ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The forensic psychiatric Sally Rowe is called by Detective Martin Mackenzie to analyze the profile of the teenager Alex Forbes, who was found in a train station holding the body of his schoolmate Nigel Colby and with powder in his hand. Alex discloses his relationship with Nigel, who believes that they were descendants of the Templar Knights, and how Nigel used the power of his mind to control him. Mackenzie believes that Alex is the killer, but Susan investigates the family of Nigel under pressure of Alex's father, and finds that all of them belong to an ancient and powerful secret society.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: psychological thriller, murder mystery, boarding school, dark secrets, british film, crime drama, mind games ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Arthur Groome works in London and has a devoted family in Richmond. Shortly after he starts seeing a showgirl she is found murdered and the circumstantial evidence points to the innocent if naive Groome.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: film noir, crime drama, mystery, thriller, british cinema, 1950s, courtroom drama ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Emily Boynton (Piper Laurie), stepmother to the three Boynton children, and mother to Ginevra (Amber Bezer), blackmails the family lawyer, Jefferson Cope (David Soul), into destroying the second will of her late husband, which would have freed the childern from her dominating influence. She takes herself and the children on vacation to Europe and the Holy Land. In Jerusalem, Hercule Poirot (Sir Peter Ustinov) meets up with a woman friend, Dr. Sarah King (Jenny Seagrove), who falls in love with Raymond Boynton (John Terleskey) to Emily's disapproval. Lady Westholme (Lauren Bacall), her secretary, and Cope are following them too. The children learn about the second will, and Emily succeeds in rubbing the rest the wrong way, causing much hatred towards her. At a dig, everybody wonders about the camp, and Emily is found dead, poisoned. Poirot investigates.—Lee Horton <Leeh@tcp.co.uk>
Plot Keywords: murder mystery, detective story, british film, crime thriller, family secrets, inheritance dispute, novel adaptation ...
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