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Movies: Best "private eye" Movies


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The Nice Guys(2016)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 56min | Comedy, Crime, Action
3.5/5 (with 3,469 votes)

A private eye investigates the apparent suicide of a fading porn star in 1970s Los Angeles and uncovers a conspiracy.

The Maltese Falcon(1941)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 40min | Mystery, Crime, Thriller
3.9/5 (with 727 votes)

A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.

City Heat(1984)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 33min | Comedy, Crime
2.8/5 (with 70 votes)

Set in Kansas City in 1933, Eastwood plays a police lieutenant known simply by his last name, Speer. Reynolds plays a former cop turned private eye named Mike Murphy. Both Speer and Murphy served on the force together and were once good friends, but are now bitter enemies. When Murphy's partner is slain they team up again to fight the mob.

Harper(1966)

FSK: 16+ years
| 2h 1min | Crime
3.3/5 (with 69 votes)

Harper is a cynical private eye in the best tradition of Bogart. He even has Bogie's Baby hiring him to find her missing husband, getting involved along the way with an assortment of unsavory characters and an illegal-alien smuggling ring.

City of Tiny Lights(2016)

1h 50min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
2.7/5 (with 36 votes)

In the teeming, multicultural metropolis of modern-day London, a seemingly straightforward missing-person case launches a down-at-heel private eye into a dangerous world of religious fanaticism and political intrigue.

The Private Eye(2024)

Private investigator Mort Madison's life begins spiraling downward when a beguiling, slightly familiar woman hires him for his most unusual case.

Private Eye(2009)

1h 51min | Mystery, Crime, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 19 votes)

The story takes place in occupied Korea at the start of the 20th century, where a young student in medicine discovers the murdered body of the son of a government official. Being scared of being accused, he decides to hire Hong Jin-ho (a detective) to help him find the murderer before the police accuse him of the murder.

Directed by Dae-min Park - With Hwang Jeong-min, Ryu Deok-hwan

Tokyo Raiders(2000)

1h 58min | Thriller, Action, Comedy
2.8/5 (with 26 votes)

When a private eye, a jilted bride and a mysterious stranger join forces to track down an elusive mobster, there's more than trouble in the air.

Gumshoe(1971)

3.2/5 (with 15 votes)

A would be private eye gets mixed up in a smuggling case.

Downtown(1975)

1h 27min | Comedy, Crime
3.0/5 (with 12 votes)

A private eye who's over his head in debt takes on a job snapping photos of his client's rich husband in bed with another woman. But when the husband winds up with three bullet holes that seem to have come from the private eye's own gun, he's got to prove he's not the murderer meanwhile getting tangled deeper in a web of deceit, lies, and steamy night club dancers!

Directed by Jesús Franco

The Pigeon(1969)

A private eye is hired to protect a young woman who has a black book on a crime syndicate.

Directed by Earl Bellamy - With Sammy Davis Jr.

Clyde Cooper(2018)

1h 21min | Mystery
2.5/5 (with 4 votes)

A private investigator is hired to track down a missing girl on the run from a mysterious Silicon Valley corporation.

With Jordi Vilasuso, Abi Titmuss, Joanna Triantafyllidou, Lou Wagner, Alexandra Bokova, Derick Neikirk, ...
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Ebony, Ivory and Jade(1979)

1h 30min | Action, Drama, TV Movie

In this prospective pilot, Mick Jade, a tennis bum-turned-Las Vegas-song-and-dance man, doubles as a private eye with two female dancers, Ebony and Ivory. The trio go undercover to protect a lady scientist from international hitmen as she heads for Washington D.C. from the near-East with her super-secret formula.

Alien Private Eye(1989)

1.4/5 (with 3 votes)

An alien sent to Earth to retrieve a drug that was sent here on a black disc has to fight her race's enemies, who are also on Earth to search for the drug.

Directed by Vik Rubenfeld - With John Alexander

Hollywood Harry(1986)

1h 38min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller
0.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Tongue-in-cheek account of a private eye hired to find a young porn actress.

Directed by Robert Forster - With Robert Forster

The Gumshoe Kid(1990)

1h 38min | Comedy
1.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A young man has to take over the ruined detective agency of his father and his uncle. There are two major difficulties to manage: His uncle and his new job.

Mara Maru(1952)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 38min | Adventure, Drama
2.4/5 (with 5 votes)

An American salvage diver plunges into dangerous intrigue around a sunken treasure in the Philippines.

The Last Case of August T. Harrison(2016)

3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

August T. Harrison, private eye, comes out of retirement to solve a bizarre missing persons case, but finds himself caught in the middle of a dark conspiracy involving the writings of H.P. Lovecraft.

Rogue's Gallery(1968)

1h 27min

A private eye gets in trouble when he tries to help a woman in distress.

Directed by Leonard Horn

Black Boots, Leather Whip(1983)

1h 29min | Drama, Mystery
2.8/5 (with 3 votes)

Al Pereira is hired by Lina, the wife of a wealthy man, to recover some compromising photos. She has sex with him by way of a retainer. In the course of his investigation, Al is obliged to commit a couple of murders... and he's left holding the bag when Lina turns out not to be what she seems to be.

Find the Blackmailer(1943)

55min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
3.4/5 (with 2 votes)

A private eye is hired by a mayoral candidate to prevent any sort of adverse publicity. It seems that, somewhere in town, there's a talking blackbird who insists upon saying that the candidate will commit a murder. When the killing occurs, the candidate is implicated, and the detective is off on a hectic pursuit of the incriminating crow and the actual murderer.

Directed by D. Ross Lederman - With Jerome Cowan

Private Eye Popeye(1954)

2.7/5 (with 4 votes)

Private Eye Popeye gets a call from Olive Oyl to guard a precious gem. But no sooner does he get the gem than the butler takes it.

Passport to Treason(1956)

1h 20min | Crime, Mystery, Drama
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

After being consulted by a friend concerning a murder case, a private eye learns the friend has become the next victim. Passport to Treason was put together by Robert S. Baker and Monty Berman, the same team who’d later collaborate on the UK TV series The Saint. Rod Cameron stars as an American private eye, stationed in London. For the sake of a murdered friend, the detective takes over the dead man’s case, which turns out to have international ramifications. The villains are members of a phony pacifistic society, all of whom harbor plans for taking over the world.

Girl on the Run(1958)

1h 17min

A Hollywood private eye (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) seeks a singer being stalked by a hired killer.

Directed by Richard L. Bare