Private Detective Movies

Hugh Beaumont stars as detective "Michael Shayne" in this 1946 B-film.

A short documentary about the Pinkerton Detective Agency, the oldest private detective company in the United States.

A gritty whodunit drama that follows Spade, an old-fashioned detective who is on the search for a missing girl called Lucy with the assistance of Case...

A new assignment for private detective Norman Hope: A valuable burger has been stolen from an important client. Will Norman Hope succeed in finding th...

A private detective, who has been shot, stumbles into the office of Michael Shayne (Hugh Beaumont),and dies before Shayne can question him. Shayne fi...

A young private detective gets dragged into a larger mystery after taking on a missing person case in Phoenix, Arizona.

A private eye (Robert Clarke) takes pictures for the publishers (Francine York, Syd Mason) of a scandal magazine.

Detective Ken Dwight is after the infamous "Clown Face Killer." Will he stop and arrest the Killer? Or will the Killer strike again?

A private detective takes on one final case before retirement.

Legendary private eye Philip Marlowe takes on new cases.

A compulsive gambler bets her freedom against a $16,000 debt to a crime boss…and loses. But before he can collect, she skips town, with a private dete...

Michael Shayne is a private detective who is disliked greatly by Pete Rafferty, local chief of police detectives. Rafferty notifies the newspaper pres...

A young artist receives an unusual visit from a detective.

Rick R. Mortis, a cocky P.I., based in the seedy part of a world filled with classic movie monsters, has just been framed for murder. In 48 hours, he...

A stolen bicycle case ends with drunken detective/lawyer Alexander 'Lex' Larsen having to clear Vigdis Wang of a murder charge. Unofficially based on...

This Robert Benchley 'How To' comedy short attempts to teach us how to profile criminals by physical characteristics.

A wistful PI reflects on the case of Alice Draper, a young starlet whose death he failed to solve.