Crooked House

Movie · 6.4 / 10 · 6 Sept 2017 · English

A private investigator helps a former flame solve the murder of her wealthy grandfather, who lived in a sprawling estate surrounded by his idiosyncratic family.

A Walk Among the Tombstones

Movie · 6.3 / 10 · 18 Sept 2014 · English

Private investigator Matthew Scudder is hired by a drug kingpin to find out who kidnapped and murdered his wife.

Gone Baby Gone

Movie · 7.3 / 10 · 18 Sept 2007 · English

When 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in solving the case, the girl's aunt, Beatrice McCready hires two private detectives, Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. The detectives freely admit that they have little experience with this type of case, but the family wants them for two reasons—they're not cops and they know the tough neighborhood in which they all live.

The Long Goodbye

Movie · 7.4 / 10 · 8 Mar 1973 · English

In 1970s Hollywood, Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his wife.

L.A. Confidential

Movie · 7.8 / 10 · 19 Sept 1997 · English

Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night diner.

Kiss the Girls

Movie · 6.5 / 10 · 29 Sept 1997 · English

Forensic psychologist and detective Alex Cross travels to North Carolina and teams with escaped kidnap victim Kate McTiernan to hunt down "Casanova," a serial killer who abducts strong-willed women and forces them to submit to his demands. The trail leads to Los Angeles, where the duo discovers that the psychopath may not be working alone.

Secret Window

Movie · 6.6 / 10 · 12 Mar 2004 · English

Mort Rainey, a writer just emerging from a painful divorce with his ex-wife, is stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger and would-be scribe who claims Rainey swiped his best story idea. But as Rainey endeavors to prove his innocence, he begins to question his own sanity.

Farewell, My Lovely

Movie · 6.6 / 10 · 8 Aug 1975 · English

Private eye Philip Marlowe is hired by ex-con Moose Malloy to find his girlfriend, a former lounge dancer. While also investigating the murder of a client and the theft of a jade necklace, Marlowe becomes entangled with seductress Helen Grayle and discovers a web of dark secrets that are better left hidden.

Thirteen at Dinner

Movie · 5.8 / 10 · 19 Sept 1985 · English

Actress Jane Wilkinson wants a divorce, but her husband, Lord Edgware, refuses. She convinces Hercule Poirot to use his famed tact and logic to make her case. Lord Edgware turns up murdered, a well-placed knife wound at the base of his neck. It will take the precise Poirot to sort out the lies from the alibis - and find the criminal before another victim dies.

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Movie · 7.2 / 10 · 14 Sept 2005 · English

A petty thief posing as an actor is brought to Los Angeles for an unlikely audition and finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation along with his high school dream girl and a detective who's been training him for his upcoming role...

Righteous Kill

Movie · 5.9 / 10 · 11 Sept 2008 · English

Two veteran New York City detectives work to identify the possible connection between a recent murder and a case they believe they solved years ago; is there a serial killer on the loose, and did they perhaps put the wrong person behind bars?

Devil in a Blue Dress

Movie · 6.5 / 10 · 29 Sept 1995 · English

In late 1940s Los Angeles, Easy Rawlins is an unemployed black World War II veteran with few job prospects. At a bar, Easy meets DeWitt Albright, a mysterious white man looking for someone to investigate the disappearance of a missing white woman named Daphne Monet, who he suspects is hiding out in one of the city's black jazz clubs. Strapped for money and facing house payments, Easy takes the job, but soon finds himself in over his head.