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A detective gives up his career when he marries a socialite but gets drawn back into one last murder investigation.

Drama Remake

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The continuation of the Sherlock Holmes story. No word on which of A.C. Doyle's stories - if any - would serve as an influence on the plot.

Action Sequel

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Set in L.A. amid the futuristic world of entirely electric vehicles and alternative energy, a young man in surveillance gets in over his head in a much bigger world than him.

Drama Detective

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A forensic accountant gets taken to the cleaners by her new husband and starts a business helping people expose the dirty laundry of their soon-to-be marital partners. The gumshoe falls for a client she is hired to investigate.

Comedy Detective

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In the mid-1990s, Los Angeles is rife with crime, poverty and racism. Detective Russell Poole, a straight-shooting detective, is assigned to investigate a cop-on-cop shooting and stumbles upon a web of corruption woven into the fabric of the department. As he delves deeper into the mire of scandal and deception, he is met with increasing resistance from his superiors and frozen out by his fellow officers.

Drama Thriller

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Talented yet suffering from severe stuttering, Qing did not get into the Police Academy. In order to feel better, Qing travels to Thailand to visit his distant relative Tang, who claims to be the “number one detective in Chinatown,” but is in fact a shallow and scheming hooligan. After a night of drinking, Tang becomes the prime suspect of a mysterious murder, and goes on the run with Qing. While trying to evade the police, many colorful characters from Chinatown emerge. How can Tang and Qing clear their names within seven days, while being pursued by both the cops and the mafia?

Action Crime 2 hrs, 16 mins

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Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler team up to work as detectives.

Drama Detective

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Tough and incorruptible Lieutenant Theodore Kojak, a bald, dapper policeman, is stubborn and tenacious in his investigation of crimes—and also displays a dark, cynical wit, along with a tendency to bend the rules if it brings a criminal to justice.

Drama Remake

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The Boston Strangler Task Force is assembled as a special unit by the Massachusetts Attorney General to stop the serial killer after more than a dozen unsolved murders in the early 1960s. What no one predicted was that this group, led by a disgraced Boston Police Detective and a Hollywood psychic, would unearth an even more heinous crime.

Drama Crime

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A beleaguered detective named Lucie Hennebelle discovers that his friend comes down with a case of spontaneous blindness after watching an extremely rare and spectacularly violent film from the 1950s. The cop discovers that the film has been embedded with subliminal images that those who come in contact with it end up dead. The detective teams with a Paris cop who has been trying to figure out the film’s connection to five men murdered and left in the woods. Together they get to the bottom of what has to be the most disturbing and powerful film ever made.

Drama Detective

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Detective Joona Linna investigates a grisly triple homicide where the only survivor, a young boy, is too traumatized to testify. Linna convinces a famous psychologist, against his better judgment, to hypnotize the boy, setting off a terrifying chain of events.

Drama Crime

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Mike Hammer is a no-holds barred private investigator who carries a .45 Colt in a shoulder harness under his arm. His love for his secretary Velda is only outweighed by his willingness to kill a killer.

Drama Adaptation

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Two American teens are recruited as killers for a Mexican cartel. They are pursed by a Mexican-American detective who realizes the War on Drugs is unwinnable.

Drama Crime

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Inspector Geoff Harper conducts a 40 year search for the Beaumont Children, three siblings taken from an Australian beach in January of 1966.

Drama Detective

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After the war, a wealthy former WWI officer of the Loamshire Regiment spends his new-found leisure time as a private detective.

Action Adaptation

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Encyclopedia Brown is the nickname of Leroy Brown, the son of a local police chief. The teen runs his own detective agency out of his family's garage. Along with his friend and "bodyguard" Sally Kimball, Brown solves various petty crimes, often committed by the local bully Bugs Meany.

Family Detective

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Michael McGowan serves as an FBI field operative who, unprecedentedly, works on more than 50 undercover cases.

Drama Detective

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A detective mentors 16-year-old Goldie in exchange for her help solving a mystery.

Crime Adaptation

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A 20-something female war veteran comes back from Afghanistan grappling with a disability. While working a potentially lethal investigation at a post-war job, she gets involved with a superstitious NYPD detective who helps bring her back from a personal precipice.

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