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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

98% 2%

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

  • 1.8 / 5
53% 47%
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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

88% 12%

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

  • 3 / 5
84% 16%
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A young female detective goes undercover to solve a murder in an elite college town. The detective wants to discover the truth, but she finds this new world to be quite seductive.

Drama Detective

92% 8%

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

Drama Detective

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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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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

57% 43%

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

Drama Remake

97% 3%

In 1940s Hollywood, private detective Toby Peters finds himself involved with various cases involving celebrities in entertainment industry.

Drama Mystery

75% 25%

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

93% 7%

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

Action Adaptation

100% 0%

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

96% 4%

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.

Drama Detective

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Detective Dave Gurney comes out of retirement in an attempt to solve a mysterious serial killing spree in upstate New York.

Thriller Adaptation

95% 5%

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

75% 25%

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

Drama Detective

100% 0%

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

Crime Adaptation

80% 20%

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