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Amy Renner Amy Renner

May. 17, 2024

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Set in the near future, capital crime has increased. A detective is accused of a violent crime and forced to prove his innocence.

Fantasy Crime

93%

7%
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In a world plagued by ghosts, where giant corporations employ psychic teens to battle the supernatural, only one company operates without adult supervision, and its name is Lockwood & Co. Run by Anthony Lockwood, a rebellious young entrepreneur haunted by his mysterious past, his brilliant but eccentric sidekick George and a newly arrived, supremely gifted girl called Lucy, this renegade trio are about to unravel a terrifying mystery that will change the course of history.

NR Fantasy Adaptation

  • 4

98%

2%

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%

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

97%

3%
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Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler team up to work as detectives.

Drama Detective

100%

0%

The first-ever live-action Pokémon adventure, POKÉMON Detective Pikachu stars Ryan Reynolds as Pikachu, the iconic face of the global Pokémon phenomenon—one of the world’s most popular, multi-generation entertainment properties and the most successful media franchise of all time.

Fans everywhere can now experience Pikachu on the big screen as never before, as Detective Pikachu, a Pokémon like no other. The film also showcases a wide array of beloved Pokémon characters, each with its own unique abilities and personality.

The story begins when ace detective Harry Goodman goes mysteriously missing, prompting his 21-year-old son Tim to find out what happened. Aiding in the investigation is Harry’s former Pokémon partner, Detective Pikachu: a hilariously wise-cracking, adorable super-sleuth who is a puzzlement even to himself. Finding that they are uniquely equipped to communicate with one another, Tim and Pikachu join forces on a thrilling adventure to unravel the tangled mystery. Chasing clues together through the neon-lit streets of Ryme City—a sprawling, modern metropolis where humans and Pokémon live side by side in a hyper-realistic live-action world—they encounter a diverse cast of Pokémon characters and uncover a shocking plot that could destroy this peaceful co-existence and threaten the whole Pokémon universe.

PG Adventure Sci-Fi

  • 4.1

81%

19%
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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%

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

100%

0%

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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The story centers on the widespread corruption in the Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums (or CRASH) anti-gang unit of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Rampart Division in the late 1990s. More than 70 police officers were implicated in varied misconduct.

R Drama Crime 1 hr, 47 mins

  • 3.1

83%

17%

55%

45%

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%

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

84%

16%

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

53%

47%

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

Drama Detective

100%

0%

Set in the future, the moon is utilized as a penal colony. It houses criminals, psychopaths and curious tourists alike. When an anarchic android begins wreaking havoc on the area and bodies start turning up, an exiled detective arrives to investigate.

Sci-Fi Noir

38%

63%

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

75%

25%

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%

Detective Dee: The Four Heavenly Kings sees the detective embroiled in his most difficult case yet. Accused of wrongdoing by Empress Wu, Detective Dee must defend himself against this formidable foe, all while investigating a crime wave that has engulfed the city, marked by strange and seemingly supernatural occurrences.

NR Adventure Fantasy

  • 4

90%

10%

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