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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.
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.
What starts out as a lavish train ride through Europe quickly unfolds into one of the most stylish, suspenseful and thrilling mysteries ever told. From the novel by best selling author Agatha Christie, "Murder on the Orient Express" tells the tale of thirteen strangers stranded on a train, where everyone's a suspect. One man must race against time to solve the puzzle before the murderer strikes again.
- 3.7
88% WILL SEE
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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.
- 3
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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.
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.
- 4.2
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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.
- 3.1
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17% WON'T SEE Detective Dave Gurney comes out of retirement in an attempt to solve a mysterious serial killing spree in upstate New York.
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.
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.
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.
A detective gives up his career when he marries a socialite but gets drawn back into one last murder investigation.
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?
- 1.8
53% WILL SEE
47% WON'T SEE Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler team up to work as detectives.
Michael McGowan serves as an FBI field operative who, unprecedentedly, works on more than 50 undercover cases.
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.
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.
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.
- 4
90% WILL SEE
10% WON'T SEE 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.
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.