Private Detective Movies

A private detective, who has been shot, stumbles into the office of Michael Shayne (Hugh Beaumont), and dies before Shayne can question him. Shayne...

Private detective Dirk Trent, a collector of cigarette butts, a "smooth" ladies man, a wearer of bad suits, and he's convinced there's more to an...

Susan Hart, assistant to private detective Russ Ashton, is given a camera concealed in a hat box and assigned to take a picture of a woman. A gun is...

Private detective Ture Sventon is visited by his friend Mr. Omar of the Arabic desert. Sventon decides to travel with Mr. Omar on his flying carpet...

Joe McDoakes imagines himself as a private detective on a murder case. Throughout the film, he spars verbally with narrator Art Gilmore.

A private detective's wife takes over his business when he enters the Army.

Action and excitement beckon as popular sleuth Mick Cardby goes on the trail of a missing girl, and finds himself in the clutches of a gang of...

Customers at the Melody Club are burgled while attending the the club. A detective investigates.

Private detective Donegal Dawn is summoned by the police commissioner to solve the reasons for a crime wave in Chinatown.

Subrata Sharma is a reporter who leaves his job and joins a small time detective agency, Danny Detective Inc. in Kolkata. Working on a kidnapping...

This Robert Benchley 'How To' comedy short attempts to teach us how to profile criminals by physical characteristics.

Private detectives Gus and Dick take a murder case where nearly everyone is trying to kill them.

A wistful PI reflects on the case of Alice Draper, a young starlet whose death he failed to solve.

Convinced that she has what it takes to be a detective, inquisitive secretary Kitty O'Day gets her chance to put her sleuthing skills to the test...

A man is questioned on the "Claude killings" in Los Angeles.

Rick R. Mortis, a cocky P.I., based in the seedy part of a world filled with classic movie monsters, has just been framed for murder. In 48 hours, he...