Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "hard-boiled-investigator"

1. Marlowe (1969)

PG | 96 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A young woman from Kansas hires LA private detective Philip Marlowe to find her missing brother.

Director: Paul Bogart | Stars: James Garner, Gayle Hunnicutt, Carroll O'Connor, Rita Moreno

Votes: 4,022

2. Small Town Crime (2017)

R | 91 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

An alcoholic ex cop finds a woman on the roadside, left for dead. He offers to find the killer pro bono as P.I. Her granddad hires him. Things get nasty.

Directors: Eshom Nelms, Ian Nelms | Stars: John Hawkes, Anthony Anderson, Octavia Spencer, Robert Forster

Votes: 12,492

3. Terror by Night (1946)

Approved | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

When the fabled Star of Rhodesia diamond is stolen on a London to Edinburgh train and the son of its owner is murdered, Sherlock Holmes must discover which of his suspicious fellow passengers is responsible.

Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Alan Mowbray, Dennis Hoey

Votes: 6,935

4. The FBI Story (1959)

Approved | 149 min | Crime, Drama, History

A dedicated FBI agent recalls the agency's battles against the Klan, organized crime and Communist spies.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: James Stewart, Vera Miles, Murray Hamilton, Larry Pennell

Votes: 3,884

5. Kamen Rider W (2009–2010)

TV-PG | 25 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A detective, Hidari Shotaro, and an unknown library-boy, Phillip, combine to become a half-green half-black hero to protect Fuuto City by using Gaia Memories.

Stars: Ren Kiriyama, Masaki Suda, Hikaru Yamamoto, Ami Namai

Votes: 742

6. The Black Vampire (1953)

90 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

This "feminist" reworking of Fritz Lang's classic M focuses on the mothers of children stalked by a deranged pedophile.

Director: Román Viñoly Barreto | Stars: Olga Zubarry, Roberto Escalada, Nelly Panizza, Mariano Vidal Molina

Votes: 579

7. The Racket (1951)

Approved | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

In New York, two honest cops try to hinder a crime syndicate from moving into the precinct and also to prevent the mob's plan of electing a corrupt prosecutor to a judgeship.

Directors: John Cromwell, Mel Ferrer, Tay Garnett, Edmund Grainger, Nicholas Ray, Sherman Todd | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Lizabeth Scott, Robert Ryan, William Talman

Votes: 3,368

8. Fuuto PI (2022)

TV-14 | 25 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Small happiness, great misfortune, the town where wind always blows Futo. Shotaro Hidari and Philip work together in Narumi Detective Agency, solving various cases and bringing happiness to the people of this "Windy City".

Stars: Yoshimasa Hosoya, Kôki Uchiyama, Akira Sekine, Mikako Komatsu

Votes: 240

9. Pizza Man (1991)

PG-13 | 87 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

A pizza man is on a quest to get $15.23 when someone orders one. He uncovers a plot to rule the world and stops at nothing to get his pay.

Director: J.F. Lawton | Stars: Bill Maher, Annabelle Gurwitch, David McKnight, Bob Delegall

Votes: 194

10. Hunt the Man Down (1950)

Passed | 69 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery

The suspect in a 12-year-old murder case is finally caught and tried, but the witnesses are a bit hard to track down...

Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Gig Young, Lynne Roberts, Mary Anderson, Willard Parker

Votes: 1,051

11. Twenty Plus Two (1961)

Passed | 102 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

A famous movie star's fan-club secretary has been brutally murdered. She has in her office old newspaper clippings regarding a missing heiress. Did the secretary know something about the mystery of the heiress? David Janssen investigates.

Director: Joseph M. Newman | Stars: David Janssen, Jeanne Crain, Dina Merrill, Jacques Aubuchon

Votes: 554

12. Discworld Noir (1999 Video Game)

Adventure, Comedy, Crime

Third game based on Terry Pratchett's Discworld series. On a dark and stormy night in the city of Ankh-Morpork, the first and only private investigator on the Discworld, Lewton (you), is ... See full summary »

Director: Gregg Barnett | Stars: Rob Brydon, Robert Llewellyn, Nigel Planer, Kate Robbins

Votes: 274

13. Unfair (2006– )

Drama, Mystery

Yukihira Natsumi is a no-nonsense, intelligent Tokyo homicide cop known as the department's "number one" case closer who nevertheless also has a bad reputation for not working well with ... See full summary »

Stars: Ryôko Shinohara, Eita Nagayama, Sadao Abe, Susumu Terajima

Votes: 125

14. Torchy Blane in Panama (1938)

Approved | 59 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Torchy, Steve, and Gahagan are on the trail of a bank robber aboard an ocean liner traveling from New York to L.A. via the Panama Canal.

Director: William Clemens | Stars: Lola Lane, Paul Kelly, Tom Kennedy, Anthony Averill

Votes: 448

15. Washington Melodrama (1941)

Passed | 80 min | Drama

A newsman links his fiancee's millionaire father to a chorus girl's murder.

Director: S. Sylvan Simon | Stars: Frank Morgan, Ann Rutherford, Kent Taylor, Dan Dailey

Votes: 327

16. The Long Goodbye: Tom Williams on Raymond Chandler (2013 Video)

15 min | Documentary, Short, Biography

Raymond Chandler's biographer, Tom Williams, outlines the author's life and work and discusses Altman's adaptation of 'The Long Goodbye'.

Stars: Tom Williams, Jim Bouton, Raymond Chandler, Sterling Hayden

17. The Long Goodbye: Maxim Jakubowski on Hard Boiled Fiction (2013 Video)

15 min | Documentary, Short, Crime

Crime writer and critic Maxim Jakubowski discusses the emergence of hard boiled detective characters from the pages of the pulp magazines from the 1920s through to the 1950s.

Stars: Maxim Jakubowski, Nina van Pallandt