Films like The Detective

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   Detective Story

   Film · 1951 · also crime and drama

   Tells the story of one day in the lives of the various people who populate a police detective squad. An embittered cop, Det. Jim McLeod, leads a precinct of characters in...

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   Murder in Three Acts

   Film · 1986 · also crime and drama

   In Acapulco, Hercule Poirot attends a dinner party in which one of the guests clutches his throat and suddenly dies. The causes seem to be natural until another party wit...

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   Marlowe

   Film · 1969 · also crime and drama

   Mysterious Orfamay Quest hires Los Angeles private investigator Philip Marlowe to find her missing brother. Though the job seems simple enough, it leads Marlowe into the...

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   Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Reunited and It Feels So Deadly

   Film · 2020 · also crime and drama

   Aurora's high school reunion turns deadly when a body is found in the hotel pool. Aurora and her Real Murders Club help investigate which classmate was most likely to kil...

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   The Quiller Memorandum

   Film · 1966 · also crime and drama

   After two British Secret Intelligence Service agents are murdered at the hands of a cryptic neo-Nazi group known as Phoenix, the suave agent Quiller is sent to Berlin to...

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   The Seven-Ups

   Film · 1973 · also crime and mystery

   A tough detective who is part of an elite New York City unit is trying to find out who killed his partner, but uncovers a plot to kidnap mobsters for money.

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   Insomnia

   Film · 2002 · also crime and drama

   Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.

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   The File on Thelma Jordon

   Film · 1949 · also crime and drama

   Cleve Marshall, an assistant district attorney, falls for Thelma Jordon, a mysterious woman with a troubled past. When Thelma becomes a suspect in her aunt's murder, Clev...

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   In the Heat of the Night

   Film · 1967 · also crime and drama

   African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny Sparta, Mississippi. Aft...

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    The Caveman's Valentine

    Film · 2001 · also drama and mystery

    Romulus, a misunderstood musician turned recluse hiding from personal demons in a New York City cave, finds the frozen body of a young drifter in a tree. The authorities,...

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