Everyone's a suspect.
Black Widow is a 1954 mystery film with elements of film noir, written, produced and directed by Nunnally Johnson and starring Ginger Rogers, Van Heflin, Gene Tierney, Peggy Ann Garner and George R...
The Woman in the Window is a 1944 American film noir directed by Fritz Lang and starring Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond Massey, and Dan Duryea. It tells the story of psychology professor...
Sexton Blake and Tinker foil criminal plot connected with the Tongs, and master-minded by "famous stamp collector" and millionaire.
Title: The Canary Murder Case Summary: A beautiful showgirl, nicknamed 'the Canary', is a scheming nightclub singer. Blackmailing is her game and soon ends up dead. But who killed 'the Canary'. All...
Hanvey is a detective who's hired by an insurance company to find a missing emerald. He finds it, when he tries to turn it in, serious complications arise.
A charming Chesterfield mystery starring 1930s/40s hero Charles Starrett. The owner of a large mansion in the country throws a costume party for some of his friends. However, the party turns sour w...
Title: The Kennel Murder Case Summary: Philo Vance, accompanied by his prize-losing Scottish terrier, investigates the locked-room murder of a prominent and much-hated collector whose broken Chines...
Gordon Harker and Alastair Sim are policemen from Scotland Yard who get on the track of a fifth column.
PLOT : Works of art are disappearing, stolen by a master thief, a master of disguise. Father Brown has two goals: to catch the thief and to save his soul. --IMDb TRIVIA : 01) Sir Alec Guinness was ...
William "Stage" Boyd becomes involved in strange events at a posh hotel, beginning with the discovery of a human ear bone in a fireplace. A.k.a. Eyes of Mystery .
The Naked City is a 1948 American film noir directed by Jules Dassin, featuring Barry Fitzgerald and Howard Duff. The movie, shot partially in documentary style, was filmed on location on the stree...
A high-energy, screwball whodunit with feisty Jean Parker in the title role. On board for the whacky ride are Peter Cookson, Veda Ann Borg and Tim Ryan who along with Victor Hammond co-wrote the sc...
The very first Sherlock Holmes film. About a minute long, this features Holmes confused by a disappearing bandit.
Reporter Sue Walker (Grace Bradley) has too much inside information on the local gambling rackets to suit her sweetheart, Detective Lieutenant Jerry Brown (Roland Drew), chief of the police Homicid...
Philo Vance investigates one of his most famous locked-room murders.
“Great late night thriller” “Better than its reputation” “Cult classic” “Silly but enjoyable” “So bad it’s good” (IMDB reviews quotes). An outrageous old dark house mystery/ho...
A low-budget private-detective movie from Republic.
Chester Morris plays a brash private detective.
A simulated double feature program at a second-run movie house in the 1940s. This night of murders most foul begins with coming attractions and a cartoon. Then a stripper turns detective in "Lady o...
This is Lamont Cranston, aka The Shadow; and he knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men. This is a GOOD Shadow movie; although he doesn't seem to have the power to "cloud mens' minds." The print...
A British mystery. Alastair Sim: No, no, no, now stay out! Judy Gunn: Oh, you monster! Alastair Sim: Aye, from Loch Ness.
A man sentenced to death decides to come clean and tell the cops who hired him to do the killing. Just as he is about to confess he's killed by a poison dart.
Zasu Pitts in a comedy-mystery.
Playwright turns crimesolver when the play's two producers are murdered.
An insurance company hires Private Detective Jim Hanvey to recover a stolen emerald necklace.
Title: Death from a Distance Summary: While a distinguished astronomer is giving a lecture in a planetarium, a shot rings out and one of the audience members is found dead. A tough detective and a ...
The Young Savages is a 1961 American crime drama film directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Burt Lancaster. It was written by Edward Anhalt from a novel by Evan Hunter.The supporting cast inc...
“Splendidly exceptional” “Solid thriller with a great concept” “Surprisingly fun” “Delightful mystery” “A neglected masterpiece” (IMDB reviews quotes). This print is sharper, cl...
An unhappily married man (Alan Curtis) spends the evening with a woman he picked up in a bar. Returning home, he finds his wife strangled and becomes the prime suspect in her murder. Every effort t...
“Very good verbose murder mystery” “Comic duo of Harker and Sim work well together” (IMDB reviews quotes). First of the three seriocomic Hornleigh mysteries with Gordon Harker in the title ...