private eye movies

The Nice Guys (2016)
7.114 / 10

Comedy, Crime, Action

A private eye investigates the apparent suicide of a fading porn star in 1970s Los Angeles and uncovers a conspiracy.

The Maltese Falcon (1941)
7.717 / 10

Mystery, Crime, Thriller

A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.

City Heat (1984)
5.5 / 10

Action, Crime, Comedy

Set in Kansas City in 1933, Eastwood plays a police lieutenant known simply by his last name, Speer. Reynolds plays a former cop turned private eye...

Harper (1966)
6.676 / 10

Mystery, Crime, Thriller

Harper is a cynical private eye in the best tradition of Bogart. He even has Bogie's Baby hiring him to find her missing husband, getting involved...

The Long Goodbye (1973)
7.438 / 10

Crime, Comedy, Mystery, Thriller

In 1970s Hollywood, Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his wife.

Tokyo Raiders (2000)
5.4 / 10

Thriller, Action, Comedy

When a private eye, a jilted bride and a mysterious stranger join forces to track down an elusive mobster, there's more than trouble in the air.

Mara Maru (1952)
4.8 / 10

Adventure, Drama, Romance

An American salvage diver plunges into dangerous intrigue around a sunken treasure in the Philippines.

City of Tiny Lights (2016)
5.2 / 10

Crime, Drama, Thriller

In the teeming, multicultural metropolis of modern-day London, a seemingly straightforward missing-person case launches a down-at-heel private eye...

Gumshoe (1971)
6.4 / 10

Drama, Comedy, Crime

A would be private eye gets mixed up in a smuggling case.

The Pigeon (1969)
0 / 10

Crime, Thriller, Drama, TV Movie

A private eye is hired to protect a young woman who has a black book on a crime syndicate.

Find the Blackmailer (1943)
6.5 / 10

Crime, Drama, Mystery

A private eye is hired by a mayoral candidate to prevent any sort of adverse publicity. It seems that, somewhere in town, there's a talking blackbird...

Downtown (1975)
5.7 / 10

Comedy, Crime

A private eye who's over his head in debt takes on a job snapping photos of his client's rich husband in bed with another woman. But when the husband...

Clyde Cooper (2018)
5 / 10

Mystery

A private investigator is hired to track down a missing girl on the run from a mysterious Silicon Valley corporation.

Assignment to Kill (1968)
6 / 10

Crime, Drama, Mystery

A private eye is hired by an insurance company to investigate a shipping magnate suspected of deliberately sinking his own ships for the insurance...

Private Eye (2009)
6.3 / 10

Mystery, Crime, Thriller

The story takes place in occupied Korea at the start of the 20th century, where a young student in medicine discovers the murdered body of the son of...

The Private Eye (2024)
0 / 10

Mystery, Comedy, Romance

Private investigator Mort Madison's life begins spiraling downward when a beguiling, slightly familiar woman hires him for his most unusual case.

Ebony, Ivory and Jade (1979)
5 / 10

Action, Drama, TV Movie

In this prospective pilot, Mick Jade, a tennis bum-turned-Las Vegas-song-and-dance man, doubles as a private eye with two female dancers, Ebony and...

Hollywood Harry (1986)
2.3 / 10

Comedy, Crime, Thriller

Tongue-in-cheek account of a private eye hired to find a young porn actress.

It's Called 'Murder', Baby (1983)
7.5 / 10

Mystery

In 1940s Los Angeles, private investigator Nick Popodopolis, is hired by actress Dixie Ray, to find her blackmailer. Edited R version of adult film,...

Girl on the Run (1958)
0 / 10

A Hollywood private eye (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) seeks a singer being stalked by a hired killer.