Movies: Private detective

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

Lawyer Fröhlich has specialized in divorce cases and has become a star in this field. Along the way, he also divorced his own marriage. But his daughter and former wife are an integral part of his life, as is his marriage-mad father....

Private detective Germán Areta el Piojo investigates the life of a gay man who has apparently abandoned his partner. When they both turn up dead, it seems one killed the other before committing suicide, but Areta is not convinced....

A private eye (Robert Clarke) takes pictures for the publishers (Francine York, Syd Mason) of a scandal magazine....

After a rich man discovers a grave of a little girl, some unknown force drives him to discover the circumstances of her death. He hires a private eye to do so, and discovers more than he ever imagined....

A private detective takes on one final case before retirement....

...

...

A detective must solve a case where a girl was murdered in a room--and all the doors and windows were locked from the inside....

A private investigator is confronted by the police AND the mob about the killing of a former private-eye associate....

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

Carol feels, for whatever reason, that her husband, John, has grown indifferent to her, and is on a quest to find out why, suspecting another woman. She sees the family physician, Dr. Swope, first and then hires a private detective. Her own sleuthing...

Two cops, who have quit the police department to become private detectives and bounty hunters, hunt for a killer who has eluded capture for years....

The musician Udo Lindenberg (played by himself) is kidnapped during the party after a concert. Nobody realises this until the next day, when he doesn't show up in time for a rehearsal. Since the police believes this is only a promotion gag, private e...

Rose Winters, a private detective out of Los Angeles, teams with Ed Mills, a somewhat inexperienced young detective, to find out who is blackmailing a wealthy contractor....

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

A young private detective gets dragged into a larger mystery after taking on a missing person case in Phoenix, Arizona....

A private eye becomes the target of both a Chinese syndicate and the police during an investigation into the mysterious death of an old friend....

A private detective is hired to find a missing girl. The only thing is, the girl isn't who we think she is and everyone is out to get her....

Set in the sordid underworld of drug trafficking and prostitutes, this story involves Charlie Smith, private eye, whose job it is to find Carrie Friskine and fast! Carrie, a cat burglar, has ripped off the ring-leader of a drug racket and now he's af...