Amateur Detective Movies

Mystery writer Barry Craig (Allyn Joslyn) and his wife Jane (Evelyn Keyes), prefer solving crimes rather than writing about them. They get a chance...

Married book-dealers Joel & Garda Sloane try to clear a friend in the murder of a rival book-seller.

The patriarch of a bickering family announces his retirement, stirring competition about who will succeed him as a leading practitioner of Noh...

Bo is a transexual prostitute in Brussels who left home after being abused by her father. She's infuatuated with a neighbor and suspected by the...

Sach just lost his job as an assistant to a private detective, but he wasn't paid. Slip goes with him down to the detective's office to demand...

A priceless Cellini silver cup is stolen from a local museum with both Hildegarde and Oscar on the case.

After notorious jewel thief Flambeau meets Evelyn Fischer during a raid on a casino, he falls deeply in love with her. Later Flambeau sends notes to...

When Lord Peter Wimsey marries Harriet Vane, a crime author, they both promise to give up crime for good. As a wedding present, Peter purchases the...

A fiction writer begins working on a biography of a pilot who went down during the test flight of a new plane and finds himself soon involved in a...

When a homeless boy living at the youth shelter run by a Buddhist monastery turns up dead, the Abbot recruits Father Ananda, a former policeman, to...

Private detectives Inés, Eva, and Carmen often invade others' privacy but are clueless about confronting their own secrets. While on the job,...

In a spooky hotel on the coast of France, two bands of crooks are working independently of the other in an attempt to steal the inherited fortune of...

Thybald asks Émile, a peculiar detective, to find Claire, his missing girlfriend, allegedly kidnapped. In the course of his investigation,...

The sudden disappearance of Peter’s girlfriend, Penny Price, accompanied by a breakup note, has Peter drowning in denial; there must be a...

Teenagers try to clear a friend accused of murder.

A priest arrives in a village and give advice and comfort to different people. He meets a wheelchair-bound former representative of the Communist...

In a small town called Skrabbarp in Southern Sweden lives the school teacher Sebastian Pettersson, an amateur detective and one of the most diligent...

A railroad employee finds out the identity of "The Wrecker", a criminal who is deliberately causing trains to crash. However, before he can disclose...

Ten-year-old Ole is full of mischief. He attempts to fly and is hospitalized with a broken leg. When he sees a Sherlock Holmes movie on TV, however,...