Amateur Detective Movies

The Harts find themselves in the middle of a dangerous murder plot, but it isn't clear if the plot it a famous author's fictional murder-mystery, or...

A struggling private detective is drawn towards a mystery around unidentified dead bodies turning up near railway tracks, and soon the case becomes...

A high-society gent has a secret life - he writes murder mysteries and hangs out with the police attempting to solve crimes. This causes him no end...

When the body of Violet Feverel is discovered on the Central Park bridle path, Inspector Oscar Piper presumes her death was accidental, until his...

When a mentor and friend of Jennifer's dies, she and Jonathan return to the sleepy town where Jennifer once lived and worked as a reporter. Nearly...

Driven to desperation by his young and extravagant wife, alienist Dr. Emil Brandt has arranged a perfect crime; now he begs the police to lock him up...

On a mission of mercy, Jennifer Hart is in Germany to donate bone marrow to Maximilian, a young leukemia patient. Following the operation, she plans...

An amateur sleuth suspects foul play when a fellow passenger on a seaplane suddenly dies. The third and final film with Edna May Oliver and James...

There are plenty of guilty secrets at the school where Hildegarde Withers teaches. When she finds the body of the pretty music teacher, she calls in...

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...

An ex-schoolteacher is asked by the police to help locate a missing heiress.

A cold-case enthusiast blogger and a washed-up veteran detective team up for a joint investigation to rescue their innocent friend who is framed for...

New York schoolmarm Hildegarde Withers assists a detective when a body of unscrupulous stockbroker Gerald Parker suddenly appears in the penguin tank...

Fur theives are looting the traps on the ranch where Roy is foreman and they have murdered one of Roy's friends.

Yuzuru Hamura is a university student and a fan of mystery novels. Against his will, he was forced to join the school's mystery club. The club is led...

After lying to her new eccentric coworker Larry about a company party, an ambitious corporate climber must deal with the deadly consequences.

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

The intrepid reporter and amateur sleuth Joseph Rouletabille becomes involved in the investigation of a hideous crime committed in a room painted...

Mr. Magoo interprets his nephew's request for $100 as evidence of an unfolding mystery.

Set in an apartment building where many people are rumored to disappear one after another, the story begins when Maruko, a young delivery worker,...