Crime, Thriller, Mystery
Jack Williams was the best friend of Vietnam veteran and detective Mike Hammer. When Jack is murdered, Mike makes it his business to solve the crime. He is helped by his secretary Velda, and partly helped, partly hindered by the Chief of Police, Pat Chambers. On the trail of the killer, Mike discovers government conspiracies, and plots used by the CIA and the Mafia.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Come Die with Me: A Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Mystery
A Matter of Wife... and Death
The Westland Case
Larceny in Her Heart
The French Key
No Place for a Lady
Vares: Tango of Darkness
The Secret of the Black Widow
Mater Private Eye
Hair of the Dog
Mars Express
Assignment to Kill
Ture Sventon - Privatdetektiv
The Rockford Files: A Blessing in Disguise
Miss Pinkerton
Polar
Guns & Lipstick
Private Detective
Margin for Murder
Park Plaza 605
SIMILAR MOVIES
Come Die with Me: A Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Mystery
IMDB 3.8 | Dec , 1994
Private detective Mike Hammer takes on a case looking for Trinity Sinclair's father who has been missing for 15 years.A Matter of Wife... and Death
IMDB 0 | Apr , 1975
A private investigator is confronted by the police AND the mob about the killing of a former private-eye associate.The Westland Case
IMDB 6 | Oct , 1937
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.Larceny in Her Heart
IMDB 6 | May , 1946
In the second of the PRC "Michael Shayne" series,civic crusader Burton Stallings hires private detective Michael Shayne to locate the former's missing step-daughter Helen. Shayne discovers that Stallings himself has had Helen confined in an asylum in order to obtain her money.The French Key
IMDB 5 | May , 1946
Private detective Johnny Fletcher and his sidekick Sam Cragg skip out on their rented room, but when they sneak back to retrieve their luggage, they discover a dead body on the bed, holding a gold coin in its hand. Fletcher is told by a coin collector that the piece is an old and valuable Spanish coin, but Fletcher soon begins to suspect that the man is himself involved in the murder. Fletcher's investigation leads to he and Sam getting caught up in a murder and gold smuggling scheme.No Place for a Lady
IMDB 6 | Feb , 1943
A private detective and a blonde acquaintance whom he has rescued from a misdirected murder charge, discover a body in his beachside cottage; only it has disappeared by the time the police arrive, leaving him to be charged with hoaxing the police. With his license in jeopardy, his would-be fiancee and an inquiring reporter set out to investigate.Vares: Tango of Darkness
IMDB 5.2 | Oct , 2012
The tango king Harry Koivikko was found dead six years ago in a sleazebag motel, with a knife is his back. The biggest manhunt in the county faded away without results. Jussi Vares gets a phone call from a down-and-out journalist; the informant tells Vares he knows the murderer. Then the journalist disappears without a trace and Vares has to face the biggest challenge of his career. To add insult to the injury, an old acquaintance Veikko Hopea gets his first prison furlough…The Secret of the Black Widow
IMDB 5.8 | Nov , 1963
Someone is killing people related to a South American expedition. The means of murder are poison darts with rubber spiders attached to them. A writer and some police detectives investigate.Mater Private Eye
IMDB 6.4 | Nov , 2010
Detective Mater is hot on the trail of a dastardly car-napping! When Tia's sister goes missing, Mater is the only car she can turn to. With this tow truck on the case, anything can happen.Hair of the Dog
IMDB 7 | Nov , 1988
A stolen bicycle case ends with drunken detective/lawyer Alexander 'Lex' Larsen having to clear Vigdis Wang of a murder charge. Unofficially based on the book Din, til døden, by Gunnar Staalesen.Mars Express
IMDB 7.4 | Nov , 2023
In 2200, private detective Aline Ruby and her android partner Carlos Rivera are hired by a wealthy businessman to track down a notorious hacker. On Mars, they descend deep into the underbelly of the planet's capital city where they uncover a darker story of brain farms, corruption, and a missing girl who holds a secret about the robots that threatens to change the face of the universe.Assignment to Kill
IMDB 6 | May , 1968
A private eye is hired by an insurance company to investigate a shipping magnate suspected of deliberately sinking his own ships for the insurance money. He finds himself involved in a web of deception, double-crossing and murder.Ture Sventon - Privatdetektiv
IMDB 5.1 | Nov , 1972
Private detective Ture Sventon is visited by his friend Mr. Omar of the Arabic desert. Sventon decides to travel with Mr. Omar on his flying carpet to Paris. However, Sventon almost exclusively lives on cream puffs, and to transport these across the continent, he needs a portable fridge. He pays a visit to Stockholms foremost fridge inventor and are introduced to a new fridge which shrinks and deshrinks the food. The inventor is afraid his new invention will be stolen, and thus Sventon brings it to Paris where it gets stolen.The Rockford Files: A Blessing in Disguise
IMDB 6.2 | May , 1995
Angel's televangelical ministry launches a boycott against a movie entitled "Little Ezekial," and Rockford is hired to protect its star.Miss Pinkerton
IMDB 5.7 | May , 1932
Scion of the once-rich Mitchell family, Herbert Wynn is found shot to death. Nurse Adams, bored by hospital routine, is recruited by the police to ferret out clues as she tends to Wynn's elderly aunt Julia. Jokingly given the 'rank' of Miss Pinkerton, after the famous detective agency, Adams probes into the mystery, but not before a second death.Polar
IMDB 5.4 | Mar , 1984
This film noir tends to stay within very conventional plot lines, as the narration by the main protagonist, private detective Eugene Tarpon Jean-François Balmer, recites a dreary litany of how he wanted to chuck his profession until an attractive woman shows up asking him to investigate the murder of her roommate, a porno star. Soon Tarpon is up to his neck in trouble: the police, gangsters, and the victim's lover are all out to get him.Guns & Lipstick
IMDB 1.7 | Aug , 1995
A female private investigator's latest client turns up murdered, and she is thrust into a deadly underworld of bi-sexual strippers, a Chinese Godfather with a taste for young girls and the hunt for one very elusive gem.Private Detective
IMDB 6 | Dec , 1939
A female private eye joins forces with a police detective to investigate the suspicious murder of a millionaire.Margin for Murder
IMDB 5.5 | Oct , 1981
Mickey Spillane's hard-hitting '50s private eye, Mike Hammer, returns to television in the guise of Kevin Dobson to track down the killer of his best friend who was driving Hammer's car. Joining in the hunt are the detective's Girl Friday, the ever-hopeful Velda, and his cop friend, Pat Chambers.Park Plaza 605
IMDB 4.3 | Sep , 1953
Suave private investigator Norman Conquest intercepts a secret message and meets a beautiful but foreign blonde lady in room 605 of the Park Plaza hotel. But when Conquest wakes up in the room the next morning he is lying next to a dead body. With the mysterious blonde nowhere to be seen, Conquest soon becomes the police s number one suspect with Inspector Williams following his every move. In order to clear his name, Conquest enlists the help of Pixie Everard (Joy Shelton), but the going gets rough when he discovers that the murder is connected to a stash of stolen diamonds. As gun-happy gangs of communists and Nazi sympathizers turn up the heat, Conquest has to solve the murder whilst staying one step ahead of both the gangs and the police.