Mystery, Thriller, Crime
Private eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But when he's called to the office of editor Adrienne Fromsett, it's not to talk about his story ideas — she wants him to locate the missing wife of her boss, Mr. Kingsby. The assignment quickly becomes complicated when bodies start turning up.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Case Closed: Zero the Enforcer
The Solution
Cover Up
Witness to Murder
Hangover Square
Obsession
A Cry in the Night
Beyond the Forest
Cry Vengeance
Crime, Inc.
Crime Against Joe
The Clay Pigeon
Baby Face Nelson
Cornered
Desperate
The Phenix City Story
Dial 1119
New York Confidential
Fire of Conscience
Nocturne
SIMILAR MOVIES
Case Closed: Zero the Enforcer
IMDB 6.2 | Apr , 2018
After a sudden explosion at Edge of Ocean island in Tokyo, Tōru Amuro, codename Zero, begins to investigate. Meanwhile, private eye Kogorō is arrested as a suspect, so Conan Edogawa conducts his own investigation to prove his innocence, but Amuro stands in his way.The Solution
IMDB 0 | Feb , 2026
A math professor, rejected over and over again for publication, finds herself supplanted by her genius-level teaching assistant, and resorts to drastic measures to re-assert her authority.Cover Up
IMDB 6.5 | Feb , 1949
Insurance investigator Sam Donovan is looking into the apparent suicide of a man in a small Midwestern town. All clues leads him into suspecting murder. Unfortunately, no one wants to assist him with the case, including Sheriff Larry Best.Witness to Murder
IMDB 6.3 | Apr , 1954
A woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder while looking out her bedroom window.Hangover Square
IMDB 7 | Feb , 1945
When composer George Harvey Bone wakes with no memory of the previous night and a bloody knife in his pocket, he worries that he has committed a crime. On the advice of Dr. Middleton, Bone agrees to relax, going to a music performance by singer Netta Longdon. Riveted by Netta, Bone agrees to write songs for her rather than his own concerto. However, Bone soon grows jealous of Netta and worries about controlling himself during his spells.Obsession
IMDB 6.8 | Aug , 1949
A British psychiatrist devises a devilish revenge plot against his wife's lover.A Cry in the Night
IMDB 5.2 | Aug , 1956
A police captain's emotions get in the way when his daughter is kidnapped.Beyond the Forest
IMDB 6.7 | Oct , 1949
Rosa, the self-serving wife of a small-town doctor, gets a better offer when a wealthy big-city man insists she get a divorce and marry him instead. Soon she demonstrates she is capable of rather deplorable acts -- including murder.Cry Vengeance
IMDB 5.9 | Nov , 1954
Ex-cop Vic Barron crossed the wrong mobsters; his wife and child were killed and he was scarred, framed, and imprisoned. On release, Vic has but one desire, revenge on still-hiding Tino Morelli.Crime, Inc.
IMDB 4.2 | Apr , 1945
A crime reporter writes book to expose names and methods of the criminal leaders. He is held on a charge after refusing to explain how he got his information, but is released and helps to expose the syndicate.Crime Against Joe
IMDB 5.9 | Mar , 1956
Down-and-out artist Joe Manning wakes up from a night of drunken revelry in a jail cell, where he's being held on suspicion for the murder of a nightclub singer.The Clay Pigeon
IMDB 5.5 | Mar , 1949
Jim Fletcher, waking up from a coma, finds he is to be given a court martial for treason and charged with informing on fellow inmates in a Japanese prison camp during WWII. Escaping from the hospital he tries to clear himself by enlisting the aid of Martha Gregory, widow of a service buddy he was accused of informing on. Helped also by Ted Niles, a surviving fellow prisoner, he gets closer to finding the answers he needs, and becomes ensnared in a grandiose scheme involving his Japanese ex-prison guard, $10,000,000 of US currency forged by the Japanese and a burgeoning crime network poised to wreak havoc throughout southern California.Baby Face Nelson
IMDB 5.6 | Dec , 1957
Famed Depression-era gangster “Baby Face Nelson” robs and kills while accompanied by his beautiful moll.Cornered
IMDB 6.1 | Nov , 1945
A World War II veteran hunts down the Nazi collaborators who killed his wife.Desperate
IMDB 6.5 | Jun , 1947
An innocent trucker takes it on the lam when he's accused of robbery.The Phenix City Story
IMDB 6.6 | Jul , 1955
A crime-busting lawyer and his initially reluctant attorney father take on the forces that run gambling and prostitution in their small Southern town.Dial 1119
IMDB 5.4 | Nov , 1950
A deranged killer escapes from a mental institution. Intent on locating the psychiatrist whose testimony sent him to the asylum, he holds the patrons of a bar hostage.New York Confidential
IMDB 5.9 | Feb , 1955
Story follows the rise and subsequent fall of the notorious head of a New York crime family, who decides to testify against his pals in order to avoid being killed by his fellow cohorts.Fire of Conscience
IMDB 6.7 | Apr , 2010
A police detective must solve a brutal murder to prove his partner's innocence and unearth the truth behind Hong Kong's police force. The investigation brings him to an unlikely collaboration with an inspector from the Narcotics Bureau, whose motives may not be what they seem.Nocturne
IMDB 5.9 | Oct , 1946
In 1940s Los Angeles, when womanizing composer Keith Vincent is found dead, the inquest concludes it was a suicide but police detective Joe Warne isn't so sure.