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Plot Summary:
Private eye Mike Hammer tries to clear his friend, Captain Chambers, who has been framed for cocaine possession.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Action, Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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Best tv shows and movies like More Than Murder (1984):
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Philip Marlowe, Private Eye (1983)
Plot Summary:
Philip Marlowe, Private Eye is a British mystery series that aired on ITV in the United Kingdom under the shorter title 'Marlowe, Private Eye' and on HBO in the United States from April 16, 1983 through June 3, 1986. The series features Powers Boothe as Raymond Chandler's titular character, and was the first drama produced for HBO.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 472
Genere: Action, Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: detective, neo noir
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The Adventures of Nick Carter (1972)
Plot Summary:
Detective discovers that a colleague's death is tied into the disappearance of a wealthy playboy's wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: detective, period piece, period drama
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The Rockford Files: Shoot-Out at the Golden Pagoda (1997)
Plot Summary:
After a quiet fishing trip, Rockford is tricked into taking over a fellow PI's case involving alleged Police misconduct, which lands him in the hospital, hounded by a beautiful reporter, and out of favor with the entire Police Deapartment. Meanwhile Angel tries to cash in on the publicity by selling a movie about Rockford's life.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
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Mike Hammer: Murder Takes All (1989)
Plot Summary:
Mike Hammer is kidnapped and led to believe it is the work of a Las Vegas entertainer, but soon realises somebody else is involved.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 424
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Blackout (1986)
Plot Summary:
A police officer suspects that a local husband and father who has recently undergone facial surgery because of injuries received in a car accident is in reality the same man who committed a quadruple murder several years before.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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P.I. Private Investigations (1987)
Plot Summary:
A young architect finds himself being stalked by a gang of criminals who believe he knows something that could expose their activities.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: neo noir, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, eighties
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Passion for Danger (1973)
Plot Summary:
New York private eye Shamus McCoy likes girls, drink and gambling, but by the look of his flat business can't be too hot. So an offer of $10,000 to finds some diamonds stolen in a daring raid with a flame-thrower is too good to miss. His investigations soon get pretty complicated and rather too dangerous. At least along the way he does get to meet Alexis.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: neo noir, exciting, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, witty, cynical, semi serious, suspense
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The Poison Rose (2019)
Plot Summary:
A down-on-his-luck PI is hired by his old flame to investigate a murder. But while the case at first appears routine, it slowly reveals itself to be a complex interwoven web of crimes, suspects and dead bodies.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: neo noir, tense, bleak, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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The Girl from the Naked Eye (2012)
Plot Summary:
Jake is a driver for a seedy escort service operating out of 'The Naked Eye strip club', he's a street thug type who falls for a witty high-class escort named Sandy. Except one night Sandy is found murdered, the only clues left behind are cell phone calls made the night she died. To avenge Sandy's death Jake must risk everything and walk a bloody path to find her killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, neo noir, captivating, tense, crime drama, independent film, realistic
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The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery (1975)
Plot Summary:
Film noir parody with a private eye trying to solve the murder of his milkman.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 265
Genere: Comedy, Mystery, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: spoof, dark comedy, parody, independent film, humorous, neo noir, realistic, suspenseful, witty, not serious
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Vares: Private Eye (2004)
Plot Summary:
Vares, a film noir comedy from Finland, is yet another twist on PULP FICTION. And, just in case we miss the similarities of splattered blood mixed with outrageous incidents, the movie explicitly references PULP FICTION and has a comedic scene in which two guys argue about McDonald's hamburgers. Still, VARES - PRIVATE EYE, by director Aleksi Mäkelä, manages to be kind of fun even not especially original. The script has more characters than the screenwriter can handle, leaving the audience frequently confused about who is doing what and why. The two best scenes are one about a wacky wedding and another about a guy who answers a cell phone call while he is busy enjoying the pleasures of a sex parlor.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: neo noir, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, exciting, realistic, talky, stylized, detective
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8 Million Ways to Die (1986)
Plot Summary:
Scudder is a detective with the Sheriff's Department who is forced to shoot a violent suspect during a narcotics raid. The ensuing psychological aftermath of this shooting worsens his drinking problem and this alcoholism causes him to lose his job, as well as his marriage.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: neo noir, tense, serious, realistic, psychological, cult classic, captivating, suspense, retro, perverse
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The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer (1986)
Plot Summary:
After two attempts to kidnap a little girl Mike Hammer is hired to protect her.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 253
Genere: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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P.J. (1967)
Plot Summary:
Reluctant New York City private eye P.J. Detweiler is hired as a bodyguard to protect Maureen Preble, the mistress of shady millionaire William Orbison. In truth, Orbison plans a deadly intrigue in which P.J. is to play a central part. Meanwhile, complications ensue as P.J. gradually falls in love with Maureen. (Wikipedia).
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 504
Genere: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: neo noir, thrilling
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Darker Than Amber (1970)
Plot Summary:
Rod Taylor plays John D. MacDonald's famous Florida PI Travis McGee. Professional beach bum and 'knight errant' Travis McGee goes up against psychotic body-builder Terry Bartell. McGee pulls out all the stops when he joins a Carribean cruise to bring the killer to justice.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 594
Genere: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film, cult film
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The Big Bang (2010)
Plot Summary:
A private detective is hired to find a missing stripper but the job turns complicated when everyone he questions ends up dead. From the mean streets of Los Angeles to the desolate desert of New Mexico, Cruz must contend with a brutal Russian Boxer, three brash LAPD detectives, an aged billionaire looking for the Big Bang, and the billionaire's stunningly gorgeous wife. The solution to the mystery will cost ten lives, net $30 million and just might explain - well - everything.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: neo noir, tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, detective, captivating, weird
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Murder Me, Murder You (1983)
Plot Summary:
Mickey Spillane's private eye Mike Hammer (Stacy Keach) probes his long-lost love's death while seeking their daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 366
Genere: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: detective, neo noir, crime thriller
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The Return of Frank Cannon (1980)
Plot Summary:
Private detective Frank Cannon comes out of retirement to investigate the murder of an ex-girlfriend's husband.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 157
Genere: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: neo noir, detective
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The New Mike Hammer (1984)
Plot Summary:
Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, with Stacy Keach in the title role, is a television series that originally aired on CBS from January 28, 1984 to January 12, 1985. The series was 24 sixty minute episodes. The show follows the adventures of Mike Hammer, the fictitious private detective created by crime novelist Mickey Spillane, as he hunts down criminals on the mean streets of New York City.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: detective
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Mike Hammer, Private Eye (1997)
Plot Summary:
Mike Hammer, Private Eye is an American syndicated television program based on the adventures of the fictitious private detective Mike Hammer, created by novelist Mickey Spillane. The show starred Stacy Keach and was seen as an attempt to revive the character he had played in Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer and The New Mike Hammer - two moderately successful syndicated CBS series from the 1980s. Mike Hammer, Private Eye premiered on September 27, 1997. The show failed to gain a wide audience and, as a result, it was canceled after only one season. The final show of the series aired on June 14, 1998.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 675
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: detective, rough, serious, neo noir, realistic, suspenseful
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The Drowning Pool (1975)
Plot Summary:
Harper is brought to Louisiana to investigate an attempted blackmail scheme. He soon finds out that it involves an old flame of his and her daughter. He eventually finds himself caught in a power struggle between the matriarch of the family and a greedy oil baron, who wants their property. Poor Harper! Things are not as straight-forward as they initially appeared.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: neo noir, detective, suspense, cult classic, thrilling, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized
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Marlowe (1969)
Plot Summary:
Los Angeles private-eye Philip Marlowe is trying to locate the brother of his new client, a woman named Orfamay Quest. The trail leads to two men who deny any knowledge of the brother's existence. Both are soon killed by an ice pick, so Marlowe deduces that there's much more to this than a simple missing-person case. Marlowe's path crosses that of a blackmailed movie star, Mavis Wald, and her friend, exotic dancer Delores. A mobster sends karate expert Winslow Wong to bust up Marlowe's office and warn him off the case, while Lieutenant French also cautions the detective to stay out of the police's way.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: neo noir, detective, psychological, tense, noir, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Shaft (1971)
Plot Summary:
Cool black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, stylized, tense, harsh, neo noir, serious, suspenseful, hood, realistic, cult classic
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Farewell, My Lovely (1975)
Plot Summary:
Los Angeles private eye Philip Marlowe is hired by paroled convict Moose Malloy to find his girlfriend Velma, former seedy nightclub dancer.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: neo noir, detective, tense, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, realistic, surprise ending, noir, cult classic
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Trouble Is My Business (2018)
Plot Summary:
Private eye Roland Drake cracks cases and romances femme fatales in 1940's Los Angeles while corrupt cop Det Barry Tate rules the city. A tale told in the classic style of film noir. Drake has fallen on hard times in a harsh world. He has been evicted from his office and disgraced by a missing persons case. Ruined in the public eye and with the police. it seems like it's all over for Roland Drake. Then, redemption walks in - with curves. The owner of those curves is a sexy, dark haired beauty named Katherine Montemar. She wants his help. The chemistry is immediate and her concern for the disappearance of her family members pulls him into her case - and into bed.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: neo noir, detective, hardboiled detective, noir
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Klute (1971)
Plot Summary:
This acclaimed thriller stars Jane Fonda as Bree Daniel, a New York City call girl who becomes enmeshed in an investigation into the disappearance of a business executive. Detective John Klute is hired to follow Daniel, and eventually begins a romance with her, but it appears that he hasn't been the only person on her trail. When it becomes clear that Daniel is being targeted, it's up to her and Klute to figure out who is after her before it's too late.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspense, atmospheric, detective, psychological, tense, suspenseful, serious, talky, psychosexual thriller
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A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014)
Plot Summary:
Private investigator Matthew Scudder is hired by a drug kingpin to find out who kidnapped and murdered his wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 126000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, neo noir, tense, bleak, stylized, gloomy, exciting, atmospheric
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Night Moves (1975)
Plot Summary:
Private detective and former football player Harry Moseby gets hired on to what seems a standard missing person case, as a former Hollywood actress whose only major roles came thanks to being married to a studio mogul wants Moseby to find and return her daughter. Harry travels to Florida to find her, but he begins to see a connection between the runaway girl, the world of Hollywood stuntmen, and a suspicious mechanic when an unsolved murder comes to light.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspense, tense, psychological, detective, grim, meditative, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending
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McQ (1974)
Plot Summary:
Police Lieutenant Lon McQ investigates the killing of his best friend and uncovers corrupt elements of the police department dealing in confiscated drugs.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: serious, suspense, exciting, captivating, neo noir, detective, rough, realistic, suspenseful, fast
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Broken City (2013)
Plot Summary:
In a broken city rife with injustice, ex-cop Billy Taggart seeks redemption and revenge after being double-crossed and then framed by its most powerful figure, the mayor. Billy's relentless pursuit of justice, matched only by his streetwise toughness, makes him an unstoppable force - and the mayor's worst nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 83000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspenseful, rough, political, tense, intense, serious, realistic, detective, cult classic