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Plot Summary:
An affectionate bow to the master sleuth in this lavishly produced original that has Holmes rushing to New York City after discovering that his old nemesis, Moriarty, has kidnapped the son of the detective's long-time love, actress Irene Adler.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, detective, period drama
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Sherlock Holmes Returns (1993)
Plot Summary:
Sherlock Holmes is awakened in modern times with a tale that he had invented a method of suspended animation that he had utilized on himself. Awakened by an earthquake, he is helped by Amy Winslow, who lives at 1994 Baker Street in San Francisco. There he is joined by a new group of Baker Street Irregulars led by Zapper. His battles lead him to the evil Moriarty clan led by James Moriarty Booth.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 403
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: detective
Similar in 77%
The Return of Charlie Chan (1972)
Plot Summary:
Charlie Chan comes out of retirement to investigate a murder case aboard the yacht of a wealthy Greek shipping tycoon.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, detective, tension, suspense
Similar in 90%
The Cater Street Hangman (1998)
Plot Summary:
With the help of a feisty aristocratic woman, a working-class Scotland Yard inspector hunts for a serial killer of young women in Victorian London.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 293
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: slasher, detective, period drama
Similar in 85%
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
Similar in 75%
From Hollywood to Deadwood (1988)
Plot Summary:
When actress Lana Dark (Barbara Schock) disappears in the middle of a film shoot, putting an expensive stop to production, the studio hires gumshoes Raymond Savage (Scott Paulin) and Jack Haines (Jim Haynie) to track down the fleeing femme fatale in this thriller. The trail leads to Deadwood, S.D., where Haines and a smitten Savage find Lana restlessly lying low. But knowledge proves dangerous when Savage discovers the scam behind Lana's walkout.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, detective
Similar in 77%
Cut, Color, Murder (2022)
Plot Summary:
When a beauty pageant creator is found dead, a savvy hairdresser works with a detective and risks everything to clear the names of those she loves.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 971
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: detective
Similar in 78%
The Mysterious Magician (1964)
Plot Summary:
The sister of a famous, but as yet uncaught, criminal named The Hexer is murdered. Inspector Higgins of Scotland Yard believes that The Hexer will surface to take his revenge on his sister's killers, and plans to set a trap to finally capture him. However, soon bodies start piling up, and it looks as if The Hexer may get away yet again.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: West Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: detective, black and white
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Living to Die (1990)
Plot Summary:
A burned-out private detective in Las Vegas gets involved in blackmail and murder.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective
Similar in 87%
The Sign of Four (1983)
Plot Summary:
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson try to track down the Great Mogul, the second-largest diamond in the world.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 822
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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Holmes & Watson (2018)
Plot Summary:
Detective Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson join forces to investigate a murder at Buckingham Palace. They soon learn that they have only four days to solve the case, or the queen will become the next victim.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: ironic, humorous, not serious, feel good, parody, absurd, detective, spoof, funny, perverse
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The Hound of the Baskervilles (1972)
Plot Summary:
US TV version of the classic Sherlock Holmes story.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 380
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: detective, psychotronic
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The Royal Scandal (2001)
Plot Summary:
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes - the world's greatest detective - faces a most alluring adversary... Legendary opera star Irene Adler is threatening to destroy the King of Bohemia's reputation with proof of their illicit affair. The evidence? A photograph. Her ransom? The king's hand in marriage. But not only does investigating detective Sherlock Holmes already know Irene from the past, he also knows that the queen of manipulation would never resort to such a common crime. After uncovering her true ambitions, Holmes draws the cunning songstress into a well-matched game of cat and mouse.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 442
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars (2007)
Plot Summary:
A gang of sharp witted street kids save Sherlock Holmes from an accusation of murder and help to foil an audacious robbery.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 254
Genere: Crime, Drama, Family, Mystery
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 57 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
Similar in 87%
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)
Plot Summary:
Director Billy Wilder adds a new and intriguing twist to the personality of intrepid detective Sherlock Holmes. One thing hasn't changed however: Holmes' crime-solving talents. Holmes and Dr. Watson take on the case of a beautiful woman whose husband has vanished. The investigation proves strange indeed, involving six missing midgets, villainous monks, a Scottish castle, the Loch Ness monster, and covert naval experiments. Can the sleuths make sense of all this and solve the mystery.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: satirical, detective, atmospheric, clever, humorous, witty, psychotronic, funny, cult classic, crime thriller
Similar in 82%
The Crucifer of Blood (1991)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful young woman asks Holmes to help her father, a former army captain and hopeless opium addict break free of the curse surrounding a stolen treasure.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 581
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: detective, detective series
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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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Rogue's Gallery (1968)
Plot Summary:
A private eye gets in trouble when he tries to help a woman in distress.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir, detective
Similar in 82%
Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady (1991)
Plot Summary:
Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson get involved with Balkan terrorists to save Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria from an assassination at the opera house and prevent World War I.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 575
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 187 min
Plot tags: cult classic, mind bending, clever, serious, realistic, suspenseful, witty, talky, detective
Similar in 78%
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976)
Plot Summary:
Concerned about his friend's cocaine use, Dr. Watson tricks Sherlock Holmes into travelling to Vienna, where Holmes enters the care of Sigmund Freud. Freud attemts to solve the mysteries of Holmes' subconscious, while Holmes devotes himself to solving a mystery involving the kidnapping of Lola Deveraux.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: detective, psychological, atmospheric, clever, offbeat, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic, period drama
Similar in 87%
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1988)
Plot Summary:
Sir Charles Baskerville dies on the moor under mysterious circumstances and rumors abound about a demonic hound. When the American heir arrives to take charge, a family friend calls in Holmes and Watson to get to the heart of the mystery.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: detective, gothic, spooky, tense, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, scary, vintage
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The Hound of the Baskervilles (1983)
Plot Summary:
Sherlock Holmes comes to the aid of his friend Henry Baskerville, who is under a family curse and menaced by a demonic dog that prowls the bogs near his estate and murders people.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: detective, natural horror, scary, tense, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic
Similar in 81%
Sherlock Holmes and the Masks of Death (1984)
Plot Summary:
Holmes (Peter Cushing) and Dr. Watson (John Mills) ponder cases in which the victims seem to have been scared to death.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 528
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: detective, scary, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 76%
The Hound of the Baskervilles (2000)
Plot Summary:
The mysterious death of Sir Charles Baskerville is blamed on a longstanding curse that has followed the Baskerville family for two hundred years. Enigmatic sleuth Sherlock Holmes is on the case to uncover the truth about a monstrous, supernatural hound who roams the moors, waiting to attack the latest heir to the Baskerville estate. Written by Echo Bridge Home Entertainment.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, atmospheric, suspenseful, detective, suspense, natural horror, scary, mind bending, serious, psychotronic
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Without a Clue (1988)
Plot Summary:
Sherlock Holmes is as dashing as ever, but with a little secret: Dr. Watson is the brains behind the operation. When Reginald Kincaid, the actor he has hired to play Holmes becomes insufferable, Watson fires him and tries to go out on his own, but finds that he has done too good a job building Holmes up in the public's mind.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, hilarious, light, entertaining, detective, spoof, witty, satirical, romantic comedy
Similar in 88%
Sherlock: Case of Evil (2002)
Plot Summary:
Early in his crime-solving career, Sherlock Holmes attempts to prevent Moriarty from cornering the heroin market.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Romania, UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: mind bending, clever, serious, suspenseful, realistic, psychedelic, detective, tragic, period drama
Similar in 77%
A Study in Terror (1965)
Plot Summary:
When Watson reads from the newspaper there have been two similar murders near Whitechapel in a few days, Sherlock Holmes' sharp deductive is immediately stimulated to start its merciless method of elimination after observation of every apparently meaningless detail. He guesses right the victims must be street whores, and doesn't need long to work his way trough a pawn shop, an aristocratic family's stately home, a hospital and of course the potential suspects and (even unknowing) witnesses who are the cast of the gradually unraveled story of the murderer and his motive.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, scary, serious, slasher, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic, independent film, detective
Similar in 84%
The Sign of Four (1987)
Plot Summary:
Mary Morstan has received a pearl in the post every year since her father's disappearance; this leads Holmes and Watson to the truth about a secret pact between four convicts during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: detective, realistic, exciting, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, stylized, atmospheric, thought provoking, intellectual
Similar in 87%
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking (2004)
Plot Summary:
The corpse of a shabbily dressed young woman has been discovered in the mud flats of the Thames at low tide. Police assume she's a prostitute, but Dr. Watson suspects something more and goes to his old friend Holmes, now retired and at very loose ends.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: realistic, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, detective
Similar in 85%
The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1986)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Watson, finds a mystery in an empty house, while Holmes and he later solve the mysteries of an abbey grange, the Musgrave ritual, a second stain, a man with a twisted lip, the priory school, and a half-dozen plaster busts of Bonaparte.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: detective, gothic, spiritual, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, period drama
Similar in 75%
Murder by Decree (1979)
Plot Summary:
Sherlock Holmes is drawn into the case of Jack the Ripper who is killing prostitutes in London's East End. Assisted by Dr. Watson, and using information provided by a renowned psychic, Robert Lees, Holmes finds that the murders may have its roots in a Royal indiscretion and that a cover-up is being managed by politicians at the highest level, all of whom happen to be Masons.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, atmospheric, disturbing, gothic, serious, factual, stylized, psychotronic, gothic horror