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Plot Summary:
Harry Orwell has been retired from the force ever since he caught a bullet that lodged inoperably in his back. But that doesn’t mean the man called Harry O is out of the action. Moonlighting as a private sleuth, fighting off daily back pain and typically traveling by public bus instead of his own car (“It gives a man a chance to think”), he’s on the trail of the lowlife who murdered his pal’s son-in-law. It won’t be the only time the killer strikes before Harry closes in. David Janssen (The Fugitive) portrays dogged detective Harry in the telefilm that was the second of two pilots preceding his memorable Harry O series. Among the highlights: young Jodie Foster as Liberty, the wise-beyond-her-years homeless waif Harry befriends.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: detective, tv series pilot
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Assignment to Kill (1968)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 495
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: detective, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, technicolor, crime drama
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Strach (1964)
Plot Summary:
A car deliberately runs down a young man on a road by a small border town. The locals recognize the dead man as one of the students who were there on volunteer work some time before. The police detectives, Major Kalas (Rudolf Hrusínský) and Lieutenant Varga (Radoslav Brzobohatý) can then get on the trail of the people with whom the victim was involved, especially at the photographic studio headed by Bohuslav Pacer (Bohus Záhorský).
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 119
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: crying, detective, poliziottesco
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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
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: neo noir, detective
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Waikiki (1980)
Plot Summary:
Two detectives are called on to investigate the bizarre serial murders of young women.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: detective, tv series pilot
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Third Degree Burn (1989)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 443
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: erotic drama, eighties
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Crosscurrent (1971)
Plot Summary:
Two San Francisco detectives investigating a murder committed on one of the city's famous cable cars discover that the victim was the son of a shipping tycoon. The trail leads to a drug dealer, a shady physician and a nervous police captain.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: detective
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Dragnet (1969)
Plot Summary:
Sgt. Joe Friday is called back from vacation to work with his partner, Off. Bill Gannon, on a missing persons case. Two amateur female models and a young war widow have vanished, having been last seen with one J. Johnson. In the course of tracking down Johnson and the young ladies, the detectives wind up with two different descriptions of the suspect, one of which closely resembles a dead body found in a vacant lot. But the dead man, later identified as Charles LeBorg of France, proves not to be J. Johnson, when a third young model disappears. - Written by Michael J. Hayde.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 595
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: neo noir, detective
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: erotic, detective
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 358
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: tv series pilot
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Plot Summary:
Private Eye is an American crime drama that aired from September 13, 1987 until January 8, 1988.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 166
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: detective
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Chandler (1971)
Plot Summary:
A private eye (Warren Oates) is hired to follow a mobster's former mistress (Leslie Caron).
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 605
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: tv series pilot
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective
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True Confessions (1981)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 84
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: detective
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 874
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: detective, serious, realistic, suspenseful, vintage
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Hit Man (1972)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychotronic, grindhouse, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, black cinema
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 568
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 573
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Country: USA
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 484
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Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
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IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 451
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Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 976
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Country: USA
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Plot tags: neo noir, detective, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Five Corners (1987)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 441
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, realistic, talky
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Crown Vic (2019)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
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Taxi Driver (1976)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 898000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
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The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Plot Summary:
FBI trainee, Clarice Starling ventures into a maximum-security asylum to pick the diseased brain of Hannibal Lecter, a psychiatrist turned homicidal cannibal. Starling needs clues to help her capture a serial killer. But her Faustian relationship with Lecter soon leads to his escape, and now two deranged killers are on the loose.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 15000000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
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