Amateur Detective Movies

An elevator operator and a janitor team up to solve two murders that may be connected to an illegal gambling operation. Monogram.

After notorious jewel thief Flambeau meets Evelyn Fischer during a raid on a casino, he falls deeply in love with her. Later Flambeau sends notes to...

A fiction writer begins working on a biography of a pilot who went down during the test flight of a new plane and finds himself soon involved in a...

Sach just lost his job as an assistant to a private detective, but he wasn't paid. Slip goes with him down to the detective's office to demand...

The patriarch of a bickering family announces his retirement, stirring competition about who will succeed him as a leading practitioner of Noh...

A priceless Cellini silver cup is stolen from a local museum with both Hildegarde and Oscar on the case.

Mystery writer Barry Craig (Allyn Joslyn) and his wife Jane (Evelyn Keyes), prefer solving crimes rather than writing about them. They get a chance...

During a visit to childhood friend Edith, retired housewife Hetty Wainthropp discovers that Edith's husband, Frank, has a son by a previous marriage....

When Lord Peter Wimsey marries Harriet Vane, a crime author, they both promise to give up crime for good. As a wedding present, Peter purchases the...

When a homeless boy living at the youth shelter run by a Buddhist monastery turns up dead, the Abbot recruits Father Ananda, a former policeman, to...

A priest arrives in a village and give advice and comfort to different people. He meets a wheelchair-bound former representative of the Communist...

Private detectives Inés, Eva, and Carmen often invade others' privacy but are clueless about confronting their own secrets. While on the job,...

Teenagers try to clear a friend accused of murder.

A railroad employee finds out the identity of "The Wrecker", a criminal who is deliberately causing trains to crash. However, before he can disclose...

The sudden disappearance of Peter’s girlfriend, Penny Price, accompanied by a breakup note, has Peter drowning in denial; there must be a...

Starring George Jac, Kayla Schaffroth and directed by Tony Olmos. When an over-eager recruit is matched up with an absent-minded detective, the...

Thybald asks Émile, a peculiar detective, to find Claire, his missing girlfriend, allegedly kidnapped. In the course of his investigation,...

In a spooky hotel on the coast of France, two bands of crooks are working independently of the other in an attempt to steal the inherited fortune of...

Ten-year-old Ole is full of mischief. He attempts to fly and is hospitalized with a broken leg. When he sees a Sherlock Holmes movie on TV, however,...

In a small town called Skrabbarp in Southern Sweden lives the school teacher Sebastian Pettersson, an amateur detective and one of the most diligent...