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1. The Big Sleep (1946)
Passed | 114 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a wealthy family. Before the complex case is over, he's seen murder, blackmail and what might be love.
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely, Martha Vickers
Votes: 90,672 | Gross: $6.54M
2. The Missing Person (2009)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Private detective John Rosow is hired to tail a man on a train from Chicago to Los Angeles. Rosow gradually uncovers the man's identity as a missing person. Persuaded by a large reward, ... See full summary »
Director: Noah Buschel | Stars: Michael Shannon, Frank Wood, Amy Ryan, Linda Emond
Votes: 1,714
3. The Black Bird (1975)
PG | 110 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
The son of famous detective Sam Spade carries on the family tradition of getting involved with the Maltese Falcon - and with the people who will stop at nothing, including murder, to get it.
Director: David Giler | Stars: George Segal, Stéphane Audran, Lionel Stander, Lee Patrick
Votes: 626
4. An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1982)
94 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Cordelia Gray is hired by a businessman to investigate the suicide of his estranged son. However, the young private detective soon develops feelings for the dead young man which thrust her into danger.
Director: Christopher Petit | Stars: Billie Whitelaw, Paul Freeman, Pippa Guard, Dominic Guard
Votes: 305
5. Where's Marlowe? (1998)
R | 97 min | Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
After making a 3-hour fiasco about New York City's water supply, a two-man film crew decides to take it up a notch by documenting life in the private investigator offices of "Boone and Murphy".
Director: Daniel Pyne | Stars: Miguel Ferrer, John Livingston, Yasiin Bey, John Slattery
Votes: 570 | Gross: $0.01M
6. Goodbye Paradise Revisited (2019 Video)
30 min | Documentary, Short
Director Carl Schultz looks back on his 1983 Australian feature film, GOODBYE PARADISE.
Director: Andrew Pike | Stars: Carl Schultz, Ray Barrett, Nicholas Gledhill, Wendy Hughes
7. Taken by Storm (1983 Video)
25 min | Documentary, Short, Comedy
Director: Mario Andreacchio | Stars: Robin Harrison, Bernadette Bencini, Jonathan Leigh, Dave Flannagan
8. The Long Goodbye: Maxim Jakubowski on Hard Boiled Fiction (2013 Video)
15 min | Documentary, Short, Crime
Crime writer and critic Maxim Jakubowski discusses the emergence of hard boiled detective characters from the pages of the pulp magazines from the 1920s through to the 1950s.
Stars: Maxim Jakubowski, Nina van Pallandt
9. The Long Goodbye: Elliot Gould discusses the film with Michael Connelly (2012 Video)
53 min | Documentary, Biography, Talk-Show
Elliott Gould Discusses The Long Goodbye - a conversation with crime novelist Michael Connelly, recorded in March 2012.
Stars: Michael Connelly, Elliott Gould
10. The Long Goodbye: David Thompson on Robert Altman (2013 Video)
21 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
David Thompson on Robert Altman - David Thompson, editor of 'Altman on Altman' and producer of the BBC's 'Robert Altman in England', talks about The Long Goodbye's place in Altman's filmography.
Stars: David M. Thompson, Sterling Hayden, Nina van Pallandt
11. The Long Goodbye: Tom Williams on Raymond Chandler (2013 Video)
15 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
Raymond Chandler's biographer, Tom Williams, outlines the author's life and work and discusses Altman's adaptation of 'The Long Goodbye'.
Stars: Tom Williams, Jim Bouton, Raymond Chandler, Sterling Hayden
12. Sister of Night (2009)
110 min | Drama, Mystery
Private Investigator Roderick Holt navigates through the seedy underworld of Singapore Heights to unravel a mystery involving a missing actress and a party drug known as 'Glimmer.'
Director: Shawn Marchetti | Stars: Shawn Marchetti, David Peck, Diana Gitelman, Domiziano Arcangeli
Votes: 15
14.
Fallen Angels (1993–1996)
Episode:
Red Wind
(1995)
60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
In 1940s, sympathetic African American L.A. shamus Philip Marlowe helps a dame in trouble whose lovers are offing each other over a possibly fake pearl necklace. He must also deal with a racist cop that's investigating the murders.
Director: Agnieszka Holland | Stars: Danny Glover, Kelly Lynch, Dan Hedaya, Ron Rifkin
Votes: 46
15.
The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat (1995–1997)
Episode:
The Manhattan Triangle/The Petrified Cheese
(1995)
TV-G | Animation, Short, Adventure
Felix goes out on a date when a duncy anthropomorphic Bermuda Triangle attacks Manhattan causing all sorts of surreal mayhem. / Felix helps a hardboiled private detective find the Petrified Cheese, a stolen priceless Egyptian artifact.
Directors: Chris Bartleman, Blair Peters | Stars: Thom Adcox-Hernandez, Jennifer Darling, Michael Gough, Pat Fraley
Votes: 7