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- Chinatown (1974) Directed by Roman Polanski. Chinatown. R. Release Date. June 20, 1974. Director. Roman Polanski. Cast. Jack Nicholson , Faye Dunaway , John Huston , Perry Lopez , John Hillerman , Darrell Zwerling.
- The Maltese Falcon (1941) Directed by John Huston. The Maltese Falcon epitomizes the private eye genre and set the template for all who followed. Humphrey Bogart plays modern detective Sam Spade, tracking down the elusive title statue while outwitting manipulators and liars.
- Knives Out (2019) Directed by Rian Johnson. Knives Out. PG-13. Release Date. November 27, 2019. Director. Rian Johnson. Cast. Chris Evans , LaKeith Stanfield , Katherine Langford , Daniel Craig , Toni Collette , Jamie Lee Curtis , Ana De Armas , Michael Shannon , Christopher Plummer , Don Johnson , Riki Lindhome.
- The Long Goodbye (1973) Directed by Robert Altman. The Long Goodbye features Elliott Gould as an atypical, anachronistic take on Raymond Chandler’s private eye, Philip Marlowe.
28 titles. Sort by List order. 1. The Long Goodbye. 1973 1h 52m R. 7.5 (38K) Rate. 87 Metascore. Private eye Philip Marlowe helps friend Terry Lennox out of a jam and is implicated in his wife Sylvia's murder. He also is hired by Eileen Wade to locate her dipsomaniac husband Roger, who frequently disappears when he wants to dry out.
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- Murder on the Orient Express (1974) Sidney Lumet’s 1974 adaptation of Agatha Christie’s classic mystery starred Albert Finney as Hercule Poirot, with a supporting cast that included Lauren Bacall, Sean Connery, John Gielgud, Ingrid Bergman, and Anthony Perkins, just to name a few.
- Shaft (1971) Richard Roundtree stars as private detective John Shaft in this classic of the Blaxploitation genre, an adaptation of the novel by Ernest Tidyman.
- Kiss Me Deadly (1955) Mickey Spillane’s popular private detective Mike Hammer (played here by Ralph Meeker) usually deals with petty divorce cases, but all that changes when he picks up a hitchhiker named Christina who’s just escaped from a mental institution.
- The Maltese Falcon (1941) Another stellar Dashiell Hammett adaptation (see The Thin Man, above) was directed by John Huston in 1941, this one starring Humphrey Bogart as the seminal private detective Sam Spade.
1. Vertigo (1958) PG | 128 min | Mystery, Romance, Thriller. 8.3. Rate. 100 Metascore. A former San Francisco police detective juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becoming obsessed with the hauntingly beautiful woman he has been hired to trail, who may be deeply disturbed.
List of the best films about private detectives according to the audience: Knives Out, Zone 414, City Hunter, Man from Reno, Reminiscence, The Postcard Killings, Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears, Dylan Dog: Dead of Night, The Nice Guys, Once Upon a Time.
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Feb 10, 2021 · Here are 10 essential P.I. films… The Long Goodbye. Robert Altman’s adaptation of the Raymond Chandler novel was updated for the 1970’s and transformed from noir to neo-noir.
