Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993)

Woody Allen and Diane Keaton star in this movie about a middle aged couple who suspect foul play when the…

The Undead – Roger Corman (1957)

Somebody said they wanted this film. It’s Roger Corman’s cult classic The Undead. The Undead follows the story of prostitute…

Sherlock Holmes – Mother Hubbard (1954)

Holmes tries to seek Margaret Martini’s fiancé in a story connected with seven other disappearances. Every man has been killed…

Sun Sets at Dawn (1950)

This film noir is about a man who is supposed to be wrongfully executed and the reporters investigating the case.…

Limping Man, The (1953)

Lloyd Bridges plays an ex-GI, Frank Pryor, who arrives in London to visit a wartime girlfriend, whom he hasn’t seen…

Shriek In The Night, A (1933)

A man falls to his death from the balcony of his penthouse apartment. Two reporters (Ginger Rogers and Lyle Talbot) …

Black Dragons (1942)

The Society of the Black Dragons sends Bela Lugosi (Dr. Melcher) to transform 6 japanese into indentical likenesses of American…

Virus (1980)

Virus (otherwise known as Fukkatsu no hi, lit. Day of Resurrection, Virus) is a 1980 post-apocalyptic sci-fi movie directed by…

Chasing Trouble (1940)

This time Buzzy O’Brien (Frankie Darro) is a florists delivery boy. He still thinks he’s a detective though and finds…

Charlie Chan’s Secret (1936)

An ocean liner sinks off Honolulu and Allen Colby, heir to millions, is presumed dead…but local sleuth Charlie Chan is…

Timetable (1956)

A man pretending to be a doctor holds up a train and escapes with a $500,000 payroll. The insurance company…

Great St. Louis Bank Robbery, The (1959)

Steve McQueen plays a college dropout hired to be the getaway driver in a bank robbery. It’s based on a…

Mr. Arkadin (1955)

Mr. Arkadin is a French-Spanish-Swiss coproduction film written and directed by Orson Welles. Its history is quite convoluted; the story…

Eyes In the Night (1942)

Blind detective Duncan Maclain (Edward Arnold) is visited by old friend Norma Lawry, looking for help in getting rid of…

Magic Sword, The (1962)

The Magic Sword (also known as St. George and the Dragon, St. George and the Seven Curses, and The Seven…

The Terror (1938)

A crime boss betrays his men. They spend 10 years in prison, while he goes free. When they get out…

Hoodlum, The (1951)

Lawrence Tierney (“Reservoir Dogs”) plays an unreformed, hardened criminal who has just been released from prison. While working at his…

Cast a Giant Shadow (1966)

This fact-based drama chronicles Israel’s heroic struggle for independence under the leadership of the country’s first general (Kirk Douglas). Angie…

Rocketship X-M (1950)

An inadvertent romantic comedy? I’m not sure I have enough mustard for the ham in this one. This movie features…

Big Combo, The (1955)

This violent, dark film tells of tormented Police Lt. Leonard Diamond (Cornel Wilde), who is on a personal crusade to…

Scarlet Street (1945)

Scarlet Street (1945). Christopher Cross (Edward G. Robinson), a mild banker and amateur painter is at a dinner honouring him…

Terror by Night (1946)

Terror by Night is a 1946 Sherlock Holmes mystery film inspired by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, loosely based on The…

Death Kiss, The (1932)

David Manners plays a crusading studio writer, Adrienne Ames plays an actress, Bela Lugosi plays a studio manager, and Edward…

Shadows Over Shanghai (1938)

Pilot Peter Roma carries a precious amulet, but is shot down over China by a Russian agent who also wants…

Fatal Hour, The (1940)

Another James Lee Wong mystery places Mr. Wong (Boris Karloff) in San Francisco’s Chinatown when a smuggling ring on the…

Bloody Brood, The (1959)

Peter Falk in one of his earliest film roles Falk plays Nico, the leader of a beatnik gang. Lots of…

Dick Tracy vs. Cueball (1946)

Diamonds are stolen. Before the thief can safely hide them he is strangled by ex-conman Cueball (Dick Wessel). Cueball takes…

Hell’s House (1932)

When orphaned Jimmy Mason is taken in by his Aunt Emma and Uncle Henry, he meets their boarder Matt Kelly,…

Perry Mason (1957-66)

Perry Mason is a defense attorney played by Raymond Burr, and derivative of the works of detective fiction authored by…

Charlie Chan in Dark Alibi (1946)

Three men are convicted of bank robbery, the main evidence against them being that their fingerprints were found at the…

Flight to Nowhere (1946)

A couple on a transatlantic flight find themselves embroiled in a plot by spies to steal atomic bomb secrets.…

Murder by Television (1935)

James Houghland, inventor of a new method by which television signals can be instantaneously sent anywhere in the world, refuses…

Sin Takes a Holiday (1930)

This is a pre-code film about some frivolous rich people, a young secretary, and the weird goings on in 1930.…

Red House, The (1947)

Here’s a pretty good little film noir presentation from the 1940′s. It stars Edward G. Robinson and Lon McCallister. You’ll…

Kansas City Confidential (1952)

Kansas City Confidential is a 1952 black-and-white crime film directed by Phil Karlson and starring John Payne. Karlson and Payne…

Devil’s Cargo, The (1948)

The Falcon was a detective in 1940′s radio, television and film. The series of Falcon movies is about ” freelance…

Judge Priest (1934)

Judge Priest depicting life in Kentucky after the Civil War and Reconstruction Period. It still shows the stereotypes and prejudices…

Murder Inc. (1960)

Based on the shocking, true story of a criminal gang who terrorized Brooklyn for years, and featuring a stellar performance…

Murder at the Baskervilles (1941)

Sherlock Holmes is invited back to Baskerville Hall by his old friend Sir Henry Baskerville. Holmes finds himself in the…

Postal Inspector (1936)

It stars a singer, a US Postal Service Inspector, his brother the Treasury Agent (and romantic interest of the singer).…

Lady Confesses, The (1945)

Is this a film noir? Help me decide. A young woman is about to be married. Her fiancées ex-wife shows…

Hitch-Hiker,The (1953)

It’s another film noir directed by Ida Lupino. Two hunting buddies who pick up a mysterious hitchhiker. It was based…

Impact (1949)

Hard bitten San Francisco industrialist Walter Williams’s two-timing wife and her lover plot to do her husband in, but instead…

Sadist, The (1963)

This film is pretty scary so it’s NOT FOR KIDS. Arch Hall Jr. plays a psychotic killer who traps three…

Charlie Chan in the Golden Eye (1948)

The Golden Eye is a 1948 American film directed by William Beaudine and starring Roland Winters in his fourth appearance…

Barney Miller (1975-82)

Captain Barney Miller (Hal Linden) tries to remain sane while leading the 12th Precinct’s detectives: crochety, nearing-retirement Jewish-American Philip K.…

Heartbeat (1946)

Ginger Rogers plays an escapee from a reform school joins a pickpocket academy in Paris. She is caught red-handed on…

Reform School Girl (1957)

She’s not such a bad girl, but she picked the wrong boyfriend who ran a pedestrian down with his car.…