Top Private Eye Movies & TV Shows

Cast

Cybill Shepherd

Bruce Willis

Allyce Beasley

Curtis Armstrong

Moonlighting (1985) TV Show

7.5 404 votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 5

Episodes: 66

Audience: TV-PG

Story: After being duped and going bankrupt, model Maddie is convinced by David to become a partner in a detective agency. Together they solve various cases, while getting comfortable with each other.

Plot: detective, yuppie, romance, model, private detective, detective agency

Cast

Krysten Ritter

Rachael Taylor

Eka Darville

Benjamin Walker

Marvel's Jessica Jones (2015) TV Show

7.5 2.6K votes

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 39

Audience: TV-MA

Story: After a tragic ending to her short-lived super hero stint, Jessica Jones is rebuilding her personal life and career as a detective who gets pulled into cases involving people with extraordinary abilities in New York City.

Plot: detective, mind control, superhero, based on comic, female protagonist, super power, private detective, marvel cinematic universe (mcu), ...

Cast

Jeffrey Donovan

Gabrielle Anwar

Bruce Campbell

Sharon Gless

Burn Notice (2007) TV Show

7.5 594 votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America, Belgium

Seasons: 7

Episodes: 111

Audience: TV-PG

Story: A formerly blacklisted spy uses his unique skills and training to help people in desperate situations.

Plot: miami, florida, espionage, caper, private investigator, ex spy, informative

HAPPY! (2017) TV Show

7.4 503 votes

Genre: Action, Comedy, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 18

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Corrupt ex-cop turned hitman Nick Sax's life is changed forever by a relentlessly positive, imaginary blue winged horse named Happy.

Style: witty

Plot: hitman, police, imaginary friend, ex-cop, based on comic, private investigator, brutality

A Man on the Inside (2024) TV Show

7.4 236 votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime

Country: United States of America, Chile

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 16

Audience: TV-14

Story: A retired professor with a knack for snooping gets a new lease on life when a private investigator recruits him to go undercover and crack a case.

Style: witty

Plot: spy, san francisco, california, amateur detective, parenthood, private investigator, retirement community, undercover operation, ...

Inspector Koo (2021) TV Show

7.4 160 votes

Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime

Country: South Korea

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 12

Audience: TV-14

Story: A reclusive ex-cop reenters the game as an insurance investigator, searching for clues in crime scenes perfectly staged by a serial killer in her midst.

Plot: detective, murder, private investigator, alcoholic, tragic past, suspense

Cast

Elliott Gould

Nina van Pallandt

Sterling Hayden

Mark Rydell

The Long Goodbye (1973)

7.4 777 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Duration: 112 min.

Audience: R

Story: In 1970s Hollywood, Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his wife.

Plot: infidelity, suicide, corruption, police, cat, detective, greed, mission of murder, ...

So Help Me Todd (2022) TV Show

7.4 62 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 31

Audience: TV-14

Story: Despite their opposing personalities, a talented but directionless P.I. who is the black sheep of his family begrudgingly agrees to work as the in-house investigator for his overbearing mother, a successful attorney reeling from the recent dissolution of her marriage.

Plot: sibling relationship, private investigator, overbearing mother, law firm, woman lawyer, mother son relationship, wayward son

Cast

Ben Mendelsohn

Bill Camp

Jeremy Bobb

Julianne Nicholson

The Outsider (2020) TV Show

7.4 1.7K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 10

Audience: TV-MA

Story: When an insidious supernatural force edges its way into a seemingly straightforward investigation into the gruesome murder of a young boy, it leads a seasoned cop and an unorthodox investigator to question everything they believe in.

Plot: detective, based on novel or book, small town, child murder, georgia, strip club, investigation, alcoholism, ...

Cast

Audrey Tautou

Gaspard Ulliel

Dominique Pinon

Chantal Neuwirth

A Very Long Engagement (2004)

7.3 1.3K votes

Genre: Drama, Romance, War

Country: France, United States of America

Duration: 133 min.

Audience: R

Story: Young Frenchwoman Mathilde searches for the truth about her missing fiancé, lost during World War I, and learns many unexpected things along the way. The love of her life is gone. But she refuses to believe he's gone forever — and she needs to know for sure.

Plot: prostitute, amnesia, paris, france, loss of loved one, bodily disabled person, wheelchair, lighthouse, ...

Time: world war i

Cast

Isabelle Adjani

Sam Neill

Margit Carstensen

Heinz Bennent

Possession (1981)

7.3 1.4K votes

Genre: Horror

Country: France, Germany

Duration: 124 min.

Audience: R

Story: A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and bizarre incidents that indicate something more than a possessed love affair.

Plot: adultery, berlin, germany, monster, police, marriage crisis, berlin wall, obsession, ...

Place: germany

Cast

John Getz

Frances McDormand

Dan Hedaya

Samm-Art Williams

Blood Simple (1985)

7.3 1.6K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 97 min.

Audience: R

Story: The owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings, lies and mischief ensues after he devises a plot to have them murdered.

Plot: husband wife relationship, boss, lover, employee, money, killer, double cross, extramarital affair, ...

Place: texas

Private Eyes (2016) TV Show

7.3 145 votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama

Country: Canada

Seasons: 5

Episodes: 60

Audience: TV-PG

Story: Ex-pro hockey player Matt Shade irrevocably changes his life when he teams up with fierce P.I. Angie Everett to form an unlikely investigative powerhouse.

Plot: based on novel or book, toronto, canada, private investigator

Place: canada

Magnum, P.I. (1980) TV Show

7.3 449 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 8

Episodes: 162

Audience: TV-PG

Story: A private investigator who works when he wants, lives in a beachfront estate in Hawaii, drives a posh Ferrari, runs up an unlimited tab at a swank bar, and charms attractive women in peril - that's the lifestyle of Thomas Magnum, aka Magnum, P.I.

Plot: helicopter, private investigator, police procedural, ferrari, dobermann

Place: hawaii

Cast

Alex O'Loughlin

Sophia Myles

Jason Dohring

Shannyn Sossamon

Moonlight (2007) TV Show

7.3 182 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 16

Audience: TV-14

Story: Mick St. John is a captivating, charming and immortal private investigator from Los Angeles, who defies the traditional blood-sucking norms of his vampire tendencies by using his wit and powerful supernatural abilities to help the living.

Plot: vampire, private investigator, interspecies romance

Place: california

Cast

Robert De Niro

Nick Nolte

Jessica Lange

Juliette Lewis

Cape Fear (1991)

7.3 3.9K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 128 min.

Audience: R

Story: Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? 14 years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have gotten him acquitted. Now, the cagey Cady has been released, and he intends to teach Sam Bowden and his family a thing or two about loss.

Plot: prison, small town, child abuse, rape, houseboat, cigar smoking, remake, revenge, ...

Cast

Matthew Rhys

Juliet Rylance

Chris Chalk

Justin Kirk

Perry Mason (2020) TV Show

7.2 378 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 16

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Set in 1932 Los Angeles, the series focuses on the origin story of famed defense lawyer Perry Mason. Living check-to-check as a low-rent private investigator, Mason is haunted by his wartime experiences in France and suffering the effects of a broken marriage. L.A. is booming while the rest of the country recovers from the Great Depression — but a kidnapping gone very wrong leads to Mason exposing a fractured city as he uncovers the truth of the crime.

Plot: based on novel or book, investigation, lawyer, private investigator, los angeles, california, neo-noir, origin story

Time: 1930s

Cast

Ralph Meeker

Albert Dekker

Paul Stewart

Juano Hernu00e1ndez

Kiss Me Deadly (1955)

7.2 411 votes

Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 106 min.

Story: One evening, Hammer gives a ride to Christina, an attractive hitchhiker on a lonely country road, who has escaped from the nearby lunatic asylum. Thugs waylay them and force his car to crash. When Hammer returns to semi-consciousness, he hears Christina being tortured until she dies. Hammer, both for vengeance and in hopes that "something big" is behind it all, decides to pursue the case.

Plot: film noir, hitchhiker, black and white, beach house, convertable, private detective, mike hammer

Cast

Katheryn Winnick

Kylie Bunbury

Dedee Pfeiffer

J. Anthony Pena

Big Sky (2020) TV Show

7.2 297 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 47

Audience: TV-14

Story: Private detective Cassie Dewell partners with ex-cop Jenny Hoyt on a search for two sisters who have been kidnapped by a truck driver on a remote highway in Montana. When they discover that these are not the only girls who have disappeared in the area, they must race against the clock to stop the perpetrator before another woman is taken.

Plot: montana, based on novel or book, kidnapping, fugitive, overbearing mother, truck driver, private detective, crooked cop, ...

Cast

Matthew McConaughey

Ryan Phillippe

William H. Macy

Marisa Tomei

The Lincoln Lawyer (2011)

7.2 3.7K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 119 min.

Audience: R

Story: Mick Haller is a charismatic defense attorney who does business out of his Lincoln Continental sedan. Mick spends most of his time defending petty crooks and other bottom-feeders, so it comes as quite a surprise when he lands the case of a lifetime: defending a Beverly Hills playboy who is accused of attempted murder. However, what Mick initially thinks is an open-and-shut case with a big monetary reward develops into something more sinister.

Plot: prostitute, based on novel or book, judge, attempted murder, video surveillance, jury, playboy, private investigator, ...

Place: california

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