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In 1970s Los Angeles, down-on-his-luck private eye Holland March and hired enforcer Jackson Healy must work together to solve the case of a missing girl and the seemingly unrelated death of a porn star. During their investigation, they uncover a shocking conspiracy that reaches up to the highest circles of power.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Steve Ford is a L.A., based private investigator whose professional and personal worlds collide after his pet, Buddy, is stolen by a gang. Due to bizarre circumstances, Steve does the gang's bidding while being chased by two vengeful Samoan brothers, a loan shark's goons and a few other shady characters. Steve shows how far a man will go to be reunited with his best friend.
Series
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
Special collector's edition.
Language
English
Description
Jack Nicholson returns as private eye Jake Gittes in this atmospheric Chinatown follow-up that's hit upon "the elusive sequel formula for somehow enhancing a great original" (Mike Clark, **USA Today**). Much has changed since we last saw Jake. The war has come and gone; 1948 Los Angeles teems with optimism and fast bucks. But there's one thing Jake knows hasn't changed: "Nine times out of ten, if you follow the money you will get to the truth." And...
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While fleeing from the cops, small time hood Harry Lockhart stumbles into an acting audition and does so well he gets sent to Hollywood. While there, Harry pursues a girl he loved in high school and gets caught up in a twisted murder mystery. His only chance of getting out alive is a gay private detective named Gay Perry, who also works as a consultant for movies and has been hired to tutor Harry in portraying a private eye.
7) Twilight
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
A burned-out private eye plunges into a murder mystery tied to a long-unsolved case involving an aging actor.
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
From his no-frills mobile home in Malibu, wisecracking ex-con-turned-private investigator Jim Rockford solves the biggest crimes in Los Angeles. From identity theft to death threats, Rockford uses his experience behind bars to get an inside edge on crooks even the police can't find.
9) Dead again
Series
Pub. Date
©2006, cc2000.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Mike Church, an L.A. gumshoe with a knack for wisecracks and tracing missing persons, doesn't have a clue when he's hired to help a beautiful amnesia victim tormented by nightmares. Then an eccentric antiques dealer and hypnotist leads Church to believe the source of the nightmares may lie in a past-life connection to Margaret Strauss, a world-famous pianist allegedly murdered by her composer husband in 1948.
10) Harper
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Hard-boiled private investigator Lew Harper is hired to locate a missing millionaire.
11) The poison rose
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Carson Philips is a hard-drinking L.A. private eye who takes a case in his old hometown of Galveston, Texas. While searching for a missing woman, Philips must confront a crime boss, a shady doctor, a sexy club singer, his former lover, and his own dark, disturbing past.
12) Hustle
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Everybody hustles - especially in Los Angeles, where suicides, strip joints, shootouts, porno movies, the mob, and murder combine into a collage. Caught in this web of modern reality is an old fashioned detective. A moralist who still sees the difference between right and wrong, he can hardly reconcile himself to the ugliness of his job. By day he investigates a young girl's suicide; at night, he relaxes with a high-priced Paris call girl.
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
From his no-frills mobile home in Malibu, wisecracking ex-con-turned-private investigator Jim Rockford solves the biggest crimes in Los Angeles. From identity theft to death threats, Rockford uses his experience behind bars to get an inside edge on crooks even the police can't find.
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
From his no-frills mobile home in Malibu, wisecracking ex-con-turned-private investigator Jim Rockford solves the biggest crimes in Los Angeles. In this season, Rockford chases down underworld mobsters, art thieves, an organ transplant ring and other criminals who never expect to find the world's most unlikely detective behind Rockford's easygoing, laid-back demeanor.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Steve Ford is a L.A., based Private Investigator whose professional and personal worlds collide after his pet, Buddy, is stolen by a gang. Due to bizarre circumstances, Steve does the gang's bidding while being chased by two vengeful Samoan brothers, a loan shark's goons and a few other shady characters. Steve shows how far a man will go to be reunited with his best friend.
17) Murder, my sweet
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
They say crime doesn't pay. Private detective Philip Marlowe knows better. The fat wad of folding money warming his breast pocket is the kind of thing that keeps him going through thick and thicker as he wades chin deep into a mystery involving a missing necklace and a missing hoodlum's moll named Velma.
19) The Long goodbye
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
For The Long Goodbye, Robert Altman successfully transports Philip Marlowe, incarnated by Elliott Gould, to the over-privileged, full-color 70s. Marlowe is lonely and shabby, yet does not seem an anachronism in the contemporary world. Unlike Bogart's Marlowe, this is a not especially tough Marlowe. He's a bright, conscientiously solemn nut, a guy who hopes for the best but expects the worst. This particular Philip Marlowe, despite evidence to the...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Following their disastrous turn as government agents-turned-drug dealers, the team reinvents themselves as a Los Angeles-based P.I. firm. Their first case is protecting a vampy actress from blackmail, and Archer's libido. They also grapple with a terminator mummy who wants his mommy, spinning robot legs, Archer's desperate voice mail message, gunmen clowns, and life as hostages, all leading to a cliff-hanger.
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