Amateur Detectives Movies, Movies about Amateur Detectives

Here we've displayed a list of the best Amateur Detectives films : White Fire(1954), Alias Boston Blackie(1942), Seven Keys to Baldpate(1930), One Mysterious Night(1944), The Ghost Camera(1933), Yankee Fakir(1947), Dead Cert(1974), Call of the Jungle(1944), Garage Sale Mystery: Murder by Text(2017), True Crime(1995), Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet the Wolfman(2000), Agatha and the Truth of Murder(2018) ... ...

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White Fire

American Gregor Stevens arrives in London searching for his brother who, unknown to him, has been convicted of a murder and is within three days of being executed. He meets Yvonne Durante, ... See full summary »

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Alias Boston Blackie

Blackie tracks down a wrongly convicted prisoner who escapes during a Christmas magic show.

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Seven Keys to Baldpate

A writer, looking for some peace and quiet in order to finish a novel, takes a room at the Baldpate Inn. Peace and quiet are last things he gets, though, as there are some very strange things going on at the establishment.

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One Mysterious Night

Blackie is enlisted by the police to help recover the Blue Star of the Nile diamond, stolen from a war relief exhibit.

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The Ghost Camera

As part of Rainey's circus, Dad Denton returns to the town where he is supposedly wanted for murder. When his old enemy McDonald spots him with out his clown makeup, he sets his men up to ... See full summary »

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Yankee Fakir

"Yankee" Davis and his partner,"Shaggy" Hartley, a couple of carny-type traveling (usually just ahead of the law) pitchmen with their own tent to pitch from, arrive in a small Arizona town,... See full summary »

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Dead Cert

As a surprise, two horse owners decide to ride their animals in a steeplechase. But Bill Davidson's (Ian Hogg's) horse "Admiral" behaves weirdly, and falls hard after an obstacle. Bill dies... See full summary »

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Call of the Jungle

Tana, beautiful white girl resident of Ta'Pu, is determined to clear Harley, who is suspected of stealing the sacred jewels and of the murder of Dozan, thus preventing the natives from mass... See full summary »

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Garage Sale Mystery: Murder by Text

A rehearsal is stalled when the bass player is found dead from an apparent suicide. Jenn discovers that a Taser was used to immobilize the bass player before her death, but before Jenn can confront the weapon's owner, another band member is murdered.

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True Crime

A teen sleuth (Alicia Silverstone) thinks a classmate's murder is part of a series of West Coast slayings linked to a traveling carnival.

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Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet the Wolfman

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Agatha and the Truth of Murder

With her writing in crisis and her personal life in tatters, author Agatha Christie decides to solve a real murder.

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Nancy Drew, Trouble Shooter

Lawyer's (John Litel) daughter Nancy (Bonita Granville) and her boyfriend (Frankie Thomas) solve a murder and land in a haystack.

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Framed for Murder: A Fixer Upper Mystery

When home renovator Shannon Hughes suspects foul play in the death of her good friend and neighbor, she sets out to build a case for murder with the help of her new client, famous crime reporter and author Macintyre.

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Gourmet Detective

A chef (Dylan Neal) turned culinary sleuth works with a beautiful detective to unravel the mystery behind the death of a guest at a dinner party.

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The Oxford Murders

A graduate student (Elijah Wood) and a professor (John Hurt) try to put their philosophical differences aside to solve an elderly woman's apparent murder.

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