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Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Language
English
Formats
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...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Formats
Description
While fleeing from the cops, small time hood Harry Lockhart stumbles into an acting audition. He does so well he gets to go to Hollywood. While there, Harry pursues a girl he loved in high school and ends up geting caught up in twisted murder mystery. His only chance of getting out alive is a private detective named Gay Perry, who also works as a consultant for movies.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Description
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.
6) Harper
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Hard-boiled private investigator Lew Harper is hired to locate a missing millionaire.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
8) Dead again
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2000], 1991
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.
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Steve Ford is an 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.
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The hardboiled Marlowe's latest cases, the search for an ex-convict's lost love, and the murder of a client, take on an even more sinister turn when they begin to connect, leading the private eye deeper and deeper into the seamy underbelly of 1940s Los Angeles. As the stakes are raised and the body count swells, it looks like Marlowe might be next on the list to take the big sleep.
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2015
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.
12) The poison rose
Publisher
Lionsgate
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.
13) Chinatown
Series
Paramount centennial collection volume 10
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
A private detective finds himself in over his head when he takes on a case involving the richest and most powerful people in Chinatown. Bonus features include commentary, featurettes, a trailer, and more.
16) The two Jakes
Publisher
Paramount Studios
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In this sequel to Chinatown, it is 1948 Los Angeles and private investigator Jake Gittes must solve a case of suspected adultery turned murder that's tied to a grab for oil and to Jake's own past.
18) The long goodbye
Publisher
KL Studio Classics
Pub. Date
[2014]
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...
19) Dead again
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006
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.
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
"Reunite with Jim Rockford, the quintessential antihero detective, in all 22 season three episodes of the action-packed, five-time Emmy award-winning mystery series The Rockford files. James Garner stars as the wisecracking ex-con-turned-private-eye whose approach to crime is cooler than his sleek Pontiac Firebird and more casual than his mobile home in Malibu. Filled with wry humor, chilling suspense and engaging mysteries, this five-disc collection...
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