Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "hard-boiled"

1. Chinatown (1974)

R | 130 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A private detective hired to expose an adulterer in 1930s Los Angeles finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder.

Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Perry Lopez

Votes: 349,770

2. Licence to Kill (1989)

PG-13 | 133 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

A vengeful James Bond goes rogue to infiltrate and take down the organization of a drug lord who has murdered his friend's new wife and left him near death.

Director: John Glen | Stars: Timothy Dalton, Robert Davi, Carey Lowell, Talisa Soto

Votes: 112,067 | Gross: $34.67M

3. Live and Let Die (1973)

PG | 121 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

James Bond is sent to stop a diabolically brilliant heroin magnate armed with a complex organisation and a reliable psychic tarot card reader.

Director: Guy Hamilton | Stars: Roger Moore, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Seymour, Clifton James

Votes: 115,453 | Gross: $35.38M

4. Get Carter (1971)

R | 112 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

When his brother dies under mysterious circumstances in a car accident, London gangster Jack Carter travels to Newcastle to investigate.

Director: Mike Hodges | Stars: Michael Caine, Ian Hendry, Britt Ekland, John Osborne

Votes: 36,771 | Gross: $0.39M

5. Brick (2005)

R | 110 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A teenage loner pushes his way into the underworld of a high school crime ring to investigate the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend.

Director: Rian Johnson | Stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Lukas Haas, Emilie de Ravin, Meagan Good

Votes: 110,043 | Gross: $2.06M

6. The New Mike Hammer (1984–1989)

TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The cases of Mickey Spillane's classic private eye character.

Stars: Stacy Keach, Lindsay Bloom, Don Stroud, Kent Williams

Votes: 1,277

7. Alphaville (1965)

Not Rated | 99 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

A U.S. secret agent is sent to the distant space city of Alphaville where he must find a missing person and free the city from its tyrannical ruler.

Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff, Valérie Boisgel

Votes: 27,599 | Gross: $0.05M

8. 91 Days (2016–2017)

TV-MA | 24 min | Animation, Action, Crime

The story takes place in Lawless, a town thriving on black market sales of illicitly brewed liquor. Avilio returns to Lawless after some time away, following the murder of his family in a mafia dispute there.

Stars: Austin Tindle, Takashi Kondô, Ian Mead Moore, Kazuhiro Yamaji

Votes: 5,462

9. Fallen Angels (1993–1996)

30 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Fallen Angels is an American neo-noir anthology television series that ran in 1993 and 1995 on Showtime, and was produced by Propaganda Films. No first-run episodes were shown in 1994.

Stars: Miguel Ferrer, Lynette Walden, Dan Hedaya, Bernard Hocke

Votes: 549

10. Man in a Suitcase (1967–1968)

60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

McGill (known as "Mac") is a former U.S. intelligence agent based in London. After being thrown out of the agency for something he did not do, he finds his infamous reputation has preceded ... See full summary »

Stars: Richard Bradford, Ricardo Montez, Warren Stanhope, Frank Forsyth

Votes: 460

11. Death of a Corrupt Man (1977)

Not Rated | 123 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

One early morning deputy Philippe Dubaye wakes up his old friend Xavier Maréchal with disturbing news: he has just killed Serrano, a racketeer with extant political connections. Serrano ... See full summary »

Director: Georges Lautner | Stars: Alain Delon, Ornella Muti, Stéphane Audran, Mireille Darc

Votes: 2,562

12. Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom (2009)

TV-MA | 25 min | Animation, Action, Crime

The story of two brainwashed assassins, Ein and Zwei, who struggle to regain their memories as they work for the Inferno crime syndicate.

Stars: Miyu Irino, Newton Pittman, Ayahi Takagaki, Lindsay Seidel

Votes: 1,927

13. Hammett (1982)

PG | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Fictional account of real-life mystery writer Dashiell Hammett, and his involvement in the investigation of a beautiful Chinese cabaret actress' mysterious disappearance in San Francisco.

Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Frederic Forrest, Peter Boyle, Marilu Henner, Roy Kinnear

Votes: 3,688 | Gross: $0.04M

14. Three Men to Kill (1980)

93 min | Thriller

A man is pursued by killers after helping someone at a car crash.

Director: Jacques Deray | Stars: Alain Delon, Dalila Di Lazzaro, Michel Auclair, Pascale Roberts

Votes: 2,019

15. To Kill a Cop (1981)

Not Rated | 105 min | Action, Crime, Romance

Victim of manipulation, Cop Choucas is wanted for two murders and searched for by every cop in town.

Director: Alain Delon | Stars: Alain Delon, Mireille Darc, Anne Parillaud, Daniel Ceccaldi

Votes: 2,064

16. Gumshoe (1971)

GP | 86 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Inspired by his love for Dashiell Hammett novels, nightclub comedian Eddie Ginley puts an ad in the paper as a private eye. The case he gets turns out to be a strange setup and as he digs to the bottom of it his life starts falling apart.

Director: Stephen Frears | Stars: Albert Finney, Billie Whitelaw, Frank Finlay, Janice Rule

Votes: 1,794 | Gross: $0.14M

17. Pocket Listing (2015)

R | 92 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller

Double crosses, adultery, murder, mistaken identity, and revenge ensue when a mysterious power player and his sultry wife hire a disgraced Los Angeles property broker to discreetly market and sell their Malibu villa.

Director: Conor Allyn | Stars: James Jurdi, Jessica Clark, Rob Lowe, Burt Reynolds

Votes: 7,129

18. Nestor Burma (1991–2003)

TV-14 | 85 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Nestor Burma (Guy Marchand) is a cynical private detective, a serial monogamist, and an inveterate saxophone player. Burma investigates murders, missing persons, and kidnapping and ... See full summary »

Stars: Guy Marchand, Pierre Tornade, Patrick Guillemin, Michel Fortin

Votes: 153

19. I, the Jury (1953)

Approved | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Dectective Mike Hammer is determined to catch and kill the person who shot his close friend dead, so he follows clues that lead to a beautiful, seductive woman.

Director: Harry Essex | Stars: Biff Elliot, Preston Foster, Peggie Castle, Margaret Sheridan

Votes: 647

20. Payne & Redemption (2016)

Action, Crime, Drama

After avenging the murder of his wife and daughter, former NYPD Detective, Ray Candella, begrudgingly seeks counsel from a curious psychiatrist, Dr. Clarence Volpé, whose private practices may uncover more than he'd signed up for.

Director: Fergle Gibson | Stars: Nigel Billing, Kylie Cushman, John Mangan, James McCaffrey

Votes: 16

21. Evil Senses (1986)

93 min | Thriller

Manuel, a professional hitman, kills the hitman sent to kill him and steals his briefcase, only to find that it contains documents concerning a blackmail operation. He then travels to Italy... See full summary »

Director: Gabriele Lavia | Stars: Monica Guerritore, Gabriele Lavia, Lewis E. Ciannelli, Dario Mazzoli

Votes: 155

22. Night Zoo (1987)

115 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Marcel, recently released from prison, attempt to rebuild his relationship with his girlfriend Julie (now a prostitute) and especially his father Albert (who thinks he's been away on a long... See full summary »

Director: Jean-Claude Lauzon | Stars: Gilles Maheu, Roger Lebel, Corrado Mastropasqua, Lorne Brass

Votes: 773

23. Dutch Wife in the Desert (1967)

NC-17 | 85 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A private detective is hired to find a woman who has apparently been murdered in a snuff film. It turns out the woman's not dead, but very much alive, and he gets sucked into a torrid ... See full summary »

Director: Atsushi Yamatoya | Stars: Miki Watari, Yûichi Minato, Shôhei Yamamoto, Masayoshi Nogami

Votes: 537

24. La gammick (1975)

86 min | Crime, Drama

Decided to 'make the States' a hit-man from Montreal accept a contract in New York to kill a mafioso boss, Frank Anastasia. Naturally the Americans don't accept what that 'stranger', that ... See full summary »

Director: Jacques Godbout | Stars: Marc Legault, Dorothée Berryman, Gilbert Chénier, André Guy

Votes: 100

25. De Kijk van Koolhoven (2018–2022)

Documentary

Director Martin Koolhoven takes a look at his favorite genres and their movies.

Star: Martin Koolhoven

Votes: 170

26. The Falls (2003)

R | 85 min | Thriller, Drama

A troubled young man with a fatal fascination for redheads battles cops, family demons and his own blinding obsession while searching for his missing girlfriend.

Director: Paul DeNigris | Stars: David Tully, Diedre Kilgore, Johanna Watts, Ken Dapper

Votes: 116

27. Arizona to Broadway (1933)

66 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance

In the small town of Larrup, Arizona, con artist Smiley is traveling with cohorts Kingfish, Morris, and Ambrose, and he persuades Lynn Martin, a traveling demonstrator of pancake making, to... See full summary »

Director: James Tinling | Stars: James Dunn, Joan Bennett, Herbert Mundin, Sammy Cohen

Votes: 65

28. Cool and Lam (1958 TV Movie)

30 min | Mystery

Light-hearted pilot for a proposed CBS detective series featuring characters created by Erle Stanley Gardner (under the pseudonym of A.A. Fair). Penny-pinching, rotund Bertha Cool runs a ... See full summary »

Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Billy Pearson, Benay Venuta, Maurice Manson, Margaret Field

Votes: 33

29. Kii Hantâ (1968–1973)

Action

The Key Hunter unit of International Police is tasked with clandestine investigation and enforcement of laws involving international crime, espionage and political strife. The action-crime serial featured 262 episodes.

Stars: Franz Gruber, Shin'ichi Chiba, Tetsurô Tanba, Hayato Tani

Votes: 10

30. The Suicide Murders (1985 TV Movie)

PG | 99 min | Drama, Thriller

The apparent suicide of a politician he was hired to follow drags private detective Benny Cooperman into a whirlwind of hard boiled double crosses and psychotherapy whose roots lie in a decades-old unsolved murder.

Director: Graham Parker | Stars: Saul Rubinek, Kate Trotter, Sharry Flett, Chuck Shamata

Votes: 38

31. The Red Machine (2009)

Not Rated | 84 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

Washington, DC, 1935: At the height of the Great Depression, a charming and irrepressible young thief is forced to help an icy and mysterious United States Navy spy steal a brand new device... See full summary »

Directors: Stephanie Argy, Alec Boehm | Stars: Lee Perkins, Donal Thoms-Cappello, Meg Brogan, Maureen Byrnes

Votes: 273

32. The Man in Blue (1937)

Passed | 67 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A police officer who kills a thief during the commission of a robbery takes on the responsibility of raising the man's son.

Director: Milton Carruth | Stars: Robert Wilcox, Edward Ellis, Nan Grey, Richard Carle

Votes: 18

33. L'assassin jouait du trombone (1991)

G | 96 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Marleau travaille comme gardien de nuit dans un grand studio de production de films : Popcorn international. L'emploi lui convient parce qu'une carrière de comédien achevée en queue de ... See full summary »

Director: Roger Cantin | Stars: Germain Houde, Anaïs Goulet-Robitaille, Marc Labrèche, Raymond Bouchard

Votes: 231

34. Women in Prison (1938)

Approved | 59 min | Action, Crime, Drama

The superintendent of a women's prison is pressured to pardon a member of a criminal gang. When she refuses, her daughter is framed on a manslaughter charge and sent to prison.

Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: Wyn Cahoon, Scott Kolk, Arthur Loft, Mayo Methot

Votes: 19

35. Checkerboard Boy (2022)

80 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

After finding his employer dead and being accused of murder, the mailman must find reality in a surreal world.

Director: Wolfanger Ribeiro | Stars: Mariana Cristino, Sara Fera, Daniel Lopes, Rodrigo Lucindo

36. Chloe MacColl (2010)

7 min | Short, Comedy, Crime

A couple reconnects with a jilted ex-girlfriend from a past love triangle in this neo-noir soap opera on crack.

Director: Daniel Swann | Stars: Cynthia Nakori, Kelly Kéodara, Myles Scott

37. Sahara Sandwich (1991)

52 min | Thriller

A top psychoanalyst plagued by nightmares can help every one of his patients, but not himself. When his secretary goes missing, a hardboiled police detective suspects him of being a serial killer.

Director: Paul Ruven | Stars: Jeroen Krabbé, Amanda Redington, Willeke van Ammelrooy, Roy Ward

Votes: 25

38. Skládacka (1991 TV Movie)

68 min | Crime

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Director: Jaroslav Dudek | Stars: Jirí Bartoska, Miroslav Vladyka, Serges Mipoungui, Jan Teplý

39. The Long Goodbye: Tom Williams on Raymond Chandler (2013 Video)

15 min | Documentary, Short, Biography

Raymond Chandler's biographer, Tom Williams, outlines the author's life and work and discusses Altman's adaptation of 'The Long Goodbye'.

Stars: Tom Williams, Jim Bouton, Raymond Chandler, Sterling Hayden

40. The Quest for _____ (1998)

Sci-Fi, Short

A hard-boiled detective is drawn into a bizarre world of computers by a bizarre doppelgänger known as Mr. Fake Shemp. There he encounters a computer-headed man, a failed cyborg, its master,... See full summary »

Director: Scott Andrew Hutchins | Stars: Abdul-Khaliq Murtadha, Shawn Plew, Scott Andrew Hutchins, Zandra Mukes

Votes: 24

41. Rakûjitsu no kettô (1955)

Crime

Another adventure of Private Detective Ippei Shizuno in the 'Ippei Shizuno' film series that began with 'Ore no kenju wa subayai/My Pistol is Quick', 1954.

Director: Hiroshi Noguchi | Star: Seizaburô Kawazu

42. Hard Boiled (2007)

5 min | Short, Comedy

Small-time thugs Mickey and Roy can't get a break. Now, they've broken Mr. B's "product" and he's arriving in three minutes. Appearances are deceiving. Does Roy know Mickey? Does anybody ... See full summary »

Director: Brian Wimer | Stars: Steve Johnston, Sean Haggerty, Brian Wimer, Paul Rosner

43. The Dame Was Loaded (1996 Video Game)

T | Adventure, Crime, Mystery

Innocent-looking dame Carol Klein hires down on his luck hardboiled private dick Scott Anger to find her brother, since she hasn't heard from him for some time. Anger learns that his case is connected to some murders and a bank robbery.

Director: Jo Lane | Stars: Matthew King, Randall Berger, Tiffany Lamb, Shanyn Asmar

Votes: 19

44. Ian Fleming and Raymond Chandler (2006 Video)

5 min | Documentary, Short, Biography

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Director: John Cork | Stars: Raymond Chandler, Ian Fleming

Votes: 38

45. Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King (2006)
Episode: Umney's Last Case (2006)

TV-14 | 51 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

After the death of his son, writer Sam Landry is so desperate to lead another life, he writes himself into his own book, forcing his long-time character to change places with him and live in the modern day.

Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: William H. Macy, Jacqueline McKenzie, Tory Mussett, Harold Hopkins

Votes: 637

46. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013–2020)
Episode: Out of the Past (2020)

TV-14 | 43 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Agent Phil Coulson comes to a realization about the importance of July 22, 1955, in the S.H.I.E.L.D. history books.

Director: Garry A. Brown | Stars: Clark Gregg, Ming-Na Wen, Chloe Bennet, Elizabeth Henstridge

Votes: 2,160