The 'down-on-their-luck' private eyes
Here we have the bunglers and those that unfortunately get convicted for the crimes they were investigating and the generally unlucky private eyes. In year of release order from 2024 going back in time to 1916.
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- DirectorMike JudyDavid BurrisStarsJosh HallMike JudyElizabeth MukkaAfter failing to rob the general store, the gangsters (Josh Hall and Tristen Forrest) seek revenge and make Bobby Dicey (David Burris) pay for interfering with their plan. Can Bobby Dicey end this madness?
- DirectorJack CookStarsEric RobertsMatt RifeClare GrantThe life of private eye, Mort Madison, is spiraling downward, when a beguiling, slightly familiar woman hires him for his most unusual case.
- DirectorMason O'Neill HunsickerStarsCole SpringerJune Griffin GarciaJeremy St. JamesA struggling private detective unwittingly becomes immersed in a maelstrom of small town Texas corruption.
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- TV Mini SeriesBASED ON THE BOOK , THE POISON ROSE, CARSON PHILIPS P.I, pays homage to Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe with a dusting of absurdity. Imagine Bogie stubbing his toe and cussing at the furniture while lighting his match on an end table.
- DirectorMarc TeuscherStarsYgal GleimPeter KaghanovitchWalter KuengThe year is 2044 in the midst of a new world order and the European Federal State of Germany. All resources have been privatized, including the police and unemployment services. Norman Bauer, a down-and-out freelance detective is tasked with solving a murder case on the outskirts of his hometown. He finds clues to the crime in a menacing and mysterious environmental no-go area called the "Zone". Broke and bored of his everyday life, Bauer accepts the assignment despite its dangers. His investigation uncovers not only the murderer, but a confounding conspiracy involving the officials in the government that employ him. Increasingly he finds himself tangled in a web of mystery and insanity that distorts his understanding of his own consciousness. This blurs the lines of his escapist virtual, and explicit realities.
- DirectorNeil JordanStarsLiam NeesonDiane KrugerJessica LangeIn late 1930s Bay City, a brooding, down on his luck detective is hired to find the ex-lover of a glamorous heiress.
- DirectorKonrád KozlíkStarsLane DavisVanessa DavisGalib HalilovicAn alcoholic private detective befriends an eccentric millionaire with a dark secret.
- StarsPerfecto CuervoMichael Chang GummeltLiz LeonardJack Lemming is a private eye with no luck, no prospects, no money and no future. So what's a down-on-his-luck detective to do when a mysterious femme fatale walks into his life and drags him into a web of intrigue and danger? Fall for her, hook line and sinker, of course. How can he be her only hope when hope is the one thing he's fresh out of?
- DirectorSamuel McIntoshChris MoonStarsDwight BoyceThe Private Eye aimlessly chases the ghost of his former self.
- DirectorMichael FredianelliStarsJack EsformesRosanna WyantKevin KarrickA disgraced cop turned private detective takes a decades old missing person's case with devastating results.
- CreatorRon FitzgeraldRolin JonesStarsMatthew RhysJuliet RylanceChris ChalkIn booming 1932 Los Angeles, a down-and-out defense attorney takes on the case of a lifetime.
- DirectorBen MacphailConnor NyhanStarsConnor NyhanE.K. MurrayBen MacphailDonovan Dixon, a detective down on his luck, gets a visit from a girl with a murdered husband - and a secret weapon.
- DirectorChristopher KruegerStarsKatherine FlanneryVaughn GreenJeffrey KayeA lazy, and often drunk, private detective teams up with a young woman who likes karate movies and bad puns to solve the murder of a fashion photographer.
- DirectorArmand PetriStarsChris RileyArmand PetriDenise LambertA down-on-his-luck New Orleans private detective investigates the death of a voodoo charlatan, finding himself in the middle of a paranormal murder mystery.
- DirectorMichael WebbStarsRachele Brooke SmithArnie PantojaCasey GrovesHopeless New Orleans private eye Biff Basham becomes entangled in a web of blackmail, espionage and murder in this crazy comedy.
- DirectorBrando ImprotaStarsBrando ImprotaRoberta CarusoAndrea ManzilloGerry is a trouble private eye. One day he's approached by a man, who recruit him for a case. Soon, Gerry is trapped in a human role play, threatened by a mysterious voice on the phone and chased by several killers.
- DirectorJon HellerStarsStacey BahrTiffany BartaCate BelleveauRay is a down on his luck private eye and when he is hired to follow a cheating husband he finds himself caught up in an underworld he never knew existed.
- DirectorDavid BurrisMike JudyStarsDavid BurrisMike JudyJosh HallBobby Dicey (David Burris) faces a new kind of evil lurking through town. He continues his path to be the best that he can be to protect the town and keep the bad guys away.
- DirectorJoseph VarholaStarsKaren BaumRik BillockRachel BoydeAfter serving an extended prison sentence for the killing of a man he was hired to investigate, an ex-private eye approaches the completion of his memoirs to set the record straight.
- DirectorEshom NelmsIan NelmsStarsJohn HawkesAnthony AndersonOctavia SpencerAn alcoholic ex cop finds a woman on the roadside, left for dead. He offers to find the killer pro bono as P.I. Her granddad hires him. Things get nasty.
- DirectorGuillermo BarrazaStarsLori BachynskiChris FuglerudKj JohansonA burned-out Private Investigator's latest case involving a well-to-do housewife, who is more than she appears, has him questioning whether he is truly out of the detective game.
- DirectorPete TravisStarsRiz AhmedBillie PiperJames Krishna FloydIn the teeming, multicultural metropolis of modern-day London, a seemingly straightforward missing-person case launches a down-at-heel private eye into a dangerous world of religious fanaticism and political intrigue.
- CreatorAndrew LoweryGlenn LundPeter SettmanStarsPeter StormareJohan GlansVivian BangTwo unlicensed Swedish private investigators try to make a living in Los Angeles.