While the Black Power movement was reshaping America, trailblazing director Gordon Parks made this groundbreaking blockbuster, which helped launch the blaxploitation era and gave the screen a new kind of badder-than-bad action hero in John Shaft, a streetwise New York City private eye who is as tough with criminals as he is tender with his lovers. After Shaft is recruited to rescue the kidnapped daughter of a Harlem mob boss from Italian gangsters,...

'Psychic' crime fighter Shawn Spencer and his best bud Burton 'Gus' Guster track down Bigfoot, go undercover as wacky radio DJs and solve the ultimate murder mystery. And, Gus finally gets the girl! Killer secrets are kept, broken and dramatically revealed.

"In 1920s Toronto, the world is undergoing massive changes. Jazz is on the turntables as communism and prohibition are being hotly debated over hard drinks in speakeasies. Society will never be the same -- and crime has never had it better. A new age calls for a new kind of detective, and the women of Drake Private Detectives fit the bill"--Container.

The brilliant but neurotic Adrian Monk, a top homicide investigator, is back fighting crime while fighting his abnormal fears of germs, cars, heights, crowds, and virtually everyting else known to man.

"Harry Ross [is] a burned-out private eye who's plunged into a murder mystery tied to a long-unsolved case of Hollywood dreams, schemes and cover-ups"--Container.

Shawn Spencer pretends to be a psychic. No one really believes him, but he continues to be so helpful to the police that they keep calling him in on cases they can't solve. Shawn brings his childhood friend, Gus, into his scheme, and between their bantering they manage to solve every case they're presented with.

"Perfect crimes meet the perfect match. In the city that never sleeps, one mind never rests. The eccentric detective Sherlock Holmes possesses an unquenchable thirst for intellectual puzzles and a ruthless instinct for justice. As a consulting detective to the NYPD, he takes on bizarre cases that baffle the most seasoned cops. But he can't do it alone. Holmes relies on Joan Watson, a former physician who's the one person who can keep up with his racing...

"Literature professor Harriet 'Harry' Wild is struggling to adjust to her recent retirement when she's mugged. While recuperating at the home of her son, Charlie, a senior detective in the Dublin police, Harry reads his case files and notices that his current murder inquiry bears striking similarities to an obscure Elizabethan play. After Charlie rebuffs her input, Harry decides to find the killer herself to prove she was right. Little does she realize...

Harry Dresden is a private detective who also happens to be a real wizard. Although he tries to be a regular guy, Harry finds himself helping Chicago police solve inexplicable crimes and battle dark forces.

A jealous husband hires a detective to murder his wife and her lover.