Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keywords "brother", "investigator"

1. Hollywood Story (1951)

Passed | 77 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

An independent producer unwisely opens a can of worms after he decides to make a movie about the unsolved murder of a famous silent film director in 1929.

Director: William Castle | Stars: Richard Conte, Julie Adams, Richard Egan, Henry Hull

Votes: 927

2. Postmark for Danger (1955)

Approved | 84 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A woman's painted portrait and a post card with a sketch of a woman's hand holding a Chianti bottle are the main clues used by the Scotland Yard to solve a string of murders connected to a diamond-smuggling ring.

Director: Guy Green | Stars: Robert Beatty, Terry Moore, William Sylvester, Geoffrey Keen

Votes: 656

3. The Sea Hornet (1951)

Passed | 84 min | Adventure, Crime, Mystery

"The Sea Hornet" was a merchant ship sunk, supposedly by a torpedo, less than a mile off the California Coast during World War Two. Six years later when his buddy is killed, attempting to ... See full summary »

Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Rod Cameron, Adele Mara, Lorna Gray, Chill Wills

Votes: 79

4. Tell No Tales (1939)

Passed | 69 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Michael Cassidy is the editor of a failing newspaper. A scoop would be welcome to boost the sales and to avoid closure. To this end, he decides to personally track down a gang of kidnappers.

Director: Leslie Fenton | Stars: Melvyn Douglas, Louise Platt, Gene Lockhart, Douglass Dumbrille

Votes: 415

5. Radio Patrol (1937)

Passed | 242 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

A young radio cop and a beautiful girl try to stop an international criminal gang from getting their hands on the formula for a new bulletproof steel.

Directors: Ford Beebe, Clifford Smith | Stars: Grant Withers, Adrian Morris, Kay Hughes, Mickey Rentschler

Votes: 63

6. Transient Lady (1935)

Passed | 69 min | Action, Drama, Romance

A senator's brother turns up murdered, and the senator tries to pin the blame on a man he knows is innocent.

Director: Edward Buzzell | Stars: Gene Raymond, Henry Hull, Frances Drake, June Clayworth

Votes: 36

7. Call It Luck (1934)

Approved | 65 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

A London taxicab driver cashes in on a big sweepstakes ticket and becomes the prey of a confidence-gang that sells him a nag of a cavalry horse on the claim that it is a brother to a current Derby winner.

Director: James Tinling | Stars: Pat Paterson, Herbert Mundin, Charles Starrett, Gordon Westcott

Votes: 18

8. Strange Triangle (1946)

Passed | 65 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

A bank district supervisor relates how he has been accused of a murder involving the bank's vice-president's brother and his mysterious wife, who has long police record, and to which he intends to plead guilty.

Director: Ray McCarey | Stars: Signe Hasso, Preston Foster, Anabel Shaw, Shepperd Strudwick

Votes: 150

9. Easy Come, Easy Go (1947)

Approved | 77 min | Comedy, Drama

A film that possibly held the record for the most Irish-descent players in an American-produced movie before "The Quiet Man" was shot on location in Ireland, and that includes "The Informer... See full summary »

Director: John Farrow | Stars: Barry Fitzgerald, Diana Lynn, Sonny Tufts, Dick Foran

Votes: 35

10. Home in San Antone (1949)

Approved | 62 min | Action, Comedy, Music

Posing as unemployed musicians,Roy Acuff (Roy Acuff) and his Smoky Mountain Boys (The Smoky Mountain Boys), are being helped by Ted Gibson (Bill Edwards), owner of the Harmony Inn in San ... See full summary »

Director: Ray Nazarro | Stars: Roy Acuff, The Smoky Mountain Boys, The Modernaires, Doye O'Dell

Votes: 41

11. The Old Homestead (1942)

Approved | 67 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

Another in the series of films Republic made from 1939 to 1944 headlining the rustic family musical group known as "The Weaver Brothers and Elviry." In real life, June Weaver (Elviry) was ... See full summary »

Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Leon Weaver, Frank Weaver, June Weaver, Dick Purcell

12. What Happened Then? (1934)

58 min | Crime, Mystery, Romance

Young Raymond Rudford,sculptor, is on trial for slitting the throat of his uncle, who had adopted and raised him after Raymond's parent's died when he was a young boy. The prosecution ... See full summary »

Director: Walter Summers | Stars: Richard Bird, Lorna Hubbard, Geoffrey Wardwell, Francis L. Sullivan

Votes: 33

13. The Masquerade Bandit (1926)

Passed | 50 min | Western

A young woman, Molly Marble, is enmeshed in a train robbery by her crooked step-father. She meets a stranger, Jeff Morton, and suspects he knows where the loot is hidden. For the sake of ... See full summary »

Director: Robert De Lacey | Stars: Tom Tyler, Dorothy Dunbar, Ethan Laidlaw, Alfred Hewston

Votes: 24

14. Ivantsov, Petrov, Sidorov (1978)

89 min | Drama

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Director: Konstantin Khudyakov | Stars: Mikhail Gluzskiy, Leonid Filatov, Aleksandr Galibin, Larisa Malevannaya

Votes: 12

15. Rough Ridin' (1924)

Passed | 56 min | Action, Drama, Western

When the brother, Dick Ross (Richard Thorpe), of his sweetheart, Mary Ross (Elsa Benham), is framed by their unscrupulous ranch-foreman, Jack Wells (Joe Rickson), Buddy Benson (Buddy ... See full summary »

Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Buddy Roosevelt, Elsa Benham, Richard Thorpe, Joe Rickson

16. Forensic Files (1996–2011)
Episode: Duelling Confessions (2006)

TV-14 | 23 min | Documentary, Crime

In 1963, Australian teenager John Button is accused of running down his girlfriend on the roadway after a fight. After a brutal police interrogation he confesses, than recants. He is tried ... See full summary »

Stars: Peter Thomas, Estelle Blackburn, John Button, Rosemary Anderson

Votes: 84

17. Forensic Files (1996–2011)
Episode: Capitol Crimes (2006)

TV-14 | 22 min | Documentary, Crime

The driver said he couldn't have hit and killed a pedestrian on a Harrisburg street. The Jeep Grand Cherokee he was leasing around that time had been sold months ago to a buyer in another ... See full summary »

Director: Michael Jordan | Stars: Peter Thomas, Kenneth Cains, Louis Cains, Robert Clark

Votes: 84

18. Forensic Files (1996–2011)
Episode: Sphere of Influence (2003)

TV-14 | 22 min | Documentary, Crime

When an 11-year-old girl disappeared from a small town in a remote area of Alaska, investigators wondered if she'd been attacked by a bear or become lost in the dense woods. Her body was ... See full summary »

Stars: Peter Thomas, Mandy Lemaire, David Lemaire, April Maloney

Votes: 87

19. Forensic Files (1996–2011)
Episode: Slippery Motives (1999)

TV-14 | 21 min | Documentary, Crime

While on a business trip in 1986, Ed Post started his day by jogging in downtown St. Louis. When he returned, he found his wife lying face-down in the bathtub, unconscious. She was rushed ... See full summary »

Stars: Peter Thomas, Michael Graham, Dee Joyce Hayes, Gary Hayes

Votes: 113