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An angel tires of his purely ethereal life of merely overseeing the human activity of Berlin's residents, and longs for the tangible joys of physical existence when he falls in love with a mortal.

1930s Hollywood is re-evaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen Kane (1941).

Private investigator Matthew Scudder is hired by a drug kingpin to find out who kidnapped and murdered his wife.

Former cop Filip Marold (Jan Dolanský) doesn't want to be reminded of some things from his past. But others remind him... He works as a private detective, sleeps with his secretary and spies on people for money. All up to the moment when he meets seductive Raluca (Malvína Pachlová) and his life turns upside down. Is it just a coincidence? Fate? Or has someone set a trap? Even in his wildest dreams he wouldn't imagine the things that were about to happen. Things that involve sex, murder, the big reveal and a harsh reminder of that damn past...

After getting plastic surgery to resemble his hero Humphrey Bogart, a detective goes on the trail of a group of unscrupulous characters trying to steal a set of blue sapphires.

Inspired by the stories of the American writer Raymond Chandler, the classical hero is private detective Phil Marlowe, a romantic cowboy, who takes the law into his own hands in the rough prairie of a large city. He is honest, skeptical and hardworking. He toils away on the cases that he solves after numerous mistakes, while often being tormented and beaten up by criminals and even the police. In this world of violence, mistrust and corruption, everything is for sale. Everything except him.

In a future time when middle-class, Stepford-type suburbanites have triumphed over individualists and non-conformists and made them prisoner, two vanquished but not defeated non-conformists carry on the fight as best they can.

Blye Doyle is a comedian who career is finally taking off, yet is still inexplicably bitter about a friendship that ended years ago. He has a conversation with the memory of his former friend in an effort to piece together an explanation.

Dean Martin's comedy/variety show that aired on September 1975.

Elliott Gould Discusses The Long Goodbye - a conversation with crime novelist Michael Connelly, recorded in March 2012.

David Thompson on Robert Altman - David Thompson, editor of 'Altman on Altman' and producer of the BBC's 'Robert Altman in England', talks about The Long Goodbye's place in Altman's filmography.

A comedy about a daydreaming student whose fantasies blur the line between reality and his vivid imagination...injecting himself into his own noir detective story.

Crime writer and critic Maxim Jakubowski discusses the emergence of hard boiled detective characters from the pages of the pulp magazines from the 1920s through to the 1950s.

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

Sam, in the body of a Bogie-like shamus, teams up with a 'neat kid' to find the hit man who killed his partner.

An actress/singer who is being pursued by fictional detectives hires The Remington Steele Agency for protection, leading them into a bizarre "Magical Mystery Tour".

The spirit of detective Phillip Spade aids the Ghostbusters to catch a cursed Ghost named Blackey. To set things right, the guys must find King Todd's treasure and return it to the museum before the ancient ghost demolishes them.

After his girlfriend Suzanne moves out because of his failure to stop drinking and smoking pot, between-books novelist Jonathan Ames peruses his favorite Raymond Chandler novel, "Farewell, My Lovely," and is inspired to place an ad on Craigslist offering his services as an unlicensed private investigator. Within hours he gets his first case, involving a 19-year-old girlʼs desperate search for her missing sister. Despite the fact that he should be working on his second novel, and despite the fact that he is on deadline for a magazine piece, Jonathan heads out into the urban night to track down the girl, embracing his newfound noir-detective status. At the end of a very long day, Jonathan earns his fee - and finds heʼs got another case.

As the mystery of Lorelei's murder deepens, an investigation into Project Ascension threatens to expose the entire project.

While Beckett and her team investigate the murder of a young telenovela actress, Castle is hired by the show's star to follow the case from a different angle.

Nigel Williams travels to California to explain the career of Raymond Chandler, the creator of the greatest hard-boiled detective, Philip Marlowe and his relationship with another famous detective fiction author, Dashiell Hammett and his creation, Sam Spade