Have you never seen one of those twentieth-century French detective films?

The inclusion of the character also makes it the first recorded detective film.

The western and the detective film were particularly popular.

In the 1970s, Ray adapted two of his popular stories as detective films.

Johnson had grown up watching detective films and film noir.

Left alone, consumed with yet more guilt, she felt like a character in a second-rate detective film.

It was advertised as the colony's first detective film.

Detective films were popular, and various forms of melodrama.

This was the fourth in a series of Michael Shayne detective films.

The sociology of the hard boiled detective films seems to make American life seem violent and secretive.

The teenage detective film was heavily promoted and frequently reaired its initial summer.

It uses interior monologues in the style of many early noir detective films.

For anyone who thinks they don't make spine-tingling detective films the way they used to, good news: they've just made another.

One of my favourite ever detective films is Zero Effect and not too many have heard of it.

Although a type of detective film, it is more slow moving and contemplative than other films of the genre.

Night Moves is a 1975 detective film directed by Arthur Penn.

An American detective film sufficed.

(Around the same time May also worked on the Stuart Webbs series of detective films for another company).

Many popular films that are considered hard-boiled detective films have what is known in the film industry as film noir.

Boiduryo Rahasya was a detective film.

He is also renowned for many low- to mid-budget detective films and teleplays with unexpected touches of comedy blended in.

He wanted to make his own Hong Kong-style Dirty Harry police detective film.

From then on, he enjoyed a lengthy career of supporting and bit roles (sometimes uncredited) in westerns and detective films.

In the 2008 detective film Anamorph, the plot line revolves around the solution of gruesome anamorphically distorted images.

The score's second and third sections included bits of what sounded like dialogue transplanted from a gritty 1940's detective film and a science fiction movie.