Dashiell Hammett Movies

High society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles run into a variety of shady characters while investigating a race-track murder.

A mobster's daughter leads her boyfriend from the circus into bootlegging.

While doing a friend a favor and searching for a runaway teenager, a police detective stumbles upon a bizarre band of criminals about to pull off a...

Based on the Hammett novel, this ultra-rare film—is nominally taken from the author's classic gang-war novel Red Harvest, which proved too...

The son of famous detective Sam Spade carries on the family tradition of getting involved with the Maltese Falcon - and with the people who will stop...

A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.

A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.

On a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation.

A gambler hires a detective to investigate when a murder is committed in his casino.

A lovely dame with dangerous lies employs the services of a private detective, who is quickly caught up in the mystery and intrigue of a statuette...

A murder mystery set in the old west.

When Paul Madvig, a successful politician who fights his rivals to seize the city, becomes implicated in a murder, Ed Beaumont, his friend and...

Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate.

On the eve of World War II, the German Kurt Müller, his American-born wife Sara, and their three children, having lived in Europe for years,...

A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.

A recently released prisoner lives alone in his cabin so that his bad temper won't get him back in any more trouble, but his peaceful existence is...

A secret agent goes after the gang that stole the crown jewels of a European monarchy.

American, Chinese and Australian agents join forces to stop the Nazis from obtaining the formula for synthetic fuel.

Retired detective Nick Charles and his wife set out to solve a murder mystery after a corpse wearing white gloves is found in a hotel pool.

Paul Madvig is a businessman in an American town in the 1920s, doing everything to maintain his power. He plans to marry Janet, the daughter of...