Watching the Detectives

Watching the Detectives

Sometimes love is stranger than fiction.

2007•1h 34m•6.3/10

ComedyRomance

Ratings

🎬TMDb

6.3/10(182)

Neil, a self-proclaimed film geek and owner of Gumshoe video, has always been content to live vicariously through his favorite films noir. But when he meets Violet, a real-life femme fatale, his mundane world gets turned upside down and the line between reality and the movies quickly begins to blur.

Open in PickFlick

Production

Peace Arch Entertainment Group, Hart-Lunsford Pictures, Plum Pictures

Language

EN

Status

Released

Release Date

Trailers & Videos

Cast

Cillian Murphy

Cillian Murphy

Neil

Lucy Liu

Lucy Liu

Violet

Jason Sudeikis

Jason Sudeikis

Jonathan

Michael Panes

Michael Panes

Lucien

Callie Thorne

Callie Thorne

Marcia

Michael Yurchak

Michael Yurchak

Buddy

Heather Burns

Heather Burns

Denise

Mark Harelik

Mark Harelik

Detective Barloe

Ali Reza

Ali Reza

Detective Lowenstein

Josh Pais

Josh Pais

Andy

Brett Gelman

Brett Gelman

Glenn

Lonny Ross

Lonny Ross

Eager Customer

Paul Scheer

Paul Scheer

Annoying Customer

Richard Waddingham

Dennis - Bald Giant

J.T. O'Connor

Bald Creep

Joel Marsh Garland

Joel Marsh Garland

Bald Customer

Erik Stolhanske

Erik Stolhanske

Chad

Daniel Raymont

Daniel Raymont

Commercial Guy

Jack Bethke

Jack Bethke

Bouncer

Bryan Paulk

Frisbee Guy

Recommended

I Love You Again

I Love You Again

Boring businessman Larry Wilson recovers from amnesia and discovers he's really a con man...and loves his soon-to-be-ex wife.

I Love You Again

1940

7.2

Let's Make Love

Let's Make Love

When billionaire Jean-Marc Clement learns that he is to be satirized in an off-Broadway revue, he passes himself off as an actor playing him in order to get closer to the beautiful star of the show, Amanda Dell.

Let's Make Love

1960

6.4

A Naija Christmas

A Naija Christmas

Three sons try to make their mother’s dreams come true by bringing home wives for Christmas.

A Naija Christmas

2021

6.7

Girl on a Bicycle

Girl on a Bicycle

Paolo, an Italian tour bus driver living in Paris, has just summoned up the courage to propose marriage to his German girlfriend Greta. However, a chance encounter with a French woman on a bicycle the very next day turns Paolo's life upside down.

Girl on a Bicycle

2013

6.0

Easy Virtue

Easy Virtue

A young Englishman marries a glamorous American. When he brings her home to meet the parents, she arrives like a blast from the future - blowing their entrenched British stuffiness out the window.

Easy Virtue

2008

6.4

The Kissing Booth 2

The Kissing Booth 2

With college decisions looming, Elle juggles her long-distance romance with Noah, changing relationship with bestie Lee and feelings for a new classmate.

The Kissing Booth 2

2020

7.6

Love, Weddings & Other Disasters

Love, Weddings & Other Disasters

A fussy celebrity caterer, a blind woman, a tour-bus guide and an inexperienced wedding planner search for love.

Love, Weddings & Other Disasters

2020

6.0

Chasing Papi

Chasing Papi

Playboy Thomas Fuentes has so far been able to skate by in life on good looks and charm alone. But when his duplicitous relationships with three women -- impassioned waitress Cici, meticulous lawyer Lorena and bored socialite Patricia -- spiral out of control, he suffers a mental breakdown. His doctor recommends that he choose just one girlfriend -- but can he choose in time before they discover his deception?

Chasing Papi

2003

6.7

Wicked Little Letters

Wicked Little Letters

When the denizens of Littlehampton – including conservative Edith – begin receiving letters full of hilarious profanities, rowdy Irish migrant Rose is charged with the crime. Suspecting something amiss, the town's women band together to investigate.

Wicked Little Letters

2024

6.9

Love Is in the Air

Love Is in the Air

A fiercely independent pilot fighting to keep her family business afloat starts to fall for the man sent by corporate to ground her operation forever.

Love Is in the Air

2023

6.2

The Prince & Me 4: The Elephant Adventure

The Prince & Me 4: The Elephant Adventure

One year after their royal wedding, King Edvard and Queen Paige of Denmark receive an invitation to attend the wedding of Princess Myra of Sangyoon. Upon their arrival, Paige finds Myra is unhappy with her arranged marriage to the brooding and sinister Kah and is secretly in love with a young elephant handler named Alu.

The Prince & Me 4: The Elephant Adventure

2010

6.1

Which Brings Me to You

Which Brings Me to You

Two romantic burnouts, Jane and Will, are immediately drawn to each other at a mutual friend’s wedding. After a disastrous hookup in the coatroom, the two spend the next 24 hours together, trading candid confessions of messy histories and heartbreak, on the off chance that this fling might be the real thing.

Which Brings Me to You

2023

6.2

Similar Movies

Brazil

Brazil

Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle, he meets the woman from his daydream, and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy and lies.

Brazil

1985

7.7

Beverly Hills Cop

Beverly Hills Cop

Fast-talking, quick-thinking Detroit street cop Axel Foley has bent more than a few rules and regs in his time, but when his best friend is murdered, he heads to sunny Beverly Hills to work the case like only he can.

Beverly Hills Cop

1984

7.2

Turbine

Turbine

On the verge of signing his first corporate contract, Ross is overtaken by doubt and drawn into a world of looming wind turbines and suffocating motherly love.

Turbine

2024

An American Werewolf in London

An American Werewolf in London

American tourists David and Jack are savagely attacked by an unidentified animal while hiking on the Yorkshire Moors. After retiring to the home of a beautiful nurse to recuperate, David soon begins experiencing disturbing changes to his body and mind.

An American Werewolf in London

1981

7.4

Galaxy Quest

Galaxy Quest

For four years, the courageous crew of the NSEA Protector — Commander Peter Quincy Taggart, Lieutenant Tawny Madison, and Doctor Lazarus — set off on a thrilling and often dangerous mission in space ... until their series was cancelled! Now, twenty years later, aliens under attack have mistaken the Galaxy Quest television transmissions for "historical documents" and beam up the crew of has-been actors to save the universe. With no script, no director, and no clue, the actors must turn in the performances of their lives.

Galaxy Quest

1999

7.1

Gremlins

Gremlins

After receiving an exotic small animal as a Christmas gift, a young man inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pet, which unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous creatures on a small town.

Gremlins

1984

7.1

The Philadelphia Story

The Philadelphia Story

When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.

The Philadelphia Story

1940

7.6

Pillow Talk

Pillow Talk

Playboy songwriter Brad Allen's succession of romances annoys his neighbor, interior designer Jan Morrow, who shares a telephone party line with him and hears all his breezy routines. After Jan unsuccessfully lodges a complaint against him, Brad sets about to seduce her in the guise of a sincere and upstanding Texas rancher. When mutual friend Jonathan discovers that his best friend is moving in on the girl he desires, however, sparks fly.

Pillow Talk

1959

7.1

Romeo + Juliet

Romeo + Juliet

In this contemporary take on William Shakespeare's classic tragedy, the Montagues and Capulets have moved their ongoing feud to the sweltering suburb of Verona Beach, where Romeo and Juliet fall in love and secretly wed. Though the film is visually modern, the bard's dialogue remains.

Romeo + Juliet

1996

6.8

Pour une Poignée d'Or

Pour une Poignée d'Or

No overview available.

Pour une Poignée d'Or

2025

9.0

The Big Lebowski

The Big Lebowski

Jeffrey 'The Dude' Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker who only wants to bowl and drink White Russians, is mistaken for another Jeffrey Lebowski, a wheelchair-bound millionaire, and finds himself dragged into a strange series of events involving nihilists, adult film producers, ferrets, errant toes, and large sums of money.

The Big Lebowski

1998

7.8

Sorry to Bother You

Sorry to Bother You

In an alternate present-day version of Oakland, black telemarketer Cassius Green discovers a magical key to professional success – which propels him into a macabre universe.

Sorry to Bother You

2018

6.8

PickFlick Assistant

Hi! I'm your PickFlick Assistant. Ask me about movies, TV shows, IPTV sources, or anything about PickFlick.

Powered by CopilotKit