Movies and TvShows featuring "missing-corpse" theme.
Avanti! is a comedy and romance film released in 1972. It follows the story of a middle-aged businessman who travels to Italy to retrieve the body of his father, who died while on vacation. Along the way, he meets a young woman who is also dealing with the loss of a loved one. As they spend time together, they form a bond and discover more about themselves and each other. The film explores themes of love, loss, and the power of human connection.
In the second of the PRC "Michael Shayne" series,civic crusader Burton Stallings hires private detective Michael Shayne to locate the former's missing step-daughter Helen. Shayne discovers that Stallings himself has had Helen confined in an asylum in order to obtain her money.
A man accidentally runs over and kills a pedestrian outside a small town. He begins to suspect that the locals, including the sheriff, are keeping secrets about the victim.
A wandering cowboy and his sidekick try to resolve a murder.
Travis McGee is a world-weary private eye trying to help boat skipper friend Van Harder salvage his reputation that sank when his boat ran aground, resulting in a death that might have been faked.
Choreographer Bob Connolly and prolific screenwriter Crane Wilbur teamed up on the direction of Warner Bros.' The Patient in Room 18. Patric Knowles delivers a delightfully comic performance as Lance, an outwardly normal young man obsessed with detective stories. When his obsession threatens to lapse over into lunacy, Lance is sent to the hospital for a nice long rest. It isn't long before he gets mixed up in a genuine murder mystery, using his second-hand knowhow to solve the case. Up-and-coming Ann Sheridan is quite amusing as Lance's nurse and confidante, while the murderer is played by a fellow who is usually cast as the murder victim.
A detective investigates the disappearance of a girl's body from the city morgue.
In this screwball comedy, lawyer Malone and paroled convict O'Malley join forces to solve a murder on a train. As they investigate, they encounter a missing corpse, false arrests, and a web of betrayal. With their lives at stake, they must unravel the mystery before it's too late.
An ex-gambler helps a beautiful widow, and becomes involved with a murder, secret agents, and saboteurs.
Two reporters search for a missing body in a wax museum.
Spaceways follows a scientist-hero as he investigates a murder that takes place on a spacecraft during a spaceflight research mission. With elements of psychotronic film and space opera, the movie explores themes of infidelity and betrayal in the outer space setting. As the first man into space, the scientist-hero must unravel the mystery of the missing corpse and confront the challenges of space travel and aerospace technology.
A story of two brothers, both writers of crime novels, one a fine, upstanding gentleman and the other a moody, neurotic, psychopath. The other is determined to create a 'faked' version of a perfect crime he intends to commit when an ex-convict visits them. They are both in love with their shared-stenographer-secretary.
A telephone operator plays homicide detective with her boyfriend, making it harder for the police.
Mad scientist works on a death ray in his mountain hideaway.
In Whistling in Dixie, an ex-convict detective, Wally, and his fiancée, Carol, find themselves in a haunted mansion in Georgia, USA. They uncover a buried treasure and must solve a whodunit mystery while navigating through various comedic situations.
An architect (Chick Chandler) studies the doors of six shops and an apartment house to solve a gem theft/double murder.
Reporter Patsy Reynolds and photographer Eddie Porter are assigned to interview John Foster, head of the Emmerson Foundation regarding a listening device the organization is working on. Foster evades them and they to the lab to see Professor Reynolds, the real inventor. Soon, they are involved in several shootings, blueprints that change hands several times, a corpse in their car that appears and disappears a few times, the loss of their jobs and several people who either think they are killers or candidates for being killed.
Biff Jones is a driver/salesman for the Good Humor ice-cream company. He hopes to marry his girl Margie, who works as a secretary for Stuart Nagel, an insurance investigator. Margie won't marry Biff, though, because she is the sole support of her kid brother, Johnny. Biff gets involved with Bonnie, a young woman he tries to rescue from gangsters. But Biff's attempts to help her only get him accused of murder. When the police refuse to believe his story, it's up to Biff and Johnny to prove Biff's innocence and solve the crime.
Bodies start mysteriously disappearing from the city morgue. An investigator tries to determine what is going on.
Charles Nordeck is a successful marriage counselor whose own marriage is on the rocks. When his wife Anne seeks a divorce, Charles refuses to sign the papers fearing the bad publicity could ruin his career. The adulterous Anne then convinces her lover Peter to take care of the problem.