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Inspector G. Lestrade, or Mr. Lestrade, is a fictional character appearing in several of the Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle used the name of a friend from his days at the University of Edinburgh, a Saint Lucian medical student, Joseph Alexandre Lestrade. In "The Adventure of the Cardboard Box", Lestrade's first initial is revealed to be G. He is described as "a little sallow rat-faced, dark-eyed fellow" in A Study in Scarlet and "a lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking," in "The Boscombe Valley Mystery". He was summarised by H. Paul Jeffers in the following words:"He is the most famous detective ever to walk the corridors of Scotland Yard, yet he existed only in the fertile imagination of a writer. He was Inspector Lestrade. We do not know his first name, only his initial: G. Although he appears thirteen times in the immortal adventures of Sherlock Holmes, nothing is known of the life outside the Yard of the detective whom Dr. Watson described unflatteringly as sallow, rat-faced, and dark-eyed and whom Holmes saw as quick and energetic but wholly conventional, lacking in imagination, and normally out of his depth—the best of a bad lot who had reached the top in the CID by bulldog tenacity."
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Holmes & Watson (2018)
, 1h30Directed by Etan Cohen
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy thriller, Adventure, Crime
Themes Sherlock Holmes films
Actors Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Hugh Laurie, Rebecca Hall, Kelly Macdonald, Ralph Fiennes
Rating39%
Adaptation des célèbres aventures de Sherlock Holmes et de son acolyte Watson.
, 2h9Directed by Guy Ritchie
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Sherlock Holmes films, Steampunk films, Buddy films
Actors Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Noomi Rapace, Jared Harris, Stephen Fry, Kelly Reilly
Rating73%
In 1891, Irene Adler delivers a package to Herr Dr. Hoffmanstahl; payment for a letter he was to deliver. Hoffmanstahl opens the package, triggering a hidden bomb that is prevented from detonating by the intervention of Sherlock Holmes. Holmes takes the letter while Adler and Hoffmanstahl escape. Holmes finds Hoffmanstahl assassinated moments later. Adler meets with Professor Moriarty to explain the events, but Moriarty poisons and kills her — deeming her position compromised by her love for Holmes.
Sherlock Holmes (2009)
, 2h8Directed by Guy Ritchie
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Sherlock Holmes films, Buddy films
Actors Robert Downey Jr., William Hope, Jude Law, Rachel McAdams, Mark Strong, Kelly Reilly
Rating75%
In 1891, London detective Sherlock Holmes (Robert Downey, Jr.) and his partner and flatmate Dr. John Watson (Jude Law) race to prevent the ritual murder of a woman by Lord Blackwood (Mark Strong), who has killed five other young women similarly. They stop the murder before Inspector Lestrade (Eddie Marsan) and the police arrive to arrest Blackwood.
Sherlock: Case of Evil (2002)
, 1h40Directed by Graham Theakston
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Sherlock Holmes films, Buddy films
Actors James D'Arcy, Vincent D'Onofrio, Gabrielle Anwar, Richard E. Grant, Struan Rodger, Nicholas Gecks
Rating58%
As the movie opens, Sherlock is in pursuit of the criminal Professor Moriarty (Vincent D'Onofrio) and apparently shoots him to death. His body cannot be found, however, as it falls in a sewer. After this incident, Holmes gains notoriety with the press and the police for his apparent killing of Moriarty, and meets Dr. Watson (Roger Morlidge), an early practitioner of autopsies, for the first time. Together, they start an investigation into the murder of several crime lords and become convinced that Moriarty is alive and behind a plot to organize drug dealing. Given that Moriarty is supposedly dead, Holmes finds it hard to convince Inspector Lestrade (Nicholas Gecks) of this claim. Holmes' investigation leads him to a prostitute (Gabrielle Anwar), who posed as a rich woman to lure Holmes into the plot. Richard E. Grant also appears as Holmes' brother, Mycroft, who was addicted to opium by Moriarty when Sherlock was young.
Without a Clue (1988)
, 1h47Directed by Thom Eberhardt
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Crime
Themes Sherlock Holmes films, Buddy films, Faux-monnayeur
Actors Michael Caine, Ben Kingsley, Jeffrey Jones, Lysette Anthony, Paul Freeman, Nigel Davenport
Rating68%
Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character created by Dr. John Watson (Ben Kingsley) as the central character in a series of short stories published in Strand Magazine. Watson uses the character to enable him to solve crimes incognito, so as not to disrupt his career as a doctor during a period when he was applying for a post at an exclusive hospital, one in which the senior staff would frown on Watson's "hobby". Although he does not secure the job, Watson decides to satisfy public demand to see Holmes in person by hiring unemployed actor Reginald Kincaid (Michael Caine) to play the part of the fictional detective.
, 2h30Directed by Igor Maslennikov
Origin Russie
Genres Adventure, Crime
Themes Sherlock Holmes films, Buddy films
Actors Vassili Livanov, Vitali Solomine, Rina Zelionaïa, Borislav Brondoukov, Innokenti Smoktounovski, Elena Safonova
Rating78%
Le premier épisode du téléfilm mêle les intrigues du Pouce de l'ingénieur et de La Deuxième Tache.
Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)
, 1h49Directed by Barry Levinson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Christmas films, Sherlock Holmes films, Buddy films, Children's films
Actors Nicholas Rowe, Alan Cox, Anthony Higgins, Sophie Ward, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Freddie Jones
Rating67%
Teenagers Sherlock Holmes (Nicholas Rowe) and John Watson (Alan Cox) meet and become good friends as students at London's less-than-prestigious Brompton Academy. Watson is introduced to Holmes’ mentor, Rupert T. Waxflatter (Nigel Stock), a retired schoolmaster and inventor. Waxflatter's niece Elizabeth Hardy (Sophie Ward) is also Holmes’ close friend and love interest. Holmes is generally recognized as brilliant but considered an undisciplined troublemaker by most of the school administration. He is closest to Professor Rathe (Anthony Higgins), his fencing instructor, who warns Holmes that he is too emotional and impulsive.
, 2h31Directed by Igor Maslennikov
Origin Russie
Genres Adventure, Crime
Themes Sherlock Holmes films, Buddy films
Actors Vassili Livanov, Vitali Solomine, Borislav Brondoukov, Rina Zelionaïa, Sergueï Chakourov, Pavel Kadotchnikov
Rating82%
, 1h40Directed by Douglas Hickox
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Horror, Crime
Themes Sherlock Holmes films, Buddy films
Actors Ian William Richardson, Martin Shaw, Denholm Elliott, Glynis Barber, Brian Blessed, Eleanor Bron
Rating64%
Sherlock Holmes et le docteur Watson enquêtent sur les menaces qui pèsent sur l'héritier des Baskerville...
, 2h27Directed by Igor Maslennikov
Origin Russie
Genres Crime
Themes Sherlock Holmes films, Buddy films
Actors Vassili Livanov, Nikita Mikhalkov, Vitali Solomine, Rina Zelionaïa, Borislav Brondoukov, Irina Kouptchenko
Rating84%
, 3h23Directed by Igor Maslennikov
Origin Russie
Genres Adventure, Crime
Themes Sherlock Holmes films, Buddy films
Actors Vassili Livanov, Vitali Solomine, Borislav Brondoukov, Rina Zelionaïa
Rating84%
Holmes s'attelle à sauver l'honneur de lady Eva Blackwell, menacée par le redoutable maître chanteur Charles Auguste Milverton qui détient ses lettres intimes.
Murder by Decree (1979)
, 2h4Directed by Bob Clark
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Sherlock Holmes films, Buddy films
Actors Christopher Plummer, James Mason, David Hemmings, Susan Clark, Frank Finlay, Geneviève Bujold
Rating67%
Sherlock Holmes et le docteur Watson sont sur la piste de Jack l'Éventreur. Leur enquête va les mener dans l'entourage de la famille royale, du gouvernement britannique et de la franc-maçonnerie.
, 2h15Directed by Igor Maslennikov
Origin Russie
Genres Crime
Themes Sherlock Holmes films, Buddy films
Actors Vassili Livanov, Rina Zelionaïa, Vitali Solomine, Catherine Schell, Borislav Brondoukov, Nikolai Karachentsov
Rating84%
Cette série soviétique est particulièrement fidèle aux intrigues d'origine écrites de Conan Doyle, tout en mélangeant parfois deux intrigues dans un même épisode en créant de nouveaux raccords « extra-canoniques » entre deux affaires. Livanov joue un Sherlock Holmes assez décontracté et capable d'un humour discret, correspondant aux écrits de Conan Doyle.
, 1h14Origin USA
Genres Horror, Crime
Themes Sherlock Holmes films, Buddy films
Actors Stewart Granger, Bernard Fox, William Shatner, Anthony Zerbe, Sally Ann Howes, Jane Merrow
Rating57%
Holmes et Watson enquêtent sur les menaces qui pèsent sur l'héritier des Baskerville.
, 2h5Directed by Billy Wilder
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Adventure, Historical, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Sherlock Holmes films, Political films, Buddy films, LGBT-related films, Films about royalty, LGBT-related film
Actors Robert Stephens, Geneviève Page, Colin Blakely, Christopher Lee, Clive Revill, Irene Handl
Rating69%
The film is divided into two separate, unequal stories. In the shorter of the two, Holmes is approached by a famous Russian ballerina, Madame Petrova (Tamara Toumanova), who proposes that they conceive a child together, one who she hopes will inherit her physique and his intellect. Holmes manages to extricate himself by claiming that Watson is his lover, much to the doctor's embarrassment.