Mystery Movies
House on Haunted Hill (1959)
Frederick Loren has invited five strangers to a party of a lifetime. He is offering each of them $10,000 if they can stay the night in a house. But the…
Macabre (1958)
After his wife and her blind sister have died under his care, a doctor’s small daughter is kidnapped and reported as buried alive, and he is given just five hours…
Money Women and Guns (1958)
Celebrated detective traces and finds beneficiaries to the will of a gold prospector murdered by bushwhackers.
Raw Wind in Eden (1958)
Passengers struggle to survive after their plane crashes on a remote island. Director Richard Wilson’s 1958 drama stars Esther Williams, Jeff Chandler and Rosanna Podesta.
Stormy Crossing (1958)
After murdering his lover, cross-channel swimmer Joy Webster, Derek Bond attempts to do same to her other boyfriend, Sheldon Lawrence. John Ireland plays an Interpol detective who stems Bond’s homicidal…
The Whole Truth (1958)
On the French Riviera, movie producer Max Poulton is on location shooting a film starring his lover, Gina Bertini. But when the rueful Max ends his fling with Gina to…
I Bury the Living (1958)
The new manager of a small-town cemetery becomes convinced that he triggered the untimely deaths of several plot owners by tampering with a certain map. When nobody believes him, he…
Vertigo (1958)
A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend’s wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.
Grip of the Strangler (1958)
A researcher investigating a notorious serial killer who was hanged 20 years earlier seemingly becomes possessed by the long dead strangler.
Escapement (1958)
An insurance investigator tumbles onto a series of similar deaths, by brain hemorrhage, of patients of a psychiatric clinic in France where therapy involves a device which can implant visual…
Maigret Sets a Trap (1958)
Four women were murdered, each was knifed and, though they had their clothes torn, they weren’t molested. As the famed police inspector Jules Maigret pieces the clues together, he comes…
Chase a Crooked Shadow (1958)
A woman who lives in Spain has trouble convincing anybody that a complete stranger has taken her dead brother’s identity.
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
An ailing barrister agrees to defend a man in a sensational murder trial where the unconvincing testimony of the defendant’s wife becomes a subject of confusion.
The House in the Woods (1957)
A novelist and his wife go to stay at a cottage owned by a painter whose wife has just died.
Time Limit (1957)
Military investigator Colonel Edwards is assigned a case involving Major Cargill, a Korean War POW who is accused of treason. Although Cargill admits his guilt and Edwards’ superiors are impatiently…
The Girl in Black Stockings (1957)
Residents at a posh Utah hotel become suspects when a girl is found murdered during a pool party. Local sheriff Jess Holmes takes charge of the investigation and must discover…
The Vicious Circle (1957)
When Dr. Howard Latimer finds the German actress whom he had just met at the London Airport murdered in his flat, he is led into a world of murder, blackmail,…
The Invisible Man vs. The Human Fly (1957)
A series of ghastly murders are being committed. The one similarity in each of the murders is that a strange buzzing sound is always heard right before the murder occurs….
Action of the Tiger (1957)
A woman hires soldier-of-fortune Carson to smuggle her into Albania by way of Greece. Their trouble is just beginning when they get there.
My Gun Is Quick (1957)
Detective Mike Hammer’s investigation of a murder puts him in the middle between warring jewel thieves.
No Time to Be Young (1957)
A melodrama about young adults growing up and facing the pressures of life.
Footsteps in the Night (1957)
Two detectives investigate the strangulation murder of a man whom everyone seemed to like.
The Girl in the Kremlin (1957)
In Moscow 1953, four terrified women prisoners are brought before Joseph Stalin, who chooses the beautiful Dasha. He punishes her by shaving off her long hair. Moments later, a plastic…
Lust of the Vampire (1957)
A mad scientist captures young women and drains their blood, in order to keep alive an ancient, evil duchess.
Time Without Pity (1957)
Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a weekend at the English country home of the parents of his friend…
The Traitor (1957)
One time members of a resistance group come together every year to remember their dead leader, betrayed to and executed by the Nazis. When it seems that they might finally…
Hold That Hypnotist (1957)
When one of the Boys agrees to be hypnotized, he discovers he led a past life in the 1600s as a British tax collector.
Town on Trial (1957)
When an attractive young girl is murdered, suspicion falls on several members of the local tennis club. It falls to Police Inspector Halloran to sort out all the red herrings,…
Chain of Evidence (1957)
A police lieutenant fights to prove a boy’s innocence after he’s accused of murder. The fourth of five Ben Schwab productions that starred Bill Elliott as a detective lieutenant in…
The Unguarded Moment (1956)
A high-school music teacher is the victim of a student who writes indecent notes and assaults women.
The King and Four Queens (1956)
Opportunistic con man Dan Kehoe ingratiates himself with the cantankerous mother of four outlaws and their beautiful widows in order to find their hidden gold.
A Woman’s Devotion (1956)
An artist suffering from mental problems from his experiences during the war goes to Acapulco on his honeymoon. Soon young women are turning up dead in the area, and the…
Julie (1956)
A terrified stewardess is stalked by her psychotic estranged husband.
Calling Homicide (1956)
Cop Andy Doyle investigates a car-bombing murder and the killing of a sleazy modeling agency owner. Are they connected?
X: The Unknown (1956)
Army radiation experiments awaken a subterranean monster from a fissure that feeds on energy and proceeds to terrorise a remote Scottish village. An American research scientist at a nearby nuclear…
Autumn Leaves (1956)
A woman falls for a younger man with severe mental problems.
Female Jungle (1956)
Alcoholic detective investigating the murder of an actress starts getting worried when all fingers begin to point at him.