Thriller Movies
Backfire (1950)
When he’s discharged from a military hospital, ex-GI Bob Corey goes on a search for his army buddy Steve Connolly. A reformed crook, Connolly is on the lam from a…
Gun Crazy (1950)
Bart Tare is an ex-Army man who has a lifelong fixation with guns, he meets a kindred spirit in sharpshooter Annie Starr and goes to work at a carnival. After…
The Blue Lamp (1950)
P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat….
Whirlpool (1950)
The wife of a psychoanalyst falls prey to a devious quack hypnotist when he discovers she is an habitual shoplifter. Then one of his previous patients now being treated by…
Woman in Hiding (1950)
As far as the rest of the world is concerned, mill heiress Deborah Chandler Clark is dead, killed in a freak auto accident. But Deborah is alive, if not too…
The Flying Saucer (1950)
The CIA sends playboy Mike Trent to Alaska with agent Vee Langley, posing as his “nurse,” to investigate flying saucer sightings. At first, installed in a hunting lodge, the two…
The Man on the Eiffel Tower (1949)
The Reckless Moment (1949)
After discovering the dead body of her teenage daughter’s lover, a housewife takes desperate measures to protect her family from scandal.
Undertow (1949)
Undertow stars Scott Brady as a gambler just out of wartime military service. No longer interested in wagers and speculations, Brady wants only to open up a mountain vacation lodge….
The Spider and the Fly (1949)
“The Spider and the Fly is set in Paris during the cloud-cuckoo days before WW I. The storyline intertwines the destinies of three people. Guy Rolfe plays Phillipe de Ledocq,…
Tension (1949)
Warren Quimby manages a drugstore while trying to keep his volatile wife, Claire, happy. However, when Claire leaves him for a liquor store salesman, Warren can no longer bear it….
The File on Thelma Jordon (1949)
Cleve Marshall, an assistant district attorney, falls for Thelma Jordon, a mysterious woman with a troubled past. When Thelma becomes a suspect in her aunt’s murder, Cleve tries to clear…
Border Incident (1949)
The story concerns two agents, one Mexican (PJF) and one American, who are tasked to stop the smuggling of Mexican migrant workers across the border to California. The two agents…
Abandoned (1949)
A Los Angeles newspaperman seeks a woman’s sister and finds a black-market baby ring.
Tokyo Joe (1949)
An American veteran returns to Tokyo to try to pick up the threads of his pre-World War II life there, but finds himself squeezed between criminals and the authorities.
Beyond the Forest (1949)
Rosa, the self-serving wife of a small-town doctor, gets a better offer when a wealthy big-city man insists she get a divorce and marry him instead. Soon she demonstrates she…
Reign of Terror (1949)
The French Revolution, 1794. The Marquis de Lafayette asks Charles D’Aubigny to infiltrate the Jacobin Party to overthrow Maximilian Robespierre, who, after gaining supreme power and establishing a reign of…
The Interrupted Journey (1949)
When John North, a budding author, pulls the communication cord of a late night train that is taking him away on a weekend with his publishers wife, he sets in…
Trapped (1949)
Secret Service agents make a deal with a counterfeiting inmate to be released on early parole if he will help them recover some bogus moneymaking plates, but he plans to…
Thieves’ Highway (1949)
Nick Garcos comes back from his tour of duty in World War II planning to settle down with his girlfriend, Polly Faber. He learns, however, that his father was recently…
White Heat (1949)
A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. After the heist, events take…
The Third Man (1949)
In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to learn he has died. Martins develops…
Black Magic (1949)
A hypnotist uses his powers for revenge against King Louis XV’s court.
Rope of Sand (1949)
Story of a South African diamond mine watched over by a sadistic policeman tasked with looking out for smugglers.
Obsession (1949)
A British psychiatrist devises a devilish revenge plot against his wife’s lover.
Conspirator (1949)
A newlywed suspects her husband of being a Communist spy.
Too Late for Tears (1949)
Through a fluke circumstance, a ruthless woman stumbles across a suitcase filled with $60,000, and is determined to hold onto it even if it means murder.
Follow Me Quietly (1949)
When it rains in the city, a serial killer known as “The Judge” looks for his next strangling victim. For months, the madman has been stalking at night, leaving behind…
The Big Steal (1949)
Army Lieutenant Halliday, accused of stealing the Army payroll, pursues the real thief on a frantic chase through Mexico aided by the thief’s ex-girlfriend and is in turn being chased…
House of Strangers (1949)
Gino Monetti is a ruthless Italian-American banker who is engaged in a number of criminal activities. Three of his four grown sons refuse to help their father stay out of…
Man on the Run (1949)
An Army deserter, still a fugitive in Post-War Britain, wanders into a pawn-shop robbery and finds himself wanted for murder. He meets a war widow who helps him elude the…
The Window (1949)
An imaginative boy who frequently makes things up witnesses a murder, but can’t get his parents or the police to believe him. The only people taking him seriously are the…
The Crooked Way (1949)
A war veteran suffering from amnesia, returns to Los Angeles from a San Francisco veterans hospital hoping to learn who he is and discovers his criminal past.
Johnny Stool Pigeon (1949)
A federal agent infiltrates a crime syndicate.
Impact (1949)
After surviving a murder attempt, an auto magnate goes into hiding so his wife can pay for the crime.
The Clay Pigeon (1949)
Jim Fletcher, waking up from a coma, finds he is to be given a court martial for treason and charged with informing on fellow inmates in a Japanese prison camp…
Forbidden (1949)
Set on Blackpool’s Golden Mile, Jim (Douglass Montgomery), a once promising scientist, sets up in business as a patent medicine man selling hair tonic at the fair with his ex-army…
Caught (1949)
Wide-eyed and poor young Leonora weds an obsessive millionaire named Ohlrig, but the marriage is loveless. Even worse, Ohlrig seems to have manic, violent tendencies. Eventually, young Leonora escapes her…