Thriller Movies
Strange Harvest (1953)
A sailor on leave gives a lift to two men who steal his money and car, leaving him for dead in a cornfield, which they don’t know is to be…
Fear and Desire (1953)
After their airplane crashes behind enemy lines, four soldiers must survive and try to find a way back to their battalion. However, when they come across a local peasant girl…
Jeopardy (1953)
A woman is kidnapped when she goes to get help for her husband who is trapped on a beach with the tide coming in to surely drown him.
The Hitch-Hiker (1953)
Roy and Gilbert’s fishing trip takes a terrifying turn when the hitchhiker they pick up turns out to be a sociopath on the run from the law. He’s killed before,…
Never Let Me Go (1953)
An American reporter falls in love with a Russian ballet dancer.
Mantrap (1953)
Branded as criminally insane and incarcerated for a murder he did not commit, Speight escapes from the asylum, determined to clear his name. He befriends private detective Hugo Bishop who,…
I Confess (1953)
Unable, due to the seal of the confessional, to be forthcoming with information that would serve to clear himself during a murder investigation, a priest becomes the prime suspect.
The Yellow Balloon (1953)
A young boy is blackmailed by a crook who saw him unwittingly cause his friend’s death.
Time Bomb (1953)
When a saboteur places an explosive device on a train full of sea mines, the authorities call for bomb expert Peter Lyncort to diffuse the situation, unaware that he has…
Niagara (1953)
Rose Loomis and her older, gloomier husband, George, are vacationing at a cabin in Niagara Falls, N.Y. The couple befriend Polly and Ray Cutler, who are honeymooning in the area….
The Long Memory (1953)
An innocent man is released from prison after 12 years and tracks down the witnesses who lied about him in court.
The Gambler and the Lady (1952)
A greedy but successful professional gambler wants to join the British Establishment when he falls in love with a blue-blooded lady. But first he must mend his ways and then…
Bomba and the Jungle Girl (1952)
Bomba decides to find out who his parents were. He starts with Cody Casson’s diary and follows the trail to a native village. An ancient blind woman tells him his…
Escape Route (1952)
When nuclear scientists are kidnapped and smuggled behind the Iron Curtain, an FBI man and a British agent are assigned to catch the kidnappers.
Desperate Search (1952)
A man (Howard Keel), his wife (Jane Greer) and his famous-aviator ex-wife (Patricia Medina) search for their two children lost with a cougar.
The Steel Trap (1952)
Joseph Cotten plays an assistant bank manager who steals $1,000,000 from the safe late on a Friday and then plans to flee to Brazil over the weekend.
The Gentle Gunman (1952)
The relationship between brothers Terry and Matt, both active in the IRA, comes under strain when Terry begins to question the use of violence.
The Thief (1952)
A chance accident causes a nuclear physicist, who’s selling top secret material to the Russians, to fall under FBI scrutiny and go on the run.
Venetian Bird (1952)
Private eye Edward Mercer travels to Venice to locate a man due a reward for his aid in the war. Shortly after arriving, he becomes the prime suspect in the…
Ghost Ship (1952)
Warned that it is haunted, a skeptical young couple buy a rundown yacht and fix it up to be their home-on-the-sea, only to slowly realize that it really is haunted.
Assignment: Paris (1952)
Paris-based New York Herald Tribune reporter Jimmy Race (Andrews) is sent by his boss (Sanders) behind the Iron Curtain in Budapest to investigate a meeting involving the Hungarian ambassador.
Park Row (1952)
In New York’s 1880s newspaper district, a dedicated journalist manages to set up his own paper. It is an immediate success but attracts increasing opposition from one of the bigger…
Big Jim McLain (1952)
House Un-American Activities Committee investigators Jim McLain and Mal Baxter come to post war Hawaii to track Communist Party activities even though belonging to the party was legal at the…
Beware My Lovely (1952)
A psychopath on the run takes a job as a handyman at the house of a lonely widow.
Sudden Fear (1952)
Actor Lester Blaine has all but landed the lead in Myra Hudson’s new play when Myra vetoes him because, to her, he doesn’t look like a romantic leading man. On…
Crow Hollow (1952)
A greedy woman tries to poison her nephew’s bride in a dark mansion.
Affair in Trinidad (1952)
A nightclub singer enlists her brother-in-law to track down her husband’s killer.
Don’t Bother to Knock (1952)
An airline pilot pursues a live-in babysitter at his hotel and gradually realizes she is not as stable as perhaps she should be.
Diplomatic Courier (1952)
During the Cold War, diplomatic courier Mike Kells must retrieve a dispatch containing top-secret intelligence. But when he arrives at the meeting point, a train station in Salzburg, his contact…
The Sniper (1952)
Eddie Miller struggles with his hatred of women, he’s especially bothered by seeing women with their lovers. He starts a killing spree as a sniper by shooting women from far…
Without Warning! (1952)
Los Angeles is paralysed with terror when a lovesick murderer takes to the streets with a pair of garden shears
The Narrow Margin (1952)
A tough cop meets his match when he has to guard a gangster’s widow on a train journey from Chicago to Los Angeles.
Stolen Face (1952)
A plastic surgeon changes the face of a female convict to match that of the beautiful woman who broke his heart and left him. He marries the convict but trouble…
The Atomic City (1952)
Spies hold the son of a nuclear physicist (Gene Barry) hostage in exchange for the Los Alamos bomb formula.
Wings of Danger (1952)
A former pilot suffering from blackouts discovers that a fellow flyer is suspected of being mixed up with a web of smugglers. While searching for his missing buddy, he unwittingly…
Hunted (1952)
An unexpected bond develops between a fugitive killer and a runaway orphan on an odyssey across England.
5 Fingers (1952)
During WWII, the valet to the British Ambassador to Ankara sells British secrets to the Germans while trying to romance a refugee Polish countess.