Thriller Movies
The Racket (1951)

The Racket (1951)

The Racket (1951)
IMDb: N/A
88

The big national crime syndicate has moved into town, partnering up with local crime boss Nick Scanlon. McQuigg, the only honest police captain on the force, and his loyal patrolman,…

Genre: Crime, Thriller
The Mob (1951)

The Mob (1951)

The Mob (1951)
IMDb: N/A
87

An undercover officer tracks waterfront corruption from California to New Orleans and back.

Genre: Crime, Thriller
The Tall Target (1951)

The Tall Target (1951)

The Tall Target (1951)
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78

A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln during a train ride headed for Washington in 1861.

His Kind of Woman (1951)

His Kind of Woman (1951)

His Kind of Woman (1951)
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120

Career gambler Dan Milner agrees to a $50,000 deal to leave the USA for Mexico, only to find himself entangled with fellow guests at a luxurious resort and suspecting that…

Cloudburst (1951)

Cloudburst (1951)

Cloudburst (1951)
IMDb: N/A
83

Canadian World War II veteran John Graham works in London as a code breaker. Tragedy strikes when his pregnant wife, Carol, is accidentally run over by two crooks who are…

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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Three Steps North (1951)

Three Steps North (1951)

Three Steps North (1951)
IMDb: N/A
85

An ex-American GI returns to Italy to find some money he stashed before doing a prison term. He discovers his cash is now gone and quickly sets off on a…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
The Strange Door (1951)

The Strange Door (1951)

The Strange Door (1951)
IMDb: N/A
81

The wicked Alain plots an elaborate revenge against his younger brother Edmund, leading to a deadly confrontation in his dungeon deathtrap.

Genre: Horror, Thriller
He Ran All the Way (1951)

He Ran All the Way (1951)

He Ran All the Way (1951)
IMDb: N/A
77

A crook on the run hides out in an innocent girl’s apartment.

Genre: Crime, Thriller
The House on Telegraph Hill (1951)

The House on Telegraph Hill (1951)

The House on Telegraph Hill (1951)
IMDb: N/A
93

Concentration camp survivor Victoria Kowelska finds herself involved in mystery, greed, and murder when she assumes the identity of a dead friend in order to gain passage to America.

Circle of Danger (1951)

Circle of Danger (1951)

Circle of Danger (1951)
IMDb: N/A
86

An American comes to Britain to investigate the murky circumstances of his brother’s death that occurred during a WW2 commando raid.

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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Cause for Alarm! (1951)

Cause for Alarm! (1951)

Cause for Alarm! (1951)
IMDb: N/A
74

A bedridden and gravely ill man believes his wife and doctor are conspiring to kill him, and outlines his suspicions in a letter.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Pool of London (1951)

Pool of London (1951)

Pool of London (1951)
IMDb: N/A
85

Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London.

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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Storm Warning (1951)

Storm Warning (1951)

Storm Warning (1951)
IMDb: N/A
93

A fashion model witnesses the brutal assassination of an investigative journalist by the Ku Klux Klan while traveling to a small town to visit her sister.

Genre: Drama, Thriller
Deported (1950)

Deported (1950)

Deported (1950)
IMDb: N/A
89

The real-life deportation of gangster Lucky Luciano was the inspiration for this romanticized and slightly crackbrained crime drama. Jeff Chandler plays the Luciano counterpart, who once he arrives in Italy…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Cage of Gold (1950)

Cage of Gold (1950)

Cage of Gold (1950)
IMDb: N/A
80

The love that Judy, a young painter, feels for Alan, a promising doctor to whom she is engaged, falters when Bill, an old friend, suddenly appears.

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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Union Station (1950)

Union Station (1950)

Union Station (1950)
IMDb: N/A
81

Police catch a break when suspected kidnappers are spotted on a train heading towards Union Station. Police, train station security and a witness try to piece together the crime and…

Genre: Crime, Thriller
State Secret (1950)

State Secret (1950)

State Secret (1950)
IMDb: N/A
104

While working in England, an American surgeon Dr. John Marlowe is invited to Vosnia (a fictitious East-European country) to receive an award and demonstrate his life-saving surgery. Unwittingly caught in…

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Shakedown (1950)

Shakedown (1950)

Shakedown (1950)
IMDb: N/A
80

Jack Early is a photographer who will stop at nothing to climb his way to the very top of the success ladder. On the strength of his sheer tenacity, he…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Edge of Doom (1950)

Edge of Doom (1950)

Edge of Doom (1950)
IMDb: N/A
99

A priest sets out to catch the man who killed one of his colleagues.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Panic in the Streets (1950)

Panic in the Streets (1950)

Panic in the Streets (1950)
IMDb: N/A
96

A medical examiner discovers that an innocent shooting victim in a robbery died of bubonic plague. With only 48 hours to find the killer, who is now a ticking time…

Genre: Crime, Thriller
Mystery Street (1950)

Mystery Street (1950)

Mystery Street (1950)
IMDb: N/A
93

When a young woman’s skeletal remains turn up on a Massachusetts beach, Barnstable cop Peter Moralas teams with Boston police and uses forensics, with the help of a Harvard professor,…

Genre: Crime, Thriller
Spy Hunt (1950)

Spy Hunt (1950)

Spy Hunt (1950)
IMDb: N/A
75

Roger Quain, escorting two zoo-bound black panthers on the train from Milan to Paris, is unaware that a Western agent, Catherine Ullven, has hidden a microfilm in the collar of…

The Lawless (1950)

The Lawless (1950)

The Lawless (1950)
IMDb: N/A
83

A newspaper editor takes on the cause of oppressed migrant Mexican fruit pickers.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Paul Temple’s Triumph (1950)

Paul Temple’s Triumph (1950)

Paul Temple’s Triumph (1950)
IMDb: N/A
80

A husband-and-wife detective team look into the murder of one of her friends, whose father–a prominent scientist–has been kidnapped. They find themselves up against a sinister crime organization headed by…

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Shadow on the Wall (1950)

Shadow on the Wall (1950)

Shadow on the Wall (1950)
IMDb: N/A
84

Angered that her sister Celia has stolen her fiance, Dell Faring kills her and allows Celia’s husband David, knocked out in an argument with Celia, to take the blame and…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
I Was a Shoplifter (1950)

I Was a Shoplifter (1950)

I Was a Shoplifter (1950)
IMDb: N/A
74

A police detective uses any means possible to trap a gang of shoplifters.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Appointment with Danger (1950)

Appointment with Danger (1950)

Appointment with Danger (1950)
IMDb: N/A
89

Al Goddard, a detective who works for the United States Postal Inspection Service, is assigned to arrest two criminals who’ve allegedly murdered a U.S. postal detective.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Black Hand (1950)

Black Hand (1950)

Black Hand (1950)
IMDb: N/A
92

In turn-of-the-century New York, an Italian seeks vengeance on the mobsters who killed his father.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Borderline (1950)

Borderline (1950)

Borderline (1950)
IMDb: N/A
88

The Los Angeles police know that Pete Ritchie has been bringing drugs into the city, but they can’t pin a single piece of evidence on him. After many botched attempts…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Outside the Wall (1950)

Outside the Wall (1950)

Outside the Wall (1950)
IMDb: N/A
80

Larry Nelson, paroled from prison after serving nearly half of his thirty-year sentence, is determined to not fall into the clutches of the law again, and takes a quiet job…

Backfire (1950)

Backfire (1950)

Backfire (1950)
IMDb: N/A
91

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)

Gun Crazy (1950)

Gun Crazy (1950)
IMDb: N/A
87

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…

Woman in Hiding (1950)

Woman in Hiding (1950)

Woman in Hiding (1950)
IMDb: N/A
92

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 Man on the Eiffel Tower (1949)

The Man on the Eiffel Tower (1949)

The Man on the Eiffel Tower (1949)
IMDb: N/A
97

A down-and-out student is hired to kill a wealthy woman. When someone else is suspected of the crime, the student taunts police until they realize that they may have to…

Genre: Thriller
The Spider and the Fly (1949)

The Spider and the Fly (1949)

The Spider and the Fly (1949)
IMDb: N/A
94

“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,…

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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Tension (1949)

Tension (1949)

Tension (1949)
IMDb: N/A
95

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….

Genre: Crime, Thriller
The File on Thelma Jordon (1949)

The File on Thelma Jordon (1949)

The File on Thelma Jordon (1949)
IMDb: N/A
100

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…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Beyond the Forest (1949)

Beyond the Forest (1949)

Beyond the Forest (1949)
IMDb: N/A
97

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…

Genre: Drama, Thriller
The Interrupted Journey (1949)

The Interrupted Journey (1949)

The Interrupted Journey (1949)
IMDb: N/A
80

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…

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Genre: Thriller
Thieves’ Highway (1949)

Thieves’ Highway (1949)

Thieves’ Highway (1949)
IMDb: N/A
94

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…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller