Thriller Movies

Ladies in Retirement (1941)

Ladies in Retirement (1941)

Ladies in Retirement (1941)
IMDb: N/A
91

Ellen Creed is a housekeeper who looks after Leonora Fiske, a retired actress living in the English countryside. When Ellen’s eccentric sisters visit their sibling at Leonora’s home, tensions soon…

Genre: Drama, Thriller
Charlie Chan in Rio (1941)

Charlie Chan in Rio (1941)

Charlie Chan in Rio (1941)
IMDb: N/A
60

In Rio de Janiero to arrest a nightclub singer on suspicion of a murder in Hawaii, Charlie Chan becomes involved with the Rio police in solving the singer’s own murder.

Dressed to Kill (1941)

Dressed to Kill (1941)

Dressed to Kill (1941)
IMDb: N/A
74

A detective’s wedding is postponed when gunshots are heard nearby.

Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Out of the Fog (1941)

Out of the Fog (1941)

Out of the Fog (1941)
IMDb: N/A
85

A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen decide to eliminate the gangster themselves rather than complain to the police.

Genre: Crime, Thriller
A Woman’s Face (1941)

A Woman’s Face (1941)

A Woman’s Face (1941)
IMDb: N/A
106

A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.

Genre: Drama, Thriller
The Ghost Train (1941)

The Ghost Train (1941)

The Ghost Train (1941)
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85

Mismatched travellers are stranded overnight at a lonely rural railway station. They soon learn of local superstition about a phantom train which is said to travel these parts at dead…

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Dead Men Tell (1941)

Dead Men Tell (1941)

Dead Men Tell (1941)
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61

When the elderly woman sponsoring a treasure hunt is murdered on board her docked ship, Charlie Chan must deal with a treasure map in four pieces, the ghost of a…

Rage in Heaven (1941)

Rage in Heaven (1941)

Rage in Heaven (1941)
IMDb: N/A
85

A jealous man frames his wife’s suspected lover for murder.

Genre: Drama, Thriller
Shadows on the Stairs (1941)

Shadows on the Stairs (1941)

Shadows on the Stairs (1941)
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64

Occupants of a London boarding house become suspects as a string of murders are discovered.

Genre: Mystery, Thriller
The Mad Doctor (1940)

The Mad Doctor (1940)

The Mad Doctor (1940)
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90

A reporter sleuths the mystery behind an oft-married Viennese doctor whose wives met mysterious fates.

Murder Over New York (1940)

Murder Over New York (1940)

Murder Over New York (1940)
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65

When Charlie’s old friend from Scotland Yard is murdered when they attend a police convention in New York, Chan picks up the case he was working on.

Phantom of Chinatown (1940)

Phantom of Chinatown (1940)

Phantom of Chinatown (1940)
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62

In the middle of a pictorial lecture on his recent expedition to the Mongolian Desert, Dr. John Benton,the famous explorer, drinks from the water bottle on his lecture table, collapses…

Saloon Bar (1940)

Saloon Bar (1940)

Saloon Bar (1940)
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76

A bookmaker with a fancy for detective work attempts to prevent the execution of a potentially innocent man.

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Genre: Thriller
The Case of the Frightened Lady (1940)

The Case of the Frightened Lady (1940)

The Case of the Frightened Lady (1940)
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81

A classic British thriller set in a sinister old house, based on a story by Edgar Wallace.

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Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum (1940)

Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum (1940)

Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum (1940)
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63

A wax museum run by a demented doctor contains statues of such crime figures as Jack the Ripper and Bluebeard. In addition to making wax statues the doctor performs plastic…

Night Train to Munich (1940)

Night Train to Munich (1940)

Night Train to Munich (1940)
IMDb: N/A
96

Czechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, inventor Axel Bomasch manages to flee and reach England; but those who need to…

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Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)

Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)

Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)
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64

Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his “evidence” has sentenced the wrong man to death.

Genre: Mystery, Thriller
They Drive by Night (1940)

They Drive by Night (1940)

They Drive by Night (1940)
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95

Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distributors, rivals and loan collectors, while trying to…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Murder in the Air (1940)

Murder in the Air (1940)

Murder in the Air (1940)
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55

Enemy agents are everywhere and they are sabotaging all important war deliveries. The body of a hobo found in a train wreck had a money belt with $50,000 and a…

Island of Doomed Men (1940)

Island of Doomed Men (1940)

Island of Doomed Men (1940)
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67

An undercover agent wrongly punished for murder is paroled to a remote tropical island with a diamond mine slave labor run by a sadistic foreigner.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Charlie Chan’s Murder Cruise (1940)

Charlie Chan’s Murder Cruise (1940)

Charlie Chan’s Murder Cruise (1940)
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77

On a cruise ship from Honolulu to San Francisco, the famous Chinese detective encounters four more murders while trying to figure out the murder of a Scotland Yard friend.

The House of the Seven Gables (1940)

The House of the Seven Gables (1940)

The House of the Seven Gables (1940)
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89

In 1828, the bankrupt Pyncheon family fight over Seven Gables, the ancestral mansion. To obtain the house, Jaffrey Pyncheon obtains his brother Clifford’s false conviction for murder. Hepzibah, Clifford’s sweet…

Genre: Drama, Thriller
Charlie Chan in Panama (1940)

Charlie Chan in Panama (1940)

Charlie Chan in Panama (1940)
IMDb: N/A
66

Charlie impersonates an employee of the U.S. government to foil an espionage plot which would destroy part of the Panama Canal, trapping a Navy fleet on its way to the…

Black Friday (1940)

Black Friday (1940)

Black Friday (1940)
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70

University professor George Kingsley is struck by gangsters while crossing the street, leaving him with brain damage and one of the gangsters, Cannon, paralyzed. Kingsley’s friend Dr. Sovac attends to…

The Fatal Hour (1940)

The Fatal Hour (1940)

The Fatal Hour (1940)
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68

When a police officer is murdered, Captain Street looks to Mr. Wong to catch the killer. Prime Suspect: Frank Belden Jr., whose father is a businessman well known for both…

Swanee River (1939)

Swanee River (1939)

Swanee River (1939)
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84

Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl, then is accused of sympathizing…

Genre: Drama, Music, Thriller
Personal Column (1939)

Personal Column (1939)

Personal Column (1939)
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114

To try solving the strange disappearances of 11 young Parisian women, the police obtain the services of Adrienne Charpentier, friend of the latest missing person.

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City in Darkness (1939)

City in Darkness (1939)

City in Darkness (1939)
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75

Chan, in Paris for a reunion with friends from World War I, becomes involved in investigating the murder of a munitions manufacturer who was supplying arms to the enemy, even…

The Roaring Twenties (1939)

The Roaring Twenties (1939)

The Roaring Twenties (1939)
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104

After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Blackmail (1939)

Blackmail (1939)

Blackmail (1939)
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81

A fugitive from a chain gang becomes an oil-well firefighter and meets the man who framed him.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)
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85

Having once again avoided criminal conviction, Professor Moriarity develops a murderous plan to “finish off” his last major nemesis, Sherlock Holmes, by making him fail to prevent the perfect crime….

Charlie Chan at Treasure Island (1939)

Charlie Chan at Treasure Island (1939)

Charlie Chan at Treasure Island (1939)
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72

Charlie Chan’s investigation of a blackmail-induced suicide as a case of murder leads him into a world of magick and mysticism peopled with a stage magician, a phoney spiritualist, and…

Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Each Dawn I Die (1939)

Each Dawn I Die (1939)

Each Dawn I Die (1939)
IMDb: N/A
92

A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter’s criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Mr. Wong in Chinatown (1939)

Mr. Wong in Chinatown (1939)

Mr. Wong in Chinatown (1939)
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71

A pretty Chinese woman, seeking help from San Francisco detective James Lee Wong, is killed by a poisoned dart in his front hall, having time only to scrawl “Captain J”…

Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Bulldog Drummond’s Bride (1939)

Bulldog Drummond’s Bride (1939)

Bulldog Drummond’s Bride (1939)
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57

Hugh “Bulldog” Drummond is on the precipice of matrimony to his beloved Phyllis — but a bank robbery and a daring escape is going to get in their way before…

Genre: Action, Thriller
Charlie Chan in Reno (1939)

Charlie Chan in Reno (1939)

Charlie Chan in Reno (1939)
IMDb: N/A
70

Mary Whitman has gone to Reno to obtain a divorce. While there she is arrested on suspicion of murdering a fellow guest at her hotel (which specializes in divorcers). There…

Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Blind Alley (1939)

Blind Alley (1939)

Blind Alley (1939)
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69

A gangster takes a doctor and his family hostage.

Genre: Crime, Thriller
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)

The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)

The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)
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80

On his uncle’s death Sir Henry Baskerville returns from Canada to take charge of his ancestral hall on the desolate moors of Devonshire, and finds that Sherlock Holmes is there…

The Mystery of Mr. Wong (1939)

The Mystery of Mr. Wong (1939)

The Mystery of Mr. Wong (1939)
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68

Detective James Lee Wong must find the “Eye of the Daughter of the Moon,” a priceless but cursed sapphire stolen in China and smuggled to America. His search takes him…

Secret Service of the Air (1939)

Secret Service of the Air (1939)

Secret Service of the Air (1939)
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61

Brass Bancroft and his sidekick Gabby Watters are recruited onto the secret service and go undercover to crack a ruthless gang that smuggles illegal aliens.