Thriller Movies
23 Paces to Baker Street (1956)
Philip Hannon, a blind playwright living in London, overhears part of a conversation , that leads him into a desperate race, to find a kidnapped child. When he gets no…
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
A couple vacationing in Morocco with their young son accidentally stumble upon an assassination plot. When the child is kidnapped to ensure their silence, they have to take matters into…
A Kiss Before Dying (1956)
A college student tries to get rich quick by wooing two wealthy sisters.
While the City Sleeps (1956)
Newspaper men compete against each other to find a serial killer dubbed “The Lipstick Killer”.
The Man Who Never Was (1956)
The true story of a British effort to trick the Germans into weakening Sicily’s defenses before the 1943 attack. A dead soldier is dressed as a British officer and outfitted…
The Scarlet Hour (1956)
An unhappy wife uses her powers of manipulation to draw an infatuated man into an ill-fated jewelry heist.
Crime Against Joe (1956)
Down-and-out artist Joe Manning wakes up from a night of drunken revelry in a jail cell, where he’s being held on suspicion for the murder of a nightclub singer.
The Price of Fear (1956)
A co-owner of a race track goes on the run after witnessing something he shouldn’t have at the track.
Slightly Scarlet (1956)
Kleptomaniac Dorothy Lyons is paroled from prison into the custody of her sister June, secretary to “reform” politician Frank Jansen. Ben Grace, associate of crime boss Sol “Solly” Caspar, sees…
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.
The Killer Is Loose (1956)
A savings-and-loan bank is robbed; later, a police wiretap identifies meek bank teller Leon Poole as the inside man. In capturing him, detective Sam Wagner accidentally kills Poole’s young wife,…
Ransom! (1956)
A wealthy business man stuns his wife and town with a televised response to his son’s kidnappers.
The Violent Years (1956)
A newspaper publisher’s daughter suffers from neglect by her parents. She and her friends turn to crime by dressing up like men, holding up gas stations, raping young men at…
Hell on Frisco Bay (1955)
A cop framed for a murder he did not commit hunts the San Francisco waterfront for the Mob racketeers who are responsible.
Storm Fear (1955)
A wounded bank robber takes over his brother’s home.
Dial 999 (1955)
A man tells his wife that the police are after him for having killed a bookie during an alcoholic binge, but that he is innocent and is being framed for…
I Died a Thousand Times (1955)
After aging criminal Roy Earle is released from prison he decides to pull one last heist before retiring — by robbing a resort hotel.
A Time to Kill (1955)
A man and a woman are poisoned. The woman dies, but the man survives. The finger of blame begins to point at the man. A policeman and a newspaper journalist…
The Desperate Hours (1955)
Escaped convicts terrorize a suburban family they’re holding hostage.
Killer’s Kiss (1955)
Davey Gordon, a New York City boxer at the end of his career, falls for dancer Gloria Price. However, their budding relationship is interrupted by Gloria’s violent boss, Vincent Rapallo,…
Cast a Dark Shadow (1955)
Edward “Teddy” Bare is a ruthless schemer who thinks he’s hit the big time when he kills his older wife, believing he will inherit a fortune. When things don’t go…
Footsteps in the Fog (1955)
A Victorian-era murder mystery about a parlour maid who discovers that her employer may have killed his first wife.
Female on the Beach (1955)
Lynn Markham moves into her late husband’s beach house the morning after former tenant Eloise Crandall fell from the cliff. To her annoyance, Lynn finds both her real estate agent…
Mr. Arkadin (1955)
Claiming that he doesn’t know his own past, a rich man enlists an ex-con with an odd bit of detective work. Gregory Arkadin says he can’t remember anything before the…
To Catch a Thief (1955)
An ex-thief is accused of enacting a new crime spree, so to clear his name he sets off to catch the new thief, who’s imitating his signature style.
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.
The Night Holds Terror (1955)
A group of escaped convicts holds a household prisoner as the police close in.
5 Against the House (1955)
Former war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.
The Dam Busters (1955)
The story of the conception of a new British weapon for smashing the German dams in the Ruhr industrial complex and the execution of the raid by 617 Squadron ‘The…
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
One evening, Hammer gives a ride to Christina, an attractive hitchhiker on a lonely country road, who has escaped from the nearby lunatic asylum. Thugs waylay them and force his…
The Ship That Died of Shame (1955)
After World War II the crew of a motor gunboat join together to buy their old vessel and go into business for themselves. This may sound like a laudable scheme,…
A Bullet for Joey (1955)
Raoul Leduc is a police inspector trailing a spy who plots to kidnap an important American atomic scientist. Joe Victor a gangster who is hired to carry out the abduction,…
The Night My Number Came Up (1955)
British Air Marshal Hardie is attending a party in Hong Kong when he hears of a dream, told by a pilot, in which Hardie’s flight to Tokyo on a small…
Tight Spot (1955)
A former model, serving time in prison, becomes a key witness in a trial against a notorious gangster. She is put under protective watch by the District Attorney in a…
Big House U.S.A (1955)
A tough and realistic crime drama unfolds as merciless kidnapper Jerry Barker (Ralph Meeker) demands ransom paid against a young runaway whose fate lands Barker in Casabel Island Prison.
New Orleans Uncensored (1955)
Discharged naval officer Dan Corbett moves to New Orleans and accepts a job as a longshoreman, unaware that the docks are run by an infamous racketeer. When the dock manager…