Thriller Movies
The Young Savages (1961)
A district attorney investigates the racially charged case of three teenagers accused of the murder of a blind Puerto Rican boy.
The Shadow of the Cat (1961)
Tabitha, once the placid, gentle and devoted pet, adopts all the characteristics of a ferocious, wild animal following the murder of her mistress. The three guilty people are all trapped…
The Guns of Navarone (1961)
A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped…
The Secret Ways (1961)
Vienna, 1956. After Soviet tanks crush the Hungarian uprising, soldier-of-fortune Michael Reynolds is hired to help a threatened Hungarian scientist escape from Budapest.
Blast of Silence (1961)
A hired killer from Cleveland has a job to do on a second-string mob boss in New York. But a special girl from his past and a fat gun dealer…
Underworld U.S.A. (1961)
A bitter young man sets out to get back at the gangsters who murdered his father.
Blueprint for Robbery (1961)
A gang of career criminals plots the robbery of an armored car company’s headquarters. Although the robbery itself goes off as planned, it’s not long before the gang members are…
Honeymoon of Terror (1961)
A couple honeymoons on a deserted isle called Thunder Island. When the husband leaves the island to go for supplies, the wife finds that the island isn’t as deserted as…
Return of a Stranger (1961)
An obsessed man returns to claim the woman he loves.
Visa to Canton (1960)
A former World War II pilot, now the owner of a travel agency in Hong Kong, gets involved in espionage trying to help a Chinese woman locate her son.
The Tell-Tale Heart (1960)
Themes of voyeurism and unrequited love compliment Poe’s classic of murder and insanity in this superbly suspenseful loose interpretation. Anxiety-stricken librarian Edgar Marsh becomes infatuated with his next-door neighbor, but…
The Human Vapor (1960)
A librarian is subject to a scientific experiment which goes wrong and transforms him into ‘The Human Vapour’. He uses his new ability to rob banks to fund the career…
Faces in the Dark (1960)
A businessman loses his sight in an explosion on the day his wife planned to leave him for another man.
Suspect (1960)
A government team researching cures for plague find their results put on the Official Secrets list. One of their number is so incensed by this that he lets the maimed…
The House in Marsh Road (1960)
When a woman inherits a valuable house, her nasty husband and his mistress plot murder. But the house has a protective poltergeist who thwarts the wicked pair.
Midnight Lace (1960)
Kit Preston begins to unravel when she receives threatening telephone calls informing her she’s soon to be murdered.
Key Witness (1960)
An average Los Angeles citizen witnesses a gang murder when he stops to use a telephone. When he presents himself to the LAPD as the only person willing to identify…
The Full Treatment (1960)
Race car driver Alan Colby and his new wife Denise are involved in a car crash where he sustains a serious head injury, causing him to have murderous feelings toward…
Tormented (1960)
A jazz pianist is haunted by his dead ex-lover’s crawling hand and floating head.
The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
In this loose adaptation of “Hamlet,” illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and marries the crippled daughter of company vice president Iwabuchi. At…
Portrait in Black (1960)
A pair of lovers plot to kill the woman’s rich husband.
Psycho (1960)
When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates…
The Time Machine (1960)
A Victorian Englishman travels to the far future and finds that humanity has divided into two hostile species.
Man on a String (1960)
U.S. spies catch a Moscow-born U.S. citizen helping spies, and they force him to counterspy.
The Challenge (1960)
Jailed for his role in a gang heist and ditched by its female leader (Jayne Mansfield), a widower (Anthony Quayle) decides to keep the loot.
Peeping Tom (1960)
Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of women. Also he’s making a documentary on fear, which involves recording the…
Cone of Silence (1960)
A seasoned pilot is condemned for an error which causes a crash. The pilot later dies in a crash with similar circumstances and an examiner looks for scientific reasons for…
Hell Is a City (1960)
Set in Manchester, heartland of England’s industrial north, Don Starling escapes from jail becoming England’s most wanted man. Ruthless villain Starling together with his cronies engineered a robbery that resulted…
Rocket Attack U.S.A. (1960)
It’s the height of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union with the Communists launching a spy satellite that has the Free World leaders in a…
Intimidation (1960)
Koreyoshi Kurahara’s ingeniously plotted, pocket-size noir concerns the intertwined fates of a desperate bank manager, blackmailed for book-cooking, and his resentful but timid underling, passed over for a promotion. The…
Seven Thieves (1960)
A discredited professor and a sophisticated thief decide to join together and pick a team to pull off one last job–the casino vault in Monte Carlo.
Never Take Sweets from a Stranger (1960)
Peter Carter, his wife Sally and their young daughter Jean move to a sleepy Canadian village, where Peter has been hired as a school principal. Their idyll is shattered when…
The Last Voyage (1960)
The S. S. Claridon is scheduled for her five last voyages after thirty-eight years of service. After an explosion in the boiler room, Captain Robert Adams is reluctant to evacuate…