Thriller Movies
The Man Between (1953)
A British woman on a visit to post-war Berlin is caught up in an espionage ring smuggling secrets into and out of the Eastern Bloc.
The Glass Web (1953)
A manipulative diva blackmails a married man and insults her secret lover, leading to her murder. As the husband tries to cover his tracks, the lover sabotages him and suggests…
Jennifer (1953)
A young woman is hired to take care of an eerie old mansion, where she finds herself entangled with an enigmatic murderer.
Crime Wave (1953)
Reformed parolee Steve Lacey is caught in the middle when a wounded former cellmate seeks him out for shelter. The other two former cellmates then attempt to force him into…
Appointment in Honduras (1953)
On a tramp steamer off Central America are Mr. and Mrs. Sheppard, five prisoners en route to a Nicaraguan prison, and Corbett, an American carrying money for a Honduran counter-revolution….
The Big Heat (1953)
After the suspicious suicide of a fellow cop, tough homicide detective Dave Bannion takes the law into his own hands when he sets out to smash a vicious crime syndicate.
Donovan’s Brain (1953)
A scientist takes the brain of dead man and revives it via electrodes as it lays suspended in a tank of liquid. Soon, the brain grows to possess enormous psychic…
Inferno (1953)
When selfish and arrogant millionaire Donald Carson fractures his leg during a desert vacation, his wife, Geraldine, leaves with their friend Joseph Duncan to supposedly get help. However, the two…
Second Chance (1953)
A prize-fighting boxer with a lethal right punch falls for a gangster’s moll on the run in Mexico.
Pickup on South Street (1953)
In New York City, an insolent pickpocket, Skip McCoy, inadvertently sets off a chain of events when he targets ex-prostitute Candy and steals her wallet. Unaware that she has been…
Cry of the Hunted (1953)
A prison convict escapes through the Louisiana swamps.
Split Second (1953)
Escaped convicts hold hostages in a ghost town targeted for a nuclear bomb test.
The Wages of Fear (1953)
In a run-down South American town, four men are paid to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin into the jungle through to the oil field. Friendships are tested and rivalries develop…
Man in the Dark (1953)
Many interested parties are after the loot from a factory payroll heist but the mobster who hid it has amnesia after undergoing experimental brain surgery in the prison hospital.
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…
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,…
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.
Never Let Me Go (1953)
An American reporter falls in love with a Russian ballet dancer.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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.