Thriller Movies
The Bad Seed (1956)
Air Force Colonel Kenneth Penmark and his wife, Christine, adore their daughter Rhoda, despite her secret tendency for selfishness. Christine keeps her knowledge of her daughter’s darker side to herself,…
Now and Forever (1956)
A rich young society girl falls in love with a car mechanic. Her family is appalled and stops her seeing him. The girl attempts to commit suicide and then decides…
The Weapon (1956)
A boy accidentally shoots a friend with a gun he found in the rubble of a destroyed building. The gun turns out to be a clue in a ten-year-old murder…
A Strange Adventure (1956)
A trio of thieves make their getaway by kidnapping a young hot-rodder, and take over a mountain cabin for a hideout after overpowering its occupants.
A Cry in the Night (1956)
A police captain’s emotions get in the way when his daughter is kidnapped.
Lisbon (1956)
For Capt. Robert John Evans, smuggling black-market goods is nothing out of the ordinary. But one day he’s hired by Aristides Mavros for a more involved assignment — sneaking an…
Run for the Sun (1956)
Mike, a Hemingway-esque adventure novelist, is spending his days in a self-imposed exile somewhere in Central America. A reporter for Sight Magazine, Katie, has tracked him down in the hope…
It Conquered the World (1956)
An alien from Venus tries to take over the world with the help of a disillusioned human scientist, as his wife, his best friend and the friend’s wife try to…
Congo Crossing (1956)
Congotanga, West Africa, has no extradition laws; the government is controlled by foreign gangsters, headed by Carl Rittner. The latest plane from Europe carries lovely Louise Whitman, fleeing a French…
Behind the High Wall (1956)
A group prison breakout goes from bad to worse when the desperate warden tries to steal the gang’s dough.
Foreign Intrigue (1956)
Millionaire Victor Danemore, living on the French Riviera, dies suddenly of a heart attack. His secretary, Dave Bishop, wants to know more about his employer’s life. Surprisingly, not even his…
The Gelignite Gang (1956)
A tense thriller that tears the lid off Soho’s underworld and reveals the cunning organization behind a gang of safe-breakers who will stop at nothing, not even murder, to achieve…
Crime in the Streets (1956)
A social worker tries to end juvenile crime by getting involved with a street gang.
The Killing (1956)
Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one last job before he goes straight and…
Outside the Law (1956)
A government agent’s son wins respect and love when he challenges counterfeiters.
The Long Arm (1956)
Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with clues found at the latest burglary in London. The film is notable for using a…
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…