Thriller Movies
Phantom of the Rue Morgue (1954)
When several women are found mutilated and murdered, the Paris police are baffled as to who the killer may be. All evidence points to Dupin, but soon it becomes apparent…
Make Haste to Live (1954)
A single mother in New Mexico senses her own death in the hands of a mysterious stalker.
Blackout (1954)
When a beautiful young woman suddenly offers inebriated Casey Morrow a lot of money for a quick and easy job, he doesn’t ask too many questions. But when the girl’s…
Drive a Crooked Road (1954)
A mechanic gets caught up with the mob when he falls for a gangster’s girlfriend.
Dangerous Mission (1954)
A policeman tries to protect a young woman against a hit man, when she flees New York after witnessing a mob killing.
The Good Die Young (1954)
An amoral, psychotic playboy incites three men who are down on their luck to commit a mail van robbery, which goes badly wrong.
Bait (1954)
A man looking for his fortune in a mine decides to tempt his partner with his much younger wife. The goal? To catch them “in the act” and kill him…
World for Ransom (1954)
In Singapore, a private detective and the British authorities are on the trail of a crime syndicate that kidnaps a nuclear physicist with the aim of selling him to the…
Face the Music (1954)
A famed trumpet player is suspected of murdering a blues singer. Using only two minor clues, he narrows the suspects to four people, but only after surviving poison placed on…
Alaska Seas (1954)
A crooked salmon fisherman tries to steal his best friend’s fiancée and put him out of business.
Highway Dragnet (1954)
An ex-Marine, on the lam from a murder charge, hitches a ride with a glamour-magazine photographer, who is travelling cross-country with her principal model. Tensions rise when the women realize…
Girl Gang (1954)
A gangster hooks gangs of young women on drugs and has them commit robberies and prostitution.
Man in the Attic (1953)
London, 1888: on the night of the third Jack the Ripper killing, soft-spoken Mr. Slade, a research pathologist, takes lodgings with the Harleys, including a gloomy attic room for “experiments.”…
The Limping Man (1953)
An American veteran returns to England after WWII to learn that his London lover has become involved with a dangerous spy ring and their search for a limping sniper.
36 Hours (1953)
When his wife stops writing to him and his letters are returned unanswered, Dan becomes extremely concerned about her welfare. He returns home but is only able to meet with…
The Large Rope (1953)
After being framed for a murder he didn’t commit, Tom Penney (Donald Houston) serves his time and returns to his rural English home to establish a quiet life. When another…
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.