Thriller Movies
Across the Pacific (1942)
Rick Leland makes no secret of the fact he has no loyalty to his home country after he is court-martialed out of the army and boards a Japanese ship for…
Berlin Correspondent (1942)
Dana Andrews plays Bill Roberts, an American radio commentator station in Berlin in the months before Pearl Harbor. Having witnessed Nazi brutalities first hand, Roberts hopes to alert his listeners…
The Next of Kin (1942)
Lots of slogans such as “Be like Dad, Keep Mum” and “Keep it under your Hat” are visible on the walls in various scenes to reinforce the plot of this…
The Night Has Eyes (1942)
Two teachers, man-hungry Doris and restrained Marian, visit the Yorkshire moors a year after friend Evelyn disappeared there. On a stormy night, they take refuge in the isolated cottage of…
Moontide (1942)
After a drunken night out, a longshoreman thinks he may have killed a man.
Saboteur (1942)
Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane flees across the United States after he is wrongly accused of starting the fire that killed his best friend.
This Gun for Hire (1942)
Sadistic killer-for-hire Philip Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss, nightclub executive Gates, Raven sits beside Gates’…
Kid Glove Killer (1942)
Van Heflin stars as the head of a city crime lab who tries to solve the murder of the town mayor by scientifically analyzing evidence.
Black Dragons (1942)
It is prior to the commencement of World War II, and Japan’s fiendish Black Dragon Society is hatching an evil plot with the Nazis. They instruct a brilliant scientist, Dr….
Castle in the Desert (1942)
Charlie Chan, with son Jimmy on a week’s pass from the Army, takes up a request for help at a castle-home, miles from anywhere in the American desert south-west and…
All Through the Night (1942)
Broadway gamblers stumble across a plan by Nazi saboteurs to blow up an American battleship.
Tower of Terror (1941)
Wartime Germany: Marie, a concentration camp escapee on the run from the Nazis, narrowly escapes drowing when she is rescued by Wolfe Kristan a half-mad lighthouse keeper. Brought aboard the…
Dangerously They Live (1941)
A New York City doctor tries to rescue a young woman from Nazi agents.
Among the Living (1941)
A mentally unstable man, who has been kept in isolation for years, escapes and causes trouble for his identical twin brother.
49th Parallel (1941)
In the early days of World War II, a German U-boat is sunk in Canada’s Hudson Bay. Hoping to evade capture, a small band of German soldiers led by commanding…
Swamp Water (1941)
A hunter happens upon a fugitive and his daughter living in a Georgia swamp. He falls in love with the girl and persuades the fugitive to return to town.
Suspicion (1941)
A wealthy and sheltered young woman elopes with a charming playboy and soon learns of his bad traits, including his extreme dishonesty and lust for money. Gradually, she begins to…
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.
International Lady (1941)
Tim Hanley, an American agent, posing as a lawyer with the United States Embassy in London, and Reggie Oliver, a Scotland Yard detective, posing as a music critic are both…
Ladies in Retirement (1941)
Ellen Creed is a housekeeper who looks after Leonora Fiske, a retired actress living in the English countryside. When Ellen’s eccentric sisters visit their sibling at Leonora’s home, tensions soon…
Cottage to Let (1941)
Allied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor’s nearly perfected bomb sight.
Charlie Chan in Rio (1941)
In Rio de Janiero to arrest a nightclub singer on suspicion of a murder in Hawaii, Charlie Chan becomes involved with the Rio police in solving the singer’s own murder.
Dressed to Kill (1941)
A detective’s wedding is postponed when gunshots are heard nearby.
‘Pimpernel’ Smith (1941)
Eccentric Cambridge archaeologist Horatio Smith takes a group of British and American archaeology students to pre-war Nazi Germany to help in his excavations. His research is supported by the Nazis,…
Out of the Fog (1941)
A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen decide to eliminate the gangster themselves rather than complain to the police.
Man Hunt (1941)
Shortly before the start of WW2, renowned British big-game hunter Alan Thorndike, vacationing in Bavaria, has Hitler in his gun sight. He is captured, beaten, left for dead, and escapes…
A Woman’s Face (1941)
A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.
The Ghost Train (1941)
Mismatched travellers are stranded overnight at a lonely rural railway station. They soon learn of local superstition about a phantom train which is said to travel these parts at dead…
Invisible Ghost (1941)
The town’s leading citizen becomes a homicidal maniac after his wife deserts him.
Dead Men Tell (1941)
When the elderly woman sponsoring a treasure hunt is murdered on board her docked ship, Charlie Chan must deal with a treasure map in four pieces, the ghost of a…
Rage in Heaven (1941)
A jealous man frames his wife’s suspected lover for murder.
Shadows on the Stairs (1941)
Occupants of a London boarding house become suspects as a string of murders are discovered.
The Mad Doctor (1940)
A reporter sleuths the mystery behind an oft-married Viennese doctor whose wives met mysterious fates.
Murder Over New York (1940)
When Charlie’s old friend from Scotland Yard is murdered when they attend a police convention in New York, Chan picks up the case he was working on.
Phantom of Chinatown (1940)
In the middle of a pictorial lecture on his recent expedition to the Mongolian Desert, Dr. John Benton,the famous explorer, drinks from the water bottle on his lecture table, collapses…
Saloon Bar (1940)
A bookmaker with a fancy for detective work attempts to prevent the execution of a potentially innocent man.
The Door with Seven Locks (1940)
A wealthy lord dies and is entombed with a valuable deposit of jewels. Seven keys are required to unlock the tomb and get hold of the treasure. A mad doctor…
The Case of the Frightened Lady (1940)
A classic British thriller set in a sinister old house, based on a story by Edgar Wallace.
Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum (1940)
A wax museum run by a demented doctor contains statues of such crime figures as Jack the Ripper and Bluebeard. In addition to making wax statues the doctor performs plastic…