Thriller Movies
The Fatal Hour

The Fatal Hour

The Fatal Hour
IMDb: 5.4
68

When a police officer is murdered, Captain Street looks to Mr. Wong to catch the killer. Prime Suspect: Frank Belden Jr., whose father is a businessman well known for both…

Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Escape

Escape

Escape
IMDb: 7
98

An American goes to pre-war Germany to find his mother and discovers her in a concentration camp. With the help of an American-born widowed countess he seeks to engineer her…

Genre: Drama, Thriller
The Door with Seven Locks

The Door with Seven Locks

The Door with Seven Locks
IMDb: 5.4
80

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…

Doomed to Die

Doomed to Die

Doomed to Die
IMDb: 5.5
68

Shipping magnate Cyrus Wentworth, downcast over a disaster to his ocean liner ‘Wentworth Castle’ (carrying, oddly enough, an illicit shipment of Chinese bonds) is shot in his office at the…

Contraband

Contraband

Contraband
IMDb: 6.9
91

When a neutral Danish merchant ship is forced to put into port after trying to evade British wartime contraband control, its captain becomes involved in a beautiful British Naval Intelligent…

Genre: Thriller, War
Charlie Chan’s Murder Cruise

Charlie Chan’s Murder Cruise

Charlie Chan’s Murder Cruise
IMDb: 7.1
77

On a cruise ship from Honolulu to San Francisco, the famous Chinese detective encounters four more murders while trying to figure out the murder of a Scotland Yard friend.

Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum

Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum

Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum
IMDb: 7
63

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…

Charlie Chan in Panama

Charlie Chan in Panama

Charlie Chan in Panama
IMDb: 7.1
66

Charlie impersonates an employee of the U.S. government to foil an espionage plot which would destroy part of the Panama Canal, trapping a Navy fleet on its way to the…

The Case of the Frightened Lady

The Case of the Frightened Lady

The Case of the Frightened Lady
IMDb: 6.3
81

A classic British thriller set in a sinister old house, based on a story by Edgar Wallace.

Black Friday

Black Friday

Black Friday
IMDb: 6.3
70

University professor George Kingsley is struck by gangsters while crossing the street, leaving him with brain damage and one of the gangsters, Cannon, paralyzed. Kingsley’s friend Dr. Sovac attends to…

Swanee River

Swanee River

Swanee River
IMDb: 6.1
84

Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl, then is accused of sympathizing…

Genre: Drama, Music, Thriller
The Spy in Black

The Spy in Black

The Spy in Black
IMDb: 6.9
82

A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.

Genre: Thriller, War
Secret Service of the Air

Secret Service of the Air

Secret Service of the Air
IMDb: 5.7
61

Brass Bancroft and his sidekick Gabby Watters are recruited onto the secret service and go undercover to crack a ruthless gang that smuggles illegal aliens.

The Roaring Twenties

The Roaring Twenties

The Roaring Twenties
IMDb: 7.9
104

After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Q Planes

Q Planes

Q Planes
IMDb: 6.5
82

In England, an eccentric police inspector, an earnest test pilot and a spunky female reporter team up to solve the mystery of a series of test aircraft which have disappeared…

Personal Column

Personal Column

Personal Column
IMDb: 6.9
114

To try solving the strange disappearances of 11 young Parisian women, the police obtain the services of Adrienne Charpentier, friend of the latest missing person.

The Mystery of Mr. Wong

The Mystery of Mr. Wong

The Mystery of Mr. Wong
IMDb: 6.1
68

Detective James Lee Wong must find the “Eye of the Daughter of the Moon,” a priceless but cursed sapphire stolen in China and smuggled to America. His search takes him…

Mr. Wong in Chinatown

Mr. Wong in Chinatown

Mr. Wong in Chinatown
IMDb: 5.8
71

A pretty Chinese woman, seeking help from San Francisco detective James Lee Wong, is killed by a poisoned dart in his front hall, having time only to scrawl “Captain J”…

Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Mr. Moto’s Last Warning

Mr. Moto’s Last Warning

Mr. Moto’s Last Warning
IMDb: 6.4
71

A Japanese man claiming to be Mr. Moto, of the International Police, is abducted and murdered soon after disembarking from a ship at Port Said in Egypt. The real Mr….

Jamaica Inn

Jamaica Inn

Jamaica Inn
IMDb: 6.3
108

In coastal Cornwall, England, during the early 19th Century, a young woman who’s come there to visit her aunt, discovers that she’s married an innkeeper who’s a member of a…

The Hound of the Baskervilles

The Hound of the Baskervilles

The Hound of the Baskervilles
IMDb: 7.4
80

On his uncle’s death Sir Henry Baskerville returns from Canada to take charge of his ancestral hall on the desolate moors of Devonshire, and finds that Sherlock Holmes is there…

Gaslight

Gaslight

Gaslight
IMDb: 7.3
84

Twenty years removed from Alice Barlow’s murder by a thief looking for her jewels, newlyweds Paul and Bella Mallen move into the very house where the crime was committed. Retired…

Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Each Dawn I Die

Each Dawn I Die

Each Dawn I Die
IMDb: 7.2
92

A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter’s criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Charlie Chan in Reno

Charlie Chan in Reno

Charlie Chan in Reno
IMDb: 7
70

Mary Whitman has gone to Reno to obtain a divorce. While there she is arrested on suspicion of murdering a fellow guest at her hotel (which specializes in divorcers). There…

Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Charlie Chan at Treasure Island

Charlie Chan at Treasure Island

Charlie Chan at Treasure Island
IMDb: 7.2
72

Charlie Chan’s investigation of a blackmail-induced suicide as a case of murder leads him into a world of magick and mysticism peopled with a stage magician, a phoney spiritualist, and…

Genre: Mystery, Thriller
City in Darkness

City in Darkness

City in Darkness
IMDb: 6.5
75

Chan, in Paris for a reunion with friends from World War I, becomes involved in investigating the murder of a munitions manufacturer who was supplying arms to the enemy, even…

Bulldog Drummond’s Bride

Bulldog Drummond’s Bride

Bulldog Drummond’s Bride
IMDb: 5.9
57

Hugh “Bulldog” Drummond is on the precipice of matrimony to his beloved Phyllis — but a bank robbery and a daring escape is going to get in their way before…

Genre: Action, Thriller
Blind Alley

Blind Alley

Blind Alley
IMDb: 6.3
69

A gangster takes a doctor and his family hostage.

Genre: Crime, Thriller
Blackmail

Blackmail

Blackmail
IMDb: 6.7
81

A fugitive from a chain gang becomes an oil-well firefighter and meets the man who framed him.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
IMDb: 7.2
85

Having once again avoided criminal conviction, Professor Moriarity develops a murderous plan to “finish off” his last major nemesis, Sherlock Holmes, by making him fail to prevent the perfect crime….

Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror

Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror

Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror
IMDb: 5.5
70

Sexton Blake and Tinker foil criminal plot connected with the Tongs, and master-minded by “famous stamp collector” and millionaire.

Genre: Crime, Thriller
Mr. Wong, Detective

Mr. Wong, Detective

Mr. Wong, Detective
IMDb: 5.9
70

A chemical manufacturer is killed just after asking detective James Wong to help him. So detective Wong decides to investigate this as well as two subsequent murders.

The Lady Vanishes

The Lady Vanishes

The Lady Vanishes
IMDb: 7.7
96

On a train headed for England a group of travelers is delayed by an avalanche. Holed up in a hotel in a fictional European country, young Iris befriends elderly Miss…

Charlie Chan in Honolulu

Charlie Chan in Honolulu

Charlie Chan in Honolulu
IMDb: 6.7
67

While Charlie is distracted with the birth of his first grandchild, son Jimmy impersonates his father in order to investigate a murder aboard a freighter in the harbor.

La Bête Humaine

La Bête Humaine

La Bête Humaine
IMDb: 7.5
98

Returning by train to the French port of Le Havre, Jacques Lantier, a tormented railwayman, meets by chance the impulsive stationmaster Roubard and Séverine, his wife.

Young and Innocent

Young and Innocent

Young and Innocent
IMDb: 6.8
83

Robert Tisdall finds on the beach the corpse of a woman he knew. Others wrongly conclude that he is the murderer. Fleeing, he desperately attempts to prove that he is…

Thank You, Mr. Moto

Thank You, Mr. Moto

Thank You, Mr. Moto
IMDb: 6.9
67

Mr. Moto Heads to China on a quest for seven ancient scrolls that reveal the location of Genghis Khan’s tomb—a crypt filled with fabulous treasure! But Moto isn’t the only…

The Old Mill

The Old Mill

The Old Mill
IMDb: 7.7
9

Night in an old mill is dramatically depicted in this Oscar-winning short in which the frightened occupants, including birds, timid mice, owls, and other creatures try to stay safe and…

Night Must Fall

Night Must Fall

Night Must Fall
IMDb: 7.2
116

Wealthy widow Mrs. Bramson notices that her maid is distracted, and when she learns the girl’s fiancé, Danny, is the reason, she summons him in. Mrs. Bramson’s niece Olivia takes…

Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Marked Woman

Marked Woman

Marked Woman
IMDb: 7.1
96

In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city’s most powerful gangsters.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller