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| 1 |  | Rear Window (1954) |  3.9056 97 reviews | NA | Thriller, Mystery |
$8.84
| In this Alfred Hitchcock Thriller, James Stewart plays L.B. Jefferies who is homebound after ...more about Rear Window starring James Stewart and Grace Kelly |
| 2 |  | Third Man, The (1950) |  3.7039 64 reviews | Not Rated | Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller, Mystery, Film-Noir |
$23.99
| Novelist Holly Martins goes to post-war Vienna on the invite of his friend, Harry Lime, who ...more about Third Man starring Joseph Cotten and Geoffrey Keen |
| 3 |  | Vertigo (1958) | 3.7026 132 reviews | PG | Drama, Thriller, Crime, Mystery, Romance |
$13.99
| Retired police detective Scottie Fergusson is asked by an old college friend to follow his wife, ...more about Vertigo starring James Stewart and Kim Novak |
| 4 |  | Some Like It Hot (1959) | 3.6570 72 reviews | NA | Thriller, Crime, Romance, Comedy, Music |
$4.55
| Joe (Tony Curtis) and Jerry (Jack Lemmon) just happen to be at the wrong place at the wrong time ...more about Some Like It Hot starring Marilyn Monroe and Tony Curtis |
| 5 |  | Touch of Evil (1958) | 3.6103 77 reviews | PG-13 | Thriller, Crime, Adaptation, Film-Noir |
$8.89
| A Mexican government investigator and his young American wife put their honeymoon on hold in an ...more about Touch of Evil starring Charlton Heston and Janet Leigh |
| 6 |  | Seventh Seal, The (1957) | 3.6102 34 reviews | Not Rated | Drama, Thriller, Fantasy |
$24.29
| A Knight and his squire are home from the crusades. Black Death is sweeping their country. As they ...more about Seventh Seal starring Max von Sydow and Inga Landgré |
| 7 |  | North by Northwest (1959) | 3.5541 115 reviews | NA | Adventure, Thriller, Mystery |
$10.53
| Middle-aged Madison Avenue advertising executive Roger O. Thornhill is mistaken for a government ...more about North by Northwest starring Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint |
| 8 |  | Night of the Hunter, The (1955) | 3.5409 56 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Film-Noir |
$6.62
| While incarcerated with condemned killer Ben Harper (Peter Graves), fake preacher Harry Powell ...more about Night of the Hunter starring Robert Mitchum and Shelley Winters |
| 9 |  | Strangers on a Train (1951) | 3.4828 63 reviews | PG | Drama, Thriller, Crime, Film-Noir |
$8.63
| An Alfred Hitchcock thriller about a famous tennis player named Guy Haines (Farley Granger) who is ...more about Strangers on a Train starring Farley Granger and Ruth Roman |
| 10 |  | High Noon (1952) | 3.2624 78 reviews | PG | Thriller, Western |
$3.99
| On his last day as town Marshall, Will Kane hears a rumor that one of the men he put in jail is on ...more about High Noon starring Gary Cooper and Lloyd Bridges |
| 11 |  | Killing, The (1956) |  3.2493 49 reviews | PG | Drama, Thriller, Crime, Film-Noir |
$5.69
| After getting out of prison, Johnny Clay masterminds a complex race-track heist, but his scheme is ...more about Killing starring Sterling Hayden and Coleen Gray |
| 12 |  | Witness for the Prosecution (1957) | 3.2087 20 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Mystery |
$10.65
| When Leonard Vole is arrested for the sensational murder of a rich, middle-aged widow, the famous ...more about Witness for the Prosecution starring Tyrone Power and Marlene Dietrich |
| 13 |  | Dial M for Murder (1954) | 3.1960 47 reviews | PG | Thriller, Crime |
$6.85
| Ex-tennis pro Tony Wendice decides to murder his wife for her money and because she had an affair ...more about Dial M for Murder starring Ray Milland and Grace Kelly |
| 14 |  | Big Heat, The (1953) | 3.1877 35 reviews | PG | Drama, Thriller, Crime, Film-Noir |
$17.37
| Detective Dave Bannion investigates a police sergeant's suicide. Strictly routine...until a B-girl ...more about Big Heat starring Glenn Ford and Gloria Grahame |
| 15 |  | Defiant Ones, The (1958) | 3.1383 22 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Crime |
$8.65
| Joker Jackson and Noah Cullen are two convicts on a chain gang who hate each other. After a truck ...more about Defiant Ones starring Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier |
| 16 |  | Day the Earth Stood Still, The (1951) | 3.1353 95 reviews | G | Drama, Thriller, Sci-Fi |
$4.86
| When an alien and his robot land on Earth to deliver a message to all it's world leaders they are ...more about Day the Earth Stood Still starring Michael Rennie and Patricia Neal |
| 17 |  | Tiger Bay (1959) | 3.1008 11 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Crime | N/A | 12 year old Gillie witnesses a Polish Sailor killing his girlfriend and manages to get hold of the ...more about Tiger Bay starring John Mills and Horst Buchholz |
| 18 |  | War of the Worlds, The (1953) | 3.0598 79 reviews | PG | Action, Drama, Thriller, Horror, Sci-Fi |
$5.64
| H.G. Well's classic novel is brought to life is this tale of alien invasion. The resisdents of a ...more about War of the Worlds starring Gene Barry and Ann Robinson |
| 19 |  | Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) | 3.0466 45 reviews | NA | Thriller, Horror, Sci-Fi |
$9.99
| Dr Miles Bennel returns his small town practice to find several of his patients suffering the ...more about Invasion of the Body Snatchers starring Dana Wynter and Larry Gates |
| 20 |  | House of Wax (1953) | 3.0443 46 reviews | NA | Thriller, Horror, Crime, Mystery |
$3.68
| A sculptor of wax figures for a museum is horrified when his partner proposes setting fire to the ...more about House of Wax starring Vincent Price and Frank Lovejoy |
| 21 |  | Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) | 3.0248 32 reviews | PG | Drama, Thriller |
$8.68
| In 1945 a train pulls into Black Rock, hardly even a whistlestop, and lets Macreedy off. He wants ...more about Bad Day at Black Rock starring Spencer Tracy and Robert Ryan |
| 22 |  | Forbidden Planet (1956) | 3.0159 42 reviews | G | Drama, Thriller, Sci-Fi |
$14.99
| When Adams and his crew are sent to investigate the silence from a planet inhabited by scientists, ...more about Forbidden Planet starring Walter Pidgeon and Anne Francis |
| 23 |  | Kiss Me Deadly (1955) | 2.9971 37 reviews | NA | Thriller, Crime, Film-Noir |
$5.99
| One dark night, sleazy private eye Mike Hammer picks up a girl on the highway, wearing only a ...more about Kiss Me Deadly starring Ralph Meeker and Albert Dekker |
| 24 |  | Bad Seed, The (1956) | 2.9842 41 reviews | PG | Drama, Thriller, Horror |
$13.99
| Christine Penmark seems to have it all: a lovely home, a loving husband and the most "perfect" ...more about Bad Seed starring Nancy Kelly and Henry Jones |
| 25 |  | I Bury the Living (1958) | 2.9588 30 reviews | NA | Thriller, Horror, Mystery |
$5.16
| A newly appointed cemetery chairman discovers that, merely by inserting a black pin into a ...more about I Bury the Living starring Richard Boone and Theodore Bikel |
| 26 |  | It Came from Outer Space (1953) | 2.9540 40 reviews | NA | Thriller, Horror, Sci-Fi, Teen |
$10.99
| A young astronomer and his wife witness a small being emerge from large object that has plummeted ...more about It Came from Outer Space starring Richard Carlson and Barbara Rush |
| 27 |  | I Confess (1953) | 2.9344 17 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller |
$8.63
| Otto Kellar and his wife Alma work as caretaker and housekeeper at a Catholic church in Quebec. ...more about I Confess starring Montgomery Clift and Dolly Haas |
| 28 |  | Man Who Knew Too Much, The (1956) | 2.9164 19 reviews | PG | Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller |
$9.41
| Dr. Ben McKenna, his wife Jo and their son Hank are on a touring holiday of Africa when they meet ...more about Man Who Knew Too Much starring James Stewart and Doris Day |
| 29 |  | Bat, The (1959) | 2.9002 14 reviews | NA | Thriller, Horror, Mystery |
$1.99
| Mystery writer Cornelia Van Gorder has rented a country house called "The Oaks", which not long ago ...more about Bat starring Vincent Price and Agnes Moorehead |
| 30 |  | Compulsion (1959) | 2.8962 19 reviews | Not Rated | Drama, Thriller, Crime |
$6.88
| Based very closely on the Loeb-Leopold murder case, the second half of the movie is primarily taken ...more about Compulsion starring Orson Welles and Diane Varsi |
| 31 |  | Mr. Arkadin (1955) | 2.8917 40 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Crime, Mystery |
$32.38
| Guy Stratten gets the order from Mr. Arkadin, to find out everything about his past, because he ...more about Mr. Arkadin starring Akim Tamiroff and Grégoire Aslan |
| 32 |  | Desperate Hours, The (1955) | 2.8902 17 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Film-Noir |
$4.94
| Dan Hilliard is a comfortable upper-middle-class executive with a wife and two children and a ...more about Desperate Hours starring Humphrey Bogart and Arthur Kennedy |
| 33 |  | Night and the City (1950) | 2.8414 22 reviews | NA | Thriller, Crime, Film-Noir |
$27.95
| Harry Fabian (Richard Widmark) is a London hustler with ambitious plans that never work out. One ...more about Night and the City starring Richard Widmark and Gene Tierney |
| 34 |  | Panic in the Streets (1950) | 2.8225 29 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Crime, Film-Noir |
$6.59
| One night in the New Orleans slums, vicious hoodlum Blackie and his friends kill an illegal ...more about Panic in the Streets starring Richard Widmark and Paul Douglas |
| 35 |  | House on Haunted Hill (1959) | 2.8117 28 reviews | NA | Thriller, Horror, Comedy |
$2.99
| Five diverse people are invited to a 'haunted house' party. They are offered $10,000 each by an ...more about House on Haunted Hill starring Vincent Price and Carolyn Craig |
| 36 |  | Sudden Fear (1952) | 2.8021 6 reviews | NA | Thriller, Horror, Film-Noir |
$19.95
| Actor Lester Blaine has all but landed the lead in Myra Hudson's new play when Myra vetoes him ...more about Sudden Fear starring Joan Crawford and Jack Palance |
| 37 |  | Blue Gardenia, The (1953) | 2.8017 19 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Crime, Film-Noir |
$7.64
| Nora is a pretty telephone operator engaged to a soldier overseas. On her birthday, she gets a Dear ...more about Blue Gardenia starring Anne Baxter and Richard Conte |
| 38 |  | Stage Fright (1950) | 2.7842 8 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller |
$8.63
| Jonathan Cooper is wanted by the police who suspect him of killing his lover's husband. His friend ...more about Stage Fright starring Jane Wyman and Marlene Dietrich |
| 39 |  | House on Telegraph Hill, The (1951) | 2.7716 8 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Mystery, Film-Noir |
$5.50
| Victoria has survived Nazi concentration by assuming the identity of one who died there. She ...more about House on Telegraph Hill starring Richard Basehart and William Lundigan |
| 40 |  | Niagara (1953) | 2.7664 26 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Film-Noir |
$10.91
| George and Rose Loomis are honeymooning at a Niagara Falls motel. She plots with Ted Patrick to do ...more about Niagara starring Marilyn Monroe and Joseph Cotten |
| 41 |  | Night Heaven Fell, The (1958) | 2.7641 14 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Crime |
$14.71
| Ursula leaves the convent where she was educated, to start living with her uncle, the count Ribera, ...more about Night Heaven Fell starring Brigitte Bardot and Alida Valli |
| 42 |  | Corridors of Blood (1958) | 2.7545 10 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Horror, Crime |
$39.99
| In an effort to relieve the suffering of surgery patients, Dr. Thomas Bolton painstakingly develops ...more about Corridors of Blood starring Boris Karloff and Betta St. John |
| 43 |  | To Catch a Thief (1955) |  2.7362 17 reviews | Not Rated | Drama, Thriller, Mystery, Romance, Adaptation |
$5.56
| American expatriate John Robie living in high style on the Riviera is a retired cat burglar. He ...more about To Catch a Thief starring Cary Grant and Grace Kelly |
| 44 |  | Quatermass Xperiment, The (1955) | 2.6864 23 reviews | NA | Thriller, Horror, Sci-Fi |
$3.99
| A missile, launched by the team led by Prof. Quatermass, lands in the English countryside. Of the ...more about Quatermass Xperiment starring Brian Donlevy and Jack Warner |
| 45 |  | Fourteen Hours (1951) | 2.6658 9 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Film-Noir |
$6.59
| A young man, morally destroyed by his parents not loving him and by the fear of being not capable ...more about Fourteen Hours starring Paul Douglas and Richard Basehart |
| 46 |  | Our Man in Havana (1959) | 2.6451 12 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Comedy | N/A | Jim Wormold sells vacuum cleaners in Havana. His daughter Milly, 17, spends a lot of money, so he ...more about Our Man in Havana starring Alec Guinness and Burl Ives |
| 47 |  | Murder by Contract (1958) | 2.6180 8 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Crime, Film-Noir | N/A | Claude is a self-made hitman who gets picked up by the big boys to handle a troublesome witness. ...more about Murder by Contract starring Vince Edwards and Phillip Pine |
| 48 |  | No Highway (1951) | 2.5875 4 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller | N/A | Theodore Honey is an aeronautical engineer being sent to Labrador from London to examine the ...more about No Highway starring James Stewart and Marlene Dietrich |
| 49 |  | Without Warning! (1952) | 2.5617 7 reviews | NA | Thriller, Crime, Film-Noir |
$11.97
| Quiet, unobtrusive LA citizen Carl Martin picks up look-alikes for his estranged blonde wife and ...more about Without Warning! starring Adam Williams and Meg Randall |
| 50 |  | Suddenly (1954) | 2.5350 5 reviews | Not Rated | Drama, Thriller, Crime, Mystery, Film-Noir |
$4.55
| The tranquility of a small town is marred only by sheriff Tod Shaw's unsuccessful courtship of ...more about Suddenly starring Frank Sinatra and Sterling Hayden |
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