2023 List - Mystery, Crime, and Thriller Movies
Watch list of mystery, crime, and thriller movies from the 1920s to the 1950s.
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- DirectorAlan JamesStarsGuinn 'Big Boy' WilliamsAllene RayNiles WelchA group of people are stalked by a masked killer in an old mansion.
- DirectorJames P. HoganStarsRalph BellamyMargaret LindsayCharley GrapewinThe benefactor of the Stack Memorial Hospital dies after an operation. Ellery Queen investigates when it is revealed the cause of death was murder by strangulation.
- DirectorFrank TuttleStarsNeil HamiltonDoris HillWarner OlandPhilandering actor Richard Hardell is murdered at a movie studio. His jealous wife Blanche, his director Rupert Borka, and a girl he mistreated, Helen MacDonald, all have substantial reasons for having wanted him dead.
- DirectorFrank TuttleStarsWilliam PowellWilliam 'Stage' BoydEugene PalletteA ruthless, crooked stockbroker is murdered at his luxurious country estate, and detective Philo Vance just happens to be there. He decides to find out who killed him.
- DirectorChristy CabanneStarsPeggy ShannonTheodore von EltzJ. Farrell MacDonald(1932, Tiffany) Peggy Shannon, Theodore Von Eltz, Alan Mowbray. A posh hotel is about to close its doors forever. A paroled convict comes back to the hotel to find stolen funds he hid there years earlier. He saves a woman from suicide, unaware that she has been hired by crooks to spirit the loot away from him. This early Tiffany talkie is pretty good. 16mm.
- DirectorWilliam NighStarsNoah BeeryAstrid AllwynEdwin MaxwellPolice try to solve a murder on board an ocean liner.
- DirectorGeorge A. CooperStarsHenry KendallElizabeth AllanFelix AylmerA group of people in an old dark house are terrorized by a mysterious hooded figure dressed in black who proceeds to kill them off one by one.
- DirectorRay EnrightStarsChester MorrisVivienne OsborneFrank McHughPeople in an old, dark mansion are menaced by a maniac called "The Black Ace."
- DirectorMaurice ElveyStarsClaude RainsFay WrayMary ClareA fake music-hall clairvoyant meets a woman, and suddenly his predictions seem to come true ...
- DirectorAlbert de CourvilleStarsEdmund LoweConstance CummingsThomy BourdelleA wise cracking American P.I. traveling abroad with his love interest and sidekick, stumbles on to a dead body. After it disappears again, he starts to unravel a devious crime ring.
- DirectorArthur LubinStarsLouis HaywardEric LindenJ.C. NugentA former actor poses as the son of a wealthy man and gets involved in a murder in which the real son is a suspect.
- DirectorVictor SavilleStarsConrad VeidtVivien LeighJoan GardnerDuring World War I, a German spy and a French spy meet and fall in love.
- DirectorRobert F. HillStarsJune CollyerLloyd HughesLawrence GrayA mysterious killer known as The Fiend uses an unusual bullet as his trademark for his murders.
- DirectorRichard ThorpeStarsBarbara KentJohn HollandDorothy ChristyAlvin Merle, a womanizing Broadway matinée idol, is found strangled in his dressing room. The door is locked from the inside and there is no possible other way into the room. Merle is having an affair with his leading lady, while his wife, actress Ethel Wynn, appearing in another play in a theater around the corner, is doing the same with Frank Murray, the stage manager on Merle's play. Newspaper reporter Jim Ryan is investigating the case and meets Jean Royce, a young actress who had been fired from the play while in rehearsals. Everybody, including Michael, the old actor now relegated to being just a stage-doorman, has a motive. The explanation for the murder lies within the script of the play.
- DirectorWilliam NighStarsHeather AngelRoger PryorJack La RueWhen the daughter of a newspaper publisher is falsely charged with murder, a reporter on her father's paper goes into hiding with her. At first hoping to get an exclusive story, the reporter eventually finds himself falling in love and trying to find the real killer.
- DirectorCrane WilburStarsConrad NagelEleanor HuntVince BarnettAn investigator looks into the activities of a movie producer he believes is involved in smuggling Asians into the U.S.
- DirectorRaymond K. JohnsonStarsRalph ForbesMarion ShillingMalcolm McGregorWhen a nightclub singer is murdered, a local gossip columnist begins his own investigation.
- DirectorLouis J. GasnierStarsSally RandHenry KingEsther MuirSmall-time showgirl, loved by two decent men, poses as a stripper to infiltrate a nightclub whose owner is believed responsible for her father's murder.
- DirectorPhil RosenStarsReginald DennyEvelyn BrentJack La RueWhen a play's two producers are murdered, the playwright tries to solve the crime.
- DirectorCharles E. RobertsStarsEvalyn KnappPreston FosterCharles DelaneyA young lawyer is elected mayor of the city and promises to rid it of the corruption it's famous for. The problem is that most of the corruption he's vowed to eliminate is caused by the crooked political machine that helped elect him.
- DirectorRaymond CannonStarsRalph MorganKay LinakerBen AlexanderBob Terry is in love with Lois Borden the daughter of his employer, John Borden. When some bonds are missing from the office, Bob is accused and because of Borden's strong sense of obligation to his stockholders, Bob is railroaded to prison. A few years later, the real thief is apprehended and Bob is released. He now begins his plan for revenge against Borden with the aid of his prison cell mate Todd and a gangster, John Carmody. Soon, some bonds are missing again and Borden knows Bob is involved but because Bob has suffered at his hands before, Borden assumes the responsibility and is about to be sentenced to prison. Todd is shot while trying to steal the bonds back from Carmody, but gets the bonds back to Bob and, before he dies, begs Bob to return them to the owner.
- DirectorArmand SchaeferStarsJack MulhallPhyllis BarringtonCrauford KentDuring a séance at an elderly millionaire's house, the millionaire is murdered. The detectives investigating the crime discover that everyone who was at the séance had a motive for killing the man.
- DirectorLambert HillyerStarsAnne NagelRobert KentCharles TrowbridgeA ruthless but clever gangster who knows every loophole in the law has the tables turned by a dedicated District Attorney and his assistant.
- DirectorAlbert HermanStarsLawrence GraySheila BromleyJ. Farrell MacDonaldA sea captain receives $40,000 from a crook, and the crooks try to steal it from him.