Movie | United States | 08/23/1948 | Thriller | Murder
Two young men strangle their \inferior\ classmate, hide his body in their apartment, and invite his friends and family to a dinner party as a means to challenge the \perfection\ of their crime.
Movie | United States | 10/11/1945 | Thriller
Private Detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a rich family. Before the complex case is over, he's seen murder, blackmail, and what might be love.
Movie | United States | 10/25/1944 | Thriller | Noir
A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.
Movie | United States | 10/26/1949 | Thriller
An American in post-war Japan gets caught up in the black market.
Movie | United States | 01/02/1947 | Thriller
Paratroopers Captain Murdock (Bogart) and Sergeant Johnny Drake (William Prince) are mysteriously ordered to travel to Washington, DC. When Drake learns that he is to be awarded the Medal of Honor, he disappears before newspaper photographers can take his picture. Murdock follows the clues and tracks him down, where he learns Drake is dead. Further investigations reveal unexpected twists.
Movie | United States | 05/04/1944 | Thriller | Noir
In the late 19th century, Paula Alquist is studying music in Italy, but ends up abandoning her classes because she's fallen in love with the gallant Gregory Anton. The couple marries and moves to England to live in a home inherited by Paula from her aunt, herself a famous singer, who was mysteriously murdered in the house ten years before. Once they have moved in, Gregory, who is in reality a jewel thief and the murderer of Paula's aunt, launches a campaign of terror designed to drive his new bride insane. Though Paula is certain that she sees the house's gaslights dim every evening and that there are strange noises coming from the attic, Gregory convinces Paula that she's imagining things. Gregory's efforts to make Paula unstable are aided by an impertinent maid, Nancy. Meanwhile, a Scotland Yard inspector, Brian Cameron, becomes suspicious of Gregory and sympathetic to Paula's plight.
Movie | United States | 06/30/1947 | Thriller | Noir
Prison inmates revolt against a sadistic guard.
Movie | United States | 09/28/1946 | Thriller
In this Fritz Lang's compelling World War II espionage thriller, Gary Cooper stars as Alvah Jasper, a shy and retiring physics professor at a midwestern university. When government agents press Jasper into joining them in an effort to curtail the Nazis' efforts to attain atomic secrets, his life takes a dramatic turn.
Movie | United States | 07/29/1952 | Thriller
A nightclub singer enlists her brother-in-law to track down her husband's killer.
Movie | United States | 08/01/1944 | Thriller
The famous Borgia Pearl, a valuable gem with a history of bringing murder and misfortune to its owner since the days of the Borgias, is brought to London, thanks in part to Sherlock Holmes. But before long the jewel is stolen, due to an error on Holmes' part, and shortly thereafter, a series of horrible murders begin, the murderer leaving his victims with their spines snapped and surrounded by a mass of smashed china.