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Diabolique

Movie | France | 01/29/1955 | Thriller | Noir

The cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delassalle, is murdered by an unlikely duo -- his meek wife and the mistress he brazenly flaunts. The women become increasingly unhinged by a series of odd occurrences after Delassalle's corpse mysteriously disappears.

8.0/10

Sunset Boulevard

Movie | United States | 08/04/1950 | Drama | Noir

A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent-film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.

8.5/10

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Touch of Evil

Movie | United States | 04/23/1958 | Crime | Noir

Stark, perverse story of murder, kidnapping, and police corruption in Mexican border town.

8.2/10

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Nowhere to Go

Movie | United Kingdom | 12/02/1958 | Crime | Noir

A professional thief is sprung from prison with the assistance of a new partner who wants to know where he's hid his loot.

6.8/10

Suddenly

Movie | United States | 09/17/1954 | Crime | Noir

The tranquility of a small town is marred only by sheriff Tod Shaw's unsuccessful courtship of widow Ellen Benson, a pacifist who can't abide guns and those who use them. But violence descends on Ellen's household willy-nilly when the U.S. President passes through town... and slightly psycho hired assassin John Baron finds the Benson home ideal for an ambush.

6.8/10

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Shoot the Piano Player

Movie | France | 10/21/1960 | Crime | Noir

Charlie Kohler is a piano player in a bar. The waitress Lena is in love with him. One of Charlie's brother, Chico, a crook, takes refuge in the bar because he is chased by two gangsters, Momo and Ernest. We will discover that Charlie's real name is Edouard Saroyan, once a virtuose who gives up after his wife's suicide. Charlie now has to deal wih Chico, Ernest, Momo, Fido (his youngest brother who lives with him), and Lena...

7.7/10

The Big Combo

Movie | United States | 02/13/1955 | Noir

Police Lt. Leonard Diamond vies to bring a clever, well connected, and sadistic gangster to justice all the while obsessing over the gangster's girlfriend.

7.5/10

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The White Cat

Movie | Sweden | 12/25/1950 | Drama | Noir

A man comes to Stockholm's central station. He does not know who he is or where he has been. He has some keys and a phone number. Perhaps he is the escaped sex maniac the police are searching for. A waitress at a café tries to help him.

The Hypnotist

Movie | United Kingdom | 07/29/1957 | Crime | Noir

Culver is a psychiatrist who uses hypnotism to treat his patients. When Carpenter, a test pilot, comes to see him complaining of blackouts that make his job difficult, Culver tries to mesmerise him into killing his wife.

6.0/10

Rear Window

Movie | United States | 08/04/1954 | Thriller | Murder

Professional photographer L.B. \Jeff\ Jeffries breaks his leg while getting an action shot at an auto race. Confined to his New York apartment, he spends his time looking out of the rear window observing the neighbors. He begins to suspect that a man across the courtyard may have murdered his wife. Jeff enlists the help of his high society fashion-consultant girlfriend Lisa Freemont and his visiting nurse Stella to investigate.

8.5/10

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Vertigo

Movie | United States | 05/09/1958 | Thriller | Mystery

A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.

8.4/10

96%

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North by Northwest

Movie | United States | 07/17/1959 | Thriller | Spies

Madison Avenue advertising man Roger Thornhill finds himself thrust into the world of spies when he is mistaken for a man by the name of George Kaplan. Foreign spy Philip Vandamm and his henchman Leonard try to eliminate him but when Thornhill tries to make sense of the case, he is framed for murder. Now on the run from the police, he manages to board the 20th Century Limited bound for Chicago where he meets a beautiful blond, Eve Kendall, who helps him to evade the authorities. His world is turned upside down yet again when he learns that Eve isnt the innocent bystander he thought she was. Not all is as it seems however, leading to a dramatic rescue and escape at the top of Mt. Rushmore.

8.3/10

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The Killing

Movie | United States | 05/20/1956 | Thriller | Heist

The Killing was Stanley Kubrick’s first film with a professional cast and the first time he achieved public recognition as the unconventional director he’s now known for. The story is of ex-prisoners who plan to set up a racetrack so they can live a life without monetary worries. One of the more exceptional films of the 1950’s.

8.0/10

Suddenly, Last Summer

Movie | United States | 12/22/1959 | Thriller

The only son of wealthy widow Violet Venable dies while on vacation with his cousin Catherine. What the girl saw was so horrible that she went insane; now Mrs. Venable wants Catherine lobotomized to cover up the truth.

7.7/10

The Man Who Knew Too Much

Movie | United States | 06/01/1956 | Thriller | Spies

A widescreen, Technicolor remake of Hitchcock's own 1934 film of the same title starring James Stewart and Doris Day. A couple vacationing in Morocco with their son accidentally stumble upon an assassination plot. When their son is kidnapped to ensure their silence, they have to take matters into their own hands to save him.

7.5/10

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Affair in Trinidad

Movie | United States | 07/29/1952 | Thriller

A nightclub singer enlists her brother-in-law to track down her husband's killer.

Private Property

Movie | United States | 01/20/1960 | Thriller

A hoodlum plots to seduce a lonely housewife and turn her over to his virginal friend.

90%

The Hitch-Hiker

Movie | United States | 03/30/1953 | Thriller

Roy and Gilbert's fishing trip takes a terrifying turn when the hitchhiker they pick up turns out to be a sociopath on the run from the law. He's killed before, and he lets the two know that as soon as they're no longer useful, he'll kill again. The two friends plot an escape, but the hitchhiker's peculiar physical affliction, an eye that never closes even when he sleeps, makes it impossible for them to tell when they can make a break for it.

94%

Cause for Alarm!

Movie | United States | 03/30/1951 | Thriller

A bedridden and gravely ill man believes his wife and doctor are conspiring to kill him, and outlines his suspicions in a letter.

30%