Mystery Movies
 
The Bat (1959)
Mystery writer Cornelia Van Gorder has rented a country house called “The Oaks”, which not long ago was the scene of some murders committed by a strange and violent criminal…
 
The Scapegoat (1959)
An Englishman in France unwittingly is placed into the identity, and steps into the vacated life, of a look-alike French nobleman.
 
The Alligator People (1959)
Under therapeutic hypnosis, a seemingly well-adjusted young woman tells a fantastic story, verified by lie detector, of her forgotten marriage to a man who disappeared on the day of their…
 
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
Semi-retired Michigan lawyer Paul Biegler takes the case of Army Lt. Manion, who murdered a local innkeeper after his wife claimed that he raped her. Over the course of an…
 
The Man in the Net (1959)
An artist living in a quiet Connecticut town is the main suspect in the disappearance of his shrew wife. Things turn ugly when the townsfolk attempt to take the law…
 
Deadly Record (1959)
A young airline pilot wrongly accused of murdering his unfaithful wife searches for the real killer.
 
Jack the Ripper (1959)
A serial killer is murdering women in the Whitechapel district of London. An American policeman is brought in to help Scotland Yard solve the case.
 
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)
When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.
 
House on Haunted Hill (1959)
Frederick Loren has invited five strangers to a party of a lifetime. He is offering each of them $10,000 if they can stay the night in a house. But the…
 
Macabre (1958)
After his wife and her blind sister have died under his care, a doctor’s small daughter is kidnapped and reported as buried alive, and he is given just five hours…
 
Money Women and Guns (1958)
Celebrated detective traces and finds beneficiaries to the will of a gold prospector murdered by bushwhackers.
 
Raw Wind in Eden (1958)
Passengers struggle to survive after their plane crashes on a remote island. Director Richard Wilson’s 1958 drama stars Esther Williams, Jeff Chandler and Rosanna Podesta.
 
Stormy Crossing (1958)
After murdering his lover, cross-channel swimmer Joy Webster, Derek Bond attempts to do same to her other boyfriend, Sheldon Lawrence. John Ireland plays an Interpol detective who stems Bond’s homicidal…
 
The Whole Truth (1958)
On the French Riviera, movie producer Max Poulton is on location shooting a film starring his lover, Gina Bertini. But when the rueful Max ends his fling with Gina to…
 
I Bury the Living (1958)
The new manager of a small-town cemetery becomes convinced that he triggered the untimely deaths of several plot owners by tampering with a certain map. When nobody believes him, he…
 
Vertigo (1958)
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.
 
Grip of the Strangler (1958)
A researcher investigating a notorious serial killer who was hanged 20 years earlier seemingly becomes possessed by the long dead strangler.
 
Escapement (1958)
An insurance investigator tumbles onto a series of similar deaths, by brain hemorrhage, of patients of a psychiatric clinic in France where therapy involves a device which can implant visual…
 
Maigret Sets a Trap (1958)
Four women were murdered, each was knifed and, though they had their clothes torn, they weren’t molested. As the famed police inspector Jules Maigret pieces the clues together, he comes…
 
Chase a Crooked Shadow (1958)
A woman who lives in Spain has trouble convincing anybody that a complete stranger has taken her dead brother’s identity.
 
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
An ailing barrister agrees to defend a man in a sensational murder trial where the unconvincing testimony of the defendant’s wife becomes a subject of confusion.
 
The House in the Woods (1957)
A novelist and his wife go to stay at a cottage owned by a painter whose wife has just died.
 
Time Limit (1957)
Military investigator Colonel Edwards is assigned a case involving Major Cargill, a Korean War POW who is accused of treason. Although Cargill admits his guilt and Edwards’ superiors are impatiently…
 
The Girl in Black Stockings (1957)
Residents at a posh Utah hotel become suspects when a girl is found murdered during a pool party. Local sheriff Jess Holmes takes charge of the investigation and must discover…
 
The Vicious Circle (1957)
When Dr. Howard Latimer finds the German actress whom he had just met at the London Airport murdered in his flat, he is led into a world of murder, blackmail,…
 
The Invisible Man vs. The Human Fly (1957)
A series of ghastly murders are being committed. The one similarity in each of the murders is that a strange buzzing sound is always heard right before the murder occurs….
 
Action of the Tiger (1957)
A woman hires soldier-of-fortune Carson to smuggle her into Albania by way of Greece. Their trouble is just beginning when they get there.
 
My Gun Is Quick (1957)
Detective Mike Hammer’s investigation of a murder puts him in the middle between warring jewel thieves.
 
No Time to Be Young (1957)
A melodrama about young adults growing up and facing the pressures of life.
 
Footsteps in the Night (1957)
Two detectives investigate the strangulation murder of a man whom everyone seemed to like.
 
The Girl in the Kremlin (1957)
In Moscow 1953, four terrified women prisoners are brought before Joseph Stalin, who chooses the beautiful Dasha. He punishes her by shaving off her long hair. Moments later, a plastic…
 
Lust of the Vampire (1957)
A mad scientist captures young women and drains their blood, in order to keep alive an ancient, evil duchess.
 
Time Without Pity (1957)
Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a weekend at the English country home of the parents of his friend…
 
The Traitor (1957)
One time members of a resistance group come together every year to remember their dead leader, betrayed to and executed by the Nazis. When it seems that they might finally…
 
Hold That Hypnotist (1957)
When one of the Boys agrees to be hypnotized, he discovers he led a past life in the 1600s as a British tax collector.
 
Town on Trial (1957)
When an attractive young girl is murdered, suspicion falls on several members of the local tennis club. It falls to Police Inspector Halloran to sort out all the red herrings,…
 
 
 
