Thriller Movies
Decoy (1946)
A fatally shot female gangleader recounts her sordid life of crime to a police officer just before she dies.
Crack-Up (1946)
Art curator George Steele experiences a train wreck…which never happened. Is he cracking up, or the victim of a plot?
The Killers (1946)
Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called “the Swede”. When the killers find the Swede, he’s expecting them and doesn’t put up a fight. Since…
The Big Sleep (1946)
Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen. Before the complex case is over, Marlowe sees murder, blackmail, deception, and…
Step by Step (1946)
Marine veteran Johnny Christopher meets and is immediately drawn to beautiful Evelyn Smith one day on the beach. Evelyn’s new job as secretary to a U.S. senator in California soon…
Notorious (1946)
In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman, the American daughter of a convicted German war criminal, as a spy. As they…
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
Three childhood friends, Martha, Walter and Sam, share a terrible secret. Over time, the ambitious Martha and the pusillanimous Walter have married. She is a cold businesswoman; he is the…
The Last Crooked Mile (1946)
A mystery grows after a bank robbery car leads investigators to a carnival sideshow.
Below the Deadline (1946)
A veteran, Joe Hilton, returns from the war to find that his brother Jeffrey Hilton, a gangster, has been killed. His quest for revenge leads him to take over his…
Black Angel (1946)
A falsely convicted man’s wife, Catherine, and an alcoholic composer and pianist, Martin team up in an attempt to clear her husband of the murder of a blonde singer, who…
I See a Dark Stranger (1946)
Proud Irishwoman Bridie Quilty journeys to Dublin while World War II rages across Europe. During her travels, she encounters J. Miller, who recruits her as a Nazi spy. She acquires…
The Stranger (1946)
An investigator from the War Crimes Commission travels to Connecticut to find an infamous Nazi, who may be hiding out in a small town in the guise of a distinguished…
Shadows Over Chinatown (1946)
In San Francisco’s Chinatown, Charlie helps two different people search for their missing relatives and uncovers a murder for insurance scheme.
Suspense (1946)
The proprietor of an ice-skating revue promotes a peanut-vendor to a management position based on suggestions he made to improve the act of the show’s star, who also happens to…
Somewhere in the Night (1946)
George Taylor returns from WWII with amnesia. Back home in Los Angeles, he tries to track down his old identity, stumbling into a 3-year old murder case and a hunt…
Tangier (1946)
In Tangier, disgraced American war correspondent Paul Kenyon, café dancer Rita and local entrepreneur Pepe join forces to battle a Nazi diamond smuggler.
O.S.S. (1946)
The (O)ffice of (S)trategic (S)ervices’ Cmdr. Brady (Patric Knowles) forms Operation “Applejack” (based on a composite of actual incidents during WWII) and sends Lt. (j.g.) Philip Masson, U.S.N.R. aka John…
Dressed to Kill (1946)
A convicted thief in Dartmoor prison hides the location of the stolen Bank of England printing plates inside three music boxes. When the innocent purchasers of the boxes start to…
She-Wolf of London (1946)
A young heiress finds evidence suggesting that at night she acts under the influence of a family curse and has begun committing ghastly murders in a nearby park.
Bedlam (1946)
London, 1761. St. Mary’s of Bethlehem, a sinister madhouse, is visited by wealthy people who enjoy watching the patients confined there as if they were caged animals. Nell Bowen, one…
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.
Gilda (1946)
A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she’s married to his new boss.
The Catman of Paris (1946)
When author Charles Regnier returns to Paris with a best-selling book that criticizes the government, he’s tormented by frequent blackouts. After a mysterious cat-like creature slaughters people close to him,…
Dragonwyck (1946)
For Miranda Wells, moving to New York to live in Dragonwyck Manor with her rich cousin, Nicholas, seems like a dream. However, the situation gradually becomes nightmarish. She observes Nicholas’…
House of Horrors (1946)
An unsuccessful sculptor saves a madman named “The Creeper” from drowning. Seeing an opportunity for revenge, he tricks the psycho into murdering his critics.
The Spider Woman Strikes Back (1946)
A young girl goes to work as a live-in caretaker for a spooky old woman. She doesn’t know that every night, the woman drains some blood from her to feed…
Deadline at Dawn (1946)
A young Navy sailor has one night to find out why a woman was killed and he ended up with a bag of money after a drinking blackout.
Strange Impersonation (1946)
A female research scientist conducting experiments on a new anesthetic has a very bad week. Her scheming assistant intentionally scars her face, her almost-fiancee appears to have deserted her and…
The Mask of Diijon (1946)
A stage illusionist plots a revenge after a particularly humiliating comeback attempt.
The Flying Serpent (1946)
A demented archaeologist discovers a living, breathing serpent creature known to the Aztecs as Quetzalcoatl and accidentally kills his wife by giving her one of the beast’s feathers, causing the…
Shock (1946)
In this thriller, psychiatrist Dr. Cross kills his wife and expects to get away with murder, until he discovers that the slaying was observed by a next-door neighbor, Janet Stewart….
Terror by Night (1946)
Holmes and Watson board a passenger train bound from London to Edinburgh, to guard the Star of Rhodesia, an enormous diamond worth a fortune belonging to an elderly woman of…
Three Strangers (1946)
On the eve of the Chinese New Year, three strangers, Crystal Shackleford, married to a wealthy philanderer; Jerome Artbutny, an outwardly respectable judge; and Johnny West, a seedy sneak thief,…
The Spiral Staircase (1946)
On a stormy night, the mute servant to an ailing matriarch is stalked by a serial killer.
Live Wires (1946)
Slip gets fired from his job at a construction company for decking his boss. His sister, who got him a job at the company, is angry with him. Slip manages…
Night Boat to Dublin (1946)
British intelligence officers head off a Nazi plot to kidnap an atomic scientist.
Detour (1945)
The life of Al Roberts, a pianist in a New York nightclub, turns into a nightmare when he decides to hitchhike to Los Angeles to visit his girlfriend.
Cornered (1945)
A World War II veteran hunts down the Nazi collaborators who killed his wife.
Pink String and Sealing Wax (1945)
Melodrama set in Victorian Brighton. Scheming pub landlady uses the timorous son of a domineering pharmacist to assist in the poisoning of her drunkard husband. (The title is from the…
Spellbound (1945)
When Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital director, Dr. Constance Peterson, a psychoanalyst, discovers Edwardes is actually an impostor. The man confesses…