Thriller Movies

Saboteur (1942)

Saboteur (1942)

Saboteur (1942)
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109

Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane flees across the United States after he is wrongly accused of starting the fire that killed his best friend.

Genre: Thriller
This Gun for Hire (1942)

This Gun for Hire (1942)

This Gun for Hire (1942)
IMDb: N/A
81

Sadistic killer-for-hire Philip Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss, nightclub executive Gates, Raven sits beside Gates’…

Kid Glove Killer (1942)

Kid Glove Killer (1942)

Kid Glove Killer (1942)
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74

Van Heflin stars as the head of a city crime lab who tries to solve the murder of the town mayor by scientifically analyzing evidence.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Black Dragons (1942)

Black Dragons (1942)

Black Dragons (1942)
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64

It is prior to the commencement of World War II, and Japan’s fiendish Black Dragon Society is hatching an evil plot with the Nazis. They instruct a brilliant scientist, Dr….

Castle in the Desert (1942)

Castle in the Desert (1942)

Castle in the Desert (1942)
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62

Charlie Chan, with son Jimmy on a week’s pass from the Army, takes up a request for help at a castle-home, miles from anywhere in the American desert south-west and…

All Through the Night (1942)

All Through the Night (1942)

All Through the Night (1942)
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107

Broadway gamblers stumble across a plan by Nazi saboteurs to blow up an American battleship.

Tower of Terror (1941)

Tower of Terror (1941)

Tower of Terror (1941)
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78

Wartime Germany: Marie, a concentration camp escapee on the run from the Nazis, narrowly escapes drowing when she is rescued by Wolfe Kristan a half-mad lighthouse keeper. Brought aboard the…

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Genre: Thriller
Dangerously They Live (1941)

Dangerously They Live (1941)

Dangerously They Live (1941)
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77

A New York City doctor tries to rescue a young woman from Nazi agents.

Among the Living (1941)

Among the Living (1941)

Among the Living (1941)
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69

A mentally unstable man, who has been kept in isolation for years, escapes and causes trouble for his identical twin brother.

Genre: Crime, Thriller
49th Parallel (1941)

49th Parallel (1941)

49th Parallel (1941)
IMDb: N/A
123

In the early days of World War II, a German U-boat is sunk in Canada’s Hudson Bay. Hoping to evade capture, a small band of German soldiers led by commanding…

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Genre: Thriller, War
Swamp Water (1941)

Swamp Water (1941)

Swamp Water (1941)
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90

A hunter happens upon a fugitive and his daughter living in a Georgia swamp. He falls in love with the girl and persuades the fugitive to return to town.

Suspicion (1941)

Suspicion (1941)

Suspicion (1941)
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99

A wealthy and sheltered young woman elopes with a charming playboy and soon learns of his bad traits, including his extreme dishonesty and lust for money. Gradually, she begins to…

The Maltese Falcon (1941)

The Maltese Falcon (1941)

The Maltese Falcon (1941)
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100

A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.

International Lady (1941)

International Lady (1941)

International Lady (1941)
IMDb: N/A
102

Tim Hanley, an American agent, posing as a lawyer with the United States Embassy in London, and Reggie Oliver, a Scotland Yard detective, posing as a music critic are both…

Genre: Drama, Thriller
Ladies in Retirement (1941)

Ladies in Retirement (1941)

Ladies in Retirement (1941)
IMDb: N/A
91

Ellen Creed is a housekeeper who looks after Leonora Fiske, a retired actress living in the English countryside. When Ellen’s eccentric sisters visit their sibling at Leonora’s home, tensions soon…

Genre: Drama, Thriller
Cottage to Let (1941)

Cottage to Let (1941)

Cottage to Let (1941)
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90

Allied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor’s nearly perfected bomb sight.

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Charlie Chan in Rio (1941)

Charlie Chan in Rio (1941)

Charlie Chan in Rio (1941)
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60

In Rio de Janiero to arrest a nightclub singer on suspicion of a murder in Hawaii, Charlie Chan becomes involved with the Rio police in solving the singer’s own murder.

Dressed to Kill (1941)

Dressed to Kill (1941)

Dressed to Kill (1941)
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74

A detective’s wedding is postponed when gunshots are heard nearby.

Genre: Mystery, Thriller
‘Pimpernel’ Smith (1941)

‘Pimpernel’ Smith (1941)

‘Pimpernel’ Smith (1941)
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120

Eccentric Cambridge archaeologist Horatio Smith takes a group of British and American archaeology students to pre-war Nazi Germany to help in his excavations. His research is supported by the Nazis,…

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Out of the Fog (1941)

Out of the Fog (1941)

Out of the Fog (1941)
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85

A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen decide to eliminate the gangster themselves rather than complain to the police.

Genre: Crime, Thriller
Man Hunt (1941)

Man Hunt (1941)

Man Hunt (1941)
IMDb: N/A
105

Shortly before the start of WW2, renowned British big-game hunter Alan Thorndike, vacationing in Bavaria, has Hitler in his gun sight. He is captured, beaten, left for dead, and escapes…

Genre: Thriller, War
A Woman’s Face (1941)

A Woman’s Face (1941)

A Woman’s Face (1941)
IMDb: N/A
106

A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.

Genre: Drama, Thriller
The Ghost Train (1941)

The Ghost Train (1941)

The Ghost Train (1941)
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85

Mismatched travellers are stranded overnight at a lonely rural railway station. They soon learn of local superstition about a phantom train which is said to travel these parts at dead…

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Invisible Ghost (1941)

Invisible Ghost (1941)

Invisible Ghost (1941)
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64

The town’s leading citizen becomes a homicidal maniac after his wife deserts him.

Dead Men Tell (1941)

Dead Men Tell (1941)

Dead Men Tell (1941)
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61

When the elderly woman sponsoring a treasure hunt is murdered on board her docked ship, Charlie Chan must deal with a treasure map in four pieces, the ghost of a…

Rage in Heaven (1941)

Rage in Heaven (1941)

Rage in Heaven (1941)
IMDb: N/A
85

A jealous man frames his wife’s suspected lover for murder.

Genre: Drama, Thriller
Shadows on the Stairs (1941)

Shadows on the Stairs (1941)

Shadows on the Stairs (1941)
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64

Occupants of a London boarding house become suspects as a string of murders are discovered.

Genre: Mystery, Thriller
The Mad Doctor (1940)

The Mad Doctor (1940)

The Mad Doctor (1940)
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90

A reporter sleuths the mystery behind an oft-married Viennese doctor whose wives met mysterious fates.

Murder Over New York (1940)

Murder Over New York (1940)

Murder Over New York (1940)
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65

When Charlie’s old friend from Scotland Yard is murdered when they attend a police convention in New York, Chan picks up the case he was working on.

Phantom of Chinatown (1940)

Phantom of Chinatown (1940)

Phantom of Chinatown (1940)
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62

In the middle of a pictorial lecture on his recent expedition to the Mongolian Desert, Dr. John Benton,the famous explorer, drinks from the water bottle on his lecture table, collapses…

Saloon Bar (1940)

Saloon Bar (1940)

Saloon Bar (1940)
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76

A bookmaker with a fancy for detective work attempts to prevent the execution of a potentially innocent man.

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Genre: Thriller
The Door with Seven Locks (1940)

The Door with Seven Locks (1940)

The Door with Seven Locks (1940)
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80

A wealthy lord dies and is entombed with a valuable deposit of jewels. Seven keys are required to unlock the tomb and get hold of the treasure. A mad doctor…

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The Case of the Frightened Lady (1940)

The Case of the Frightened Lady (1940)

The Case of the Frightened Lady (1940)
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81

A classic British thriller set in a sinister old house, based on a story by Edgar Wallace.

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Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum (1940)

Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum (1940)

Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum (1940)
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63

A wax museum run by a demented doctor contains statues of such crime figures as Jack the Ripper and Bluebeard. In addition to making wax statues the doctor performs plastic…

Night Train to Munich (1940)

Night Train to Munich (1940)

Night Train to Munich (1940)
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96

Czechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, inventor Axel Bomasch manages to flee and reach England; but those who need to…

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Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Gaslight (1940)

Gaslight (1940)

Gaslight (1940)
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84

Twenty years removed from Alice Barlow’s murder by a thief looking for her jewels, newlyweds Paul and Bella Mallen move into the very house where the crime was committed. Retired…

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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Foreign Correspondent (1940)

Foreign Correspondent (1940)

Foreign Correspondent (1940)
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120

American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an assassination and stumbles on…

Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)

Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)

Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)
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64

Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his “evidence” has sentenced the wrong man to death.

Genre: Mystery, Thriller
They Drive by Night (1940)

They Drive by Night (1940)

They Drive by Night (1940)
IMDb: N/A
95

Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distributors, rivals and loan collectors, while trying to…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Murder in the Air (1940)

Murder in the Air (1940)

Murder in the Air (1940)
IMDb: N/A
55

Enemy agents are everywhere and they are sabotaging all important war deliveries. The body of a hobo found in a train wreck had a money belt with $50,000 and a…