(1917) Lon Chaney, Franklyn Farnum, Edith Johnson, Sam DeGrasse. Lon plays a bank cashier who discovers embezzling and confronts the criminals with the evidence. A bizarre twist of events follows an

(1961) John Ireland, Susan Stephen, Cyril Shaps, Timothy Beaton. A young couple movies into a new house. The wife notices that a strange man is peering in at them from outside in the middle of the n

(1971) Frank Wolff, Nieves Navarro, Simon Andreu, Carlo Gentili.. An infamous jewel thief ends up slashed to death on a train by an unknown killer. His daughter, who’s a beautiful Paris nightclub sta

(1929) Jameson Thomas, Jean Colin, Henry Victor, Jack Raine. This Forgotten Horrors style thriller is about the son of a murdered count who goes on a party cruise. Someone tries to kill him, but the

(1935) Gordon Harker, Ian Hunter, Binnie Hale, Donald Calthrop. During the opening credits, a zombie-like man pulls himself through the portal of a lighthouse to the sounds of sinister themes. Harker’

(1937) Rene Ray, Ballard Berkeley, John Longden, Paul Blake. Rene’s a chorus girl who’s seen leaving the hotel room of a show producer who’s found dead inside—bludgeoned on the back of the head. She

(1942) Chester Morris, Jean Parker, Edward Norris, Roger Pryor, Elisabeth Risdon, Dick Purcell. Morris is a fast-talking reporter who’ll do anything for a story. Shipwreck victim Parker falls for hi

(1946, Fox) William Gargan, Carole Landis, Richard Crane, John Ireland, Mary Anderson. A car rolls up to a police station where it dumps the murdered body of a shady private detective. Landis, who’s

(1949) Maureen Riscoe, John Barry, Charles Clapham, John Le Mesurier, Ian Fleming, directed by John Gilling. Riscoe charms everyone’s socks off in this smooth murder thriller. She takes in a new boa

(1950, Updated 3-26-25) Derek Farr, Joan Hopkins, Peter Lorre, William. Hartnell. Top British noir! After his wife is slain in a seaside cottage, Farr, also a suspect, threatens to pin the crime on his wife’s lover.

(1953) Francis Lederer, Donald Buka, Joan Camden, produced by Turhan Bey. This taut thriller has Lederer as an insanely jealous pianist who plots to murder his wife’s lover. A taxi-driver is giving t

(1954) Fernando Soler, Isabella Corona, Miguel Angel Ferriz. Soler is a kindly priest in a small village. He has a dark secret, though, and a local shopkeeper demands money from him. Late one night

(1962) Reginaldo Faria, Eliezer Gomez, Atila Lorio, Grande Otelo. This is an intricate, very exciting Euro-thriller about six armed men who dynamite a train on the Central Brazil Railway, robbing it

(1971) Antonio Sabato, Faith Domergue, Barbara Bouchet, Corrado Gaipa. Here’s a compelling Euro-thriller with a fine cast. A politician is killed in cold blood near his home. The cops arrest a strang

Noah Beery, Ailene Marson, Billy Milton, John Erwin. An impoverished pair of siblings (brother and sister) take residence in their childhood home, which is a somewhat creepy, dilapidated old country estate. They concoct the idea of faking the sister's murder in order to launch the brother's career as a journalist.  Right… Things get very complicated when...

(1936, Banner) Norman Foster, Elaine Shepard, Vince Barnett, Theodore von Eltz, Arthur Lake, Polly Ann Young. Two brothers run a Chinatown jewelry store that’s also a fence for “hot” goods. When one of the brothers’ wives decides to cut out, the other brother murders her—the corpse ending up in the trunk of a car!  

(1944) Frank Jenks, Robin Raymond, H.B. Warner, Ray Walker. Reporters Jenks and Raymond try to get an interview with the head of a big foundation regarding a revolutionary new listening device. They soon end up at the lab of the real inventor, H. B. Warner...  

(1947, Updated 03-20-25) Ronald Howard, Maxwell Reed, Hector Ross, Anne Crawford, Christine Norden, Syd James.  In this superb film noir gem, Ross and Howard play young men who join the police force.  Ross succeeds; Howard fails.  Howard soon ends up on the wrong side of the law when he falls in with a shady nightclub owner, brilliantly played by Reed.