Best Thrillers by Year
1587
317
1950
John Boulting, Roy Boulting
Barry Jones, André Morell, Hugh Cross, Sheila Manahan
Thriller / Drama
UK
English
1803
363
1950
Basil Dearden
Jack Warner, Jimmy Hanley, Dirk Bogarde, Robert Flemyng
Action / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Detective / Thriller
UK
English
1847
377
1950
Jules Dassin
Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers, Hugh Marlowe
Film-Noir / Thriller / Crime / Drama
UK
English
2036
427
1950
Alfred Hitchcock
Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding, Richard Todd
Mystery / Thriller / Crime
UK
English
2691
675
1950
Burgess Meredith, Irving Allen, Charles Laughton
Charles Laughton, Franchot Tone, Burgess Meredith, Robert Hutton, Jean Wallace
Mystery / Thriller / Detective / Crime
USA / France
English
2788
710
1950
Sidney Gilliat
Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Jack Hawkins, Glynis Johns, Walter Rilla
Drama / Thriller
UK
English
2807
719
1950
Felix E. Feist
Lee J. Cobb, John Dall, Jane Wyatt, Lisa Howard, Harlan Warde, Alan Wells
Film-Noir / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
2807
719
1950
Joseph M. Newman
Edmond O'Brien, Joanne Dru, Otto Kruger, Barry Kelley, Dorothy Patrick, Don Porter
Crime / Film-Noir / Drama / Thriller / Gangster / Detective
USA
English
2807
719
1950
Otto Preminger
Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, Gary Merrill, Bert Freed, Tom Tully
Crime / Film-Noir / Drama / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
2807
719
1950
Norman Foster
Ann Sheridan, Dennis O'Keefe, Robert Keith, John Qualen, Frank Jenks
Film-Noir / Crime / Drama / Thriller
USA
English
75
11
1949
Carol Reed
Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard, Bernard Lee
Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Crime / Spy
UK
English
272
50
1949
Raoul Walsh
James Cagney, Virginia Mayo
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Gangster / Thriller
USA
English
1736
351
1949
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
David Farrar, Kathleen Byron, Jack Hawkins, Milton Rosmer, Cyril Cusack
Drama / Thriller / War / Film-Noir
UK
English
1835
375
1949
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Awaji, Eiko Miyoshi
Drama / Thriller / Film-Noir / Detective
Japan
Japanese
2184
465
1949
Ted Tetzlaff
Barbara Hale, Arthur Kennedy, Paul Stewart, Ruth Roman
Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
2361
537
1949
John Farrow
Ray Milland, Audrey Totter, Thomas Mitchell, George Macready, Fred Clark
Mystery / Drama / Thriller / Fantasy
USA
English
2553
616
1949
Robert Siodmak
Burt Lancaster, Yvonne De Carlo, Dan Duryea, Stephen McNally, Esy Morales
Crime / Film-Noir / Thriller / Caper / Gangster / Drama
USA
English
2689
673
1949
Victor Saville
Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Robert Flemyng, Harold Warrender, Honor Blackman
Thriller / Drama / Spy
UK
English
2691
675
1949
Felix E. Feist
Michael O'Shea, Virginia Grey, Charles McGraw, Julie Bishop, Frank Conroy
Crime / Film-Noir / Drama / Thriller
USA
English
2792
712
1949
Jules Dassin
Richard Conte, Valentina Cortese, Lee J. Cobb, Barbara Lawrence
Film-Noir / Thriller / Drama / Crime / Gangster
USA
English
2807
719
1949
Robert Stevens
Bela Lugosi, Romney Brent, Ray Walston
Drama / Thriller
USA
English
2807
719
1949
Richard Fleischer
William Lundigan, Dorothy Patrick, Jeff Corey, Nestor Paiva, Charles D. Brown
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
2807
719
1949
Byron Haskin
Lizabeth Scott, Don DeFore, Dan Duryea, Arthur Kennedy, Kristine Miller
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller
USA
English
2807
719
1949
Richard Fleischer
Lloyd Bridges, Barbara Payton, John Hoyt, James Todd, Russ Conway
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Mystery
USA
English
623
112
1948
Laurence Olivier
Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons
Drama / Crime / Romance / Thriller / Period Film
UK
English
691
129
1948
Carol Reed
Ralph Richardson, Michèle Morgan, Sonia Dresdel
Drama / Thriller
UK
English
971
190
1948
John Huston
Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Edward G. Robinson, Lionel Barrymore, Claire Trevor
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Gangster
USA
English
1422
273
1948
Alfred Hitchcock
James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger, Cedric Hardwicke
Thriller / Crime / Cult
USA
English
2171
462
1948
Akira Kurosawa
Takashi Shimura, Toshirô Mifune, Reisaburo Yamamoto, Michiyo Kogure
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Gangster
Japan
Japanese
2199
470
1948
John Farrow
Ray Milland, Maureen O'Sullivan, Charles Laughton, George Macready
Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller
USA
English
2320
523
1948
Anatole Litvak
Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, Ann Richards, Wendell Corey, Harold Vermilyea
Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller
USA
English
2363
539
1948
Fred Zinnemann
Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh, Mary Astor, Phyllis Thaxter
Thriller / Film-Noir / Drama / Crime
USA
English
2363
539
1948
Anthony Mann
Dennis O'Keefe, Claire Trevor, Marsha Hunt, John Ireland, Raymond Burr
Crime / Film-Noir / Drama / Thriller / Gangster
USA
English
2513
605
1948
Alfred L. Werker, Anthony Mann
Richard Basehart, Scott Brady, Roy Roberts, Whit Bissell, James Cardwell
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
2605
634
1948
Robert Stevenson
Dick Powell, Signe Hasso, Harry J. Anslinger, Maylia, Ludwig Donath
Adventure / Crime / Drama / Thriller
USA
English
2792
712
1948
Cy Endfield
William Gargan, Marjorie Lord, John Banner, Peter Brocco
Drama / Mystery / Romance / Thriller
USA
English
2807
719
1948
Bernard Vorhaus
Turhan Bey, Lynn Bari, Cathy O'Donnell, Richard Carlson, Donald Curtis
Film-Noir / Horror / Thriller
USA
English
2807
719
1948
Jack Bernhard
Robert Paige, Leslie Brooks, Russ Vincent, Michael Whalen, James Griffith
Film-Noir / Thriller / Mystery / Detective
USA
English
200
34
1947
Jacques Tourneur
Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer
Film-Noir / Thriller / Drama / Crime / Romance / Mystery / Cult
USA
English
364
71
1947
Carol Reed
James Mason, Robert Newton, Cyril Cusack, Kathleen Ryan
Crime / Thriller / Drama
UK
English
812
151
1947
Orson Welles
Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth, Everett Sloane, Glenn Anders
Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Romance
USA
English
1501
291
1947
John Boulting
Richard Attenborough, Carol Marsh, Hermione Baddeley, William Hartnell
Crime / Thriller / Drama / Gangster
UK
English
1670
337
1947
Henry Hathaway
Victor Mature, Brian Donlevy, Coleen Gray, Richard Widmark, Taylor Holmes
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Gangster
USA
English
1897
388
1947
Jules Dassin
Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Charles Bickford, Yvonne De Carlo, Ann Blyth
Thriller / Film-Noir / Drama / Crime
USA
English
2276
507
1947
Anthony Kimmins
Burgess Meredith, Dulcie Gray, Michael Shepley, Christine Norden, Kieron Moore
Drama / Thriller
UK
English
2489
590
1947
Delmer Daves
Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett, Agnes Moorehead
Film-Noir / Thriller / Mystery / Romance
USA
English
2513
605
1947
Anthony Mann
Dennis O'Keefe, Mary Meade, Alfred Ryder, Wallace Ford, June Lockhart
Drama / Film-Noir / Crime / Thriller / Detective / Gangster
USA
English
2551
615
1947
Raoul Walsh
Robert Mitchum, Teresa Wright, Judith Anderson, Dean Jagger
Thriller / Western
USA
English
2605
634
1947
Robert Montgomery
Robert Montgomery, Wanda Hendrix, Andrea King, Thomas Gomez, Fred Clark
Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Crime / Gangster
USA
English
2689
673
1947
John Cromwell
Humphrey Bogart, Lizabeth Scott, Morris Carnovsky, Charles Cane, William Prince
Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
2689
673
1947
Edward Buzzell
William Powell, Myrna Loy, Keenan Wynn, Dean Stockwell, Phillip Reed
Comedy / Drama / Mystery / Crime / Music / Romance / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
2807
719
1947
Anatole Litvak
Henry Fonda, Barbara Bel Geddes, Vincent Price, Ann Dvorak, Howard Freeman
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller
USA
English
2807
719
1947
Douglas Sirk
George Sanders, Lucille Ball, Charles Coburn, Boris Karloff, Cedric Hardwicke
Crime / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
NR
-
1947
Curtis Bernhardt
Joan Crawford, Van Heflin, Raymond Massey, Geraldine Brooks, Stanley Ridges
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller
USA
English
110
23
1946
Alfred Hitchcock
Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Louis Calhern, Leopoldine Konstantin
Film-Noir / Romance / Thriller / Spy / Mystery
USA
English
657
121
1946
Charles Vidor
Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready
Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Romance / Mystery
USA
English
686
128
1946
Tay Garnett
Lana Turner, John Garfield
Drama / Film-Noir / Crime / Thriller
USA
English
901
168
1946
Robert Siodmak
Dorothy McGuire, George Brent, Ethel Barrymore, Kent Smith
Thriller / Drama / Mystery / Film-Noir
USA
English
1388
269
1946
Orson Welles
Orson Welles, Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Philip Merivale
Film-Noir / Thriller / Drama
USA
English
2316
521
1946
George Marshall
Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Bendix, Howard Da Silva, Doris Dowling
Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Crime / Thriller / Romance
USA
English
2511
604
1946
Mark Robson
Boris Karloff, Anna Lee, Billy House, Richard Fraser, Glen Vernon, Ian Wolfe
Drama / Horror / Thriller
USA
English
2553
616
1946
Arthur Ripley
Robert Cummings, Michèle Morgan, Steve Cochran, Lloyd Corrigan, Jack Holt
Film-Noir / Thriller / Gangster
USA
English
2689
673
1946
Charles Barton
Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Marjorie Reynolds, Binnie Barnes, John Shelton
Comedy / Fantasy / Thriller
USA
English
2691
675
1946
Robert Siodmak
Olivia de Havilland, Lew Ayres, Thomas Mitchell, Richard Long, Charles Evans
Film-Noir / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
2691
675
1946
Frank Launder
Deborah Kerr, Trevor Howard, Raymond Huntley, Michael Howard, Norman Shelley
Drama / Thriller / Spy / Romance
UK
English
2807
719
1946
Roy William Neill
Dan Duryea, June Vincent, Peter Lorre, Broderick Crawford, Constance Dowling
Adventure / Crime / Film-Noir / Music / Mystery / Thriller
USA
English
701
134
1945
Alfred Hitchcock
Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov, Leo G. Carroll
Film-Noir / Mystery / Romance / Thriller / Drama
USA
English
718
138
1945
Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer
Mervyn Johns, Roland Culver, Mary Merrall, Googie Withers
Horror / Mystery / Thriller
UK
English
1377
266
1945
Henry Hathaway
William Eythe, Lloyd Nolan, Signe Hasso, Gene Lockhart, Leo G. Carroll
Film-Noir / Drama / Spy / Thriller / War
USA
English
1617
324
1945
Robert Wise
Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Henry Daniell, Edith Atwater, Russell Wade
Drama / Horror / Thriller
USA
English
1789
358
1945
John M. Stahl
Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain, Vincent Price, Mary Philips
Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
2133
452
1945
George Marshall
Fred MacMurray, Helen Walker, Marjorie Main, Jean Heather, Porter Hall
Comedy / Crime / Thriller
USA
English
2689
673
1945
Frank Lloyd
James Cagney, Sylvia Sidney, Porter Hall, John Emery, Robert Armstrong
Action / Drama / War / Romance / Thriller
USA
English
2691
675
1945
Edward Dmytryk
Dick Powell, Walter Slezak, Micheline Cheirel, Nina Vale, Morris Carnovsky
Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / War / Mystery
USA
English
2807
719
1945
Mark Robson
Boris Karloff, Ellen Drew, Marc Cramer, Katherine Emery, Helen Thimig
Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller
USA
English
53
7
1944
Billy Wilder
Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Porter Hall, Jean Heather
Mystery / Crime / Film-Noir / Thriller
USA
English
280
54
1944
Otto Preminger, Rouben Mamoulian
Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews
Film-Noir / Mystery / Romance / Crime / Detective / Thriller
USA
English
573
106
1944
Howard Hawks
Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall
Thriller / War / Romance / Drama
USA
English
698
132
1944
George Cukor
Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten
Mystery / Thriller / Drama / Period Film / Detective
USA
English
844
156
1944
Edward Dmytryk
Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley, Otto Kruger, Mike Mazurki, Miles Mander
Crime / Film-Noir / Thriller / Drama / Mystery / Detective / Cult
USA
English
1110
212
1944
Fritz Lang
Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond Massey, Edmund Breon, Dan Duryea
Film-Noir / Thriller / Crime / Drama
USA
English
1201
231
1944
Frank Capra
Cary Grant, Josephine Hull, Jean Adair, Raymond Massey
Comedy / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
1504
292
1944
Robert Siodmak
Franchot Tone, Ella Raines, Alan Curtis, Aurora Miranda, Thomas Gomez, Fay Helm
Crime / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
1853
378
1944
Fritz Lang
Ray Milland, Marjorie Reynolds, Carl Esmond, Hillary Brooke, Percy Waram
Film-Noir / Thriller / Drama / Spy / War / Romance / Mystery
USA
English
2223
483
1944
Jean Negulesco
Sydney Greenstreet, Zachary Scott, Faye Emerson, Peter Lorre, Victor Francen
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller
USA
English
2489
590
1944
Edgar Neville
Antonio Casal, Isabel de Pomés, Guillermo Marín
Thriller / Horror / Comedy / Crime
Spain
Spanish
2605
634
1944
Roy William Neill
Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Gerald Hamer, Paul Cavanagh, Arthur Hohl
Crime / Mystery / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
2605
634
1944
Robert Siodmak
Charles Laughton, Ella Raines, Molly Lamont, Stanley Ridges, Henry Daniell
Drama / Thriller / Detective / Film-Noir / Crime
USA
English
2689
673
1944
Richard Thorpe
William Powell, Myrna Loy, Lucile Watson, Gloria DeHaven, Anne Revere, Helen Vinson
Comedy / Crime / Mystery / Drama / Family / Romance / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
2691
675
1944
John Brahm
Laird Cregar, George Sanders, Merle Oberon, Cedric Hardwicke, Sara Allgood
Horror / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
2792
712
1944
William Castle
Dean Jagger, Kim Hunter, Robert Mitchum, Neil Hamilton
Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Detective / Romance
USA
English
360
70
1943
Alfred Hitchcock
Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten
Film-Noir / Thriller
USA
English
602
108
1943
Luchino Visconti
Clara Calamai, Massimo Girotti, Dhia Cristiani, Elio Marcuzzo
Drama / Crime / Thriller
Italy
Italian
1329
256
1943
Billy Wilder
Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Akim Tamiroff, Erich von Stroheim, Peter van Eyck
Thriller / War / Spy / Adventure / Drama
USA
English
1653
333
1943
Norman Foster, Orson Welles
Joseph Cotten, Dolores del Rio, Ruth Warrick, Orson Welles, Agnes Moorehead
Film-Noir / Drama / War / Thriller / Spy
USA
English
1893
387
1943
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Pierre Fresnay, Ginette Leclerc, Micheline Francey, Héléna Manson
Drama / Thriller / Crime / Mystery
France
French
2231
489
1943
Lewis Milestone
Errol Flynn, Ann Sheridan, Walter Huston, Nancy Coleman, Helmut Dantine
Drama / War / Thriller
USA
English
2363
539
1943
Fritz Lang
Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, Brian Donlevy, Walter Brennan, Anna Lee, Nana Bryant
War / Drama / Thriller
USA
English
2605
634
1943
Richard Wallace
Loretta Young, Brian Aherne, Jeff Donnell, William Wright, Sidney Toler
Comedy / Mystery / Thriller / Detective / Crime
USA
English
2666
660
1943
Jacques Tourneur
Dennis O'Keefe, Margo, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell, James Bell
Thriller / Mystery / Horror
USA
English
2689
673
1943
Arthur Lubin
Nelson Eddy, Susanna Foster, Claude Rains, Edgar Barrier, Leo Carrillo, Jane Farrar
Drama / Horror / Music / Thriller / Period Film / Crime
USA
English
2807
719
1943
Harold S. Bucquet
Robert Donat, Valerie Hobson, Walter Rilla, Glynis Johns, Phyllis Morris
Drama / Romance / Thriller / War / Mystery / Spy
UK
English
2807
719
1943
Clyde Geronimi
Adolf Hitler, Art Smith
Short / Animation / Drama / Thriller / War
USA
English
2807
719
1943
Mark Robson
Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph, Jack Holt
Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Adventure
USA
English
590
107
1942
Jacques Tourneur
Simone Simon, Tom Conway
Drama / Horror / Romance / Thriller / Mystery
USA
English
1127
217
1942
George Stevens
Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Ronald Colman, Edgar Buchanan
Drama / Comedy / Romance / Thriller
USA
English
1505
293
1942
Frank Tuttle
Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Laird Cregar, Alan Ladd, Tully Marshall
Film-Noir / Crime / Thriller / Romance / Mystery / Detective
USA
English
1558
309
1942
Alfred Hitchcock
Priscilla Lane, Robert Cummings, Otto Kruger, Alan Baxter, Clem Bevans
Thriller / Romance / Spy
USA
English
1682
341
1942
Alberto Cavalcanti
Leslie Banks, Basil Sydney, Frank Lawton, Elizabeth Allan, Valerie Taylor
Thriller / War / Drama
UK
English
1897
388
1942
Stuart Heisler
Brian Donlevy, Veronica Lake, Alan Ladd, Bonita Granville, Richard Denning
Drama / Film-Noir / Crime / Mystery / Thriller / Detective / Gangster
USA
English
2807
719
1942
John Francis Larkin
George Sanders, Gail Patrick, Richard Denning, Lynne Roberts, Sidney Blackmer
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Mystery / Caper / Detective
USA
English
934
178
1941
Raoul Walsh
Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Curtis, Arthur Kennedy
Drama / Pre-Noir / Thriller / Crime / Gangster / Caper
USA
English
1105
211
1941
Alfred Hitchcock
Joan Fontaine, Cary Grant, Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce
Pre-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Romance
USA
English
1158
222
1941
Michael Powell
Laurence Olivier, Leslie Howard, Raymond Massey, Anton Walbrook
Drama / War / Thriller
UK
English
1282
248
1941
Fritz Lang
Walter Pidgeon, Joan Bennett, George Sanders, John Carradine
Thriller
USA
English
2807
719
1941
Jean Renoir, Irving Pichel
Walter Brennan, Walter Huston, Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, Virginia Gilmore
Drama / Crime / Mystery / Thriller
USA
English
NR
-
1941
W.S. Van Dyke
William Powell, Myrna Loy, Barry Nelson, Donna Reed, Sam Levene, Alan Baxter
Comedy / Romance / Drama / Mystery / Crime / Thriller / Detective / Gangster
USA
English
227
41
1940
Alfred Hitchcock
Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine
Drama / Romance / Thriller / Mystery
USA
English
780
147
1940
Alfred Hitchcock
Joel McCrea, Laraine Day
Thriller / Spy
USA
English
1500
290
1940
Thorold Dickinson
Anton Walbrook, Diana Wynyard, Frank Pettingell, Cathleen Cordell, Robert Newton
Thriller
UK
English
1748
352
1940
Raoul Walsh
George Raft, Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Gale Page, Alan Hale
Drama / Thriller / Romance / Crime
USA
English
1941
401
1940
Carol Reed
Margaret Lockwood, Rex Harrison, Paul Henreid, Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne
Thriller / War / Spy
UK
English
2369
540
1940
George Marshall
Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard, Richard Carlson, Paul Lukas, Willie Best
Comedy / Horror / Thriller / Gangster
USA
English
2691
675
1940
Boris Ingster
Peter Lorre, John McGuire, Margaret Tallichet, Charles Waldron, Elisha Cook Jr.
Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
2807
719
1940
Arthur Lubin
Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Stanley Ridges, Anne Nagel, Anne Gwynne
Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi / Crime / Thriller / Gangster
USA
English
2807
719
1940
Joe May
George Sanders, Vincent Price, Margaret Lindsay, Dick Foran, Nan Grey
Thriller / Drama / Crime / Period Film
USA
English
2807
719
1940
Nick Grinde
Boris Karloff, Roger Pryor, Jo Ann Sayers, Stanley Brown, John Dilson
Mystery / Sci-Fi / Horror / Thriller
USA
English
275
52
1939
Marcel Carné
Jean Gabin, Jules Berry, Arletty, Mady Berry, René Génin
Drama / Thriller / Crime / Romance
France
French
1200
230
1939
Raoul Walsh
James Cagney, Priscilla Lane, Humphrey Bogart, Gladys George
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Gangster
USA
English
2231
489
1939
Alfred L. Werker
Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Ida Lupino, George Zucco, Alan Marshal
Crime / Thriller / Mystery / Detective
USA
English
2320
523
1939
Sidney Lanfield
Richard Greene, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Lionel Atwill, John Carradine
Crime / Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
2511
604
1939
William Keighley
James Cagney, George Raft, Jane Bryan, George Bancroft, Stanley Ridges
Thriller / Crime / Drama / Gangster
USA
English
2740
691
1939
Michael Powell
Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson, Sebastian Shaw, Marius Goring
Action / Adventure / Drama / Romance / Thriller / War / Spy
UK
English
2807
719
1939
W.S. Van Dyke
William Powell, Myrna Loy, Virginia Grey, Otto Kruger, C. Aubrey Smith, Ruth Hussey
Comedy / Mystery / Drama / Crime / Romance / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
703
135
1938
Alfred Hitchcock
Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave
Mystery / Thriller / Drama / Spy / Comedy
UK
English
2689
673
1938
Ben Holmes
Louis Hayward, Kay Sutton, Sig Ruman, Jonathan Hale, Jack Carson, Paul Guilfoyle
Crime / Mystery / Drama / Thriller / Detective / Gangster
USA
English
2346
529
1937
Richard Thorpe
Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell, Dame May Whitty
Thriller
USA
English
2691
675
1937
Jacques Feyder
Marlene Dietrich, Robert Donat, Irene Vanbrugh, Herbert Lomas, Austin Trevor
Adventure / Drama / History / Thriller / Period Film / Romance
UK
English
2756
696
1937
Robert Florey
Anna May Wong, Philip Ahn, Charles Bickford, Buster Crabbe, Cecil Cunningham
Crime / Drama / Thriller
USA
English
2807
719
1937
H. Bruce Humberstone
Warner Oland, Katherine DeMille, Pauline Moore, Allan Lane, Keye Luke
Mystery / Comedy / Action / Crime/ Spy / Detective / Thriller
USA
English
2807
719
1937
Norman Foster
Peter Lorre, Lee Phelps, Virginia Field, Thomas Beck, Sig Ruman, Murray Kinnell
Crime / Mystery / Thriller / Drama / Action / Detective / Gangster
USA
English
2807
719
1937
Alfred Hitchcock
Nova Pilbeam, Derrick De Marney, Percy Marmont, Edward Rigby, Mary Clare
Crime / Thriller / Romance
UK
English
1533
301
1936
Alfred Hitchcock
Sylvia Sidney, Oskar Homolka, Desmond Tester, John Loder, Joyce Barbour
Drama / Thriller / Spy
UK
English
2296
515
1936
Tod Browning
Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan, Frank Lawton, Rafaela Ottiano
Sci-Fi / Horror / Thriller
USA
English
2393
551
1936
Alfred Hitchcock
John Gielgud, Madeleine Carroll, Peter Lorre, Robert Young
Mystery / Thriller / Romance / Drama / Spy / Action / Comedy
UK
English
2578
625
1936
Howard Hawks
James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, June Travis, Stuart Erwin
Drama / Adventure / Romance / Thriller
USA
English
2605
634
1936
W.S. Van Dyke
William Powell, Myrna Loy, James Stewart, Elissa Landi, Joseph Calleia
Comedy / Romance / Crime / Mystery / Detective / Thriller
USA
English
2605
634
1936
Lewis Milestone
Gary Cooper, Madeleine Carroll, Akim Tamiroff, Dudley Digges, Porter Hall
Adventure / Thriller / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2689
673
1936
John Ford
Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Foster, Barry Fitzgerald, Denis O'Dea, Eileen Crowe
Drama / History / Adventure / Thriller / War
USA
English
2807
719
1936
William Keighley
Edward G. Robinson, Joan Blondell, Barton MacLane, Humphrey Bogart, Frank McHugh
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Action / Detective
USA
English
2807
719
1936
Harry Lachman
Warner Oland, Keye Luke, George Brasno, Olive Brasno, Francis Ford
Mystery / Comedy / Crime / Detective / Thriller
USA
English
2807
719
1936
H. Bruce Humberstone
Warner Oland, Keye Luke, Helen Wood, Thomas Beck, Alan Dinehart
Mystery / Comedy / Crime / Detective / Thriller
USA
English
2807
719
1936
William K. Howard
Carole Lombard, Preston Foster, Cesar Romero, Janet Beecher, Betty Lawford
Comedy / Mystery / Romance / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
293
59
1935
Alfred Hitchcock
Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim, Godfrey Tearle, Peggy Ashcroft
Mystery / Thriller / Drama / Spy
UK
English
2461
583
1935
Karl Freund
Peter Lorre, Frances Drake, Colin Clive, Ted Healy, Sara Haden, Edward Brophy
Horror / Thriller
USA
English
2807
719
1935
Louis King
Warner Oland, Pat Paterson, Thomas Beck, Rita Hayworth, Jameson Thomas
Mystery / Horror / Detective / Crime / Thriller
USA
English
2807
719
1935
Lewis Seiler, Hamilton MacFadden
Warner Oland, Keye Luke, Thomas Beck, Mary Brian, Erik Rhodes
Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Crime / Detective
USA
English
2807
719
1935
James Tinling
Warner Oland, Irene Hervey, Jon Hall, Russell Hicks, Keye Luke
Mystery / Action / Crime / Detective / Thriller
USA
English
2807
719
1935
Milton Rosmer
Tod Slaughter, Sophie Stewart, D.J. Williams, Eric Portman, Clare Greet
Crime / Thriller / Drama
UK
English
2807
719
1935
Tod Browning
Lionel Barrymore, Elizabeth Allan, Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill, Jean Hersholt
Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Detective / Cult
USA
English
282
55
1934
W.S. Van Dyke
William Powell, Myrna Loy
Crime / Romance / Comedy / Mystery / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
1437
277
1934
Alfred Hitchcock
Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Peter Lorre, Frank Vosper
Thriller / Spy
UK
English
2646
649
1934
William Dieterle
Bette Davis, Donald Woods, Margaret Lindsay, Lyle Talbot, Arthur Byron
Thriller / Mystery / Drama / Crime / Gangster
USA
English
2807
719
1934
Eugene Forde
Warner Oland, Drue Leyton, Ray Milland, Mona Barrie, Douglas Walton
Mystery / Crime / Detective / Thriller
USA
English
2807
719
1934
Mitchell Leisen
Carl Brisson, Victor McLaglen, Jack Oakie, Kitty Carlisle, Dorothy Stickney
Musical / Mystery / Comedy / Thriller / Crime / Detective
USA
English
2807
719
1934
Lew Landers
Onslow Stevens, Ada Ince, Walter Miller, James Durkin, Richard Cramer
Action / Adventure / Thriller
USA
English
73
10
1933
Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot, Frank Reicher, Sam Hardy, Noble Johnson
Adventure / Fantasy / Thriller / Horror / Sci-Fi / Family
USA
English
939
179
1933
James Whale
Claude Rains, Gloria Stuart, William Harrigan, Henry Travers, Una O'Connor
Comedy / Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
1212
233
1933
Fritz Lang
Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Otto Wernicke, Gustav Diessl, Wera Liessem
Crime / Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Detective
Germany
German
2010
422
1933
Michael Curtiz
Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Glenda Farrell, Frank McHugh, Allen Vincent
Horror / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
2605
634
1933
W.S. Van Dyke
Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, Charles Butterworth, Mae Clarke, Phillips Holmes
Crime / Mystery / Comedy / Thriller
USA
English
648
117
1932
Tod Browning
Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams
Drama / Horror / Thriller / Cult
USA
English
1763
355
1932
Walter Forde
Conrad Veidt, Esther Ralston, Hugh Williams, Donald Calthrop
Thriller / Mystery / Drama / Detective
UK
English
2359
535
1932
Irving Pichel, Ernest B. Schoedsack
Joel McCrea, Fay Wray, Leslie Banks, Robert Armstrong, Noble Johnson
Adventure / Thriller / Horror / Mystery / Cult
USA
English
2691
675
1932
Michael Curtiz
Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Lee Tracy, Preston Foster, John Wray, Harry Beresford
Horror / Thriller / Mystery
USA
English
2807
719
1932
William Cameron Menzies
Violet Heming, Ralph Bellamy, Alexander Kirkland, Alan Dinehart, Mary Gordon
Thriller
USA
English
2807
719
1932
John G. Blystone
Spencer Tracy, Peggy Shannon, William 'Stage' Boyd, Irving Pichel, Raul Roulien
Drama / Crime / Romance / Thriller
USA
English
23
6
1931
Fritz Lang
Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut, Otto Wernicke, Theodor Loos
Crime / Thriller / Detective / Pre-Noir / Cult
Germany
German
2689
673
1931
Josef von Sternberg
Phillips Holmes, Sylvia Sidney, Frances Dee, Irving Pichel, Frederick Burton
Romance / Drama / Crime / Thriller
USA
English
1797
361
1930
George W. Hill
Chester Morris, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, Robert Montgomery
Drama / Thriller
USA
English
2133
452
1930
Alfred Hitchcock
Herbert Marshall, Norah Baring, Phyllis Konstam, Edward Chapman, Miles Mander
Crime / Mystery / Thriller / Detective / Drama
UK
English
2393
551
1930
Robert Milton
Leslie Howard, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Beryl Mercer, Dudley Digges
Drama / Fantasy / Thriller
USA
English
2792
712
1930
Yasujiro Ozu
Tokihiko Okada, Fuyuki Yamamoto, Emiko Yagumo, Mitsuko Ichimura
Drama / Crime / Thriller
Japan
Japanese (Silent)
820
155
1929
Alfred Hitchcock
Anny Ondra, John Longden, Sara Allgood, Charles Paton
Thriller / Drama
UK
English
1804
364
1929
F. Richard Jones, Sidney Howard
Ronald Colman, Claud Allister, Lawrence Grant, Montagu Love
Mystery / Thriller / Adventure / Action / Detective
USA
English
2709
686
1929
Roland West
Chester Morris, Harry Stubbs, Mae Busch, Eleanore Griffith
Crime / Thriller / Detective / Gangster
USA
English
2807
719
1929
Curtis Bernhardt
Marlene Dietrich, Fritz Kortner, Frida Richard, Oskar Sima, Uno Henning
Drama / Romance / Thriller
Germany
German (Silent)
2007
421
1928
Fritz Lang
Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Gerda Maurus, Lien Deyers, Louis Ralph
Thriller / Spy
Germany
English (Silent)
2807
719
1928
Paul Leni
Laura La Plante, Montagu Love, Roy D'Arcy, Margaret Livingston, John Boles
Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
1558
309
1927
Alfred Hitchcock
Ivor Novello, Marie Ault, Arthur Chesney, June, Malcolm Keen
Crime / Thriller / Drama
UK
English (Silent)
2553
616
1927
Tod Browning
Lon Chaney, Marceline Day, Henry B. Walthall, Percy Williams, Conrad Nagel
Drama / Horror / Thriller / Detective / Crime / Mystery
USA
English (Silent)
1523
300
1926
F.W. Murnau
Gösta Ekman, Emil Jannings, Camilla Horn, Frida Richard
Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Thriller
Germany
German (Silent)
2484
588
1925
Tod Browning
Lon Chaney, Mae Busch, Matt Moore, Victor McLaglen, Harry Earles, Matthew Betz
Crime / Drama / Thriller
USA
English (Silent)
1775
357
1924
Victor Sjöström
Lon Chaney, Norma Shearer, John Gilbert, Tully Marshall
Drama / Thriller
USA
English (Silent)
2689
673
1924
Leo Birinsky, Paul Leni
Emil Jannings, Conrad Veidt, Werner Krauss, William Dieterle, Olga Belajeff
Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Thriller
Germany
German (Silent)
393
75
1922
Fritz Lang
Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Aud Egede Nissen
Crime / Horror / Thriller / Mystery / Detective
Germany
German (Silent)
2511
604
1920
Wallace Worsley
Charles Clary, Doris Pawn, Jim Mason, Lon Chaney, Milton Ross, Ethel Grey Terry
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Horror
USA
English (Silent)
2807
719
1920
Tod Browning
Priscilla Dean, Wheeler Oakman, Lon Chaney, Ralph Lewis, E. Alyn Warren
Crime / Romance / Thriller / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2489
590
1916
Louis Feuillade
René Cresté, Musidora, René Poyen
Adventure / Crime / Thriller / Serial
France
French (Silent)
1065
207
1915
Louis Feuillade
Musidora, Edouard Mathé, Marcel Lévesque
Crime / Thriller / Drama / Fantasy / Mystery / Gangster / Serial / Horror / Comedy
France
French (Silent)
2418
564
1914
Louis J. Gasnier, George B. Seitz, Leopold Wharton
Pearl White, Arnold Daly, Creighton Hale, Raymond Owens, Sheldon Lewis
Action / Thriller / Crime / Detective / Serial
USA
English (Silent)
2644
647
1913
Phillips Smalley, Lois Weber
Lois Weber, Val Paul, Douglas Gerrard, Sam Kaufman
Short / Drama / Thriller
USA
English (Silent)
2689
673
1912
D.W. Griffith
Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Elmer Booth, Robert Harron, Harry Carey
Crime / Short / Thriller
USA
English (Silent)
2858
733
1912
D.W. Griffith
Dorothy Bernard, Wilfred Lucas, Edwin August, Christy Cabanne, William A. Carroll
Short / Drama / Crime / Thriller / Caper
USA
English (Silent)
