Best Thrillers by Year
2038
431
1952
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
James Mason, Danielle Darrieux, Michael Rennie, Walter Hampden
Drama / Thriller / Spy / War
USA
English
2559
625
1952
Russell Rouse
Ray Milland, Martin Gabel, Harry Bronson, Rita Vale
Crime / Film-Noir / Drama / Thriller / Spy
USA
English
2809
727
1952
David Miller
Joan Crawford, Jack Palance, Gloria Grahame, Bruce Bennett, Virginia Huston
Film-Noir / Horror / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
209
37
1951
Alfred Hitchcock
Farley Granger, Robert Walker
Thriller / Film-Noir / Drama / Crime
USA
English
604
109
1951
Robert Wise
Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal
Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Family
USA
English
1642
333
1951
Henry Hathaway
Paul Douglas, Richard Basehart, Barbara Bel Geddes, Debra Paget
Film-Noir / Thriller / Drama
USA
English
1886
388
1951
Anatole Litvak
Richard Basehart, Gary Merrill, Oskar Werner
Drama / War / Thriller / Spy / Action
USA
English
2367
545
1951
Joseph Losey
Van Heflin, Evelyn Keyes, John Maxwell, Katherine Warren, Emerson Treacy
Crime / Film-Noir / Thriller / Drama
USA
English
2556
624
1951
Peter Lorre
Peter Lorre, Karl John, Helmuth Rudolph, Johanna Hofer, Renate Mannhardt
Drama / Thriller / War / Crime / Film-Noir
West Germany
German
2556
624
1951
Joseph Losey
David Wayne, Howard Da Silva, Martin Gabel, Luther Adler, Steve Brodie
Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
2794
720
1951
Anthony Mann
Dick Powell, Paula Raymond, Adolphe Menjou, Marshall Thompson
Adventure / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Period Film / Detective
USA
English
2809
727
1951
Robert Parrish
Dick Powell, Rhonda Fleming, Richard Erdman, William Conrad, Regis Toomey
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller
USA
English
2809
727
1951
John Farrow, Richard Fleischer
Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, Vincent Price, Tim Holt, Charles McGraw
Crime / Film-Noir / Thriller / Drama
USA
English
2809
727
1951
Henry Levin
Edmond O'Brien, Lizabeth Scott, Terry Moore, Alexander Knox, Griff Barnett
Crime / Thriller / Film-Noir / Drama
USA
English
11
2
1950
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
270
48
1950
John Huston
Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen
Crime / Film-Noir / Drama / Thriller / Caper / Gangster
USA
English
563
104
1950
Joseph H. Lewis
Peggy Cummins, John Dall
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Cult
USA
English
1120
215
1950
Elia Kazan
Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes
Crime / Film-Noir / Thriller / Drama
USA
English
1385
269
1950
Rudolph Maté
Edmond O'Brien, Pamela Britton, Luther Adler, Beverly Campbell
Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Romance
USA
English
1588
320
1950
John Boulting, Roy Boulting
Barry Jones, André Morell, Hugh Cross, Sheila Manahan
Thriller / Drama
UK
English
1804
366
1950
Basil Dearden
Jack Warner, Jimmy Hanley, Dirk Bogarde, Robert Flemyng
Action / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Detective / Thriller
UK
English
1848
380
1950
Jules Dassin
Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers, Hugh Marlowe
Film-Noir / Thriller / Crime / Drama
UK
English
2038
431
1950
Alfred Hitchcock
Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding, Richard Todd
Mystery / Thriller / Crime
UK
English
2694
683
1950
Burgess Meredith, Irving Allen, Charles Laughton
Charles Laughton, Franchot Tone, Burgess Meredith, Robert Hutton, Jean Wallace
Mystery / Thriller / Detective / Crime
USA / France
English
2790
718
1950
Sidney Gilliat
Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Jack Hawkins, Glynis Johns, Walter Rilla
Drama / Thriller
UK
English
2809
727
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
2809
727
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
2809
727
1950
Otto Preminger
Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, Gary Merrill, Bert Freed, Tom Tully
Crime / Film-Noir / Drama / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
2809
727
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
271
49
1949
Raoul Walsh
James Cagney, Virginia Mayo
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Gangster / Thriller
USA
English
1738
354
1949
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
David Farrar, Kathleen Byron, Jack Hawkins, Milton Rosmer, Cyril Cusack
Drama / Thriller / War / Film-Noir
UK
English
1836
378
1949
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Awaji, Eiko Miyoshi
Drama / Thriller / Film-Noir / Detective
Japan
Japanese
2187
470
1949
Ted Tetzlaff
Barbara Hale, Arthur Kennedy, Paul Stewart, Ruth Roman
Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
2365
543
1949
John Farrow
Ray Milland, Audrey Totter, Thomas Mitchell, George Macready, Fred Clark
Mystery / Drama / Thriller / Fantasy
USA
English
2556
624
1949
Robert Siodmak
Burt Lancaster, Yvonne De Carlo, Dan Duryea, Stephen McNally, Esy Morales
Crime / Film-Noir / Thriller / Caper / Gangster / Drama
USA
English
2692
681
1949
Victor Saville
Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Robert Flemyng, Harold Warrender, Honor Blackman
Thriller / Drama / Spy
UK
English
2694
683
1949
Felix E. Feist
Michael O'Shea, Virginia Grey, Charles McGraw, Julie Bishop, Frank Conroy
Crime / Film-Noir / Drama / Thriller
USA
English
2794
720
1949
Jules Dassin
Richard Conte, Valentina Cortese, Lee J. Cobb, Barbara Lawrence
Film-Noir / Thriller / Drama / Crime / Gangster
USA
English
2809
727
1949
Robert Stevens
Bela Lugosi, Romney Brent, Ray Walston
Drama / Thriller
USA
English
2809
727
1949
Richard Fleischer
William Lundigan, Dorothy Patrick, Jeff Corey, Nestor Paiva, Charles D. Brown
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
2809
727
1949
Byron Haskin
Lizabeth Scott, Don DeFore, Dan Duryea, Arthur Kennedy, Kristine Miller
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller
USA
English
2809
727
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
692
128
1948
Carol Reed
Ralph Richardson, Michèle Morgan, Sonia Dresdel
Drama / Thriller
UK
English
970
189
1948
John Huston
Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Edward G. Robinson, Lionel Barrymore, Claire Trevor
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Gangster
USA
English
1422
274
1948
Alfred Hitchcock
James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger, Cedric Hardwicke
Thriller / Crime / Cult
USA
English
2174
467
1948
Akira Kurosawa
Takashi Shimura, Toshirô Mifune, Reisaburo Yamamoto, Michiyo Kogure
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Gangster
Japan
Japanese
2202
475
1948
John Farrow
Ray Milland, Maureen O'Sullivan, Charles Laughton, George Macready
Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller
USA
English
2324
528
1948
Anatole Litvak
Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, Ann Richards, Wendell Corey, Harold Vermilyea
Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller
USA
English
2367
545
1948
Fred Zinnemann
Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh, Mary Astor, Phyllis Thaxter
Thriller / Film-Noir / Drama / Crime
USA
English
2367
545
1948
Anthony Mann
Dennis O'Keefe, Claire Trevor, Marsha Hunt, John Ireland, Raymond Burr
Crime / Film-Noir / Drama / Thriller / Gangster
USA
English
2517
612
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
2608
642
1948
Robert Stevenson
Dick Powell, Signe Hasso, Harry J. Anslinger, Maylia, Ludwig Donath
Adventure / Crime / Drama / Thriller
USA
English
2794
720
1948
Cy Endfield
William Gargan, Marjorie Lord, John Banner, Peter Brocco
Drama / Mystery / Romance / Thriller
USA
English
2809
727
1948
Bernard Vorhaus
Turhan Bey, Lynn Bari, Cathy O'Donnell, Richard Carlson, Donald Curtis
Film-Noir / Horror / Thriller
USA
English
2809
727
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
363
70
1947
Carol Reed
James Mason, Robert Newton, Cyril Cusack, Kathleen Ryan
Crime / Thriller / Drama
UK
English
812
150
1947
Orson Welles
Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth, Everett Sloane, Glenn Anders
Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Romance
USA
English
1502
294
1947
John Boulting
Richard Attenborough, Carol Marsh, Hermione Baddeley, William Hartnell
Crime / Thriller / Drama / Gangster
UK
English
1671
340
1947
Henry Hathaway
Victor Mature, Brian Donlevy, Coleen Gray, Richard Widmark, Taylor Holmes
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Gangster
USA
English
1899
391
1947
Jules Dassin
Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Charles Bickford, Yvonne De Carlo, Ann Blyth
Thriller / Film-Noir / Drama / Crime
USA
English
2280
512
1947
Anthony Kimmins
Burgess Meredith, Dulcie Gray, Michael Shepley, Christine Norden, Kieron Moore
Drama / Thriller
UK
English
2493
597
1947
Delmer Daves
Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett, Agnes Moorehead
Film-Noir / Thriller / Mystery / Romance
USA
English
2517
612
1947
Anthony Mann
Dennis O'Keefe, Mary Meade, Alfred Ryder, Wallace Ford, June Lockhart
Drama / Film-Noir / Crime / Thriller / Detective / Gangster
USA
English
2554
623
1947
Raoul Walsh
Robert Mitchum, Teresa Wright, Judith Anderson, Dean Jagger
Thriller / Western
USA
English
2608
642
1947
Robert Montgomery
Robert Montgomery, Wanda Hendrix, Andrea King, Thomas Gomez, Fred Clark
Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Crime / Gangster
USA
English
2692
681
1947
John Cromwell
Humphrey Bogart, Lizabeth Scott, Morris Carnovsky, Charles Cane, William Prince
Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
2692
681
1947
Edward Buzzell
William Powell, Myrna Loy, Keenan Wynn, Dean Stockwell, Phillip Reed
Comedy / Drama / Mystery / Crime / Music / Romance / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
2809
727
1947
Anatole Litvak
Henry Fonda, Barbara Bel Geddes, Vincent Price, Ann Dvorak, Howard Freeman
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller
USA
English
2809
727
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
658
121
1946
Charles Vidor
Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready
Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Romance / Mystery
USA
English
687
127
1946
Tay Garnett
Lana Turner, John Garfield
Drama / Film-Noir / Crime / Thriller
USA
English
900
167
1946
Robert Siodmak
Dorothy McGuire, George Brent, Ethel Barrymore, Kent Smith
Thriller / Drama / Mystery / Film-Noir
USA
English
1388
270
1946
Orson Welles
Orson Welles, Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Philip Merivale
Film-Noir / Thriller / Drama
USA
English
2320
526
1946
George Marshall
Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Bendix, Howard Da Silva, Doris Dowling
Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Crime / Thriller / Romance
USA
English
2515
611
1946
Mark Robson
Boris Karloff, Anna Lee, Billy House, Richard Fraser, Glen Vernon, Ian Wolfe
Drama / Horror / Thriller
USA
English
2556
624
1946
Arthur Ripley
Robert Cummings, Michèle Morgan, Steve Cochran, Lloyd Corrigan, Jack Holt
Film-Noir / Thriller / Gangster
USA
English
2692
681
1946
Charles Barton
Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Marjorie Reynolds, Binnie Barnes, John Shelton
Comedy / Fantasy / Thriller
USA
English
2694
683
1946
Robert Siodmak
Olivia de Havilland, Lew Ayres, Thomas Mitchell, Richard Long, Charles Evans
Film-Noir / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
2694
683
1946
Frank Launder
Deborah Kerr, Trevor Howard, Raymond Huntley, Michael Howard, Norman Shelley
Drama / Thriller / Spy / Romance
UK
English
2809
727
1946
Roy William Neill
Dan Duryea, June Vincent, Peter Lorre, Broderick Crawford, Constance Dowling
Adventure / Crime / Film-Noir / Music / Mystery / Thriller
USA
English
702
133
1945
Alfred Hitchcock
Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov, Leo G. Carroll
Film-Noir / Mystery / Romance / Thriller / Drama
USA
English
719
137
1945
Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer
Mervyn Johns, Roland Culver, Mary Merrall, Googie Withers
Horror / Mystery / Thriller
UK
English
1377
267
1945
Henry Hathaway
William Eythe, Lloyd Nolan, Signe Hasso, Gene Lockhart, Leo G. Carroll
Film-Noir / Drama / Spy / Thriller / War
USA
English
1618
327
1945
Robert Wise
Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Henry Daniell, Edith Atwater, Russell Wade
Drama / Horror / Thriller
USA
English
1790
361
1945
John M. Stahl
Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain, Vincent Price, Mary Philips
Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
2136
457
1945
George Marshall
Fred MacMurray, Helen Walker, Marjorie Main, Jean Heather, Porter Hall
Comedy / Crime / Thriller
USA
English
2692
681
1945
Frank Lloyd
James Cagney, Sylvia Sidney, Porter Hall, John Emery, Robert Armstrong
Action / Drama / War / Romance / Thriller
USA
English
2694
683
1945
Edward Dmytryk
Dick Powell, Walter Slezak, Micheline Cheirel, Nina Vale, Morris Carnovsky
Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / War / Mystery
USA
English
2809
727
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
279
53
1944
Otto Preminger, Rouben Mamoulian
Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews
Film-Noir / Mystery / Romance / Crime / Detective / Thriller
USA
English
572
105
1944
Howard Hawks
Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall
Thriller / War / Romance / Drama
USA
English
699
131
1944
George Cukor
Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten
Mystery / Thriller / Drama / Period Film / Detective
USA
English
843
155
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
1111
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
1505
295
1944
Robert Siodmak
Franchot Tone, Ella Raines, Alan Curtis, Aurora Miranda, Thomas Gomez, Fay Helm
Crime / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
1855
381
1944
Fritz Lang
Ray Milland, Marjorie Reynolds, Carl Esmond, Hillary Brooke, Percy Waram
Film-Noir / Thriller / Drama / Spy / War / Romance / Mystery
USA
English
2227
488
1944
Jean Negulesco
Sydney Greenstreet, Zachary Scott, Faye Emerson, Peter Lorre, Victor Francen
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller
USA
English
2493
597
1944
Edgar Neville
Antonio Casal, Isabel de Pomés, Guillermo Marín
Thriller / Horror / Comedy / Crime
Spain
Spanish
2608
642
1944
Roy William Neill
Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Gerald Hamer, Paul Cavanagh, Arthur Hohl
Crime / Mystery / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
2608
642
1944
Robert Siodmak
Charles Laughton, Ella Raines, Molly Lamont, Stanley Ridges, Henry Daniell
Drama / Thriller / Detective / Film-Noir / Crime
USA
English
2692
681
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
2694
683
1944
John Brahm
Laird Cregar, George Sanders, Merle Oberon, Cedric Hardwicke, Sara Allgood
Horror / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
2794
720
1944
William Castle
Dean Jagger, Kim Hunter, Robert Mitchum, Neil Hamilton
Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Detective / Romance
USA
English
359
69
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
257
1943
Billy Wilder
Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Akim Tamiroff, Erich von Stroheim, Peter van Eyck
Thriller / War / Spy / Adventure / Drama
USA
English
1654
336
1943
Norman Foster, Orson Welles
Joseph Cotten, Dolores del Rio, Ruth Warrick, Orson Welles, Agnes Moorehead
Film-Noir / Drama / War / Thriller / Spy
USA
English
1895
390
1943
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Pierre Fresnay, Ginette Leclerc, Micheline Francey, Héléna Manson
Drama / Thriller / Crime / Mystery
France
French
2235
494
1943
Lewis Milestone
Errol Flynn, Ann Sheridan, Walter Huston, Nancy Coleman, Helmut Dantine
Drama / War / Thriller
USA
English
2367
545
1943
Fritz Lang
Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, Brian Donlevy, Walter Brennan, Anna Lee, Nana Bryant
War / Drama / Thriller
USA
English
2608
642
1943
Richard Wallace
Loretta Young, Brian Aherne, Jeff Donnell, William Wright, Sidney Toler
Comedy / Mystery / Thriller / Detective / Crime
USA
English
2669
668
1943
Jacques Tourneur
Dennis O'Keefe, Margo, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell, James Bell
Thriller / Mystery / Horror
USA
English
2692
681
1943
Arthur Lubin
Nelson Eddy, Susanna Foster, Claude Rains, Edgar Barrier, Leo Carrillo, Jane Farrar
Drama / Horror / Music / Thriller / Period Film / Crime
USA
English
2809
727
1943
Harold S. Bucquet
Robert Donat, Valerie Hobson, Walter Rilla, Glynis Johns, Phyllis Morris
Drama / Romance / Thriller / War / Mystery / Spy
UK
English
2809
727
1943
Clyde Geronimi
Adolf Hitler, Art Smith
Short / Animation / Drama / Thriller / War
USA
English
2809
727
1943
Mark Robson
Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph, Jack Holt
Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Adventure
USA
English
589
106
1942
Jacques Tourneur
Simone Simon, Tom Conway
Drama / Horror / Romance / Thriller / Mystery
USA
English
1128
217
1942
George Stevens
Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Ronald Colman, Edgar Buchanan
Drama / Comedy / Romance / Thriller
USA
English
1506
296
1942
Frank Tuttle
Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Laird Cregar, Alan Ladd, Tully Marshall
Film-Noir / Crime / Thriller / Romance / Mystery / Detective
USA
English
1559
312
1942
Alfred Hitchcock
Priscilla Lane, Robert Cummings, Otto Kruger, Alan Baxter, Clem Bevans
Thriller / Romance / Spy
USA
English
1683
344
1942
Alberto Cavalcanti
Leslie Banks, Basil Sydney, Frank Lawton, Elizabeth Allan, Valerie Taylor
Thriller / War / Drama
UK
English
1899
391
1942
Stuart Heisler
Brian Donlevy, Veronica Lake, Alan Ladd, Bonita Granville, Richard Denning
Drama / Film-Noir / Crime / Mystery / Thriller / Detective / Gangster
USA
English
2809
727
1942
John Francis Larkin
George Sanders, Gail Patrick, Richard Denning, Lynne Roberts, Sidney Blackmer
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Mystery / Caper / Detective
USA
English
933
177
1941
Raoul Walsh
Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Curtis, Arthur Kennedy
Drama / Pre-Noir / Thriller / Crime / Gangster / Caper
USA
English
1107
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
249
1941
Fritz Lang
Walter Pidgeon, Joan Bennett, George Sanders, John Carradine
Thriller
USA
English
2809
727
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
146
1940
Alfred Hitchcock
Joel McCrea, Laraine Day
Thriller / Spy
USA
English
1501
293
1940
Thorold Dickinson
Anton Walbrook, Diana Wynyard, Frank Pettingell, Cathleen Cordell, Robert Newton
Thriller
UK
English
1750
355
1940
Raoul Walsh
George Raft, Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Gale Page, Alan Hale
Drama / Thriller / Romance / Crime
USA
English
1943
404
1940
Carol Reed
Margaret Lockwood, Rex Harrison, Paul Henreid, Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne
Thriller / War / Spy
UK
English
2373
546
1940
George Marshall
Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard, Richard Carlson, Paul Lukas, Willie Best
Comedy / Horror / Thriller / Gangster
USA
English
2694
683
1940
Boris Ingster
Peter Lorre, John McGuire, Margaret Tallichet, Charles Waldron, Elisha Cook Jr.
Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
2809
727
1940
Arthur Lubin
Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Stanley Ridges, Anne Nagel, Anne Gwynne
Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi / Crime / Thriller / Gangster
USA
English
2809
727
1940
Joe May
George Sanders, Vincent Price, Margaret Lindsay, Dick Foran, Nan Grey
Thriller / Drama / Crime / Period Film
USA
English
2809
727
1940
Nick Grinde
Boris Karloff, Roger Pryor, Jo Ann Sayers, Stanley Brown, John Dilson
Mystery / Sci-Fi / Horror / Thriller
USA
English
274
51
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
2235
494
1939
Alfred L. Werker
Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Ida Lupino, George Zucco, Alan Marshal
Crime / Thriller / Mystery / Detective
USA
English
2324
528
1939
Sidney Lanfield
Richard Greene, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Lionel Atwill, John Carradine
Crime / Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
2515
611
1939
William Keighley
James Cagney, George Raft, Jane Bryan, George Bancroft, Stanley Ridges
Thriller / Crime / Drama / Gangster
USA
English
2742
699
1939
Michael Powell
Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson, Sebastian Shaw, Marius Goring
Action / Adventure / Drama / Romance / Thriller / War / Spy
UK
English
2809
727
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
704
134
1938
Alfred Hitchcock
Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave
Mystery / Thriller / Drama / Spy / Comedy
UK
English
2692
681
1938
Ben Holmes
Louis Hayward, Kay Sutton, Sig Ruman, Jonathan Hale, Jack Carson, Paul Guilfoyle
Crime / Mystery / Drama / Thriller / Detective / Gangster
USA
English
2350
534
1937
Richard Thorpe
Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell, Dame May Whitty
Thriller
USA
English
2694
683
1937
Jacques Feyder
Marlene Dietrich, Robert Donat, Irene Vanbrugh, Herbert Lomas, Austin Trevor
Adventure / Drama / History / Thriller / Period Film / Romance
UK
English
2758
704
1937
Robert Florey
Anna May Wong, Philip Ahn, Charles Bickford, Buster Crabbe, Cecil Cunningham
Crime / Drama / Thriller
USA
English
2809
727
1937
H. Bruce Humberstone
Warner Oland, Katherine DeMille, Pauline Moore, Allan Lane, Keye Luke
Mystery / Comedy / Action / Crime/ Spy / Detective / Thriller
USA
English
2809
727
1937
Norman Foster
Peter Lorre, Lee Phelps, Virginia Field, Thomas Beck, Sig Ruman, Murray Kinnell
Crime / Mystery / Thriller / Drama / Action / Detective / Gangster
USA
English
2809
727
1937
Alfred Hitchcock
Nova Pilbeam, Derrick De Marney, Percy Marmont, Edward Rigby, Mary Clare
Crime / Thriller / Romance
UK
English
1534
304
1936
Alfred Hitchcock
Sylvia Sidney, Oskar Homolka, Desmond Tester, John Loder, Joyce Barbour
Drama / Thriller / Spy
UK
English
2300
520
1936
Tod Browning
Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan, Frank Lawton, Rafaela Ottiano
Sci-Fi / Horror / Thriller
USA
English
2397
557
1936
Alfred Hitchcock
John Gielgud, Madeleine Carroll, Peter Lorre, Robert Young
Mystery / Thriller / Romance / Drama / Spy / Action / Comedy
UK
English
2581
633
1936
Howard Hawks
James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, June Travis, Stuart Erwin
Drama / Adventure / Romance / Thriller
USA
English
2608
642
1936
W.S. Van Dyke
William Powell, Myrna Loy, James Stewart, Elissa Landi, Joseph Calleia
Comedy / Romance / Crime / Mystery / Detective / Thriller
USA
English
2608
642
1936
Lewis Milestone
Gary Cooper, Madeleine Carroll, Akim Tamiroff, Dudley Digges, Porter Hall
Adventure / Thriller / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2692
681
1936
John Ford
Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Foster, Barry Fitzgerald, Denis O'Dea, Eileen Crowe
Drama / History / Adventure / Thriller / War
USA
English
2809
727
1936
William Keighley
Edward G. Robinson, Joan Blondell, Barton MacLane, Humphrey Bogart, Frank McHugh
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Action / Detective
USA
English
2809
727
1936
Harry Lachman
Warner Oland, Keye Luke, George Brasno, Olive Brasno, Francis Ford
Mystery / Comedy / Crime / Detective / Thriller
USA
English
2809
727
1936
H. Bruce Humberstone
Warner Oland, Keye Luke, Helen Wood, Thomas Beck, Alan Dinehart
Mystery / Comedy / Crime / Detective / Thriller
USA
English
2809
727
1936
William K. Howard
Carole Lombard, Preston Foster, Cesar Romero, Janet Beecher, Betty Lawford
Comedy / Mystery / Romance / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
292
58
1935
Alfred Hitchcock
Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim, Godfrey Tearle, Peggy Ashcroft
Mystery / Thriller / Drama / Spy
UK
English
2466
590
1935
Karl Freund
Peter Lorre, Frances Drake, Colin Clive, Ted Healy, Sara Haden, Edward Brophy
Horror / Thriller
USA
English
2809
727
1935
Louis King
Warner Oland, Pat Paterson, Thomas Beck, Rita Hayworth, Jameson Thomas
Mystery / Horror / Detective / Crime / Thriller
USA
English
2809
727
1935
Lewis Seiler, Hamilton MacFadden
Warner Oland, Keye Luke, Thomas Beck, Mary Brian, Erik Rhodes
Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Crime / Detective
USA
English
2809
727
1935
James Tinling
Warner Oland, Irene Hervey, Jon Hall, Russell Hicks, Keye Luke
Mystery / Action / Crime / Detective / Thriller
USA
English
2809
727
1935
Milton Rosmer
Tod Slaughter, Sophie Stewart, D.J. Williams, Eric Portman, Clare Greet
Crime / Thriller / Drama
UK
English
2809
727
1935
Tod Browning
Lionel Barrymore, Elizabeth Allan, Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill, Jean Hersholt
Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Detective / Cult
USA
English
281
54
1934
W.S. Van Dyke
William Powell, Myrna Loy
Crime / Romance / Comedy / Mystery / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
1437
278
1934
Alfred Hitchcock
Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Peter Lorre, Frank Vosper
Thriller / Spy
UK
English
2649
657
1934
William Dieterle
Bette Davis, Donald Woods, Margaret Lindsay, Lyle Talbot, Arthur Byron
Thriller / Mystery / Drama / Crime / Gangster
USA
English
2809
727
1934
Eugene Forde
Warner Oland, Drue Leyton, Ray Milland, Mona Barrie, Douglas Walton
Mystery / Crime / Detective / Thriller
USA
English
2809
727
1934
Mitchell Leisen
Carl Brisson, Victor McLaglen, Jack Oakie, Kitty Carlisle, Dorothy Stickney
Musical / Mystery / Comedy / Thriller / Crime / Detective
USA
English
2809
727
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
938
178
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
2012
426
1933
Michael Curtiz
Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Glenda Farrell, Frank McHugh, Allen Vincent
Horror / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
2608
642
1933
W.S. Van Dyke
Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, Charles Butterworth, Mae Clarke, Phillips Holmes
Crime / Mystery / Comedy / Thriller
USA
English
649
117
1932
Tod Browning
Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams
Drama / Horror / Thriller / Cult
USA
English
1765
358
1932
Walter Forde
Conrad Veidt, Esther Ralston, Hugh Williams, Donald Calthrop
Thriller / Mystery / Drama / Detective
UK
English
2363
541
1932
Irving Pichel, Ernest B. Schoedsack
Joel McCrea, Fay Wray, Leslie Banks, Robert Armstrong, Noble Johnson
Adventure / Thriller / Horror / Mystery / Cult
USA
English
2694
683
1932
Michael Curtiz
Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Lee Tracy, Preston Foster, John Wray, Harry Beresford
Horror / Thriller / Mystery
USA
English
2809
727
1932
William Cameron Menzies
Violet Heming, Ralph Bellamy, Alexander Kirkland, Alan Dinehart, Mary Gordon
Thriller
USA
English
2809
727
1932
John G. Blystone
Spencer Tracy, Peggy Shannon, William 'Stage' Boyd, Irving Pichel, Raul Roulien
Drama / Crime / Romance / Thriller
USA
English
24
6
1931
Fritz Lang
Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut, Otto Wernicke, Theodor Loos
Crime / Thriller / Detective / Pre-Noir / Cult
Germany
German
2692
681
1931
Josef von Sternberg
Phillips Holmes, Sylvia Sidney, Frances Dee, Irving Pichel, Frederick Burton
Romance / Drama / Crime / Thriller
USA
English
1798
364
1930
George W. Hill
Chester Morris, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, Robert Montgomery
Drama / Thriller
USA
English
2136
457
1930
Alfred Hitchcock
Herbert Marshall, Norah Baring, Phyllis Konstam, Edward Chapman, Miles Mander
Crime / Mystery / Thriller / Detective / Drama
UK
English
2397
557
1930
Robert Milton
Leslie Howard, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Beryl Mercer, Dudley Digges
Drama / Fantasy / Thriller
USA
English
2794
720
1930
Yasujiro Ozu
Tokihiko Okada, Fuyuki Yamamoto, Emiko Yagumo, Mitsuko Ichimura
Drama / Crime / Thriller
Japan
Japanese (Silent)
820
154
1929
Alfred Hitchcock
Anny Ondra, John Longden, Sara Allgood, Charles Paton
Thriller / Drama
UK
English
1805
367
1929
F. Richard Jones, Sidney Howard
Ronald Colman, Claud Allister, Lawrence Grant, Montagu Love
Mystery / Thriller / Adventure / Action / Detective
USA
English
2712
694
1929
Roland West
Chester Morris, Harry Stubbs, Mae Busch, Eleanore Griffith
Crime / Thriller / Detective / Gangster
USA
English
2809
727
1929
Curtis Bernhardt
Marlene Dietrich, Fritz Kortner, Frida Richard, Oskar Sima, Uno Henning
Drama / Romance / Thriller
Germany
German (Silent)
2009
425
1928
Fritz Lang
Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Gerda Maurus, Lien Deyers, Louis Ralph
Thriller / Spy
Germany
English (Silent)
2809
727
1928
Paul Leni
Laura La Plante, Montagu Love, Roy D'Arcy, Margaret Livingston, John Boles
Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
1559
312
1927
Alfred Hitchcock
Ivor Novello, Marie Ault, Arthur Chesney, June, Malcolm Keen
Crime / Thriller / Drama
UK
English (Silent)
2556
624
1927
Tod Browning
Lon Chaney, Marceline Day, Henry B. Walthall, Percy Williams, Conrad Nagel
Drama / Horror / Thriller / Detective / Crime / Mystery
USA
English (Silent)
1524
303
1926
F.W. Murnau
Gösta Ekman, Emil Jannings, Camilla Horn, Frida Richard
Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Thriller
Germany
German (Silent)
2488
595
1925
Tod Browning
Lon Chaney, Mae Busch, Matt Moore, Victor McLaglen, Harry Earles, Matthew Betz
Crime / Drama / Thriller
USA
English (Silent)
1776
360
1924
Victor Sjöström
Lon Chaney, Norma Shearer, John Gilbert, Tully Marshall
Drama / Thriller
USA
English (Silent)
2692
681
1924
Leo Birinsky, Paul Leni
Emil Jannings, Conrad Veidt, Werner Krauss, William Dieterle, Olga Belajeff
Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Thriller
Germany
German (Silent)
393
74
1922
Fritz Lang
Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Aud Egede Nissen
Crime / Horror / Thriller / Mystery / Detective
Germany
German (Silent)
2515
611
1920
Wallace Worsley
Charles Clary, Doris Pawn, Jim Mason, Lon Chaney, Milton Ross, Ethel Grey Terry
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Horror
USA
English (Silent)
2809
727
1920
Tod Browning
Priscilla Dean, Wheeler Oakman, Lon Chaney, Ralph Lewis, E. Alyn Warren
Crime / Romance / Thriller / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2493
597
1916
Louis Feuillade
René Cresté, Musidora, René Poyen
Adventure / Crime / Thriller / Serial
France
French (Silent)
1067
207
1915
Louis Feuillade
Musidora, Edouard Mathé, Marcel Lévesque
Crime / Thriller / Drama / Fantasy / Mystery / Gangster / Serial / Horror / Comedy
France
French (Silent)
2423
571
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)
2647
655
1913
Phillips Smalley, Lois Weber
Lois Weber, Val Paul, Douglas Gerrard, Sam Kaufman
Short / Drama / Thriller
USA
English (Silent)
2692
681
1912
D.W. Griffith
Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Elmer Booth, Robert Harron, Harry Carey
Crime / Short / Thriller
USA
English (Silent)
2860
742
1912
D.W. Griffith
Dorothy Bernard, Wilfred Lucas, Edwin August, Christy Cabanne, William A. Carroll
Short / Drama / Crime / Thriller / Caper
USA
English (Silent)
