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1930s Thriller Movies

Public list by WPS with 79 movies or TV shows/series

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The Man They Could Not Hang(1939)

NR
| 1h 4min | Science Fiction, Horror, Crime
3.3/5 (with 19 votes)

Dr. Henryk Savaard is a scientist working on experiments to restore life to the dead. When he is unjustly hanged for murder, he is brought back to life by his trusted assistant. Re-animated he turns decidedly nasty and sets about murdering the jury that convicted him.

Rome Express(1932)

1h 34min | Thriller
3.1/5 (with 9 votes)

The theft of a famous painting leads to murder and many suspects on a plush train speeding from Paris to Rome.

Personal Column(1939)

3.4/5 (with 2 votes)

To try solving the strange disappearances of 11 young Parisian women, the police obtain the services of Adrienne Charpentier, friend of the latest missing person.

Double Door(1934)

NR
| 1h 15min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
3.4/5 (with 4 votes)

A domineering money-bags whose suppressed incestuous urges go into overdrive when her half-brother brings a new bride home to the family’s gloomy Fifth Avenue mansion. The title refers to a secret soundproofed chamber that the villainess uses to entrap her enemies.

Directed by Charles Vidor - With Evelyn Venable

Night Club Scandal(1937)

1.5/5 (with 1 vote)

When Dr. Ernest Tindal's wife is murdered, evidence mounts to convict her lover, Frank Marian. But Frank knows he didn't do it.....

Directed by Ralph Murphy - With John Barrymore

Forbidden Territory(1934)

Britisher Sir Charles Farrington and a son, Rex Farrington, arrive in a Russian Soviet territory searching for another Farrington son, Michael,who has been thrown into prison. Valarie Perrovna is a singer who is in love with the imprisoned son and she provides the searchers with the information as to where the missing son is being held. They all go there and help Michael escape. But is their escape vehicle---a flat wagon pulled by three horses--- fast enough and sturdy enough through the snow to beat the Commmisar and his troops to the Rumanian border.

Marie Galante(1934)

2.3/5 (with 4 votes)

On the French coast, unlucky Marie Galante is abducted and forced to board an American cargo ship bound for the Panama Canal. When an escape attempt leaves Marie high and dry in the Yucatan, she takes work as a nightclub singer to earn her safe passage to the Canal region. But Marie faces bigger problems when she gets mixed up in a destructive plot against the U.S. Naval fleet, and so she accepts the kindly assistance of secret agent Dr. Crawbett.

Bulldog Drummond Escapes(1937)

2.9/5 (with 8 votes)

Drummond manages to save a woman from jumping in front of his car but she runs away with his car. He traces her and she asks him to help her out of a dangerous situation.

Fast and Loose(1939)

1h 20min | Mystery
2.7/5 (with 2 votes)

The Sloanes tie murder to the theft of a Shakespeare manuscript.

Design for Murder(1939)

1h | Crime
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

When a wealthy, lonely university music student is beaten and has his apartment trashed by a fellow dorm resident-bully and his gang, he goes mad, lures the bully into his room on pretense of forgiveness, slips him a paralyzing agent in a drink, throws him in a trunk and locks him in, and taunts the bully with the promise that he will be buried alive in the trunk. Only, once he gets his trunk and his prey to his country estate, the vengeful victim finds things keep going wrong...

Directed by Roy Boulting - With Manning Whiley

The Murder in the Museum(1934)

NR
| 1h 5min | Thriller
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

When a city councilman is murdered while investigating allegations of drug dealing going on a a somewhat disreputable sideshow, the daughter of the chief suspect teams up with a newspaper reporter to find the real killer.

Directed by Melville Shyer - With John Harron

Car 99(1935)

1h 7min | Action, Crime
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A story of the Michigan State Police and the strong sense of loyalty and duty it instills in its men. It follows the career of a newly-inducted rookie, Ross Martin, who has joined the force at the urging of his sweetheart, Mary Adams. Martin soon distinguishes himself by his bravery in the apprehension of criminals. But when the leader of a gang of bank robbers falls into his hands and then escapes, because of carelessness on Martin's part, he is suspended from the force.

Directed by Charles Barton - With Fred MacMurray
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Reported Missing(1937)

NR
| 1h 3min | Thriller

A gang is sabotaging planes so that when they crash, the corpses can be robbed.

Directed by Milton Carruth

The Return of Bulldog Drummond(1934)

1h 13min | Crime
3.2/5 (with 7 votes)

Bulldog Drummond forms a gang to rescue his wife and thwart his nemesis, Carl Peterson.

House of Danger(1934)

1h 2min | Thriller, Drama
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

To protect a young woman's life, a man pretends to be her injured friend so he can investigate a murder and capture the killers.

Directed by Charles Hutchison - With Onslow Stevens, Janet Chandler, James Bush

Infernal Machine(1933)

1h 5min | Comedy

This pre-Code comedy-thriller centers on Robert Holden, a broke and discouraged veteran, who meets fellow American Elinor Green at a cafe in Paris. After their first encounter, Holden's attempt to return Green's thought-to-be stolen purse ends up rendering him a stowaway on board a ship bound for America. Also aboard is a collection of characters, including Green's banker fiancé, a famed scientist, and an opera singer. Romance begins to blossom between Holden and Green, just as a radiogram claims that an “infernal machine,” or bomb, is aboard the ship. Quickly each passenger accuses the others of planting the bomb until eventually Holden, jealous of Green's attention to her undeserving fiancé, falsely admits to being the culprit. In his role as assumed perpetrator, Holden tests the group further.

Directed by Marcel Varnel - With Chester Morris

The Lodger(1932)

NR
| 1h 25min | Action, Thriller, Romance / Love, Crime
2.6/5 (with 5 votes)

An elderly couple's lodger, a British musician (Ivor Novello), becomes the suspect in a series of killings.

Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel(1937)

2.1/5 (with 4 votes)

Sir Percy is forced to return to France one last time, to rescue his wife from the clutches of the sinister Robespierre. It clearly is a trap, but nothing will keep the good old Pimpernel from carrying out his mission. He is up against the usual clods and dolts, after all.

To levende og en død(1937)

1h 22min | Drama
2.3/5 (with 2 votes)

Based on the 1931 novel To levende og en død by Sigurd Christiansen. A post office worker is left wrestling with his conscience following a robbery at his workplace.

Love from a Stranger(1937)

2.9/5 (with 5 votes)

Ann Harding plays a lovely but somewhat naive young woman who goes on a European vacation after winning a lottery. Swept off her feet by charming Basil Rathbone, Harding finds herself married before she is fully able to grasp the situation. Slowly but surely, Rathbone's loving veneer crumbles; when he casually asks Harding to sign a document turning her entire fortune over to him, she deduces that her days are numbered.

Under Secret Orders(1933)

A young bank employee is sent to South America to bring some valuable bonds to a client there. Unfortunately for him, he tends to drink a bit too much and winds up getting involved with a gang that's planning on stealing the bonds to start a revolution.

Mr. Stringfellow Says No(1934)

1h 16min | Thriller

In this actioner, the life of a the humble church youth group leader is turned topsy-turvy when a car, driven by a spy suddenly crashes into his house.

Directed by Randall Faye

The Speckled Band(1931)

NR
| 1h 30min | Romance / Love, Mystery, Crime, Drama
2.8/5 (with 6 votes)

After her sister dies under mysterious circumstances, a young heiress seeks Holmes' help when she feels threatened by her brutish stepfather.

Kísértetek vonata(1933)

1h 4min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery

Remake of the English movie Ghost Train (1931, Walter Forde). Seven people are stranded for a stormy night at a remote, unmanned railroad station past which, every midnight, steams the "ghost" of a train which wrecked there 20 years ago.

Directed by Lajos Lázár - With Marika Rökk, Gheorghe Storin, Lisette Verea

Mystery Woman(1935)

1h 9min | Thriller, Mystery

A French military officer is convicted of treason and sent to Devil's Island. His wife takes it upon herself to obtain the stolen document and prove his innocence.

The Ticket of Leave Man(1937)

1h 11min | Horror
2.5/5 (with 4 votes)

A man is accused of a series of murders that were actually committed by a crazed killer called "The Tiger." He must prove his innocence and catch the murderer.

Directed by George King

Passenger to London(1937)

57min | Thriller
2.7/5 (with 2 votes)

A government agent is returning from France with secret blueprints that were stolen from his government. On the train ride home, thieves break into his compartment and murder him.

Midnight at Madame Tussaud's(1936)

1h 2min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Explorer Sir Clive bets that he can spend the night alone in Madame Tussauds Chamber of Horrors. Meanwhile, crooks hope to exploit his ward, Carol, for her fortune.

Hong Kong Nights(1935)

59min | Thriller
2.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Customs agents track a ring of arms smugglers into Hong Kong.

Directed by E. Mason Hopper

The Roadhouse Murder(1932)

1h 12min | Thriller
1.8/5 (with 1 vote)

After he stumbles across a murder, a young reporter devises an elaborate scene to keep his newspaper stories about the crime front-page news. Eric Linden, Dorothy Jordan, Bruce Cabot, Roscoe Ates, Roscoe Karns and Purnell Pratt star in this 1932 thriller, directed by J. Walter Ruben.

Directed by J. Walter Ruben - With Dorothy Jordan
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