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1950s Mystery Movies

Public list by WPS with 82 movies or TV shows/series

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Touch of Evil(1958)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 51min | Crime, Thriller, Mystery
3.9/5 (with 603 votes)

When a car bomb explodes on the American side of the U.S./Mexico border, Mexican drug enforcement agent Miguel Vargas begins his investigation, along with American police captain Hank Quinlan. When Vargas begins to suspect that Quinlan and his shady partner, Menzies, are planting evidence to frame an innocent man, his investigations into their possible corruption quickly put himself and his new bride, Susie, in jeopardy.

Strangers on a Train(1951)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 41min | Crime, Thriller
3.9/5 (with 688 votes)

A deranged socialite accosts a tennis star with his theory that if two strangers trade murders, they can disguise their motives and avoid suspicion.

Bad Day at Black Rock(1955)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 21min | Thriller, Drama, Crime
3.7/5 (with 147 votes)

One-armed war veteran John J. Macreedy steps off a train at the sleepy little town of Black Rock. Once there, he begins to unravel a web of lies, secrecy, and murder.

The Hound of the Baskervilles(1959)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 27min | Mystery, Thriller, Horror
3.4/5 (with 125 votes)

When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.

Mr. Arkadin(1955)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 39min | Crime, Mystery, Drama, Thriller
3.6/5 (with 67 votes)

Claiming that he doesn't know his own past, a rich man enlists an ex-con with an odd bit of detective work. Gregory Arkadin says he can't remember anything before the late 1920s, and convict Guy Van Stratten is happy to take the job of exploring his new acquaintance's life story. Guy's research turns up stunning details about his employer's past, and as his work seems linked to untimely deaths, the mystery surrounding Mr. Arkadin deepens.

An Inspector Calls(1954)

3.6/5 (with 38 votes)

Based on a famous stage play and set in the year 1912, an upper crust family dinner is interrupted by a police inspector who brings news that a girl known to everyone present has died in suspicious circumstances. It seems that any or all of them could have had a hand in her death. But who is the mysterious Inspector and what can he want of them?

The Facts of Murder(1959)

1h 55min | Crime, Mystery
3.7/5 (with 18 votes)

A police inspector comes into contact with people of all types and dispositions during a grueling murder investigation.

The Man in the Net(1959)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 38min | Drama, Thriller, Mystery
2.6/5 (with 5 votes)

A artist living in a quiet Connecticut town is the main suspect in the disappearance of his shrew wife. Things turn ugly when the townsfolk attempt to take the law into their own hands.

Foreign Intrigue(1956)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 35min | Drama, Action, Thriller
2.9/5 (with 9 votes)

Millionaire Victor Danemore, living on the French Riviera, dies suddenly of a heart attack. His secretary, Dave Bishop, wants to know more about his employer's life. Surprisingly, not even his young wife knows anything about her husband's background or how he earned his fortune. Clues lead Bishop to Vienna and Stockholm, where he learns that Danemore was blackmailing people who cooperated with the Nazis during World War II.

The Undead(1957)

1h 11min | Fantasy, Horror
2.3/5 (with 16 votes)

Two psychics place a prostitute under hypnosis in order to learn about her past-life experiences. When they unwittingly send her back in time, she finds herself in the Middle Ages, suspected of being a witch and on the verge of being executed.

Man in the Attic(1953)

1h 22min | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
2.9/5 (with 18 votes)

London, 1888: on the night of the third Jack the Ripper killing, soft-spoken Mr. Slade, a research pathologist, takes lodgings with the Harleys, including a gloomy attic room for "experiments." Mrs. Harley finds Slade odd and increasingly suspects the worst; her niece Lily (star of a decidedly Parisian stage revue) finds him interesting and increasingly attractive. Is Lily in danger, or are her mother's suspicions merely a red herring?

Night Train(1959)

1h 37min | Mystery, Thriller, Drama
3.7/5 (with 33 votes)

Two strangers, Jerzy and Marta, accidentally end up holding tickets for the same sleeping chamber on an overnight train to the Baltic Sea coast. Also on board is Marta's spurned lover, who will not leave her alone. When the police enter the train in search of a murderer on the lam, rumors fly and everything seems to point toward one of the main characters as the culprit.

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Dementia(1955)

56min | Crime, Horror
3.3/5 (with 29 votes)

Shot entirely without dialogue and filled with suggestive violence and psycho-sexual imagery, it's like a skid row expressionist thriller following the nocturnal prowling of a young woman haunted by homicidal guilt.

Directed by John Parker - With Angelo Rossitto, Bruno VeSota, Shorty Rogers

El misterio del carro express(1953)

1h 20min | Drama, Thriller
2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

Police detective and his plucky girl-reporter fiancée go after the gang that committed a train robbery.

Edge of Eternity(1959)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 20min | Mystery, Crime, Drama
3.4/5 (with 10 votes)

Helped by socialite Janice Kendon and barkeeper Scott O'Brien, Arizona deputy sheriff Les Martin works to solve three brutal murders in and around the Grand Canyon. His efforts leads to the killer fleeing with Janice as a hostage and a chase by car and helicopter lead to a climax on a miner's bucket on cables a mile above the canyon floor.

Beautiful Stranger(1954)

2.4/5 (with 6 votes)

An ex-chorus girl lives on the Riviera, supported by a married man she doesn't know is a crook.

The King and Four Queens(1956)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 26min | Adventure, Western, Mystery, Comedy
2.6/5 (with 11 votes)

Opportunistic con man Dan Kehoe ingratiates himself with the cantankerous mother of four outlaws and their beautiful widows in order to find their hidden gold.

El jinete sin cabeza(1957)

1h 31min | Mystery, Western, Horror
2.5/5 (with 4 votes)

A mute phantom hero takes on skull-masked killers, a disembodied living hand and a corpse that won't stay in its grave. This is the first in a trilogy of horror/western hybrids that also includes the films La marca de Satanás ("The Mark of Satan") and La cabeza de Pancho Villa ("The Head of Pancho Villa").

Gorilla at Large(1954)

1h 23min | Horror, Thriller, Mystery
2.9/5 (with 5 votes)

At a carnival called the Garden of Evil, a man is murdered, apparently by a gorilla...or someone in a gorilla suit.

My Cousin Rachel(1952)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 38min | Mystery, Romance / Love, Drama
3.3/5 (with 14 votes)

A young man plots revenge against the woman he believes murdered his cousin, but his plans are shaken when he comes face to face with the enigmatic beauty.

The Black Castle(1952)

1h 22min | Mystery, Thriller, Horror
3.3/5 (with 14 votes)

A Man investigates the disappearance of two of his friends who were the guests of a sinister Austrian count.

Mr. Denning Drives North(1951)

1h 33min | Drama
3.1/5 (with 3 votes)

When well-off aircraft designer Denning finds his daughter's current boyfriend is a nasty character he tries to buy him off, ending up hitting him and causing his death when he falls. Instead of calling the police he dumps the body in a lonely spot on the road to the North, making it look like a hit-and-run accident. Weeks later there is still no report of the body being found, and Denning starts to go to pieces. When he lets his wife into his secret the two start making enquiries, possibly making things worse.

Deduce, You Say(1956)

3.5/5 (with 17 votes)

Daffy Duck is a detective who is hunting for the Shorepshire Slasher.

Directed by Chuck Jones

Hell's Half Acre(1954)

1h 30min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
2.9/5 (with 6 votes)

A woman travels to Hawaii to find out if a man in prison there is actually her missing husband.

The Hour of 13(1952)

1h 19min | Crime
2.8/5 (with 2 votes)

1890, London, and a serial killer known as The Terror is murdering policemen. When gentleman thief Nicholas Revel unwittingly becomes the chief suspect, he must use his guile and wits to prove he’s not the killer; whilst also not getting caught for a jewel robbery he has just committed.

Directed by Harold French - With Peter Lawford

The Lady in Black(1958)

1h 50min | Thriller, Mystery
2.8/5 (with 7 votes)

The married detective couple John and Kajsa Hillman goes on a vacation to Holmfors mill where a friend of Kajsa's lives with her husband. When a young woman is found murdered it is clear that this is another case for the Hillmans.

The Scapegoat(1959)

1h 31min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 13 votes)

An Englishman in France unwittingly is placed into the identity, and steps into the vacated life, of a look-alike French nobleman.

High Terrace(1956)

1h 9min | Mystery

A British theater actress unable to get out of her contract is assisted by an American playwright when a pair of her scissors is discovered lodged in her producer's back.

Crow Hollow(1952)

1h 9min | Thriller
2.9/5 (with 4 votes)

A greedy woman tries to poison her nephew's bride in a dark mansion.

Directed by Michael McCarthy - With Donald Houston

Phantom of the Rue Morgue(1954)

1h 23min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
3.4/5 (with 5 votes)

When several women are found mutilated and murdered, the Paris police are baffled as to who the killer may be. All evidence points to Dupin, but soon it becomes apparent that it is someone (or something) stronger and deadlier than a human.

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