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1940s Thriller Movies

Public list by WPS with 103 movies or TV shows/series

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The Dark Mirror(1946)

1h 25min | Thriller, Mystery
3.5/5 (with 44 votes)

A sister and her disturbed twin are implicated in a murder and a police detective must figure out which one's the killer.

The Big Clock(1948)

1h 35min | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
3.7/5 (with 65 votes)

Stroud, a crime magazine's crusading editor has to post-pone a vacation with his wife, again, when a glamorous blonde is murdered and he is assigned by his publishing boss Janoth to find the killer. As the investigation proceeds to its conclusion, Stroud must try to disrupt his ordinarily brilliant investigative team as they increasingly build evidence (albeit wrong) that he is the killer.

Secret Beyond the Door(1947)

3.2/5 (with 52 votes)

After a whirlwind romance in Mexico, a beautiful heiress marries a man she barely knows with hardly a second thought. She finds his New York home full of his strange relations, and macabre rooms that are replicas of famous murder sites. One locked room contains the secret to her husband's obsession, and the truth about what happened to his first wife.

The Chase(1946)

1h 26min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 21 votes)

Chuck Scott gets a job as chauffeur to tough guy Eddie Roman; but Chuck's involvement with Eddie's fearful wife becomes a nightmare.

The Two Mrs. Carrolls(1947)

NR
| 1h 39min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 26 votes)

Struggling artist Geoffrey Carroll meets Sally while on holiday in the country. A romance develops, but he doesn't tell her he's already married. Suffering from mental illness, Geoffrey returns home where he paints an impression of his wife as the angel of death and then promptly poisons her. He marries Sally but after a while he finds a strange urge to paint her as the angel of death too and history seems about to repeat itself.

Berlin Express(1948)

1h 27min | Thriller, Drama
3.1/5 (with 22 votes)

Robert Ryan leads a group of Allied agents fighting an underground Nazi group in post-war Europe.

Violence(1947)

1h 12min | Crime, Drama
2.5/5 (with 6 votes)

Magazine writer Ann Mason infiltrates the United Defenders, a public service organization which is actually a front for racketeers. But a case of amnesia threatens to blow her cover.

The Street with No Name(1948)

NR
| 1h 31min | Drama, Action, Thriller, Crime
3.2/5 (with 19 votes)

After two gang-related killings in "Center City," a suspect (who was framed) is arrested, released on bail...and murdered. Inspector Briggs of the FBI recruits a young agent, Gene Cordell, to go undercover in the shadowy Skid Row area (alias George Manly) as a potential victim of the same racket. Soon, Gene meets Alec Stiles, neurotic mastermind who's "building an organization along scientific lines." Stiles recruits Cordell, whose job becomes a lot more dangerous.

The Other(1946)

1h 38min | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 13 votes)

A mousy, poor manicurist seeks to switch places with her more glamorous, wealthy twin sister.

The Dark Past(1948)

NR
| 1h 15min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.0/5 (with 13 votes)

A gang hold a family hostage in their own home. The leader of the escaped cons is bothered by a recurring dream that the doctor of the house may be able to analyze.

Guest in the House(1944)

2h 1min | Drama, Thriller
2.1/5 (with 6 votes)

Evelyn, an emotionally vulnerable and unstable woman, stays at the home of her doctor Dan Proctor. There she meets and falls in love with his brother, Douglas, who is happily married to Ann. Evelyn then sets forth to break up the happy marriage and win the love of Douglas.

Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome(1947)

2.6/5 (with 12 votes)

A gang of criminals, which includes a piano player and an imposing former convict known as 'Gruesome', has found out about a scientist's secret formula for a gas that temporarily paralyzes anyone who breathes it. When Gruesome accidentally inhales some of the gas and passes out, the police think he is dead and take him to the morgue, where he later revives and escapes. This puzzling incident attracts the interest of Dick Tracy, and when the criminals later use the gas to rob a bank, Tracy realizes that he must devote his entire attention to stopping them.

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The Devil Thumbs a Ride(1947)

NR
| 1h 2min | Crime
3.2/5 (with 9 votes)

Steve Morgan kills a man in a holdup and hitches a ride to Los Angeles with Fergie. At a gas station, they pick up two women. Encountering a roadblock, Morgan takes over and persuades the party to spend the night at an unoccupied beach house. The police close in as one by one, the others learn that Morgan is a killer.

Directed by Felix E. Feist - With Lawrence Tierney

Bewitched(1945)

NR
| 1h 5min | Drama
2.7/5 (with 8 votes)

A girl enlists a psychic to get rid of her murderous alternate personality.

Walk a Crooked Mile(1948)

NR
| 1h 31min | Crime, Drama
2.8/5 (with 8 votes)

A security leak is found at a Southern California atomic plant. The authorities stand in fear that the information leaked would go to a hostile nation. To investigate the case more efficiently, Dan O'Hara, an FBI agent, and Philip Grayson, a Scotland Yard sleuth, join forces. Will they manage to stop the spy ring from achieving their aim?

Another Dawn(1943)

3.2/5 (with 8 votes)

The disaffected wife of a failed civil servant, is thrilled to re-encounter Octavio, a former lover who is now a union activist on the run from a corrupt politician. Hoping to help him, she descends into the Mexican underworld, where she finds a purpose-and a thrill-missing from her married life.

Backlash(1947)

NR
| 1h 6min | Crime, Mystery
2.4/5 (with 7 votes)

In a series of flashbacks, shows that attorney John Morland has given a lift to a hitchhiker who turns out to be a murderer. As a result, Morland himself is implicated in a killing. A pair of detectives discover that Morland has been having business problems and no end of difficulties with his wife Catherine. The trail of clues leads to a surprising revelation.

Forbidden(1949)

1h 27min | Thriller, Drama
3.5/5 (with 4 votes)

Set on Blackpool’s Golden Mile, Jim (Douglass Montgomery), a once promising scientist, sets up in business as a patent medicine man selling hair tonic at the fair with his ex-army colleague Dan (Ronald Shiner). Following a fight with local hoods over pitch spaces, Jim falls for Jane (Hazel Court), the girl on a nearby candy floss stall. The two begin dating but Jim fails to mention he is already married.

The Night Has Eyes(1942)

NR
| 1h 19min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 6 votes)

Two teachers, man-hungry Doris and restrained Marian, visit the Yorkshire moors a year after friend Evelyn disappeared there. On a stormy night, they take refuge in the isolated cottage of Stephen, one-time pianist shell-shocked in the Spanish Civil War. Doris flees as soon as the flood subsides; but Marian's suspicions about Evelyn's fate, in conflict with her growing love for Stephen, prompt her to stay on among the misty bogs.

Directed by Leslie Arliss

Tokyo Rose(1946)

NR
| 1h 9min | War, Adventure
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Lotus Long plays the title role, an American-educated Japanese woman broadcasting enemy propaganda to American troops. Captured GI Pete Sherman is one of a group of POWS slated to be interviewed on Tokyo Rose's radio program. Instead of advising his comrades to surrender (as ordered), Sherman uses his innate Yankee knowhow to hoist the treacherous deejay on her own petard. Managing to make his escape, Sherman hooks up with the Japanese Underground, convincing anti-militarist Charlie Otani to aid in a kidnapping plot aimed at Tokyo Rose.

Directed by Lew Landers - With Byron Barr

The Dark Tower(1943)

1h 30min | Drama, Thriller
3.0/5 (with 5 votes)

While working at a circus, a man hypnotizes a trapezist to kill her partner.

Murder in Reverse?(1945)

1h 20min | Thriller, Drama
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Tom Masterick, a dock worker, is wrongfully convicted of a murder charge. His death sentence is commuted to a long prison term. When released as an old man, he vows to find the real killer.

Hideout(1949)

NR
| 1h 1min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
2.8/5 (with 2 votes)

Philip Ford's crime thriller stars Lloyd Bridges as a city attorney who comes to the dawning realization that a jewelry heist may be behind the discovery of a dead body in the park -- and that the culprit may be one of the town's leading citizens (Ray Collins). Unfortunately, his investigation is hampered by his girlfriend and ex-secretary (Lorna Gray), who could very well be in cahoots with the bad guys.

Directed by Philip Ford - With Lloyd Bridges

The London Man(1943)

1h 38min | Drama, Thriller
3.0/5 (with 4 votes)

Maloin, a maritime station guard, spends his nights at the port signal box. One night, he becomes the witness of a murder: for a simple suitcase smuggled, the altercation between the two men turns to drama. While the first falls and drowns, the second flees. Maloin, instead of warning the police, decides to dive in and recover the suitcase...which contains more than 3 million in small denominations! That's when the trouble begins...

Daybreak(1948)

NR
| 1h 15min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.0/5 (with 6 votes)

A mysterious barber hides a secret identity that eventually leads to tragedy.

Fly-By-Night(1942)

NR
| 1h 14min | Thriller, Drama
3.3/5 (with 2 votes)

Young intern Jeff Burton, impulsively offers a lift to an odd-looking gentlemen. It soon turns out that Jeff's passenger is an inventor has just escaped from a shady sanitarium, where he has been held prisoner by Nazi spies.

Temptation(1946)

NR
| 1h 38min | Drama, Thriller
2.5/5 (with 3 votes)

After marrying an archaeologist, a Victorian-era woman with a sordid past realizes that she is not ready to settle down with one man.

The Small Voice(1948)

NR
| 1h 25min | Thriller
3.1/5 (with 3 votes)

A man and his wife take to their house some men they rescue from a road crash and then find they have picked up some dangerous criminals.

Strange Impersonation(1946)

1h 8min | Drama, Thriller
3.0/5 (with 9 votes)

A female research scientist conducting experiments on a new anesthetic has a very bad week. Her scheming assistant intentionally scars her face, her almost-fiancee appears to have deserted her and she finds herself being blackmailed by a women she accidentally knocked down with her car. So what is one to do?

Le dernier des six(1941)

1h 30min | Thriller, Mystery
3.3/5 (with 7 votes)

Six friends promise to share their fortune in 5 years. The moment is very close, but one of the six is mysteriously murdered, then another... Superintendent Wenceslas Woroboyioetschik (aka Wens) is in charge of the investigation...

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