1950s Mystery Movies

82 movies found (page 1/3):

Touch of Evil(1958)

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.

Directed by Orson Welles - With Orson Welles, Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Joseph Calleia, Akim Tamiroff, Ray Collins, ...

Strangers on a Train(1951)

| 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.

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock - With Robert Walker, Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Leo G. Carroll, Pat Hitchcock, Marion Lorne, ...

Bad Day at Black Rock(1955)

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.

Directed by John Sturges - With Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis, Dean Jagger, Walter Brennan, Ernest Borgnine, ...

The Hound of the Baskervilles(1959)

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.

Directed by Terence Fisher - With Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Marla Landi, André Morell, Miles Malleson, John Le Mesurier, ...

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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.

Directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz - With Lucyna Winnicka, Zbigniew Cybulski, Leon Niemczyk, Helena Dąbrowska, Aleksander Sewruk, Zygmunt Zintel, ...

Mr. Arkadin(1955)

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.

Directed by Orson Welles - With Robert Arden, Akim Tamiroff, Michael Redgrave, Patricia Medina, Orson Welles, Mischa Auer, ...

The King and Four Queens(1956)

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.

Directed by Raoul Walsh - With Clark Gable, Eleanor Parker, Barbara Nichols, Jo Van Fleet, Jay C. Flippen, Arthur Shields, ...

An Inspector Calls(1954)

1h 20min | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance / Love

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?

Directed by Guy Hamilton - With Alastair Sim, Jane Wenham, Brian Worth, Eileen Moore

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.

Directed by Pietro Germi - With Pietro Germi, Claudia Cardinale, Franco Fabrizi, Cristina Gaioni, Claudio Gora, Eleonora Rossi Drago, ...

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

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?

Directed by Hugo Fregonese - With Jack Palance, Frances Bavier, Constance Smith, Rhys Williams, Sean McClory, Leslie Bradley, ...

My Cousin Rachel(1952)

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.

Directed by Henry Koster - With Olivia de Havilland, Richard Burton, Audrey Dalton, George Dolenz, J. M. Kerrigan, Argentina Brunetti, ...

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Problem Girls(1953)

1h 11min | Drama, Mystery

1.7/5 (with 2 votes)

A medical student (Ross Elliott) learns about a scheme to drug a girl (Susan Morrow) and pass her off as an heiress to an oil fortune.

Directed by Ewald André Dupont - With Helen Walker, Anthony Jochim

Edge of Eternity(1959)

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.

Directed by Don Siegel - With Cornel Wilde, Dabbs Greer, Edgar Buchanan, Jack Elam, Mickey Shaughnessy, Victoria Shaw, ...

The Girl in Black Stockings(1957)

1h 15min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

3.1/5 (with 10 votes)

Residents at a posh Utah hotel become suspects when a girl is found murdered during a pool party. Local sheriff Jess Holmes takes charge of the investigation and must discover who among the terrified guests and staff -- including bodacious vixen Harriet Ames, the hotel's bitter, crippled proprietor, visiting lawyer David Hewson and his secretary, Beth -- is the culprit, even as murders continue to take place.

Directed by Howard W. Koch - With Lex Barker, Anne Bancroft, Mamie Van Doren, John Dehner, Ron Randell, Marie Windsor, ...

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").

Directed by Chano Urueta - With Luis Aguilar, Flor Silvestre, Jaime Fernández, Crox Alvarado

Foreign Intrigue(1956)

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.

Directed by Sheldon Reynolds - With Robert Mitchum, Ingrid Thulin, Geneviève Page, Inga Tidblad, Eugene Deckers, Georges Hubert, ...

Girl with Hyacinths(1950)

1h 29min | Drama, Mystery

3.7/5 (with 9 votes)

Dagmar Brink, a young female pianist, dies by suicide in her Stockholm apartment. She leaves all her belongings to her next-door neighbors, an author and his wife. Perplexed and curious, they investigate the girl's reasons for taking her life. As they visit Dagmar's friends, acquaintances and former boyfriends, her story unfolds. She stands out as loner, a woman no one could really grasp, always in want of something that nobody she met could make out.

Directed by Hasse Ekman - With Eva Henning, Ulf Palme, Anders Ek, Birgit Tengroth, Marianne Löfgren, Gösta Cederlund, ...

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.

Directed by Roger Corman - With Billy Barty, Dick Miller, Bruno VeSota, Pamela Duncan, Richard Garland, Allison Hayes, ...

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.

Directed by Nathan H. Juran - With Richard Greene, Stephen McNally, Boris Karloff, Henry Corden, John Hoyt, Lon Chaney Jr., ...

My Gun Is Quick(1957)

1h 30min | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

2.9/5 (with 6 votes)

Detective Mike Hammer's investigation of a murder puts him in the middle between warring jewel thieves.

Directed by Victor Saville - With Robert Bray, Whitney Blake, Donald Randolph

Dangerous Crossing(1953)

1h 15min | Mystery, Thriller

3.2/5 (with 14 votes)

A honeymoon aboard an ocean liner is cut short when the young bride finds herself suddenly alone, and unable to convince anyone of her husband’s existence.

Directed by Joseph M. Newman - With Jeanne Crain, Michael Rennie, Mary Anderson, Bess Flowers, Madge Blake, Max Showalter, ...

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.

Directed by Harmon Jones - With Cameron Mitchell, Anne Bancroft, Lee J. Cobb, Raymond Burr, Lee Marvin

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.

Directed by Robert Hamer - With Alec Guinness, Nicole Maurey, Bette Davis, Pamela Brown, Alan Webb, Geoffrey Keen, ...

Deduce, You Say(1956)

7min | Animation, Comedy, Mystery, Kids & Family

3.5/5 (with 17 votes)

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

Directed by Chuck Jones

I, the Jury(1953)

1h 27min | Mystery, Crime

2.6/5 (with 4 votes)

After his best friend and war buddy is mysteriously gunned down, Mike Hammer will stop at nothing to settle the score for the man who sacrificed a limb to save his own life during combat. Along the way, Hammer rides a fine line between gumshoe and a one-man jury, staying two-steps ahead of the law—and trying not to get bumped off in the process.

Directed by Harry Essex - With Biff Elliot, Preston Foster, Peggie Castle, Margaret Sheridan, Alan Reed, Mary Anderson, ...

A Kiss for a Killer(1957)

1h 45min | Drama, Crime

2.7/5 (with 4 votes)

In Nice, the wealthy widow Betty Farnwell falls for the charms of a handsome young man, Philippe Delaroche. Mrs Farnwell is so taken with Philippe that she persuades her bank to allow him to manage her financial affairs. Philippe, an unscrupulous opportunist, is not slow to turn the situation to his advantage and within no time he is married to his wealthy benefactor. Philippe has barely grown accustomed to wearing a wedding ring when he begins a romantic liaison with his wife’s attractive secretary, Eva. It soon transpires that Eva is even more ruthless than Philippe...

Directed by Henri Verneuil - With Henri Vidal, Mylène Demongeot, Isa Miranda, Alfred Adam, André Roanne, Antonin Berval, ...

The Man in the Net(1959)

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.

Directed by Michael Curtiz - With Alan Ladd, Carolyn Jones, John Lupton, Charles McGraw, Edward Binns, John Alexander, ...

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.

Directed by Anthony Kimmins - With John Mills, Phyllis Calvert, Herbert Lom, Eileen Moore

Whispering Smith Vs. Scotland Yard(1952)

1h 22min | Crime, Mystery

Mystery directed by Francis Searle.

Directed by Francis Searle - With Richard Carlson