Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/notes |
---|
1950 |
Armored Car Robbery | Richard Fleischer | Charles McGraw, Adele Jergens, William Talman | United States | Crime thriller [1] |
The Asphalt Jungle | John Huston | Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, James Whitmore | United States | Crime thriller [2] |
The Killer That Stalked New York | Earl McEvoy | Evelyn Keyes, Charles Korvin, William Bishop | United States | Crime thriller [3] |
The Man Who Cheated Himself | Felix E. Feist | Lee J. Cobb, John Dall, Jane Wyatt | United States | Psychological thriller [4] |
Mystery Street | John Sturges | Ricardo Montalbán, Sally Forrest, Bruce Bennett | United States | [5] |
Panic in the Streets | Elia Kazan | Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes | United States | [6] |
Seven Days to Noon | John Boulting, Roy Boulting | Barry Jones, Olive Sloane | United Kingdom | [7] |
Side Street | Anthony Mann | Farley Granger, Cathy O'Donnell, James Craig | United States | Crime thriller [8] |
Stage Fright | Alfred Hitchcock | Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding | United States | [9] |
Where Danger Lives | John Farrow | Robert Mitchum, Faith Domergue, Claude Rains | United States | [10] |
Where the Sidewalk Ends | Otto Preminger | Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, Gary Merrill | United States | [11] |
Woman on the Run | Norman Foster | Ann Sheridan, Dennis O'Keefe, Robert Keith | United States | [12] |
1951 |
Cause for Alarm! | Tay Garnett | Loretta Young, Barry Sullivan, Bruce Cowling | United States | [13] |
Fourteen Hours | Henry Hathaway | Richard Basehart, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes | United States | [14] |
Strangers on a Train | Alfred Hitchcock | Farley Granger, Robert Walker, Ruth Roman | United States | [15] |
1952 |
Don't Bother to Knock | Roy Ward Baker | Richard Widmark, Marilyn Monroe, Anne Bancroft | United States | [16] |
The Narrow Margin | Richard Fleischer | Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, Jacqueline White, Gordon Geberl | United States | [17] |
Sudden Fear | David Miller | Joan Crawford, Jack Palance, Gloria Grahame | United States | [18] |
Without Warning! | Arnold Laven | Adam Williams, Meg Randall | France United States | [19] |
1953 |
The Big Heat | Fritz Lang | Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame | United States | [20] |
The Hitch-Hiker | Ida Lupino | Edmond O'Brien, Frank Lovejoy, William Talman | United States | [21] |
The Limping Man | Cy Raker Endfield | Lloyd Bridges | United Kingdom | Crime thriller [22] |
Vicki | Harry Horner | Jeanne Crain, Jean Peters, Elliott Reid | United States | [23] |
The Wages of Fear | Henri-Georges Clouzot | Yves Montand, Charles Vanel | France Italy | [24] |
1954 |
Les Diaboliques | Henri-Georges Clouzot | Simone Signoret, Véra Clouzot, Paul Meurisse | France | [25] |
Dial M for Murder | Alfred Hitchcock | Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings | United States | [26] |
Rear Window | Alfred Hitchcock | James Stewart, Grace Kelly | United States | [27] |
Witness to Murder | Roy Rowland | Barbara Stanwyck, George Sanders, Gary Merrill | United States | [28] |
1955 |
Bad Day at Black Rock | John Sturges | Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis | United States | [29] |
Cast a Dark Shadow | Lewis Gilbert | Dirk Bogarde, Mona Washbourne, Margaret Lockwood | United Kingdom | [30] |
The Desperate Hours | William Wyler | Humphrey Bogart, Fredric March, Arthur Kennedy | United States | [31] |
Killer's Kiss | Stanley Kubrick | Frank Silvera, Jamie Smith, Irene Kane | United States | [32] |
A Kiss Before Dying | Gerd Oswald | Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Joanne Woodward | United States | [33] |
Kiss Me Deadly | Robert Aldrich | Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker, Paul Stewart | United States | [34] |
Mr. Arkadin | Orson Welles | Orson Welles, Michael Redgrave, Jack Watling, Patricia Medina | France Spain United Kingdom | Psychological thriller [35] |
The Night of the Hunter | Charles Laughton | Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish | United States | [36] |
Rififi | Jules Dassin | Jean Servais, Carl Möhner, Robert Manuel | France | Crime thriller [37] |
1956 |
The Killing | Stanley Kubrick | Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Marie Windsor | United States | Crime thriller [38] |
The Man Who Knew Too Much | Alfred Hitchcock | James Stewart, Doris Day | United States | [39] |
Please Murder Me | Peter Godfrey | Madge Blake, Raymond Burr | United States | [40] |
While the City Sleeps | Fritz Lang | Dana Andrews, Ida Lupino, Rhonda Fleming | United States | [41] |
1957 |
The Devil Strikes at Night | Robert Siodmak | Mario Adorf, Hannes Messemer, Claus Holm | Germany | |
Les Espions | Henri-Georges Clouzot | Curd Jürgens, Véra Clouzot, Gerard Sety | France Italy | Psychological thriller [42] |
Quatermass 2 | Val Guest | Brian Donlevy, John Longden, Sid James | United Kingdom United States | [43] |
1958 |
Elevator to the Gallows | Louis Malle | Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly | France | [44] |
It Happened in Broad Daylight | Ladislao Vajda | Heinz Rühmann, Gert Fröbe, Michel Simon | Switzerland Germany Spain | |
The Quiet American | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Audie Murphy, Michael Redgrave, Claude Dauphin | United States | [45] |
The Screaming Skull | Alex Nicol | John Hudson, Peggy Webber, Russ Conway | United States | Psychological thriller [46] |
Touch of Evil | Orson Welles | Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles | United States | Psychological thriller [47] |
Vertigo | Alfred Hitchcock | James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes | United States | Psychological thriller [48] |
1959 |
Jack the Ripper | Monty Berman, Robert S. Baker | Lee Patterson, Eddie Byrne, Betty McDowall | United Kingdom | [49] |
Night Train | Jerzy Kawalerowicz | Leon Niemczyk, Teresa Szmigielowna, Zbigniew Cybulski | Poland | Psychological thriller [50] |
North by Northwest | Alfred Hitchcock | Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint | United States | [51] |
The Testament of Dr. Cordelier | Jean Renoir | Jean-Louis Barrault, Jean Topart, Michel Vitold | France | [52] |