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Death in High Heels
EnglandCrime Mystery directed by Lionel Tomlinson.
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Dark Delusion
New YorkHow much can a guilty girl hide? — Spoiled socialite Cynthia Grace is suffering from a blood clot. Not unexpectedly, Tommy Coalt falls in love with Cynthia, much to her parents' dismay. Soon he's drawing up plans to marry the girl and setting up private practice in a smaller town.
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The Lone Wolf in Mexico
🇲🇽 MexicoAdventure...Romance...Mystery! — In this entry in the enduring series, the suave jewel thief finds himself helping the police break up a ring of diamond smugglers. Along the way, he winds up accused of both robbery and murder.
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The Phantom Shot
EnglandA hated country gentleman is murdered, and the inspector on the case takes the veiwer through his thoughts about the possible murderer and motives as he questions everyone concerned.
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The Big Sleep
CaliforniaThe picture they were born for! — Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen. Before the complex case is over, Marlowe sees murder, blackmail, deception, and what might be love.
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Lady in the Lake
CaliforniaPrivate detective Philip Marlowe is asked by a publishing executive, Adrienne Fromsett, to locate the wife of her boss, publisher Derace Kingsby. Earlier she had sent her husband a telegram saying she was heading to Mexico to marry Chris Lavery. However Kingsby had recently seen Lavery in the neighbouring Bay City. Marlowe pursues his investigation at the Kingsby's lakeside cottage.
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The Killers
New JerseyShe's a match for any mobster! — Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a hunch, decides to look into the murder. As the Swede's past is laid bare, it comes to light that he was in love with a beautiful woman who may have lured him into pulling off a bank robbery overseen by another man.
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The Stranger
ConnecticutThe most deceitful man a woman ever loved! — A man working for the War Crimes Commission suspects that an important Nazi official has folded himself into a quaint Connecticut town.
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Terror by Night
EnglandOne Way Ticket to DEATH..! — Holmes and Watson board a passenger train bound from London to Edinburgh, to guard the Star of Rhodesia, an enormous diamond worth a fortune belonging to an elderly woman of wealth; but within the first hour of the trip, the woman's son is murdered and the diamond stolen and any of the passengers in their car could be the killer thief.
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Dragonwyck
New England The 1840sSecret thoughts... That led to secret love... That led to rapture and terror! — For Miranda Wells, moving to New York to live in Dragonwyck Manor with her rich cousin, Nicholas, seems like a dream. However, the situation gradually becomes nightmarish. She observes Nicholas' troubled relationship with his tenant farmers, as well as with his daughter, to whom Miranda serves as governess. Her relationship with Nicholas intensifies after his wife dies, but his mental imbalance threatens any hope of happiness.
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The Spiral Staircase
Vermont The 1900sConflicts that freeze your emotions! Suspense that takes your breath! — In 1916, a shadowy serial killer is targeting women with "afflictions". One night, during a thunderstorm, the mute Helen feels menaced.
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Green for Danger
The 1940sMurder... weapon or clue? — In the midst of Nazi air raids, a postman dies on the operating table at a rural hospital. But was the death accidental?
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Deadline at Dawn
New YorkFate points the finger of suspicion... and one evening of innocent fun turns into a nightmare of MURDER! — A young Navy sailor has one night to find out why a woman was killed and he ended up with a bag of money after a drinking blackout.
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Shadows Over Chinatown
CaliforniaChan follows the trail of a blood-chilling wave of torso slayings! — In San Francisco's Chinatown, Charlie helps two different people search for their missing relatives and uncovers a murder for insurance scheme.
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Dangerous Money
🇼🇸 SamoaOne of Chan's Most Terrifying Cases! — A treasury agent on the trail of counterfeit money confides to fellow ocean liner passenger, Charlie Chan, that there have been two attempts on his life.
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Bedelia
England 🇲🇨 MonacoMARGARET LOCKWOOD as BEDELIA who had more than her share of men, jewels, and love and wanted more, more, MORE! — Bedelia Carrington is living happily, it appears, in Monte Carlo with her husband Charlie Carrington (Ian Hunter.) But a cultivated young artist, Ben Chaney (Barry K. Barnes), begins probing into her past with curious concern. Chaney, who is really a detective, learns that Bedelia's obsession for money has led her, in the past, to husband-poisoning for the insurance money.
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She-Wolf of London
England The 1900sA woman whose hatred knew no bounds! — A young heiress finds evidence suggesting that at night she acts under the influence of a family curse and has begun committing ghastly murders in a nearby park.
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Up Goes Maisie
CaliforniaUP GOES MAISIE TO NEW HEIGHTS OF HILARITY...ON A SKY-CYCLE BUILT FOR TWO! — A showgirl working for an inventor battles crooks, who want to steal his ideas.
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Flight to Nowhere
CaliforniaAtomic secrets stolen by international terrorists! — A couple on board a plane find themselves mixed up in a plot to steal atomic secrets.
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Spellbound
New York VermontThe maddest love that ever possessed a woman. — When Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital director, Dr. Constance Peterson, a psychoanalyst, discovers Edwardes is actually an impostor. The man confesses that the real Dr. Edwardes is dead and fears he may have killed him, but cannot recall anything. Dr. Peterson, however is convinced his impostor is innocent of the man's murder, and joins him on a quest to unravel his amnesia through psychoanalysis.
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Fallen Angel
CaliforniaThe creator of "Laura" does it again! — An unemployed drifter, Eric Stanton wanders into a small California town and begins hanging around the local diner. While Eric falls for the lovely waitress Stella, he also begins romancing a quiet and well-to-do woman named June Mills. Since Stella isn't interested in Eric unless he has money, the lovelorn guy comes up with a scheme to win her over, and it involves June. Before long, murder works its way into this passionate love triangle.
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A Place of One's Own
England The 1900sAn elderly couple move into an old, supposedly haunted abandoned house. A young girl comes to live with the pair as a companion for the wife. However, soon the girl is possessed by the spirit of another girl, a wealthy woman who had once lived in the house but who had been murdered there.
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Isle of the Dead
The 1910sA grave's dank darkness smothers the screams of a girl still alive! — On a Greek island during the 1912 war, several people are trapped by quarantine for the plague. If that isn't enough worry, one of the people—a superstitious old peasant—suspects a young woman of being a vampiric demon.
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The House of Fear
Scotland EnglandHORROR stalking its halls! — The Good Comrades are a collection of varied gentlemen who crave one thing - solitude. They reside at Drearcliff House, ancestral home of their eldest member. All seems serene and convivial until one by one the members begin to perish in the most grisly of manners. Foul play is suspected by the Good Comrades' insurance agent, who turns to Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson for guidance.
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The Great Flamarion
Illinois California Ciudad de México The 1930sGreat with a gun — A vaudevillian is tricked into murder by a bored wife.
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My Name Is Julia Ross
EnglandShe went to sleep as a secretary ... and woke up a madman's "bride"! — A woman finds herself entrenched in a murder cover-up when she goes to work for a wealthy widow.
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The Spider
LouisianaAn ex-cop is suspected of murder after he is found with a dead woman. The private detective is on the run -- attempting to prove his innocence.
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The Unseen
New EnglandAN EERIE STORY OF THE WHISPERING PAST! — David Fielding, who has recently lost his wife, moves into a new neighborhood under a cloud of suspicion. Many feel that his wife's death in a car crash was no accident. Elizabeth Howard, the governess he hires to look after his children, makes it her mission to find out the truth. When other murders seem to be following David to his new town, Elizabeth investigates with the help of David's son Barnaby.
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The Falcon in San Francisco
CaliforniaThe lure of loveliness and the greed for gold lead four to fearful death...as the Falcon grapples with his most merciless foe! — While on vacation, the Falcon is arrested for kidnapping after striking up a friendship with a girl who's nurse has been recently murdered.
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Pursuit to Algiers
England 🇩🇿 AlgeriaAfter the King of Ruthenia has been assassinated, Holmes and Watson are engaged to escort his son to Europe via Algiers, aboard a transatlantic ocean liner which also carries a number of suspicious persons, any of whom may be involved in a plot to also assassinate him.
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Pink String and Sealing Wax
England The 19th CenturyMelodrama set in Victorian Brighton. Scheming pub landlady uses the timorous son of a domineering pharmacist to assist in the poisoning of her drunkard husband. (The title is from the way pharmacists used to wrap parcels containing poison).
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The Fatal Witness
EnglandA playboy produces an airtight alibi when he is questioned about the murder of his wealthy aunt.
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The Phantom of 42nd Street
New YorkA theatre critic (Dave O'Brien) teams up with a cop (Jack Mulhall) to investigate the murder of a Broadway actor.
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Les Caves du Majestic
🇫🇷 FranceIn my “cellar” where case workers all the people of a great hotel, the head of the café, Donge, finds the corpse of Mrs Petersen, a rich client. The investigation by Maigret allows him to rub the husband of the victim, a Swede, Teddy, Ms Petersen’s son, his housekeeper, a social dancer and Donge himself who is the natural father of Teddy. The child he will go to his real father or not he will leave the rich Petersen who adores? The murder mystery and enigma sentimental are resolved by Maigret.
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Scotland Yard Investigator
England 🇫🇷 France The 1940sSECRETS NEVER BEFORE REVEALED...the thief that rocked the international scene...exposed in a thrilling screen story! — A London curator loses the Mona Lisa to a collector, who discovers it's a fake.
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Frisco Sal
California The 19th CenturyThe Shock-Spot of the World in All Its Tameless, Shameless Glory! — Sal comes to the Barbary Coast from New England to find out who murdered her brother. She gets a job signing in Dude's saloon, falls in love with Dude, then wonders if he might be involved in the murder.
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Double Indemnity
California The 1930sIt's love and murder at first sight! — A rich woman and a calculating insurance agent plot to kill her unsuspecting husband after he signs a double indemnity policy. Against a backdrop of distinctly Californian settings, the partners in crime plan the perfect murder to collect the insurance, which pays double if the death is accidental.
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Murder, My Sweet
CaliforniaHaunted by a lovely face... hunted for another's crime! — Gumshoe Philip Marlowe is hired by the oafish Moose Malloy to track down his former girlfriend. He's also hired to accompany an effeminate playboy buy back some jewels. When the exchange results in the playboy's murder, Marlowe can't leave the case alone, and soon discovers it's related to Malloy's. As he gets drawn deeper into a complex web of intrigue by a mysterious blonde, the detective finds his own life in increasing jeopardy.
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Laura
New YorkThe story of a love that became the most fearful thing that ever happened to a woman! — A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.
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Gaslight
England The 19th CenturyStrange drama of a captive sweetheart! — A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.
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The Thin Man Goes Home
New EnglandTogether again in M-G-M's riotous comedy. — On a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation.
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A Canterbury Tale
The 1940sThree modern day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town on the way to Canterbury.
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The Uninvited
The 1930sFrom the Most Popular Mystery Romance since "Rebecca"! — A brother and sister move into an old seaside house they find abandoned for many years on the English coast. Their original enchantment with the house diminishes as they hear stories of the previous owners and meet their daughter (now a young woman) who now lives as a neighbor with her grandfather. Also heard are unexplained sounds during the night. It becomes obvious that the house is haunted.
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The Woman in the Window
New YorkIt was the look in her eyes that made him think of murder. — A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.
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The Curse of the Cat People
New YorkA tender tale of terror! — Amy, the young, friendless daughter of Oliver and Alice Reed, befriends her father's late first wife and an aging, reclusive actress.
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The Lodger
England The 1890sPROBING EYES that marked the woman he loved for death! — In Victorian era London, the inhabitants of a family home with rented rooms upstairs fear the new lodger is Jack the Ripper.
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The Pearl of Death
EnglandThe master minds tackle the master crimes! — The famous Borgia Pearl, a valuable gem with a history of bringing murder and misfortune to its owner since the days of the Borgias, is brought to London, thanks in part to Sherlock Holmes. But before long the jewel is stolen, due to an error on Holmes' part, and shortly thereafter, a series of horrible murders begin, the murderer leaving his victims with their spines snapped and surrounded by a mass of smashed china.
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Dark Waters
LouisianaWas love or madness to be her fate? — Leslie Calvin, the sole survivor of a submarine accident, goes to her relatives in order to recover emotionally. Unfortunately she encounters various scam artists led by Mr. Sydney who intend to kill her and steal the family assets. Dr. George Grover helps Leslie to defeat Sydney.
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Bluebeard
🇫🇷 France The 19th CenturyThe most sinister love story ever told! — Young female models are being strangled inexplicably. Will law enforcement be able to stop the crime wave before more women become victims?
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Strangers in the Night
CaliforniaIn this Gothic tale, a returning WW2 vet goes looking for a small-town girl whom he knows only from letters. Its the pretext for an off-beat treatment of sexual frustration morphing into a dangerous delusion, and eventually murder.
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