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This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (August 2008) |
A list of thriller films released in the 1950s.
Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/notes | ||
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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 |
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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] |