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]
|