Mystery / Suspense

Early Evelyn Ankers vehicle about a thief who arrives at the home of wealthy businessman to collect a debt owed him for stealing the priceless Villiers Diamond for the businessman. However, when the thief arrives, the businessman claims the diamond has not been sold...

Ship of the Dead is a gem of a movie, a tremendous story of love, crime, hardship, hopelessness, and betrayal. Buckholz gives the performance of his life as a human castoff, in international limbo, because of the loss of his passport. He is conned...

In this superb film noir gem, Ross and Howard play young men who join the police force. Ross succeeds; Howard fails. Howard soon ends up on the wrong side of the law when he falls in with a shady nightclub owner, brilliantly played by...

A visiting French sleuth steps in to help the police solve the "diary murders," in which each victim is found in possession of a diary page of a dead actress. Before long a murdered corpse is found in a locked room! This is one...

Hum and Hannen are spry newlyweds, off on their honeymoon. Hannen is also an inventor with secret plans. Little do the newlyweds realize that international crooks are out to steal Hannen's plans, who is soon kidnapped by the bad guys. However, when it's discovered...

This is a really well-made Japanese "locked room" murder mystery set in the 1930s. The famous Nipponese detective Kindaichi is called in to investigate a number of horrible slayings. His investigations soon point the finger at members of a wealthy family a family that,...

A beautiful woman lures in struggling composer Jurgens into a life completely dominated by her everything he does, everyone he knows, is closely watched over by her. She is one wicked dame but Jurgens, after meeting a new secretary who falls head over heels...

A wealthy businessman tries to orchestrate a marriage between his elder daughter and a young up-and-comer who he sees as a good candidate to someday to take over his business. What dad doesn't know, though, is that his daughter not only loves another man,...

This British B-film crime-quickie has elements of both horror and sci-fi. Hanley is an effervescent young reporter who tackles the story of a mysterious, hooded black rider who is seen (on a motorcycle no less) near a crumbling castle on full moon nights. Who...

A man finds his wife brutally murdered. He has no alibi so is instructed by his lawyer to go into hiding in an old, abandoned hotel. Strange occurrences start happening immediately, including the discovery of a woman with her throat cut! The hotel setting...

A young man quarrels with his Uncle about the girl he wants to marry.The uncle threatens to disinherit him. The next morning the uncle turns up dead his throat cut!In an engaging courtroom scene, the nephew is tried for murder.But if the nephew isn't...

A bewildered man has lost his memory as the result of a car crash.He tries to learn about his past but is soon hounded by thugs who seem to know secrets about his past.He ends up in Italy where he discovers he's married to...

A retired police inspector tracks a gang of art thieves to a sinister old abbey that's surrounded by high stone walls and from which the gang operates without the owner's knowledge.At stake is a priceless ancient Chinese vase, which the gang has smuggled out...

This is a pretty good British B thriller. A couple of sailors come ashore in London looking for a good time and a few laughs before returning to their ship.Their shore leave gets really exciting, though, when one of them fatally stabs a man...

Murray gives a fine, low-key performance as a defecting Russian scientist who goes to work at a British nuclear experimentation lab, working on a neutron ray.But is he loyal to the crown?Little does his beautiful fellow scientist Thorburn know that she will soon become...

Price plays a seemingly insane millionaire placed in an asylum after dangling a wiggling mouse in front of passersby and screaming crazed questions about the rodent's physical reality. Before long it becomes apparent that this unusual-looking man has some strange power, the likes of...

This Brit murder mystery-chiller takes place at a creepy, "haunted" estate called "Raven Hall," where an assortment of odd people have gathered. Included are a stuffy policeman, a fearful servant girl, a slick crime reporter, a stodgy old aunt, and of course, a terrifying...

Ida and her kid brother plot to kill Ida's husband and collect the insurance money.They use a gas leak to commit the crime.The only problem is her husband's invalid father, who seemingly can't speak and can't hear or can he?His nurse begins to unravel...

After being practically disowned by her late stepfather during the reading of his will, a young woman wades into a misty swamp and sinks down into the slime suicide.Her brother, also disinherited, returns to the manor, which is now occupied by his evil stepmother...

This sordid film-noir exploitation oddity is centered around a trashy burlesque carnival, which of course means lots of skimpily-dressed buxom beauties prancing about.A crusading anti-vice editor has been murdered and the cops think the killer is hiding at the carnival.Bolender is wonderful as the...

Everyone in Paris thinks Fantomas has died, but a tidal wave of extortion, blackmail and murder all point to the monstrous maniac being back from the dead. Inspector Juve and his reporter pal Fandor set out to discover the truth. Is Fantomas still alive?They...

Drache is a suave private eye.He'ss dumped into the middle of a murder mystery when a woman is shot dead in his office with his own gun.He's hired by the victim's wealthy father-in-law, whose son was also slain, to solve the crimes. Soon after...

A rookie detective assigned to the murder-by-strangling cases of two young women.The only clue he has is that the killer is always heard softly singing a current hit tune before he strikes.The evidence soon points to the well-known singer who has numerous dark secrets...

A fascinating film that starts out as a crime thriller, then veers into horror. A young man is falsely accused of murdering his former girlfriend. He and his female companion are pursued across the dark, rainy countryside only to find themselves in the creepy...

A great murder thriller that examines the fine line between brilliance and insanity. Mason is excellent as a famed surgeon, unhappily married, who falls for another woman, unhappily married herself. When a death occurs, Mason is driven to do his own detective work and...

What a great surprise this nifty (nifty is the word) British murder mystery turned out to be. Insurance investigator Griffin Jones is duped by a gorgeous blonde and framed for murdering the wife of a rich businessman. His boss, the beautiful Hazel Court, helps...

A superb six-part Brit mini-series (on two discs). Johns and Windsor play two modern detectives who set out to reconstruct the various Ripper murders and prove the killer's identity. They have their writing board with all the victims' names on it. It's done in...

Rains is brilliant as a sideshow mind reader whose powers turn out to be real. Soon he is making a plethora of accurate predictions deaths, accidents, horse racing results, etc. However, he is unable to control his prophecies until he realizes that he can...

<p>This is a brilliant piece of Greek filmmaking, filled with wonderful performances and perfectly written pieces of dialogue. A peaceful, frightened little man is mistakenly identified as "the dragon", a notorious criminal at large and known womanizer. He briefly and somewhat reluctantly rules the...

<p>Jackson plays a recently-released-from-prison convict who has trouble finding work. He changes name and gets a good job at a real estate office. Even better, he meets a beautiful woman and soon has a budding relationship with her. But into each life a little...

<p>This great two-disc set features the rare English-language UK edition, which includes additional footage actually shot in the UK and added to the film. And yes Lorre did dub his own voice for the English version. Also included in this two-disc set is the...

<p>A beautiful Chinese maiden (who could easily pass for white) enters into a more or less "arranged" marriage with an older, wealthy Dutch businessman. The marriage was set up by a sinister Chinese racketeer, who is to receive half the inheritance after the murder...

<p>An art restorer comes to a small village to restore a fresco painted by a degenerate artist. After meeting the hunchback mayor, he begins to sense something creepy about the people of the village as though they are hiding something. He soon visits the...

<p>Lassander plays the wife of a struggling businessman whose finances are at the breaking point. She soon finds herself the blackmail victim of a perverse man who wants to have a sexual relationship with her after threatening to release evidence that may incriminate her...

<p>Small poison gas balls mean certain death in this well-made, stylish Krimi Euro-thriller. These pellets of death are used by a mad genius to gain revenge against his adversaries. Although not officially an Edgar Wallace film, Carpet of Horror looks every bit the part...

<p>A young British boy's dad is convicted of murder and hanged. The boy lands in a boarding school where he's horribly bullied and ends up running away. Years later he returns to his old stomping grounds and discovers his father may not have been...

<p>A truck driver (Hoven) innocently transports a drug dealer and his shipment of drugs. They are stopped by members of an opposing drug gang (posing as police) and the dealer is shot dead. The truck driver soon falls into a myriad of terrifying situations...

<p>With every batch of new releases there's always a film or two that we absolutely rave about. Spells is one of those films. The IMDB description fits it perfectly, listing it as a horror-crime-drama. Spells is full of latent and overt horror elements, featuring...

Buchholz is released from prison six months early. Waiting for him is a taxi, which takes him to his new employer, a corrupt journalist who soon coerces him into writing a phony article about German soldiers living in a bunker. Things get sticky when...

This is an excellent Gaumont thriller. Lowe plays a devil-may-care American detective traveling abroad in France. During a costume party he finds a corpse in his hotel room, which conveniently disappears when he leaves to fetch the manager. When the body disappears, Lowe and...

Like any good train murder mystery, there is an assortment of interesting characters, each seemingly with something to hide an American movie star, illicit lovers, a golfing aficionado, there's even a Hercules Poirot-type French police inspector. But perhaps the most tantalizing characters are Hardwicke...

The sister of a famous, but as yet uncaught, criminal named The Hexer is murdered. Inspector Higgins of Scotland Yard believes that The Hexer will surface to take his revenge on his sister's killers, and plans to set a trap to finally capture him....

Hylton plays a pretty British lass who takes over a lonely, oceanside pub and boarding house. Much to her surprise, she discovers her inn is being used by a smuggling ring as a storage house for their contraband. Complicating things even further, she finds...

A diamond merchant is found dead, murdered, inside a car near a gloomy, muddy, foggy French crossroads. Nearby lays a villa, a broken down garage & gas station, and a house next to it. A one-eyed Dane and his slatternly sister are the initial...

Blanchar is a Nazi war criminal who lives in a magnificent old castle. He gathers a number of his old allies for nefarious purposes. Among others is an Italian fascist, another German, and a Russian. One visitor however a Frenchman with a black monocle...

Engaging Edgar Wallace chiller as a nefarious gang terrorizes greater London. Their mysterious leader's identity is unknown, even to the gang. Naturally, anyone refusing the gang's demands ends up deader than a doornail. Good, thrilling fun in the typical Edgar Wallace manner. One of...

McDowall's life come's apart when her husband is killed in a plane crash. However, when an "in memoriam" notice appears in the paper before the crash has even been reported, she knows something is amiss. The note is signed by a mysterious woman named...

Kennedy play an American realtor living an unexciting life in England. Adventure falls into his lap, though, on a weekend when his wife is out of town and he meets up with a gorgeous dame in a bar. His new adventure gets out of...

Rollin plays a long lost member of the "Groupi" family who has been called home to the family manor in the French countryside to marry his beautiful young cousin. Before long he finds himself victimized by various family members, partly for fun, partly from...

<p>A creepy German-made Wallace thriller about the ghost of a hanged man who returns to fulfill his promise. All of his accusers must die!</p>