Mystery / Suspense

<p>A millionaire whose personal life is crumbling decides to disappear and start a new life. Directed by Phil Rosen, with a story idea credited to Franklin D. Roosevelt, this is the only film where a sitting President of the United States has been given...

<p>Three people vacationing in Puerto Rico go for a swim. When they resurface, they realize that something in the air has killed everyone on the island; has the entire world been destroyed this way? Since the trio is made up of two men and...

<p>Sherlock Holmes gets the call when several young women turn up dead in London. The only common clue is that each corpse is missing a finger. Holmes suspects a diabolical plot hatched by his arch enemy Moriarty, but the trail leads him to a...

<p>Keye Luke steps into the role of Mr. Wong, the celebrated detective. This time Wong is investigating the murder of a famous architect. This little pearl from Monogram Pictures, which also stars Grant Withers and Lotus Long, was directed by Phil Rosen, a well...

<p>Lionel Atwill plays a duel role in this intriguing mystery from Monogram Pictures. Murder, double crosses, wisecracking reporters, and a dramatic trial all add up to create a thrilling entertainment. Director Phil Rosen was truly a veteran of the movie business, having started out...

<p>Rival newspapermen see their feud go too far in this zany film from the Producers Releasing Company (PRC), a group known for quickie, low budget movies that entertained audiences throughout the war years. Starring J. Edward Bromberg, Isabel Randolph, and Frank Jenks, this laugher...

<p>James V. Kern went on to direct some of the top television shows of the 1950s and '60s, but not before directing this taut suspense tale. In the tradition of Hitchcock classics like Spellbound and Rebecca, this movie centers around a woman (Betsy Drake)...

<p>False testimony sends a man to the gallows for murder in this delightful mystery. Walter Woolf King, Mona Barrie, and William Farnum star in this twisting, turning tale from writer and co- director Oliver Drake (Springtime in Texas, The Drifter), with cinematography by Eddie...

<p>Producer Hal Roach, who had found immense success with his Our Gang series, tried to make lightning strike twice when he assembled a new group of adventurous kids called "Curly and his Gang." In this tale, Curley and his pals find themselves testifying in...

<p>Boris Karloff returns to the scene of the crime as the ubiquitous Mr. Wong. This time, a beautiful Chinese woman has sought Wong's help but ends up dead in his home, killed by a poison dart! She turns out to be Princess Lin Hwa,...

<p>This murder mystery will give you as many chuckles as chills! Horror icon Bela Lugosi stars along with Jack Haley (The Wizard of Oz) and Jean Parker (Little Women) in a tale of missing bodies, insurance schemes, and creepy mansions. It's all presented by...

<p>Mystery rides the clouds in a murder plane in this thriller from director Elmer Clifton (Assassin of Youth, Seven Doors to Death), one of the most prolific filmmakers of Hollywood's early sound era. Pilot X is a curious mixture of murder mystery, old dark...

<p>Out of the night creeps a shadow, striking terror into the heart of Chinatown! Bela Lugosi plays a power mad psychopath in this thriller from Monogram Pictures. William Nigh directs a tale of kidnapping and intrigue, with a cast that includes Wallace Ford (Freaks,...

<p>Tim McCoy, one of the earliest and most memorable actors of American Westerns, plays Lightin' Bill Carlson, a former federal agent posing as a Mexican desert guide named El Puma who is escorting an archeological expedition helmed by Professor Lucius Lloyd (Forrest Taylor) through...

<p>Street kids get sent to the country, where they get mixed up in murder and a haunted house.</p>

<p>Lillian Gish stars as a naive country girl tricked into marrying a wealthy womanizer in this classic from the silent era. Richard Barthelmess also stars in this stirring melodrama. Director D.W. Griffith's groundbreaking epic style is enhanced, as always, by his longtime cinematographer G.W....

<p>Robert Armstrong and Carol Lombard star in this early talkie about a reporter who is dealing with alcoholism and a crumbling marriage, not to mention being accused of a murder he didn't commit! Directed by two-time Oscar nominee Gregory La Cava (My Man Godfrey,...

<p>A classic B-movie, elevated greatly thanks to a solid central performance from the dependable Peter Graves (The Night of the Hunter, TV's "Mission Impossible). After a brilliant nuclear scientist Douglas Martin (Graves) is abducted by aliens, he attempts to warn the government of the...

<p>Western star Ken Maynard heads the cast of this peculiar hybrid of murder mystery in a western setting. Maynard plays an undercover G-Man who, along with his pals Pancho and Panhandle (Julian Rivero and Ralph Peters) stumble upon a plot involving foreign agents taking...

<p>The talent school racket comes under scrutiny in this mystery from director Elmer Clifton (Assassin of Youth, Seven Doors to Death). It seems that a group of young women are disappearing one by one; one of them even turns up dead. The plot gets...

<p>As FBI Agent Ralph Dickson, B-movie workhorse Grant Withers (Rio Grande) goes up against sultry starlet Evelyn Brant's (Underworld) Carney, the Illustrious One the eponymous Daughter of Tong, a ruthless gang leader. Naturally, a fatal battle of wits ensues as Dickson penetrates further and...

<p>Here's a film, originally known as 'Monstrosity' that has lived on thanks to Mystery Science Theater. It was even made into a musical in 2010. It's quite the ghoulish treat involving a wealthy old woman who wants to put her own brain into the...

<p>An angry crime kingpin hires the female head of a detective agency to figure out who's muscling in on his action. Johnnie Hill, Owen Watson, and former New York Jets running back Emerson Boozer star in this action-packed crime drama.</p>

<p>Vincent Price stars in this thriller about a down trodden country estate that becomes the site of a horrific murder. Prolific writer/director Crane Wilbur (He Walked by Night, Crime Wave) helms this feature, with a cast that includes Agnes Moorehead, Gavin Gordon, and in...

<p>Comedy! Crime! Mystery! Romance! Thrills! All in one movie! Rival newspaper reporters (Ginger Rogers and Lyle Talbot) join forces to solve a series of murders being committed in an apartment building in this early talkie from M.H. Hoffman Inc., a low budget production company...

<p>An excellent cast featuring Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Melvyn Douglas, and the immortal Dwight Frye headline this macabre tale of vampire attacks in a small village. Does a troubled man-child with an affection for bats have something to do with it? Or is it...

<p>An excellent cast featuring Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Melvyn Douglas, and the immortal Dwight Frye headline this macabre tale of vampire attacks in a small village. Does a troubled man-child with an affection for bats have something to do with it? Or is it...

<p>A shadowy hand through a veiled door and doom! This pre-Code murder mystery whodunit features a veritable rogues gallery of B-Movie performers, all playing suspects in a brutal murder that takes place during a game of charades at a society party. When more bodies...

<p>HE'S TERRIFIC! Your favorite crime crusader is back! The second installment of the Dick Tracy film series released by RKO Radio Pictures, "Dick Tracy Vs. Cueball" stars Morgan Conway as the famously unstoppable detective based on the eponymous 1930s comic strip character. When ex-convict...

<p>The fifth installment in a six-part mystery series centering around beloved detective James Wong - and the last to feature the great Boris Karloff in the title role - Doomed to Die follows Won and a female reporter (Marjorie Reynolds) as they investigate the...

<p>Robert Armstrong and Carole Lombard star in this vivid drama of double crossing men and double dealing women. Tough mobster Mahlon Keane (Armstrong) finds himself smitten with financially strapped ex-society girl Rhoda Philbrooke (Lombard). When Keane learns that Rhoda needs money to help an...

<p>Jack Palance stars as a mysterious man suspected of being the notorious Jack the Ripper! Palance plays a research pathologist in 1888 London, seeking to rent a quiet attic room for his "experiments." Based on the novel by Marie Belloc Lowndes, which also inspired...

<p>The Mystery of Mr. Wong is a thrilling mystery made at the height of Hollywood's fascination with Asian sleuths. in the second of what would be a six film series from Monogram, the methodical Mr. Wong (Boris Karloff) investigates the murder of an antiques...

<p>I DIDN'T WANT TO DO IT, BUT...MY BRAIN WAS HANDCUFFED! Can a man commit MURDER in a dream?...Here is the spine tingling, blood freezing answer...different from any mystery you've ever seen!... Based on a story by Cornell Woolrich, the king of psychological suspense, Fear...

<p>"You're under arrest, sugah!" Former Laugh-In star Teresa Graves stars as a charming police detective in this exciting television drama from Emmy nominated director William A. Graham (Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones). Get Christie Love!, which also starred Harry Guardino and Ron...

<p>In one of his numerous appearances as the immortal Detective Wong, the equally immortal Boris Karloff radiates with characteristic charisma and intensity. In this thrilling installment, Mr. Wong uncovers a smuggling ring on the waterfront of San Francisco while investigating the murder of Captain...

<p>Moto has his hands full in this thrilling adventure set in Egypt. The Japanese crime solver deals with everything from a stolen identity, to the possible start of a war! With a cast that includes Peter Lorre as the feisty and brilliant Moto, plus...

<p>Thirty million readers followed the exploits of Dick Tracy in the daily comics, so it made sense for RKO to jump on the bandwagon. The first entry in what would be a four film series finds Tracy hunting a murderer who slashes his victims...

<p>Fearless detective Dick Tracy meets his match when he tangles with Gruesome, the cold-blooded killer with the hideous face. Portrayed by the legendary horror star Boris Karloff, Gruesome gets Tracy's attention when he begins robbing banks with the aid of a mysterious gas. Ralph...

The Red House stars Edward G. Robinson as Pete Morgan who, with his spinster sister Ellen (Judith Anderson) has raised Meg (Allene Roberts) as their own on a secluded farm. Now a teen, Meg convinces her friend Nath (Lon McCallister) to come help with...

<p>William Powell stars as detective Philo Vance in this suspenseful locked-room murder mystery. Along with a lot of head-scratching clues, there's plenty of fun stuff about stuffy art collectors, a beautiful debutante trapped in a house of hate, a glamorous stage star keeping a...

<p>The teen sleuth is at it again! This was Bonita Granville's second turn as Nancy, the high school reporter who was the subject of four Warner Bros films in the late 1930s. This time she's helping a young woman accused of murder. When Nancy...

<p>Charles Boyer and Hedy Lamar are the ill-fated couple in this Hollywood remake of the French classic Pepe le Moko. Boyer is Pepe, the jewel thief hiding out in Algiers' mazelike and mysterious Casbah. Pepe is a master criminal who rules his field, but...

<p>Vincent Price stars in this thriller about a down-trodden country estate that becomes the site of a horrific murder. Prolific writer/director Crane Wilbur (He Walked by Night, Crime Wave) helms this feature, with a cast that includes Agnes Moorehead, Gavin Gordon, and in her...

<p>In Dressed to Kill, three seemingly ordinary music boxes arrive at a London auction house from Dartmoor prison, where inmates construct crafts for income. Sold to three different customers, the boxes soon generate a most sinister interest. When one of the buyers, a friend...

<p>In Sherlock Holmes-Terror by Night, Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) is hired to protect the fabled Star of Rhodesia from theft while it is being transported by train. When the gem is stolen and murders are committed, Holmes must determine who among several suspects is...

<p>In Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon, Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) pretends to be a Nazi spy to aid scientist Dr. Franz Tobel (William Post Jr.) whose new invention, the "Tobel Bombsight," could turn the tide in favor of the allies. When Tobel disappears...

<p>In Dick Tracy's Dilemma, Tracy is after a group of fur thieves who empty a dealer's vault and leave a dead night guard at the scene. Tracy's investigation reveals the crimes were committed by an ex-con with a bum leg and a missing a...

<p>The Bat is a 1959 American mystery film starring Vincent Price and Agnes Moorehead. Cornelia Van Gorder (Agnes Moorehead) is a mystery writer who rents a summer home in a small town from a local bank president John Fleming (Harvey Stephens). Dr. Malcolm Wells...

Man in the Attic is a 1953 mystery film. The movie is based on the 1913 novel The Lodger by Marie Belloc Lowndes, which fictionalizes the Jack the Ripper killings, and was previously filmed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1927. The story takes place in...