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Rebecca (1940)

A self-conscious woman juggles adjusting to her new role as an aristocrat's wife and avoiding being ...

Peeping Tom (1960)

A young man murders women, using a movie camera to film their dying expressions of terror....

Spellbound (1945)

A psychiatrist protects the identity of an amnesia patient accused of murder while attempting to rec...

The Locket (1946)

Just before his wedding, the bridegroom hears a complex tale painting his lovely bride as devilish a...

The Entertainer (1960)

Archie Rice, an old-time British music hall performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in ...

The Night of the Hunter (1955)

A self-proclaimed preacher marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him w...

Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)

When neurotic bedridden wife Leona Stevenson overhears a murder plot on her telephone, she tries to ...

The Big Knife (1955)

Hollywood actor Charles Castle is pressured by his studio boss into a criminal cover-up to protect h...

Ruthless (1948)

A financier's sins are recalled by his ex-partner and boyhood pal....

Tread Softly Stranger (1958)

An irresistible temptress causes trouble between two brothers after the more handsome, charismatic o...

Terror in the Haunted House (My World Dies Screaming) (1958)

A newlywed is terrified when her husband brings her to live in the old house that figures in her rec...

The Undead (1957)

A beautiful woman is sent back in time via hypnosis to the Middle Ages where she finds she is suspec...

The Outcast (1954)

Jet Cosgrave returns home to claim the ranch that was stolen from him, after his father\'s death....

The Innocents (1961)

A young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted....

Bluebeard (1944)

In Paris, an artist hires portrait models, and after he finishes their portraits, he strangles them....

The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960)

Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and rel...

The Red Shoes (1948)

A young ballet dancer is torn between the man she loves and her pursuit to become a prima ballerina....

Black Narcissus (1947)

A group of nuns faces isolation, harsh weather, and cultural clashes while establishing a convent in...

The Strange Love Of Martha Ivers (1946)

A man is reunited with his childhood friend and her husband, who believes he knows the truth about t...

Portrait of Jennie (1948)

In Depression-era New York, a struggling painter meets a mysterious girl in Central Park who transfo...

The Spiral Staircase (1946)

In 1916, a shadowy serial killer is targeting women with 'afflictions'; one night during a thunderst...

The Seventh Veil (1945)

A concert pianist with amnesia fights to regain her memory....

The Seventh Victim (1943)

A woman in search of her missing sister uncovers a cult in New York's Greenwich Village and finds th...

Wuthering Heights (1939)

A servant in the house of Wuthering Heights tells a traveler the unfortunate tale of lovers Cathy an...

The Private Affairs of Bel Ami (1947)

In 1880 Paris, ex-hussar Georges Duroy reunites with old comrade Charles Forestier, now a journalist...

High Tide (1947)

A private detective (Don Castle) becomes ensnared in the escalating conflict between a gambling synd...

Impact (1949)

A unfaithful wife plots with her lover to kill her husband, but the lover is accidentally killed ins...

The Bigamist (1953)

A man secretly married to two women feels the pressure of his deceit....

The Enchanted Cottage (1945)

A plain maid and a wounded war veteran are transformed by their love for each other while residing i...

The Red House (1947)

An old man and his sister are concealing a terrible secret from their adopted teen daughter, concern...

The Stranger (1946)

An investigator from the War Crimes Commission travels to Connecticut to find an infamous Nazi....

The Strange Woman (1946)

In 1820s New England beautiful but poor and manipulative Jenny Hager marries rich old man Isaiah Pos...

Dragonwyck (1946)

A simple Connecticut farm girl is recruited by a distant relative, an aristocratic patroon, to be go...

Scarlet Street (1945)

A man in mid-life crisis befriends a young woman, though her fiance persuades her to con him out of ...

The Big Combo (1955)

A police lieutenant, unable to find hard evidence against deadly crime boss Mr. Brown and ordered to...

The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)

An American couple in Morocco is drawn into intrigue after witnessing a murder and losing their son....

Hour of Glory (The Small Back Room) (1949)

As the Germans drop explosive booby-traps on Britain in 1943, the embittered expert who'll have to d...

Sudden Fear (1952)

After an ambitious actor insinuates himself into the life of a wealthy middle-aged playwright and ma...

The Reckless Moment (1949)

After discovering the dead body of her teenage daughter's lover, a housewife takes desperate measure...

My Cousin Rachel (1952)

A young man plots revenge against the woman he believes murdered his cousin, but his plans are shake...

The Gangster (1947)

Shubunka, a cynical gangster, controls Neptune Beach with a numbers racket and the cops in his pocke...

Possessed (1947)

After being found wandering the streets of Los Angeles, a severely catatonic woman tells a doctor th...

The Hitch-Hiker (1953)

Two fishermen pick up a psychopathic escaped convict who tells them that he intends to murder them w...

Carnival of Souls (1962)

After a traumatic accident, a woman becomes drawn to a mysterious abandoned carnival....

Daughter of Horror (Dementia) (1955)

This film, with no dialogue at all, follows a psychotic young woman's nightmarish experiences throug...

Crack-Up (1946)

Art curator George Steele experiences a train wreck...which may not have actually happened. Is he cr...

The Chase (1946)

Chuck Scott gets a job as chauffeur to tough guy Eddie Roman; but Chuck's involvement with Eddie's f...

Accused of Murder (1956)

Police detective falls for singer, gets involved with gangster killing....

Hollow Triumph (1948)

Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity - with unfortunate res...

Moulin Rouge (1952)

Fictional account of French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec....

Night of the Living Dead (1968)

A ragtag group of survivors barricades themselves in an old farmhouse to remain safe from a horde of...

Dead of Night (1945)

Guests invited to a weekend in the country share their supernatural stories, beginning with Walter C...

Cat People (1942)

An American man marries a Serbian immigrant who fears that she will turn into the cat person of her ...

I Walked with a Zombie (1943)

A nurse is hired to care for the wife of a sugar plantation owner, who has been acting strangely, on...

The Queen of Spades (1949)

An army officer becomes obsessed with learning the secret to a card game for which an elderly counte...

The Uninvited (1944)

A composer and his sister discover that the reason they are able to purchase a beautiful gothic seac...

The Man Who Cheated Himself (1950)

A veteran homicide detective who has witnessed his socialite girlfriend kill her husband sees his ne...

The Amazing Mr. X (1948)

Christine Faber, a widow of two years, hears her late husband's voice on the beach and meets Alexis,...

I Wouldn't Be In Your Shoes (1948)

A dancer is pinned for murder after his shoe prints are found at the scene of the crime. His wife fo...

Shack Out on 101 (1955)

An isolated diner on California's 101 highway provides the backdrop of the story involving nuclear s...

The Terror (1963)

A French Army officer, Lieutenant Duvalier, has been separated from his unit and receives help from ...

Fear in the Night (1947)

A man dreams he committed murder, then begins to suspect it was real....