Best thrillers 1951 – 1960 - Charts
Best thrillers 1951 – 1960
1. Psycho (1960)
USA, Horror / Mystery
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles
2. Rear Window (1954)
USA, Mystery / Thriller
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: James Stewart, Grace Kelly
3. Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
USA, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Billy Wilder
Cast: Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich
4. North by Northwest (1959)
USA, Thriller / Mystery
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint
5. The Killing (1956)
USA, Drama / Film-Noir
Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
Cast: Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray
6. Vertigo (1958)
USA, Mystery / Romance
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: James Stewart, Kim Novak
7. The Defiant Ones (1958)
USA, Drama / Crime
Directed by: Stanley Kramer
Cast: Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier
8. The Wages of Fear (1953)
France / Italy, Thriller / Adventure
Directed by: Henri-Georges Clouzot
Cast: Yves Montand, Charles Vanel
9. Dial M for Murder (1954)
USA, Crime / Mystery
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Ray Milland, Grace Kelly
10. The Hole (1960)
France / Italy, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Jacques Becker
Cast: Michel Constantin, Jean Keraudy
13. Strangers on a Train (1951)
USA, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Farley Granger, Ruth Roman
14. It Happened in Broad Daylight (1958)
West Germany / Switzerland, Crime / Thriller
Directed by: Ladislao Vajda
Cast: Heinz Rühmann, Siegfried Lowitz
15. The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
USA, Sci-fi / Thriller
Directed by: Jack Arnold
Cast: Grant Williams, Randy Stuart
16. On the Waterfront (1954)
USA, Drama / Crime
Directed by: Elia Kazan
Cast: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden
17. The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
Japan, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: 黒澤明
Cast: Toshirō Mifune, Masayuki Mori
18. Touch of Evil (1958)
USA, Crime / Film-Noir
Directed by: Orson Welles
Cast: Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh
19. Purple Noon (1960)
France / Italy, Crime / Thriller
Directed by: René Clément
Cast: Alain Delon, Maurice Ronet
20. Tales of Ugetsu (1953)
Japan, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Kenji Mizoguchi
Cast: Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyō
21. Diabolique (1955)
France, Horror / Mystery
Directed by: Henri-Georges Clouzot
Cast: Simone Signoret, Véra Clouzot
22. The Desperate Hours (1955)
USA, Film-Noir / Drama
Directed by: William Wyler
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Fredric March
23. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
USA, Horror / Sci-fi
Directed by: Don Siegel
Cast: Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter
24. The Night of the Hunter (1955)
USA, Film-Noir / Thriller
Directed by: Charles Laughton
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters
25. Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case (1959)
France / Italy, Thriller / Crime
Directed by: Jean Delannoy
Cast: Jean Gabin, Michel Auclair
26. Sudden Fear (1952)
USA, Film-Noir / Horror
Directed by: David Miller
Cast: Joan Crawford, Jack Palance
27. Pickup on South Street (1953)
USA, Film-Noir / Crime
Directed by: Samuel Fuller
Cast: Richard Widmark, Jean Peters
28. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
USA, Thriller / Drama
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: James Stewart, Doris Day
29. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
USA, Drama / Sci-fi
Directed by: Robert Wise
Cast: Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal
30. I Confess (1953)
USA, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter
32. Pickpocket (1959)
France, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Robert Bresson
Cast: Martin LaSalle, Marika Green
33. Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
USA, Film-Noir / Crime
Directed by: Robert Aldrich
Cast: Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker
34. Compulsion (1959)
USA, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Richard Fleischer
Cast: Orson Welles, Diane Varsi
35. The Harder They Fall (1956)
USA, Drama / Film-Noir
Directed by: Mark Robson
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Rod Steiger
36. Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
USA, Thriller / Drama
Directed by: John Sturges
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan
37. Witness in the City (1959)
France / Italy, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Édouard Molinaro
Cast: Lino Ventura, Sandra Milo
38. The Enemy Below (1957)
USA, War / Action
Directed by: Dick Powell
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Curd Jürgens
39. The Fall of the House of Usher (1960)
USA, Horror / Thriller
Directed by: Roger Corman
Cast: Vincent Price, Mark Damon
40. To Catch a Thief (1955)
USA, Mystery / Romance
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Cary Grant, Grace Kelly
41. The League of Gentlemen (1960)
UK, Comedy / Crime
Directed by: Basil Dearden
Cast: Jack Hawkins, Roger Livesey
42. The Chasers (1959)
Norway, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Erik Løchen
Cast: Rolf Søder, Bente Børsum
43. House of Wax (1953)
USA, Crime / Horror
Directed by: André De Toth
Cast: Vincent Price, Frank Lovejoy
44. The Wreck Of The Mary Deare (1959)
UK / USA, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Michael Anderson
Cast: Gary Cooper, Charlton Heston
45. Mr. Arkadin (1955)
France / Spain, Thriller
Directed by: Orson Welles
Cast: Orson Welles, Michael Redgrave
46. Peeping Tom (1960)
UK, Drama / Horror
Directed by: Michael Powell
Cast: Karlheinz Böhm, Moira Shearer
47. The City of the Dead (1960)
UK, Horror / Thriller
Directed by: John Llewellyn Moxey
Cast: Dennis Lotis, Christopher Lee
48. Night of the Demon (1957)
UK, Mystery / Horror
Directed by: Jacques Tourneur
Cast: Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins
50. Murder by Contract (1958)
USA, Crime / Film-Noir
Directed by: Irving Lerner
Cast: Vince Edwards, Phillip Pine
51. Don't Bother to Knock (1952)
USA, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Roy Ward Baker
Cast: Richard Widmark, Marilyn Monroe
52. Never Take Sweets from a Stranger (1960)
UK, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Cyril Frankel
Cast: Gwen Watford, Patrick Allen
54. Eyes Without a Face (1960)
France / Italy, Drama / Horror
Directed by: Georges Franju
Cast: Pierre Brasseur, Edith Scob
55. Niagara (1953)
USA, Film-Noir / Thriller
Directed by: Henry Hathaway
Cast: Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten
56. Footsteps in the Fog (1955)
UK, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Arthur Lubin
Cast: Stewart Granger, Jean Simmons
57. Die Halbstarken (1956)
West Germany, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Georg Tressler
Cast: Horst Buchholz, Karin Baal
58. 5 Fingers (1952)
USA, Thriller
Directed by: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cast: James Mason, Danielle Darrieux
59. Adventure in Berlin (1952)
West Germany, Crime / Thriller
Directed by: František Čáp
Cast: Kurt Meisel, Hans Nielsen
60. The Tall Target (1951)
USA, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Anthony Mann
Cast: Dick Powell, Paula Raymond
61. The Bad Seed (1956)
USA, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Mervyn LeRoy
Cast: Nancy Kelly, Patty McCormack
62. The Narrow Margin (1952)
USA, Crime / Film-Noir
Directed by: Richard Fleischer
Cast: Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor
63. Speaking of Murder (1957)
France, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Gilles Grangier
Cast: Jean Gabin, Paul Frankeur
64. Deadlier Than the Male (1956)
France, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Julien Duvivier
Cast: Jean Gabin, Danièle Delorme
65. Another Man's Poison (1951)
UK, Thriller / Drama
Directed by: Irving Rapper
Cast: Bette Davis, Gary Merrill
66. Killer's Kiss (1955)
USA, Film-Noir / Crime
Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
Cast: Frank Silvera, Jamie Smith
68. Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)
USA, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Robert Wise
Cast: Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan
69. Dangerous Crossing (1953)
USA, Mystery / Thriller
Directed by: Joseph M. Newman
Cast: Jeanne Crain, Michael Rennie
70. Classe tous risques (1960)
France / Italy, Drama / Crime
Directed by: Claude Sautet
Cast: Lino Ventura, Sandra Milo
72. The Prowler (1951)
USA, Crime / Film-Noir
Directed by: Joseph Losey
Cast: Van Heflin, Evelyn Keyes
73. Midnight Lace (1960)
USA, Thriller / Mystery
Directed by: David Miller
Cast: Doris Day, Rex Harrison
75. Violent Saturday (1955)
USA, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Richard Fleischer
Cast: Victor Mature, Richard Egan
77. Nine Lives (1957)
Norway, Action / Drama
Directed by: Arne Skouen
Cast: Jack Fjeldstad, Alf Malland
78. The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1960)
West Germany / Italy, Crime / Mystery
Directed by: Fritz Lang
Cast: Gert Fröbe, Peter van Eyck
80. The Fellowship of the Frog (1959)
Denmark / West Germany, Crime / Thriller
Directed by: Harald Reinl
81. No Highway (1951)
UK / USA, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Henry Koster
Cast: James Stewart, Marlene Dietrich
83. The Scheming Women (1954)
France, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Henri Decoin
Cast: Raymond Rouleau, Jeanne Moreau
84. The Weapon (1956)
UK, Crime / Mystery
Directed by: Val Guest, Hal E. Chester
Cast: Steve Cochran, Lizabeth Scott
85. Chase a Crooked Shadow (1957)
UK, Mystery / Thriller
Directed by: Michael Anderson
Cast: Richard Todd, Anne Baxter
86. The Naked Jungle (1954)
USA, Adventure / Drama
Directed by: Byron Haskin
Cast: Charlton Heston, Eleanor Parker
87. The Black Vampire (1953)
Argentina, Drama / Mystery
Directed by: Román Viñoly Barreto
Cast: Olga Zubarry, Roberto Escalada
88. Man in the Shadow (1957)
USA, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Jack Arnold
Cast: Jeff Chandler, Orson Welles
89. Blind Date (1959)
UK, Mystery / Thriller
Directed by: Joseph Losey
Cast: Hardy Krüger, Stanley Baker
90. Fourteen Hours (1951)
USA, Film-Noir / Thriller
Directed by: Henry Hathaway
Cast: Paul Douglas, Richard Basehart
91. The Scapegoat (1959)
UK / USA, Mystery / Crime
Directed by: Robert Hamer
Cast: Alec Guinness, Bette Davis
92. The Vampire (1957)
Mexico, Mystery / Thriller
Directed by: Fernando Méndez
Cast: Ariadne Welter, José Chávez
93. The Gorilla Greets You (1958)
France, Action / Crime
Directed by: Bernard Borderie
Cast: Lino Ventura, Charles Vanel
94. The FBI Story (1959)
USA, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Mervyn LeRoy
Cast: James Stewart, Vera Miles
95. The War of the Worlds (1953)
USA, Sci-fi / Thriller
Directed by: Byron Haskin
Cast: Gene Barry, Ann Robinson
96. The Man Between (1953)
UK, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Carol Reed
Cast: James Mason, Claire Bloom
97. The Quatermass Xperiment (1955)
UK / USA, Horror / Sci-fi
Directed by: Val Guest
Cast: Brian Donlevy, Margia Dean
98. The Night Affair (1958)
France, Crime / Thriller
Directed by: Gilles Grangier
Cast: Jean Gabin, Danielle Darrieux
99. The Sleeping Tiger (1954)
UK / USA, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Joseph Losey
Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Alexis Smith
100. Hell Is a City (1960)
UK, Crime / Thriller
Directed by: Val Guest
Cast: Stanley Baker, Donald Pleasence