1950s psychological thriller films

Rear Window

Film Age rating: 9 Year: 1954 IMDB Rating: 8.5

A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.

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Vertigo

Film Age rating: 11 Year: 1958 IMDB Rating: 8.3

A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.

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Rashomon

Film Age rating: 12 Year: 1950 IMDB Rating: 8.2

Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, "Rashomon" is perhaps the finest film ever to investigate the philosophy of justice. Through an ingenious use of camera and flashba...

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Strangers on a Train

Film Age rating: 12 Year: 1951 IMDB Rating: 7.9

A deranged socialite accosts a tennis star with his theory that if two strangers trade murders, they can disguise their motives and avoid suspicion.

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The Narrow Margin

Film Age rating: 10 Year: 1952 IMDB Rating: 7.7

A tough cop meets his match when he has to guard a gangster's widow on a tense train ride.

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Panic in the Streets

Film Age rating: 8 Year: 1950 IMDB Rating: 7.2

One night in the New Orleans slums, vicious hoodlum Blackie and his friends kill an illegal immigrant who won too much in a card game. The next morning, Dr. Clint Reed of the Public Health Service con...

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Mr. Arkadin

Film Age rating: 10 Year: 1955 IMDB Rating: 7.1

Claiming that he doesn't know his own past, a rich man enlists an ex-con with an odd bit of detective work. Gregory Arkadin says he can't remember anything before the late 1920s, and convict Guy Van S...

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Don't Bother to Knock

Film Age rating: 10 Year: 1952 IMDB Rating: 6.9

Jed, an airline pilot, is resting in a hotel when he notices Nell, a young woman babysitting for a wealthy couple. As Jed gets to know Nell better he realises that the woman is not as stable as perhap...

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