de-Americanised British 'Mystery' Movie List
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1. Silent Cry (2002)
85 min | Thriller, Drama, Mystery
A single mother's search for her stolen new born baby sends her on a journey through the underworld of London and on a collision course with her past.
Director: Julian Richards | Stars: Emily Woof, Douglas Henshall, Clive Russell, Kevin Whately
Votes: 175
2. Creep (I) (2004)
R | 85 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Trapped in a London subway station, a woman who's being pursued by a potential attacker heads into the unknown labyrinth of tunnels beneath the city's streets.
Director: Christopher Smith | Stars: Franka Potente, Sean Harris, Vas Blackwood, Ken Campbell
Votes: 31,745
3. Enduring Love (2004)
R | 100 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Two strangers become connected by a tragedy, yet one dangerously feels that the connection goes much deeper than the other is willing to admit.
Director: Roger Michell | Stars: Rhys Ifans, Daniel Craig, Samantha Morton, Bill Weston
Votes: 11,007 | Gross: $0.36M
4. Freeze Frame (2004)
R | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
After being accused of a triple-murder, a man films his every moment of his to provide an alibi. Things takes a worst turn when a detective suspects him and the tapes goes missing which can prove his innocence.
Director: John Simpson | Stars: Lee Evans, Sean McGinley, Ian McNeice, Colin Salmon
Votes: 2,945
5. I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (2003)
R | 103 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A former gangster reenters the criminal underworld after his brother suspiciously commits suicide.
Director: Mike Hodges | Stars: Clive Owen, Malcolm McDowell, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Charlotte Rampling
Votes: 8,990 | Gross: $0.36M
6. The Abandoned (2006)
R | 99 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
An adopted woman returns to her home country and the family home that she never knew and must face the mystery that lies there.
Director: Nacho Cerdá | Stars: Anastasia Hille, Karel Roden, Valentin Goshev, Valentin Ganev
Votes: 13,297 | Gross: $1.26M
7. Hallam Foe (2007)
R | 95 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Hallam's talent for spying on people reveals his darkest fears-and his most peculiar desires. Driven to expose the true cause of his mother's death, he instead finds himself searching the rooftops of the city for love.
Director: David Mackenzie | Stars: Jamie Bell, Ruth Milne, John Paul Lawler, Claire Forlani
Votes: 13,127 | Gross: $0.06M
8. Hot Fuzz (2007)
R | 121 min | Action, Comedy, Mystery
An overachieving London police sergeant is transferred to a village where the easygoing officers object to his fervor for regulations, all while a string of grisly murders strikes the town.
Director: Edgar Wright | Stars: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Martin Freeman, Bill Nighy
Votes: 535,349 | Gross: $23.64M
9. Sleuth (2007)
R | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
On his sprawling country estate, an aging writer matches wits with the struggling actor who has stolen his wife's heart.
Director: Kenneth Branagh | Stars: Michael Caine, Jude Law, Harold Pinter, Kenneth Branagh
Votes: 33,032 | Gross: $0.34M
10. The Children (2008)
R | 84 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A relaxing Christmas vacation turns into a terrifying fight for survival as the children begin to turn on their parents.
Director: Tom Shankland | Stars: Eva Birthistle, Stephen Campbell Moore, Jeremy Sheffield, Rachel Shelley
Votes: 19,031
11. Wallace & Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death (2008)
TV-PG | 29 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Wallace and his dog, Gromit, open a bakery and get tied up with a murder mystery. But when Wallace falls in love, Gromit is left to solve the case.
Director: Nick Park | Stars: Peter Sallis, Sally Lindsay, Sarah Laborde, Ben Whitehead
Votes: 18,340
12. Exam (2009)
Not Rated | 101 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Eight candidates for a highly desirable corporate job are locked together in an exam room and given a final test with just one seemingly simple question. However, it doesn't take long for confusion to ensue and tensions to unravel.
Director: Stuart Hazeldine | Stars: Adar Beck, Gemma Chan, Nathalie Cox, John Lloyd Fillingham
Votes: 125,298
13. The Firm (2009)
90 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Football hooligans organize themselves into firms that represent their favorite team.
Director: Nick Love | Stars: Paul Anderson, Calum MacNab, Daniel Mays, Doug Allen
Votes: 6,421
14. London River (2009)
Not Rated | 84 min | Drama, Mystery
Two strangers come to discover the fate of their respective children in the 2005 terrorist attacks on London.
Director: Rachid Bouchareb | Stars: Brenda Blethyn, Sotigui Kouyaté, Sami Bouajila, Roschdy Zem
Votes: 3,879 | Gross: $0.00M
15. Tormented (I) (2009)
R | 91 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
A bullied teenager comes back from the dead to take revenge on his classmates.
Director: Jon Wright | Stars: Alex Pettyfer, April Pearson, Dimitri Leonidas, Calvin Dean
Votes: 6,543
16. Triangle (2009)
R | 99 min | Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Five friends set sail and their yacht is overturned by a strange and sudden storm. A mysterious ship arrives to rescue them, and what happens next cannot be explained.
Director: Christopher Smith | Stars: Melissa George, Joshua McIvor, Jack Taylor, Michael Dorman
Votes: 129,824
17. Who Killed Nancy? (2009)
Not Rated | 89 min | Documentary, Music, Mystery
On October 12th 1978 New York Police discovered the lifeless body of a 20 year-old woman, slumped under the bathroom sink in a hotel room. She was dressed in her underwear and had bled to ... See full summary »
Director: Alan G. Parker | Stars: Alan Jones, Steve Dior, George Slattery, Peter Gravelle
Votes: 605
18. The Mirror Boy (2011)
84 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
The Mirror Boy is a mystical journey through Africa, seen through the eyes of a 12 year old boy, Tijan. After a London street fight, in which a local boy is hurt, Tijan's mother decides to ... See full summary »
Director: Obi Emelonye | Stars: Genevieve Nnaji, Osita Iheme, Fatima Jabbe, Edward Kagutuzi
Votes: 152
19. Kill List (2011)
Not Rated | 95 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Nearly a year after a botched job, a hitman takes a new assignment with the promise of a big payoff for three killings. What starts off as an easy task soon unravels, sending the killer into the heart of darkness.
Director: Ben Wheatley | Stars: Neil Maskell, MyAnna Buring, Harry Simpson, Michael Smiley
Votes: 45,343 | Gross: $0.03M
20. In Fear (I) (2013)
R | 85 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Driving to a music festival in Ireland, a new couple become lost and are then set upon by a tormentor with an unknown motive.
Director: Jeremy Lovering | Stars: Iain De Caestecker, Alice Englert, Allen Leech
Votes: 10,149
21. Sleep Has Her House (2017)
90 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
The shadows of screams climb beyond the hills. It has happened before. But this will be the last time. The last few sense it, withdrawing deep into the forest. They cry out into the black, as the shadows pass away, into the ground.
Director: Scott Barley
Votes: 735
22. The Sense of an Ending (2017)
PG-13 | 108 min | Drama, Mystery
A man becomes haunted by his past and is presented with a mysterious legacy that causes him to re-think his current situation in life.
Director: Ritesh Batra | Stars: Jim Broadbent, Charlotte Rampling, Harriet Walter, Michelle Dockery
Votes: 7,325 | Gross: $1.24M
23. Waiting for You (2017)
92 min | Drama, Mystery
Paul (Morgan) investigates his late father's increasingly disturbing past and becomes suspicious of the mysterious, melancholic, and possibly dangerous Madeleine (Ardant).
Director: Charles Garrad | Stars: Colin Morgan, Fanny Ardant, Audrey Bastien, Abdelkrim Bahloul
Votes: 359
24. Winter Ridge (2018)
TV-MA | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A young detective is torn apart after his wife ends up in a coma while hunting a serial-killer at the same time.
Director: Dom Lenoir | Stars: Matt Hookings, Olwen Catherine Kelly, Hannah Waddingham, Michael McKell
Votes: 1,195
25. The Hole in the Ground (2019)
R | 90 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A single mother living in the Irish countryside with her son begins to suspect he may not be her son at all, and fears his increasingly disturbing behavior is linked to a mysterious sinkhole in the forest behind their house.
Director: Lee Cronin | Stars: Seána Kerslake, James Quinn Markey, Kati Outinen, David Crowley
Votes: 22,368 | Gross: $0.02M
26. Radio On (1979)
104 min | Drama, Music, Mystery
In 1970s Britain, a man drives from London to Bristol to investigate his brother's death, and the purpose of his trip is offset by his encounters with a series of odd people.
Director: Christopher Petit | Stars: David Beames, Lisa Kreuzer, Sandy Ratcliff, Andrew Byatt
Votes: 1,177
27. An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1982)
94 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Cordelia Gray is hired by a businessman to investigate the suicide of his estranged son. However, the young private detective soon develops feelings for the dead young man which thrust her into danger.
Director: Christopher Petit | Stars: Billie Whitelaw, Paul Freeman, Pippa Guard, Dominic Guard
Votes: 303
28. Bullshot Crummond (1983)
PG | 95 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
The dashing Captain Hugh "Bullshot" Crummond (Alan Shearman) - World War I ace fighter pilot, Olympic athlete, racing driver, part-time sleuth, and all round spiffing chap - must save the ... See full summary »
Director: Dick Clement | Stars: Alan Shearman, Diz White, Ronald E. House, Frances Tomelty
Votes: 721
29. Afraid of the Dark (1991)
R | 91 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A little boy, obsessed with blindness and violence, slowly gets trapped in his own delusions.
Director: Mark Peploe | Stars: James Fox, Fanny Ardant, Paul McGann, Clare Holman
Votes: 1,323
30. Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers (1993)
TV-PG | 29 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Gromit butts heads with a mysterious penguin lodger, who hatches a sinister scheme involving the ex-NASA Techno Trousers that have been modified by Wallace for walkies.
Director: Nick Park | Stars: Peter Sallis, Peter Hawkins
Votes: 57,400
31. Monarch (2000)
109 min | Biography, Drama, History
Shortly before his death in 1547, the injured King Henry VIII is forced to take refuge a manor house closed for the season. While there, he must confront both his mortality and the ghosts of his past.
Director: John Walsh | Stars: T.P. McKenna, Jean Marsh, James Coombes, Peter Sowerbutts
Votes: 165
32. The Bunker (2001)
R | 88 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Germany, 1944. The forests of the Ardennes. A platoon of battle weary German soldiers, forced into confusion and retreat by advancing Allied forces, take refuge in an isolated Siegfried Line bunker.
Director: Rob Green | Stars: Jason Flemyng, Andrew Tiernan, Christopher Fairbank, Simon Kunz
Votes: 6,177
33. Five Have a Mystery to Solve (1964)
96 min | Adventure, Family, Mystery
(from the rear of the DVD cover) When the Famous Five are asked to look after Wilfred, a lonely orphan with a magical ability to communicate with animals, they have no idea of what exciting... See full summary »
Director: Ernest Morris | Stars: David Palmer, Darryl Read, Mandy Harper, Paula Boyd
Votes: 31
34. Smokescreen (1964)
70 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A fastidious insurance assessor investigates a potential case of insurance fraud in Brighton and uncovers a murder.
Director: Jim O'Connolly | Stars: Peter Vaughan, John Carson, Yvonne Romain, Gerald Flood
Votes: 511
35.
The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (1959–1965)
Episode:
Game for Three Losers
(1965)
55 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Robert Hilary is a public figure, a businessman and a politician. Happily married, Hilary still lets his desire for his new secretary get the better of him. Starring Michael Gough, Mark ... See full summary »
Director: Gerry O'Hara | Stars: Michael Gough, Mark Eden, Toby Robins, Rachel Gurney
Votes: 45
36. Hysteria (1965)
Not Rated | 85 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
After a car accident in England, an American develops amnesia and tries to find his true identity, using various clues, but ends-up in the midst of a mysterious murder.
Director: Freddie Francis | Stars: Robert Webber, Anthony Newlands, Jennifer Jayne, Maurice Denham
Votes: 884
37. The Intelligence Men (1965)
103 min | Comedy, Mystery
Coffee shop manager meets agent, gets drawn into 1960s London spy world. Posing as Major Cavendish, infiltrates organization to uncover assassination plot against Russian ballerina at Covent Garden, aided by MI5 friend.
Director: Robert Asher | Stars: Eric Morecambe, Ernie Wise, William Franklyn, April Olrich
Votes: 514
38. Dateline Diamonds (1965)
Not Rated | 73 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
An ex-con manages a top band in the UK, and he wants to re-enter the crime scene.
Director: Jeremy Summers | Stars: William Lucas, Kenneth Cope, George Mikell, Conrad Phillips
Votes: 175
39. Love Is a Woman (1966)
Not Rated | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An undercover agent is sent to investigate dope smuggling on a sun-drenched Mediterranean island. When both of his principal subjects die in mysterious reasons, he soon finds that he is also involved in a murder investigation.
Director: Frederic Goode | Stars: Mark Burns, Shaun Curry, William Dexter, Wanda Ventham
Votes: 169
40. The Trygon Factor (1966)
M/PG | 88 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Scotland Yard Superintendent Cooper-Smith investigates the suspicious looking Emberday estate where the Emberday family and an order of nuns reside.
Director: Cyril Frankel | Stars: Stewart Granger, Susan Hampshire, Cathleen Nesbitt, James Culliford
Votes: 475
41. Who Killed the Cat? (1966)
76 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A scheming widow tries to persecute three old ladies, but fate takes its revenge on her.
Director: Montgomery Tully | Stars: Vanda Godsell, Mervyn Johns, Natasha Pyne, Ellen Pollock
Votes: 226
42. Deadlier Than the Male (1967)
Approved | 98 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
British agent Bulldog Drummond is assigned to stop a master criminal who uses beautiful women to do his killings.
Director: Ralph Thomas | Stars: Richard Johnson, Elke Sommer, Sylva Koscina, Nigel Green
Votes: 2,004
43. Amsterdam Affair (1968)
100 min | Crime, Mystery
An Englishman in Holland gets involved in a murder case. It looks bad for him, but the wily Inspector Van Der Valk isn't convinced of his guilt.
Director: Gerry O'Hara | Stars: Wolfgang Kieling, William Marlowe, Catherine Schell, Pamela Ann Davy
Votes: 26
44. Hostile Witness (1969)
GP | 101 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Ray Milland directed himself as a barrister whose daughter is killed in a "hit-and-run" accident. When his neighbor is also killed, evidence points to the barrister as a murderer.
Director: Ray Milland | Stars: Ray Milland, Sylvia Syms, Felix Aylmer, Raymond Huntley
Votes: 546
45. And Soon the Darkness (1970)
GP | 94 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Two young English women go on a cycling tour of the French countryside. When one of them goes missing, the other begins to search for her. But who can she trust?
Director: Robert Fuest | Stars: Pamela Franklin, Michele Dotrice, Sandor Elès, John Nettleton
Votes: 4,061
46. The Man Who Haunted Himself (1970)
GP | 94 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Harold Pelham discovers a doppelganger is meddling with his personal and professional life in the aftermath of a car crash.
Director: Basil Dearden | Stars: Roger Moore, Hildegard Neil, Alastair Mackenzie, Hugh Mackenzie
Votes: 2,797
47. Taste of Excitement (1969)
99 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Mystery adventure involving a young woman holidaying in the South of France who is under the threat of being killed.
Director: Don Sharp | Stars: Eva Renzi, David Buck, Peter Vaughan, Paul Hubschmid
Votes: 182
48. In the Devil's Garden (I) (1971)
R | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
After one schoolgirl is raped while taking a short cut through the local woods, and another is murdered in the same woods a few days later, the local police are baffled. With the help of a ... See full summary »
Director: Sidney Hayers | Stars: Suzy Kendall, Frank Finlay, Freddie Jones, James Laurenson
Votes: 718
49. Don't Look Now (1973)
R | 110 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A married couple grieving the recent death of their young daughter are in Venice when they encounter two elderly sisters, one of whom is psychic and brings a warning from beyond.
Director: Nicolas Roeg | Stars: Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland, Hilary Mason, Clelia Matania
Votes: 62,333 | Gross: $0.98M
50. The House in Nightmare Park (1973)
95 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
In 1907, an actor is invited to perform in an isolated country house, and becomes involved in mysterious and dangerous events.
Director: Peter Sykes | Stars: Frankie Howerd, Ray Milland, Hugh Burden, Kenneth Griffith
Votes: 771
51. Penny Gold (1973)
87 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
While investigating a murder case, a detective stumbles upon a rare-stamp swindle involving the victim's twin sister.
Director: Jack Cardiff | Stars: James Booth, Francesca Annis, Nicky Henson, Joss Ackland
Votes: 271
52. Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter (1974)
R | 91 min | Adventure, Horror, Mystery
A master swordsman and former soldier and his hunchbacked assistant hunt vampires.
Director: Brian Clemens | Stars: Horst Janson, John Carson, Shane Briant, Caroline Munro
Votes: 5,694 | Gross: $0.12M
53. Schizo (1976)
R | 109 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A newly-married woman becomes convinced someone from her past is stalking her, but nobody believes her until the bodies start to pile up.
Director: Pete Walker | Stars: Lynne Frederick, John Leyton, Stephanie Beacham, John Fraser
Votes: 1,448
54. Prey (1977)
Unrated | 85 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A deadly shape-shifting alien infiltrates a country house occupied by two lesbians, and proceeds to study their behaviour, for a sinister purpose.
Director: Norman J. Warren | Stars: Barry Stokes, Sally Faulkner, Glory Annen, Sandy Chinney
Votes: 1,567
55. The Playbirds (1978)
94 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Two detectives are drawn into the world of porn, while investigating murders of centrefolds...
Director: Willy Roe | Stars: Mary Millington, Glynn Edwards, Gavin Campbell, Alan Lake
Votes: 534
56. Murder at 3am (1953)
Not Rated | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A police detective suspects that his sister's boyfriend is a murderer.
Director: Francis Searle | Stars: Dennis Price, Peggy Evans, Rex Garner, Arnold Bell
Votes: 225
57. Murder at Scotland Yard (1952)
75 min | Mystery, Thriller
A private detective pursues a gang leader who has escaped from prison, stolen some diamonds and is responsible for a number of murders.
Director: Victor M. Gover | Stars: Tod Slaughter, Patrick Barr, Tucker McGuire, Dorothy Bramhall
Votes: 12
58. Operation Diplomat (1953)
70 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Doctor Fenton is abducted and forced to operate on a mysterious figure. Meanwhile, Inspector Austin investigates the murder of Fenton's assistant. All this has something to do with a missing diplomat.
Director: John Guillermin | Stars: Guy Rolfe, Lisa Daniely, Patricia Dainton, Sydney Tafler
Votes: 239
59. Burnt Evidence (1954)
61 min | Drama, Mystery
An unfaithful wife is going to leave her husband, a failing carpenter, but he finds out about her lover and a murder takes place. Police try to identify whether the burned body is her husband or her lover.
Director: Daniel Birt | Stars: Jane Hylton, Duncan Lamont, Donald Gray, Meredith Edwards
Votes: 184
60. Delayed Action (1954)
58 min | Mystery
A destitute, suicidal man is offered a contract for 18 months to act as a front for an unscrupulous businessman, with his life being forfeit. He carries out his agreement, also writing a ... See full summary »
Director: John Harlow | Stars: Robert Ayres, June Thorburn, Alan Wheatley, Bruce Seton
Votes: 114
61. The Golden Link (1954)
83 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Director: Charles Saunders | Stars: André Morell, Thea Gregory, Patrick Holt, Jack Watling
62. An Inspector Calls (1954)
Approved | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A wealthy family is visited by a police inspector, who questions the family about the suicide of a young working-class woman.
Director: Guy Hamilton | Stars: Alastair Sim, Arthur Young, Olga Lindo, Brian Worth
Votes: 5,242
63. The Runaway Bus (1954)
78 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
After heavy fog prevents all aircraft from leaving London airport, a group of passengers take an airline bus to get them to an alternative airport. However, one amongst their number is the ... See full summary »
Director: Val Guest | Stars: Marianne Stone, Lionel Murton, Lisa Gastoni, Margaret Rutherford
Votes: 768
64. Murder on Approval (1955)
Approved | 70 min | Adventure, Crime, Mystery
J. D. Everleigh, a wealthy American, purchases a rare stamp in London from Geoffrey Blake, who says he represents Robert Coburn, a stamp agent. Everleigh begins to suspect the stamp is a ... See full summary »
Director: Bernard Knowles | Stars: Tom Conway, Delphi Lawrence, Brian Worth, Michael Balfour
Votes: 196
65. The Glass Tomb (1955)
Not Rated | 59 min | Mystery
Crowds flock to a carnival sideshow to see "The Starving Man", a heavyset man who claims he can go 70 days without eating. However, a couple of murders occur at the carnival, resulting in the police becoming involved.
Director: Montgomery Tully | Stars: John Ireland, Honor Blackman, Geoffrey Keen, Eric Pohlmann
Votes: 334
66. One Way Out (1955)
Not Rated | 61 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
As he is about to retire, a police officer discovers that his daughter is mixed up with a criminal gang and is about to go to prison for a crime she didn't commit. Against his better ... See full summary »
Director: Francis Searle | Stars: Jill Adams, Eddie Byrne, Lyndon Brook, John Chandos
Votes: 114
67. Stolen Assignment (1955)
62 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
A young female reporter, tired of the lightweight women's stories her editor keeps assigning her, pesters him to give her an assignment with more substance. When an artist's rich wife is ... See full summary »
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: John Bentley, Hy Hazell, Eddie Byrne, Patrick Holt
Votes: 126
68. Account Rendered (1957)
59 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Police find that everyone had a motive for the murder of a wealthy woman.
Director: Peter Graham Scott | Stars: Griffith Jones, Ursula Howells, Honor Blackman, Ewen Solon
Votes: 328
69. The Girl in the Picture (1957)
63 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
1957. Drama. Directed by Don Chaffey. Starring Donald Houston, Patrick Holt and Junia Crawford. George Keefe's policeman brother was murdered four years ago and the killer is still on the loose.
Director: Don Chaffey | Stars: Donald Houston, Patrick Holt, Junia Crawford, Maurice Kaufmann
Votes: 184
70. The Circle (1957)
84 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
When Dr. Howard Latimer finds the German actress that he had just met at London Airport murdered in his flat. It leads him into the world of murder, blackmail, and a fake passport scam.
Director: Gerald Thomas | Stars: John Mills, Derek Farr, Noelle Middleton, Wilfrid Hyde-White
Votes: 767
71. Blind Spot (1958)
72 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A blind American Army officer becomes involved in a murder mystery and solves it after regaining his sight.
Director: Peter Maxwell | Stars: Robert MacKenzie, Delphi Lawrence, Gordon Jackson, Anne Sharp
Votes: 239
72. The Haunted Strangler (1958)
Approved | 78 min | Crime, Mystery, Horror
A researcher investigating a notorious serial killer who was hanged 20 years earlier seemingly becomes possessed by the long-dead strangler.
Director: Robert Day | Stars: Boris Karloff, Anthony Dawson, Derek Birch, Dorothy Gordon
Votes: 2,041
73. Black Tide (1958)
79 min | Mystery
Two swimmers are attempting to swim across the English Channel when one of them disappears. The other swimmer is convinced that it was no accident, and insists on investigating himself, even though the police do not believe him.
Director: C.M. Pennington-Richards | Stars: John Ireland, Derek Bond, Leslie Dwyer, Maureen Connell
Votes: 145
74. Deadly Record (1959)
58 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An airline pilot, falsely accused of wife-murder, sets out to find who really did it.
Director: Lawrence Huntington | Stars: Lee Patterson, Barbara Shelley, Jane Hylton, Peter Dyneley
Votes: 196
75.
Kraft Mystery Theater (1961–1963)
Episode:
The Desperate Man
(1961)
60 min | Crime, Mystery
Two reporters are held hostage in old castle, by thief, looking for jewels, that he had buried, after robbing a local house.
Director: Peter Maxwell | Stars: Conrad Phillips, Jill Ireland, William Hartnell, Charles Gray
Votes: 22
76. Hidden Homicide (1959)
Approved | 81 min | Mystery
A man wakes up in a strange location with a gun in his hand and a dead body, not knowing how the whole thing happened. He doesn't remember anything about the whole scenario.
Director: Anthony Young | Stars: Griffith Jones, Patricia Laffan, James Kenney, Bruce Seton
Votes: 104
77. The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)
Not Rated | 87 min | Horror, Mystery
When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Peter Cushing, André Morell, Christopher Lee, Marla Landi
Votes: 12,381
78. Jack the Ripper (1959)
Not Rated | 84 min | Crime, Drama, History
A serial killer is murdering women in the Whitechapel district of London. An American policeman is brought in to help Scotland Yard solve the case.
Directors: Robert S. Baker, Monty Berman | Stars: Lee Patterson, Eddie Byrne, Betty McDowall, Ewen Solon
Votes: 963
79. Faces in the Dark (1960)
84 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Businessman and inventor Richard Hammond is determined to develop and market the perfect light-bulb. In a freak lab accident he is blinded and suffers a partial breakdown. His wife, partner... See full summary »
Director: David Eady | Stars: John Gregson, Mai Zetterling, John Ireland, Michael Denison
Votes: 369
80. Stop Me Before I Kill! (1960)
Not Rated | 108 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
After surviving a traumatic car accident, a race car driver travels to the Cote D'Azur to recover but is plagued by an urge to strangle his wife.
Director: Val Guest | Stars: Claude Dauphin, Diane Cilento, Ronald Lewis, Françoise Rosay
Votes: 1,051
81. Never Take Candy from A Stranger (1960)
Approved | 81 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
In Canada, a British schoolmaster meets official resistance when he learns that his 9-year-old daughter has been the victim of the pedophile patriarch of the town's most powerful family.
Director: Cyril Frankel | Stars: Gwen Watford, Patrick Allen, Felix Aylmer, Niall MacGinnis
Votes: 1,983
82. Urge to Kill (1960)
59 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When to women are brutally murdered, the local townsfolk quickly assume a strangely behaving young man is the culprit, but a policeman thinks otherwise.
Director: Vernon Sewell | Stars: Patrick Barr, Howard Pays, Terence Knapp, Ruth Dunning
Votes: 166
83. Cash on Demand (1961)
Not Rated | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A charming but ruthless criminal holds the family of a bank manager hostage as part of a cold-blooded plan to steal 97,000 pounds.
Director: Quentin Lawrence | Stars: Peter Cushing, André Morell, Richard Vernon, Norman Bird
Votes: 2,884
84. Clue of the Silver Key (1961)
59 min | Mystery
The police investigate the murder of a wealthy old man.
Director: Gerard Glaister | Stars: Bernard Lee, Lyndon Brook, Finlay Currie, Jennifer Daniel
Votes: 102
85. The Devil's Daffodil (1961)
86 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A Chinese detective breaks up a drug smuggling ring and tries to find the "Daffodil Killer". The drug smugglers had devised the ingenious method of smuggling heroin from Hong Kong in the stems of daffodils.
Director: Ákos Ráthonyi | Stars: Joachim Fuchsberger, William Lucas, Sabine Sesselmann, Penelope Horner
Votes: 636
86.
Kraft Mystery Theater (1961–1963)
Episode:
House of Mystery
(1961)
56 min | Crime, Mystery
A young couple go to check out a house they're thinking of buying. A somewhat mysterious woman tells the couple several stories of the fates that befell the house's previous owners.
Director: Vernon Sewell | Stars: Peter Dyneley, Jane Hylton, Nanette Newman, Maurice Kaufmann
Votes: 199
87. Partners in Crime (1961)
54 min | Crime, Mystery
A company-owner arrives home from a night out with his wife, disturbs a burglar, and is shot.
Director: Peter Duffell | Stars: Bernard Lee, Moira Redmond, John Van Eyssen, Stanley Morgan
Votes: 44
88. Kill or Cure (1962)
TV-PG | 88 min | Comedy, Mystery
An undercover private detective investigates a suspicious death at a shady health clinic.
Director: George Pollock | Stars: Terry-Thomas, Eric Sykes, Dennis Price, Lionel Jeffries
Votes: 378
89. Serena (1962)
60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Scotland Yard investigate when a woman, apparently the estranged wife of a London painter, is murdered with a shotgun in rural Surrey at the same time as the artist's striking model with her long black hair disappears.
Director: Peter Maxwell | Stars: Patrick Holt, Emrys Jones, Honor Blackman, Bruce Beeby
Votes: 229
90. The Model Murder Case (1963)
Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When a beautiful girl is murdered, Inspector Birkett finds that she had some famous friends who don't want publicity.
Director: Michael Truman | Stars: Ian Hendry, Ronald Fraser, Margaret Johnston, Natasha Parry
Votes: 341
91. Paranoiac (1963)
Not Rated | 80 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A man long believed dead returns to the family estate to claim his inheritance.
Director: Freddie Francis | Stars: Janette Scott, Oliver Reed, Sheila Burrell, Maurice Denham
Votes: 3,284
92. Bulldog Drummond at Bay (1937)
Approved | 59 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
Bulldog Drummond goes up against foreign agents trying to steal plans for a top-secret aircraft.
Director: Norman Lee | Stars: John Lodge, Dorothy Mackaill, Victor Jory, Claud Allister
Votes: 465
93. Holiday's End (1937)
70 min | Mystery
Director: John Paddy Carstairs | Stars: Beckett Bould, Rosalyn Boulter, Leslie Bradley, Robert Field
94. The Claydon Treasure Mystery (1938)
63 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
After the disappearance of the estate librarian, and the murder of another, Kerrigan is summoned by the lady of the manor to solve the mystery, and maybe find the Claydon treasure.
Director: H. Manning Haynes | Stars: John Stuart, Garry Marsh, Annie Esmond, Campbell Gullan
Votes: 27
95. The Body Vanished (1939)
Not Rated | 46 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
1939. Drama. Directed by Walter Tennyson. Starring Anthony Hulme, C. Denier Warren & Ernest Sefton. This murder mystery poses the dilemma of a vanishing corpse.
Director: Walter Tennyson | Stars: Anthony Hulme, C. Denier Warren, Ernest Sefton, Evelyn Foster
Votes: 213
96. Inquest (1939)
Not Rated | 60 min | Crime, Mystery
Margaret Hamilton (Elizabeth Allan) faces trial by Coroner's Court, an archaic British institution where justice can't be guaranteed.
Director: Roy Boulting | Stars: Elizabeth Allan, Philip Friend, Harold Anstruther, Malcolm Morley
Votes: 153
97. Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday (1939)
77 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
It comes as no surprise when Inspector Hornleigh and his assistant, Sergeant Bingham, go to enjoy the winds and rains on their annual seaside vacation, when they run into a "busman's ... See full summary »
Director: Walter Forde | Stars: Gordon Harker, Alastair Sim, Linden Travers, Wally Patch
Votes: 239
98. The Mysterious Mr. Reeder (1939)
61 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Mr. Reeder, a somewhat eccentric old gentleman employed by the Director of Public Prosecutions, gets it into his head to break up a counterfeiting ring.
Director: Jack Raymond | Stars: Will Fyffe, Kay Walsh, George Curzon, Chili Bouchier
Votes: 7
99. Shadows of the Underworld (1939)
86 min | Comedy, Mystery
A British reporter and his wife, on vacation in Paris, run into a gang of counterfeiters.
Director: David MacDonald | Stars: Barry K. Barnes, Valerie Hobson, Alastair Sim, Edward Lexy
Votes: 21
100. This Man Is News (1938)
63 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
John Brown, one of the thieves in a sensational jewel robbery and subsequent trial, is set free when he turns King's Evidence on the other members. He refuses to give reporter Simon Drake ... See full summary »
Director: David MacDonald | Stars: Barry K. Barnes, Valerie Hobson, Alastair Sim, Edward Lexy
Votes: 130
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