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Films with the genre "Thriller", sorted by production date
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The League of Gentlemen (1960)
, 1h56Directed by Basil Dearden
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Heist films
Actors Jack Hawkins, Nigel Patrick, Roger Livesey, Bryan Forbes, Richard Attenborough, Kieron Moore
A manhole opens at night in an empty street and out climbs Lieutenant-Colonel Norman Hyde (Jack Hawkins) in a dinner suit. He gets into a Rolls-Royce and drives home. There, he prepares seven envelopes, each containing an American crime paperback called The Golden Fleece, ten £5-notes cut in half (i.e. £50 in total with the other halves) and an unsigned invitation from “Co-operative Removals Limited” to lunch at the Cafe Royal.
Man on a String (1960)
, 1h28Directed by André de Toth
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Spy, Crime
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Ernest Borgnine, Colleen Dewhurst, Kerwin Mathews, Glenn Corbett, Alexander Scourby, Vladimir Nikolayevich Sokoloff
A government intelligence agency in Washington, D.C., wants agent Frank Sanford to follow Boris Mitrov, a film producer who appears to also be a Russian spy.
Murder, Inc. (1960)
, 1h43Directed by Stuart Rosenberg, Burt Balaban
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Films about capital punishment, Gangster films
Actors Stuart Whitman, May Britt, Peter Falk, Henry Morgan, Harry Morgan, Simon Oakland
Abe Reles (Peter Falk) and Bug Workman (Warren Finnerty), two killers from Brooklyn's Brownsville district, meet in the Garment District to meet with Louis "Lepke" Buchalter, kingpin of an organized crime mob, who hires them as the syndicate's hit men.
Never Let Go (1960)
, 1h30Directed by John Guillermin
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Peter Sellers, Richard Todd, Elizabeth Sellars, Adam Faith, Carol White (actrice anglaise), Mervyn Johns
Lionel Meadows (Peter Sellers) a London garage owner who makes extra cash dealing stolen cars, asks young petty thief Tommy Towers (Adam Faith) to steal a 1959 Ford Anglia. The car Tommy steals belongs to struggling cosmetics salesman John Cummings (Richard Todd).
Singapore (1960)
, 2h15Directed by Shakti Samanta
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Shammi Kapoor, Padmini Ramachandran, Shashikala, Madan Puri, Agha, Helen Khan
Shayam (played by Shammi Kapoor) has deputed his manager Ramesh to sell off his rubber estate in Singapore. While going through the old records, Ramesh finds a map revealing that there is a huge treasure in the rubber estate. He immediately writes to Shyam. But to Ramesh's surprise, neither does Shyam reply to his letters nor does he come to Singapore.
Suspect (1960)
, 1h21Directed by John Boulting, Roy Boulting
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Tony Britton, Virginia Maskell, Ian Bannen, Kenneth Griffith, Peter Cushing, Thorley Walters
Take Aim at the Police Van (1960)
, 1h19Directed by Seijun Suzuki
Genres Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Misako Watanabe, Ryōhei Uchida, Shinsuke Ashida, Toru Abe, Tomio Aoki
Un fourgon transportant des prisonniers est mystérieusement attaqué. Deux des passagers sont tués et Daijiro, le gardien chargé de les surveiller, récolte une mise à pied de six mois. Chômage forcé qu’il compte bien mettre à profit pour mener sa propre enquête…
The Professionals (1960)
, 1h1Directed by Don Sharp
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Crime
Actors William Lucas, Andrew Faulds, Stratford Johns, Arthur Hewlett, Jack May, Noel Coleman
A safecracker and his associates plan to rob a bank vault.
Higher Principle (1960)
, 1h46Directed by Jiří Krejčík
Genres Drama, War, Thriller
Actors František Smolík, Jana Brejchová, Petr Kostka, Gustav Hilmar, Otomar Krejča, Václav Lohniský
Le Protecteur du Reich Heydrich meurt après un attentat à Prague. La loi martiale est instaurée. Trois lycéens sont arrêtés par les Allemands pour avoir commis une plaisanterie innocente et sont exécutés. Seul, un vieux professeur de latin condamne la terreur nazie et clame « En termes de principe moral supérieur, assassiner un tyran n'est pas un crime ! ». Par cet exemple, les autres professeurs qui s'apprêtaient à jurer fidélité à l'occupant se rétractent.
The Challenge (1960)
, 1h41Directed by John Gilling
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Jayne Mansfield, Anthony Quayle, Carl Möhner, Barbara Mullen, Robert Brown, Dermot Walsh
Mansfield plays Billy, a ruthless gang leader who dumps gang member Kristy when he is convicted of robbery. Kristy serves his time, then recovers the stolen loot when he's released. Billy and her gang then kidnap Kristy's son and demand money as ransom.
The Big Risk (1960)
, 1h44Directed by Claude Sautet
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime, Romance
Themes La provence, Buddy films, Gangster films
Actors Lino Ventura, Sandra Milo, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marcel Dalio, Michel Ardan, Jacques Dacqmine
The French gangster Abel Davos is on the run from the police. He has been tried in absentia and sentenced to death. He flees to Italy together with his wife Thérèse and their two children. He performs a successful holdup in Milano with his accomplice Raymond, but chased by the police the two decide to return to France. Entering France on a seemingly deserted beach, the small group is surprised by two customs officers and end up in a gunfight, where Thérèse and Raymond are killed. Left alone with the children, Abel calls his friends Riton and Fargier in Paris to come and pick him up in Nice. Unable to travel to Nice, they send a man named Éric Stark, who works as an ambulance driver. Éric lets Abel hide in his attic and the two men become friends.
The Flesh and the Fiends (1960)
, 1h37Directed by John Gilling
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Peter Cushing, June Laverick, Donald Pleasence, George Rose, Billie Whitelaw, Dermot Walsh
In 1828 Edinburgh, Scotland, Dr. Knox (Peter Cushing) is a highly skilled anatomist who draws large crowds of medical students to his lectures on the human body. Though he is constantly at odds with his stuffy, backwards colleagues, he is highly venerated by his students and believes his duty is to push the medical profession forward. Unfortunately, due to the laws of the time very few cadavers are legally available to the medical profession, necessitating the use of graverobbers or "Resurrection men" to procure additional specimens. Dr. Knox's assistant Dr. Mitchell (Dermot Walsh) and a young student named Jackson (John Cairney) and are given the task of buying the bodies, which are worth a small fortune... especially when fresh.
House of Usher (1960)
, 1h19Directed by Roger Corman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantastic, Horror
Themes Ghost films
Actors Vincent Price, Mark Damon, Myrna Fahey
Philip Winthrop (Mark Damon) travels to the House of Usher, a desolate mansion surrounded by a murky swamp, to meet his fiancée Madeline Usher (Myrna Fahey). Madeline's brother Roderick (Vincent Price) opposes Philip's intentions, telling the young man that the Usher family is afflicted by a cursed bloodline which has driven all their ancestors to madness. Roderick foresees the family evils being propagated into future generations with a marriage to Madeline and vehemently discourages the union. Philip becomes increasingly desperate to take Madeline away; she agrees to leave with him, desperate to get away from her brother.
Midnight Lace (1960)
, 1h50Directed by David Miller
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Doris Day, Rex Harrison, John Gavin, Myrna Loy, Roddy McDowall, John Williams
Newlywed American heiress Kit Preston is living with her financier husband Tony on Grosvenor Square in London. Returning home in a dense fog, she is startled by an eerie, electronic-like voice threatening to kill her within the month. The voice calls her by name and torments her as she runs to escape. Tony tries to convince her she has been the victim of a practical joker and suggests they travel to Venice for the honeymoon they never had.
, 1h21Directed by Cyril Frankel
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Actors Patrick Allen, Felix Aylmer, Gwen Watford, Janina Faye, Niall MacGinnis, Alison Leggatt
The film is set in a small Canadian town to which the British Carter family (Peter, Sally and 9-year-old daughter Jean) have just moved, following Peter's appointment as school principal. One night Jean appears restless and disturbed, and confides to her parents that earlier that day while playing in a local wood, she and her friend, Lucille, went into the house of an elderly man who asked them to remove their clothes and dance naked before him in return for some candy, which they did and Jean doesn't believe they did anything wrong. But her parents are appalled by what they hear and decide to file a complaint. The accused man, Clarence Olderberry Sr., is however the doyen of the wealthiest, most highly regarded and influential family in town and matters conspire to turn against the Carters as the townspeople start to close rank against the newcomers. The police chief casts doubt on Jean's story, while Olderberry's son warns the Carters that if they pursue the matter through the legal system, he will ensure that Jean's evidence and trustworthiness will be torn to shreds in court.