| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Country |
Sub-Genre/Notes |
| 1950 |
| The Asphalt Jungle |
John Huston |
Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, James Whitmore |
 |
Crime thriller |
| Seven Days to Noon |
John Boulting, Roy Boulting |
Barry Jones, Olive Sloane |
 |
Psychological thriller, Political thriller |
| Stage Fright |
Alfred Hitchcock |
Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding, Sr. |
|
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| Where Danger Lives |
John Farrow |
Robert Mitchum, Faith Domergue, Claude Rains |
|
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| 1951 |
| Cause for Alarm! |
Tay Garnett |
Loretta Young, Barry Sullivan, Bruce Cowling |
|
Psychological thriller |
| Fourteen Hours |
Henry Hathaway |
Richard Basehart, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes |
|
|
| Strangers on a Train |
Alfred Hitchcock |
Farley Granger, Robert Walker, Ruth Roman |
|
Psychological thriller, Crime thriller |
| 1952 |
| Don't Bother to Knock |
Roy Ward Baker |
Richard Widmark, Marilyn Monroe, Anne Bancroft |
|
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| The Narrow Margin |
Richard Fleischer |
Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, Jacqueline White, Gordon Geberl |
|
Psychological thriller |
| Sudden Fear |
David Miller |
Joan Crawford, Jack Palance, Gloria Grahame |
|
|
| Without Warning! |
Arnold Laven |
Adam Williams, Meg Randall |
 |
|
| 1953 |
| The Big Heat |
Fritz Lang |
Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame |
|
|
| The Hitch-Hiker |
Ida Lupino |
Edmond O'Brien, Frank Lovejoy, William Talman |
|
|
| The Limping Man |
Cy Raker Endfield |
Lloyd Bridges |
|
Crime thriller |
| Vicki |
Harry Horner |
Jeanne Crain, Jean Peters, Elliott Reid |
|
|
| The Wages of Fear |
Henri-Georges Clouzot |
Yves Montand, Charles Vanel |
 |
Psychological thriller |
| 1954 |
| Les Diaboliques |
Henri-Georges Clouzot |
Simone Signoret, Véra Clouzot, Paul Meurisse |
|
Psychological thriller |
| Dial M for Murder |
Alfred Hitchcock |
Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings |
|
Psychological thriller, crime thriller |
| Rear Window |
Alfred Hitchcock |
James Stewart, Grace Kelly |
|
Psychological thriller |
| Witness to Murder |
Roy Rowland |
Barbara Stanwyck, George Sanders, Gary Merrill |
|
|
| 1955 |
| Bad Day at Black Rock |
John Sturges |
Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis |
|
Psychological thriller |
| A Bullet for Joey |
Lewis Allen |
Edward G. Robinson, George Raft, Audrey Totter |
|
|
| Cast a Dark Shadow |
Lewis Gilbert |
Dirk Bogarde, Mona Washbourne, Margaret Lockwood |
|
|
| The Desperate Hours |
William Wyler |
Humphrey Bogart, Fredric March, Arthur Kennedy |
|
|
| Killer's Kiss |
Stanley Kubrick |
Frank Silvera, Jamie Smith, Irene Kane |
|
|
| A Kiss Before Dying |
Gerd Oswald |
Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Joanne Woodward |
|
|
| Kiss Me Deadly |
Robert Aldrich |
Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker, Paul Stewart |
|
|
| Mr. Arkadin |
Orson Welles |
Orson Welles, Michael Redgrave, Jack Watling, Patricia Medina |
 |
Psychological thriller |
| The Night of the Hunter |
Charles Laughton |
Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish |
|
Crime thriller, Psychological thriller |
| The Quatermass Xperiment |
Val Guest |
Brian Donlevy, Jack Warner |
|
|
| Rififi |
Jules Dassin |
Jean Servais, Carl Möhner, Robert Manuel |
|
Crime thriller |
| 1956 |
| The Killing |
Stanley Kubrick |
Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Marie Windsor |
|
Crime thriller |
| The Man Who Knew Too Much |
Alfred Hitchcock |
James Stewart, Doris Day |
|
Psychological thriller, Political thriller |
| Please Murder Me |
Peter Godfrey |
Madge Blake, Raymond Burr |
|
|
| While the City Sleeps |
Fritz Lang |
Dana Andrews, Ida Lupino, Rhonda Fleming |
|
Psychological thriller |
| 1957 |
| Les Espions |
Henri-Georges Clouzot |
Curd Jürgens, Véra Clouzot, Gerard Sety |
|
Spy thriller |
| Quatermass 2 |
Val Guest |
Brian Donlevy, John Longden, Sidney James |
|
|
| 1958 |
| Elevator to the Gallows |
Louis Malle |
Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly |
|
Crime thriller, psychological thriller |
| The Quiet American |
Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
Audie Murphy, Michael Redgrave, Claude Dauphin |
|
|
| Touch of Evil |
Orson Welles |
Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles |
|
Psychological thriller |
| Vertigo |
Alfred Hitchcock |
James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes |
|
Psychological thriller |
| 1959 |
| North by Northwest |
Alfred Hitchcock |
Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint |
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