Thriller movies – 1950s

Genre: Thriller. Period: 1950s. 8 movies, best first.

1. Rear Window (1954) · Thriller · ⭐ 8.5
   A photographer with a broken leg suspects his neighbor of murdering his wife.
2. North by Northwest (1959) · Thriller · ⭐ 8.3
   An advertising man is mistaken for a spy and flees across the United States.
3. Vertigo (1958) · Thriller · ⭐ 8.3
   An acrophobic detective becomes obsessed with a mysterious woman.
4. Dial M for Murder (1954) · Thriller · ⭐ 8.2
   A former tennis star plots his wife's murder, but the plan goes wrong.
5. Le salaire de la peur (1953) · Thriller · ⭐ 8.1
   Four men drive trucks of nitroglycerin over treacherous roads in South America.
6. The Wages of Fear (1953) · Thriller · ⭐ 8.1
   Desperate men drive trucks of nitroglycerin over treacherous roads.
7. Strangers on a Train (1951) · Thriller · ⭐ 7.9
   Two strangers meet on a train, and one proposes swapping murders.
8. The Night of the Hunter (1955) · Thriller · ⭐ 7.9
   A sinister preacher hunts two children who know where money is hidden.