A list of thriller films released in the 1950s.
| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Sub-Genre/Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | ||||||
| Armored Car Robbery | Richard Fleischer | Charles McGraw, Adele Jergens, William Talman | Crime thriller | |||
| The Asphalt Jungle | John Huston | Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, James Whitmore | Crime thriller | |||
| The Killer That Stalked New York | Earl McEvoy | Evelyn Keyes, Charles Korvin, William Bishop | Crime thriller | |||
| The Man Who Cheated Himself | Felix E. Feist | Lee J. Cobb, John Dall, Jane Wyatt | Psychological thriller | |||
| Mystery Street | John Sturges | Ricardo Montalban, Sally Forrest, Bruce Bennett | ||||
| Panic in the Streets | Elia Kazan | Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes | ||||
| Seven Days to Noon | John Boulting, Roy Boulting | Barry Jones, Olive Sloane | ||||
| Side Street | Anthony Mann | Farley Granger, Cathy O'Donnell, James Craig | Crime thriller | |||
| Stage Fright | Alfred Hitchcock | Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding, Sr. | ||||
| Where Danger Lives | John Farrow | Robert Mitchum, Faith Domergue, Claude Rains | ||||
| Where the Sidewalk Ends | Otto Preminger | Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, Gary Merrill | ||||
| Woman on the Run | Norman Foster | Ann Sheridan, Dennis O'Keefe, Robert Keith | ||||
| 1951 | ||||||
| Cause for Alarm! | Tay Garnett | Loretta Young, Barry Sullivan, Bruce Cowling | ||||
| Fourteen Hours | Henry Hathaway | Richard Basehart, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes | ||||
| Strangers on a Train | Alfred Hitchcock | Farley Granger, Robert Walker, Ruth Roman | ||||
| 1952 | ||||||
| Don't Bother to Knock | Roy Ward Baker | Richard Widmark, Marilyn Monroe, Anne Bancroft | ||||
| The Narrow Margin | Richard Fleischer | Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, Jacqueline White, Gordon Geberl | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| 1954 | ||||||
| Les Diaboliques | Henri-Georges Clouzot | Simone Signoret, Véra Clouzot, Paul Meurisse | ||||
| Dial M for Murder | Alfred Hitchcock | Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings | ||||
| Rear Window | Alfred Hitchcock | James Stewart, Grace Kelly | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| Please Murder Me | Peter Godfrey | Madge Blake, Raymond Burr | ||||
| While the City Sleeps | Fritz Lang | Dana Andrews, Ida Lupino, Rhonda Fleming | ||||
| 1957 | ||||||
| Les Espions | Henri-Georges Clouzot | Curd Jürgens, Véra Clouzot, Gerard Sety | Psychological thriller | |||
| Quatermass 2 | Val Guest | Brian Donlevy, John Longden, Sid James | ||||
| 1958 | ||||||
| Elevator to the Gallows | Louis Malle | Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly | ||||
| 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 | ||||||
| Jack the Ripper | Monty Berman, Robert S. Baker | Lee Patterson, Eddie Byrne, Betty McDowall | ||||
| Night Train | Jerzy Kawalerowicz | Leon Niemczyk, Teresa Szmigielowna, Zbigniew Cybulski | Psychological thriller | |||
| North by Northwest | Alfred Hitchcock | Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint | ||||
| The Testament of Dr. Cordelier | Jean Renoir | Jean-Louis Barrault, Jean Topart, Michel Vitold | ||||
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