The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog

Movie · 7.1 / 10 · 14 Feb 1927 · English

London. A mysterious serial killer brutally murders young blond women by stalking them in the night fog. One foggy, sinister night, a young man who claims his name is Jonathan Drew arrives at the guest house run by the Bunting family and rents a room.

Sapphire

Movie · 7.0 / 10 · 2 Nov 1959 · English

Two Scotland Yard detectives investigate the murder of a young woman of mixed race who had been passing for white. As they interview a spate of suspects -- including the girl's white boyfriend and his disapproving parents -- the detectives wade through a stubbornly entrenched sludge of racism and bigotry.

Footsteps in the Fog

Movie · 7.0 / 10 · 14 Sept 1955 · English

A Victorian-era murder mystery about a parlour maid who discovers that her employer may have killed his first wife.

Peeping Tom

Movie · 7.5 / 10 · 7 Apr 1960 · English

Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of women. Also he's making a documentary on fear, which involves recording the reactions of victims as he murders them. He befriends Helen, the daughter of the family living in the apartment below his, and he tells her vaguely about the movie he is making.

The Maltese Falcon

Movie · 7.7 / 10 · 18 Oct 1941 · English

A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.

Blackmail

Movie · 6.5 / 10 · 28 Jul 1929 · English

London, 1929. Frank Webber, a very busy Scotland Yard detective, seems to be more interested in his work than in Alice White, his girlfriend. Feeling herself ignored, Alice agrees to go out with an elegant and well-mannered artist who invites her to visit his fancy apartment.

The Naked City

Movie · 7.2 / 10 · 4 Mar 1948 · English

After a former model is drowned in her bathtub, Detective James Halloran and Lieutenant Dan Muldoon attempt to piece together her murder.

The Mirror Crack'd

Movie · 6.1 / 10 · 6 Feb 1980 · English

Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.

The Verdict

Movie · 6.5 / 10 · 23 Nov 1946 · English

After an innocent man is executed in a case he was responsible for, a Scotland Yard superintendent finds himself investigating the murder of his key witness.

Dial M for Murder

Movie · 8.0 / 10 · 29 May 1954 · English

When her American lover visits London, a wealthy woman’s jealous husband hatches a plan to murder her and inherit her fortune.

Maniac

Movie · 6.2 / 10 · 20 May 1963 · English

When a stranger enters a quiet, country town and is seduced by a sensuous married woman he unwittingly finds himself at the centre of a storm of sexual guilt and murder.

The 39 Steps

Movie · 7.3 / 10 · 6 Jun 1935 · English

Richard Hanney has a rude awakening when a glamorous female spy falls into his bed - with a knife in her back. Having a bit of trouble explaining it all to Scotland Yard, he heads for the hills of Scotland to try to clear his name by locating the spy ring known as The 39 Steps.