Greatest 19 Mystery Movies Picks from 1950

Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime. See more about The Third Man / IMDB / YouTube

A potentially violent screenwriter is a murder suspect until his lovely neighbor clears him. However, she soon starts to have her doubts. Explore In a Lonely Place / IMDB / YouTube

A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence after he's accused of murdering the husband of a high-society entertainer. Info on Stage Fright / IMDB / YouTube

Frank Bigelow, told he's been poisoned and has only a few days to live, tries to find out who killed him and why. Learn about D.O.A. / IMDB / YouTube

A woman suffering from kleptomania is hypnotized in an attempt to cure her. Soon afterwards, she's found at the scene of a murder with no memory of how she got there, and seemingly no way to prove her innocence. Get info on Whirlpool / IMDB / YouTube

A small-town policeman is assisted by a Harvard professor after the discovery of a human skeleton on a Massachusetts beach. Learn about Mystery Street / IMDB / YouTube

Assistant district attorney Cleve Marshall falls for the mysterious Thelma Jordon when she seeks help solving robberies of her aunt's estate. Find out about The File on Thelma Jordon / IMDB / YouTube

A woman's attempt to appear innocent and sweet clashes with her lover, who sees through her act, and the wealthy man she tries to trick into marrying her. Check out Born to Be Bad / IMDB / YouTube

A veteran homicide detective who has witnessed his socialite girlfriend kill her husband sees his newly-minted detective brother assigned to the case alongside him. Read about The Man Who Cheated Himself / IMDB / YouTube

Clive Riordan plans a devilish revenge against his wife's lover. Check out The Hidden Room / IMDB / YouTube

In 1940s Mississippi, two teenage boys and an elderly woman combine forces to prevent a miscarriage of justice and clear a black man of a murder charge. Find out about Intruder in the Dust / IMDB / YouTube

Madeleine's middle-class family cannot understand why she puts off marrying a respectable young man; they know nothing about her long-term affair with a Frenchman. Get info on Madeleine / IMDB / YouTube

While recuperating from wartime back injuries at a hospital, veteran Bob Corey is visited on Christmas Eve by a beautiful stranger with an even stranger message. Read about Backfire / IMDB / YouTube

In flashback from a 'Rebecca'-style beginning: Ellen Foster, visiting her aunt on the California coast, meets neighbor Jeff Cohalan and his ultramodern clifftop house. Look into The Second Woman / IMDB / YouTube

A girl from Kansas arrives in New York City to become a model. Her further success brings her before moral choice. Read about A Life of Her Own / IMDB / YouTube

Allied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor's nearly perfected bomb sight. Get info on Bombsight Stolen / IMDB / YouTube

A woman preparing to marry her fiance is accused of bigamy by a stranger but she fights back by trying to prove she's the victim of a conspiracy designed to discredit her. Look into The Secret Fury / IMDB / YouTube

Sally borrows her friend's cosmetics kit to sell door-to-door but fails miserably. She and her fiancé get caught up in a smuggling scheme, are suspected of murders, and must evade the police while hunting for the real culprits. See more about The Fuller Brush Girl / IMDB / YouTube

An alcoholic ex-cop, now the house detective at a scuzzy hotel in an even scuzzier part of town, stumbles through New York City's sleazy underworld searching for his kidnapped son. Check out Guilty Bystander / IMDB / YouTube