Greatest 20 Thriller Movies Editor's Choice from 1944

An insurance representative is seduced by a dissatisfied housewife into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, a claims investigator. Learn about Double Indemnity / IMDB / YouTube

Mortimer Brewster, a Brooklyn writer of books on the futility of marriage, risks his reputation after he decides to tie the knot. Things grow complicated when he learns that his beloved maiden aunts Abby and Martha are serial murderers. Read about Arsenic and Old Lace / IMDB / YouTube

Ten years after her aunt was murdered in their London home, a woman returns from Italy in the 1880s to resume residence with her new husband. His obsessive interest in the house rises from a secret that may require driving his wife insane. See more about Gaslight / IMDB / YouTube

A reserved professor meets a model and gets mixed up in murder. Find out about The Woman in the Window / IMDB / YouTube

After a gentlewoman is found dead with her throat torn out, the villagers blame a supernatural monster. But Sherlock Holmes, who gets drawn into the case from nearby Quebec, suspects a human murderer. Details on The Scarlet Claw / IMDB / YouTube

A devoted secretary risks her life to try to find the elusive woman who may prove her boss didn't murder his selfish wife. Look into Phantom Lady / IMDB / YouTube

Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of so-called pajama suicides. He knows the female villain behind them is as cunning as Moriarty and as venomous as a spider. More about The Spider Woman / IMDB / YouTube

After a valuable pearl with a sinister reputation is stolen, Sherlock Holmes must investigate its link to a series of brutal murders. More about The Pearl of Death / IMDB / YouTube

An English village is occupied by disguised German paratroopers as an advance post for a planned invasion. More about Went the Day Well? / IMDB / YouTube

A landlady suspects that her new lodger is Jack the Ripper. Learn about The Lodger / IMDB / YouTube

Shipped to Louisiana, the mummy Kharis from Egypt roams the bayou, tormented by his forbidden love for Princess Ananka. Get info on The Mummy's Curse / IMDB / YouTube

In 1936, seven prisoners escape from a concentration camp. The Nazis put up seven crosses for demonstrative executions. This story about one of the fugitives, who relies on own courage and compassion of people to avoid the seventh cross. More about The Seventh Cross / IMDB / YouTube

In 1903, a doctor suspects murder in the gothic Bederaux family. Get info on Experiment Perilous / IMDB / YouTube

In Paris, an artist hires portrait models, and after he finishes their portraits, he strangles them. Check out Bluebeard / IMDB / YouTube

An insurance salesman arrives at a creepy mansion to discover his potential eccentric millionaire client already dead. Instead he gets embroiled in a house full of greedy, murderous relatives competing for the inheritance. Look into One Body Too Many / IMDB / YouTube

During World War II, in neutral Portugal, a Dutch resistance fighter is attempting to find passage to England while trying to avoid German spies and Portuguese policemen. Read about The Conspirators / IMDB / YouTube

Charlie Chan investigates the locked-room murder of a chess expert. Learn about Charlie Chan in the Chinese Cat / IMDB / YouTube

After a career criminal is recaptured and knows he faces the guillotine, he offers to exchange his life for 100 hostages slated for execution by the Germans. Get info on Uncertain Glory / IMDB / YouTube

A young woman raised by gypsies hides a deadly secret which she will do anything to protect. Check out Cry of the Werewolf / IMDB / YouTube

A depressed man hires an assassin to kill him when he least expects it, but when his life takes an upward turn, he finds he now wishes to live. Info on The Whistler / IMDB / YouTube