| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Country |
Sub-Genre/Notes |
| 1940 |
| The Foreign Correspondent |
Alfred Hitchcock |
Joel McCrea, Laraine Day |
 |
Political thriller |
| Rebecca |
Alfred Hitchcock |
Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Judith Anderson |
|
Psychological thriller |
| 1941 |
| Among the Living |
Stuart Heisler |
Albert Dekker, Susan Hayward, Harry Carey |
|
Crime thriller |
| I Wake Up Screaming |
H. Bruce Humberstone |
Betty Grable, Victor Mature, Carole Landis |
|
Psychological thriller |
| Man Hunt |
Fritz Lang |
Walter Pidgeon, Joan Bennett, George Sanders |
|
Political thriller |
| Shadow of the Thin Man |
W.S. Van Dyke |
William Powell, Myrna Loy, Barry Nelson |
|
Comedy thriller |
| Suspicion |
Alfred Hitchcock |
Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine |
|
Psychological thriller |
| 1942 |
| Bowery at Midnight |
Wallace W. Fox |
Bela Lugosi, John Archer, Wanda McKay |
|
Crime thriller |
| Cat People |
Jacques Tourneur |
Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Tom Conway |
|
Supernatural thriller |
| I Live on Danger |
Sam White |
Chester Morris, Jean Parker, Elizabeth Risdon |
|
|
| Nightmare |
Tim Whelan |
Diana Barrymore, Brian Donlevy, Henry Daniell |
|
Crime thriller |
| 1943 |
| Le Corbeau |
Henri-Georges Clouzot |
Pierre Fresnay, Pierre Larquey, Micheline Francey |
 |
Psychological thriller |
| Journey into Fear |
Norman Foster |
Joseph Cotten, Dolores Del Rio, Ruth Warrick, Orson Welles |
|
|
| The Leopard Man |
Jacques Tourneur |
Dennis O'Keefe, Margo, Jean Brooks |
|
Psychological thriller |
| Shadow of a Doubt |
Alfred Hitchcock |
Joseph Cotten, Teresa Wright, MacDonald Carey |
|
Psychological thriller |
| 1944 |
| The Climax |
George Waggner |
Boris Karloff, Susanna Foster |
|
Psychological thriller |
| Dark Waters |
André De Toth |
Merle Oberon, Franchot Tone, Thomas Mitchell |
|
Psychological thriller |
| Double Indemnity |
Billy Wilder |
Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson |
|
Crime thriller |
| Gaslight |
George Cukor |
Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman |
|
Psychological thriller |
| Laura |
Otto Preminger |
Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, Vincent Price |
|
Psychological thriller |
| The Scarlet Claw |
Roy William Neill |
Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Gerald Hamer, Paul Cavanagh |
|
|
| The Thin Man Goes Home |
Richard Thorpe |
William Powell, Myrna Loy, Gloria de Haven |
|
Comedy thriller |
| The Woman in the Window |
Fritz Lang |
Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond Massey |
|
Psychological thriller |
| 1945 |
| The Body Snatcher |
Robert Wise |
Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Henry Daniell |
|
|
| Dead of Night |
Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer |
Mervyn Johns, Michael Redgrave, Sally Ann Howes, Mary Merrall |
 |
Psychological thriller |
| Spellbound |
Alfred Hitchcock |
Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Jean Acker |
|
Psychological thriller |
| 1946 |
| Bedlam |
Mark Robson |
Boris Karloff, Anna Lee, Billy House |
|
|
| The Brute Man |
Jean Yarbrough |
Rondo Hatton, Jane Adams, Tom Neal |
|
|
| Dragonwyck |
Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
Gene Tierney, Spring Byington, Walter Huston |
|
|
| Leave Her to Heaven |
John Stahl |
Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, |
|
Psychological thriller |
| Notorious |
Alfred Hitchcock |
Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains |
|
Political thriller |
| Shock (1946 film) |
Alfred L. Werker |
Vincent Price, Lynn Bari, Anabel Shaw |
|
|
| The Spiral Staircase |
Robert Siodmak |
Dorothy McGuire, George Brent, Ethel Barrymore |
|
Psychological thriller |
| The Stranger |
Orson Welles |
Orson Welles, Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young |
|
Psychological thriller |
| 1947 |
| Kiss of Death |
Henry Hathaway |
Victor Mature, Brian Donlevy, Coleen Gray |
|
Psychological thriller, crime thriller |
| Song of the Thin Man |
Edward N. Buzzell |
William Powell, Myrna Loy |
|
Comedy thriller |
| 1948 |
| The Big Clock |
John Farrow |
Ray Milland, Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Sullivan |
|
Psychological thriller |
| Key Largo |
John Huston |
Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Monte Blue |
|
Crime thriller |
| The Lady from Shanghai |
Orson Welles |
Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles |
|
|
| Rope |
Alfred Hitchcock |
James Stewart, John Dall |
|
Psychological thriller |
| Sorry, Wrong Number |
Anatole Litvak |
Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, Ann Richards |
|
Psychological thriller |
| 1949 |
| The Bribe |
Robert Z. Leonard |
Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Charles Laughton, Vincent Price |
|
Crime thriller |
| D.O.A. |
Rudolph Maté |
Edmond O'Brien, Pamela Britton, Luther Adler |
|
Psychological thriller |
| Gun Crazy |
Joseph H. Lewis |
Peggy Cummins, John Dall, Berry Kroeger |
|
Crime thriller |
| The Third Man |
Carol Reed |
Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles |
|
Psychological thriller |
| Stray Dog |
Akira Kurosawa |
Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura |
 |
|
| White Heat |
Raoul Walsh |
James Cagney |
|
Crime thriller |
| Whirlpool |
Otto Preminger |
Gene Tierney, Richard Conte, Jose Ferrer |
|
Psychological thriller |
