Film Index

American cinema: Thriller

The Hindenburg (1975)
Robert Wise

May, 1937. The German embassy in Washington D.C. has received a letter warning that the Hindenburg, the pride of the German Zeppelin Airline Company, will explode over New York in the near future...   [More...]

His Kind of Woman (1951)
John Farrow

In Naples, Dan Milner, an unsuccessful gambler, is offered 50,000 dollars if he agrees to undertake a special assignment for a mysterious client...   [More...]

The Hitch-Hiker (1953)
Ida Lupino

When Roy Collins and Gilbert Bowen set out for a peaceful weekend fishing trip, they could have had no idea of the harrowing ordeal that was ahead of them...   [More...]

The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)
Sidney Lanfield

On the bleak, misty Devonshire moors, a man is running for his life. The next day, he is found dead. The man is Sir Charles Baskerville, the wealthy owner of Baskerville Hall...   [More...]

House by the River (1950)
Fritz Lang

Stephen Byrne, a young American writer who is keen to make a name for himself, lives with his wife Marjorie in a house set on the banks of a river...   [More...]

The House of Fear (1945)
Roy William Neill

Drearcliffe House, a remote Scottish castle, is home to seven retired bachelors who refer to themselves as the Good Comrades...   [More...]

House of Usher (1960)
Roger Corman

Philip Winthrop visits the house of Usher, a decaying mansion in a desolate area of misty swampland, with the intention of taking away his fiancée, Madeline...   [More...]

House of Wax (1953)
André De Toth

In New York, circa 1910, Professor Henry Jarrod is a talented wax sculptor who has devoted his life to creating perfect copies of historical figures...   [More...]

The House on 92nd Street (1945)
Henry Hathaway

During WWII, brilliant university graduate Bill Dietrich is recruited by the FBI to help uncover Nazi agents working in the United States...   [More...]

House on Haunted Hill (1959)
William Castle

At the suggestion of his wife, Annabelle, eccentric millionaire Fredrick Loren invites five strangers to his house, offering each of them ten thousand dollars if they manage to spend one full night in the house...   [More...]

The House on Telegraph Hill (1951)
Robert Wise

When the Nazis invade her native Poland during WWII, Victoria Kowelska is arrested and sent to a concentration camp. There, she makes a friend in Karin de Nakova, a woman who is too weak to survive the ordeal of the camp...   [More...]

The Howling (1981)
Joe Dante

For some time, TV news presenter Karen White has been stalked by a serial killer named Eddie Quist. She agrees to cooperate with the police to lure her persecutor into a trap but the confrontation with Eddie, at a cheap porn theatre, proves more horrific than she can ever have imagined...   [More...]

Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)
Robert Aldrich

In 1927, wealthy Southern landowner Sam Hollis is outraged on learning that his young daughter Charlotte, a prominent society belle, has been having an affair with a married man, John Mayhew...   [More...]

I Confess (1953)
Alfred Hitchcock

Father Michael Logan is a devout Catholic priest in a Quebec church. One evening, his caretaker, Otto Kellar, insists that he hears his confession - to the murder of a man named Villette...   [More...]

I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
Jacques Tourneur

Betsy Connell, a young Canadian nurse, is hired to go to the Caribbean island of Saint Sebastian and care for Jessica Holland, wife of the owner of a local sugar plantation...   [More...]

Impact (1949)
Arthur Lubin

One of America's top industrialists, Walter Williams is blissfully unaware that his wife Irene has been carrying on an affair with a younger man, Jim Torrence...   [More...]

In a Lonely Place (1950)
Nicholas Ray

Dixon Steele is a jaded Hollywood screenwriter who hasn't had a success for years. At a nightclub, his agent Mel Lippman tries to persuade him to adapt a popular romantic novel for a film...   [More...]

In the Electric Mist (2009)
Bertrand Tavernier

In the Louisiana town of New Iberia, maverick cop Dave Robicheaux is on the trail of a serial killer whose victims are all vulnerable young women...   [More...]

The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
Jack Arnold

During a boating holiday with his wife Louise, Scott Carey is enveloped in a strange mist which causes his body to glisten mysteriously...   [More...]

The Innocents (1961)
Jack Clayton

In Victorian England, Miss Giddens accepts the position of a governess to two young children living in a luxurious country estate...   [More...]

Invaders from Mars (1953)
William Cameron Menzies

In the early hours, ten-year-old David MacLean sees a huge flying saucer coming into land in the sandpit behind his house...   [More...]

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Don Siegel

Dr Miles Bennell is attending a conference when anxious calls from his patients compel him to return to his home town of Santa Mira in California...   [More...]

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
Philip Kaufman

Government scientist Elizabeth Driscoll becomes concerned when her partner starts to behave strangely, doing odd things like getting up early and emptying the dustbins...   [More...]

Invisible Ghost (1941)
Joseph H. Lewis

Since his wife was taken from him in tragic circumstances, Charles Kessler has kept the memory of her alive in his mind and even continues to celebrate their wedding anniversary...   [More...]

The Invisible Man (1933)
James Whale

One winter's day, a stranger arrives at a small village inn and demands a room. His appearance causes consternation amongst the locals...   [More...]

The Invisible Ray (1936)
Lambert Hillyer

Dr Janos Rukh invites several distinguished scientists, including Dr Benet, to his house in the Carpathian mountains to witness a demonstration of his latest invention - a telescope that tracks light back to the furthest reaches of the galaxy and shows images of Earth's distant past...   [More...]

Island of Doomed Men (1940)
Charles Barton

Special undercover agent Mark Sheldon is assigned to expose an illicit slave operation on a remote island in the Pacific run by a man named Stephen Danel...   [More...]

The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)
John Frankenheimer

United Nations negotiator Edward Douglas is the sole survivor of an aeroplane crash in the Pacific Ocean. He is picked up by a man named Montgomery and taken to a remote island where a reclusive scientist, Dr Moreau, is performing some highly unorthodox experiments...   [More...]

Island of Lost Souls (1932)
Erle C. Kenton

When the liner he is travelling on is wrecked in the South Pacific, Edward Parker is picked up by a cargo vessel laden with wild animals...   [More...]

It Came from Outer Space (1953)
Jack Arnold

Amateur astronomer John Putnam is spending a pleasant evening stargazing with his girlfriend Ellen Fields when a ball of fire appears in the night sky and crashlands into the desert ground, not far from the town of Sand Rock...   [More...]



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