# List of thriller films of the 1950s

A list of thriller films released in the 1950s.
| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/notes |
| 1950 |||||
| Armored Car Robbery | Richard Fleischer | Charles McGraw, Adele Jergens, William Talman | United States | Crime thriller |
| The Asphalt Jungle | John Huston | Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, James Whitmore | United States | Crime thriller |
| The Killer That Stalked New York | Earl McEvoy | Evelyn Keyes, Charles Korvin, William Bishop | United States | Crime thriller |
| The Man Who Cheated Himself | Felix E. Feist | Lee J. Cobb, John Dall, Jane Wyatt | United States | Psychological thriller |
| Mystery Street | John Sturges | Ricardo Montalbán, Sally Forrest, Bruce Bennett | United States | |
| Panic in the Streets | Elia Kazan | Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes | United States | |
| Seven Days to Noon | John Boulting, Roy Boulting | Barry Jones, Olive Sloane | United Kingdom | |
| Side Street | Anthony Mann | Farley Granger, Cathy O'Donnell, James Craig | United States | Crime thriller |
| Stage Fright | Alfred Hitchcock | Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding | United States | |
| Where Danger Lives | John Farrow | Robert Mitchum, Faith Domergue, Claude Rains | United States | |
| Where the Sidewalk Ends | Otto Preminger | Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, Gary Merrill | United States | |
| Woman on the Run | Norman Foster | Ann Sheridan, Dennis O'Keefe, Robert Keith | United States | |
| 1951 |||||
| Cause for Alarm! | Tay Garnett | Loretta Young, Barry Sullivan, Bruce Cowling | United States | |
| Fourteen Hours | Henry Hathaway | Richard Basehart, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes | United States | |
| Strangers on a Train | Alfred Hitchcock | Farley Granger, Robert Walker, Ruth Roman | United States | |
| 1952 |||||
| Don't Bother to Knock | Roy Ward Baker | Richard Widmark, Marilyn Monroe, Anne Bancroft | United States | |
| The Narrow Margin | Richard Fleischer | Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, Jacqueline White, Gordon Geberl | United States | |
| Sudden Fear | David Miller | Joan Crawford, Jack Palance, Gloria Grahame | United States | |
| Without Warning! | Arnold Laven | Adam Williams, Meg Randall | France United States | |
| 1953 |||||
| The Big Heat | Fritz Lang | Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame | United States | |
| The Hitch-Hiker | Ida Lupino | Edmond O'Brien, Frank Lovejoy, William Talman | United States | |
| The Limping Man | Cy Raker Endfield | Lloyd Bridges | United Kingdom | Crime thriller |
| Vicki | Harry Horner | Jeanne Crain, Jean Peters, Elliott Reid | United States | |
| The Wages of Fear | Henri-Georges Clouzot | Yves Montand, Charles Vanel | France Italy | |
| 1954 |||||
| Les Diaboliques | Henri-Georges Clouzot | Simone Signoret, Véra Clouzot, Paul Meurisse | France | |
| Dial M for Murder | Alfred Hitchcock | Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings | United States | |
| Rear Window | Alfred Hitchcock | James Stewart, Grace Kelly | United States | |
| Witness to Murder | Roy Rowland | Barbara Stanwyck, George Sanders, Gary Merrill | United States | |
| 1955 |||||
| Bad Day at Black Rock | John Sturges | Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis | United States | |
| Cast a Dark Shadow | Lewis Gilbert | Dirk Bogarde, Mona Washbourne, Margaret Lockwood | United Kingdom | |
| The Desperate Hours | William Wyler | Humphrey Bogart, Fredric March, Arthur Kennedy | United States | |
| Killer's Kiss | Stanley Kubrick | Frank Silvera, Jamie Smith, Irene Kane | United States | |
| A Kiss Before Dying | Gerd Oswald | Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Joanne Woodward | United States | |
| Kiss Me Deadly | Robert Aldrich | Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker, Paul Stewart | United States | |
| Mr. Arkadin | Orson Welles | Orson Welles, Michael Redgrave, Jack Watling, Patricia Medina | France Spain United Kingdom | Psychological thriller |
| The Night of the Hunter | Charles Laughton | Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish | United States | |
| Rififi | Jules Dassin | Jean Servais, Carl Möhner, Robert Manuel | France | Crime thriller |
| 1956 |||||
| The Killing | Stanley Kubrick | Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Marie Windsor | United States | Crime thriller |
| The Man Who Knew Too Much | Alfred Hitchcock | James Stewart, Doris Day | United States | |
| Please Murder Me | Peter Godfrey | Madge Blake, Raymond Burr | United States | |
| While the City Sleeps | Fritz Lang | Dana Andrews, Ida Lupino, Rhonda Fleming | United States | |
| 1957 |||||
| The Devil Strikes at Night | Robert Siodmak | Mario Adorf, Hannes Messemer, Claus Holm | Germany | |
| Les Espions | Henri-Georges Clouzot | Curd Jürgens, Véra Clouzot, Gerard Sety | France Italy | Psychological thriller |
| Quatermass 2 | Val Guest | Brian Donlevy, John Longden, Sid James | United Kingdom United States | |
| 1958 |||||
| Elevator to the Gallows | Louis Malle | Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly | France | |
| It Happened in Broad Daylight | Ladislao Vajda | Heinz Rühmann, Gert Fröbe, Michel Simon | Switzerland Germany Spain | |
| The Quiet American | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Audie Murphy, Michael Redgrave, Claude Dauphin | United States | |
| The Screaming Skull | Alex Nicol | John Hudson, Peggy Webber, Russ Conway | United States | Psychological thriller |
| Touch of Evil | Orson Welles | Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles | United States | Psychological thriller |
| Vertigo | Alfred Hitchcock | James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes | United States | Psychological thriller |
| 1959 |||||
| Jack the Ripper | Monty Berman, Robert S. Baker | Lee Patterson, Eddie Byrne, Betty McDowall | United Kingdom | |
| Night Train | Jerzy Kawalerowicz | Leon Niemczyk, Teresa Szmigielowna, Zbigniew Cybulski | Poland | Psychological thriller |
| North by Northwest | Alfred Hitchcock | Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint | United States | |
| The Testament of Dr. Cordelier | Jean Renoir | Jean-Louis Barrault, Jean Topart, Michel Vitold | France | |