The Sweetest Kill

Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died mysteriously several years earlier. The young wife must come to grips with the terrible secret of her handsome, cold husband, Max De Winter. She must also deal with the jealous, obsessed Mrs. ...

Runtime

2h 10m

Director

Alfred Hitchcock

Cast

Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders

Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one last job before he goes straight and gets married. But when George tells his restless wife about the scheme to steal millions from the racetrack where he works, she hatches a plot of her own.

Runtime

1h 25m

Director

Stanley Kubrick

Cast

Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards

Richard Hanney has a rude awakening when a glamorous female spy falls into his bed - with a knife in her back. Having a bit of trouble explaining it all to Scotland Yard, he heads for the hills of Scotland to try to clear his name by locating the spy ring known as The 39 Steps.

Runtime

1h 26m

Director

Alfred Hitchcock

Cast

Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim

The peaceful life of a gas station owner is disrupted when a man from his past arrives in town and forces him to return to the dark world he had tried to escape.

Runtime

1h 37m

Director

Jacques Tourneur

Cast

Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas

In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert's heinous crimes are so repellant and disruptive to city life that he is even targeted by others in the seedy underworld network. With both cops and criminals in pursuit, the murderer soon ...

Runtime

1h 50m

Director

Fritz Lang

Cast

Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut