List of the best Jacques Tourneur movies: Out of the Past(1947), Curse of the Demon(1957), Cat People(1942), I Walked With a Zombie(1943), The Flame and the Arrow(1950), The Leopard Man(1943), Wichita(1955), Canyon Passage(1946), Berlin Express(1948), The Comedy of Terrors(1964), Anne of the Indies(1951), Circle of Danger(1951) ... ...
Crime, Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA
1947
97 Minutes
Director
Robert Mitchum Jane Greer Kirk Douglas Rhonda Fleming Richard Webb Steve Brodie Virginia Huston Paul Valentine Dickie Moore Frank Wilcox Mary Field
investigator gambler femme fatale henchman cool dark intricate new york city mexico san francisco bridgeport, calif. theft crime love triangle blackmail murder pursuit forbidden love 1940s
A private eye escapes his past to run a gas station in a small town, but his past catches up with him. Now he must return to the big city world of danger, corruption, double crosses and duplicitous dames.
Horror
UK
1957
82 Minutes
Director
Dana Andrews Peggy Cummins Niall MacGinnis Maurice Denham Athene Seyler Liam Redmond Reginald Beckwith Ewan Roberts Peter Elliott Rosamund Greenwood Richard Leech
professor psychologist niece skeptic cult leader devil worshipper creepy eerie uneasy england london british museum paranormal satanism curse diary mystery transformation 1950s
American professor John Holden arrives in London for a parapsychology conference, only to find himself investigating the mysterious actions of Devil-worshiper Julian Karswell.
Horror
USA
1942
73 Minutes
Director
Simone Simon Kent Smith Tom Conway Jane Randolph Jack Holt Alan Napier Elizabeth Dunne Elizabeth Russell
husband wife assistant psychiatrist dark suspenseful new york city household zoo apartment supernatural superstition curse cats love triangle jealousy discovery metamorphosis love 1940s
An American man marries a Serbian immigrant who fears that she will turn into the cat person of her homeland's fables if they are intimate together.
Horror
USA
1943
69 Minutes
Director
Jimmy Ellison Frances Dee Tom Conway Edith Barrett James Bell Christine Gordon Theresa Harris Darby Jones Richard Abrams Martin Wilkins
nurse plantation owner wife brother mother brooding chilling creepy caribbean island plantation beach curse occult slavery medicine mystery rivalry forbidden love 1940s
A nurse is hired to care for the wife of a sugar plantation owner, who has been acting strangely, on a Caribbean island.
Adventure
USA
1950
88 Minutes
Director
Burt Lancaster Virginia Mayo Robert Douglas Aline MacMahon Frank Allenby Nick Cravat Lynne Baggett Gordon Gebert
archer wife leader rebel niece tyrant spirited thrilling melodramatic italy castle village kidnapping rebellion father/son relationship estrangement freedom marriage underdog revenge
Dardo, a Robin Hood-like figure, and his loyal followers use a Roman ruin in Medieval Lombardy as their headquarters as they conduct an insurgency against their Hessian conquerors.
Horror
USA
1943
65 Minutes
Director
Dennis O'Keefe Margo Jean Brooks Isabel Jewell James Bell Margaret Landry Abner Biberman Richard Martin Tula Parma Ben Bard Ariel Heath
singer agent dancer native american young girl mother chilling frightful small town new mexico nightclub family home jail countryside wild animals murder show business investigation competition mystery
A seemingly tame leopard used for a publicity stunt escapes and kills a young girl, spreading panic throughout a sleepy New Mexico town.
Western
USA
1955
81 Minutes
Director
Joel McCrea Vera Miles Lloyd Bridges Wallace Ford Edgar Buchanan Peter Graves Keith Larsen Carl Benton Reid John Smith Walter Sande Robert Wilke
wyatt earp rancher mayor criminal daughter saloon owner suspenseful tense fiery thrilling wichita, kan. wild west bank saloon family home ranch gun control lawlessness law enforcement frontier justice
In 1874, after noticing the total lawlessness in Wichita, Wyatt Earp reluctantly accepts the Marshal's job and runs into the worst local troublemakers.
Western
USA
1946
92 Minutes
Director
Dana Andrews Brian Donlevy Susan Hayward Patricia Roc Ward Bond Andy Devine Rose Hobart Halliwell Hobbes Lloyd Bridges Stanley Ridges Dorothy Peterson
shop owner fiancée banker gambler best friend love interest spirited wild powerful oregon saloon frontier general store cabin portland, ore. romantic dilemma love triangle old west frontier life crime
Businessman Logan Stuart is torn between his love of two very different women in 1850's Oregon and his loyalty to a compulsive gambler friend who goes over the line.
Drama
USA
1948
86 Minutes
Director
Merle Oberon Robert Ryan Charles Korvin Paul Lukas Robert Coote Reinhold Schünzel Roman Toporow Peter von Zerneck Otto Waldis Fritz Kortner Michael Harvey
passenger assassin doctor diplomat activist soldier thrilling uneasy france train germany world war ii nazis murder peace deception sabotage quest pursuit mystery
A multinational group of train passengers become involved in a post-World War II Nazi assassination plot.
Horror
USA
1964
88 Minutes
Director
Vincent Price Peter Lorre Boris Karloff Joyce Jameson Joe E. Brown Miss Beverly Hills Basil Rathbone Alan DeWitt Buddy Mason Douglas Williams
undertaker killer widow landlord assistant dark campy thrilling frightful funeral home new england crypt murder debt alcoholism schemes greed buried alive transformation mystery
Dishonest undertaker Waldo Trumbull and his sidekick Felix Gillie are creating their own customers when they cannot find willing ones.
Romance, Adventure, Drama, Action
USA
1951
81 Minutes
Director
Jean Peters Louis Jourdan Debra Paget Herbert Marshall Thomas Gomez James Robertson Justice Francis Pierlot Sean McClory
pirate spy first mate blackbeard wife spectacular engaging rousing ship west indies jamaica bahamas betrayal treasure infatuation piracy secret marriage battle discovery sacrifice
In order to recover his ship impounded by the British, former pirate captain LaRochelle agrees to spy on the notorious Caribbean Sea pirates Blackbeard and Anne Providence.
Drama
UK
1951
86 Minutes
Director
american brother soldier murderer woman intense emotional melodramatic brooding brutal great britain france united states world war ii death of brother truth confrontation survival love adventure
In the 1950s, an American comes to Britain to investigate the murky circumstances of his brother's death that occurred during a WW2 commando raid in Nazi-occupied France.
Drama
USA
1949
77 Minutes
Director
Victor Mature Lucille Ball Lizabeth Scott Sonny Tufts Lloyd Nolan Paul Stewart Jack Paar Jeff Donnell Art Baker Gordon Jones Don Beddoe
Pete Wilson is on top. He is the highest paid professional football player in the league. He has seen other players come and go, but he was MVP last year and the future looks rosy. His wife... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1939
60 Minutes
Director
Walter Pidgeon Rita Johnson Henry Hull Stanley Ridges Donald Meek Addison Richards Henry Victor Milburn Stone Martin Kosleck Frank Faylen Sterling Holloway
Detective Nick Carter is brought in to foil spies at the Radex Airplane Factory, where a new fighter plane is under manufacture.
War
USA
1944
86 Minutes
Director
Tamara Toumanova Gregory Peck Alan Reed Maria Palmer Lowell Gilmore Hugo Haas Dena Penn Glen Vernon Lou Crosby William Challee Joseph Vitale
guerrilla leader ballerina factory worker drunk blacksmith farmer brutal confident fiery russia battlefield guerrilla warfare world war ii bombing nazis dangerous assignment moral dilemma underdog sacrifice revenge
A heroic guerilla group fights back against impossible odds during the 1941 Nazi invasion of Russia.
Adventure, Drama
Italy|France|USA
1959
90 Minutes
Director
Steve Reeves Mylène Demongeot Daniela Rocca Ivo Garrani Philippe Hersent Sergio Fantoni Alberto Lupo Miranda Campa Gianni Loti
A Greek soldier leads the fight against an invading Persian army.
Drama
1958
83 Minutes
Director
army officer business owner secretary senator reporter prisoner of war patriotic suspenseful california airplane washington, d.c. office murder brainwashing nuclear energy public relations propaganda communism mystery love
A confused Korean War veteran (Dana Andrews) returns to Washington and finds his PR/polling firm taken over by a stranger (Dick Foran).
Sci-Fi, Adventure, Fantasy
1965
85 Minutes
Director
Vincent Price Tab Hunter David Tomlinson Susan Hart John Le Mesurier Henry Oscar Derek Newark Roy Patrick Tony Selby Michael Heyland Steven Brooke
smuggler villager suspenseful spirited quirky melodramatic gripping cornwall underwater city fantasy science fiction adventure discovery 1900s
British rescuers (Tab Hunter, David Tomlinson) try to free a kidnapped young woman from the ocean-floor complex of a mad captain (Vincent Price).