20 movies like Ministry of Fear, ordered by similarity : Sleeping Car to Trieste(1948), Last Passenger(2013), The Adventuress(1946), The Sea Chase(1955), The Ghost Train(1941), Five Fingers(1952), 49th Parallel(1941), Murder by Decree(1979), Lady on a Train(1945), Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror(1942), The Fallen Idol(1948), Shadow of a Doubt(1943) ...
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1944
85 Minutes
Ray Milland Marjorie Reynolds Carl Esmond Hillary Brooke Percy Waram Dan Duryea Alan Napier Erskine Sanford Thomas Louden Aminta Dyne Rita Johnson
spy patient nazi detective psychic girl chilling dark crafty mental institution london fair train espionage world war ii paranoia escape 1940s
Stephen Neale has just been released from an asylum during World War II in England when he accidentally stumbles onto a deadly Nazi spy plot, and tries to stop it.
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1948
95 Minutes
Jean Kent Albert Lieven Derrick de Marney Paul Dupuis Rona Anderson David Tomlinson Bonar Colleano Finlay Currie Gregoire Aslan Alan Wheatley
spy accomplice man criminal traveler train passenger suspenseful thrilling intense gory train embassy paris train station trieste, italy wagon train espionage diary theft double-cross
Spies pursue a stolen diary aboard the Orient Express.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
UK
2013
92 Minutes
Dougray Scott Kara Tointon Iddo Goldberg David Schofield Lindsay Duncan Joshua Kaynama Samuel Geker-Kawle
commuter worker passenger train passenger driver father son young woman tense thrilling uneasy london train united kingdom city train crash train travel disaster murder runaway train
A small group of everyday passengers on a speeding London commuter train battle their warped driver who has a dark plan for everyone on-board.
Mystery & Thriller, Comedy
1946
96 Minutes
Deborah Kerr Trevor Howard Raymond Huntley Liam Redmond Harry Webster
spy nazi lieutenant irishwoman gutsy crafty melodramatic patriotic suspenseful ireland dublin northern ireland world war ii nationalism espionage romance love rescue escape pursuit
A British agent (Trevor Howard) follows a young Irishwoman (Deborah Kerr) duped by a Nazi spy (Raymond Huntley).
Mystery & Thriller, War
USA
1955
117 Minutes
John Wayne Lana Turner David Farrar Lyle Bettger Tab Hunter James Arness Wilton Graff Richard Davalos John Qualen Paul Fix Luis Van Rooten
sea captain german spy nazi british officer commander suspenseful rousing australia ship south pacific port dangerous assignment world war ii espionage military nazism moral dilemma pursuit escape
As World War II begins, German freighter Captain Karl Ehrlich tries to get his ship back to Germany through a gauntlet of Allied warships.
Comedy, Mystery & Thriller
UK
1941
85 Minutes
Arthur Askey Richard Murdoch Kathleen Harrison Herbert Lomas
train conductor stationmaster train passenger doctor arms dealer performer amusing creepy suspenseful witty cornwall, england train train station ghost stories train travel gun running smuggling stranded investigation mystery
High jinks and chills ensue when a group of people become stranded at an isolated station and a legendary phantom train approaches.
Mystery & Thriller
1952
108 Minutes
James Mason Danielle Darrieux Michael Rennie Walter Hampden Oscar Karlweis Herbert Berghof John Wengraf Ben Astar Roger Plowden Michael Pate Ivan Triesault
spy mercenary countess ambassador agent cool tense creative turkey rio de janeiro world war ii espionage nazism true crime escape love fall 1940s
The Albanian valet (James Mason) for the British ambassador to Turkey sells secrets to World War II Germans.
Mystery & Thriller
UK|Canada
1941
107 Minutes
Eric Portman Laurence Olivier Anton Walbrook Leslie Howard Raymond Massey Glynis Johns Niall MacGinnis Finlay Currie
nazi soldier trapper inuit native american priest patriotic melodramatic offbeat train canada hudson bay trading post countryside world war ii nazism war politics pursuit 1940s
A World War II U-boat crew are stranded in northern Canada. To avoid internment, they must make their way to the border and get into the still-neutral U.S.
Mystery & Thriller
UK|Canada
1979
121 Minutes
Christopher Plummer James Mason Donald Sutherland David Hemmings Susan Clark Anthony Quayle John Gielgud Frank Finlay
detective killer doctor watson prostitute police officer psychic brooding dark suspenseful gripping england street underworld london mass murder detective work psychic phenomena jack the ripper sherlock holmes investigation
Sherlock Holmes investigates the murders commited by Jack the Ripper and discovers a conspiracy to protect the killer.
Mystery & Thriller, Comedy
USA
1945
96 Minutes
young girl mistress shipping magnate writer chanteuse train passenger lighthearted emotional amusing thrilling train new york city conspiracy witnessing murder train travel friendship escape mystery underdog 1940s
In New York, a woman who partially witnesses a killing from a train window seeks the aid of a crime novelist to solve the murder.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1942
65 Minutes
Basil Rathbone Nigel Bruce Evelyn Ankers Reginald Denny Thomas Gomez Henry Daniell Montagu Love
sherlock holmes doctor watson widow impostor spy british intelligence agent crafty intricate suspenseful engaging england estate briefing room coast church ghetto espionage terrorism radio nazis
When a Nazi saboteur jeeringly predicts to the nation new depredations via the radio 'Voice of Terror', the Homeland Security Inner Council summons Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) to help ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1948
94 Minutes
Ralph Richardson Michèle Morgan Bobby Henrey Sonia Dresdel Jack Hawkins Bernard Lee
diplomat son butler wife inspector detective suspenseful dark household embassy london idolization investigation witnessing murder misunderstanding affair secret mystery quest rescue
A butler working in a foreign embassy in London falls under suspicion when his wife accidentally falls to her death, the only witness being an impressionable young boy.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
USA
1943
108 Minutes
Teresa Wright Joseph Cotten Hume Cronyn Macdonald Carey Henry Travers Patricia Collinge Edna May Wonacott Wallace Ford Irving Bacon Charles Bates Clarence Muse
uncle serial killer young girl neighbor detective widow dark suspenseful household small town murder surveillance poison newspapers paranoia infatuation pursuit mystery 1940s
A young girl, overjoyed when her favorite uncle comes to visit the family, slowly begins to suspect that he is in fact the "Merry Widow" killer sought by the authorities.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1948
62 Minutes
murderer young boy witness train passenger mysterious man boarder chilling creepy tense engaging suspenseful dark america small town murder witness train travel accidental murder hiding psychic abilities stories
A man fleeing the police after having committed a murder hides out in a boarding house in a small town.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1946
103 Minutes
Cary Grant Ingrid Bergman Claude Rains Louis Calhern Leopoldine Konstantin Reinhold Schünzel Moroni Olsen
secret agent spy nazi mother engaging tense suspenseful united states brazil mansion espionage deception nazism dangerous assignment love mystery discovery love rescue 1940s
A woman is asked to spy on a group of Nazi friends in South America. How far will she have to go to ingratiate herself with them?
Mystery & Thriller, Action
USA|UK|France|China|Canada|Spain
2018
104 Minutes
Liam Neeson Vera Farmiga Patrick Wilson Jonathan Banks Sam Neill Elizabeth McGovern Florence Pugh Shazad Latif Letitia Wright Killian Scott Clara Lago
insurance salesman husband wife son mysterious woman stranger brooding crafty rousing suspenseful gripping thrilling train house train station train tracks mysterious strangers conspiracy train travel unlikely criminal
An action-thriller in which an insurance salesman/ex-cop is caught up in a life-threatening conspiracy during his daily commute home.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1941
100 Minutes
Walter Pidgeon Joan Bennett George Sanders John Carradine Roddy McDowall Ludwig Stossel Heather Thatcher Frederick Worlock
hunter nazi con artist secret agent police officer gripping germany forest ship london adolf hitler assassination identity theft hunting world war ii pursuit escape 1940s
British hunter Thorndike vacationing in Bavaria has Hitler in his gun sight. He is captured, beaten, left for dead, and escapes back to London where he is hounded by German agents and aided by a young woman.
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1940
93 Minutes
Margaret Lockwood Rex Harrison Paul Henreid Basil Radford Naunton Wayne James Harcourt Felix Aylmer F. Wyndham Goldie Roland Culver Eliot Makeham Raymond Huntley
scientist daughter undercover agent czech nazi thrilling cheeky gutsy train concentration camp naval base germany prague england world war ii espionage scientific experiments nazism technology journey
After Germany invades Czechoslovakia, the German and the British intelligence services try to capture Czech scientist Dr. Axel Bomasch (James Harcourt), inventor of a new type of armor-plating.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1945
88 Minutes
William Eythe Lloyd Nolan Signe Hasso Gene Lockhart Leo G. Carroll Lydia St. Clair William Post Jr. Harry Bellaver Bruno Wick Harro Meller Charles Wagenheim
nazi fbi agent spy college student beautiful woman suspenseful patriotic tense new york city espionage world war ii surveillance nazism adventure mystery quest underdog 1940s
Bill Dietrich becomes a double agent for the F.B.I. in a Nazi spy ring.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
2018
139 Minutes
Jennifer Lawrence Joel Edgerton Charlotte Rampling Matthias Schoenaerts Mary-Louise Parker Ciarán Hinds Jeremy Irons Joely Richardson Douglas Hodge Thekla Reuten Sasha Frolova
ballerina spy killer victim cia agent brutal intense chilling confident raw unrestrained moscow russia hotel train pool spying assassination dangerous job murder
Ballerina Dominika Egorova is recruited to 'Sparrow School,' a Russian intelligence service where she is forced to use her body as a weapon. Her first mission, targeting a C.I.A. agent, threatens to unravel the security of both nations.
Mystery & Thriller, Sci-Fi
Canada
2018
102 Minutes
Katie Douglas Celina Martin Sara Canning Peter Outerbridge Amalia Williamson Kate Vickery Josette Halpert Yasmin Lau Kiana Madeira Sydney Meyer Sarah DaSilva
girl student orphan headmistress former friend teen girl disheartening bleak thrilling dark chilling frightening boarding school prison classroom dystopia on the run toronto dystopia boarding-school life
In a highly regimented boarding school, a pair of students discover that things are not as they seem.