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The Wolf Man (1941)

Summary: Larry Talbot returns to his father's castle in Wales and meets a beautiful woman. One fateful night, Talbot escorts her to a local carnival where they meet a mysterious gypsy fortune teller.

Release Date: December 12, 1941

Genres: Horror, Mystery, Romance

Director: George Waggner

Writer: Curt Siodmak

Runtime: 1 h 10 min

MPAA: Passed

Production: Universal Pictures

Distributor: Universal Pictures

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 180,000

Dead Men Tell (1941)

Summary: A treasure map in four pieces, the ghost of a hanged pirate, a talking parrot, and a ship full of red herrings complicate Charlie's search for a murderer on board a docked ship.

Release Date: March 28, 1941

Genres: Crime, Mystery

Director: Harry Lachman

Writers: John Francis Larkin

, Earl Derr Biggers

Runtime: 1 h 01 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Twentieth Century Fox

Country: United States

Language: English

The Falcon's Brother (1942)

Summary: Tom Lawrence, Gay's brother, takes over for his injured sibling in a case which involves Nazi espionage and political assassination.

Release Date: November 06, 1942

Genres: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Director: Stanley Logan

Writers: Stuart Palmer

, Craig Rice

, Michael Arlen

Runtime: 1 h 03 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: RKO Radio Pictures

Distributor: C&C Television Corporation, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Kings Row (1942)

Summary: The dark side and hypocrisy of provincial American life is seen through the eyes of five children as they grow to adulthood at the turn of the century.

Release Date: April 18, 1942

Genre: Drama

Director: Sam Wood

Writers: Casey Robinson

, Henry Bellamann

Runtime: 2 h 07 min

MPAA: Passed

Production: Warner Bros.

Distributor: Warner Bros., Dominant Pictures Corporation, Associated Artists Productions (AAP), Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Somewhere I'll Find You (1942)

Summary: Two brother, rival correspondents, find themselves fighting their conservative editor over stories and each other of over the affections of a pretty blonde journalist.

Genres: Drama, Mystery, Romance

Director: Wesley Ruggles

Writers: Charles Hoffman

, Walter Reisch

, Marguerite Roberts

Runtime: 1 h 48 min

MPAA: Passed

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Distributor: MGM Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video, Warner Archive Collection

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,060,000

A Tragedy at Midnight (1942)

Summary: This Republic murder mystery starts with a radio broadcast by Greg Sherman who solves cases on the air that the local police cannot solve. As he names the perpetrator of a recent murder we see the criminal, who is listening to the...

Release Date: February 02, 1942

Genres: Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Director: Joseph Santley

Writers: Isabel Dawn

, Hal Hudson

, Sam Duncan

Runtime: 1 h 08 min

MPAA: Passed

Production: Republic Pictures Corporation (I), Republic Pictures (I)

Country: United States

Language: English

The Raven (1943)

Summary: A French village doctor becomes the target of poison-pen letters sent to village leaders, accusing him of affairs and practicing abortion.

Release Date: September 28, 1943

Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot

Writers: Louis Chavance

, Henri-Georges Clouzot

Runtime: 1 h 32 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Continental Films

Distributor: Westport International, The Criterion Collection, Rialto Pictures, HBO Max

Country: France

Language: French

Domestic: $ 36,089

Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)

Summary: A woman returning home falls asleep and has vivid dreams that may or may not be happening in reality. Through repetitive images and complete mismatching of the objective view of time and space, her dark inner desires play out on-s...

Genres: Short, Fantasy, Mystery

Directors: Maya Deren

, Alexander Hammid

Writer: Maya Deren

Runtime: 0 h 14 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 275

Laura (1944)

Summary: A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he is investigating.

Genres: Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery

Director: Otto Preminger

Writers: Vera Caspary

, Jay Dratler

, Samuel Hoffenstein

Runtime: 1 h 28 min

MPAA: Passed

Production: Twentieth Century Fox

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox, National Telefilm Associates (NTA), RCA (II), CBS/Fox, Magnetic Video, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Fox Video, 20th Television, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,020,000

Gaslight (1944)

Summary: Ten years after her aunt was murdered in their London home, a woman returns from Italy in the 1880s to resume residence with her new husband. His obsessive interest in the home rises from a secret that may require driving his wife...

Release Date: June 16, 1944

Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Director: George Cukor

Writers: John Van Druten

, Walter Reisch

, John L. Balderston

Runtime: 1 h 54 min

MPAA: Passed

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Distributor: MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Turner Entertainment, Warner Home Video, Mill Creek Entertainment, The Criterion Channel, HBO Max

Country: United States

Language: English

A Canterbury Tale (1944)

Summary: Three modern-day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town while on their way to Canterbury.

Release Date: January 21, 1949

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Mystery

Directors: Michael Powell

, Emeric Pressburger

Writers: Michael Powell

, Emeric Pressburger

Runtime: 2 h 04 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: The Archers, Independent Producers

Distributor: The Criterion Collection

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 650,000

The Curse of the Cat People (1944)

Summary: The young, friendless daughter of Oliver and Alice Reed befriends her father's dead first wife and an aging, reclusive actress.

Genres: Drama, Horror, Mystery

Directors: Gunther von Fritsch

, Robert Wise

Writer: DeWitt Bodeen

Runtime: 1 h 10 min

MPAA: Passed

Production: RKO Radio Pictures

Distributor: RKO Radio Pictures, C&C Television Corporation, Image Entertainment, Turner Home Entertainment, Scream Factory, RKO Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 150,000

The Uninvited (1944)

Summary: A composer and his sister discover that the reason they are able to purchase a beautiful gothic seacoast mansion very cheaply is the house's unsavory past.

Release Date: February 24, 1944

Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery

Director: Lewis Allen

Writers: Dodie Smith

, Frank Partos

, Dorothy Macardle

Runtime: 1 h 39 min

MPAA: Passed

Production: Paramount Pictures

Country: United States

Language: English

Spellbound (1945)

Summary: A psychiatrist protects the identity of an amnesia patient accused of murder while attempting to recover his memory.

Release Date: December 28, 1945

Genres: Film-Noir, Mystery, Romance

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Writers: Ben Hecht

, John Palmer

, Hilary St George Saunders

Runtime: 1 h 51 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Selznick International Pictures, Vanguard Films

Distributor: Selznick Distributing Corporation, National Telefilm Associates (NTA), Viacom International, 20th Century Fox Video, CBS/Fox, Key Video, Fox Video, The Walt Disney Company, Anchor Bay Entertainment, The Criterion Collection, Capital Cities/ABC Video Enterprises Inc.

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,696,377

The Woman in Green (1945)

Summary: Sherlock Holmes investigates when young women around London turn up murdered, each with a finger severed. Scotland Yard suspects a madman, but Holmes believes the killings to be part of a diabolical plot.

Release Date: July 27, 1945

Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Director: Roy William Neill

Writers: Bertram Millhauser

, Arthur Conan Doyle

Runtime: 1 h 08 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Universal Pictures

Distributor: Universal Pictures, King World Productions, Hal Roach Studios Film Classics, Republic Pictures Home Video, Alpha Video Distributors, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Film Detective, Penteo Films S.L., 3GTG, Stream Go Media

Country: United States

Language: English

Manhunt of Mystery Island (1945)

Summary: The creator of a scientific device is kidnapped, and his daughter enlists the help of a private detective whose investigations lead them to a remote Pacific isle where they confront the evil and shocking descendants of a long-dead...

Release Date: March 17, 1945

Genres: Action, Crime, Mystery

Directors: Spencer Gordon Bennet

, Yakima Canutt

, Wallace Grissell

Writers: Albert DeMond

, Basil Dickey

, Jesse Duffy

Runtime: 3 h 39 min

MPAA: Passed

Production: Republic Pictures (I)

Distributor: Republic Pictures (I)

Country: United States

Language: English

And Then There Were None (1945)

Summary: Seven guests, a newly hired secretary and two staff are gathered at a manor house on an isolated island by an unknown absentee host and are killed off one-by-one. They work together to determine who the killer is before it's too l...

Release Date: October 31, 1945

Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Director: René Clair

Writers: Agatha Christie

, Dudley Nichols

Runtime: 1 h 37 min

MPAA: Approved

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox, Quality Films (III)

Country: United States

Language: English

And Then There Were None (1945)

Release Date: October 31, 1945

Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Director: René Clair

Writers: Agatha Christie

, Dudley Nichols

Runtime: 1 h 37 min

MPAA: Approved

Country: United States

Language: English

The Big Sleep (1946)

Summary: Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a wealthy family. Before the complex case is over, he's seen murder, blackmail and what might be love.

Release Date: August 31, 1946

Genres: Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery

Director: Howard Hawks

Writers: William Faulkner

, Leigh Brackett

, Jules Furthman

Runtime: 1 h 54 min

MPAA: Passed

Production: Warner Bros.

Distributor: Warner Bros., Dominant Pictures Corporation, RCA (II), CBS/Fox, Key Video, MGM Home Entertainment, Time-Life Video, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, International Video Entertainment (IVE), Shout Select

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 250,000

Domestic: $ 25,556

International: $ 22,356

The Beast with Five Fingers (1946)

Summary: In a turn-of-the-century Renaissance Italian mansion, its tyrannical owner, a wheelchair-bound one-handed pianist with a strong belief in the occult is murdered.

Release Date: February 08, 1947

Genres: Horror, Mystery, Romance

Director: Robert Florey