When a sickly Victorian woman dies suddenly, a postmortem reveals that her body contains a fatal dose of arsenic. Suspicion falls on her husband and her companion, who are lovers. Inspector Martin of Scotland Yard solves the mystery of her death... over a cup of tea.

The Woman in Green

1945

English

6.6

♡ 8

100%

Roy William Neill Director

Fred Aldrich as Detective

Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson

Hillary Brooke as Lydia Marlow

Henry Daniell as Prof. Moriarty

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.

Gaslight

1944

English

7.8

♡ 34

89%

George Cukor Director

Joseph Cotten as Brian Cameron

Angela Lansbury as Nancy

Ingrid Bergman as Paula Alquist

Terry Moore as Paula Alquist - Age 14

A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.

The Face of Fu Manchu

1965

English

5.8

♡ 7

80%

Don Sharp Director

Howard Marion-Crawford as Dr. Petrie

Ric Young as Grand Lama

Jim Norton as Mathius

James Robertson Justice as Sir Charles

Grisly strangulations in London alert Nayland Smith of Scotland Yard to the possibility that fiendish Fu Manchu may not after all be dead, even though Smith witnessed his execution. A killer spray made from Tibetan berries seems to be involved and clues keep leading back to the Thames.

The Hidden Room

1949

English

7.3

♡ 9

89%

based on novel or book

Edward Dmytryk Director

Michael Balfour as American Sailor

Sam Kydd as Club Steward

Robert Newton as Dr. Clive Riordan

Stanley Baker as Policeman

A British psychiatrist devises a devilish revenge plot against his wife's lover.

The Human Monster

1939

English

5.7

♡ 5

38%

Walter Summers Director

Bela Lugosi as Dr. Feodor Orloff / John Dearborn

Edmon Ryan as Lt. Patrick O'Reilly

Bryan Herbert as Police Sgt. Walsh

George Street as Scotland Yard Commissioner

Insurance agent-physician collects on policies of men murdered by a disfigured resident of the home for the blind where he acts as doctor-on-call.

Sherlock Holmes

2009

English

7.5

♡ 424

70%

based on novel or book

Guy Ritchie Director

Jude Law as Dr. John Watson

Rachel McAdams as Irene Adler

Kelly Reilly as Mary Morstan

Robert Downey Jr. as Sherlock Holmes

Eccentric consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and Doctor John Watson battle to bring down a new nemesis and unravel a deadly plot that could destroy England.

Brannigan

1975

English

6.1

♡ 11

48%

Douglas Hickox Director

Charles Pemberton as Arthur

Ralph Meeker as Capt. Moretti

Anthony Booth as Freddy

Harry Fielder as Passerby near Tower Bridge

A hard-nosed Chicago cop is sent to London to bring back an American mobster being held for extradition. Brannigan in his Irish-American way brings American law to the people of Scotland Yard but has to contend with a stuffy old London first.

The Invisible Man Returns

1940

English

6.4

♡ 16

87%

Joe May Director

Forrester Harvey as Ben Jenkins

Frank Hagney as Bill

Vincent Price as Geoffrey Radcliffe

Mary Field as Passerby at Willie's House

The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.

The Abominable Dr. Phibes

1971

English

7.0

♡ 24

88%

Robert Fuest Director

Vincent Price as Dr. Anton Phibes

Joseph Cotten as Dr. Vesalius

Peter Jeffrey as Inspector Trout

James Grout as Sergeant

After a team of surgeons botches his beloved wife's operation, the distraught Dr. Phibes unleashes a score of Old-Testament atrocities on his enemies.

The Man Who Knew Too Much

1956

English

7.4

♡ 44

89%

Alfred Hitchcock Director

Carolyn Jones as Cindy Fontaine

Leo Gordon as Drayton's Chauffeur

Lou Krugman as Marrakesh Headwaiter

Patrick Whyte as Special Branch Officer

An American doctor and his wife, a former singing star, witness a murder while vacationing in Morocco, and are drawn into a twisting plot of international intrigue when their young son is kidnapped.

Blackmail

1929

English

6.9

♡ 22

88%

65%

Action

based on play or musical

black and white

blackmail

boyfriend girlfriend relationship

Alfred Hitchcock Director

Anny Ondra as Alice White

Phyllis Monkman as Gossip Woman

Alfred Hitchcock as Man on Subway

Cyril Ritchard as The Artist

London, 1929. Frank Webber, a very busy Scotland Yard detective, seems to be more interested in his work than in Alice White, his girlfriend. Feeling herself ignored, Alice agrees to go out with an elegant and well-mannered artist who invites her to visit his fancy apartment.