
5.5
The Door with Seven Locks
IMDb: 5.5 1940 80 min
A wealthy lord dies and is entombed with a valuable deposit of jewels. Seven keys are required to unlock the tomb and get hold of the treasure. A ...

5.5
Doomed to Die
IMDb: 5.5 1940 68 min
Shipping magnate Cyrus Wentworth, downcast over a disaster to his ocean liner ‘Wentworth Castle’ (carrying, oddly enough, an illicit ...

6.9
Contraband
IMDb: 6.9 1940 91 min
When a neutral Danish merchant ship is forced to put into port after trying to evade British wartime contraband control, its captain becomes ...

7.1
Charlie Chan’s Murder Cruise
IMDb: 7.1 1940 77 min
On a cruise ship from Honolulu to San Francisco, the famous Chinese detective encounters four more murders while trying to figure out the murder ...

7
Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum
IMDb: 7 1940 63 min
A wax museum run by a demented doctor contains statues of such crime figures as Jack the Ripper and Bluebeard. In addition to making wax statues ...

7.1
Charlie Chan in Panama
IMDb: 7.1 1940 66 min
Charlie impersonates an employee of the U.S. government to foil an espionage plot which would destroy part of the Panama Canal, trapping a Navy ...

6.3
The Case of the Frightened Lady
IMDb: 6.3 1940 81 min
A classic British thriller set in a sinister old house, based on a story by Edgar Wallace.

6.3
Black Friday
IMDb: 6.3 1940 70 min
University professor George Kingsley is struck by gangsters while crossing the street, leaving him with brain damage and one of the gangsters, ...

6.1
Swanee River
IMDb: 6.1 1939 84 min
Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern ...

6.9
The Spy in Black
IMDb: 6.9 1939 82 min
A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.

5.7
Secret Service of the Air
IMDb: 5.7 1939 61 min
Brass Bancroft and his sidekick Gabby Watters are recruited onto the secret service and go undercover to crack a ruthless gang that smuggles ...

7.9
The Roaring Twenties
IMDb: 7.9 1939 104 min
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie ...

6.5
Q Planes
IMDb: 6.5 1939 82 min
In England, an eccentric police inspector, an earnest test pilot and a spunky female reporter team up to solve the mystery of a series of test ...

6.9
Personal Column
IMDb: 6.9 1939 114 min
To try solving the strange disappearances of 11 young Parisian women, the police obtain the services of Adrienne Charpentier, friend of the ...

6.4
Mr. Moto’s Last Warning
IMDb: 6.4 1939 71 min
A Japanese man claiming to be Mr. Moto, of the International Police, is abducted and murdered soon after disembarking from a ship at Port Said in ...

5.8
Mr. Wong in Chinatown
IMDb: 5.8 1939 71 min
A pretty Chinese woman, seeking help from San Francisco detective James Lee Wong, is killed by a poisoned dart in his front hall, having time ...

6.3
Jamaica Inn
IMDb: 6.3 1939 108 min
In coastal Cornwall, England, during the early 19th Century, a young woman who’s come there to visit her aunt, discovers that she’s ...

7.4
The Hound of the Baskervilles
IMDb: 7.4 1939 80 min
On his uncle’s death Sir Henry Baskerville returns from Canada to take charge of his ancestral hall on the desolate moors of Devonshire, ...

7.3
Gaslight
IMDb: 7.3 1940 84 min
Twenty years removed from Alice Barlow’s murder by a thief looking for her jewels, newlyweds Paul and Bella Mallen move into the very house ...

7.2
Each Dawn I Die
IMDb: 7.2 1939 92 min
A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter’s criticism of his criminal activities and decides to ...

6.5
City in Darkness
IMDb: 6.5 1939 75 min
Chan, in Paris for a reunion with friends from World War I, becomes involved in investigating the murder of a munitions manufacturer who was ...

7
Charlie Chan in Reno
IMDb: 7 1939 70 min
Mary Whitman has gone to Reno to obtain a divorce. While there she is arrested on suspicion of murdering a fellow guest at her hotel (which ...

7.2
Charlie Chan at Treasure Island
IMDb: 7.2 1939 72 min
Charlie Chan’s investigation of a blackmail-induced suicide as a case of murder leads him into a world of magick and mysticism peopled with ...

5.9
Bulldog Drummond’s Bride
IMDb: 5.9 1939 57 min
Hugh “Bulldog” Drummond is on the precipice of matrimony to his beloved Phyllis — but a bank robbery and a daring escape is going to get in ...

6.7
Blackmail
IMDb: 6.7 1939 81 min
A fugitive from a chain gang becomes an oil-well firefighter and meets the man who framed him.

6.3
Blind Alley
IMDb: 6.3 1939 69 min
A gangster takes a doctor and his family hostage.

7.2
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
IMDb: 7.2 1939 85 min
Having once again avoided criminal conviction, Professor Moriarity develops a murderous plan to “finish off” his last major nemesis, Sherlock ...

5.5
Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror
IMDb: 5.5 1938 70 min
Sexton Blake and Tinker foil criminal plot connected with the Tongs, and master-minded by “famous stamp collector” and millionaire.

6
Mr. Wong, Detective
IMDb: 6 1938 70 min
A chemical manufacturer is killed just after asking detective James Wong to help him. So detective Wong decides to investigate this as well as ...

7.7
The Lady Vanishes
IMDb: 7.7 1938 96 min
On a train headed for England a group of travelers is delayed by an avalanche. Holed up in a hotel in a fictional European country, young Iris ...