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Tense Movies: Summaries & Endings Explained
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Badman’s Territory
1946 · Action
The Girl Who Knew Too Much
1963 · Horror
Tripoli
1950 · Adventure
Offbeat
1961 · Crime
Mystery House
1938 · Adventure
The Mystery of Marie Roget
1942 · Crime
The House Across the Bay
1940 · Drama
Dressed to Kill
1941 · Thriller
Blood and Black Lace
1964 · Horror
Phantom from Space
1953 · Horror
Picture Snatcher
1933 · Crime
Murder in the Fleet
1935 · Comedy
The Cruel Sea
1953 · Drama
13 Rue Madeleine
1947 · War
The Bridge at Remagen
1969 · Action
Daughter of the Mind
1969 · Horror
Ambush at Cimarron Pass
1958 · War
The Astounding She-Monster
1957 · Horror
The Body Stealers
1969 · Mystery
Diamonds of the Night
1964 · Drama
Time Bomb
1953 · Thriller
Don’t Tempt the Devil
1963 · Drama
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
1939 · Drama
Things to Come
1936 · Drama
The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry
1945 · Thriller
I Was an American Spy
1951 · Drama
This Other Eden
1959 · Drama
Frontier Pony Express
1939 · Western
Model for Murder
1959 · Drama
Kitten with a Whip
1964 · Thriller
The Barbarian and the Geisha
1958 · Romance
The Black Abbot
1963 · Crime
Coogan’s Bluff
1968 · Crime
The Space Children
1958
A Blueprint for Murder
1953 · Thriller
The Madonna’s Secret
1946 · Drama
Betrayed
1954 · Drama
The Iroquois Trail
1950 · Western
The Day of the Jackal
2024 · Mystery
Secret of the Incas
1954 · Action
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