| # | Rank ▲ | Film | Year | Director | Country | Genre | Keywords | Votes | IMDb |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 41 | Cat People | 1942 | Jacques Tourneur | USA | Mystery | Psychological Horror, Romance, Gothic, Supernatural, Film noir, German Expressionism | 207 | IMDb ↗ |
| 2 | 50 | Invasion of the Body Snatchers | 1956 | Don Siegel | USA | Science Fiction | Thriller, Alien Invasion, Satire, Survival, Film noir | 185 | IMDb ↗ |
| 3 | 86 | The Night of the Hunter | 1955 | Charles Laughton | USA | Thriller | Southern Gothic, Crime, Drama, Film noir, Gothic, Period Drama, Coming-of-Age | 106 | IMDb ↗ |
| 4 | 189 | M – Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder | 1931 | Fritz Lang | Germany | Thriller | Crime, Straßenfilm, Police Procedural, German Expressionism, Gangster Film, Film noir | 54 | IMDb ↗ |
| 5 | 316 | The Seventh Victim | 1943 | Mark Robson | USA | Mystery | Film noir, Thriller, Gothic | 54 | IMDb ↗ |
| 6 | 334 | The Spiral Staircase | 1946 | Robert Siodmak | USA | Mystery | Thriller, Gothic, Home Invasion, Film Noir, Whodunit, Chamber Film | 36 | IMDb ↗ |
| 7 | 433 | The Lodger | 1944 | John Brahm | USA | Thriller | Film Noir, Mystery | 25 | IMDb ↗ |
| 8 | 550 | Hangover Square | 1945 | John Brahm | USA | Psychological | Psychological Thriller, Film Noir, Music, Gothic, Psychological Horror | 15 | IMDb ↗ |
| 9 | 618 | The Leopard Man | 1943 | Jacques Tourneur | USA | Mystery | Psychological Horror, Film Noir, Psychological Thriller | 26 | IMDb ↗ |
| 10 | 626 | Dementia | 1955 | John Parker | USA | Psychological | Surrealism, Film Noir, Psychological Horror, Experimental, Psychological Thriller, Melodrama | 16 | IMDb ↗ |
| 11 | 863 | Gaslight | 1944 | George Cukor | USA | Psychological | Psychological Thriller, Mystery, Gothic, Film Noir, Melodrama, Psychological Drama | 14 | IMDb ↗ |
Keyword data is still being added, so some films have incomplete or missing keywords.