Best Thriller Movies of 1947

The highest-rated thriller films from 1947, ranked by MovieMagicScore based on authentic viewer ratings.

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Out of the Past

1947

The peaceful life of a gas station owner is disrupted when a man from his past arrives in town and forces him to return to the dark world he had tried to escape.

7.6

The Lady from Shanghai

1947

A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.

7.3

Dark Passage

1947

A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try and prove his innocence.

7.3

Jenny Lamour

1947

Paris, France, December 1946. Jenny Lamour, an ambitious cabaret singer, and Maurice, her extremely jealous pianist husband, become involved in the thorough investigation of the murder of a shady businessman, led by Antoine, a peculiar and methodical police inspector.

7.5

Odd Man Out

1947

Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robbery.

7.3

Brute Force

1947

Timeworn Joe Collins and his fellow inmates live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins' dreams of escape keep him going, but how can he possibly bust out of Munsey's chains?

7.3

Nightmare Alley

1947

Roustabout Stanton Carlisle joins a traveling carny and unsuccessfully schemes to figure out the mind-reading act of Mademoiselle Zeena and her alcoholic husband, Pete.

7.1

Kiss of Death

1947

An ex-con trying to go straight must face a crazed criminal out for revenge.

7.0

Crossfire

1947

A man is murdered, apparently by one of a group of soldiers just out of the army. But which one? And why?

6.6

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Secret Beyond the Door

1947

After a whirlwind romance in Mexico, a beautiful heiress marries a man she barely knows with hardly a second thought. She finds his New York home full of his strange relations, and macabre rooms that are replicas of famous murder sites. One locked room contains the secret to her husband's obsession, and the truth about what happened to his first wife.

6.5

Best Thriller Movies of 1947

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