Strangers on a Train

Jun 27, 1951

1h 41m

★ 7.7

It starts with a shriek of a train whistle... and ends with shrieking excitement!

Overview

A charming psychopath tries to coerce a tennis star into his theory that two strangers can commit the perfect crime by exchanging murders—each killing the other’s most-hated person.

Genres

Crime

Thriller

Production Companies

Warner Bros. Pictures

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Cast

Guy Haines

Farley Granger

Anne Morton

Ruth Roman

Bruno Antony

Robert Walker

Sen. Morton

Leo G. Carroll

Barbara Morton

Patricia Hitchcock

Miriam Haines

Kasey Rogers

Mrs. Antony

Marion Lorne

Mr. Antony

Jonathan Hale

Police Capt. Turley

Howard St. John

Prof. Collins

John Brown

Mrs. Cunningham

Norma Varden

Det. Leslie Hennessey

Robert Gist

Ray Pluto has many problems. He is satirized in the tabloids as the "loser cop." His partner is starting to seem suspiciously attracted to him. A pair of screenwriters across the hall keep bugging him for help. The superintendent of his building is stabbed by hoodlums hired by his own rebellious daughter. To top it off, a sexually aggressive chiropractor may just be Ray's undoing.

6.4

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After murdering an undercover DEA agent, two corrupt cops scramble to cover up what they've done.

7.3

Bad Day at Black Rock

Jan 13, 1955

One-armed war veteran John J. Macreedy steps off a train at the sleepy little town of Black Rock. Once there, he begins to unravel a web of lies, secrecy, and murder.

5.5

Feed

May 11, 2005

A cybercrime investigator tracks a man suspected of force-feeding women to death.

7.7

The Big Heat

Oct 14, 1953

After the suspicious suicide of a fellow cop, tough homicide detective Dave Bannion takes the law into his own hands when he sets out to smash a vicious crime syndicate.

7.3

After the Thin Man

Dec 25, 1936

Nick and Nora Charles investigate when Nora's cousin reports her disreputable husband is missing, and find themselves in a mystery involving the shady owners of a popular nightclub, a singer and her dark brother, the cousin's forsaken true love, and Nora's bombastic and controlling aunt.

7.1

Another Thin Man

Nov 17, 1939

Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate.

7.0

Shadow of the Thin Man

Nov 21, 1941

High society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles run into a variety of shady characters while investigating a race-track murder.

6.8

Song of the Thin Man

Aug 28, 1947

Society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles investigate a murder in a jazz club.

7.4

Fury

Jun 5, 1936

Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.

6.1

The Condemned

Apr 27, 2007

Jack Conrad is awaiting the death penalty in a corrupt Central American prison. He is "purchased" by a wealthy television producer and taken to a desolate island where he must fight to the death against nine other condemned killers from all corners of the world, with freedom going to the sole survivor.

7.3

The Killers

Aug 30, 1946

Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a hunch, decides to look into the murder. As the Swede's past is laid bare, it comes to light that he was in love with a beautiful woman who may have lured him into pulling off a bank robbery overseen by another man.

8.1

The Hate U Give

Oct 19, 2018

Raised in a poverty-stricken slum, a 16-year-old girl named Starr now attends a suburban prep school. After she witnesses a police officer shoot her unarmed best friend, she's torn between her two very different worlds as she tries to speak her truth.

5.5

Number Seventeen

Jul 18, 1932

A gang of jewel thieves hides out in an abandoned London house after a robbery, unaware that a detective is among them in disguise.

4.6

Dark Ride

Oct 20, 2006

Ten years after he brutally murdered two girls, a killer escapes from a mental institution and returns to his turf, the theme park attraction called Dark Ride. About to crash his path are a group of college kids on a road trip who stumble across the park.

5.9

Crime Is Our Business

Oct 2, 2008

Loosely based on "4.50 from Paddington" by Agatha Christie.

7.1

Revanche

May 16, 2008

Alex, an ex-con working as muscle in a Vienna brothel, dreams of escaping with his girlfriend Tamara, who also works there. Their attempt to break free sets off a chain of events that links their fate with a rural police officer and his troubled marriage. As their lives intersect, a quiet struggle unfolds between guilt, grief, and the desire for redemption.