The best Eric Pohlmann’s thriller movies

Eric Pohlmann

Eric Pohlmann

18/07/1913- 25/07/1979
Today we present the best Eric Pohlmann’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Eric Pohlmann’s movies.
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The Third Man

The Third Man
8.1/10
  • Genre: MysteryThriller
  • Release: 31/08/1949
  • Character: Waiter at Smolka's (uncredited)
In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to learn he has died. Martins develops a conspiracy theory after learning of a "third man" present at the time of Harry's death, running into interference from British officer Major Calloway, and falling head-over-heels for Harry's grief-stricken lover, Anna.

From Russia with Love

From Russia with Love
7.3/10
Agent 007 is back in the second installment of the James Bond series, this time battling a secret crime organization known as SPECTRE. Russians Rosa Klebb and Kronsteen are out to snatch a decoding device known as the Lektor, using the ravishing Tatiana to lure Bond into helping them. Bond willingly travels to meet Tatiana in Istanbul, where he must rely on his wits to escape with his life in a series of deadly encounters with the enemy.

State Secret

State Secret
7/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 11/09/1950
  • Character: Cable Car Conductor
Visiting in England, an American surgeon Doctor John Marlowe is decoyed to a middle European country, and discovers the operation he is to perform is on the Vosnian dictator. When the latter dies, he is replaced by a look-alike, but Marlowe then becomes the object of a shoot-to-kill, vicious pursuit by the secret police of Vosnia since it is vital to Vosnia that the dictator's death does not become known. Fleeing, he seeks help from an actress, Lisa Robinson, and the two are harried across the countryside.

Where the Spies Are

Where the Spies Are
5.6/10
A local doctor is recruited as a cold war spy to fulfill a very important secret mission in the Middle East, only to experience that his mission is complicated by a sexy female double agent.

The Puzzle of the Red Orchid

The Puzzle of the Red Orchid
5.5/10
Rival gangsters from Chicago move to London and attempt to extort money from rich Britons.

36 Hours

36 Hours
5.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeThriller
  • Release: 04/12/1953
  • Character: Slossen, the smuggler
When his wife stops writing to him and his letters are returned unanswered, Dan becomes extremely concerned about her welfare. He returns home but is only able to meet with her briefly before she is found murdered. Dan is the obvious suspect but has only 36 hours to find out who murdered her. In so doing he uncovers a shocking catalogue of his wife's past affairs and an identity that he knew nothing about.

Emergency Call

Emergency Call
6.2/10
  • Genre: Thriller
  • Release: 19/05/1952
  • Character: Flash Harry
A 5-year-old child is diagnosed with leukaemia and has only days to live. Her only hope is a blood transfusion, but her blood type is extremely rare, so the race is on to find the donors.

Highly Dangerous

Highly Dangerous
6/10
  • Genre: ActionThriller
  • Release: 06/12/1950
  • Character: Joe - the bartender
A US newsman and a British entomologist spy on germ-warfare research in a mythical country.

Forbidden Cargo

Forbidden Cargo
6.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeThriller
  • Release: 04/05/1954
  • Character: Steven Lasovich
Kenyon is a narcotics agent who, with the aid of a titled bird-watcher attempts to trap a brother and sister drug smuggling team.

Visa to Canton

Visa to Canton
5.1/10
A former World War II pilot, now the owner of a travel agency in Hong Kong, gets involved in espionage trying to help a Chinese woman locate her son.

Venetian Bird

Venetian Bird
6.3/10
Private eye Edward Mercer travels to Venice to locate a man due a reward for his aid in the war. Shortly after arriving, he becomes the prime suspect in the murder of his local contact. In his quest to clear his name, Mercer uncovers a conspiracy. Even the local magistrate seems to be working against him, and Mercer begins to suspect the man he came to find is behind it all.

Night Train to Paris

Night Train to Paris
5/10
Former OSS officer Alan Holiday, now living in London, is visited on New Year's Eve by Catherine Carrel who says she is a close friend of Jules Lemoine who served with Holiday during the war. Lemoine urgently requests that Holiday go to Paris on a secret mission. Lemoine visits and wants Alan to deliver a reel of tape which he gives him, and keeps a fake reel himself to deceive enemy agents. Lemoine is killed and the fake tape stolen. Holiday, poses as an assistant to photographer Louis Vernay, and they take three models along to further the ruse.

Foreign Exchange

Foreign Exchange
6.5/10
A former British Secret Service agent is persuaded to negotiate a spy exchange with Russia, only to find himself drawn into political intrigues.

The Gambler and the Lady

The Gambler and the Lady
5.9/10
A greedy but successful professional gambler wants to join the British Establishment when he falls in love with a blue-blooded lady. But first he must mend his ways and then dump his nightclub singer girl friend. She's not so easy to get rid of, neither is his past.

Across the Bridge

Across the Bridge
7.2/10
In Mexico, a financier on the run poses as a man he just murdered, only to find out that the man was also a murderer.

The Counterfeit Plan

The Counterfeit Plan
6/10
  • Genre: CrimeThriller
  • Release: 11/05/1957
  • Character: Frank Wandelman
An escaped murderer flees France to England, where he forces an ex-forger, now established as a reputable estate owner, and the forger's daughter who knew nothing of his past, to counterfeit 5-pound notes for mass distribution around the countryside.

Heißes Pflaster Köln

Heißes Pflaster Köln
6.3/10
Exploitation movie about a war between pimps in Cologne, Germany, in the Sixties.

The Gelignite Gang

The Gelignite Gang
5.8/10
A tense thriller that tears the lid off Soho's underworld and reveals the cunning organization behind a gang of safe-breakers who will stop at nothing, not even murder, to achieve their goals.

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