The best James Mason’s thriller movies

James Mason

James Mason

15/05/1909- 27/07/1984
Today we present the best James Mason’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 James Mason’s movies.
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North by Northwest

North by Northwest
8.3/10
Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.

The Boys from Brazil

The Boys from Brazil
7/10
Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich.

Evil Under the Sun

Evil Under the Sun
7/10
Trying to find how a millionaire wound up with a phony diamond brings Hercule Poirot to an exclusive island resort frequented by the rich and famous. When a murder is committed, everyone has an alibi.

The Deadly Affair

The Deadly Affair
6.7/10
Charles Dobbs is a British secret agent investigating the apparent suicide of Foreign Office official Samuel Fennan. Dobbs suspects that Fennan's wife, Elsa, a survivor of a Nazi Germany extermination camp, might have some clues, but other officials want Dobbs to drop the case. So Dobbs hires a retiring inspector, Mendel, to quietly make inquiries. Dobbs isn't at all sure as there are a number of anomalies that simply can't be explained away. Dobbs is also having trouble at home with his errant wife, whom he very much loves, having frequent affairs. He's also pleased to see an old friend, Dieter Frey, who he recruited after the war. With the assistance of a colleague and a retired policeman, Dobbs tries to piece together just who is the spy and who in fact assassinated Fennan.

Bloodline

Bloodline
4.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeThriller
  • Release: 29/06/1979
  • Character: Sir Alec Nichols
When her father is murdered, a cosmetics heiress becomes the next target of an unknown killer amid the international jet set.

Murder by Decree

Murder by Decree
6.8/10
Sherlock Holmes is drawn into the case of Jack the Ripper who is killing prostitutes in London's East End. Assisted by Dr. Watson, and using information provided by a renowned psychic, Robert Lees, Holmes finds that the murders may have its roots in a Royal indiscretion and that a cover-up is being managed by politicians at the highest level, all of whom happen to be Masons.

Cold Sweat

Cold Sweat
5.7/10
During the Korean War, Joe Moran, is convicted for striking a colonel. Imprisoned in Germany he encounters his former company commander Captain Ross, jailed for black marketeering. Together with Ross' cohorts Joe agrees to escape with them, but things go wrong and a policeman is killed. An appalled Joe escapes by himself, abandoning the others, who are recaptured. Years later Joe has a boat rental business where he is found by Ross. Now a wanted drug smuggler he wants the use of Joe's boats and to ensure his cooperation, they kidnap his wife and daughter.

Caught

Caught
7/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 17/02/1949
  • Character: Larry Quinada
It was Leonora Eames' childhood dream come true. She had married Smith Ohlrig, a man worth millions. But her innocent dream became a nightmare once she realizes the truth about her husband - he is power mad and insane! Since he will not grant her a divorce, she leaves her life of luxury on Long Island and goes to work as a receptionist in an impoverished doctor's office in NYC's lower east side. After Smith deceives her into a temporary reconciliation, Leonora becomes pregnant. By the time she realizes she is expecting, she and one of the doctors, Larry Quinada (James Mason), have fallen in love. But she is again lured backed to her wealthy husband to give her child financial security. Her sadistic husband is hell-bent on keeping her and her child prisoner. What will happen to Leonora?

The Last of Sheila

The Last of Sheila
7.2/10
A year after Sheila is killed in a hit-and-run, her multimillionaire husband invites a group of friends to spend a week on his yacht playing a scavenger hunt-style mystery game. The game turns out to be all too real and all too deadly.

5 Fingers

5 Fingers
7.6/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 22/02/1952
  • Character: Ulysses Diello
During WWII the valet to the British Ambassador to Ankara sells British secrets to the Germans while trying to romance a refugee Polish countess.

Odd Man Out

Odd Man Out
7.6/10
Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robbery.

The MacKintosh Man

The MacKintosh Man
6.3/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 25/07/1973
  • Character: Sir George Wheeler
A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate a spy organization and expose a traitor; only, someone finds him out and exposes him to the gang...

The Marseille Contract

The Marseille Contract
5.9/10
An important drug lord settled in Marseille is suspected of having ordered the killing of an American agent, but it is impossible to impute him due to his political influences, so the dead agent's boss decides to hire the services of a hitman to kill him.

The Reckless Moment

The Reckless Moment
7.1/10
  • Genre: Thriller
  • Release: 29/12/1949
  • Character: Martin Donnelly
A mother attempts to protect her murderous daughter.

Kill!

Kill!
4.8/10
Interpol investigates the freelance killings of drug and porn peddlers.

The Man Between

The Man Between
7/10
  • Genre: Thriller
  • Release: 18/11/1953
  • Character: Ivo Kern
A British woman on a visit to post-war Berlin is caught up in an espionage ring smuggling secrets into and out of the Eastern Bloc.

They Met in the Dark

They Met in the Dark
6.1/10
A Royal navy Commander is tricked by a pretty girl who is working for the Nazis. She tricks him into revealing some military secrets and he is court martial. He vows to track her and her accomplices down.

Hotel Reserve

Hotel Reserve
6.2/10
  • Genre: Thriller
  • Release: 01/06/1944
  • Character: Peter Vadassy
A hunt for a spy, in a hotel in the South of France just before World War Two.

Lady Possessed

Lady Possessed
6.1/10
A pianist takes his ailing wife out of a London hospital at the same time that another female patient there has suffered a miscarriage. Afterwards, the second woman feels empty and withdrawn, and, thinking that getting her away from London will help, her husband takes her to live at a country estate, which turns out to be the former residence of the pianist who left after his wife died. The woman begins to get visions of the wife and her final days; is she becoming possessed by the dead wife of the pianist?

Cry Terror!

Cry Terror!
6.7/10
A mad bomber holds an innocent family hostage.

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