I’m sure most of you have heard the expression “Christmas in July” more than once! Well, this month, I think it might me “Halloween in July” on the Turner Classic Movies channel! (And I love it!!) As some of you who have been with me since 2006 (when I started the Cozy-Mystery.com site) know, I love to watch the old black and white Bela Lugosi, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, etc. movies during October. Lucky for me, October is less than nine months away – since my You Tube television DVR-ing device only store my recorded movies for nine months. This month, I’m not only setting up my recording to include mystery/crime movies, but I’m also including the old super natural Halloween type of movies.

I didn’t include my Halloween-type movies on this list which is devoted to the Turner Classic Movies channel October-must-watch (-again!) movies, but if you’re at all interested, you should check out the schedule for Thursday – July 23, 2026. I don’t exactly know when this fascination with old, black and white Halloween-type movies started (which no one in my family shares with me), but I am guilty of enjoying these movies over and over again!

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TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – July 2026

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Wednesday – July 1, 2026fg

8:15 PM Blues in the Night (1941)
The members of a traveling jazz band try to keep their leader from drinking himself to death.
Dir: Anatole Litvak. Cast: Priscilla Lane, Betty Field, Richard Whorf
88 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Thursday – July 2. 2026

9:45 PM Vertigo (1958)
A detective falls for the mysterious woman he’s been hired to tail.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes
128 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Friday – July 3, 2026

8:00 PM Force of Evil (1948)
A crooked lawyer tries to protect his numbers running brother from a ruthless crime boss.
Dir: Abraham Polonsky. Cast: John Garfield, Beatrice Pearson, Thomas Gomez
79 mins

9:30 PM Act of Violence (1949)
An embittered veteran tracks down a POW camp informer.
Dir: Fred Zinnemann. Cast: Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh
82 mins

11:00 PM Criss Cross (1949)
A man tries to save his fickle ex-wife from her criminal lover.
Dir: Robert Siodmak. Cast: Burt Lancaster, Yvonne De Carlo, Dan Duryea
88 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Saturday – July 4, 2026

12:45 AM Thieves’ Highway (1949)
A war-veteran-turned-truck driver attempts to avenge the crippling and robbing of his father at the hands of an amoral produce scofflaw.
Dir: Jules Dassin. Cast: Richard Conte, Valentina Cortesa, Lee J. Cobb
94 mins

2:30 AM Against All Odds (1984)
A gangster hires an ex-football player to find his estranged girlfriend. When he finds her, they fall in love and things get complicated.
Dir: Taylor Hackford. Cast: Rachel Ward, Jeff Bridges, James Woods
121 mins

4:45 AM Marlowe (1969)
Detective Philip Marlowe probes the seedy underbelly of Los Angeles in search of a woman’s missing sister.
Dir: Paul Bogart. Cast: James Garner, Gayle Hunnicutt, Carroll O’Connor
95 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Sunday – July 5, 2026

12:00 AM Angel Face (1953)
A woman murders her family for their money.
Dir: Otto Preminger . Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Mona Freeman
91 mins

10:00 AM Angel Face (1953)
A woman murders her family for their money.
Dir: Otto Preminger . Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Mona Freeman
91 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Wednesday – July 8, 2021

12:00 AM The Hitch-Hiker (1953)
A dangerous madman kidnaps two businessmen on a hunting trip.
Dir: Ida Lupino Cast: Edmond O’Brien, Frank Lovejoy, William Talman
71 mins
*****Director Ida Lupino was a pioneer in Hollywood movies!*****

8:15 AM Sinners’ Holiday (1930)
A jealous young man frames his sister’s boyfriend.
Dir: John G. Adolfi. Cast: Grant Withers, Warren Hymer, Evalyn Knapp
60 mins

3:00 PM Central Park (1932)
Small-town kids out to make it in the big city inadvertently get mixed up with gangsters.
Dir: John G. Adolfi. Cast: Joan Blondell, Wallace Ford, Guy Kibbee
58 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Thursday – July 9, 2026

6:15 AM Cry of the Hunted (1953)
A prison convict escapes through the Louisiana swamps.
Dir: Joseph H. Lewis. Cast: Vittorio Gassman, Barry Sullivan, Polly Bergen
80 mins

7:45 AM The Phenix City Story (1955)
A crusading lawyer takes on the corrupt machine running a Southern town.
Dir: Phil Karlson. Cast: John McIntire, Richard Kiley, Kathryn Grant
100 mins

9:30 AM Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
A one-armed veteran uncovers small-town secrets when he tries to visit an Asian-American war hero’s family.
Dir: John Sturges. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis
81 mins

11:00 AM Heat Lightning (1934)
A lady gas station attendant gets mixed up with escaped murderers.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy. Cast: Aline MacMahon, Ann Dvorak, Preston Foster
63 mins

12:15 PM Key Largo (1948)
A returning veteran tangles with a ruthless gangster during a hurricane.
Dir: John Huston. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall
101 mins

6:30 PM Hot Summer Night (1957)
A hot-shot reporter risks his life to land an interview with a notorious crook.
Dir: David Friedkin. Cast: Marianne Stewart, Claude Akins, Robert Wilke
86 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Friday – July 10, 2026

1:30 PM The Wild One (1953)
A vicious biker gang terrorizes a small town while their leader falls for a local girl.
Dir: Laslo Benedek. Cast: Marlon Brando, Mary Murphy, Robert Keith
79 mins

8:00 PM They Live by Night (1948)
After an unjust prison sentence, a young innocent gets mixed-up with hardened criminals and a violent escape.
Dir: Nicholas Ray. Cast: Cathy O’Donnell, Farley Granger, Howard Da Silva
95 mins

10:00 PM Gun Crazy (1950)
Two disturbed young people release their fascination with guns through a crime spree.
Dir: Joseph H. Lewis. Cast: Peggy Cummins, John Dall, Berry Kroeger
87 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Saturday – July 11, 2026

12:00 AM Night and the City (1950)
A London hustler has ambitious plans that never work out.
Dir: Jules Dassin. Cast: Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers
95 mins

2:00 AM Body Heat (1981)
A femme fatale seduces a Florida lawyer and convinces him to kill her husband.
Dir: Lawrence Kasdan. Cast: William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Richard Crenna
113 mins

4:00 AM Night Moves (1975)
An L.A. private detective puts aside his own marital woes while tracing a topless nymphet to the Florida Keys.
Dir: Arthur Penn. Cast: Gene Hackman, Jennifer Warren, Susan Clark
99 mins

1:30 PM The League of Gentlemen (1960)
An ex-colonel blackmails a group of officers into helping him rob a bank.
Dir: Basil Dearden. Cast: Jack Hawkins, Nigel Patrick, Roger Livesey
16 mins

5:45 PM Bullitt (1968)
A detective is sent by a politician to catch a big-time gangster so he can procure him before a Senate crime committee for selfish gain. When the gangster is killed before this can happen, the detective and the politico clash with each other.
Dir: Peter Yates. Cast: Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset
114 mins

10:15 PM The Killing (1956)
A career criminal recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller, among others, for one last job before he goes straight and marries his fiancée.
Dir: Stanley Kubrick. Cast: Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards
84 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Sunday – July 12, 2026

12:00 AM Blues in the Night (1941)
The members of a traveling jazz band try to keep their leader from drinking himself to death.
Dir: Anatole Litvak. Cast: Priscilla Lane, Betty Field, Richard Whorf
88 mins

10:00 AM Blues in the Night (1941)
The members of a traveling jazz band try to keep their leader from drinking himself to death.
Dir: Anatole Litvak. Cast: Priscilla Lane, Betty Field, Richard Whorf
88 mins

8:00 PM Rear Window (1954)
A photographer with a broken leg uncovers a murder while spying on the neighbors in a nearby apartment building.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey
112 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Wednesday – July 15, 2026

6:15 AM Shadow of a Woman (1946)
A woman suspects her husband of plotting to kill his son from a previous marriage.
Dir: Joseph Santley. Cast: Helmut Dantine, Andrea King, William Prince
78 mins

7:45 AM Chase a Crooked Shadow (1958)
A man shows up at a woman’s villa claiming to be her presumably deceased brother.
Dir: Michael Anderson. Cast: Richard Todd, Anne Baxter, Herbert Lom
87 mins

9:30 AM Shadow in the Sky (1952)
A shell-shocked veteran tries to recover his sanity while living with his sister.
Dir: Fred M. Wilcox. Cast: Ralph Meeker, Nancy Reagan, James Whitmore
78 mins

11:00 AM Shadow on the Wall (1950)
A child is left mute by the sight of her stepmother’s murder.
Dir: Patrick Jackson; Cast: Ann Sothern, Zachary Scott, Gigi Perreau
84 mins

12:30 PM Cast a Dark Shadow (1955)
A wife-killer marries an innocent barmaid and plots her death.
Dir: Lewis Gilbert. Cast: Margaret Lockwood, Dirk Bogarde, Kay Walsh
85 mins

6:00 PM Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)
High society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles run into a variety of shady characters while investigating a race-track murder.
Dir: Major W. S. Van Dyke II. Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Barry Nelson
97 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Friday – July 17, 2026

8:00 PM The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
Recently paroled master criminal Erwin “Doc” Riedenschneider gathers several crooks together in Cincinnati for a heist. The robbery is pulled off successfully until an alert night watchman shoots the team’s safe-cracker.
Dir: John Huston. Cast: Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen
112 mins

10:00 PM In a Lonely Place (1950)
An aspiring actress begins to suspect that her temperamental boyfriend is a murderer.
Dir: Nicholas Ray. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy
91 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Saturday – July 18, 2026

12:00 AM The Breaking Point (1950)
A desperate fishing boat captain rents his ship to some gunmen on the lam.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: John Garfield, Patricia Neal, Phyllis Thaxter
97 mins

2:00 AM Sea of Love (1989)
A New York police detective falls in love with a suspect in a murder he is investigating.
Dir: Harold Becker. Cast: Al Pacino, Ellen Barkin, John Goodman
113 mins

4:00 AM Klute (1971)
A low-key small town detective journeys to New York City to investigate the murder of a friend and discovers that both the killer and the victim were clients of the same high-class call girl.
Dir: Alan J. Pakula. Cast: Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi
114 mins

6:00 PM The Wrong Man (1956)
Based on the true story of a musician wrongly accused of robbing an insurance company and the grave effect his predicament has on his family.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle
105 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Sunday – July 19, 2026

12:15 AM Dark Passage (1947)
A man falsely accused of his wife’s murder escapes to search for the real killer.
Dir: Delmer Daves. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett
106 mins

10:00 AM Dark Passage (1947)
A man falsely accused of his wife’s murder escapes to search for the real killer.
Dir: Delmer Daves. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett
106 mins

6:15 PM The Lady from Shanghai (1948)
A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.
Dir: Orson Welles. Cast: Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane
86 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Tuesday – July 21, 2026

4:30 PM The Case of the Lucky Legs (1935)
Perry Mason tries to stay on the wagon while investigating the murder of a crooked beauty contest promoter.
Dir: Archie L. Mayo. Cast: Warren William, Genevieve Tobin, Patricia Ellis
77 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Thursday – July 23, 2026

12:00 AM A Soldier’s Story (1984)
A black army attorney is sent to an all-black army camp during World War II to investigate the murder of a sergeant and sees first hand the racial strife between the black soldiers and the white officers who run the boot camp.
Dir: Norman Jewison. Cast: Howard E Rollins, Adolph Caesar, Denzel Washington
101 mins

2:15 PM The Leopard Man (1943)
When a leopard escapes during a publicity stunt, it triggers a series of murders.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur. Cast: Dennis O’Keefe, Margo, Jean Brooks
66 mins

3:30 PM The Seventh Victim (1943)
A girl’s search for her missing sister puts her in conflict with a band of satanists.
Dir: Mark Robson. Cast: Tom Conway, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell
71 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Friday – July 24, 2026

1:00 AM Cat People (1942)
A newlywed fears that an ancient curse will turn her into a bloodthirsty beast.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur. Cast: Simone Simon, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph
73 mins

2:15 AM The Curse of the Cat People (1944)
A child explores her late mother’s life and discovers her maternal bloodline is cursed.
Dir: Gunther V. Fritsch. Cast: Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Jane Randolph
70 mins

12:45 PM North by Northwest (1959)
A suave, successful New York advertising executive finds himself, through a case of mistaken identity, embroiled in a web of intrigue and murder that takes him across the country to prove his innocence to the police.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason
136 mins

3:15 PM Detour (1945)
A hitchhiker takes on a dead man’s identity only to face blackmail by an unscrupulous woman.
Dir: Edgar G. Ulmer. Cast: Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake
68 mins

4:30 PM Badlands (1973)
A teenager from a dead-end town decides to join a charming older boy on his shooting spree through Montana’s badlands.
Dir: Terrence Malick. Cast: Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates
95 mins

8:00 PM Sunset Boulevard (1950)
A failed screenwriter falls into a mercenary romance with a faded silent-film star.
Dir: Billy Wilder. Cast: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich Von Stroheim
110 mins

10:00 PM The Prowler (1951)
A policeman’s obsession with a married woman leads to murder.
Dir: Joseph Losey. Cast: Van Heflin, Evelyn Keyes, John Maxwell
93 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Saturday – July 25, 2026

12:00 AM The Killing (1956)
A career criminal recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender, and a betting teller, among others, for one last job before he goes straight and marries his fiancée.
Dir: Stanley Kubrick. Cast: Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards
84 mins

3:30 AM The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981)
A depression-era drifter ends up at a diner, where he not only gets a job, but also begins an affair with the diner’s owner’s wife. The adulterous lovers soon plot to kill the kind owner and share in the insurance money.
Dir: Bob Rafelson. Cast: Jack Nicholson, Jessica Lange, John Colicos
123 mins

7:45 AM Crossroads (1942)
A French diplomat who’s recovering from amnesia is blackmailed over crimes he can’t remember.
Dir: Jack Conway. Cast: William Powell, Hedy Lamarr, Claire Trevor
84 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Sunday – July 26, 2026

12:45 AM They Won’t Believe Me (1947)
A philandering playboy with a wealthy wife and two girlfriends ends up on trial for murder when two of the ladies turn up dead, and he’s the most likely suspect.
Dir: Irving Pichel. Cast: Susan Hayward, Robert Young, Jane Greer
95 mins

8:00 AM The Big Sleep (1946)
Called into a case involving a wealthy family, detective Philip Marlowe discovers blackmail and murder as he falls for the eldest daughter in the family.
Dir: Howard Hawks. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely
114 mins

10:00 AM They Won’t Believe Me (1947)
A philandering playboy with a wealthy wife and two girlfriends ends up on trial for murder when two of the ladies turn up dead, and he’s the most likely suspect.
Dir: Irving Pichel. Cast: Susan Hayward, Robert Young, Jane Greer
95 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Monday – July 27, 2026

8:15 AM The Case of the Black Parrot (1941)
A newspaperman sets out to catch a sea-going thief.
Dir: Noel M. Smith. Cast: William Lundigan, Maris Wrixon, Eddie Foy Jr.
60 mins

2:30 PM Gambling on the High Seas (1940)
A reporter tries to nail a gambling-ship owner for murder.
Dir: George Amy. Cast: Wayne Morris, Jane Wyman, Gilbert Roland
56 mins

3:30 PM Murder on the Waterfront (1943)
Nazis and entertainers are involved in an inventor’s murder.
Dir: B. Reeves Eason. Cast: Warren Douglas, Joan Winfield, John Loder
51 mins

4:30 PM Find the Blackmailer (1943)
A private eye hunts for the talking bird that holds the key to a murder.
Dir: D. Ross Lederman. Cast: Jerome Cowan, Faye Emerson, Gene Lockhart
55 mins

5:30 PM Two O’Clock Courage (1945)
An amnesiac discovers he’s wanted for murder.
Dir: Anthony Mann. Cast: Tom Conway, Ann Rutherford, Richard Lane
66 mins

6:45 PM I Was Framed (1942)
A news man’s political investigations land him in prison.
Dir: D. Ross Lederman. Cast: Michael Ames, Julie Bishop, Regis Toomey
61 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Tuesday – July 28, 2026

6:00 AM The Player (1992)
A frustrated screenwriter menaces a studio executive who eventually kills the writer and gets away with murder.
Dir: Robert Altman. Cast: Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward
123 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Wednesday – July 29, 2026

3:15 PM The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Hard-boiled detective Sam Spade gets caught up in the murderous search for a priceless statue.
Dir: John Huston. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George
100 mins

5:15 PM Gun Crazy (1950)
Two disturbed young people release their fascination with guns through a crime spree.
Dir: Joseph H. Lewis. Cast: Peggy Cummins, John Dall, Berry Kroeger
87 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Thursday – July 30, 2026

6:30 AM Bullets or Ballots (1936)
A maverick cop gets thrown off the force in disgrace, and goes to the city’s gang lords and offers to join their side, helping them to get around the police. But in fact, he is still a cop, and is working undercover to break apart the gangs.
Dir: William Keighley. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Blondell, Barton MacLane
77 mins

10:00 AM Larceny, Inc. (1942)
An ex-convict and his gang try to use a luggage store to front a bank robbery, but business keeps getting in the way.
Dir: Lloyd Bacon. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Jane Wyman, Broderick Crawford
95 mins

12:00 PM The Stranger (1946)
A small-town schoolteacher suspects her new husband may be an escaped Nazi war criminal.
Dir: Orson Welles. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Orson Welles
95 mins

2:00 PM Key Largo (1948)
A returning veteran tangles with a ruthless gangster during a hurricane.
Dir: John Huston. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall
101 mins

4:00 PM The Prize (1963)
An American Nobel Prize-winner gets mixed up with spies when he travels to Stockholm to collect his award.
Dir: Mark Robson. Cast: Paul Newman, Edward G. Robinson, Elke Sommer
136 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Friday – July 31, 2026

7:15 AM The Big Shakedown (1934)
A racketeer breaks into black-market medicine.
Dir: John Francis Dillon. Cast: Charles Farrell, Bette Davis, Ricardo Cortez
64 mins

10:00 AM The Public Enemy (1931)
An Irish-American street punk tries to make it big in the world of organized crime.
Dir: William A. Wellman. Cast: James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Edward Woods
83 mins

11:30 AM Smart Money (1931)
A barber’s good luck turns him into a big-time gambling boss.
Dir: Alfred E. Green. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, James Cagney, Evalyn Knapp
90 mins

1:00 PM Two Seconds (1932)
In the last moments of his life, a criminal reviews the circumstances that led him to death row.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Vivienne Osborne, Guy Kibbee
68 mins

2:15 PM Three on a Match (1932)
A woman’s childhood friends try to rescue her from gangsters.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy. Cast: Virginia Davis, Joan Blondell, Dawn O’Day
64 mins

3:30 PM The Beast of the City (1932)
A police captain leads the fight against a vicious gangland chief.
Dir: Charles Brabin. Cast: Walter Huston, Jean Harlow, Wallace Ford
87 mins

5:00 PM Penthouse (1933)
The mob frames a lawyer for murder, so he enlists a call girl’s help in finding the real killer.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke. Cast: Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, Charles Butterworth
88 mins

6:30 PM The Mouthpiece (1932)
A crusading DA goes into private practice and succumbs to the temptations of corruption.
Dir: James Flood, Elliott Nugent. Cast: Warren William, Sidney Fox, Aline MacMahon
86 mins

8:00 PM Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
A sleazy PR man who will do anything to get his clients mentioned in the column of a powerful journalist, gets involved in a plot to break up the journalist’s sister’s relationship with a jazz musician.
Dir: Alexander Mackendrick. Cast: Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison
96 mins

10:00 PM Touch of Evil (1958)
A narcotics agent risks his wife’s life to investigate a crooked cop.
Dir: Orson Welles. Cast: Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles
95 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Saturday – August 2, 2926

12:00 AM Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)
Desperate losers plan a bank robbery with unexpected results.
Dir: Robert Wise. Cast: Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Shelley Winters
95 mins

1:45 AM Point Blank (1967)
A professional thief seeks revenge on his unfaithful wife and a fellow mobster who double-crossed him.
Dir: John Boorman. Cast: Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn
92 mins

3:30 AM Mike’s Murder (1984)
A young woman living in Los Angeles tries to uncover what led to the brutal murder of her old flame and who killed him.
Dir: James Bridges. Cast: Debra Winger, Mark Keyloun, Darrell Larson
109 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

If you’re really looking forward to these or other mystery-themed TV specials coming up in July, be sure to leave a comment below!

In case you’re interested in seeing the rest of this month’s television mystery movies, here’s the June television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for June 2026 on Turner Classic Movies channel

And here is the page on my site with plenty of entries about movies and television shows you may enjoy:

Cozy Mystery List TV and Movie Section – all you have to do is click on the link to go to that page on my site.

I am a big fan of Alfred Hitchcock, so I’m pretty excited about June 2026’s Turner Classic Movies lineup! On Friday, June 19 the Turner Classic Movies channel will start airing six of Alfred Hitchcock’s mystery movies – including one silent movie from 1927 (“The Lodger” aka “The Girl Was Young”). And, even better than those six mysteries, the next day they will air one more Alfred Hitchcock movie. I think that out of all seven of these movies, my favorite is his 1938 “The Lady Vanishes”. Love it! [Also, on Monday, June 22 Alfred Hitchcock’s silent 1927 movie “Downhill” will be playing, but I don’t know for sure if it is a mystery or drama. And, on Friday, June 26 they will air Hitchcock’s “The Man Who Knew Too Much” (1934)]

So, here is the list of mystery and/or crime movies that the Turner Classic Movies channel will be airing during June 2026.

PS: Sorry for the lateness on this. It is a combination of two issues – first, the place I normally get these isn’t updating as far into the future as it normally is, which means I in turn cannot update as far out either. Second, I was visiting my daughter. Unfortunately, the first issue is likely to continue to be a problem – I’m considering what exactly I intend to do about this.

     ***** ***** ***** *****

TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – June 2026

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Monday – June 1, 2026

2:45 AM Armored Car Robbery (1950)
A police officer tries to find half a million dollars stolen by gangsters.
Dir: Richard Fleischer. Cast: Charles McGraw, Adele Jergens, William Talman
67 mins

4:15 AM I Love Trouble (1947)
A private detective is hired by a politician to check on his wife’s background.
Dir: S. Sylvan Simon. Cast: Franchot Tone, Janet Blair, Janis Carter
94 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Tuesday – June 2, 2026

10:15 PM The Big Sleep (1946)
Called into a case involving a wealthy family, detective Philip Marlowe discovers blackmail and murder as he falls for the eldest daughter in the family.
Dir: Howard Hawks. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely
114 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Thursday – June 4, 2026

12:45 AM Zero Hour! (1957)
When a flight crew falls ill, the only man who can land the plane is afraid of flying.
Dir: Hall Bartlett. Cast: Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell, Sterling Hayden
81 mins

4:15 AM Skyjacked (1972)
While on route to Los Angeles, a commercial airliner is hijacked to Russia by an unbalanced Vietnam veteran.
Dir: John Guillermin. Cast: Charlton Heston, Yvette Mimieux, James Brolin
100 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Friday – June 5, 2026

4:15 AM Pete Kelly’s Blues (1955)
The jazz band’s leader gets mixed up with a gangster in ’20s Kansas City.
Dir: Jack Webb. Cast: Jack Webb, Janet Leigh, Edmond O’Brien
95 mins

8:00 PM The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Hard-boiled detective Sam Spade gets caught up in the murderous search for a priceless statue.
Dir: John Huston. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George
100 mins

10:00 PM Double Indemnity (1944)
An insurance salesman gets seduced into plotting a client’s death.
Dir: Billy Wilder. Cast: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson
107 mins
*****If you’re only going to watch one mystery/crime movie this month, make it this one!*****

***** ***** ***** *****

Saturday – June 6, 2026

12:00 AM Detour (1945)
A hitchhiker takes on a dead man’s identity only to face blackmail by an unscrupulous woman.
Dir: Edgar G. Ulmer. Cast: Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake
68 mins

1:30 AM The Long Good Friday (1980)
An up-and-coming gangster is tested by the insurgence of an unknown, very powerful threat.
Dir: John Mackenzie. Cast: Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren, Paul Freeman
114 mins

3:30 AM Mona Lisa (1986)
George is a small-time crook just out of prison who discovers his tough-guy image is out of date. Reduced to working as a minder/driver for high class call girl Simone, he has to agree when she asks him to find a young colleague from her King’s Cross days.
Dir: Neil Jordan. Cast: Bob Hoskins, Cathy Tyson, Michael Caine
104 mins

8:00 PM Out of the Past (1947)
A private eye tries to escape his past by running a gas station in a small town, but it catches up to him.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas
97 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Sunday – June 7, 2026

12:00 AM The Blue Dahlia (1946)
A veteran fights to prove he didn’t kill his cheating wife.
Dir: George Marshall. Cast: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Bendix
98 mins

2:00 AM The Doberman Gang (1972)
A clever con artist and an animal trainer team up to teach Doberman Pinschers how to rob banks.
Dir: Byron Chudnow. Cast: Byron Mabe, Hal Reed, Julie Parrish
87 mins

3:45 AM The Daring Dobermans (1973)
Three men track down a pack of Dobermans and along with a young Native American boy, train the dogs to rob the campaign funds of a politician.
Dir: Byron Chudnow. Cast: Charles Robinson, Tim Considine, Joan Caulfield
90 mins

10:00 AM The Blue Dahlia (1946)
A veteran fights to prove he didn’t kill his cheating wife.
Dir: George Marshall. Cast: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Bendix
98 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Monday – June 8, 2026

11:30 PM The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
Recently paroled master criminal Erwin “Doc” Riedenschneider gathers several crooks together in Cincinnati for a heist. The robbery is pulled off successfully until an alert night watchman shoots the team’s safe-cracker.
Dir: John Huston. Cast: Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen
112 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Tuesday – June 9, 2026

2:00 PM Hotel Reserve (1944)
An Austrian refugee tries to figure out which guest at a French resort is a spy.
Dir: Victor Hanbury. Cast: James Mason, Lucie Mannheim, Raymond Lovell
79 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Wednesday – June 10, 2026

4:00 PM Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
The Brewster sisters are spinster pillars of Brooklyn society, except for their secret penchant for poisoning old male callers with their homemade elderberry wine, to end the men’s loneliness!
Dir: Frank Capra. Cast: Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey
118 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Thursday – June 11, 2026

10:30 AM Torchy Gets Her Man (1938)
Female reporter Torchy Blane tries to crack a counterfeiting case.
Dir: William Beaudine. Cast: Glenda Farrell, Barton Maclane, Tom Kennedy
63 mins

11:45 AM Adventures of Kitty O’Day (1945)
A perky switchboard operator investigates murders that baffle the police.
Dir: William Beaudine. Cast: Jean Parker, Peter Cookson, Tim Ryan
63 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Friday – June 12, 2026

1:45 AM River’s Edge (1986)
An alienated group of teenagers reacts with shocking indifference when confronted with a brutal murder in this gripping 1986 cult classic.
Dir: Tim Hunter. Cast: Crispin Glover, Keanu Reeves, Ione Skye
99 mins

8:00 PM Scarlet Street (1945)
A middle aged would be painter falls into the clutches of an unscrupulous woman.
Dir: Fritz Lang. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea
103 mins

10:00 PM The Killers (1946)
An insurance investigator uncovers a string of crimes when he tries to find a murdered boxer’s beneficiary.
Dir: Robert Siodmak. Cast: Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O’Brien
105 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Saturday – June 13, 2026

12:00 AM Nightmare Alley (1947)
An ambitious carny attempts to scam his way out of a traveling carnival in this brutal noir.
Dir: Edmund Goulding. Cast: Tyrone Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray
110 mins

2:00 AM The Yakuza (1974)
Harry Kilmer is an ex-soldier who returns to Japan to help his friend George Tanner whose daughter has been kidnapped by the Japanese mafia known as the Yakuza.
Dir: Sydney Pollack. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Ken Takakura, Brian Keith
112 mins

4:00 AM The First Deadly Sin (1980)
Detective Edward Delaney, played by Frank Sinatra, tries to care for his bedridden wife while he tracks a serial killer who is terrorizing New York.
Dir: Brian Hutton. Cast: Frank Sinatra, Faye Dunaway, James Whitmore
112 mins

6:15 PM Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid (1982)
A private eye hunts a Nazi for a svelte client and meets rough characters clipped from 1940s films.
Dir: Carl Reiner. Cast: Steve Martin, Rachel Ward, Carl Reiner
88 mins
*****More of a comedy, but still a mystery…*****

***** ***** ***** *****

Sunday – June 14, 2026

12:00 AM Blackout (1954)
An American in London finds himself caught up in a murder plot.
Dir: Terence Fisher. Cast: Dane Clark, Belinda Lee, Betty Ann Davies
87 mins

4:00 AM Dinner at Eight (1933)
A high-society dinner party masks a hotbed of scandal and intrigue.
Dir: George Cukor. Cast: Marie Dressler, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery
113 mins
*****A comedy, not a mystery – What a cast! Jean Harlow is absolutely terrific!*****

6:15 AM 21 Days (1940)
After accidentally killing his mistress’ husband, a man must decide whether to let another man hang for his crime.
Dir: Basil Dean. Cast: Vivien Leigh, Leslie Banks, Laurence Olivier
75 mins

10:00 AM Blackout (1954)
An American in London finds himself caught up in a murder plot.
Dir: Terence Fisher. Cast: Dane Clark, Belinda Lee, Betty Ann Davies
87 mins

6:00 PM Adam’s Rib (1949)
A happily-married, middle-aged husband and wife strain their marriage while serving as trial attorneys on opposite sides of the same headline-making attempted murder-marital case. He is the prosecutor, and she is the defender.
Dir: George Cukor. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday
101 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Tuesday – June 16, 2026

12:00 AM Niagara (1953)
Honeymooners get mixed up with an obsessive husband and his cheating wife.
Dir: Henry Hathaway. Cast: Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters
92 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Wednesday – June 17, 2026

5:00 AM Main Street After Dark (1945)
A police clean-up campaign could put a family of pickpockets out of work.
Dir: Edward Cahn. Cast: Edward Arnold, Selena Royle, Tom Trout
56 mins

9:00 AM Picture Snatcher (1933)
An ex-con brings his crooked ways to a job as a news photographer.
Dir: Lloyd Bacon. Cast: James Cagney, Ralph Bellamy, Patricia Ellis
77 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Thursday – June 18, 2026

4:30 PM Night Watch (1973)
An unhappy housewife who settles her fraying nerves with alcohol while staring out her window witnesses what she thinks is a murder through a neighbor’s window. She calls the police, who find nothing when they investigate. Everyone seems to be skeptical and unsupportive of her…
Dir: Brian G. Hutton. Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, Billie Whitelaw
105 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Friday – June 19, 2026

6:00 AM The Lodger (1927)
A family running a boarding house suspects their new tenant is Jack the Ripper.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Ivor Novello, Malcolm Keen, Marie Ault
91 mins
*****Note the date – this is a silent mystery movie.*****

7:45 AM Young and Innocent (1937) (aka The Girl Was Young)
A young girl helps an innocent man escape the law when he’s framed for murder. British film also known by the U.S. title
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Nova Pilbeam, Derrick De Marney, Percy Marmont
83 mins

9:15 AM The Wrong Man (1956)
Based on the true story of a musician wrongly accused of robbing an insurance company and the grave effect his predicament has on his family.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle
105 mins

11:15 AM The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Miss Froy disappears on her return train trip from a vacation in the Balkans. However, Iris Henderson is the only person, on a train filled with suspicious and unsavory characters, who can attest that Miss Froy was ever on that trip.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas
97 mins

1:00 PM North by Northwest (1959)
A suave, successful New York advertising executive finds himself, through a case of mistaken identity, embroiled in a web of intrigue and murder that takes him across the country to prove his innocence to the police.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason
136 mins

5:45 PM Suspicion (1941)
A young woman marries a charming man after a brief romance but then comes to believe that he is only after her money and will do anything to get it.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Sir Cedric Hardwicke
99 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Saturday – June 20, 2026

5:45 PM Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
In the early 1930s, a car thief and the daughter of his intended victim team up to become America’s most feared and ruthless bank robbers.
Dir: Arthur Penn. Cast: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard
111 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

8:00 PM Rear Window (1954)
A photographer with a broken leg uncovers a murder while spying on the neighbors in a nearby apartment building.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey
112 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Sunday – June 21, 2026

12:00 AM The Man I Love (1947)
A night-club singer gets involved with a mobster.
Dir: Raoul Walsh. Cast: Ida Lupino, Robert Alda, Andrea King
96 mins

10:00 AM The Man I Love (1947)
A night-club singer gets involved with a mobster.
Dir: Raoul Walsh. Cast: Ida Lupino, Robert Alda, Andrea King
96 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Monday – June 22, 2026

12:00 AM Downhill (1927)
The black sheep of a prosperous family begins his downward spiral when he is expelled from school after shielding a friend from punishment.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Ivor Novello, Ben Webster, Norman McKinnel
110 mins
*****I’m not sure if this silent film is a mystery, but it is Alfred Hitchcock…*****

***** ***** ***** *****

Tuesday – June 23, 2026

2:15 AM Whistling in the Dark (1941)
A radio detective is kidnapped and forced to plan the perfect murder.
Dir: S. Sylvan Simon. Cast: Red Skelton, Conrad Veidt, Ann Rutherford
77 mins

3:45 AM Whistling in Dixie (1942)
A radio detective’s southern honeymoon is cut short by the discovery of a murder.
Dir: S. Sylvan Simon. Cast: Red Skelton, Ann Rutherford, George Bancroft
74 mins

5:00 AM Whistling in Brooklyn (1943)
A radio sleuth infiltrates the Brooklyn Dodgers to solve a murder.
Dir: S. Sylvan Simon. Cast: Red Skelton, Ann Rutherford, Jean Rogers
87 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Wednesday – June 24, 2026

6:30 AM Lightning Strikes Twice (1951)
An actress champions the cause of a man whom she believes has been falsely accused of murdering his wife.
Dir: King Vidor. Cast: Ruth Roman, Richard Todd, Mercedes McCambridge
91 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Friday – June 26, 2026

6:45 AM M (1931)
The mob sets out to catch a child killer whose crimes are attracting too much police attention.
Dir: Fritz Lang. Cast: Theo Lingen, Peter Lorre, Otto Wernicke
110 mins

8:45 AM The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
While vacationing in Switzerland, a British couple gets wrapped up in an assassination plot.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Nova Pilbeam
84 mins

10:15 AM Mad Love (1935)
A mad doctor grafts the hands of a murderer on to a concert pianist’s wrists.
Dir: Karl Freund. Cast: Peter Lorre, Frances Drake, Colin Clive
67 mins

11:30 AM Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)
A newspaperman serves as key witness in a circumstantial murder case.
Dir: Boris Ingster. Cast: Peter Lorre, John McGuire, Margaret Tallichet
64 mins

12:45 PM The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Hard-boiled detective Sam Spade gets caught up in the murderous search for a priceless statue.
Dir: John Huston. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George
100 mins

2:45 PM The Mask of Dimitrios (1944)
A meek novelist investigates the mysterious death of a notorious scoundrel.
Dir: Jean Negulesco. Cast: Sydney Greenstreet, Zachary Scott, Faye Emerson
95 mins

4:30 PM Three Strangers (1946)
Three people who share a sweepstakes ticket travel a tangled road to collect their winnings.
Dir: Jean Negulesco. Cast: Sydney Greenstreet, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Peter Lorre
92 mins

6:15 PM The Beast with Five Fingers (1946)
After a famous pianist’s murder, his hand returns to wreak vengeance.
Dir: Robert Florey. Cast: Robert Alda, Andrea King, Peter Lorre
88 mins

8:00 PM Out of the Past (1947)
A private eye tries to escape his past by running a gas station in a small town, but it catches up to him.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas
97 mins

10:00 PM Raw Deal (1948)
When the gangster for whom he took the rap welches, a convict breaks out of prison to get revenge.
Dir: Anthony Mann. Cast: Dennis O’Keefe, Claire Trevor, Marsha Hunt
78 mins

11:30 PM Moonrise (1948)
When a murderer’s son accidentally kills a man, even love can’t stop him from fleeing in fear. But to find his redemption, he must face his guilt.
Dir: Frank Borzage. Cast: Dane Clark, Gail Russell, Ethel Barrymore
90 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Saturday – June 27, 2026

1:15 AM Harper (1966)
A broken-down private eye sets out to find a rich woman’s missing husband.
Dir: Jack Smight. Cast: Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall, Julie Harris
121 mins

3:30 AM The Drowning Pool (1975)
Harper, the wisecracking private investigator, goes to New Orleans to help out an old flame, Iris Deveraux. After the murder of her mother- in-law, someone implicates Iris.
Dir: Stuart Rosenberg. Cast: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Tony Franciosa
106 mins

5:30 AM Torture Money (1937)
The police track down a fraud operation that stages automobile accidents to collect insurance money.
Dir: Harold S. Bucquet. Cast: Edwin Maxwell, George Lynn, Murray Alper
20 mins

3:45 PM Bullitt (1968)
A detective is sent by a politician to catch a big-time gangster so he can procure him before a Senate crime committee for selfish gain. When the gangster is killed before this can happen, the detective and the politico clash with each other.
Dir: Peter Yates. Cast: Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset
114 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Sunday – June 28, 2026

12:00 AM Stolen Face (1952)
A plastic surgeon decides to fix a convict’s badly scarred face–with an operation to make her look like a doppelganger of the woman he loves.
Dir: Terence Fisher. Cast: Paul Henreid, Lizabeth Scott, André Morell
72 mins

1:45 AM Night Moves (1975)
An L.A. private detective puts aside his own marital woes while tracing a topless nymphet to the Florida Keys.
Dir: Arthur Penn. Cast: Gene Hackman, Jennifer Warren, Susan Clark
99 mins

3:30 AM Hot Summer Night (1957)
A hot-shot reporter risks his life to land an interview with a notorious crook.
Dir: David Friedkin. Cast: Marianne Stewart, Claude Akins, Robert Wilke
86 mins

10:00 AM Stolen Face (1952)
A plastic surgeon decides to fix a convict’s badly scarred face–with an operation to make her look like a doppelganger of the woman he loves.
Dir: Terence Fisher. Cast: Paul Henreid, Lizabeth Scott, André Morell
72 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Monday – June 29, 2026

5:15 PM Gilda (1946)
A gambler discovers an old flame in South America, but she’s married to his new boss.
Dir: Charles Vidor. Cast: Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready
110 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Tuesday – June 30, 2026

6:30 AM Footsteps in the Dark (1941)
An aspiring mystery writer stumbles on to a real murder.
Dir: Lloyd Bacon. Cast: Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Ralph Bellamy
96 mins

8:30 AM The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938)
A doctor plots crimes so he can study criminal psychology.
Dir: Anatole Litvak. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Claire Trevor, Humphrey Bogart
87 mins

10:00 AM Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939)
An FBI agent risks his life to infiltrate Nazi sympathizers in the U.S.
Dir: Anatole Litvak. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Francis Lederer, George Sanders
110 mins

4:15 PM Cornered (1946)
A World War II veteran hunts down the Nazi collaborators who killed his wife.
Dir: Edward Dmytryk. Cast: Dick Powell, Walter Slezak, Micheline Cheirel
102 mins

6:15 PM The Long Night (1947)
A veteran tries to free his former love from a sadistic lover.
Dir: Anatole Litvak. Cast: Henry Fonda, Barbara Bel Geddes, Vincent Price
97 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

If you’re really looking forward to these or other mystery-themed TV specials coming up in June, be sure to leave a comment below!

In case you’re interested in seeing the rest of this month’s television mystery movies, here’s the May television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for May 2026 on Turner Classic Movies channel

And here is the page on my site with plenty of entries about movies and television shows you may enjoy:

Cozy Mystery List TV and Movie Section – all you have to do is click on the link to go to that page on my site.

It seems like it is taking me longer and longer to get these monthly mystery movie schedules together. Sometimes I just get so absorbed in either the movies that I recognize, the actors and actresses, or the directors. I keep a list of the movies that I want to DVR – so I can watch them when I feel the urge.

As I got May 2026’s schedule together, I thought that none of Alfred Hitchcock’s mystery movies were going to be shown on Turner Classic Movies channel. That seemed really unusual. However, I just did a word search and found several of his movies.

Anyway, here are is the list of the mystery and crime movies that I did find that will be showing May 2026. I’m already adding some of them to my YouTube TV queue…

***** ***** ***** *****

TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – May 2026

***** ***** ***** *****

Friday – May 1, 2026

4:00 PM Gilda (1946)
A gambler discovers an old flame in South America, but she’s married to his new boss.
Dir: Charles Vidor. Cast: Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready
110 mins

6:00 PM The Big Heat (1953)
A hard-boiled and incorruptible cop investigates a string of murders and single-handedly exposes an organized crime cartel.
Dir: Fritz Lang. Cast: Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Jocelyn Brando
90 mins

10:15 PM Spellbound (1945)
A psychoanalyst falls in love with her new boss, and it is soon discovered that he has difficulty with remembering things as he is a troubled amnesiac, who may also be a killer.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov
118 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Saturday – May 2, 2026

6:45 AM Miracles for Sale (1939)
A magician turns detective to investigate murder and a phony seance.
Dir: Tod Browning. Cast: Robert Young, Florence Rice, Frank Craven
71 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Sunday – May 3, 2026

10:15 PM The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
A frustrated wife seduces a drifter into murdering her husband.
Dir: Tay Garnett. Cast: Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway
113 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Tuesday – May 5, 2026

9:15 AM Thirteen Women (1932)
A mysterious Eurasian tries to murder the 12 boarding school roommates who treated her like an outsider.
Dir: George Archainbaud. Cast: Irene Dunne, Ricardo Cortez, Jill Esmond
60 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Friday – May 8, 2026

6:15 PM Non-Stop New York (1937)
After witnessing a murder in New York, a British chorus girl flees to London and finds herself as the intended victim of a murder plot.
Dir: Robert Stevenson. Cast: John Loder, Anna Lee, Francis L. Sullivan
71 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Saturday – May 9, 2026

9:45 PM Salvatore Giuliano (1962)
The rise and fall of one of Sicily’s most notorious bandits of the 1940s is chronicled in a series of flashbacks.
Dir: Francesco Rosi. Cast: Salvo Randone, Frank Wolff, Pietro Cammarata
124 mins
*****In Italian*****

***** ***** ***** *****

Sunday – May 10, 2026

12:00 AM The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
Years after a murder drove them apart, an heiress tries to win back her lost love.
Dir: Lewis Milestone. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott
116 mins

2:15 AM Born to Kill (1947)
A murderer marries a young innocent then goes after her more experienced sister.
Dir: Robert Wise. Cast: Claire Trevor, Lawrence Tierney, Walter Slezak
92 mins

4:00 AM Dillinger (1945)
The legendary gunman plots a series of daring heists.
Dir: Max Nosseck. Cast: Lawrence Tierney, Edmund Lowe, Anne Jeffreys
70 mins

8:00 AM The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
A possessive son’s efforts to keep his mother from remarrying threaten to destroy his family.
Dir: Orson Welles. Cast: Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter, Agnes Moorehead
88 mins
*****Not a mystery. Terrific movie*****

10:00 AM The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
Years after a murder drove them apart, an heiress tries to win back her lost love.
Dir: Lewis Milestone. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott
116 mins

12:00 PM Mildred Pierce (1945)
A woman’s ambitions for her daughter drastically impact her life.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott
113 mins

2:15 PM The Catered Affair (1956)
A working-class mother fights to give her daughter a big wedding whether the girl wants it or not.
Dir: Richard Brooks. Cast: Bette Davis, Ernest Borgnine, Debbie Reynolds
93 mins
*****Not a mystery. Terrific movie.*****

***** ***** ***** *****

Monday – May 11, 2026

9:45 AM Murder, My Sweet (1944)
Detective Philip Marlowe’s search for a two-timing woman leads him to blackmail and murder.
Dir: Edward Dmytryk. Cast: Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley
95 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Tuesday – May 12, 2026

2:00 AM The Bride Wore Black (1968)
When her husband is shot on their wedding day, a newlywed turned widow seeks out the killers and eliminates them one by one in an act of vengeance.
Dir: François Truffaut/ Cast: Jeanne Moreau, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michel Bouquet
107 mins
*****In French*****

6:00 AM The Breaking Point (1950)
A desperate fishing boat captain rents his ship to some gunmen on the lam.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: John Garfield, Patricia Neal, Phyllis Thaxter
97 mins

7:45 AM Border Incident (1949)
Police try to crack down on the illegal immigration racket.
Dir: Anthony Mann. Cast: Ricardo Montalban, George Murphy, Howard da Silva
96 mins

9:30 AM Mystery in Mexico (1948)
An insurance agent searches Mexico for a missing colleague.
Dir: Robert Wise. Cast: William Lundigan, Jacqueline White, Ricardo Cortez
66 mins

10:45 AM The Big Steal (1949)
A man is on the trail of a thief who stole a $300,000 Army payroll, but there is someone else after him – a woman.
Dir: Don Siegel. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, William Bendix
71 mins

12:00 PM The Hitch-Hiker (1953)
A dangerous madman kidnaps two businessmen on a hunting trip.
Dir: Ida Lupino. Cast: Edmond O’Brien, Frank Lovejoy, William Talman
71 mins

1:15 PM Jeopardy (1953)
A woman desperately seeks help to prevent her trapped husband from drowning.
Dir: John Sturges. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Ralph Meeker
69 mins

2:30 PM Second Chance (1953)
A crooked boxer falls for a gangster’s moll on the run in Mexico.
Dir: Rudy Maté. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Linda Darnell, Jack Palance
82 mins

4:00 PM His Kind of Woman (1951)
A deported gangster causes problems for guests at a Mexican resort.
Dir: John Farrow. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, Vincent Price
122 mins

6:15 PM Out of the Past (1947)
A private eye tries to escape his past by running a gas station in a small town, but it catches up to him.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas
97 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Thursday – May 14, 2026

7:30 AM The Phenix City Story (1955)
A crusading lawyer takes on the corrupt machine running a Southern town.
Dir: Phil Karlson. Cast: John McIntire, Richard Kiley, Kathryn Grant
100 mins

9:15 AM While the City Sleeps (1956)
Reporters compete to catch a serial killer.
Dir: Fritz Lang. Cast: Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders
99 mins

11:00 AM We Who Are About to Die (1936)
A San Quentin inmate’s death row conviction is reversed.
Dir: Christy Cabanne. Cast: Preston Foster, Ann Dvorak, John Beal
82 mins

12:30 PM Badlands (1973)
A teenager from a dead-end town decides to join a charming older boy on his shooting spree through Montana’s badlands.
Dir: Terrence Malick. Cast: Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates
95 mins

2:15 PM Blanche Fury (1948)
The childless widow of Allan Fury bequeaths his estate to her relatives, but Allan’s illegitimate son who masquerades as a servant hopes to grab the estate for himself.
Dir: Marc Allegret. Cast: Stewart Granger, Valerie Hobson, Michael Gough
94 mins

4:00 PM Madeleine (1950)
A beautiful young woman stands trial for poisoning her lover.
Dir: David Lean. Cast: Ann Todd, Norman Woland, Ivan Desny
101 mins

6:00 PM Agatha (1979)
Based on the actual 11-day disappearance of famed mystery writer Agatha Christie in 1926, the film fictionalizes her whereabouts during that time.
Dir: Michael Apted. Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Timothy Dalton, Timothy West
98 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Friday – May 15, 2026

1:45 AM The Last of Sheila (1973)
A game of murder among wealthy vacationers turns into the real thing.
Dir: Herbert Ross. Cast: James Coburn, Raquel Welch, Dyan Cannon
120 mins
*****Really good mystery movie. I usually don’t look forward to watching movies from the 1970s. This one really surprised me (pleasantly!)

4:00 AM After the Thin Man (1936)
Married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles try to clear Nora’s cousin of a murder charge.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke. Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, James Stewart
112 mins

7:30 AM Mandalay (1934)
A woman with a past tries to get rid of a former lover.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Kay Francis, Ricardo Cortez, Warner Oland
65 mins

2:30 PM Blondie Johnson (1933)
A female crook fights her way from poverty to the top of the underworld.
Dir: Ray Enright. Cast: Joan Blondell, Chester Morris, Allen Jenkins
68 mins

3:45 PM Frisco Jenny (1932)
A district attorney prosecutes his own mother for murder.
Dir: William A. Wellman. Cast: Ruth Chatterton, Louis Calhern, Helen Jerome Eddy
72 mins

8:00 PM Mirage (1965)
A biochemist suffers memory lapses, finds bad guys after him, and has no idea why.
Dir: Edward Dmytryk. Cast: Gregory Peck, Diane Baker, Walter Matthau
109 mins

10:00 PM Arabesque (1966)
A university professor gets mixed up with international spies and a two-timing woman.
Dir: Stanley Donen. Cast: Gregory Peck, Sophia Loren, Alan Badel
105 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Sunday – May 17, 2026

12:30 AM Strangers on a Train (1951)
A man’s joking suggestion that he and a chance acquaintance trade murders turns deadly.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker
96 mins

2:30 AM Dial M for Murder (1954)
A straying husband frames his wife for the murder of the man he’d hired to kill her.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings
105 mins

4:30 AM Wait Until Dark (1967)
A blind woman fights against drug smugglers who’ve invaded her home.
Dir: Terence Young. Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna
108 mins

10:15 AM Strangers on a Train (1951)
A man’s joking suggestion that he and a chance acquaintance trade murders turns deadly.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker
96 mins

10:30 PM Moonstruck (1987)
A levelheaded young woman falls in love with her fiance’s brother in a Brooklyn Italian-American neighborhood.
Dir: Norman Jewison. Cast: Cher, Nicolas Cage, Vincent Gardenia
102 mins
***** Not a mystery. I enjoy this movie every time I see it!*****

***** ***** ***** *****

Monday – May 18, 2026

12:00 PM Little Women (1933)
The four March sisters fight to keep their family together and find love while their father is off fighting the Civil War.
Dir: George Cukor. Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Joan Bennett, Paul Lukas
115 mins
*****Not a mystery. I think this is the very best “Little Women” movie I have seen.*****

***** ***** ***** *****

Wednesday – May 20, 2026

6:00 AM They Live by Night (1948)
After an unjust prison sentence, a young innocent gets mixed-up with hardened criminals and a violent escape.
Dir: Nicholas Ray. Cast: Cathy O’Donnell, Farley Granger, Howard da Silva
95 mins

8:00 AM A Woman’s Secret (1949)
A retired singer takes on a protégé only to be betrayed by her.
Dir: Nicholas Ray. Cast: Maureen O’Hara, Melvyn Douglas, Gloria Grahame
85 mins

9:45 AM Born to Be Bad (1950)
An ambitious girl steals a rich husband but keeps her lover on the side.
Dir: Nicholas Ray. Cast: Joan Fontaine, Robert Ryan, Zachary Scott
94 mins

1:30 PM On Dangerous Ground (1952)
A New York detective falls for the blind sister of a rural killer sought by a victim’s father.
Dir: Nicholas Ray. Cast: Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Ward Bond
82 mins

3:00 PM Party Girl (1958)
A showgirl and a crooked lawyer try to break with a powerful mob boss.
Dir: Nicholas Ray. Cast: Robert Taylor, Cyd Charisse, Lee J. Cobb
99 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Friday – May 22, 2026

11:30 AM Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
The Brewster sisters are spinster pillars of Brooklyn society, except for their secret penchant for poisoning old male callers with their homemade elderberry wine, to end the men’s loneliness!
Dir: Frank Capra. Cast: Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey
118 mins
****More a comedy than a mystery…*****

***** ***** ***** *****

Wednesday – May 27, 2026

10:00 PM The Bad Seed (1956)
An eight year old girl–a quintessential psychopath–kills a schoolmate, an old woman, an apartment janitor and prompts the suicide of her despairing mother before fate intervenes bringing this “bad seed” to her own premature finish.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy. Cast: Gage Clarke, Jesse White, Joan Croyden
129 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Thursday – May 28, 2026

4:00 PM The Women (1939)
A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell
132 mins
*****Not a mystery. Excellent movie – In case you haven’t seen this classic movie yet, notice there are no male actors in it…*****

***** ***** ***** *****

Friday – May 29, 2026

2:15 AM The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947)
Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck and Alexis Smith star in this thriller of an artist who can only find inspiration in murder and of the two women who inspire him, the two women he loves – The Two Mrs. Carrolls. When artist Geoffrey Carroll meets Sally Morton while on a fishing trip to Scotland, romance sparks between the …
Dir: Peter Godfrey. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Alexis Smith
99 mins
*****Yow-zaa! Terrific mystery movie…*****

4:00 AM High Sierra (1941)
An aging ex-con sets out to pull one more big heist.
Dir: Raoul Walsh. Cast: Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Curtis
100 mins

6:00 AM Jezebel (1938)
Julie Marsden has a place in New Orleans society and a man who adores her, Preston Dillard. But she scandalizes society and her beau when she insists on wearing a stunning red gown to a ball that requires ladies to be dressed in white. Marsden’s headstrong action begins a chain of events that will reveal both her raw viciousness …
Dir: William Wyler. Cast: Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, George Brent
104 mins
*****If you haven’t seen this non mystery movie, make sure to DVR it. The entire cast is terrific, as well as William Wyler directing.

7:45 AM The Long Night (1947)
A veteran tries to free his former love from a sadistic lover.
Dir: Anatole Litvak. Cast: Henry Fonda, Barbara Bel Geddes, Vincent Price
97 mins

8:00 PM Cape Fear (1962)
A released convict decides to menace and wreak havoc on the family of his defense lawyer.
Dir: J. Lee Thompson. Cast: Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen
105 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Saturday – May 30, 2026

4:15 PM The Split (1968)
A gang of thieves plots to rob the Los Angeles Coliseum box office during a Rams game.
Dir: Gordon Flemyng. Cast: Jim Brown, Diahann Carroll, Ernest Borgnine
90 mins

6:00 PM The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Hard-boiled detective Sam Spade gets caught up in the murderous search for a priceless statue.
Dir: John Huston. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George
100 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Sunday – May 31, 2026

12:30 AM House of Numbers (1957)
A man tries to spring his twin brother from prison.
Dir: Russell Rouse. Cast: Jack Palance, Barbara Lang, Harold J. Stone
92 mins

10:00 AM House of Numbers (1957)
A man tries to spring his twin brother from prison.
Dir: Russell Rouse. Cast: Jack Palance, Barbara Lang, Harold J. Stone
92 mins

3:00 PM The Breaking Point (1950)
A desperate fishing boat captain rents his ship to some gunmen on the lam.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: John Garfield, Patricia Neal, Phyllis Thaxter
97 mins

4:45 PM Detour (1945)
A hitchhiker takes on a dead man’s identity only to face blackmail by an unscrupulous woman.
Dir: Edgar G. Ulmer. Cast: Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake
68 mins

6:00 PM Get Carter (1971)
A small-time gangster searches for the truth behind his brother’s death.
Dir: Mike Hodges. Cast: Michael Caine, Ian Hendry, Britt Ekland
112 mins

8:00 PM Klute (1971)
A low-key small town detective journeys to New York City to investigate the murder of a friend and discovers that both the killer and the victim were clients of the same high-class call girl.
Dir: Alan J. Pakula. Cast: Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi
114 mins

10:00 PM Play Misty for Me (1971)
The life of a disc jockey is turned upside down after a romantic encounter with an obsessed fan.
Dir: Clint Eastwood. Cast: Clint Eastwood, Jessica Walter, Donna Mills
102 mins
*****I remember seeing (and enjoying!) this movie many years ago, and I plan on seeing it again now that they are showing it on the Turner Classic Movies channel.

***** ***** ***** *****

If you’re really looking forward to these or other mystery-themed TV specials coming up in May, be sure to leave a comment below!

In case you’re interested in seeing the rest of this month’s television mystery movies, here’s the April television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for April 2026 on Turner Classic Movies channel

And here is the page on my site with plenty of entries about movies and television shows you may enjoy:

Cozy Mystery List TV and Movie Section – all you have to do is click on the link to go to that page on my site.