TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – August 2026

August 2026! Can you believe we’ve already hit the half way mark for 2026?! I can’t!

Seeing that this is a blog for Cozy Mystery lovers, let me start by saying that on Tuesday, August 25 and Wednesday, August 26 the Turner Classic Movies channel will be featuring four Nancy Drew mystery movies staring Bonita Granville.
Nancy Drew: Detective, Nancy Drew… Reporter, Nancy Drew… Trouble Shooter, and Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase. I have seen various other Nancy Drew shows/movies – but none of them seemed as close to the novels than these, and Bonita Granville IS (well, almost!) Nancy Drew. So, if you’re a fan of the old Nancy Drew mystery books, you might want to watch these movies. (They are all from the late 1930s, so don’t expect any fancy computer-generated things.)

Also, I have seen several renditions of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women novel, and I think this is by far the best. I know it’s not a mystery, but if you’re a fan of this novel, be sure to see the 1933 Little Women movie on Saturday, August 22.

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TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – August 2026

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Saturday – August 1, 2026

10:00 PM Midnight Lace (1960)
A young woman can’t get anyone to believe she’s being stalked.
Dir: David Miller. Cast: Doris Day, Rex Harrison, John Gavin
108 mins

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

Sunday – August 2, 2026

12:00 AM The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
International spies kidnap a doctor’s son when he stumbles on their assassination plot.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: James Stewart, Doris Day, Brenda De Banzie
119 mins

2:15 AM Storm Warning (1951)
While visiting relatives in a small town, Marsha Mitchell witnesses the beating death of a man at the hands of the Klan and soon discovers that the whole town is controlled by the group–and that her loutish brother-in-law is a member. District Attorney Burt Rainey finally breaks the stranglehold of the hooded terrorists, …
Dir: Stuart Heisler. Cast: Ginger Rogers, Ronald Reagan, Doris Day
93 mins

10:00 AM Across the Pacific (1942)
An American agent tries to keep Axis spies from blowing up the Panama Canal.
Dir: John Huston. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet
97 mins

4:00 PM We’re No Angels (1955) CHRISTMAS
After escaping Devil’s Island, three offbeat prisoners help a goodhearted family outwit a scheming relative.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Aldo Ray, Peter Ustinov
106 mins
*****I will be recording this non-mystery movie so that I can watch it during the Christmas holiday season.***

6:00 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

8:00 PM Knock on Any Door (1949)
A crusading lawyer fights to save a juvenile delinquent charged with murder.
Dir: Nicholas Ray. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, John Derek, George Macready
100 mins

10:00 PM The Harder They Fall (1956)
A cynical press agent exposes inhuman conditions in the boxing game.
Dir: Mark Robson. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Rod Steiger, Jan Sterling
109 mins

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

Monday – August 3, 2026

12:00 AM Dead Reckoning (1947)
A tough veteran sets out to solve his war buddy’s murder.
Dir: John Cromwell. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lizabeth Scott, Morris Carnovsky
100 mins

2:00 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

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

Tuesday – August 4, 2026

2:00 PM The Gazebo (1960)
A suburban couple tries to cope with a murder victim whose body refuses to stay put.
Dir: George Marshall. Cast: Glenn Ford, Debbie Reynolds, Carl Reiner
100 mins
*****More a comedy than a mystery, with a terrific cast.*****

8:00 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

9:45 PM Dear Heart (1964)
A middle-aged postmistress falls for an engaged man during a convention in New York.
Dir: Delbert Mann. Cast: Glenn Ford, Geraldine Page, Angela Lansbury, Michael Anderson Jr.
114 mins
*****I love this movie! Not a mystery.*****

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

Wednesday – August 5, 2026

12:00 PM Hollow Triumph (1948)
A crook on the lam poses as a psychiatrist.
Dir: Steve Sekely, Paul Henreid. Cast: Paul Henreid, Joan Bennett, Eduard Franz
83 mins

1:30 PM The Woman on the Beach (1947)
A coast guardsman begins to think his mistress’s blind husband can really see.
Dir: Jean Renoir. Cast: Joan Bennett, Robert Ryan, Charles Bickford
71 mins

4:15 PM The Woman in the Window (1944)
A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.
Dir: Fritz Lang. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond Massey
107 mins

6:00 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

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

Thursday – August 6. 2026

4:00 PM Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993)
A husband and wife find themselves involved in a murder mystery.
Dir: Woody Allen. Cast: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Jerry Adler
104 mins

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

Friday – August 7, 2026

6:00 AM The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1937)
A chic jewel thief in England falls in love with one of her marks.
Dir: Richard Boleslawski. Cast: Joan Crawford, William Powell, Robert Montgomery
98 mins

7:45 AM The Bishop Murder Case (1930)
Quick-witted private investigator Philo Vance is in search of a cryptic killer. The body of Joseph Cochrane Robin is discovered pierced by an arrow with a note that contains a snippet of the nursery rhyme “Who Killed Cock Robin”, which is curiously signed the Bishop. Vance is on the case but the pressure to uncover the …
Dir: David Burton. Cast: Basil Rathbone, Leila Hyams, Roland Young
88 mins

4:00 PM Fingers at the Window (1942)
A magician uses hypnosis to create an army of murderers.
Dir: Charles Lederer. Cast: Lew Ayres, Laraine Day, Basil Rathbone
80 mins

5:30 PM The Woman in Green (1945)
Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of seemingly unrelated murders.
Dir: Roy William Neill. Cast: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Hillary Brooke
68 mins

6:45 PM Dressed to Kill (1946)
Sherlock Holmes sets out to find why people are killing each other over a seemingly inexpensive music box.
Dir: Roy William Neill. Cast: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Patricia Morison
72 mins

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

Saturday – August 8, 2026

8:15 AM The Getaway (1972)
When a bank robbery goes bad, an ex-con and his wife take it on the lam.
Dir: Sam Peckinpah. Cast: Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw, Ben Johnson
122 mins

9:30 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 – August 9, 2026

4:00 PM Whirlpool (1950)
The wife of a psycho-analyst falls prey to a devious quack hypnotist when he discovers she is an habitual shoplifter. Then one of his previous patients now being treated by the real doctor is found murdered, with her still at the scene, and suspicion points only one way.
Dir: Otto Preminger. Cast: Gene Tierney, Richard Conte, José Ferrer
98 mins

10:00 PM 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

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

Monday – August 10, 2026

6:00 AM Crime and Punishment, USA (1959)
In an update of the Dostoyevsky classic novel, a murderer believes he can escape the penalties of justice.
Dir: Denis Sanders. Cast: Mary Murphy, Frank Silvera, Marian Seldes
96 mins

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

Tuesday – August 11, 2026

2:00 AM Jack of Diamonds (1967)
A glamorous jewel thief tries to go straight.
Dir: Don Taylor. Cast: George Hamilton, Joseph Cotten, Marie Laforêt
108 mins

10:30 AM The Mad Miss Manton (1938)
A daffy socialite gets her friends mixed up in a murder investigation.
Dir: Leigh Jason. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Sam Levene
65 mins

12:00 PM 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

8:00 PM The Lady Eve (1941)
A shy millionaire, homeward bound after two years collecting snakes in the Brazilian jungle, encounters a gold-digger aboard an ocean liner.
Dir: Preston Sturges. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn
94 mins
***** Not a mystery, but an excellent, funny movie.*****

10:00 PM Ball of Fire (1941)
A group of professors takes in a nightclub singer hiding from the law to protect her gangster boyfriend.
Dir: Howard Hawks. Cast: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Oscar Homolka
111 mins
***** Not a mystery, but another terrific, funny movie. What couldn’t Barbara Stanwyck do?!!! *****

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Wednesday – August 12, 2026

12:00 AM Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
A neurotic invalid accidentally overhears a phone conversation plotting her own murder.
Dir: Anatole Litvak Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, Ann Richards
89 mins

1:45 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

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

Thursday – August 13, 2026

12:00 PM 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

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

Friday – August 14, 2026

12:30 AM I Want to Live! (1958)
True story of the small-time lady crook who fought to escape the gas chamber.
Dir: Robert Wise. Cast: Susan Hayward, Simon Oakland, Virginia Vincent
120 mins

4:30 AM Deadline at Dawn (1946)
An aspiring actress risks her life to clear a sailor charged with murder.
Dir: Harold Clurman Cast: Susan Hayward, Paul Lukas, Bill Williams
83 mins

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

Saturday – August 15, 2026

5:30 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

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

Monday – August 17, 2026

6:00 AM The Casino Murder Case (1935)
Society sleuth Philo Vance takes on a series of murders at an aging dowager’s mansion.
Dir: Edwin L. Marin. Cast: Paul Lukas, Alison Skipworth, Donald Cook
83 mins

7:30 AM Rendezvous (1935)
A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies.
Dir: William K. Howard. Cast: William Powell, Rosalind Russell, Binnie Barnes
94 mins

11:00 AM Night Must Fall (1937)
A charming young man worms his way into a wealthy woman’s household, then reveals a deadly secret.
Dir: Richard Thorpe. Cast: Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell, Dame May Whitty
117 mins

6:15 PM The Velvet Touch (1948)
After accidentally killing her lecherous producer, a famous actress tries to hide her guilt.
Dir: John Gage. Cast: Rosalind Russell, Leo Genn, Claire Trevor
97 mins

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

Thursday – August 20, 2026

6:30 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

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

Friday – August 21, 2026

4:00 AM The Formula (1980)
A detective is in jeopardy after discovering a synthetic formula for gasoline.
Dir: John G. Avildsen. Cast: George C. Scott, Marlon Brando, Marthe Keller
117 mins

6:00 AM Song of the Thin Man (1947)
Society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles investigate a murder in a jazz club.
Dir: Edward Buzzell Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Keenan Wynn
86 mins

9:15 AM Double Deal (1950)
An oil engineer comes into a fortune when his boss is murdered.
Dir: Abby Berlin. Cast: Marie Windsor, Richard Denning, Taylor Holmes
64 mins

8:00 PM The Narrow Margin (1952)
A tough cop meets his match when he has to guard a gangster’s moll on a tense train ride.
Dir: Richard Fleischer. Cast: Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, Jacqueline White
71 mins

9:30 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

11:00 PM The Killing (1956)
Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one last job before he goes straight and marries his fiancee, Fay. But when George tells his restless wife, Sherry, about the scheme to steal millions from the racetrack where he …
Dir: Stanley Kubrick. Cast: Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards
84 mins

12:30 AM The Sniper (1952)
A troubled young man consumed by hatred toward women embarks on a killing spree.
Dir: Edward Dmytryk. Cast: Adolphe Menjou, Arthur Franz, Gerald Mohr
88 mins

2:15 AM The Outfit (1973)
An ex-con takes on the mob to avenge his brother’s death.
Dir: John Flynn. Cast: Robert Duvall, Karen Black, Roland Lastarza
102 mins

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

Sunday – August 23 2026

6:00 AM 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
*****The absolute best “Little Women” movie! (At least, that’s my opinion…)*****

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

Monday – August 24, 2026

10:00 AM Edge of Doom (1950)
A priest sets out to catch the man who killed one of his colleagues.
Dir: Mark Robson. Cast: Dana Andrews, Farley Granger, Joan Evans
99 mins

12:00 PM While the City Sleeps (1956)
Reporters compete to catch a serial killer.
Dir: Fritz Lang. Cast: Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders
99 mins

8:00 PM Laura (1944)
A hard-boiled detective falls hard for a murder victim. Every man who knew her fell in love with her, and now that she’s dead, the obsessed detective can’t get her out of his mind.
Dir: Otto Preminger. Cast: Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb
88 mins

9:45 PM Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)
A novelist frames himself for murder to prove the fallibility of circumstantial evidence.
Dir: Fritz Lang. Cast: Dana Andrews, Joan Fontaine, Sidney Blackmer
80 mins

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

Tuesday – August 25, 2026

6:45 PM The Truth About Murder (1946)
A prosecutor’s girlfriend sets out to prove a murder suspect is innocent.
Dir: Lew Landers. Cast: Bonita Granville, Morgan Conway, Rita Corday
63 mins

11:00 PM Nancy Drew: Detective (1938)
A teen-aged sleuth investigates a wealthy woman’s disappearance.
Dir: William Clemens. Cast: Bonita Granville, John Litel, James Stephenson
60 mins
*****After seeing Bonita Granville playing Nancy Drew, no other actress could top her. Granville almost was Nancy Drew!*****
Wednesday – August 26, 2026

12:15 AM Nancy Drew… Reporter (1939)
A teen-aged sleuth sets out to prove a young girl innocent of murder charges.
Dir: William Clemens. Cast: Bonita Granville, John Litel, Frank Thomas Jr.
68 mins

1:30 AM Nancy Drew… Trouble Shooter (1939)
A teen-aged sleuth tries to clear one of her father’s friends of a murder charge.
Dir: William Clemens. Cast: Bonita Granville, Frankie Thomas, John Litel
68 mins

2:45 AM Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (1939)
A teen-aged sleuth helps two old ladies deal with the “haunting” of their mansion.
Dir: William Clemens. Cast: Bonita Granville, Frankie Thomas, John Litel
60 mins

8:00 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

10:15 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

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

Thursday – August 27, 2026

12:15 AM Rope (1948)
Two wealthy young men try to commit the perfect crime by murdering a friend.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Dick Hogan, John Dall, Farley Granger
80 mins

6:00 AM Bureau of Missing Persons (1933)
A police chief helps a young bride find her missing husband — or at least his corpse.
Dir: Roy Del Ruth. Cast: Bette Davis, Lewis Stone, Pat O’Brien
73 mins

10:30 AM Satan Met a Lady (1936)
In the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective is caught between a lying seductress and a lady jewel thief.
Dir: William Dieterle. Cast: Bette Davis, Warren William, Alison Skipworth
74 mins

8:00 PM All About Eve (1950)
An ambitious young actress tries to take over a star’s career and love life.
Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Cast: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders
138 mins
*****Not a mystery, but a classic movie.*****

10:30 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, but a terrific movie with a great cast.*****

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

Friday – August 28, 2026

12:30 AM The Little Foxes (1941)
An ambitious woman takes on her corrupt brothers and honest husband in her drive for wealth.
Dir: William Wyler. Cast: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, Dan Duryea, Teresa Wright
116 mins
*****Wow-zee! What a movie!*****

12:15 PM Framed (1975)
An innocent man comes out of prison ready to get even with the people who sent him there.
Dir: Phil Karlso. Cast: Joe Don Baker, Conny Van Dyke, Gabriel Dell
106 mins

6:15 PM The Incident (1967)
Two rowdy teens board a New York City subway and terrorize the passengers.
Dir: Larry Peerce. Cast: Tony Musante, Martin Sheen, Beau Bridges
107 mins

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

Saturday – August 29, 2026

6:00 PM Affair in Trinidad (1952)
A nightclub singer enlists her brother-in-law to track down her husband’s killer.
Dir: Vincent Sherman. Cast: Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, Alexander Scourby
98 mins

8:00 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

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

Sunday – August 30, 2026

10:30 AM Gambling Lady (1934)
Two gamblers fall in love but one is already married to a possible murderer.
Dir: Archie Mayo. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Pat O’Brien
66 mins
*****I don’t think I have seen this movie – so I’m not sure if it’s even a mystery…*****

3:45 PM Foreign Correspondent (1940)
An American reporter covering the war in Europe gets mixed up in the assassination of a Dutch diplomat.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall
119 mins

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

If you’re really looking forward to these or other mystery-themed TV specials coming up in August, 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 July television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for July 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.