TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – February 2026

February is upon us! We had a very cold (for us!) January here in San Antonio, and it looks like February is going to be even colder — which makes it the ideal time to cozy up on your favorite sofa/recliner and either read a Cozy Mystery or watch a mystery or crime movie. [Unfortunately, the Turner Classic Movies (TCM) channel isn’t showing a whole lot of mysteries this month, although there are a few good ones to look forward to…]

Oh, and before I forget, if you’re a fan of Lionel, Ethel, and/or John Barrymore — on Tuesday, February 24 TCM will be showing “Rasputin and the Empress” (1932). It is the only time all three of the Barrymore siblings were in a movie together. (I happen to be a fan, so will be watching it again.)

Also, the Turner Classic Movies channel Star of the Month for February is … Bugs Bunny (?!!!?). So set your mode of DVR to catch a whole lot of Bugs Bunny cartoons throughout February. I’m guessing I’ll be saving them to watch with my granddaughter during her next trip down here.

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TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – February 2026

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Sunday – February 1, 2026

8:00 AM 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

10:00 AM Talk About a Stranger (1952)
Small-town gossips rage over the arrival of a mysterious stranger.
Dir: David Bradley. Cast: George Murphy, Nancy Reagan, Billy Gray
65 mins

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

Wednesday – February 4, 2026

11:00 PM The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Three old friends and World War I veterans become involved in bootlegging in New York during Prohibition. Two of the friends become rival liquor sellers, while the third is a prosecutor determined to wipe out illegal liquor businesses.
Dir: Raoul Walsh. Cast: James Cagney, Priscilla Lane, Humphrey Bogart
104 mins

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

Thursday – February 5, 2026

11:00 AM The Last Gangster (1937)
When a notorious gangster gets out of prison, he vows revenge on the wife who left him.
Dir: Edward Ludwig. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, James Stewart, Rose Stradner
81 mins

6:30 PM Five Came Back (1939)
Survivors of a jungle plane crash realize that their repaired airplane can only carry five passengers.
Dir: John Farrow. Cast: Chester Morris, Lucille Ball, Wendy Barrie
75 mins

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Friday – February 6, 2026

11:45 AM My Blood Runs Cold (1965)
A headstrong heiress falls for a young man who claims they are reincarnations of past lovers.
Dir: William Conrad. Cast: Troy Donahue, Joey Heatherton, Barry Sullivan
104 mins

1:30 PM Ten Little Indians (1966)
Party guests at a remote mansion have been brought together to pay for past crimes.
Dir: George Pollock. Cast: Hugh O’Brian, Shirley Eaton, Fabian
92 mins

4:45 PM Five Minutes to Live (1961)
A deranged bandit holds a bank president’s wife hostage.
Dir: Bill Karn. Cast: Johnny Cash, Donald Woods, Cay Forester
74 mins

6:15 PM Who Killed Teddy Bear? (1965)
In New York, a disco hostess is stalked by a sexual predator and she requests help from a vice squad detective who takes a personal interest in the case.
Dir: Joseph Cates. Cast: Sal Mineo, Juliet Prowse, Jan Murray
91 mins

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Saturday – February 7, 2026

1:45 PM Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964)
A medium and her husband stage a kidnapping in order for her to pretend to solve the crime and achieve fame.
Dir: Bryan Forbes. Cast: Kim Stanley, Richard Attenborough, Margaret Lacey
116 mins

4:00 PM Deathtrap (1982)
Sidney Bruhl is a formerly successful writer of Broadway thrillers who is trying to recover from the failure of his latest play. When Sidney returns to his wife Myra, a rich woman with a heart problem who is prone to hysterics, he tells her of his jealousy and humiliation upon the receipt of the first play of a former student. …
Dir: Sidney Lumet. Cast: Michael Caine, Christopher Reeve, Dyan Cannon
115 mins

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Sunday – February 8, 2026

12:00 AM Vice Squad (1953)
The head of an escort ring joins forces with a vice cop to solve a murder.
Dir: Arnold Laven. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Paulette Goddard, K.T. Stevens
88 mins

6:00 AM The Honeymoon Killers (1969)
Two very-much-in-love con artists–a sadistic, corpulent nurse and a conscience-free ex-con–prey on lonely women as they plot to fleece and slaughter a succession of rich spinsters and widows.
Dir: Leonard Kastle. Cast: Shirley Stoler, Tony Lo Bianco, Mary Jane Higby
106 mins

8:00 AM Deep Valley (1947)
A farmer’s daughter helps an escaped convict.
Dir: Jean Negulesco. Cast: Ida Lupino, Dane Clark, Wayne Morris
104 mins

10:00 AM Vice Squad (1953)
The head of an escort ring joins forces with a vice cop to solve a murder.
Dir: Arnold Laven. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Paulette Goddard, K.T. Stevens
88 mins

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Tuesday – February 10, 2026

7:15 AM 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

8:45 AM Once a Thief (1965)
A young ex-con trying to go straight gets caught up in another criminal scheme.
Dir: Ralph Nelson. Cast: Alain Delon, Ann-Margret, Van Heflin
107 mins

12:30 PM Yellow Canary (1943)
A socialite poses as a Nazi spy to mask her activities as a British agent.
Dir: Herbert Wilcox. Cast: Anna Neagle, Richard Greene, Nova Pilbeam
84 mins

4:15 PM The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
The famed writer risks his reputation to defend a Jewish army officer accused of treason.
Dir: William Dieterle. Cast: Paul Muni, Joseph Schildkraut, Gale Sondergaard
123 mins

6:15 PM Fury (1936)
An innocent man escapes a lynch mob then returns for revenge.
Dir: Fritz Lang. Cast: Sylvia Sidney, Spencer Tracy, Walter Abel
94 mins

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Wednesday – February 11, 2026

1:15 AM Undercurrent (1946)
A sheltered woman realizes that either her husband or his mysterious brother is a psychopath.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli. Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Robert Taylor, Robert Mitchum
116 mins

3:30 AM The Haunting (1963)
You may not believe in ghosts…but you cannot deny terror! Hill House has a reputation for evil. The mysterious New England mansion has been the scene of grisly murders. But when four people spend the night, they find themselves trapped by The Haunting. Anthropologist Dr. John Markway, who seeks to disprove the legends; …
Dir: Robert Wise Cast: Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson
112 mins

10:00 PM Charley Varrick (1973)
A band of small-time crooks accidentally steals the mob’s money.
Dir: Don Siegel. Cast: Walter Matthau, Joe Don Baker, Felicia Farr
111 mins

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Thursday – February 12, 2026

6:00 AM Yellow Canary (1943)
A socialite poses as a Nazi spy to mask her activities as a British agent.
Dir: Herbert Wilcox. Cast: Anna Neagle, Richard Greene, Nova Pilbeam
84 mins

4:30 PM Murder She Said (1961)
When nobody will believe she witnessed a murder, elderly sleuth Miss Marple takes a job as a maid to ferret out clues.
Dir: George Pollock. Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Arthur Kennedy, Muriel Pavlow
86 mins
****Very loosely based on Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple.*****

6:00 PM Murder Most Foul (1964)
Elderly sleuth Miss Marple joins a small-town theatre to investigate a murder.
Dir: George Pollock. Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Ron Moody, Charles Tingwell
90 mins
****Very loosely based on Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple.*****

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Friday – February 13, 2026

6:00 PM Charade (1963)
A young woman returns home from vacation to find her elegant apartment stripped and her husband murdered.
Dir: Stanley Donen. Cast: Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau
114 mins

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Sunday – February 15, 2026

7:00 AM Little Caesar (1930)
A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Glenda Farrell
80 mins

8:30 AM The Letter (1940)
A woman claims to have killed in self-defense, until a blackmailer turns up with incriminating evidence.
Dir: William Wyler. Cast: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson
97 mins

10:15 AM 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

12:00 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

2:00 PM 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

4:00 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

6:00 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 White Heat (1949)
A government agent infiltrates a gang run by a mother-fixated psychotic.
Dir: Raoul Walsh. Cast: James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O’Brien
114 mins

10:00 PM In Cold Blood (1967)
Two vagrants try to outrun the police after committing a savage crime in this real-life shocker.
Dir: Richard Brooks. Cast: Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe
134 mins

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Monday – February 16, 2026

12:30 AM Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
On one of the hottest days of August 1972, three amateur bank robbers plan to hold up a Brooklyn bank. A nice simple robbery: Walk in, take the money, and run. Unfortunately, the supposedly uncomplicated heist suddenly becomes a bizarre nightmare as everything that could go wrong does.
Dir: Sidney Lumet. Cast: Al Pacino, John Cazale, Carol Kane
125 mins

2:45 AM Shaft (1971)
A slick black detective enlists gangsters and African nationals to fight the mob.
Dir: Gordon Parks. Cast: Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi
98 mins

4:45 AM The Window (1949)
A boy who always lies witnesses a murder but can’t get anyone but the killer to believe him.
Dir: Ted Tetzlaff. Cast: Barbara Hale, Arthur Kennedy, Paul Stewart
73 mins

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Thursday – February 19, 2026

3:15 AM The Big House (1930)
An attempted prison break leads to a riot.
Dir: George Hill. Cast: Chester Morris, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone
80 mins

5:00 AM Weary River (1929)
A jailed criminal’s life turns around when he fronts the prison band.
Dir: Frank Lloyd. Cast: Richard Barthelmess, Betty Compson, Louis Natheaux
89 mins

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Thursday – February 26, 2026

12:30 AM The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
Tom Ripley craves the life very rich Dickie Greenleaf leads. Dickie’s father, a wealthy ship builder, asks Tom to bring his playboy son back home to America, but Tom has other ideas…
Dir: Anthony Minghella Cast: Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law
139 mins

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Friday – February 27, 2026

8:00 PM 12 Angry Men (1957)
A jury holdout tries to convince his colleagues to vote not guilty.
Dir: Sidney Lumet. Cast: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley
95 mins

12:00 AM Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
An aging American judge presides over the trial of Nazi war criminals.
Dir: Stanley Kramer. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, William Shatner
190 mins

3:15 AM 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

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

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for January 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.