TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – March 2026

I am so surprised that Spring is almost here! It seems like I was just decorating the house for Christmas, and springtime will be here this month! It’s already too late for my husband and me to visit one of the beaches south of San Antonio. I remember a friend of mine telling me how congested/crazy Corpus Christi becomes during Spring Break times. Oh well, my husband doesn’t like the beach anyway… (I happen to love it!)

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

TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – March 2026

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

Monday – March 2, 2026

6:00 AM Algiers (1938)
A thief on the run from the law risks his life for love.
Dir: John Cromwell. Cast: Charles Boyer, Hedy Lamarr, Sigrid Gurie
95 mins

8:00 AM Odd Man Out (1947)
A wounded IRA man faces betrayal on all sides when the British put a price on his head.
Dir: Carol Reed. Cast: James Mason, Robert Newton, Kathleen Ryan
116 mins

2:00 PM I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
When broke, would-be architect James Allen is wrongly arrested and convicted for a small-time holdup, he is sent to prison to work on a chain gang. After enduring years of hard labor that kills many prisoners, Allen escapes and builds a successful new life. But his landlady learns the truth and blackmails Allen into marriage, …
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy. Cast: Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Helen Vinson
93 mins

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

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

Tuesday – March 3, 2026

7:45 AM 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

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

Wednesday – March 4, 2026

2:15 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

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

Thursday – March 5, 2026

6:00 PM The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
A man remains young and handsome while his portrait shows the ravages of age and sin.
Dir: Albert Lewin. Cast: George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed
110 mins

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

Sunday – March 8, 2026

7:30 AM Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
Boyhood friends grow up on opposite sides of the law.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke. Cast: Clark Gable, William Powell, Myrna Loy
93 mins

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

Monday – March 9, 2026

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

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

Wednesday – March 11, 2026

1:30 PM The Young Philadelphians (1959)
A young lawyer from the wrong side of town tries to break into society.
Dir: Vincent Sherman. Cast: Paul Newman, Barbara Rush, Alexis Smith
136 mins

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

Thursday – March 12, 2026

6:00 AM 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

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

Friday – March 13, 2026

2:00 PM Mystery Street (1950)
Criminal pathologists try to crack a case with nothing but the victim’s bones to go on.
Dir: John Sturges. Cast: Ricardo Montalbán, Sally Forrest, Bruce Bennett
93 mins

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

Sunday – March 15, 2026

7:45 AM What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
A crazed, aging star torments her sister in a decaying Hollywood mansion.
Dir: Robert Aldrich. Cast: Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono
134 mins

3:30 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
*****I can’t wait!!! I have been waiting and waiting for TCM to re-air this movie! I don’t think it qualifies as a mystery, but I remember enjoying it a whole lot and would recommend it to all of those who love the old, black and white movies from yester-year…*****

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

Monday – March 16, 2026

2:45 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

7:15 AM 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
67 mins

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

Wednesday – March 18, 2026

10:15 AM Miss Pinkerton (1932)
A private duty nurse gets herself mixed up in a murder investigation.
Dir: Lloyd Bacon. Cast: Joan Blondell, George Brent, Ruth Hall
66 mins

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

Saturday – March 21, 2026

3:30 AM Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
When a group of schoolgirls mysteriously disappear, the survivors find their lives changed forever.
Dir: Peter Weir. Cast: Martin Vaughan, Rachel Roberts, Vivean Gray
120 mins

6:00 PM I Accuse! (1958)
True story of writer Emile Zola’s defense of Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish army officer framed by anti-Semites.
Dir: José Ferrer. Cast: José Ferrer, Anton Walbrook, Viveca Lindfors
99 mins

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

Sunday – March 22, 2026

12:00 AM 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

4:15 AM Flamingo Road (1949)
A stranded carnival dancer takes on a corrupt political boss when she marries into small-town society.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Joan Crawford, Zachary Scott, Sydney Greenstreet
94 mins

10:00 AM 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

12:00 PM Sapphire (1959)
A “light-skinned” black co-ed has a penchant for passing as white and hanging at London’s bars at night. When she is found murdered, a number of suspects are considered, including the naive white architectural student who fell in love with her, never suspecting she was black.
Dir: Basil Dearden. Cast: Nigel Patrick, Michael Craig, Yvonne Mitchell
92 mins
*****Remember, this movie is from 1959…*****

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

Monday – March 23, 2026

6:00 AM 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
*****I love this non-mystery movie!*****

6:30 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

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

Tuesday – March 24, 2026

8:00 PM From Headquarters (1933)
A police lieutenant uses scientific methods to solve a decadent playboy’s murder.
Dir: William Dieterle. Cast: George Brent, Margaret Lindsay, Eugene Pallette
64 mins

9:15 PM South of Suez (1940)
A murder defendant falls for his alleged victim’s daughter.
Dir: Lewis Seiler. Cast: George Brent, Brenda Marshall, George Tobias
86 mins

10:45 PM The Man Who Talked Too Much (1940)
A defense lawyer sets out to topple a powerful gangster.
Dir: Vincent Sherman. Cast: George Brent, Virginia Bruce, Brenda Marshall
75 mins

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

Wednesday – March 25, 2026

6:30 AM Special Agent (1935)
A government agent poses as a newspaperman to get the goods on a mobster.
Dir: William Keighley. Cast: Bette Davis, George Brent, Ricardo Cortez
78 mins

3:00 PM Mountain Justice (1937)
A young lawyer defends a hillbilly girl who killed her father in self defense.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Josephine Hutchinson, George Brent, Guy Kibbee
83 mins

6:15 PM Stamboul Quest (1934)
A notorious enemy spy falls for an American medical student during World War I.
Dir: Sam Wood. Cast: Myrna Loy, George Brent, Lionel Atwill
88 mins

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

Thursday – March 26, 2026

8:00 PM Psycho (1960)
A woman on the run gets mixed up with a repressed young man and his violent mother.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin
109 mins

10:00 PM 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

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

Friday – March 27, 2026

12:15 AM 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

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

Saturday – March 28, 2026

11:30 AM The Last Installment (1945)
In this short film, a criminal idolizes the life of a famous gangster… unaware that his hero met a tragic end.
Dir: Walter Hart. Cast: Harold Minjir, Harry Strang, Robert Lewis
18 mins

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

Monday – March 30, 2026

5:15 AM Barrios Altos (1987)
A divorcee investigates her masseuse’s murder.
Dir: Jose Luis Garcia Berlanga. Cast: Victoria Abril, Carmen Conesa, Juanjo Puigcorbé
87 mins
*****In Spanish*****

9:00 AM Intruder in the Dust (1949)
Only a young boy and an old woman stand between an innocent black man and a lynch mob.
Dir: Clarence Brown. Cast: David Brian, Claude Jarman Jr., Juano Hernandez
89 mins

2:30 PM Highway 301 (1950)
A brutal bank robber fights internal divisions within his gang.
Dir: Andrew Stone. Cast: Steve Cochran, Virginia Grey, Gaby Andre
83 mins

4:00 PM 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

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

Tuesday – March 31, 2026

9:15 AM Secret Service of the Air (1939)
A government agent battles smugglers.
Dir: Noel Smith. Cast: Ronald Reagan, John Litel, Ila Rhodes
61 mins

10:30 AM Murder in the Air (1940)
A secret service agent fights to keep enemy spies away from top secret government plans.
Dir: Lewis Seiler. Cast: Ronald Reagan, John Litel, Lya Lys
55 mins

11:45 AM Secret Enemies (1942)
The FBI tracks Nazi agents to a luxury hotel.
Dir: Ben Stoloff. Cast: Craig Stevens, Faye Emerson, John Ridgely
57 mins

1:00 PM Born for Trouble (1942)
Two reporters take on a murder ring at the state pen. Also known by the title “Murder in the Big House.”
Dir: B. Reeves Eason. Cast: Van Johnson, Faye Emerson, George Meeker
59 mins

2:15 PM The Hidden Hand (1942)
The body count rises during the competition for a family inheritance.
Dir: Ben Stoloff. Cast: Craig Stevens, Elisabeth Fraser, Julie Bishop
66 mins

3:30 PM Private Detective (1939)
Rival detectives fall in love when they’re forced to work together.
Dir: Noel Smith Cast: Jane Wyman, Dick Foran, Gloria Dickson
55 mins

4:30 PM The Last Ride (1944)
A detective suspects foul play in a series of accidental deaths.
Dir: D. Ross Lederman. Cast: Richard Travis, Charles Lang, Eleanor Parker
57 mins

5:45 PM Truck Busters (1943)
An independent driver organizes other truckers to fight a corrupt executive.
Dir: B. Reeves Eason. Cast: Richard Travis, Virginia Christine, Charles Lang
58 mins

7:00 PM Escape From Crime (1942)
An ex-con becomes a daredevil photojournalist.
Dir: D. Ross Lederman. Cast: Richard Travis, Julie Bishop, Jackie C. Gleason
51 mins

3:15 AM You Can’t Escape Forever (1942)
Although she’s been demoted to writing the advice column, a newspaperwoman still tries to expose a racketeer.
Dir: Jo Graham. Cast: George Brent, Brenda Marshall, Gene Lockhart
77 mins

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

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

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for February 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.