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<\/a>***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\nTURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES \u2013 May 2026<\/h4>\n
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Friday – May 1, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n 4:00 PM Gilda (1946)<\/strong> 6:00 PM The Big Heat (1953)<\/strong> 10:15 PM Spellbound (1945)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n Saturday – May 2, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n 6:45 AM Miracles for Sale (1939)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n Sunday – May 3, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n 10:15 PM The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n Tuesday – May 5, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n 9:15 AM Thirteen Women (1932)<\/strong> Friday – May 8, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n 6:15 PM Non-Stop New York (1937)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n Saturday – May 9, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n 9:45 PM Salvatore Giuliano (1962)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n Sunday – May 10, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n 12:00 AM The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)<\/strong> 2:15 AM Born to Kill (1947)<\/strong> 4:00 AM Dillinger (1945)<\/strong> 8:00 AM The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)<\/strong> 10:00 AM The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)<\/strong> 12:00 PM Mildred Pierce (1945)<\/strong> 2:15 PM The Catered Affair (1956)<\/strong> Monday – May 11, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n 9:45 AM Murder, My Sweet (1944)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n Tuesday – May 12, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n 2:00 AM The Bride Wore Black (1968)<\/strong> 6:00 AM The Breaking Point (1950)<\/strong> 7:45 AM Border Incident (1949)<\/strong> 9:30 AM Mystery in Mexico (1948)<\/strong> 10:45 AM The Big Steal (1949)<\/strong> 12:00 PM The Hitch-Hiker (1953)<\/strong> 1:15 PM Jeopardy (1953)<\/strong> 2:30 PM Second Chance (1953)<\/strong> 4:00 PM His Kind of Woman (1951)<\/strong> 6:15 PM Out of the Past (1947)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n Thursday – May 14, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n 7:30 AM The Phenix City Story (1955)<\/strong> 9:15 AM While the City Sleeps (1956)<\/strong> 11:00 AM We Who Are About to Die (1936)<\/strong> 12:30 PM Badlands (1973)<\/strong> 2:15 PM Blanche Fury (1948)<\/strong> 4:00 PM Madeleine (1950)<\/strong> 6:00 PM Agatha (1979)<\/strong> Friday – May 15, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n 1:45 AM The Last of Sheila (1973)<\/strong> 4:00 AM After the Thin Man (1936)<\/strong> 7:30 AM Mandalay (1934)<\/strong> 2:30 PM Blondie Johnson (1933)<\/strong> 3:45 PM Frisco Jenny (1932)<\/strong> 8:00 PM Mirage (1965)<\/strong> 10:00 PM Arabesque (1966)<\/strong> Sunday – May 17, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n 12:30 AM Strangers on a Train (1951)<\/strong> 2:30 AM Dial M for Murder (1954)<\/strong> 4:30 AM Wait Until Dark (1967)<\/strong> 10:15 AM Strangers on a Train (1951)<\/strong> 10:30 PM Moonstruck (1987)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n Monday – May 18, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n 12:00 PM Little Women (1933)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n Wednesday – May 20, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n 6:00 AM They Live by Night (1948)<\/strong> 8:00 AM A Woman’s Secret (1949)<\/strong> 9:45 AM Born to Be Bad (1950)<\/strong> 1:30 PM On Dangerous Ground (1952)<\/strong> 3:00 PM Party Girl (1958)<\/strong> Friday – May 22, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n 11:30 AM Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n Wednesday – May 27, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n 10:00 PM The Bad Seed (1956)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n Thursday – May 28, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n 4:00 PM The Women (1939) ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n Friday – May 29, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n 2:15 AM The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947)<\/strong> 4:00 AM High Sierra (1941)<\/strong> 6:00 AM Jezebel (1938)<\/strong> 7:45 AM The Long Night (1947)<\/strong> 8:00 PM Cape Fear (1962)<\/strong> Saturday – May 30, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n 4:15 PM The Split (1968)<\/strong> 6:00 PM The Maltese Falcon (1941)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n Sunday – May 31, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n 12:30 AM House of Numbers (1957)<\/strong> 10:00 AM House of Numbers (1957)<\/strong> 3:00 PM The Breaking Point (1950)<\/strong> 4:45 PM Detour (1945)<\/strong> 6:00 PM Get Carter (1971)<\/strong> 8:00 PM Klute (1971)<\/strong> 10:00 PM Play Misty for Me (1971)<\/strong> ***** ***** ***** *****<\/p>\n If you\u2019re really looking forward to these or other mystery-themed TV specials coming up in May, be sure to leave a comment below!<\/p>\n In case you\u2019re interested in seeing the rest of this month\u2019s television mystery movies, here\u2019s the April television mystery movies schedule:<\/p>\n
\nA gambler discovers an old flame in South America, but she’s married to his new boss.
\nDir: Charles Vidor. Cast: Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready
\n110 mins<\/p>\n
\nA hard-boiled and incorruptible cop investigates a string of murders and single-handedly exposes an organized crime cartel.
\nDir: Fritz Lang. Cast: Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Jocelyn Brando
\n90 mins<\/p>\n
\nA 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.
\nDir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov
\n118 mins<\/p>\n
\nA magician turns detective to investigate murder and a phony seance.
\nDir: Tod Browning. Cast: Robert Young, Florence Rice, Frank Craven
\n71 mins<\/p>\n
\nA frustrated wife seduces a drifter into murdering her husband.
\nDir: Tay Garnett. Cast: Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway
\n113 mins<\/p>\n
\nA mysterious Eurasian tries to murder the 12 boarding school roommates who treated her like an outsider.
\nDir: George Archainbaud. Cast: Irene Dunne, Ricardo Cortez, Jill Esmond
\n60 mins<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Non-Stop-New-York-212x300.jpg\")
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\nAfter witnessing a murder in New York, a British chorus girl flees to London and finds herself as the intended victim of a murder plot.
\nDir: Robert Stevenson. Cast: John Loder, Anna Lee, Francis L. Sullivan
\n71 mins<\/p>\n
\nThe rise and fall of one of Sicily’s most notorious bandits of the 1940s is chronicled in a series of flashbacks.
\nDir: Francesco Rosi. Cast: Salvo Randone, Frank Wolff, Pietro Cammarata
\n124 mins
\n*****In Italian*****<\/p>\n
\nYears after a murder drove them apart, an heiress tries to win back her lost love.
\nDir: Lewis Milestone. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott
\n116 mins<\/p>\n
\nA murderer marries a young innocent then goes after her more experienced sister.
\nDir: Robert Wise. Cast: Claire Trevor, Lawrence Tierney, Walter Slezak
\n92 mins<\/p>\n
\nThe legendary gunman plots a series of daring heists.
\nDir: Max Nosseck. Cast: Lawrence Tierney, Edmund Lowe, Anne Jeffreys
\n70 mins<\/p>\n
\nA possessive son’s efforts to keep his mother from remarrying threaten to destroy his family.
\nDir: Orson Welles. Cast: Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter, Agnes Moorehead
\n88 mins
\n*****Not a mystery. Terrific movie*****<\/p>\n
\nYears after a murder drove them apart, an heiress tries to win back her lost love.
\nDir: Lewis Milestone. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott
\n116 mins<\/p>\n
\nA woman’s ambitions for her daughter drastically impact her life.
\nDir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott
\n113 mins<\/p>\n
\nA working-class mother fights to give her daughter a big wedding whether the girl wants it or not.
\nDir: Richard Brooks. Cast: Bette Davis, Ernest Borgnine, Debbie Reynolds
\n93 mins
\n*****Not a mystery. Terrific movie.*****<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Murder-My-Sweet-249x300.jpg\")
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\nDetective Philip Marlowe’s search for a two-timing woman leads him to blackmail and murder.
\nDir: Edward Dmytryk. Cast: Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley
\n95 mins<\/p>\n
\nWhen 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.
\nDir: Fran\u00e7ois Truffaut\/ Cast: Jeanne Moreau, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michel Bouquet
\n107 mins
\n*****In French*****<\/p>\n
\nA desperate fishing boat captain rents his ship to some gunmen on the lam.
\nDir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: John Garfield, Patricia Neal, Phyllis Thaxter
\n97 mins<\/p>\n
\nPolice try to crack down on the illegal immigration racket.
\nDir: Anthony Mann. Cast: Ricardo Montalban, George Murphy, Howard da Silva
\n96 mins<\/p>\n
\nAn insurance agent searches Mexico for a missing colleague.
\nDir: Robert Wise. Cast: William Lundigan, Jacqueline White, Ricardo Cortez
\n66 mins<\/p>\n
\nA man is on the trail of a thief who stole a $300,000 Army payroll, but there is someone else after him – a woman.
\nDir: Don Siegel. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, William Bendix
\n71 mins<\/p>\n
\nA dangerous madman kidnaps two businessmen on a hunting trip.
\nDir: Ida Lupino. Cast: Edmond O’Brien, Frank Lovejoy, William Talman
\n71 mins<\/p>\n
\nA woman desperately seeks help to prevent her trapped husband from drowning.
\nDir: John Sturges. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Ralph Meeker
\n69 mins<\/p>\n
\nA crooked boxer falls for a gangster’s moll on the run in Mexico.
\nDir: Rudy Mat\u00e9. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Linda Darnell, Jack Palance
\n82 mins<\/p>\n
\nA deported gangster causes problems for guests at a Mexican resort.
\nDir: John Farrow. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, Vincent Price
\n122 mins<\/p>\n
\nA private eye tries to escape his past by running a gas station in a small town, but it catches up to him.
\nDir: Jacques Tourneur. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas
\n97 mins<\/p>\n
\nA crusading lawyer takes on the corrupt machine running a Southern town.
\nDir: Phil Karlson. Cast: John McIntire, Richard Kiley, Kathryn Grant
\n100 mins<\/p>\n
\nReporters compete to catch a serial killer.
\nDir: Fritz Lang. Cast: Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders
\n99 mins<\/p>\n
\nA San Quentin inmate’s death row conviction is reversed.
\nDir: Christy Cabanne. Cast: Preston Foster, Ann Dvorak, John Beal
\n82 mins<\/p>\n
\nA teenager from a dead-end town decides to join a charming older boy on his shooting spree through Montana’s badlands.
\nDir: Terrence Malick. Cast: Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates
\n95 mins<\/p>\n
\nThe 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.
\nDir: Marc Allegret. Cast: Stewart Granger, Valerie Hobson, Michael Gough
\n94 mins<\/p>\n
\nA beautiful young woman stands trial for poisoning her lover.
\nDir: David Lean. Cast: Ann Todd, Norman Woland, Ivan Desny
\n101 mins<\/p>\n
\nBased on the actual 11-day disappearance of famed mystery writer Agatha Christie in 1926, the film fictionalizes her whereabouts during that time.
\nDir: Michael Apted. Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Timothy Dalton, Timothy West
\n98 mins<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Blondie-Johnson-211x300.jpg\")
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\nA game of murder among wealthy vacationers turns into the real thing.
\nDir: Herbert Ross. Cast: James Coburn, Raquel Welch, Dyan Cannon
\n120 mins
\n*****Really good mystery movie. I usually don’t look forward to watching movies from the 1970s. This one really surprised me (pleasantly!)<\/p>\n
\nMarried sleuths Nick and Nora Charles try to clear Nora’s cousin of a murder charge.
\nDir: W. S. Van Dyke. Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, James Stewart
\n112 mins<\/p>\n
\nA woman with a past tries to get rid of a former lover.
\nDir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Kay Francis, Ricardo Cortez, Warner Oland
\n65 mins<\/p>\n
\nA female crook fights her way from poverty to the top of the underworld.
\nDir: Ray Enright. Cast: Joan Blondell, Chester Morris, Allen Jenkins
\n68 mins<\/p>\n
\nA district attorney prosecutes his own mother for murder.
\nDir: William A. Wellman. Cast: Ruth Chatterton, Louis Calhern, Helen Jerome Eddy
\n72 mins<\/p>\n
\nA biochemist suffers memory lapses, finds bad guys after him, and has no idea why.
\nDir: Edward Dmytryk. Cast: Gregory Peck, Diane Baker, Walter Matthau
\n109 mins<\/p>\n
\nA university professor gets mixed up with international spies and a two-timing woman.
\nDir: Stanley Donen. Cast: Gregory Peck, Sophia Loren, Alan Badel
\n105 mins<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Alfred-Hitchcock-212x300.jpg\")
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\nA man’s joking suggestion that he and a chance acquaintance trade murders turns deadly.
\nDir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker
\n96 mins<\/p>\n
\nA straying husband frames his wife for the murder of the man he’d hired to kill her.
\nDir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings
\n105 mins<\/p>\n
\nA blind woman fights against drug smugglers who’ve invaded her home.
\nDir: Terence Young. Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna
\n108 mins<\/p>\n
\nA man’s joking suggestion that he and a chance acquaintance trade murders turns deadly.
\nDir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker
\n96 mins<\/p>\n
\nA levelheaded young woman falls in love with her fiance’s brother in a Brooklyn Italian-American neighborhood.
\nDir: Norman Jewison. Cast: Cher, Nicolas Cage, Vincent Gardenia
\n102 mins
\n***** Not a mystery. I enjoy this movie every time I see it!*****<\/p>\n
\nThe four March sisters fight to keep their family together and find love while their father is off fighting the Civil War.
\nDir: George Cukor. Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Joan Bennett, Paul Lukas
\n115 mins
\n*****Not a mystery. I think this is the very best “Little Women” movie I have seen.*****<\/p>\n
\nAfter an unjust prison sentence, a young innocent gets mixed-up with hardened criminals and a violent escape.
\nDir: Nicholas Ray. Cast: Cathy O’Donnell, Farley Granger, Howard da Silva
\n95 mins<\/p>\n
\nA retired singer takes on a prot\u00e9g\u00e9 only to be betrayed by her.
\nDir: Nicholas Ray. Cast: Maureen O’Hara, Melvyn Douglas, Gloria Grahame
\n85 mins<\/p>\n
\nAn ambitious girl steals a rich husband but keeps her lover on the side.
\nDir: Nicholas Ray. Cast: Joan Fontaine, Robert Ryan, Zachary Scott
\n94 mins<\/p>\n
\nA New York detective falls for the blind sister of a rural killer sought by a victim’s father.
\nDir: Nicholas Ray. Cast: Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Ward Bond
\n82 mins<\/p>\n
\nA showgirl and a crooked lawyer try to break with a powerful mob boss.
\nDir: Nicholas Ray. Cast: Robert Taylor, Cyd Charisse, Lee J. Cobb
\n99 mins<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Arsenic-and-Old-Lace-211x300.jpg\")
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\nThe 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!
\nDir: Frank Capra. Cast: Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey
\n118 mins
\n****More a comedy than a mystery…*****<\/p>\n
\nAn 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.
\nDir: Mervyn LeRoy. Cast: Gage Clarke, Jesse White, Joan Croyden
\n129 mins<\/p>\n
\nA happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.
\nDir: George Cukor Cast: Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell
\n132 mins
\n*****Not a mystery. Excellent movie – In case you haven’t seen this classic movie yet, notice there are no male actors in it…*****<\/p>\n
\nHumphrey 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 …
\nDir: Peter Godfrey. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Alexis Smith
\n99 mins
\n*****Yow-zaa! Terrific mystery movie…*****<\/p>\n
\nAn aging ex-con sets out to pull one more big heist.
\nDir: Raoul Walsh. Cast: Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Curtis
\n100 mins<\/p>\n
\nJulie 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 …
\nDir: William Wyler. Cast: Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, George Brent
\n104 mins
\n*****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.<\/p>\n
\nA veteran tries to free his former love from a sadistic lover.
\nDir: Anatole Litvak. Cast: Henry Fonda, Barbara Bel Geddes, Vincent Price
\n97 mins<\/p>\n
\nA released convict decides to menace and wreak havoc on the family of his defense lawyer.
\nDir: J. Lee Thompson. Cast: Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen
\n105 mins<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Maltese-Falcon-250x300.jpg\")
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\nA gang of thieves plots to rob the Los Angeles Coliseum box office during a Rams game.
\nDir: Gordon Flemyng. Cast: Jim Brown, Diahann Carroll, Ernest Borgnine
\n90 mins<\/p>\n
\nHard-boiled detective Sam Spade gets caught up in the murderous search for a priceless statue.
\nDir: John Huston. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George
\n100 mins<\/p>\n
\nA man tries to spring his twin brother from prison.
\nDir: Russell Rouse. Cast: Jack Palance, Barbara Lang, Harold J. Stone
\n92 mins<\/p>\n
\nA man tries to spring his twin brother from prison.
\nDir: Russell Rouse. Cast: Jack Palance, Barbara Lang, Harold J. Stone
\n92 mins<\/p>\n
\nA desperate fishing boat captain rents his ship to some gunmen on the lam.
\nDir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: John Garfield, Patricia Neal, Phyllis Thaxter
\n97 mins<\/p>\n
\nA hitchhiker takes on a dead man’s identity only to face blackmail by an unscrupulous woman.
\nDir: Edgar G. Ulmer. Cast: Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake
\n68 mins<\/p>\n
\nA small-time gangster searches for the truth behind his brother’s death.
\nDir: Mike Hodges. Cast: Michael Caine, Ian Hendry, Britt Ekland
\n112 mins<\/p>\n
\nA 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.
\nDir: Alan J. Pakula. Cast: Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi
\n114 mins<\/p>\n
\nThe life of a disc jockey is turned upside down after a romantic encounter with an obsessed fan.
\nDir: Clint Eastwood. Cast: Clint Eastwood, Jessica Walter, Donna Mills
\n102 mins
\n*****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.<\/p>\n