For a start, "Cape Fear" comes to mind. Great film noir from 1962 with Robert Mitchum playing the creepiest bad guy yet seen on screen (at that time) against Gregory Peck's man of honor and principle. Peck is put in an impossible position by the ex-con who sets out to terrorize Peck's family and get revenge for being put in jail for 8 years by Peck's testimony.

This is a guy who wants society to pay for the fact that he ended up in jail for raping and beating up young women. My, my, the sense of entitlement some poeople have!

Mitchum plays the part with understated menace, and there is a minimum of blood and violence, a maximum of suspense.

Got any others along the same line? Any good vintage film noir in black and white will do.