Mix-and-match from
the AroVideo archives!
Subgenre Sampler
Cape Fear (1962)
- Dir. J. Lee-Thompson
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Gregory Peck - The original chiller that inspired the recent remake, complete with Bernard Herrmann's bombastic score. Robert Mitchum plays the ex–con…
Blast of Silence (1961)- Dir. Allen Baron
Feat. Allen Baron - Grumpy, low–fi noir presides over the movements of a tetchy contract killer (dir. Baron) as he prepares to whack a two–bit mobster during…
Bad Sleep Well, The (1960)- Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Toshiro Mifune - A contemporary gangster saga that uses a Hamlet–esque narrative to indict corporate and political corruption. Government officials were not…
Criminal, The (1960)- Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Sam Wanamaker, Gregoire Aslan - Joseph–Losey–directed crime drama of a con sent to prison after a profitable robbery who is tortured by his fellow prisoners to leak…
A Bout de Souffle (Breathless) (1959)- Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Daniel Boulanger… - Godard's landmark first film pulls out all the stops in the style department – with Jean–Paul Belmondo as the romantic fugitive,…
Cry Terror! (1958)- Dir. Andrew L. Stone
Feat. James Mason, Inger Stevens, Rod Steiger… - Crime thriller with Rod Steiger as a mad extortionist who forces a New York shop owner (James Mason) to collect a ransom after threatening to blow up…
Elevator to the Gallows (Lift to the Scaffold, aka. Ascenseur Pour L'echafaud) (1958)
- Dir. Louis Malle
Feat. Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly… - A young Jeanne Moreau stars in this elegant thriller about a crime of passion that backfires when the murderer gets trapped in a lift. Ambience par…
Touch of Evil, A (1958)- Dir. Orson Welles
Feat. Charlton Heston, Orson Welles, Zsa Zsa Gabor… - Declaring its virtuosity right from the famous opening–shot, this late film–noir weaves a tale of murder and blackmail in a Mexican…
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)- Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Dana Andrews, Joan Fontaine, Sidney Blackmer… - This bleak film noir from director Fritz Lang is a triumph of style and mood with a cynical take on fate and the human condition. An impeccably…
Female Jungle (1956)- Dir. Bruno VeSota
Feat. Lawrence Tierney, Jayne Mansfield, John Carradine - Lawrence Tierney, in a rare leading role, plays a hard–drinking cop who puzzles over a nightclub murder encumbered with a 'hangover'. Careful…
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