Subgenre Sampler
Classics > Suspense/Crime: 438 Films to Buy & Rent
Catacombs (The Woman Who Wouldn't Die) (1966)
- Dir. Gordon Hessler
Feat. Gary Merrill, Jane Merrow
- A minor British thriller in which a domineering woman (Merrow), whose existence becomes inconvenient for her husband (Merrill) and a blackmailed…
Chase, The (1966)
- Dir. Arthur Penn
Feat. Marlon Brando, Robert Redford, Jane Fonda…
- Action–packed Southern potboiler set around the attempts of a sheriff to protect an escaped convict from mob–justice in smalltown…
Deadlier Than the Male (1966)
- Dir. Ralph Thomas
Feat. Richard Johnson, Elke Sommer, Sylva Koscina…
- Retro adventure spy flick compiled of alluring girls with spear guns in trouble after knocking off a couple of oil industry big wigs. This thriller…
Defector, The (1966)
- Dir. Raoul Levy
Feat. Montgomery Clift, Hardy Kruger, Macha Meril…
- Thriller about an American physicist who is blackmailed by the CIA into travelling to East Germany, where he must acquire a microfilm from a…
Funeral in Berlin (1966)
- Dir. Guy Hamilton
Feat. Michael Caine, Oscar Homolka
- Sequel to THE IPCRESS FILE again features Michael Caine as the Harry Palmer, hero of Len Deighton's novel series. This time the espionage functionary…
Gambit (1966)
- Dir. Ronald Neame
Feat. Shirley Maclaine, Michael Caine
- Charming, clever heist flick about a Cockney conman and a kooky showgirl whose brilliantly elaborate plan to steal an invaluable sculpture backfires…
How to Steal a Million (1966)
- Dir. William Wyler
Feat. Audrey Hepburn, Peter O'Toole, Eli Wallach…
- A top cast lifts this romantically–inclined suspense caper, wherein Hepburn must steal a forged sculpture belonging to her own family before it…
Le Deuxieme Souffle (Second Breath) (1966)
- Dir. Jean-Pierre Melville
Feat. Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Raymond Pellegrin
- A gangster escapes from prison and returns to his criminal ways, but a determined inspector is on his tail. Has all the style and restraint we can…
Man in a Suitcase (TV Series) (1966)
- Feat. Richard Bradford, Donald Sutherland, Felicity Kendall…
- Perhaps lesser known (and less innovative) than other suspense series of the 1960s, this ITC production still packs a gritty punch.
Bradford plays…
Rage (1966)
- Dir. Gilberto Gazcón
Feat. Glenn Ford, Stella Stevens, David Reynoso
- Sweaty Mexican American thriller with Glenn Ford playing a self–pitying alcoholic doctor who lives alone in a border town, and finds himself…