Subgenre Sampler
Classics > Suspense/Crime: 438 Films to Buy & Rent
Fail Safe (1964)
- Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau, Larry Hagman
- Henry Fonda plays the American president struggling to avert an imminent nuclear holocaust, due to a computer malfunction. A nailbiting Cold War…
Gideon's Way (TV Series) (1964-1965)
- Feat. John Gregson
- Superior mid–60s documentary–style police series that centres around the criminal investigations of Commander George Gideon of Scotland…
Hamlet (1964)
- Dir. Grigori Kozintsev
Feat. Innokenti Smoktunovsky
- The legendary Russian version of Shakespeare's play, which visually at least, stands as the greatest yet.
Staged amidst the massive battlements of…
High Bright Sun, The (McGuire, Go Home!) (1964)
- Dir. Ralph Thomas
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, George Chakiris, Susan Strasberg…
- Convoluted espionage tale with Bogarde on the trail of a Cypriot freedom fighter with an American Archaeology student holding the key to his…
Hot Enough For June (1964)
- Dir. Ralph Thomas
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Sylva Koscina, Robert Morley…
- A struggling young writer is plunged into a terrifying world of international espionage while on a seemingly innocent commercial assignment to Prague.
Killers, The (1964)
- Dir. Don Siegel
Feat. Lee Marvin, Clu Gulager, Angie Dickinson…
- Transposed into the garish 60s, Ernest Hemingway's famous story is transformed into a harder, more callous exercise in casual violence and sexual…
Kitten with a Whip (1964)
- Dir. Douglas Heyes
Feat. Ann-Margret, John Forsythe, Peter Brown…
- Ann–Margaret brings white–hot intensity to this cult classic about a teenage girl on the run from the law who blackmails a clueless…
Marnie (1964)
- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Sean Connery, Tippi Hedren, Martin Gabel…
- Rich businessman Sean Connery blackmails kleptomaniac secretary Tippi Hedren into marrying him, thence free to try out his own brand of experimental…
Moon Spinners, The (1964)
- Feat. Hayley Mills, Eli Wallach, Peter McEnery…
- A Hitchcockian thriller for the younger set from Disney in which a young girl (Hayley Mills) becomes involved in a jewel theft in Crete.
Murder Ahoy (1964)
- Dir. George Pollock
Feat. Margaret Rutherford, Lionel Jeffries, Charles Tingwell…
- Rutherford dons Miss Marple's hat again, this time boarding a ship to uncover more murders and a ring of thieves.