Subgenre Sampler
Classics > Suspense/Crime: 422 Films to Buy & Rent
- Victim (1961)
- Dir. Basil Dearden
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Sylvia Syms
- As an English barrister blackmailed over his homosexual past, Dirk Bogarde gives a keynote performance, the first in what was to become a long line…
- Young Savages, The (1961)
- Dir. John Frankenheimer
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Dina Merrill, Edward Andrews…
- Arresting crime drama set on the segregated streets of East Harlem and focused on a district attorney investigating the murder of a blind Puerto…
- Classe Tous Risques (Consider All Risks) (1960)
- Dir. Claude Sautet
Feat. Lino Ventura, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Sandra Milo
- French–Italian gangster film following the exploits of a French mobster (Lino Ventura, based on a real life henchman for the French Gestapo)…
- 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…
- Die 1000 Augen des Dr. Mabuse (The 1000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse) (1960)
- Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Dawn Addams, Peter Van Eyck, Gert Frobe
- The final film in Fritz Lang's DR. MABUSE series, which includes DR. MABUSE, THE GAMBLER and THE TESTAMENT OF DR. MABUSE, is also the director's…
- Midnight Lace (1960)
- Dir. David Miller
Feat. Doris Day, Rex Harrison, John Gavin…
- Suave thriller with a strong dramatic performance for Day who plays a newly–wed in Paris taunted and pursued by a stalker.
- Murder, Inc. (1960)
- Dir. Stuart Rosenberg, Burt Balaban
Feat. Stuart Whitman, Peter Falk, Simon Oakland
- Cinemascope gangland film based on the true story of the eponymous Brooklyn gang that operated in the 1930s. It launched the careers of both Stuart…
- October Man, The (1960)
- Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. John Mills, Joan Greenwood, Edward Chapman…
- Atmospheric pot–boiler in which John Mills plays an amnesiac accused of murder who fights to prove his innocence, apprehend the murderer and…
- Portrait in Black (1960)
- Dir. Michael Gordon
Feat. Lana Turner, Anthony Quinn, Richard Basehart…
- Sudsy potboiler with Turner and Quinn murdering Turner's wealthy husband, unfortunately the perfect crime does not go undetected. Campy fun.
- Rise and Fall of 'Legs' Diamond, The (1960)
- Dir. Budd Boetticher
Feat. Ray Danton, Karen Steele, Elaine Stewart…
- A professionally–shot thriller about the career of New York gangster Jack 'Legs' Diamond, who rose to prominence in the 1920s and maintained…