Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime: 3181 Films to Buy & Rent
Stonestreet: Who Killed the Centrefold Model? (1977)
- Dir. Russ Mayberry
Feat. Barbara Eden, Joseph Mascolo, Joan Hackett…
- "Edgy" TV movie with Barbara Eden as female private detective going undercover as a porno actress to find a millionaire's missing daughter.
Summerfield (1977)
- Dir. Ken Hannam
Feat. John Waters, Charles Tingwell, Nick Tate
- A low–key but atmospheric mystery from the Australian New Wave of the 1970s, in which a well–meaning replacement teacher (Tate) arrives…
Sweeney! (1977)
- Dir. David Wickes
Feat. John Thaw, Dennis Waterman, Barry Foster
- An officer in the Flying Squad, a division of London's Metropolitan Police, becomes embroiled in a political scandal when he investigates the death…
All the President's Men (1976)
- Dir. Alan J. Pakula
Feat. Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford
- Chilling account of events that led to the publicising of the Watergate scandal, as uncovered by two reporters. A key film of the 1970s.
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American Friend, The (1976)
- Dir. Wim Wenders
Feat. Bruno Ganz, Samuel Fuller, Nicholas Ray
- Twisting thriller stars Bruno Ganz as an apparently terminally–ill man duped into murder. Dennis Hopper plays the American 'friend', while…
Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw (1976)
- Dir. Mark L. Lester
Feat. Lynda Carter, Marjoe Gortner, Jesse Vint…
- Crime drama starring Lynda Carter (WONDER WOMAN) as an aspiring country music star who falls in with a young hustler who sees himself as a modern day…
Body Of My Enemy, The (Le Corps De Mon Ennemi) (1976)
- Dir. Henri Verneuil
Feat. Jean-Paul Belmondo, Bernard Blier, Marie-France Pisier
- Slow burning thriller with Belmondo as a man wrongly imprisoned for drug trafficking looking to exact revenge on those who framed him.
Trading…
Boomerang (Comme un boomerang) (1976)
- Dir. Jose Giovanni
Feat. Alain Delon, Carla Gravina, Dora Doll
- French crime film with Alain Delon playing an ex–gangster and father of a delinquent teen, who is determined to clear his son's name after he…
Chinese Roulette (Chinesisches Roulette) (1976)
- Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Anna Karina, Margit Carstensen, Brigitte Mira…
- Daunting Fassbinder drama concerning a cheating mother and father unwittingly convinced by their disabled daughter to each take their lovers on a…
Drowning Pool, The (1976)
- Dir. Stuart Rosenberg
Feat. Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward
- Paul Newman returns as P.I Harper to help client Joanne Woodard out of a tight spot before unveiling corruption among the well–to–do in…