Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime: 3190 Films to Buy & Rent
Family Plot (1976)
- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Bruce Dern, William Devane
- Hitch's last film treads lightly but expertly through a set of small–scale intrigues. Bruce Dern comes up against the creepy William Devane and…
Futureworld (1976)
- Dir. Richard T. Heffron
Feat. Peter Fonda, Yul Brynner
- WESTWORLD sequel is set in a 1985 'fool–proof' theme–park that spawns a new generation of robot doubles threatening to take over the…
Helter Skelter (1976)
- Dir. Tom Gries
Feat. Steve Railsback, George DiCenzo
- Frightening television dramatisation of the Manson Family murders in Los Angeles, that in Steve Railsback (THE STUNTMAN) finds an actor capable of…
Hunter Will Get You (L'Alpagueur) (1976)
- Dir. Philippe Labro
Feat. Jean-Paul Belmondo, Bruno Cremer
- Ice–cool Belmondo thriller about government mercenary who poses undercover as a prisoner to smoke out an insidious criminal mastermind.
Lindbergh Kidnapping Case, The (1976)
- Dir. Buzz Kulik
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, Martin Balsam, Cliff DeYoung…
- A TV film dramatising the events of the Lindbergh kidnapping, in which the son of aviators Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh was abducted…
Lipstick (1976)
- Dir. Lamont Johnson
Feat. Margaux Hemingway, Chris Sarandon, Perry King…
- A trashy yet compulsive thriller in which a gorgeous fashion model (Margaux Hemingway) is raped by a seemingly benign admirer, who dabbles in bizarre…
Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane, The (1976)
- Dir. Nicolas Gessner
Feat. Martin Sheen, Jodie Foster, Alexis Smith
- A precocious Jodie Foster, 13–years–old and home alone, attempts to ward off nosy neighbours and a perverted Martin Sheen in this…
Marathon Man (1976)
- Dir. John Schlesinger
Feat. Laurence Olivier, Dustin Hoffman, Roy Scheider…
- Laurence Olivier and Dustin Hoffman display their thespian prowess in this dark tale of a marathon runner entangled in international espionage. One…
Mikey and Nicky (1976)
- Dir. Elaine May
Feat. Peter Falk, John Cassavetes, Ned Beatty…
- Loosely improvised drama, with a wild–eyed John Cassavetes calling on old pal Peter Falk to help escape the Mob. Turns out he may not be such a…
Murder by Death (1976)
- Dir. Robert Moore
Feat. Eileen Brennan, Truman Capote, James Coco…
- A classic whodunnit premise is taken within an inch of its life by a knockout cast, here playing a gaggle of famous sleuths and sidekicks who convene…