Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime: 3181 Films to Buy & Rent
Night Moves (1975)
- Dir. Arthur Penn
Feat. Gene Hackman, Susan Clark, Melanie Griffith
- Underrated private–eye yarn with Gene Hackman tracking down a then very young Melanie Griffith. Intelligent fare that leads to a stunning…
Obsession (1975)
- Dir. Brian De Palma
Feat. Cliff Robertson, Genevieve Bujold, John Lithgow
- The director imitates Hitchcock once again, but does it well. This time it's VERTIGO, with an obsessed Cliff Robertson in the Jimmy Stewart role.…
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
- Dir. Peter Weir
Feat. Rachel Roberts, Vivean Gray, Helen Morse…
- Simply one of the best Australian films ever, this elegant mystery, based on the novel by Joan Lindsay, centres around the disappearance of several…
Rosebud (1975)
- Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. Peter O'Toole, Richard Attenborough, Peter Lawford…
- Preminger's penultimate film is sadly a mess. Members of the Palestinian Liberation Army kidnap five heiresses in order to bring attention to their…
Stepford Wives, The (1975)
- Dir. Bryan Forbes
Feat. Katharine Ross, Paula Prentiss, Peter Masterson…
- Beautifully understated, bizarre satire on suburbia and the feminist movement in which the inhabitants of a small town seem curiously contented. …
SWAT (TV Series) (S.W.A.T.) (1975)
- Feat. Steve Forrest, Robert Urich
- One of the tough cop shows of the seventies that follows the covert missions of the LAPD's elite force.
Season 1 (13 episodes) available over 3…
Wilby Conspiracy, The (1975)
- Dir. Ralph Nelson
Feat. Sidney Poitier, Michael Caine, Nicol Williamson…
- Activists Poitier and Caine are stalked by a sadistic policeman in this Apartheid–era suspenser, in which thrills take precedence over politics.
And Then There Were None (Ten Little Indians) (1974)
- Dir. Peter Collinson
Feat. Oliver Reed, Elke Sommer, Richard Attenborough…
- Agatha Christie’s "Ten Little Indians" receives a clunky, if still entertaining makeover in this stacked international adaptation of the macabre…
Black Windmill, The (1974)
- Dir. Don Siegel
Feat. Michael Caine, Delphine Seyrig, Donald Pleasence…
- Michael Caine is in second–hand Harry Palmer–mode as a lone British espionage agent whose son is kidnapped and ransomed for diamonds by a…
Conversation, The (1974)
- Dir. Francis Ford Coppola
Feat. Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield…
- Absorbing account of a bugging–device expert who develops a conscience and slowly uncovers a political scandal in a seemingly normal…