Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime: 3181 Films to Buy & Rent
Terrorists, The (Ransom) (1974)
- Dir. Caspar Wrede
Feat. Sean Connery, Ian McShane, Jeffry Wickham
- Improbable thriller with Connery as a Norwegian colonel charged with liberating a plane full of hostages in the "country" of Scandinavia.
Truck Turner (1974)
- Dir. Jonathan Kaplan
Feat. Isaac Hayes, Yaphet Kotto, Alan Weeks…
- Neo–noir blaxploitation with soul singer Isaac Hayes playing a professional football player who suffers an injury and turns to bounty hunting…
Badlands (1973)
- Dir. Terrence Malick
Feat. Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek
- Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek are a knock–out as deluded teenage fugitives who chalk up a hefty body count as they flee across country. Based…
Barnaby Jones (TV Series) (1973)
- Feat. Buddy Ebsen, Lee Meriwether
- Forced out of retirement to solve the murder of his son, lanky, milk–drinking Detective Jones is back doing what he does best – catching…
Burned Barns, The (Les granges brulées) (1973)
- Dir. Jean Chapot
Feat. Alain Delon, Simone Signoret
- Moody provincial drama of death and betrayal reunites Delon and Signoret, this time on opposite sides of the law.
More a character study than a…
Callan - The Movie (1973)
- Dir. Voytek
Feat. Edward Woodward, Eric Porter, Peter Egan
- Expanded from the first episode of the hit British TV Series, this feature film depicts secret agent Callan (Edward Woodard) at his wordly…
Cauldron Of Death (Ricco) (1973)
- Dir. Tulio DeMicheli
Feat. Christopher Mitchum, Barbara Bouchet, Malisa Longo
- Masquerading as a B–grade horror, this is actually a melodramatic Italian revenge thriller concerning the son of a murdered mobster who is…
Charley Varrick (1973)
- Dir. Don Siegel
Feat. Walter Matthau, Joe Don Baker, Felicia Farr…
- Walter Matthau makes for a fascinating, unconventional armed robber in this punchy heist picture, trademarked by Don Siegel's famously pacey…
Day of the Jackal (1973)
- Dir. Fred Zinnemann
Feat. Edward Fox, Terence Alexander, Michel Auclair…
- Taut, clinical adaptation of Frederick Forsyth's best–seller with Edward Fox as the icy hit–man who meticulously prepares for the…
Dillinger (1973)
- Dir. John Milius
Feat. Warren Oates, Ben Johnson, Cloris Leachman…
- A tough portait of the Depression–era bank robber that like BONNIE AND CLYDE, invests the criminal with the mythic qualities of the outlaw.…