Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime: 3194 Films to Buy & Rent
Pulp (1972)
- Dir. Mike Hodges
Feat. Michael Caine, Mickey Rooney, Lionel Stander…
- After completing the phenomenal GET CARTER Caine and dir. Hodges reteamed for this lightweight, yet highly watchable comedy thriller.
Caine plays…
Salzburg Connection, The (Top Secret) (1972)
- Dir. Lee H. Katzin
Feat. Barry Newman, Anna Karina, Klaus Maria Brandauer…
- Entertaining espionage tale has Newman tangling with neo–Nazis and spies both in pursuit of the identity of German war criminals. Densely…
Savages (1972)
- Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Sam Waterston, Lewis J. Stadlen, Anne Francine…
- Merchant Ivory's most unexpected film is an allegorical story of a primitive jungle tribe who are interrupted, mid human–sacrifice, by a…
Sleuth (1972)
- Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Feat. Michael Caine, Laurence Olivier
- A supremely cunning, self–reflexive mystery satire based on the hit West End play, with Laurence Olivier and Michael Caine as affable…
Snoop Sisters, The (TV Series) (1972)
- Feat. Helen Hayes, Mildred Natwick
- Two elderly spinsters put down their mystery writing pens to catch perps for real in this dotty, genteel crime series. Starring former Miss Marple,…
Trouble Man (1972)
- Dir. Ivan Dixon
Feat. Ivan Dixon, Robert Hooks, Paul Winfield…
- Blaxploitation movie about a hard–edged but elegant private detective who wades into a drug war in South Central Los Angeles. A studio budget…
Van Der Valk (TV Series) (1972-1992)
- Feat. Barry Foster, Joanna Dunham, Michael Latimer…
- A hugely popular police procedural series starring Barry Foster as Van der Valk, a no–nonsense Dutch detective and head of the Amsterdam CID…
Whodunnit? (TV Series) (1972-1974)
- This fondly–remembered primetime panel game from the 1970's invited viewers to play detective by pitting their wits against a panel of…
You'll Like My Mother (1972)
- Dir. Lamont Johnson
Feat. Patty Duke, Rosemary Murphy, Richard Thomas
- Patty Duke plays a heavily pregnant woman who travels to rural Minnesota to meet her late husband's mother–in–law, who turns out to have…
10 Rillington Place (1971)
- Dir. Richard Fleischer
Feat. Richard Attenborough, Judy Geeson, John Hurt…
- Richard Attenborough re–creates the activities of UK serial–killer John Christie.