Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime: 3194 Films to Buy & Rent
Wake In Fright (Outback) (1971)
- Dir. Ted Kotcheff
Feat. Gary Bond, Donald Pleasence, Chips Rafferty…
- After many years in obscurity, this drama has been dusted off and deservingly reappraised as an Australian classic – a waking nightmare of…
When Eight Bells Toll (1971)
- Dir. Etienne Périer
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, Jack Hawkins, Robert Morley…
- Expert hokum from the pen of Alistair Maclean has Anthony Hopkins as a secret agent on a mission to determine the whereabouts of a ship that…
Widow Couderc, The (La veuve Couderc) (1971)
- Dir. Pierre Granier-Deferre
Feat. Alain Delon, Simone Signoret
- Rustic thriller with Delon as a brooding stranger embroiled in a torrid affair with hard–bitten widow Signoret.
Witty adaptation of a George…
Airport (1970)
- Dir. George Seaton, Henry Hathaway
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, Jean Seberg…
- A big–city airport is disrupted one hectic night, with hijackings, bombings, stowaways etc. The whole cast struggle to cope. Adapted from…
American Soldier, The (Der Amerikanische Soldat) (1970)
- Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Karl Scheydt, Elga Sorbas, Jan George…
- The third in a loose trilogy of gangster films directed by prolific German iconoclast Rainer Werner Fassbinder early in his career.
A…
And Soon the Darkness (1970)
- Dir. Robert Fuest
Feat. Pamela Franklin, Michele Dotrice
- Minor slasher thriller concerns a pair of holidaying Brits who run into nasty perils on the backroads of rural France. Not as interesting as dir.…
Borsalino (1970)
- Dir. Jacques Deray
Feat. Jean-Paul Belmondo, Alain Delon, Michel Bouquet
- Delightful seriocomic film of two likeable hoods who become gangland chieftains in 1930s Marseilles. Music by Claude Bolling.
Callan (TV Series) (1970)
- Dir. James Goddard, Voytek
Feat. Edward Woodward
- The bold British TV spy series with Edward Woodward as the cold–blooded but very human secret agent.
Cercle Rouge, Le (The Red Circle) (1970)
- Dir. Jean-Pierre Melville
Feat. Alain Delon, Gian Maria Volonte, Yves Montand…
- A precisely–crafted colour 'noir' from the French master, dir. Melville, which rejigs the usual ingredients into an exemplary heist…
Cold Sweat (De La Part Des Copains) (1970)
- Dir. Terence Young
Feat. Charles Bronson, Liv Ullmann, James Mason
- Tight Charles Bronson vehicle see the tough guy play a retired convict who lives with his wife and daughter in the idyllic French Rivera, until some…