Subgenre Sampler
Classics > Suspense/Crime: 438 Films to Buy & Rent
Rear Window (1954)
- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. James Stewart, Grace Kelly
- Convalescing photographer Jimmy Stewart observes what may have been a murder in an opposing apartment. A Hitchcock must.
Ring Of Fear (1954)
- Dir. James Edward Grant
Feat. Clyde Beatty, Mickey Spillane, Pat O'Brien…
- Campy thriller with lion tamer Clyde Beatty and crime writer Mickey Spillane, appearing as themselves, teaming up to track a killer obsessed with a…
Sleeping Tiger (1954)
- Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Dirk Bogarde
- Suave street–crim Dirk Bogarde is sheltered by one of his victims, a psychiatrist who attempts to cure Bogarde's 'illness'. Shot with a baroque…
Suddenly (1954)
- Dir. Lewis Allen
Feat. Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden
- Frank Sinatra impresses in an unsympathetic role: a sneering, cynical war–veteran out to practice his marksmanship on the President of the…
To Catch a Thief (1954)
- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Cary Grant, Grace Kelly
- Hitchcock takes a whimsical approach for this caper about a reformed cat burglar who sets about catching the thief that is imitating his old style.…
Witness to Murder (1954)
- Dir. Roy Rowland
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, George Sanders, Gary Merrill…
- Film noir following a woman who doubts her sanity after witnessing a murder from her apartment window.
While the cops think she is just some…
Beat the Devil (1953)
- Dir. John Huston
Feat. Humphrey Bogart, Gina Lollobrigida, Peter Lorre…
- Spoofing their own suspense movies (such as CASABLANCA and MALTESE FALCON), Humphrey Bogart and dir. Huston produced this comic oddity with the help…
Hitch-Hiker, The (1953)
- Dir. Ida Lupino
Feat. Edmond O'Brien, Frank Lovejoy, William Talman
- Weekend hunters Edmond O’Brien (D.O.A.) and Frank Lovejoy are terrorised by a psychotic, mass–murdering passenger (William Talman) in this…
I Confess (1953)
- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter, Karl Malden
- Striking Wellesian cinematography and an excellent performance by proto–Method actor Montgomery Clift more than make up for minor shortcomings…
Man Who Watched Trains Go By, The (1953)
- Dir. Harold French
Feat. Claude Rains
- Dutch office clerk Claude Rains hurtles on the Paris Express when he stumbles across stolen loot and his boss winds up dead. Based on the Georges…