Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime: 3183 Films to Buy & Rent
Que La Bete Meure (This Man Must Die) (1969)
- Dir. Claude Chabrol
Feat. Michel Duchaussoy, Jean Yanne, Caroline Cellier
- Thriller based on the book called The Beast Must Die by Cecil Day–Lewis (under the pseudonym Nicholas Blake), about a man who becomes involved…
Some Girls Do (1969)
- Dir. Ralph Thomas
Feat. Richard Johnson, Daliah Lavi, James Villiers…
- Return outing for Richard Johnson's 'Bulldog Drummond' pits the Bond–wannabe against a cabal of mini–skirted fembots and his…
Strange Report (TV Series) (1969)
- Feat. Anthony Quayle, Kaz Garas, Anneke Wills
- Wily Anthony Quayle is Adam Strange, ex–police officer turned criminologist charged with cleaning up murder sprees and other unsolvable cases…
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1969)
- Dir. Abraham Polonsky
Feat. Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Robert Blake…
- This Western comeback from blacklisted director Polonsky (FORCE OF EVIL) focuses (rather ironically) on the manhunt of Robert Blake, who here plays…
A Lovely Way to Die (1968)
- Dir. David Lowell Rich
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Eli Wallach, Sylva Koscina
- Dramatic suspense in which a retired vigilante NYC cop hired to look after a potential murderess ends up unprofessionally mixing business and…
Billion Dollar Brain (1968)
- Dir. Ken Russell
Feat. Michael Caine, Karl Malden, Ed Begley…
- The third 'Harry Palmer' spy caper taken from Len Deighton's series, with the bespectacled Caine this time chasing a meglomaniac Texas…
Boston Strangler, The (1968)
- Dir. Richard Fleischer
Feat. Tony Curtis, Henry Fonda, George Kennedy
- Undeniably fascinating but somewhat static docudrama about placid 1960s serial–killer Albert De Salvo (Tony Curtis), who underwent…
Bride Wore Black, The (La Mariée était en noir) (1968)
- Dir. Francois Truffaut
Feat. Jeanne Moreau, Michel Bouquet, Jean-Claude Brialy…
- Traumatised by her fiance's death, moments before due to be wed, Jeanne Moreau dedicates herself to a long–term plan of revenge, hunting and…
Champions, The (TV Series) (1968-1969)
- Feat. Anthony Nicholls
- A superior, if earnest, sci–fi thriller series with an Anglo–American cast, created by spy–genre guru Monty Berman (The Baron,…
Claude Chabrol Boxset Vol. 1 (Les Biches, Le Boucher, Que La Bete Meure, La Femme Infidele) (1968-1969)
- Dir. Claude Chabrol
- Four classic films from the French master of suspense's late sixties output. Also includes the documentary GRAND MANEGE: THE LIFE AND WORK OF CLAUDE…