Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime: 3183 Films to Buy & Rent
Collector, The (1965)
- Dir. William Wyler
Feat. Terence Stamp, Samantha Eggar
- Terence Stamp plays a disturbed butterfly collector who kidnaps a girl in the hope that she will grow to love him. Truly memorable chiller maintains…
Face of Fu Manchu (1965)
- Dir. Don Sharp
Feat. Christopher Lee, Nigel Green, James Robertson-Justice
- Revival of Sax Rohmer's 1920s suspense tales based around arch–villain Fu Manchu's attempts to take over the West. This first outing with…
Flight of the Phoenix, The (1965)
- Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. James Stewart, Richard Attenborough, Peter Finch…
- One of the great survival–adventure films has an all–star cast crash landing their cargo plane deep in the Sahara, with no obvious means…
Ipcress File, The (1965)
- Dir. Sidney J. Furie
Feat. Michael Caine, Nigel Green, Guy Doleman…
- An academic James Bond–style thriller involving kidnapping, espionage, mysterious tapes and corrupt authorities. Stylised photography and an…
Major Dundee (1965)
- Dir. Sam Peckinpah
Feat. Charlton Heston, Richard Harris, Dana (Jim) Hutton…
- Important homage–critique of the Western from dir. Peckinpah, with Heston playing a misanthropic prison warden who pursues a murderous Apache…
Mirage (1965)
- Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Gregory Peck, Diane Baker, Walter Matthau…
- An excellent example of the Hitchcockian thriller with Peck an amnesiac caught up in the murder of a philanthropist.
Oshima's Outlaw Sixties (Pleasures of the Flesh, Violence at Noon a.k.a. Violence at High Noon, Sing a Song of Sex, Japanese Summer: Double Suicide, Three Resurrected Drunkards) (1965-1968)
- Dir. Nagisa Oshima
- Five films from provocative Japanese director Nagisa Oshima, all from the 60's, when he formed his own film production company and enjoyed the most…
Pierrot Le Fou (Crazy Pete) (1965)
- Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina
- A striking example of the French New Wave. It's kiss, kiss, bang, bang all the way with Jean Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina as maverick intellectual…
Dead Ringer (1964)
- Dir. Paul Henreid
Feat. Bette Davis
- Enjoyable, high camp star vehicle for Bette Davis who is driven by jealousy to murder her twin sister in order to assume her identity. Bette, of…
Diamonds of the Night (1964)
- Dir. Jan Nemec
Feat. Ladislav Jansky, Antonin Kumbera, Irma Bischofova
- Extraordinarily intense account, told with almost no dialogue, of two Jewish teenagers running for their lives after escaping from a train bound for…