Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Suspense/Crime: 3100 Films to Rent
Bonnie Parker Story, The (1958)
- Dir. William Witney
Feat. Dorothy Provine, Dick Bakalyan, Jack Hogan
- Dorothy Provine is sensational in this low–budget telling the story of the tommy–gun toting 1930s gangster Bonnie Parker,…
Cry Terror! (1958)
- Dir. Andrew L. Stone
Feat. James Mason, Inger Stevens, Rod Steiger…
- Crime thriller with Rod Steiger as a mad extortionist who forces a New York shop owner (James Mason) to collect a ransom after threatening to blow up…
Defiant Ones, The (1958)
- Dir. Stanley Kramer
Feat. Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier
- That well known image of race–hatred – escaped black and white prisoners unwillingly handcuffed together – originated here, with…
It! The Terror From Beyond Space (1958)
- Dir. Edward L. Cahn
Feat. Marshall Thompson, Kim Spalding, Shawn Smith
- 50's sci–fi horror set in a future 1973. A hostile martian life form stows away on a rescue ship heading to Mars to recover survivors of an…
Party Girl (1958)
- Dir. Nicholas Ray
Feat. Robert Taylor, Cyd Charisse, Lee J. Cobb…
- Delicious Nicholas Ray–directed potboiler finds bum–legged Robert Taylor trying to cut ties with the mob. A slinky Cyd Charisse (tearing…
Sea of Sand (Desert Patrol) (1958)
- Dir. Guy Green
Feat. Richard Attenborough, Vincent Ball, Michael Craig…
- Brit war thriller about an army team sent to destroy a German petrol dump in preparation for an attack who are confronted by their enemies in the…
Thunder Road (1958)
- Dir. Arthur Ripley
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Gene Barry, Jacques Aubuchon…
- Effective, gritty road movie about a mountain man moonshiner at war with both authorities and big–city competitors.
An unusually personal…
Vertigo (1958)
- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes…
- Hitchcock at his most daring and surreal weaves a complex tale of neurosis when Jimmy Stewart's detective begins trailing a mysterious woman (Novak).…
Across the Bridge (1957)
- Dir. Ken Annakin
Feat. Rod Steiger, Marla Landi, Noel Willman…
- An underrated and little–known thriller with Steiger playing a shady accountant on the run from the FBI and Scotland Yard, who tries to make…
Fiend Without a Face (1957)
- Dir. Arthur Crabtree
Feat. Marshall Thompson, Kim Parker
- Noteworthy 'alien invader' thriller in which creatures resembling the human brain run amok in a small town. Macabre proceedings are resolved in a…