Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime: 3183 Films to Buy & Rent
Five Minutes To Live (Door-to-Door Maniac) (1961)
- Dir. Bill Karn
Feat. Johnny Cash, Cay Forrester, Donald Woods…
- Little known B–movie thriller with Cash and Forrester playing hoods who complete a smalltown bank robbery, then start paying suburban house…
Frightened City, The (1961)
- Dir. John Lemont
Feat. Sean Connery, Herbert Lom, John Gregson
- London becomes terrorised by protection racketeers who intend to amalgamate into one vast crime syndicate.
Innocents, The (1961)
- Dir. Jack Clayton
Feat. Deborah Kerr, Peter Wyngarde, Megs Jenkins…
- Notable adaptation of Henry James' ghost story "The Turn of the Screw", featuring Deborah Kerr as a neurotic nanny.
Taking a job at a spooky…
Murder She Said (1961)
- Dir. George Pollock
Feat. Margaret Rutherford, Arthur Kennedy, James Robertson-Justice…
- Miss Marple sees a murder aboard a passing train. First of four accomplished Agatha Christie films starring Margaret Rutherford.
Two Sides of Johnny Cash (Five Minutes to Live + Johnny Cash: An Anthology) (1961)
- Dir. Bill Karn
Feat. Johnny Cash
- Double disc DVD includes Cash's starring turn in sixities B–movie thriller FIVE MINUTES TO LIVE, plus JOHNNY CASH: AN ANTHOLOGY, a tribute…
Underworld U.S.A (1961)
- Dir. Samuel Fuller
Feat. Cliff Robertson
- Revenge story about a 14–year–old who witnesses the murder of his father by four mobsters, and seeks retribution against them years later.
Victim (1961)
- Dir. Basil Dearden
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Sylvia Syms
- As an English barrister blackmailed over his homosexual past, Dirk Bogarde gives a keynote performance, the first in what was to become a long line…
Young Savages, The (1961)
- Dir. John Frankenheimer
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Dina Merrill, Edward Andrews…
- Arresting crime drama set on the segregated streets of East Harlem and focused on a district attorney investigating the murder of a blind Puerto…
Classe Tous Risques (Consider All Risks) (1960)
- Dir. Claude Sautet
Feat. Lino Ventura, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Sandra Milo
- French–Italian gangster film following the exploits of a French mobster (Lino Ventura, based on a real life henchman for the French Gestapo)…
Criminal, The (1960)
- Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Sam Wanamaker, Gregoire Aslan
- Joseph–Losey–directed crime drama of a con sent to prison after a profitable robbery who is tortured by his fellow prisoners to leak…