Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime: 3195 Films to Buy & Rent
Killer is Loose, The (1956)
- Dir. Budd Boetticher
Feat. Joseph Cotten, Rhonda Fleming, Wendell Corey
- Film noir about a bank robber who escapes prison and sets out on a revenge mission to bring down the cop the killed his wife. Leaning heavily into…
Kiss Before Dying, A (1956)
- Dir. Gerd Oswald
Feat. Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Joanne Woodward…
- The first and best version of Ira Levin's (ROSEMARY'S BABY) early novel, in which status–anxious student Wagner plots the murder of his…
Man Escaped, A (1956)
- Dir. Robert Bresson
Feat. Francois Leterrier
- Bresson's films are all extremely controlled in style: no suspense, no histrionics, flat acting, spare and simple camerawork, yet this is an…
Man in the Vault (1956)
- Dir. Andrew V. McLaglen
Feat. William Campbell, Berry Kroeger, Karen Sharpe
- Tommy Dancer is an ordinary man thrust into an extraordinary situation – a locksmith forced into a heist by a ruthless mobster and his…
Man Who Knew Too Much, The (1956)
- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. James Stewart, Doris Day
- Hitchcock remakes his 1934 film and generally comes up trumps with James Stewart and Doris Day as the innocent victims of international espionage.…
Please Murder Me (Please Murder Me!) (1956)
- Dir. Peter Godfrey
Feat. Angela Lansbury, Raymond Burr, Dick Foran…
- Raymond Burr and Angela Lansbury square off in this tough–minded noir about a lawyers who successfully defends his client only to discover…
Run for the Sun (1956)
- Dir. Roy Boulting
Feat. Richard Widmark, Trevor Howard, Jane Greer…
- Righteous remake of THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME has Widmark and Greer running through some almighty foliage desperate to evade smarmy baddie…
Unguarded Moment, The (1956)
- Dir. Harry Keller
Feat. Esther Williams, George Nader, John Saxon…
- Film noir with MGM star Esther Williams playing a High School music teacher and unmarried 'career woman' who is targeted by a stalker.
Although…
While the City Sleeps (1956)
- Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders…
- Considered a vastly under–rated Fritz Lang noir, this newspaper drama provides plenty of social commentary depicting the story of the "Lipstick…
Wrong Man, The (1956)
- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle
- Henry Fonda plays a New York musician whose personal life is dismantled through being falsely accused of robbery. The documentary style well suits…