Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Suspense/Crime: 3100 Films to Rent
Third Man, The (1949)
- Dir. Carol Reed
Feat. Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Trevor Howard
- Superb romantic thriller about a writer in post–war Vienna whose old friend fails to meet him – under mysterious circumstances. Justly…
Trapped (1949)
- Dir. Richard Fleischer
Feat. Lloyd Bridges, Barbara Payton, John Hoyt
- U.S. Treasury Department agents go after a ring of counterfeiters in this fast–paced B–noir.
Whirlpool (1949)
- Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. Gene Tierney, Richard Conte, Jose Ferrer…
- Tierney stars as Mrs Ann Sutton, a beautiful woman who seems to be living the dream in LA with her successful psychoanalyst husband William (Conte),…
A Woman's Vengeance (1948)
- Dir. Zoltan Korda
Feat. Charles Boyer, Ann Blyth, Jessica Tandy…
- Murder caper based on the short story "The Gioconda Smile" by Aldous Huxley.
Charles Boyer (GASLIGHT) plays a philanderer who's accused of…
Blanche Fury (1948)
- Dir. Marc Allegret
Feat. Valerie Hobson, Stewart Granger, Michael Gough…
- Gothic melodrama set around a sombre English country estate, soon to be home to upwardly–ambitious Valerie Hobson. When her secret lover…
Call Northside 777 (1948)
- Dir. Henry Hathaway
Feat. James Stewart, Lee J. Cobb, Richard Conte…
- An enjoyable 'noir' yarn, based on the true story of a man unjustly imprisoned for the murder of a policeman in 1930s Chicago.
Jimmie Stewart…
Cry of the City (1948)
- Dir. Robert Siodmak
Feat. Victor Mature, Richard Conte, Fred Clark…
- Dying cop–killer Conte refuses to confess to a crime, and worries that childhood friend turned flinty cop Mature, will implicate his girlfriend…
Dick Barton Trilogy, The (Dick Barton Special Agent, Dick Barton Strikes Back, Dick Barton at Bay) (1948-1950)
- Dir. Godfrey Grayson, Alfred J. Goulding
Feat. Don Stannard, Sebastian Cabot, George Ford…
- A collection of three campy spy thrillers from Hammer Studios during their successful post–war period, with Don Stannard playing the special…
Drunken Angel (Yoidore tenshi) (1948)
- Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura
- The film that made Toshiro Mifune a star – playing a petty gangster with TB, who turns to an alcoholic doctor for help after a shoot–out.…
Fallen Idol, The (1948)
- Dir. Carol Reed
Feat. Ralph Richardson
- Celebrated, tasteful British thriller about the muddled attempt of an 8–year–old ambassador's son to protect the embassy butler (Ralph…