Subgenre Sampler
Classics > Suspense/Crime: 422 Films to Buy & Rent
- Patrick (1978)
- Dir. Richard Franklin
Feat. Robert Thompson, Sir Robert Helpmann, Susan Penhaligon
- Shrill Aussie B–movie about a comatose hospital patient who utilizes his psychokinetic powers to inflict pain and death.
Takes its time to…
- Black Sunday (1977)
- Dir. John Frankenheimer
Feat. Robert Shaw, Bruce Dern, Marthe Keller…
- A suspenseful, violent terrorist thriller based on Thomas Harris' fictional novel about the pro–Palestinian "Black September" group who…
- Late Show, The (1977)
- Dir. Robert Benton
Feat. Art Carney, Lily Tomlin, Bill Macy
- A grumpy semi–retired private investigator partners with a quirky female client to catch the people who murdered his partner.
- Rolling Thunder (1977)
- Dir. John Flynn
Feat. William Devane, Tommy Lee Jones
- A classic of 70's exploitation, this gritty revenge thriller follows a Vietnam vet who returns home a hero, but soon embarks on a mission of bloody…
- Silver Bears (1977)
- Dir. Ivan Passer
Feat. Michael Caine, Cybill Shepherd, Louis Jourdan…
- Low–key crime comedy caper with Michael Caine playing a financial wizard working with a crime boss to launder money from a Swiss bank.
- Stonestreet: Who Killed the Centrefold Model? (1977)
- Dir. Russ Mayberry
Feat. Barbara Eden, Joseph Mascolo, Joan Hackett…
- "Edgy" TV movie with Barbara Eden as female private detective going undercover as a porno actress to find a millionaire's missing daughter.
- Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw (1976)
- Dir. Mark L. Lester
Feat. Lynda Carter, Marjoe Gortner, Jesse Vint…
- Crime drama starring Lynda Carter (WONDER WOMAN) as an aspiring country music star who falls in with a young hustler who sees himself as a modern day…
- Boomerang (Comme un boomerang) (1976)
- Dir. Jose Giovanni
Feat. Alain Delon, Carla Gravina, Dora Doll
- French crime film with Alain Delon playing an ex–gangster and father of a delinquent teen, who is determined to clear his son's name after he…
- Chinese Roulette (Chinesisches Roulette) (1976)
- Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Anna Karina, Margit Carstensen, Brigitte Mira…
- Daunting Fassbinder drama concerning a cheating mother and father unwittingly convinced by their disabled daughter to each take their lovers on a…
- Lindbergh Kidnapping Case, The (1976)
- Dir. Buzz Kulik
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, Martin Balsam, Cliff DeYoung…
- A TV film dramatising the events of the Lindbergh kidnapping, in which the son of aviators Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh was abducted…