Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime: 3183 Films to Buy & Rent
Don't Bother to Knock (1952)
- Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. Marilyn Monroe, Richard Widmark
- Marilyn Monroe in her first leading role plays a psychotic babysitter who lures an unwitting Richard Widmark into her world of delusion.
Five Fingers (5 Fingers) (1952)
- Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Feat. James Mason, Danielle Darrieux, Michael Rennie…
- Witty espionage thriller set during the Second World War with Mason as a status–hungry valet who hawks important documents to the Germans in…
Hunted (1952)
- Dir. Charles Crichton
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Kay Walsh, Geoffrey Keen…
- Brit suspense trailing an orphan on the run from his foster parents wrath after an accident who is kidnapped by a wanted criminal who trys to prevent…
Kansas City Confidential (1952)
- Dir. Phil Karlson
Feat. Lee Van Cleef, John Payne, Coleen Gray…
- A grimly tough crime drama set in the Kansas City underworld.
Payne plays an ex–con who is jailed for an unrelated crime, and on release…
Narrow Margin (1952)
- Dir. Richard Fleischer
Feat. Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, Jacqueline White…
- A woman planning to testify against the mob must be protected against their assassins on the train trip from Chicago to Los Angeles.
Niagara (1952)
- Dir. Henry Hathaway
Feat. Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters…
- This bold film provided Marilyn with her first big part, and it's possibly her best. She's a scheming, faithless wife who plots to murder her husband…
Planter's Wife, The (Outpost in Malaya) (1952)
- Dir. Ken Annakin
Feat. Claudette Colbert, Jack Hawkins, Anthony Steel…
- Claudette Colbert and Jack Hawkins star in this fiery actioner as plantation owners under siege from commie bandits. Colbert is a dab hand with a…
Scandal Sheet (1952)
- Dir. Phil Karlson
Feat. Broderick Crawford, Donna Reed, John Derek
- When the editor of a sensationalist newspaper commits an accidental murder, his own staff start to report on the case, and gradually inch closer to…
Sniper, The (1952)
- Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Adolphe Menjou, Arthur Franz, Gerald Mohr…
- Film noir shot on location in San Francisco, with Arthur Franz (THE CAINE MUTINY) playing a disturbed professional driver who harbours misogynistic…
Sudden Fear (1952)
- Dir. David Miller
Feat. Joan Crawford, Jack Palance, Gloria Grahame…
- Enjoyable potboiler with Palance as an ambitious young actor who sets out to seduce and destroy wealthy playwright Crawford. Rollicking…