Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Suspense/Crime: 3100 Films to Rent
Blood On the Sun (1945)
- Dir. Frank Lloyd
Feat. James Cagney, Sylvia Sidney, Porter Hall
- Minor Cagney suspense vehicle is distinguished by its unusual setup: Cagney plays a newspaper man in 1920s Japan who uncovers a military plot for…
Detour (1945)
- Dir. Edgar G. Ulmer
Feat. Tom Neal, Ann Savage
- Often touted as the best B–movie ever made, this blistering film noir upstaged many of the Hollywood main features it was paired with. Short on…
Dillinger (1945)
- Dir. Max Nosseck
Feat. Lawrence Tierney
- Lawrence Tierney stars in this robust B–Movie biopic as the notorious gangster who declared war on America's banking system.
Fallen Angel (1945)
- Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. Dana Andrews, Alice Faye, Linda Darnell
- Follow–up to Preminger's film noir LAURA stars Andrews as a penniless drifter who falls in love with beautiful waitress Stella (Darnell) so…
Seventh Veil, The (1945)
- Dir. Compton Bennett
Feat. James Mason, Ann Todd
- Renowned film serves up psychiatry in bite sized chunks as a concert pianist is cured of her complexes by a shrink intent on fixing her up with the…
Spellbound (1945)
- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck
- Beguiling Hitchcock, with Ingrid Bergman psychoanalyzing murder suspect Gregory Peck. Famed dream sequence by Salvador Dali.
Thin Man Goes Home, The (1945)
- Dir. Richard Thorpe
Feat. William Powell, Myrna Loy, Lucile Watson…
- Nick and Nora's reputation precedes them as they wrap up another murder mystery while visiting Nick's parents. The penultimate film in the popular…
Christmas Holiday (1944)
- Dir. Robert Siodmak
Feat. Deanna Durbin, Gene Kelly
- Considered one of the bleakest Film Noirs of the 1940s, casting musical star Deanna Durbin in a rare serious role as a woman who marries an…
Gaslight (1944)
- Dir. George Cukor
Feat. Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Joseph Cotten
- Menacing, atmospheric psycho–thriller in which Ingrid Bergman marries suave romantic Charles Boyer, unaware of his murderous obsession to find…
Ministry of Fear (1944)
- Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Ray Milland, Marjorie Reynolds, Carl Esmond…
- Fritz Lang's classic film noir focuses on a man who, upon being released from an insane asylum, unwittingly discovers a piece of microfilm intended…