Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime: 3195 Films to Buy & Rent
Two Mrs Carrolls, The (1947)
- Dir. Peter Godfrey
Feat. Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Alexis Smith
- Bogie plays the baddie in this tense psychodrama – a mad artist who paints his female models before killing them. Barbara Stanwyk is the latest…
Black Angel (1946)
- Dir. Roy William Neill
Feat. Dan Duryea, June Vincent, Peter Lorre…
- The husband of a murdered woman and the wife of the man who was convicted for the killing (Duryea and Vincent) team up to prove his innocence, until…
Blue Dahlia, The (1946)
- Dir. George Marshall
Feat. Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Bendix
- Riveting Raymond Chandler noir teams Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake in their third on–screen pairing as an ex–bomber pilot accused of…
Dark Corner (1946)
- Dir. Henry Hathaway
Feat. Lucille Ball, Clifton Webb, Mark Stevens…
- Expert film noir concerns a private detective (Stevens) living under the shadow of a murder frame–up concocted by villain Clifton Webb (LAURA).…
Dragonwyck (1946)
- Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Feat. Gene Tierney, Vincent Price, Walter Huston
- 1940s gothic thriller. Gene Tierney gets married to the local lord of the manor, before discovering the skeletons in the closet of his big spooky…
Dressed To Kill (1946)
- Dir. Roy Neill
Feat. Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Patricia Morison
- The final of the 14 Rathbone–Bruce 'Sherlock Holmes' adaptations concerning a criminal gang's pursuit of three music–boxes for mysterious…
Green for Danger (1946)
- Dir. Sidney Gilliat
Feat. Sally Gray, Trevor Howard, Alastair Sim
- Sly whodunit finds Trevor Howard and Sally Gray prime suspects in the death of a hospital patient. Cue Scotland Yard’s finest (Alistair Sim), whose…
I See a Dark Stranger (The Adventuress) (1946)
- Dir. Frank Launder
Feat. Deborah Kerr, Trevor Howard, Raymond Huntley…
- Absorbing thriller with Deborah Kerr outstanding as a young Irish woman who despises England so much she becomes a Nazi spy.
Locket, The (1946)
- Dir. John Brahm
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Laraine Day, Brian Aherne…
- Film noir set during the day of a wedding, where a surprise guest tries to convince the groom that his bride–to–be is in fact a murderer…
Man I Love, The (1946)
- Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. Ida Lupino, Robert Alda, Bruce Bennett…
- Romantic drama about a New York lounge singer who becomes homesick and decides to visit her siblings on the West Coast, where she unexpectedly falls…