Subgenre Sampler
Classics > Suspense/Crime: 438 Films to Buy & Rent
Phantom Lady (1944)
- Dir. Robert Siodmak
Feat. Alan Curtis, Ella Raines, Virginia Brissac…
- Dark little treat of a thriller focused on a married man who spends a night with a mysterious lady and subsequently finds his wife murdered. The…
Hangmen Also Die (1943)
- Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Brian Donlevy, Walter Brennan, Anna Lee…
- Moody political thriller with Donlevy on the run after assassinating a prominent Nazi and finding shelter with a Czech family as the manhunt consumes…
Le Corbeau (1943)
- Dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot
Feat. Pierre Fresnay
- Fascinating as a wartime allegory made under the German Occupation of France, a small town becomes a hot–bed of paranoia following a rash of…
Ox Bow Incident, The (Strange Incident) (1943)
- Dir. William A. Wellman
Feat. Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Mary Beth Hughes…
- Superlative moral drama in a Western setting, where three lynched cattle rustlers are later proven innocent by the upstanding Henry Ford.
Although…
Power of the Press (1943)
- Dir. Lew Landers
Feat. Guy Kibbee, Lee Tracy, Otto Kruger
- Based on a story by Samuel Fuller. During World War II, a newspaper publisher investigates the murder of a colleague, who was attempting to steer his…
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten
- Teenager Teresa Wright is thrilled when relative Joseph Cotten comes to stay, then less so, gradually realising Uncle Charlie may be a psychopathic…
Day Will Dawn, The (1942)
- Dir. Harold French
Feat. Hugh Williams, Griffith Jones, Deborah Kerr…
- Propaganda fuelled WW2 drama about a foreign journalist reporting on German U–Boats attacking Norwegian ships who finds himself up against the…
Glass Key, The (1942)
- Dir. Stuart Heisler
Feat. Veronica Lake, Alan Ladd, Brian Donlevy
- Alan Ladd re–teams with blonde siren Veronica Lake in this almighty film noir of divided loyalties, crooked politicians, and underworld snares.…
Journey into Fear (1942)
- Dir. Norman Foster
Feat. Joseph Cotten, Dolores Del Rio, Orson Welles…
- Hitchcockian suspenser set around an American engineer's adventures in WW2 Turkey.
Loaded down with a maze–like plot (written by star Joseph…
Keeper of the Flame (1942)
- Dir. George Cukor
Feat. Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Richard Whorf…
- Spencer Tracy plays a top–notch reporter who falls in love with the widow of the deceased national hero he's assigned to investigate. A tight…