Subgenre Sampler
Classics > Suspense/Crime: 422 Films to Buy & Rent
- Murder by Death (1976)
- Dir. Robert Moore
Feat. Eileen Brennan, Truman Capote, James Coco…
- A classic whodunnit premise is taken within an inch of its life by a knockout cast, here playing a gaggle of famous sleuths and sidekicks who convene…
- Peeper (1976)
- Dir. Peter Hyams
Feat. Michael Caine, Natalie Wood, Kitty Winn…
- Patchy noir send–up with Caine as a poor man's Phillip Marlowe struggling to find a missing woman, with his biggest obstacle being himself.
- Sherlock Holmes in New York (1976)
- Dir. Boris Sagal
Feat. Roger Moore, Patrick Macnee, John Huston…
- Fun addition to the Holmes canon with the great detective pursuing his arch rival Moriarty through New York after his nemesis pulls off a daring bank…
- Hanged Man, The (TV Series) (1975)
- Feat. Colin Blakely, Michael Williams
- Colin Blakely plays a rich industrialist whose success has made him the death target of his shady competitors. Series follows Blakely pretending to…
- Night Moves (1975)
- Dir. Arthur Penn
Feat. Gene Hackman, Susan Clark, Melanie Griffith
- Underrated private–eye yarn with Gene Hackman tracking down a then very young Melanie Griffith. Intelligent fare that leads to a stunning…
- Rosebud (1975)
- Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. Peter O'Toole, Richard Attenborough, Peter Lawford…
- Preminger's penultimate film is sadly a mess. Members of the Palestinian Liberation Army kidnap five heiresses in order to bring attention to their…
- Wilby Conspiracy, The (1975)
- Dir. Ralph Nelson
Feat. Sidney Poitier, Michael Caine, Nicol Williamson…
- Activists Poitier and Caine are stalked by a sadistic policeman in this Apartheid–era suspenser, in which thrills take precedence over politics.
- And Then There Were None (Ten Little Indians) (1974)
- Dir. Peter Collinson
Feat. Oliver Reed, Elke Sommer, Richard Attenborough…
- Agatha Christie’s "Ten Little Indians" receives a clunky, if still entertaining makeover in this stacked international adaptation of the macabre…
- Gambler, The (1974)
- Dir. Karel Reisz
Feat. James Caan, Paul Sorvino, Lauren Hutton…
- A typically gritty 70s crime drama, adapted from a story by Dostoevsky, that boasts a fine performance by James Caan as a well–respected…
- Klansman, The (1974)
- Dir. Terence Young
Feat. Richard Burton, Lee Marvin, Cameron Mitchell…
- Samuel Fuller co–wrote this trashy Southern potboiler, graced with the acting chops of Richard Burton and Lee Marvin as landowner and sheriff…