Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema > Suspense/Crime: 472 Films to Buy & Rent
Chinese Roulette (Chinesisches Roulette) (1976)
- Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Anna Karina, Margit Carstensen, Brigitte Mira…
- Daunting Fassbinder drama concerning a cheating mother and father unwittingly convinced by their disabled daughter to each take their lovers on a…
Hunter Will Get You (L'Alpagueur) (1976)
- Dir. Philippe Labro
Feat. Jean-Paul Belmondo, Bruno Cremer
- Ice–cool Belmondo thriller about government mercenary who poses undercover as a prisoner to smoke out an insidious criminal mastermind.
Best French Crime Flicks (1975-1981)
- Dir. Georges Lautner, Jose Giovanni, Alain Corneau
Feat. Jean-Paul Belmondo, Alain Delon, Yves Montand
- Three seminal French crime dramas in one collection: THE PROFESSIONAL (1981), THE GYPSY (1975), and CHOICE OF ARMS (1981).
Bullet Train, The (1975)
- Dir. Jun'ya Sato
Feat. Ken Takakura, Sonny Chiba
- Unstoppable, no–holds–barred action vehicle finds Sonny Chiba steering a passenger train rigged with a bomb to explode if its speed drops…
Gypsy, The (Le Gitan) (1975)
- Dir. Jose Giovanni
Feat. Alain Delon, Annie Girardot, Paul Meurisse
- Alain Delon humours the plight of the gypsy as a gangster with a nomadic past. An obscure, moody crime vehicle.
Lost Honor of Katherina Blum, The (1975)
- Dir. Volker Schlondorff
Feat. Angela Winkler, Jurgen Prochnow
- Taken from the novel by Heinrich Boll, this reproach to the powers–that–be in mid–70s West Germany portrays the hardheaded…
French Screen Icons: Alain Delon 2 (Icy Flesh, The Gypsy, Like a Boomerang, A Crime) (1974-1993)
- Feat. Alain Delon
- Four films starring French leading–man Alain Delon.
Icy Flesh (Icy Breasts; Les seins de glace) (1974)
- Dir. Georges Lautner
Feat. Alain Delon, Mireille Darc, Claude Brasseur
- Alain Delon potboiler, with the French leading man succumbing to the wiles of an alluring, if deadly femme fatale. Better known as 'Icy Breasts'.
Nuits Rouges (1974)
- Dir. Georges Franju
Feat. Jacques Champreux, Gayle Hunnicutt
- Another Franju masked adventure launched from Louis Feuillade serials and his own excellent JUDEX, only this time in filmed in a garish, exagerrated…
Burned Barns, The (Les granges brulées) (1973)
- Dir. Jean Chapot
Feat. Alain Delon, Simone Signoret
- Moody provincial drama of death and betrayal reunites Delon and Signoret, this time on opposite sides of the law.
More a character study than a…