Subgenre Sampler
Classics > Suspense/Crime: 438 Films to Buy & Rent
Pepe Le Moko (1937)
- Dir. Julien Duvivier
Feat. Jean Gabin, Mireille Balin
- Jean Gabin plays a super–cool gangster who finds immunity in the Algierian Casbah. Marvellously romantic, this classic of the French golden age…
You Only Live Once (1937)
- Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Henry Fonda, Sylvia Sidney
- An awesome early film noir from dir. Lang with Fonda playing a career criminal determined to go straight, but compelled by fate into murdering a…
Young and Innocent (1937)
- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Nova Pilbeam, Derrick de Marney, Percy Marmont
- A young girl aids a fugitive on the run, who she believes is innocent. Hitch adds some clever twists to his reworking of THE 39 STEPS.
After the Thin Man (1936)
- Dir. W.S. Van Dyke
Feat. William Powell, Myrna Loy, James Stewart…
- That great American screen coupling, William Powell and Myrna Loy, forgo their New Year's celebrations to wittily dissect another murder mystery. A…
Sabotage (1936)
- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Sylvia Sidney, Oscar Homolka, John Loder
- Suspenseful early Hitchcock, with a foreign saboteur terrorising London.
Secret Agent, The (1936)
- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Peter Lorre, Madeleine Carroll, John Gielgud
- Peter Lorre plays a reluctant officer assigned to kill a WW2 spy. Good Hitchcock fare from his early career.
39 Steps, The (1935)
- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Madeleine Carroll, Robert Donat, Peggy Ashcroft
- A ripping yarn about a innocent man embroiled in a spy conspiracy and is chased across Scotland. Set a sophisticated precedent for the spy/thriller…
Crime and Punishment (1935)
- Dir. Josef von Sternberg
Feat. Edward Arnold, Peter Lorre, Marian Marsh
- Modest adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel about a criminology student turned murderer who becomes tortured with remorse.
Petrified Forest, The (1935)
- Dir. Archie Mayo
Feat. Bette Davis, Leslie Howard, Genevieve Tobin…
- Featuring probably Bogart's first classic role, this adaptation of the Robert Sherwood play is set in a remote diner in Arizona where a fugitive…
Man Who Knew Too Much, The (1934)
- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Leslie Banks, Peter Lorre
- Peter Lorre stars in this original version as the villain who kidnaps an innocent man's child to ensure his silence. Budget limitations are overcome…