Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema > Suspense/Crime: 470 Films to Buy & Rent
- Shock Treatment (Traitement de Choc) (1973)
- Dir. Alain Jessua
Feat. Alain Delon, Annie Girardot
- Pointed medical chiller set in an anti–aging clinic overseen by Delon. This minor genre film is memorable for Girardot and Delon's risque beach…
- Dirty Money (Un Flic) (1972)
- Dir. Jean-Pierre Melville
Feat. Alain Delon, Richard Crenna, Catherine Deneuve
- Final film by the suspense–specialist Melville (LE SAMOURAI), spins a familiar tale of cops and bank–robbers involving Alain Delon,…
- Don't Torture a Duckling (1972)
- Dir. Lucio Fulci
Feat. Barbara Bouchet, Florinda Bolkan, Tomas Milian…
- A compelling Giallo mystery from Italian master Lucio Fulci (THE BEYOND) following a detective investigating a series of child murders in a southern…
- French Screen Icons: Jean-Paul Belmondo 2 (The Inheritor, Scoumoune: Mafia Warfare, The Body of My Enemy) (1972-1976)
- Feat. Jean-Paul Belmondo
- Three films starring French leading–man Jean–Paul Belmondo.
- French Screen Icons: Jean-Paul Belmondo 3 (The Professional, The Outside Man, The Loner, Amazone) (1972-1987)
- Feat. Jean-Paul Belmondo
- Four films starring French leading–man Jean–Paul Belmondo.
- Inheritor, The (L'Heritier) (1972)
- Dir. Philippe Labro
Feat. Jean-Paul Belmondo, Carla Gravina, Jean Rochefort
- Shadowy thriller in which a wealthy industrialist dies in an air crash but his son suspects foul play. Soon he finds his own life in peril.
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- Max and the Junkmen (Max Et Les Ferrailleurs) (1971)
- Dir. Claude Sautet
Feat. Romy Schneider
- French crime drama set in the noir shaded streets of Paris follows a frustrated detective getting tangled up in a love triangle after commissioning a…
- Widow Couderc, The (La veuve Couderc) (1971)
- Dir. Pierre Granier-Deferre
Feat. Alain Delon, Simone Signoret
- Rustic thriller with Delon as a brooding stranger embroiled in a torrid affair with hard–bitten widow Signoret.
Witty adaptation of a George…
- American Soldier, The (Der Amerikanische Soldat) (1970)
- Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Karl Scheydt, Elga Sorbas, Jan George…
- The third in a loose trilogy of gangster films directed by prolific German iconoclast Rainer Werner Fassbinder early in his career.
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- Borsalino (1970)
- Dir. Jacques Deray
Feat. Jean-Paul Belmondo, Alain Delon, Michel Bouquet
- Delightful seriocomic film of two likeable hoods who become gangland chieftains in 1930s Marseilles. Music by Claude Bolling.