Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema > Suspense/Crime: 470 Films to Buy & Rent
- Farewell, Friend (Honor Among Thieves) (1968)
- Dir. Jean Herman
Feat. Alain Delon, Charles Bronson
- Dependable French caper, centered on an elaborate heist, with warhorses Branson and Delon thick as thieves in vying to crack the same high security…
- Les Biches (Bad Girls) (1968)
- Dir. Claude Chabrol
Feat. Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jacqueline Sassard, Stephane Audran
- A love–triangle between an heiress, an architect and a young woman, is tested to unsettling effect in this psychological drama. Chabrol…
- Z (1968)
- Dir. Costa-Gavras
Feat. Yves Montand, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Irene Papas
- Pioneering conspiracy thriller based on the true story of the murder of a doctor and the raw sore of Greek political corruption it exposes. Oscars…
- Champagne Murders, The (Le scandale) (1967)
- Dir. Claude Chabrol
Feat. Anthony Perkins, Maurice Ronet, Yvonne Furneaux…
- Claude Chabrol transitions into his revered period of thrillers with this potboiler about a champagne tycoon's partner who suspects his partner's…
- Diabolically Yours (Diaboliquement vĂ´tre) (1967)
- Dir. Julien Duvivier
Feat. Alain Delon, Senta Berger, Sergio Fantoni
- Creepy thriller has amnesiac Delon recovering in his opulent mansion with beautiful wife Berger, living the good life. Trouble comes when he begins…
- French Screen Icons: Alain Delon 1 (Diabolically Yours, The Burned Barns, The Widow Coudrec, Shock Treatment) (1967-1973)
- Feat. Alain Delon
- Four films starring French leading–man Alain Delon.
- Le Samourai (The Samurai) (1967)
- Dir. Jean-Pierre Melville
Feat. Alain Delon
- Alain Delon plays an ultra–cool assassin whose flawless disposition is impenetrable to the Gendarmerie but not to a sexy key witness. Steely…
- Le Deuxieme Souffle (Second Breath) (1966)
- Dir. Jean-Pierre Melville
Feat. Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Raymond Pellegrin
- A gangster escapes from prison and returns to his criminal ways, but a determined inspector is on his tail. Has all the style and restraint we can…
- Made in U.S.A (1966)
- Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Anna Karina, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Marianne Faithful
- Further political horseplay from Godard in the skin of a Nouvelle Vague alternate reality: this time, Anna Karina plays a war journalist on the hunt…
- Oshima's Outlaw Sixties (Pleasures of the Flesh, Violence at Noon a.k.a. Violence at High Noon, Sing a Song of Sex, Japanese Summer: Double Suicide, Three Resurrected Drunkards) (1965-1968)
- Dir. Nagisa Oshima
- Five films from provocative Japanese director Nagisa Oshima, all from the 60's, when he formed his own film production company and enjoyed the most…