Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema > Suspense/Crime: 470 Films to Buy & Rent
- Pierrot Le Fou (Crazy Pete) (1965)
- Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina
- A striking example of the French New Wave. It's kiss, kiss, bang, bang all the way with Jean Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina as maverick intellectual…
- Diamonds of the Night (1964)
- Dir. Jan Nemec
Feat. Ladislav Jansky, Antonin Kumbera, Irma Bischofova
- Extraordinarily intense account, told with almost no dialogue, of two Jewish teenagers running for their lives after escaping from a train bound for…
- Hamlet (1964)
- Dir. Grigori Kozintsev
Feat. Innokenti Smoktunovsky
- The legendary Russian version of Shakespeare's play, which visually at least, stands as the greatest yet.
Staged amidst the massive battlements of…
- Doulos, Le (The Finger Man) (1963)
- Dir. Jean-Pierre Melville
Feat. Jean-Paul Belmondo, Serge Reggiani
- Eschewing the French New Wave movement in favour of homage to the then ‘passe’ genre of film noir, dir. Jean–Pierre Melville adds shades of…
- High and Low (1963)
- Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Toshiro Mifune
- Adapted from a crime–novel by Ed McBain, this kidnapping–thriller is a central work in dir. Kurosawa’s series of film noirs, combining…
- Judex (1963)
- Dir. Georges Franju
Feat. Edith Scob, Channing Pollock, Francine Bergé
- Georges Franju's magical remake of Louis Feuillade’s 1916 serial, in which a masked crime fighter seeks revenge on a corrupt banker. A lyrical…
- Knife in the Water (1962)
- Dir. Roman Polanski
Feat. Leon Niemczyk, Jolanta Umecka, Zygmunt Malanowicz
- The old adage 'three is a crowd' is chillingly played out in Polanski's directing debut about a couple's troubled yachting weekend with a…
- Le Combat Dans L'île (1962)
- Dir. Alain Cavalier
Feat. Romy Schneider, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Henri Serre…
- French drama exploring the tension between right and left wing politics in the early 60's, through the romantic conflict faced by a woman (Romy…
- Roman Polanski Collection, The (Knife in the Water, Repulsion, Cul-de-Sac) (1962-1966)
- Dir. Roman Polanski
- The first three features of the Polish master – "Knife in the Water", "Repulsion" and "Cul–de–Sac".
- A Man Called La Rocca (Un nommé La Rocca) (1961)
- Dir. Jean Becker
Feat. Jean-Paul Belmondo, Christine Kaufmann, Nico
- French thriller with Jean Paul Belmondo playing an ex–gangster tracking down the man responsible for putting his friend in prison. Based on the…