Subgenre Sampler
Television > Suspense/Crime: 568 Films to Buy & Rent
Juliet Bravo (TV Series) (1980)
- Feat. Stephanie Turner, David Ellison, Noel Collins
- Massively popular – although rather dated – UK police series focused on a female police officer who takes charge of a fictional…
Oppenheimer (TV Mini-series) (1980)
- Dir. Barry Davis
Feat. Sam Waterston, Shane Rimmer, David Suchet
- Excellent mini–series starring Waterson as nuclear physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, who helped build the atomic bomb for the 'Manhattan…
Tenspeed and Brown Shoe (TV Series) (1980)
- Feat. Ben Vereen, Jeff Goldblum
- Comedic detective show from the 80's following the unlikely crime–fighting partnership between a con–man and an accountant who dreams of…
Armchair Thriller Collection (1979-1981)
- Feat. Ian McKellen, James Bolam, Alun Armstrong
- With memorably unsettling opening credits and exceptional performances and direction, this anthology series became a significant hit for Thames…
Cribb (TV Series) (1979-1980)
- Feat. Alan Dobie
- Superior crime series set in Victorian London, following the wry Detective Sergeant Cribb, a member of Scotland Yard's newly formed CID unit, as he…
Hazell (TV Series) (1978)
- Feat. Nicholas Ball
- Paying homage to classic film noir this ITV crime series centres around a charismatic private detective who tackles blackmail, missing persons cases,…
Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries, The (TV Series) (1977)
- Feat. Shaun Cassidy, Parker Stevenson, Pamela Sue Martin
- Teen dreamboats Shaun Cassidy and Parker Stevenson teamed up as the dogged Hardy Boys in this popular seventies serialization of the paperback…
Murder Most English (TV Series) (The Flaxborough Chronicles) (1977)
- Feat. Anton Rodgers, Christopher Timothy
- Based on the Colin Watson mysteries, this Ever–so–English detective series follows two English detectives as they solve particularly…
Rhinemann Exchange, The (TV Mini-Series) (1977)
- Dir. Burt Kennedy
Feat. Stephen Collins, Larry Hagman, Roddy McDowall…
- Vintage spy thriller follows a US intelligence agent (Collins) on a mission to oversee the exchange of high–altitude gyroscope plans. A little…
Helter Skelter (1976)
- Dir. Tom Gries
Feat. Steve Railsback, George DiCenzo
- Frightening television dramatisation of the Manson Family murders in Los Angeles, that in Steve Railsback (THE STUNTMAN) finds an actor capable of…