Subgenre Sampler
      Classics > Suspense/Crime: 438 Films to Buy & Rent
	  		 
	        
 Charley Varrick (1973) Charley Varrick (1973) 
- Dir. Don Siegel
 Feat. Walter Matthau, Joe Don Baker, Felicia Farr…
- Walter Matthau makes for a fascinating, unconventional armed robber in this punchy heist picture, trademarked by Don Siegel's famously pacey…
 Dillinger (1973) Dillinger (1973)
- Dir. John Milius
 Feat. Warren Oates, Ben Johnson, Cloris Leachman…
- A tough portait of the Depression–era bank robber that like BONNIE AND CLYDE, invests the criminal with the mythic qualities of the outlaw.…
 Don is Dead, The (1973) Don is Dead, The (1973)
- Dir. Richard Fleischer
 Feat. Anthony Quinn, Frederic Forrest, Robert Forster
- A botched drug deal is at the centre of this competent mafioso film, one of many spawned in the wake of THE GODFATHER's success.
 Executive Action (1973) Executive Action (1973)
- Dir. David Miller
 Feat. Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Will Geer
- Rogue intelligence agents, right–wing politicians, greedy capitalists, and free–lance assassins plot and carry out the JFK assassination…
 Friends of Eddie Coyle, The (1973) Friends of Eddie Coyle, The (1973) 
- Dir. Peter Yates
 Feat. Robert Mitchum, Peter Boyle, Richard Jordan…
- A superlative, cold–hearted, downright unforgiving crime classic of the 70s, with Robert Mitchum (never better) as an aging Boston gunrunner…
 Kojak (TV Series) (1973-1978) Kojak (TV Series) (1973-1978)
- Dir. Joseph Sargent
 Feat. Telly Savalas, Ned Beatty
- Popular 70s cop show that turned Telly Savalas's funky, lollipop sucking, glow–domed police lieutenant into a cultural icon. Highly quotable,…
 Laughing Policeman, The (1973) Laughing Policeman, The (1973)
- Dir. Stuart Rosenberg
 Feat. Walter Matthau, Bruce Dern, Anthony Zerbe
- Police procedural loosely based on the Swedish novel of the same name, set in the aftermath of a horrific shootout on a public bus. 
A detective…
 Mackintosh Man, The (1973) Mackintosh Man, The (1973)
- Dir. John Huston
 Feat. Paul Newman, Dominique Sanda, James Mason
- Old–fashioned cold war thriller with Paul Newman playing a British intelligence agent who goes undercover to infiltrate a spy organisation. A…
 Nothing But the Night (The Resurrection Syndicate) (1973) Nothing But the Night (The Resurrection Syndicate) (1973)
- Dir. Peter Sasdy
 Feat. Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Diana Dors…
- Lee and Cushing are sent by Scotland Yard to investigate a fatal bus crash and how it relates to the going–ons at a creepy orphanage.…
 Revolver (Blood in the Streets) (1973) Revolver (Blood in the Streets) (1973)
- Dir. Sergio Sollima
 Feat. Oliver Reed, Fabio Testi
- Equal turns punchy and preposterous, this 'spaghetti crime thriller' involves a prison warden (Reed) who is drawn into an intricate web of deceit…