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True Believer (1989): Dir. Joseph Ruben
Feat. James Woods, Robert Downey, Kurtwood Smith; A jaded attorney and an idealistic young clerk defend a Korean man who is in jail for a murder he may not have committed. Woods as usual plays a…
Without A Clue (1988): Dir. Thom Eberhardt
Feat. Michael Caine, Ben Kingsley, Jeffrey Jones…; A nicely contrived send–up of the Sherlock Holmes stories, with Kingsley playing Doctor Watson, who in fact has invented the character of…
Fletch (1985): Dir. Michael Ritchie
Feat. Chevy Chase, Joe Don Baker, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson…; Arguably considered his best feature comedy, Chevy Chase plays the titular newspaper reporter with a penchant for changing his identity who stumbles…
Price, The (TV Mini-series) (1985): Feat. Peter Barkworth, Harriet Walter, Aingeal Grehan; UK miniseries building a chilling web of intrigue around a priviledged dilettante wife (Harriet Walter) who finds herself caught between IRA thugs…
Finally Sunday (Vivement Dimanche!) (1983): Dir. Francois Truffaut
Feat. Fanny Ardant, Jean-Louis Trintignant; A businessman in trouble with the police over the murder of his wife's lover finds solace in his secretary who decides to investigate the case…
Deathtrap (1982): Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Michael Caine, Christopher Reeve, Joe Silver…; A clever, self–referential comedy based around a failing writer of crime playwright who plans to murder his student for his brilliant whodunnit…
Green Ice (1981): Dir. Ernest Day
Feat. Ryan O'Neal, Anne Archer, Omar Sharif; Cheesy, outlandish heist romance finds Ryan O'Neal embroiled in the high–stakes world of emerald smuggling. Omar Sharif is good value as an…
Formula, The (1980): Dir. John G. Avildsen
Feat. Marlon Brando, George C. Scott, Marthe Keller…; Muddled thriller with Scott as a detective caught up in a conspiracy to manipulate world fuel prices. Brando –only in three scenes– does…
Little Miss Marker (1980): Dir. Walter Bernstein
Feat. Walter Matthau, Julie Andrews, Tony Curtis…; Comedy set in the 30's, following a gloomy, cantankerous bookie (Walter Matthau) running a gambling operation, who finds himself with a 6–year…
McVicar (1980): Dir. Tom Clegg
Feat. Roger Daltrey, Adam Faith, Cheryl Campbell…; Based on the true story of infamous UK criminal John McVicar, this gritty thriller stars Daltrey as the bad boy sent to a maximum security prison…
A Force Of One (1979): Dir. Paul Aaron
Feat. Chuck Norris, Jennifer O'Neill, Clu Gulager…; Passable crime thriller with Chuck Norris near the start of his career playing a karate champion assisting the police to hunt down a…
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…
Bloodline (1979): Dir. Terence Young
Feat. Audrey Hepburn, Ben Gazzara, James Mason…; Suspense–lite, Sidney Sheldon–based outing for Audrey Hepburn, with the ageless movie icon battling hostile takeovers from within a newly…
Cat and the Canary, The (1979): Dir. Radley Metzger
Feat. Honor Blackman, Michael Callan, Edward Fox…; The classic spooky–house mystery by John Willard is here adapted for the fifth time. The relatives a recently–deceased man gather to hear…
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…
Human Factor, The (1979): Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. Richard Attenborough, John Gielgud, Derek Jacobi…; Otto Preminger last film is a mild espionage affair, concerning a low–level British informant suspected of being a double agent. A hefty cast…
Lady Vanishes, The (1979): Dir. Anthony Page
Feat. Elliott Gould, Cybill Shepherd, Angela Lansbury…; Curious, though lackluster remake of Hitchcock's classic train thriller. Angela Lansbury plays the vanishing lady whose disappearance is investigated…
Murder by Decree (1979): Dir. Bob Clark
Feat. Christopher Plummer, James Mason, David Hemmings…; Sherlock Holmes and the ever faithful Watson are back, this time investigating the notorious Jack the Ripper and his gruesome fascination with…
Absolution (1978): Dir. Anthony Page
Feat. Richard Burton, Billy Connolly
Brass Target (1978): Dir. John Hough
Feat. Sophia Loren, John Cassavetes, Robert Vaughn…; A classic 70's all–star cast feature in this post–World War II suspense film that suggests that the German automobile crash involving…
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,…
Patrick (1978): Dir. Richard Franklin
Feat. Robert Thompson, Sir Robert Helpmann, Susan Penhaligon; Shrill Aussie B–movie about a comatose hospital patient who utilizes his psychokinetic powers to inflict pain and death. Takes its time to…
Black Sunday (1977): Dir. John Frankenheimer
Feat. Robert Shaw, Bruce Dern, Marthe Keller…; A suspenseful, violent terrorist thriller based on Thomas Harris' fictional novel about the pro–Palestinian "Black September" group who…
Late Show, The (1977): Dir. Robert Benton
Feat. Art Carney, Lily Tomlin, Bill Macy; A grumpy semi–retired private investigator partners with a quirky female client to catch the people who murdered his partner.
Rolling Thunder (1977): Dir. John Flynn
Feat. William Devane, Tommy Lee Jones; A classic of 70's exploitation, this gritty revenge thriller follows a Vietnam vet who returns home a hero, but soon embarks on a mission of bloody…
Silver Bears (1977): Dir. Ivan Passer
Feat. Michael Caine, Cybill Shepherd, Louis Jourdan…; Low–key crime comedy caper with Michael Caine playing a financial wizard working with a crime boss to launder money from a Swiss bank.
Stonestreet: Who Killed the Centrefold Model? (1977): Dir. Russ Mayberry
Feat. Barbara Eden, Joseph Mascolo, Joan Hackett…; "Edgy" TV movie with Barbara Eden as female private detective going undercover as a porno actress to find a millionaire's missing daughter.
Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw (1976): Dir. Mark L. Lester
Feat. Lynda Carter, Marjoe Gortner, Jesse Vint…; Crime drama starring Lynda Carter (WONDER WOMAN) as an aspiring country music star who falls in with a young hustler who sees himself as a modern day…
Boomerang (Comme un boomerang) (1976): Dir. Jose Giovanni
Feat. Alain Delon, Carla Gravina, Dora Doll; French crime film with Alain Delon playing an ex–gangster and father of a delinquent teen, who is determined to clear his son's name after he…
Chinese Roulette (Chinesisches Roulette) (1976): Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Anna Karina, Margit Carstensen, Brigitte Mira…; Daunting Fassbinder drama concerning a cheating mother and father unwittingly convinced by their disabled daughter to each take their lovers on a…
Lindbergh Kidnapping Case, The (1976): Dir. Buzz Kulik
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, Martin Balsam, Cliff DeYoung…; A TV film dramatising the events of the Lindbergh kidnapping, in which the son of aviators Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh was abducted…
Murder by Death (1976): Dir. Robert Moore
Feat. Eileen Brennan, Truman Capote, James Coco…; A classic whodunnit premise is taken within an inch of its life by a knockout cast, here playing a gaggle of famous sleuths and sidekicks who convene…
Peeper (1976): Dir. Peter Hyams
Feat. Michael Caine, Natalie Wood, Kitty Winn…; Patchy noir send–up with Caine as a poor man's Phillip Marlowe struggling to find a missing woman, with his biggest obstacle being himself.
Sherlock Holmes in New York (1976): Dir. Boris Sagal
Feat. Roger Moore, Patrick Macnee, John Huston…; Fun addition to the Holmes canon with the great detective pursuing his arch rival Moriarty through New York after his nemesis pulls off a daring bank…
Hanged Man, The (TV Series) (1975): Feat. Colin Blakely, Michael Williams; Colin Blakely plays a rich industrialist whose success has made him the death target of his shady competitors. Series follows Blakely pretending to…
Inside Out (1975): Dir. Peter Duffell
Feat. Telly Savalas, Robert Culp, James Mason…; UK action thriller film, shot in West Berlin and The Netherlands. Thirty years after World War II, a team of former soldiers from both the US and…
Night Moves (1975): Dir. Arthur Penn
Feat. Gene Hackman, Susan Clark, Melanie Griffith; Underrated private–eye yarn with Gene Hackman tracking down a then very young Melanie Griffith. Intelligent fare that leads to a stunning…
Rosebud (1975): Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. Peter O'Toole, Richard Attenborough, Peter Lawford…; Preminger's penultimate film is sadly a mess. Members of the Palestinian Liberation Army kidnap five heiresses in order to bring attention to their…
Wilby Conspiracy, The (1975): Dir. Ralph Nelson
Feat. Sidney Poitier, Michael Caine, Nicol Williamson…; Activists Poitier and Caine are stalked by a sadistic policeman in this Apartheid–era suspenser, in which thrills take precedence over politics.
And Then There Were None (Ten Little Indians) (1974): Dir. Peter Collinson
Feat. Oliver Reed, Elke Sommer, Richard Attenborough…; Agatha Christie’s "Ten Little Indians" receives a clunky, if still entertaining makeover in this stacked international adaptation of the macabre…
Day of the Dolphin, The (1974): Dir. Mike Nichols
Feat. George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Paul Sorvino…; An ecological sci–fi thriller, based on a French novel by Robert Merle. George C Scott stars as a scientist who has trained two dolphins to…
Gambler, The (1974): Dir. Karel Reisz
Feat. James Caan, Paul Sorvino, Lauren Hutton…; A typically gritty 70s crime drama, adapted from a story by Dostoevsky, that boasts a fine performance by James Caan as a well–respected…
Klansman, The (1974): Dir. Terence Young
Feat. Richard Burton, Lee Marvin, Cameron Mitchell…; Samuel Fuller co–wrote this trashy Southern potboiler, graced with the acting chops of Richard Burton and Lee Marvin as landowner and sheriff…
McQ (1974): Dir. John Sturges
Feat. John Wayne, Eddie Albert, Diana Muldaur…; John Wayne plays it tough in this neo–noir as a grizzled Seattle cop investigating the murder of his best friend and the corruption within the…
Murder On the Orient Express (1974): Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Martin Balsam…; Extravagent production of Agatha Christie's mystery with Albert Finney as Poirot rounding up an all–star cast of suspects.
Rockford Files, The (TV Series) (1974-1975): Feat. James Garner, Noah Jr. Beery, Joe Santos…; In the spirit of 'Cold Case' this detective thriller series stars James Garner as an easy going plaid jacket attired investigator pursuing unsolved…
Tamarind Seed, The (1974): Dir. Blake Edwards
Feat. Julie Andrews, Omar Sharif, Anthony Quayle…; Languid romantic thriller plays out against the backdrop of the Cold War looming. Andrews plays a British civil servant on holiday in the Caribbean…
Terrorists, The (Ransom) (1974): Dir. Caspar Wrede
Feat. Sean Connery, Ian McShane, Jeffry Wickham; Improbable thriller with Connery as a Norwegian colonel charged with liberating a plane full of hostages in the "country" of Scandinavia.
Badlands (1973): Dir. Terrence Malick
Feat. Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek; Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek are a knock–out as deluded teenage fugitives who chalk up a hefty body count as they flee across country. Based…
Barnaby Jones (TV Series) (1973): Feat. Buddy Ebsen, Lee Meriwether; Forced out of retirement to solve the murder of his son, lanky, milk–drinking Detective Jones is back doing what he does best – catching…
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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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…
Seven-Ups, The (1973): Dir. Philip D' Antoni
Feat. Roy Scheider, Tony Lo Bianco, Victor Arnold…; Underrated action flick with Roy Scheider on as a tough NYC cop on the trail of his partner's killers. Salty thriller has atmosphere to spare and…
Sting, The (1973): Dir. George Roy Hill
Feat. Robert Redford, Paul Newman, Robert Shaw…; Classic vehicle for Robert Redford and Paul Newman playing two Depression–era conmen. Winner of seven Oscars including Best Picture. Music by…
Carey Treatment, The (1972): Dir. Blake Edwards
Feat. James Coburn, Pat Hingle; 70s thriller starring James Coburn as Dr Peter Carey, a pathologist who becomes an amateur detective when he investigates an accidental death at his…
Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street (1972): Dir. Samuel Fuller
Feat. Glenn Corbett, Anton Diffring, Stephane Audran; German police procedural directed by Samuel Fuller, made as part of the television series Tatort but also given a theatrical release in the USA. An…
Endless Night (1972): Dir. Sidney Gilliat
Feat. Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett, Britt Ekland…; Riveting Agatha Christie mystery based around the union of a chauffeur and heiress who end up moving into a cursed home. Heightened Hitchcockian…
Gumshoe (1972): Dir. Stephen Frears
Feat. Albert Finney, Billie Whitelaw, Frank Finlay…; Paying sly homage to Bogart, Chandler and Hammett, this sly detective spoof is the directorial debut of prolific British director Stephen Frears.…
Lord Peter Wimsey (TV Series) (1972): Feat. Ian Carmichael; Dorothy L. Sayers's archetypal British gentleman detective sleuths murders and crimes of passions in this sophisticated and subtly satirical BBC…
Night Stalker, The / Night Strangler, The (1972-1973): Dir. John Llewellyn Moxey, Dan Curtis
Feat. Darren McGavin, Carol Lynley, Simon Oakland…; Two excellent and groundbreaking tele–movies from the early 70s starring Darren McGavin as wise–cracking 'regular guy' reporter Carl…
Pulp (1972): Dir. Mike Hodges
Feat. Michael Caine, Mickey Rooney, Lionel Stander…; After completing the phenomenal GET CARTER Caine and dir. Hodges reteamed for this lightweight, yet highly watchable comedy thriller. Caine plays…
Salzburg Connection, The (Top Secret) (1972): Dir. Lee H. Katzin
Feat. Barry Newman, Anna Karina, Klaus Maria Brandauer…; Entertaining espionage tale has Newman tangling with neo–Nazis and spies both in pursuit of the identity of German war criminals. Densely…
Savages (1972): Dir. James Ivory
Feat. Sam Waterston, Lewis J. Stadlen, Anne Francine…; Merchant Ivory's most unexpected film is an allegorical story of a primitive jungle tribe who are interrupted, mid human–sacrifice, by a…
Snoop Sisters, The (TV Series) (1972): Feat. Helen Hayes, Mildred Natwick; Two elderly spinsters put down their mystery writing pens to catch perps for real in this dotty, genteel crime series. Starring former Miss Marple,…
Van Der Valk (TV Series) (1972-1992): Feat. Barry Foster, Joanna Dunham, Michael Latimer…; A hugely popular police procedural series starring Barry Foster as Van der Valk, a no–nonsense Dutch detective and head of the Amsterdam CID…
Whodunnit? (TV Series) (1972-1974): This fondly–remembered primetime panel game from the 1970's invited viewers to play detective by pitting their wits against a panel of…
You'll Like My Mother (1972): Dir. Lamont Johnson
Feat. Patty Duke, Rosemary Murphy, Richard Thomas; Patty Duke plays a heavily pregnant woman who travels to rural Minnesota to meet her late husband's mother–in–law, who turns out to have…
Born To Win (Addict) (1971): Dir. Ivan Passer
Feat. George Segal, Paula Prentiss, Karen Black…; Obscure, but charmingly unique drama–comedy about a former NYC hairdresser (Segal), who has turned street hustler to finance his destructive…
Ellery Queen (TV Series) (Don't Look Behind You) (1971-1975): Feat. Jim Hutton, Peter Lawford; Whodunnit series stars Jim Hutton as a mystery writer whose sleuthing know–how is regularly called upon by his Police Inspector…
Firechasers, The (1971): Dir. Sidney Hayers
Feat. Chad Everett, Anjanette Comer, Roy Kinnear…; Brit–crime flick has an insurance investigator chasing down an arsonist, along the way he meets and works with a beautiful newspaper reporter…
Grissom Gang, The (1971): Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. Kim Darby, Scott Wilson, Tony Musante…; Crime noir set in Missouri during the Depression, following the kidnapping of a priviledged meat heiress by notorious amateur hoodlums the Grissom…
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…
Persuaders, The (TV Series) (Persuaders!, The) (1971): Dir. Basil Dearden
Feat. Roger Moore, Tony Curtis; Roger Moore and Tony Curtis play a debonair duo who lend their status and charm to dissuade the criminal fraternity. Wonderfully corny. DVD 'Box…
Sacco & Vanzetti (1971): Dir. Giuliano Montaldo
Feat. Gian Maria Volonte, Cyril Cusack, Geoffrey Keen; Based on the true story of the trial and execution of Italian–American anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, widely considered to be…
Villain (1971): Dir. Michael Tuchner
Feat. Richard Burton, Ian McShane, Nigel Davenport…; Violent London gangster movie released on the tail of Performance and Get Carter, but not as well received as either. Surprisingly, written by sitcom…
When Eight Bells Toll (1971): Dir. Etienne Périer
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, Jack Hawkins, Robert Morley…; Expert hokum from the pen of Alistair Maclean has Anthony Hopkins as a secret agent on a mission to determine the whereabouts of a ship that…
Callan (TV Series) (1970): Dir. James Goddard, Voytek
Feat. Edward Woodward; The bold British TV spy series with Edward Woodward as the cold–blooded but very human secret agent.
Cold Sweat (De La Part Des Copains) (1970): Dir. Terence Young
Feat. Charles Bronson, Liv Ullmann, James Mason; Tight Charles Bronson vehicle see the tough guy play a retired convict who lives with his wife and daughter in the idyllic French Rivera, until some…
Conformist, The (Conformista, Il) (1970): Dir. Bernardo Bertolucci
Feat. Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, Gastone Moschin…; Dazzling images and a potent brew of sex and politics merge seamlessly in this milestone of cinema about a submissive Italian Fascist recruited to…
Eyewitness (1970): Dir. John Hough
Feat. Mark Lester, Lionel Jeffries, Susan George; A “boy who cried wolf” suspenser, centred on an imaginative youngster whose placid existence on the island of Malta is shaken when he witnesses…
Liberation of L.B. Jones, The (1970): Dir. William Wyler
Feat. Roscoe Lee Browne, Lee J. Cobb, Lee Majors…; The final film by William Wyler, depicting racial tensions in a fictional Tennessee town, where a successful African–american businessman…
Man Who Haunted Himself, The (1970): Dir. Basil Dearden
Feat. Roger Moore; In one of his rare serious roles, Roger Moore plays the survivor of a car crash who discovers his doppelganger has been released into the…
McCloud (TV Series) (1970-1977): Feat. Dennis Weaver, J.D. Cannon, Ken Lynch…; Nicely executed crime series following an ex–sheriff from "out west" that joins up with a New York City police squadron to nab the baddies by…
Rider on the Rain (Le passager de la pluie) (1970): Dir. Rene Clement
Feat. Marlène Jobert, Annie Cordy, Charles Bronson; Stylish psychosexual French mystery thriller in obvious homage to Hitchcock, with Charles Bronson playing a US Army colonel hunting down an escaped…
Shadows of Fear (TV Series) (1970): Feat. Sheila Hancock, Ronald Hines, Edward Fox…; Featuring some of Britain's most renowned stage and TV performers, this anthology series brings together eight plays with a 'chilling Hitchcockian…
They Call Me Mister Tibbs! (1970): Dir. Gordon Douglas
Feat. Sidney Poitier, Martin Landau, Juano Hernandez; The first sequel to IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT has Sidney Poitier’s detective now settled in San Francisco and investigating a girl’s…
Assassination Bureau, The (1969): Dir. Basil Dearden
Feat. Oliver Reed, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas…; Spirited crime caper which translates Jack London's novel of the same name to Europe on the cusp of WWI. Diana Rigg plays an aspiring journalist…
Chairman, The (1969): Dir. J. Lee Thompson
Feat. Gregory Peck, Anne Heywood, Arthur Hill…; Engrossing and utterly preposterous spy flick with Peck as a scientist who must sneak into communist China to steal a secret formula, and to…
Some Girls Do (1969): Dir. Ralph Thomas
Feat. Richard Johnson, Daliah Lavi, James Villiers…; Return outing for Richard Johnson's 'Bulldog Drummond' pits the Bond–wannabe against a cabal of mini–skirted fembots and his…
Strange Report (TV Series) (1969): Feat. Anthony Quayle, Kaz Garas, Anneke Wills; Wily Anthony Quayle is Adam Strange, ex–police officer turned criminologist charged with cleaning up murder sprees and other unsolvable cases…
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1969): Dir. Abraham Polonsky
Feat. Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Robert Blake…; This Western comeback from blacklisted director Polonsky (FORCE OF EVIL) focuses (rather ironically) on the manhunt of Robert Blake, who here plays…
A Lovely Way to Die (1968): Dir. David Lowell Rich
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Eli Wallach, Sylva Koscina; Dramatic suspense in which a retired vigilante NYC cop hired to look after a potential murderess ends up unprofessionally mixing business and…
Billion Dollar Brain (1968): Dir. Ken Russell
Feat. Michael Caine, Karl Malden, Ed Begley…; The third 'Harry Palmer' spy caper taken from Len Deighton's series, with the bespectacled Caine this time chasing a meglomaniac Texas…
Champions, The (TV Series) (1968-1969): Feat. Anthony Nicholls; A superior, if earnest, sci–fi thriller series with an Anglo–American cast, created by spy–genre guru Monty Berman (The Baron,…
Dandy in Aspic, A (1968): Dir. Anthony Mann
Feat. Laurence Harvey, Tom Courtenay, Mia Farrow; A curious failure, Anthony Mann’s final film, completed by star Laurence Harvey after the director died during filming, muddles the deception of a…
Danger Diabolik (1968): Dir. Mario Bava
Feat. John Phillip Law, Marisa Mell, Michel Piccoli…; Cat–burgling cool from the pop–art 1960's, outfitted in futuristic chic and the effortless glamour of John Phillip Law and blonde…
Deadfall (1968): Dir. Bryan Forbes
Feat. Michael Caine, Giovanna Ralli, Eric Portman…; Somewhat lumpy thriller with Caine recruited by a husband and wife to pull of a daring diamond heist. The actual robbery is cross–cut with a…
Detective, The (1968): Dir. Gordon Douglas
Feat. Frank Sinatra, Lee Remick, Ralph Meeker…; Interestingly dark and unsentimental policier has Frank Sinatra play an embattled cop investigating the murder of a wealthy homosexual while trying…
Ice Station Zebra (1968): Dir. John Sturges
Feat. Rock Hudson, Patrick McGoohan, Ernest Borgnine; Good old–fashioned Cold War intrigue based on the Alistair Maclean novel. An all–bloke ensemble battle against human and natural force,…
It Takes a Thief (TV Series) (1968): Feat. Robert Wagner; A super–cool product of sixties spy style, with Robert Wagner globe–trotting as a world–class cat burglar recruited by the U.S…
Lady in Cement (1968): Dir. Gordon Douglas
Feat. Frank Sinatra, Raquel Welch, Dan Blocker…; Second–tier detective flick with Ol' Blue Eyes as a private dick hired to find the murderer of a beautiful young woman found underwater,…
Magus, The (1968): Dir. Guy Green
Feat. Michael Caine, Anthony Quinn, Candice Bergen…; A difficult, if beguiling adaptation of John Fowles’ supposedly unfilmable novel about a troubled schoolteacher (Caine) who arrives on a Greek…
Night of the Following Day, The (1968): Dir. Hubert Cornfield
Feat. Marlon Brando, Richard Boone, Rita Moreno…; An unusual thriller (filmed in France), in which a seedy kidnap plot goes awry. Brando plays the ringleader who must not only run the show, but deal…
No Way to Treat a Lady (1968): Dir. Jack Smight
Feat. Rod Steiger, Lee Remick, George Segal…; Macabre cat–and–mouse thriller from the pen of suspense–master William Goldman (MARATHON MAN), about a psychotic master of disguise…
Pretty Poison (1968): Dir. Noel Black
Feat. Anthony Perkins, Tuesday Weld; A fan of PSYCHO? Then check out Anthony Perkins in this chilling tale of a couple of psychos in love. Tuesday Weld glitters as a teenage bad seed.
Randall and Hopkirk Deceased (TV Series) (1968): Dir. Various
Feat. Mike Pratt, Kenneth Cope, Annette Andre; Cult 60s British comedy–thriller in which Mike Pratt and Kenneth Cope play investigators, one of whom happens to be dead. Complete series…
Sherlock Holmes (TV Series) (A Study In Scarlet, The Boscombe Valley Mystery, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Sign of Four, The Blue Carbuncle) (1968): Feat. Peter Cushing, Nigel Stock; One of the best to ever play Sherlock Holmes (formerly, in Hammer's HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES), Peter Cushing steps back into the shoes of the famed…
Thomas Crown Affair, The (1968): Dir. Norman Jewison
Feat. Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway; Split–screen pyrotechnics accord this 60s–chic pastiche of exotic crime thriller and steamy romance. Steve McQueen is the…
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…
Bonnie and Clyde (1967): Dir. Arthur Penn
Feat. Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Gene Hackman…; One of the seminal films of the late 1960s, an artful depiction of the exploits of Depression–era bank–robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde…
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…
Dragnet (TV Series) (1967): Feat. Jack Webb, Harry Morgan; The classic hard–case, ultra–realistic sixties police procedural, with officers Friday and Gannon cleaning up the mean streets of…
Grand Slam (Ad Ogni Costo) (1967): Dir. Giuliano Montaldo
Feat. Janet Leigh, Klaus Kinski, Edward G. Robinson; Smooth–running thriller about an international criminal gang who attempt a gruelling diamond heist during the chaotic Carnival in Rio de…
In Cold Blood (1967): Dir. Richard Brooks
Feat. Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe…; A masterpiece of crime fiction adapted from Truman Capote’s novel about events surrounding the senseless murder of an innocent family by two…
Incident, The (1967): Dir. Larry Peerce
Feat. Martin Sheen, Tony Musante, Beau Bridges…; This stark, hard–hitting melodrama depicts two young thugs who drunkenly taunt and terrorize their fellow passengers on a New York subway…
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…
Point Blank (1967): Dir. John Boorman
Feat. Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn…; Fascinating, at times jarring, thriller has underworld hitman Lee Marvin hunting for those who double–crossed him in The Organisation, only to…
President's Analyst, The (1967): Dir. Theodore J. Flicker
Feat. James Coburn; Madcap comedy suspense tracking a hapless guy awarded the task of being the president's assistant, who then must deal with bribes and death threats…
Robbery (1967): Dir. Peter Yates
Feat. Sir Stanley Baker, Joanna Pettet, James Booth…; Topnotch heist film is a tension filled reconstruction of "The Great Train Robbery" with Stanley Baker in the Ronnie Biggs role. Film gets off to…
Targets (1967): Dir. Peter Bogdanovich
Feat. Boris Karloff, Peter Bogdanovich; The influential first feature from a young Peter Bogdanovich, that effectively contrasts the story of a retiring horror actor (played by Boris…
Wait Until Dark (1967): Dir. Terence Young
Feat. Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna; A blind Audrey Hepburn is trapped in her apartment by psycho–beatnik Alan Arkin, who's looking for hidden heroin. Based on a stageplay, this…
Alfred Hitchcock Signature Collection, The (Torn Curtain, Topaz, Frenzy, Family Plot.) (1966-1976): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock; Four Hitchcock masterpieces made during his later years after he returned to Britain..
Catacombs (The Woman Who Wouldn't Die) (1966): Dir. Gordon Hessler
Feat. Gary Merrill, Jane Merrow; A minor British thriller in which a domineering woman (Merrow), whose existence becomes inconvenient for her husband (Merrill) and a blackmailed…
Chase, The (1966): Dir. Arthur Penn
Feat. Marlon Brando, Robert Redford, Jane Fonda…; Action–packed Southern potboiler set around the attempts of a sheriff to protect an escaped convict from mob–justice in smalltown…
Deadlier Than the Male (1966): Dir. Ralph Thomas
Feat. Richard Johnson, Elke Sommer, Sylva Koscina…; Retro adventure spy flick compiled of alluring girls with spear guns in trouble after knocking off a couple of oil industry big wigs. This thriller…
Defector, The (1966): Dir. Raoul Levy
Feat. Montgomery Clift, Hardy Kruger, Macha Meril…; Thriller about an American physicist who is blackmailed by the CIA into travelling to East Germany, where he must acquire a microfilm from a…
Funeral in Berlin (1966): Dir. Guy Hamilton
Feat. Michael Caine, Oscar Homolka; Sequel to THE IPCRESS FILE again features Michael Caine as the Harry Palmer, hero of Len Deighton's novel series. This time the espionage functionary…
Gambit (1966): Dir. Ronald Neame
Feat. Shirley Maclaine, Michael Caine; Charming, clever heist flick about a Cockney conman and a kooky showgirl whose brilliantly elaborate plan to steal an invaluable sculpture backfires…
How to Steal a Million (1966): Dir. William Wyler
Feat. Audrey Hepburn, Peter O'Toole, Eli Wallach…; A top cast lifts this romantically–inclined suspense caper, wherein Hepburn must steal a forged sculpture belonging to her own family before it…
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…
Man in a Suitcase (TV Series) (1966): Feat. Richard Bradford, Donald Sutherland, Felicity Kendall…; Perhaps lesser known (and less innovative) than other suspense series of the 1960s, this ITC production still packs a gritty punch. Bradford plays…
Rage (1966): Dir. Gilberto Gazcón
Feat. Glenn Ford, Stella Stevens, David Reynoso; Sweaty Mexican American thriller with Glenn Ford playing a self–pitying alcoholic doctor who lives alone in a border town, and finds himself…
Torn Curtain (1966): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Paul Newman, Julie Andrews; Atom–bomb boffin Paul Newman defects across the Iron Curtain of the title to East Germany, testing the boundaries of trust for true–blue…
10 Little Indians (Ten Little Indians) (1965): Dir. George Pollock
Feat. Hugh O'Brian, Shirley Eaton, Fabian…; Swinging London 60s version of the much–filmed Agatha Christie whodunnit 'And Then There Were None...' set in an isolated Alpine manse, where…
A Study in Terror (1965): Dir. James Hill
Feat. John Neville, Robert Morley, Donald Houston…; Carefully crafted, though at times crude and bloody, Sherlock Holmes mystery (not by Conan Doyle), with the sleuth pursuing the murderous Jack the…
Blindfold (1965): Dir. Philip Dunne
Feat. Rock Hudson, Claudia Cardinale, Jack Warden…; Rock Hudson stars in this wry thriller as a psycho–analyst caught up in an international spy plot after one of his patients knows more than…
Bunny Lake is Missing (1965): Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. Keir Dullea, Carol Lynley, Laurence Olivier…; Deeply eccentric chiller centred on the hunt for a missing child who the police begin to suspect may never have existed at all. Both a finely…
Collector, The (1965): Dir. William Wyler
Feat. Terence Stamp, Samantha Eggar; Terence Stamp plays a disturbed butterfly collector who kidnaps a girl in the hope that she will grow to love him. Truly memorable chiller maintains…
Flight of the Phoenix, The (1965): Dir. Robert Aldrich
Feat. James Stewart, Richard Attenborough, Peter Finch…; One of the great survival–adventure films has an all–star cast crash landing their cargo plane deep in the Sahara, with no obvious means…
Mirage (1965): Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Gregory Peck, Diane Baker, Walter Matthau…; An excellent example of the Hitchcockian thriller with Peck an amnesiac caught up in the murder of a philanthropist.
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…
Dead Ringer (1964): Dir. Paul Henreid
Feat. Bette Davis; Enjoyable, high camp star vehicle for Bette Davis who is driven by jealousy to murder her twin sister in order to assume her identity. Bette, of…
Fail Safe (1964): Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau, Larry Hagman; Henry Fonda plays the American president struggling to avert an imminent nuclear holocaust, due to a computer malfunction. A nailbiting Cold War…
Gideon's Way (TV Series) (1964-1965): Feat. John Gregson; Superior mid–60s documentary–style police series that centres around the criminal investigations of Commander George Gideon of Scotland…
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…
High Bright Sun, The (McGuire, Go Home!) (1964): Dir. Ralph Thomas
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, George Chakiris, Susan Strasberg…; Convoluted espionage tale with Bogarde on the trail of a Cypriot freedom fighter with an American Archaeology student holding the key to his…
Hot Enough For June (1964): Dir. Ralph Thomas
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Sylva Koscina, Robert Morley…; A struggling young writer is plunged into a terrifying world of international espionage while on a seemingly innocent commercial assignment to Prague.
Killers, The (1964): Dir. Don Siegel
Feat. Lee Marvin, Clu Gulager, Angie Dickinson…; Transposed into the garish 60s, Ernest Hemingway's famous story is transformed into a harder, more callous exercise in casual violence and sexual…
Kitten with a Whip (1964): Dir. Douglas Heyes
Feat. Ann-Margret, John Forsythe, Peter Brown…; Ann–Margaret brings white–hot intensity to this cult classic about a teenage girl on the run from the law who blackmails a clueless…
Marnie (1964): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Sean Connery, Tippi Hedren, Martin Gabel…; Rich businessman Sean Connery blackmails kleptomaniac secretary Tippi Hedren into marrying him, thence free to try out his own brand of experimental…
Moon Spinners, The (1964): Feat. Hayley Mills, Eli Wallach, Peter McEnery…; A Hitchcockian thriller for the younger set from Disney in which a young girl (Hayley Mills) becomes involved in a jewel theft in Crete.
Murder Ahoy (1964): Dir. George Pollock
Feat. Margaret Rutherford, Lionel Jeffries, Charles Tingwell…; Rutherford dons Miss Marple's hat again, this time boarding a ship to uncover more murders and a ring of thieves.
Murder Most Foul (1964): Dir. George Pollock
Feat. Margaret Rutherford, Ron Moody, Charles Tingwell…; Fourth and final film in the Agatha Christie/MGM set. Rutherford appears again as Miss Marple, defiant as the only member of a jury who believes the…
Seance On a Wet Afternoon (1964): Dir. Bryan Forbes
Feat. Kim Stanley, Richard Attenborough; This British classic boasts a rare performance by the amazing Kim Stanley as a gently off–her–rocker matron who goads her meek husband…
Seven Days in May (1964): Dir. John Frankenheimer
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Burt Lancaster; Kirk Douglas stumbles upon a conspiracy led by General Burt Lancaster, to bring down the US President (who goes and signs treaties with the…
Topkapi (1964): Dir. Jules Dassin
Feat. Melina Mercouri, Peter Ustinov, Maximilian Schell…; A classy comic–romantic spin on the director’s RIFIFI shot on location in Turkey and Greece, that climaxes with another brilliantly exacted…
Birds, The (1963): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Jessica Tandy…; Hitch's masterful rendering of Daphne Du Maurier's novella contains some of his most memorable set pieces, as the population of a seaside resort come…
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…
Francis Durbridge Presents... (1963): Feat. Nigel Hawthorne, Denis Quilley, Gerald Harper…; A collection of mystery writer Francis Durbridge's works for BBC television. Billed as 'event' thrillers they featured an enjoyable mix 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…
List Of Adrian Messenger, The (1963): Dir. John Huston
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum, Tony Curtis…; An intelligence officer is on the trail of a psychopath intent on working his bloody way through a seemingly unrelated list of…
Man from the Diners' Club, The (1963): Dir. Frank Tashlin
Feat. Danny Kaye, Cara Williams, Martha Hyer…; Comedy with Danny Kaye playing a meek clerk who gets into trouble when he approves a Diner's Club card for a mobster running a racketeering…
Murder at the Gallop (1963): Dir. George Pollock
Feat. Margaret Rutherford, Robert Morley, Dame Flora Robson…; Agatha Christie on film with Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple. Suspicions mount as relatives gather for the reading of a dead man's will.
Prize, The (1963): Dir. Mark Robson
Feat. Paul Newman, Edward G. Robinson, Elke Sommer; Paul Newman plays an alcoholic writer in Stockholm to collect his Nobel Prize who drunkenly stumbles upon an overly complicated spy plot.
Alfred Hitchcock Hour, The (TV Series) (1962-1965): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock, various; Picking up directly from where 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents' left off, this three season series expands Hitch's iconic mystery anthology to 50 minute…
Cape Fear (1962): Dir. J. Lee-Thompson
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Gregory Peck; The original chiller that inspired the recent remake, complete with Bernard Herrmann's bombastic score. Robert Mitchum plays the ex–con…
Day the Earth Caught Fire, The (1962): Dir. Val Guest
Feat. Edward Judd, Leo McKern; A solidly old–fashioned 'disaster film' in which H–Bomb test knock the Earth of its axis, leading to terrifying and accelerating climate…
Devil's Hand, The (1962): Dir. William J. Hole Jnr
Feat. Linda Christian, Robert Alda, Neil Hamilton; Hammy low–budget horror of a man seduced by a blonde vixen who forces him to become involved in a mysterious satanic cult she holds allegiance…
Dr. Crippen (1962): Dir. Robert Lynn
Feat. Donald Pleasence, Coral Browne, Samantha Eggar; This well paced drama centered around Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen's murder of his wife was originally billed as a horror, but is actually a rather…
Five Miles to Midnight (1962): Dir. Anatole Litvak
Feat. Sophia Loren, Anthony Perkins, Gig Young…; Unfocused but intriguing murder–mystery with Anthony Perkins as a domineering, jealous husband who convinces his wife (Loren) to collect…
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…
Lonely Are The Brave (1962): Dir. David Miller
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Gena Rowlands, Walter Matthau…; Kirk Douglas is on top form in this Dalton Trumbo–penned 'psychological' Western, playing an anti–establishment cowboy who purposefully…
Manchurian Candidate, The (1962): Dir. John Frankenheimer
Feat. Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh…; Politically–charged nail–biter with Frank Sinatra experiencing post–war paranoia about a fellow soldier who may have been…
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".
Agatha Christie 'Miss Marple' Boxset (Murder She Said, Murder at the Gallop, Murder Most Foul, Murder Ahoy) (1961-1964): Dir. George Pollock
Feat. Margaret Rutherford; Four classic Agatha Christie stories from MGM's brief 'Miss Marple' phase, with the mercurial Margaret Rutherford doning the old spinster's detective…
Blast of Silence (1961): Dir. Allen Baron
Feat. Allen Baron; Grumpy, low–fi noir presides over the movements of a tetchy contract killer (dir. Baron) as he prepares to whack a two–bit mobster during…
Five Minutes To Live (Door-to-Door Maniac) (1961): Dir. Bill Karn
Feat. Johnny Cash, Cay Forrester, Donald Woods…; Little known B–movie thriller with Cash and Forrester playing hoods who complete a smalltown bank robbery, then start paying suburban house…
Frightened City, The (1961): Dir. John Lemont
Feat. Sean Connery, Herbert Lom, John Gregson; London becomes terrorised by protection racketeers who intend to amalgamate into one vast crime syndicate.
Innocents, The (1961): Dir. Jack Clayton
Feat. Deborah Kerr, Peter Wyngarde, Megs Jenkins…; Notable adaptation of Henry James' ghost story "The Turn of the Screw", featuring Deborah Kerr as a neurotic nanny. Taking a job at a spooky…
Murder She Said (1961): Dir. George Pollock
Feat. Margaret Rutherford, Arthur Kennedy, James Robertson-Justice…; Miss Marple sees a murder aboard a passing train. First of four accomplished Agatha Christie films starring Margaret Rutherford.
Two Sides of Johnny Cash (Five Minutes to Live + Johnny Cash: An Anthology) (1961): Dir. Bill Karn
Feat. Johnny Cash; Double disc DVD includes Cash's starring turn in sixities B–movie thriller FIVE MINUTES TO LIVE, plus JOHNNY CASH: AN ANTHOLOGY, a tribute…
Underworld U.S.A (1961): Dir. Samuel Fuller
Feat. Cliff Robertson; Revenge story about a 14–year–old who witnesses the murder of his father by four mobsters, and seeks retribution against them years later.
Victim (1961): Dir. Basil Dearden
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Sylvia Syms; As an English barrister blackmailed over his homosexual past, Dirk Bogarde gives a keynote performance, the first in what was to become a long line…
Young Savages, The (1961): Dir. John Frankenheimer
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Dina Merrill, Edward Andrews…; Arresting crime drama set on the segregated streets of East Harlem and focused on a district attorney investigating the murder of a blind Puerto…
Classe Tous Risques (Consider All Risks) (1960): Dir. Claude Sautet
Feat. Lino Ventura, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Sandra Milo; French–Italian gangster film following the exploits of a French mobster (Lino Ventura, based on a real life henchman for the French Gestapo)…
Criminal, The (1960): Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Sam Wanamaker, Gregoire Aslan; Joseph–Losey–directed crime drama of a con sent to prison after a profitable robbery who is tortured by his fellow prisoners to leak…
Die 1000 Augen des Dr. Mabuse (The 1000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse) (1960): Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Dawn Addams, Peter Van Eyck, Gert Frobe; The final film in Fritz Lang's DR. MABUSE series, which includes DR. MABUSE, THE GAMBLER and THE TESTAMENT OF DR. MABUSE, is also the director's…
Midnight Lace (1960): Dir. David Miller
Feat. Doris Day, Rex Harrison, John Gavin…; Suave thriller with a strong dramatic performance for Day who plays a newly–wed in Paris taunted and pursued by a stalker.
Murder, Inc. (1960): Dir. Stuart Rosenberg, Burt Balaban
Feat. Stuart Whitman, Peter Falk, Simon Oakland; Cinemascope gangland film based on the true story of the eponymous Brooklyn gang that operated in the 1930s. It launched the careers of both Stuart…
October Man, The (1960): Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. John Mills, Joan Greenwood, Edward Chapman…; Atmospheric pot–boiler in which John Mills plays an amnesiac accused of murder who fights to prove his innocence, apprehend the murderer and…
Portrait in Black (1960): Dir. Michael Gordon
Feat. Lana Turner, Anthony Quinn, Richard Basehart…; Sudsy potboiler with Turner and Quinn murdering Turner's wealthy husband, unfortunately the perfect crime does not go undetected. Campy fun.
Rise and Fall of 'Legs' Diamond, The (1960): Dir. Budd Boetticher
Feat. Ray Danton, Karen Steele, Elaine Stewart…; A professionally–shot thriller about the career of New York gangster Jack 'Legs' Diamond, who rose to prominence in the 1920s and maintained…
39 Steps, The (1959): Dir. Ralph Thomas
Feat. Kenneth More, Taina Elg; Colour copy of Hitchcock's spy thriller, this time with Kenneth More and Taina Elg as the innocents entangled in Scottish intrigue.
A Bout de Souffle (Breathless) (1959): Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Daniel Boulanger…; Godard's landmark first film pulls out all the stops in the style department – with Jean–Paul Belmondo as the romantic fugitive,…
Anatomy of a Murder (1959): Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara…; Smalltown lawyer James Stewart defends a man accused of murdering a suspected rapist. The shifting ambiguities of the case make this more a…
Compulsion (1959): Dir. Richard Fleischer
Feat. Dean Stockwell, Bradford Dillman, Orson Welles…; As distinctive a rendition of the infamous Leopold–Loeb murder case as ROPE and SWOON, Dean Stockwell and Bradford Dillman playing the…
Crimson Kimono, The (1959): Dir. Samuel Fuller
Feat. Glenn Corbett, James Shigeta; Two detectives, one of Japanese heritage, both fall in love with the key witness in a murder case. Noted for its inclusion of an interracial romance…
Great St. Louis Bank Robbery, The (1959): Dir. Charles Guggenheim, John Stix
Feat. Steve McQueen; This noir thriller is one of McQueen's best early roles, and although somewhat obscure has a cult reputation for its shootout scenes and intense,…
Last Train from Gun Hill (1959): Dir. John Sturges
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, Carolyn Jones…; Underrated American Western telling the tale of a U.S. Marshal seeking revenge in the town of 'Gun Hill' after the racially charged rape and murder…
North by Northwest (1959): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason…; Cary Grant becomes a victim of mistaken identity and is chased across America by enemy agents, in one stylish set piece after another. One of Hitch's…
Odds Against Tomorrow (1959): Dir. Robert Wise
Feat. Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Shelley Winters…; Injecting race problems into a surefire thriller formula, this has an unstable criminal trio – ex–convict (Ryan), crooked cop (Begley)…
One Step Beyond (TV Series) (1959): Feat. John Newland; Classic television series billed as 'your guide to the supernatural' serves half–hour docudramas of unexplained, paranormal 'true events'.…
Sapphire (1959): Dir. Basil Dearden
Feat. Nigel Patrick, Yvonne Mitchell, Michael Craig…; Scandalous subject–wise for post–war Britain, where a murdered black woman is discovered to have been posing as white. Obviously dated…
Tiger Bay (1959): Dir. J. Lee Thompson
Feat. John Mills, Hayley Mills, Horst Buchholz; Haley Mills’ breakthrough is a memorable and mature British thriller; she plays witness to a murder by a Polish sailor, who she subsequent…
Untouchables, The (TV Series) (1959-1963): Feat. Robert Stack, Paul Picerni; An iconic crime series that once baited controversy for its escalation of television violence, this pulled out the stops to authentically…
Bonnie Parker Story, The (1958): Dir. William Witney
Feat. Dorothy Provine, Dick Bakalyan, Jack Hogan; Dorothy Provine is sensational in this low–budget telling the story of the tommy–gun toting 1930s gangster Bonnie Parker,…
Cry Terror! (1958): Dir. Andrew L. Stone
Feat. James Mason, Inger Stevens, Rod Steiger…; Crime thriller with Rod Steiger as a mad extortionist who forces a New York shop owner (James Mason) to collect a ransom after threatening to blow up…
Defiant Ones, The (1958): Dir. Stanley Kramer
Feat. Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier; That well known image of race–hatred – escaped black and white prisoners unwillingly handcuffed together – originated here, with…
Party Girl (1958): Dir. Nicholas Ray
Feat. Robert Taylor, Cyd Charisse, Lee J. Cobb…; Delicious Nicholas Ray–directed potboiler finds bum–legged Robert Taylor trying to cut ties with the mob. A slinky Cyd Charisse (tearing…
Sea of Sand (Desert Patrol) (1958): Dir. Guy Green
Feat. Richard Attenborough, Vincent Ball, Michael Craig…; Brit war thriller about an army team sent to destroy a German petrol dump in preparation for an attack who are confronted by their enemies in the…
Thunder Road (1958): Dir. Arthur Ripley
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Gene Barry, Jacques Aubuchon…; Effective, gritty road movie about a mountain man moonshiner at war with both authorities and big–city competitors. An unusually personal…
Vertigo (1958): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes…; Hitchcock at his most daring and surreal weaves a complex tale of neurosis when Jimmy Stewart's detective begins trailing a mysterious woman (Novak).…
Across the Bridge (1957): Dir. Ken Annakin
Feat. Rod Steiger, Marla Landi, Noel Willman…; An underrated and little–known thriller with Steiger playing a shady accountant on the run from the FBI and Scotland Yard, who tries to make…
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957): Dir. John Huston
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Deborah Kerr; Kerr and Mitchum play a nun and Marine sergeant respectively, who are stranded on a desert island during WWII – the island happens to also be…
Hell Drivers (Hard Drivers) (1957): Dir. Cy Endfield
Feat. Patrick McGoohan, Sir Stanley Baker, Herbert Lom…; Stanley Baker plays a hard–nosed trucker forced to take on a dangerous long haul, through which a bitter rivalry develops with a fellow driver…
Night Passage (1957): Dir. James Neilson
Feat. James Stewart, Audie Murphy, Dan Duryea…; A 'railroad western' with good guy Stewart defending the tracks against a gang of desperados led by Duryea. Tough cast give some distinction to a…
One That Got Away, The (Einer Kam Durch) (1957): Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. Hardy Kruger, Colin Gordon, Terence Alexander…; Sturdy war thriller centred on the true story of German airman Franz von Werra – the only German POW to successfully escape from allied custody…
Perry Mason (TV Series) (1957-1966): Feat. Raymond Burr, William Hopper, William Talman…; Benchmark legal drama series which turned star Raymond Burr into a television institution as the near–invincible criminal lawyer, Perry…
River's Edge, The (1957): Dir. Allan Dwan
Feat. Ray Milland, Anthony Quinn, Debra Paget…; Tight crime drama with Milland as a murderous thief who forces Quinn to escort him safely across the desert to Mexico. There's a nice twist in the…
Time Without Pity (1957): Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Michael Redgrave, Leo McKern, Ann Todd…; Nervy noir has Michael Redgrave in top form as an alcoholic father racing against time to save his son from the gallows. Somewhat dated thriller…
Timelock (1957): Dir. Gerald Thomas
Feat. Sean Connery, Robert Beatty, Lee Patterson; Tense thriller based on a play by Arthur Hailey (AIRPORT), in which a young boy is locked in a bank vault by accident, which can only be opened…
Twelve Angry Men (12 Angry Men) (1957): Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley…; Henry Fonda holds–out on a unanimous jury who wish to convict an alleged murderer. A sweltering tension is worked up as he struggles to…
Vicious Circle, The (Circle) (1957): Dir. Gerald Thomas
Feat. John Mills, Derek Farr, Lionel Jeffries; Neatly convoluted mystery has John Mills play an eminent medical specialist who is implicated in a murder when the body of a German actress turns up…
Witness for the Prosecution (1957): Dir. Billy Wilder
Feat. Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton…; Tense courtroom thriller, with Tyrone Power in the dock, defended by Charles Laughton, and consoled by wife Marlene Dietrich. Agatha Christie's story…
23 Paces To Baker Street (1956): Dir. Henry Hathaway
Feat. Van Johnson, Vera Miles, Cecil Parker…; Genuine nail–biter with Van Johnson as a blind writer who has the misfortune to overhear a kidnapping plot, enlisting his two friends he sets…
Backlash (1956): Dir. John Sturges
Feat. Richard Widmark, Donna Reed, William Campbell…; Richard Widmark and Donna Reed play the tough–talkin', rootin–tootin leads in this gritty horse opera, as they both seek vengeance for…
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956): Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Dana Andrews, Joan Fontaine, Sidney Blackmer…; This bleak film noir from director Fritz Lang is a triumph of style and mood with a cynical take on fate and the human condition. An impeccably…
Killer is Loose, The (1956): Dir. Budd Boetticher
Feat. Joseph Cotten, Rhonda Fleming, Wendell Corey; Film noir about a bank robber who escapes prison and sets out on a revenge mission to bring down the cop the killed his wife. Leaning heavily into…
Kiss Before Dying, A (1956): Dir. Gerd Oswald
Feat. Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Joanne Woodward…; The first and best version of Ira Levin's (ROSEMARY'S BABY) early novel, in which status–anxious student Wagner plots the murder of his…
Man Escaped, A (1956): Dir. Robert Bresson
Feat. Francois Leterrier; Bresson's films are all extremely controlled in style: no suspense, no histrionics, flat acting, spare and simple camerawork, yet this is an…
Man in the Vault (1956): Dir. Andrew V. McLaglen
Feat. William Campbell, Berry Kroeger, Karen Sharpe; Tommy Dancer is an ordinary man thrust into an extraordinary situation – a locksmith forced into a heist by a ruthless mobster and his…
Man Who Knew Too Much, The (1956): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. James Stewart, Doris Day; Hitchcock remakes his 1934 film and generally comes up trumps with James Stewart and Doris Day as the innocent victims of international espionage.…
Please Murder Me (Please Murder Me!) (1956): Dir. Peter Godfrey
Feat. Angela Lansbury, Raymond Burr, Dick Foran…; Raymond Burr and Angela Lansbury square off in this tough–minded noir about a lawyers who successfully defends his client only to discover…
Run for the Sun (1956): Dir. Roy Boulting
Feat. Richard Widmark, Trevor Howard, Jane Greer…; Righteous remake of THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME has Widmark and Greer running through some almighty foliage desperate to evade smarmy baddie…
Unguarded Moment, The (1956): Dir. Harry Keller
Feat. Esther Williams, George Nader, John Saxon…; Film noir with MGM star Esther Williams playing a High School music teacher and unmarried 'career woman' who is targeted by a stalker. Although…
While the City Sleeps (1956): Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders…; Considered a vastly under–rated Fritz Lang noir, this newspaper drama provides plenty of social commentary depicting the story of the "Lipstick…
Wrong Man, The (1956): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Henry Fonda; Henry Fonda plays a New York musician whose personal life is dismantled through being falsely accused of robbery. The documentary style well suits…
Yield to the Night (Blonde Sinner) (1956): Dir. J. Lee Thompson
Feat. Diana Dors, Yvonne Mitchell, Michael Craig; British crime drama film that features a celebrated performance by "blonde bombshell" Diana Dors. Bearing a coincidental resemblance to the Ruth…
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) (1955-1962): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock, various
Feat. Vera Miles, Ralph Meeker, John Forsythe…; Pre–dating THE TWILIGHT ZONE by some years, the Master of Suspense created this iconic television series featuring self–contained tales…
Bad Day at Black Rock (1955): Dir. John Sturges
Feat. Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Lee Marvin…; An unflappable Spencer Tracy arrives in a desolate town to investigate a dormant missing–persons report, but the surly locals don't take to…
Bob Le Flambeur (Bob the Gambler) (1955): Dir. Jean-Pierre Melville
Feat. Roger Duchesne, Isabelle Corney; Superb French noir from the dir. of LE SAMOURAI, here debuting with a taut plan to rob the Deauville casino, that grows ever more perilous for…
Confidential Report (Mr. Arkadin) (1955): Dir. Orson Welles
Feat. Orson Welles, Robert Arden, Paola Mori…; A typically Welles–ian shaggy dog story, with Welles himself playing a possibly insane, Kane–like billionaire, who hires a detective to…
Desperate Hours, The (1955): Dir. William Wyler
Feat. Humphrey Bogart, Fredric March, Arthur Kennedy…; A bunch of escaped convicts, led by Bogart, hold a family hostage in this domestic noir thriller based on the Broadway play by Joseph Hayes.…
House Of Bamboo (1955): Dir. Samuel Fuller
Feat. Robert Ryan, Robert Stack, Shirley Yamaguchi…; Samuel Fuller directs this exciting Tokyo–set noir, about an American army cop who goes undercover to take down an organised crime ring lead by…
I Died A Thousand Times (1955): Dir. Stuart Heisler
Feat. Jack Palance, Shelley Winters, Lee Marvin…; Enjoyable remake of High Sierra that benefits from a fantastic cast and a rousing finale. Look for a young and uncredited Dennis Hopper.
Man with the Golden Arm, The (1955): Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. Frank Sinatra, Kim Novak; Cardsharp Frank Sinatra, is fresh out of 'the joint' with dreams of being a jazz drummer. Heroin though, is keeping him down, trapped in a…
Man Without A Star (1955): Dir. King Vidor
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Jeanne Crain, Claire Trevor; Character–driven Western sees Kirk Douglas plays a laconic gunslinger with a dark–side, who drifts from scrape to scrape while working…
Night My Number Came Up, The (1955): Dir. Leslie Norman
Feat. Michael Redgrave, Sheila Sim, Alexander Knox…; A prophetic nightmare about an ill–fated plane flight begins to play out as reality for 13 passengers aboard a British military aircraft in…
Pete Kelly's Blues (1955): Dir. Jack Webb
Feat. Jack Webb, Janet Leigh, Edmond O'Brien…; Musical set in 1920's Kansas which blends jazz, gangsters and political corruption. Directed by and starring Jack Webb as a cornet player who is…
Rififi (1955): Dir. Jules Dassin
Feat. Jean Servais, Jules Dassin, Magali Noel…; The French reclaim film noir with this methodical and stylish heist movie, famous for its 35 minute real–time bank robbery, executed in virtual…
Soldier of Fortune (1955): Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Clark Gable, Susan Hayward, Michael Rennie…; Mercenary Clark Gable is recruited to search for Hayward's lost husband in this proficient Hong Kong set thriller. Anti–communist thriller…
Storm Fear (1955): Dir. Cornel Wilde
Feat. Cornel Wilde, Jean Wallace, Dan Duryea…; Crime noir about a gang member who seeks shelter with his brother's family after being wounded during a botched bank robbery. Once there, he…
Trouble with Harry, The (1955): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. John Forsythe, Shirley Maclaine; The trouble with Harry is that he's dead, and the townspeople, including a young John Forsyth and Shirley Maclaine, don't quite know how to deal with…
Violent Saturday (1955): Dir. Richard Fleischer
Feat. Victor Mature, Richard Egan, Stephen McNally…; Crisp southern noir in which a bank robbery gone wrong ignites trouble in amongst the morally corrupt citizens of a small town. Ripping dialogue and…
An Inspector Calls (1954): Dir. Guy Hamilton
Feat. Alastair Sim, Jane Wenham; Alastair Sim, superb here as the titular inspector, bears down on a smug upper crust family whose closely–guarded secrets are exposed to…
Caine Mutiny, The (1954): Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Humphrey Bogart; Solid action with unstable Ship's Captain Humphrey Bogart contending with mutinies and typhoons.
Dial M for Murder (1954): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Ray Milland, Grace Kelly; An ageing tennis champion arranges the death of his wife for her inheritance. Hitch adapts the chilling stageplay, obviously well at home with the…
Good Die Young, The (1954): Dir. Lewis Gilbert
Feat. Laurence Harvey, Sir Stanley Baker, Joan Collins…; Fiery British heist–noir with a debt–burdened Laurence Harvey leading a motley crew of down–on–their–luck military men…
Les Diaboliques (1954): Dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot
Feat. Simone Signoret, Vera Clouzot, Paul Meurisse…; Simone Signoret stars as one of two women who conspire to murder the man they share – a sadistic schoolmaster. Iconic French thriller with a…
Life at Stake, A (1954): Dir. Paul Guilfoyle
Feat. Angela Lansbury, Keith Andes, Douglas Dumbrille…; Minor noir elevated by the presence of Lansbury as a seductress who's business proposition to a struggling architect may not be strictly financial.
Lifeboat (1954): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix; Enterprising thriller staged entirely within the confines of a lifeboat. Its simplistic anti–Nazi politic is perhaps redeemed by Tallulah…
Night People (1954): Dir. Nunnally Johnson
Feat. Gregory Peck, Broderick Crawford, Anita Bjork…; Talky thriller with Gregory Peck as a Colonel trying to negotiate the release of a young G.I. held in East Germany. Plenty of political chicanery and…
Rear Window (1954): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. James Stewart, Grace Kelly; Convalescing photographer Jimmy Stewart observes what may have been a murder in an opposing apartment. A Hitchcock must.
Ring Of Fear (1954): Dir. James Edward Grant
Feat. Clyde Beatty, Mickey Spillane, Pat O'Brien…; Campy thriller with lion tamer Clyde Beatty and crime writer Mickey Spillane, appearing as themselves, teaming up to track a killer obsessed with a…
Sleeping Tiger (1954): Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Dirk Bogarde; Suave street–crim Dirk Bogarde is sheltered by one of his victims, a psychiatrist who attempts to cure Bogarde's 'illness'. Shot with a baroque…
Suddenly (1954): Dir. Lewis Allen
Feat. Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden; Frank Sinatra impresses in an unsympathetic role: a sneering, cynical war–veteran out to practice his marksmanship on the President of the…
To Catch a Thief (1954): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Cary Grant, Grace Kelly; Hitchcock takes a whimsical approach for this caper about a reformed cat burglar who sets about catching the thief that is imitating his old style.…
Witness to Murder (1954): Dir. Roy Rowland
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, George Sanders, Gary Merrill…; Film noir following a woman who doubts her sanity after witnessing a murder from her apartment window. While the cops think she is just some…
Beat the Devil (1953): Dir. John Huston
Feat. Humphrey Bogart, Gina Lollobrigida, Peter Lorre…; Spoofing their own suspense movies (such as CASABLANCA and MALTESE FALCON), Humphrey Bogart and dir. Huston produced this comic oddity with the help…
Hitch-Hiker, The (1953): Dir. Ida Lupino
Feat. Edmond O'Brien, Frank Lovejoy, William Talman; Weekend hunters Edmond O’Brien (D.O.A.) and Frank Lovejoy are terrorised by a psychotic, mass–murdering passenger (William Talman) in this…
I Confess (1953): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter, Karl Malden; Striking Wellesian cinematography and an excellent performance by proto–Method actor Montgomery Clift more than make up for minor shortcomings…
Man Who Watched Trains Go By, The (1953): Dir. Harold French
Feat. Claude Rains; Dutch office clerk Claude Rains hurtles on the Paris Express when he stumbles across stolen loot and his boss winds up dead. Based on the Georges…
Seminole (1953): Dir. Budd Boetticher
Feat. Rock Hudson, Barbara Hale, Anthony Quinn…; Superlative Western set against the backdrop of 1835 Florida, where Rock Hudson plays a West Pointer Lieutenant who, on the insistence of Richard…
Thunder Bay (1953): Dir. Anthony Mann
Feat. James Stewart, Joanne Dru, Gilbert Roland…; Stewart and Mann swap horses for oil–rigs – though its still very much a western – in this brawny adventure set in the Gulf of…
Wages of Fear (Salaire de la Peur, Le) (1953): Dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot
Feat. Yves Montand, Charles Vanel; A young Yves Montand leads a group of impoverished men over rocky Latin American terrain with a dangerous load of nitro–glycerine. Considered…
Angel Face (1952): Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons; Jean Simmons is a woman possessed in this quietly unconventional film noir, playing a take–no–prisoners femme fatale who systematically…
Clash by Night (1952): Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Ryan, Marilyn Monroe; Simmering jealousies in a run–down fishing village provide downbeat fare from the pen of Clifford Odets. With Barbara Stanwyk, Robert Ryan and…
Five Fingers (5 Fingers) (1952): Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Feat. James Mason, Danielle Darrieux, Michael Rennie…; Witty espionage thriller set during the Second World War with Mason as a status–hungry valet who hawks important documents to the Germans in…
Hunted (1952): Dir. Charles Crichton
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Kay Walsh, Geoffrey Keen…; Brit suspense trailing an orphan on the run from his foster parents wrath after an accident who is kidnapped by a wanted criminal who trys to prevent…
Kansas City Confidential (1952): Dir. Phil Karlson
Feat. Lee Van Cleef, John Payne, Coleen Gray…; A grimly tough crime drama set in the Kansas City underworld. Payne plays an ex–con who is jailed for an unrelated crime, and on release…
Narrow Margin (1952): Dir. Richard Fleischer
Feat. Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, Jacqueline White…; A woman planning to testify against the mob must be protected against their assassins on the train trip from Chicago to Los Angeles.
Niagara (1952): Dir. Henry Hathaway
Feat. Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters…; This bold film provided Marilyn with her first big part, and it's possibly her best. She's a scheming, faithless wife who plots to murder her husband…
Planter's Wife, The (Outpost in Malaya) (1952): Dir. Ken Annakin
Feat. Claudette Colbert, Jack Hawkins, Anthony Steel…; Claudette Colbert and Jack Hawkins star in this fiery actioner as plantation owners under siege from commie bandits. Colbert is a dab hand with a…
Scandal Sheet (1952): Dir. Phil Karlson
Feat. Broderick Crawford, Donna Reed, John Derek; When the editor of a sensationalist newspaper commits an accidental murder, his own staff start to report on the case, and gradually inch closer to…
Sniper, The (1952): Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Adolphe Menjou, Arthur Franz, Gerald Mohr…; Film noir shot on location in San Francisco, with Arthur Franz (THE CAINE MUTINY) playing a disturbed professional driver who harbours misogynistic…
Venetian Bird (Assassin) (1952): Dir. Ralph Thomas
Feat. Richard Todd, Eva Bartok, John Gregson…; Complex thriller with a detective sent to Venice by an insurance company finds himself on the run after being framed for a series of murders.…
Detective Story (1951): Dir. William Wyler
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Eleanor Parker, Cathy O'Donnell…; Kirk Douglas is his grizzled, hard–bitten self as one of several detectives trying to get through the work day at a busy Brooklyn…
He Ran All The Way (1951): Dir. John Berry
Feat. John Garfield, Shelley Winters, Wallace Ford; Tense film noir features John Garfield as a bank robber on the run and Shelly Winters as the woman who takes him into her home. Garfield's final…
On Dangerous Ground (1951): Dir. Nicholas Ray
Feat. Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Ward Bond…; Grimly rewarding noir, with real–life tough guy Robert Ryan in one of his best roles. As a cop helping with a protracted rural manhunt, he…
Prowler, The (1951): Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Van Heflin, Evelyn Keyes, John Maxwell…; This underseen "perv noir" deliciously subverts archetypes by twisting its menacing male lead (a terrific Van Heflin) into a 'homme fatale', replete…
Racket, The (1951): Dir. John Cromwell
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan, Lizabeth Scott…; An incorruptible police captain's attempts to clean up the streets of his town leads to confrontation with the local mob boss. Minor noir, previously…
Strangers On a Train (1951): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Robert Walker, Farley Granger; The Master of Suspense justifies his mantle with this consummate thriller. He executes one glorious set piece after another as psycho Robert Walker…
Alfred Hitchcock - The Signature Collection (Dial M for Murder, I Confess, Stage Fright, The Wrong Man.) (1950-1957): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock; Box set contains four 50's classics from The Master of Suspense.
Blue Lamp, The (1950): Dir. Basil Dearden
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Patrick Doonan, Jack Warner; A confident, precisely–judged thriller set in post–war London, with feral petty–crooks Dirk Bogarde and Patrick Doonan being hunted…
Clouded Yellow, The (1950): Dir. Ralph Thomas
Feat. Jean Simmons, Trevor Howard, Kenneth More…; Superior British noir with Howard as a jaded ex–secret service agent pressed into service when he falls for the charms of mysterious young…
Damned Don't Cry, The (1950): Dir. Vincent Sherman
Feat. Joan Crawford, David Brian, Steve Cochran…; Loosely based on the relationship between Bugsy Siegel and Virginia Hill, this riveting film tells of a New York socialite's involvement with an…
Enforcer, The (1950): Dir. Bretaigne Windust
Feat. Humphrey Bogart; Gripping, well–characterized crime drama leads D.A. Humphrey Bogart into the seedy underworld to trail the leader of a notorious murder ring.
House by the River (1950): Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Louis Hayward, Lee Bowman, Jane Wyatt…; Crime noir which chillingly evokes the Victorian era thanks to director Fritz Lang's characteristic attention to detail and mood. When a rich…
Panic in the Streets (1950): Dir. Elia Kazan
Feat. Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes…; Early New Orleans–set Kazan noir, follows the hunt for a killer who may be spreading a bubonic plague. Tense, detailed examination of morality…
So Long at the Fair (1950): Dir. Antony Damborough, Terence Fisher
Feat. Jean Simmons, Dirk Bogarde, David Tomlinson…; Spooky urban legend gets the cinematic treatment in this accomplished chiller. At the 1896 World Fair in Paris two siblings check into a hotel, in…
Stage Fright (1950): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding…; Aspiring actress Jane Wyman investigates her friend's claims of innocence after he's imprisoned for murder. A polished job from Hitch, notable for a…
Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950): Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. Dana Andrews, Karl Malden, Gary Merrill…; In one of his keynote roles, Dana Andrews plays an over–aggressive cop on the dirty sidewalks of New York who takes matters into his own hands…
Woman on the Run (1950): Dir. Norman Foster
Feat. Ann Sheridan, Dennis O'Keefe, Robert Keith…; Twisty, San Fransisco–set noir spins a gripping yarn around a mob witness on the run and his estranged wife in grave danger. Excellent and…
Black Magic (1949): Dir. Gregory Ratoff
Feat. Orson Welles, Nancy Guild, Akim Tamiroff; Orson Welles excels an 18th century hypnotist, part Gypsy charlatan, part demonic master of the black arts, who uses his powers for revenge against…
House of Strangers (1949): Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Feat. Edward G. Robinson, Susan Hayward, Richard Conte…; A tour–de–force performance from Edward G. Robinson as a wealthy Italian American patriarch whose controlling presence in his sons' lives…
Man on the Eiffel Tower, The (1949): Dir. Burgess Meredith
Feat. Charles Laughton, Franchot Tone, Burgess Meredith…; Solid early outing for Inspector Maigret has Laughton in the iconic role pursuing a murderer against some splendid Parisian locales.
Obsession (The Hidden Room) (1949): Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Robert Newton, Phil Brown; Loaded film noir of jealously gone awry, with Robert Newton kidapping his wife’s latest adulterous fling, and threatening, among other things, a…
Reckless Moment, The (1949): Dir. Max Ophuls
Feat. James Mason, Joan Bennett, Geraldine Brooks…; Masterful suspenser in which concerned parent Joan Bennett covers up an apparent murder in order to protect her vulnerable daughter and…
Shockproof (1949): Dir. Douglas Sirk
Feat. Cornel Wilde; Written by Samuel Fuller. A parole officer falls in love with a beautiful parolee, and tries to keep her away from her gambling ex–boyfriend.…
Thieves' Highway (1949): Dir. Jules Dassin
Feat. Richard Conte, Valentina Cortese, Lee J. Cobb…; One of dir. Dassin's early noir triumphs, this has Conte seeking to avenge his father's maiming at the hands of a corrupt Californian fruit…
Third Man, The (1949): Dir. Carol Reed
Feat. Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Trevor Howard; Superb romantic thriller about a writer in post–war Vienna whose old friend fails to meet him – under mysterious circumstances. Justly…
Trapped (1949): Dir. Richard Fleischer
Feat. Lloyd Bridges, Barbara Payton, John Hoyt; U.S. Treasury Department agents go after a ring of counterfeiters in this fast–paced B–noir.
Whirlpool (1949): Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. Gene Tierney, Richard Conte, Jose Ferrer…; Tierney stars as Mrs Ann Sutton, a beautiful woman who seems to be living the dream in LA with her successful psychoanalyst husband William (Conte),…
A Woman's Vengeance (1948): Dir. Zoltan Korda
Feat. Charles Boyer, Ann Blyth, Jessica Tandy…; Murder caper based on the short story "The Gioconda Smile" by Aldous Huxley. Charles Boyer (GASLIGHT) plays a philanderer who's accused of…
Blanche Fury (1948): Dir. Marc Allegret
Feat. Valerie Hobson, Stewart Granger, Michael Gough…; Gothic melodrama set around a sombre English country estate, soon to be home to upwardly–ambitious Valerie Hobson. When her secret lover…
Call Northside 777 (1948): Dir. Henry Hathaway
Feat. James Stewart, Lee J. Cobb, Richard Conte…; An enjoyable 'noir' yarn, based on the true story of a man unjustly imprisoned for the murder of a policeman in 1930s Chicago. Jimmie Stewart…
Cry of the City (1948): Dir. Robert Siodmak
Feat. Victor Mature, Richard Conte, Fred Clark…; Dying cop–killer Conte refuses to confess to a crime, and worries that childhood friend turned flinty cop Mature, will implicate his girlfriend…
Dick Barton Trilogy, The (Dick Barton Special Agent, Dick Barton Strikes Back, Dick Barton at Bay) (1948-1950): Dir. Godfrey Grayson, Alfred J. Goulding
Feat. Don Stannard, Sebastian Cabot, George Ford…; A collection of three campy spy thrillers from Hammer Studios during their successful post–war period, with Don Stannard playing the special…
Drunken Angel (Yoidore tenshi) (1948): Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura; The film that made Toshiro Mifune a star – playing a petty gangster with TB, who turns to an alcoholic doctor for help after a shoot–out.…
Fallen Idol, The (1948): Dir. Carol Reed
Feat. Ralph Richardson; Celebrated, tasteful British thriller about the muddled attempt of an 8–year–old ambassador's son to protect the embassy butler (Ralph…
Gun Crazy (1948): Dir. Joseph H. Lewis
Feat. John Dall, Peggy Cummins; Cocked with outstanding set pieces, daring twists and a desperate, exciting romanticism, this 'B–movie' thriller makes the grade with any of…
He Walked By Night (1948): Dir. Alfred L. Werker
Feat. Richard Basehart, Scott Brady, Roy Roberts; High–tension film noir shot in semi documentary style follows Richard Basehart as a psychopathic loner being doggedly pursued by LAPD's finest.
My Brother's Keeper (1948): Dir. Alfred Roome
Feat. Jack Warner, Jane Hylton, David Tomlinson…; Rickety chase film from Gainsborough Pictures with two prisoners chained together making a dash for freedom.
Naked City, The (1948): Dir. Jules Dassin
Feat. Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart…; Classic crime thriller has its eye on a young woman's murder in the 'naked city' of New York, and the two veteran cops in charge of tracking down her…
Paradine Case, The (1948): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Gregory Peck, Alida Valli, Ann Todd; Lawyer Gregory Peck falls in love with the 'wrong woman', in this case Alida Valli, a client charged with murdering her blind husband. In classic…
Sorry, Wrong Number (1948): Dir. Anatole Litvak
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster; The great Barbara Stanwyck cracks up in this crime melodrama, an enjoyably overrought 'visualisation' of what was a gripping and highly successful…
Street With No Name, The (1948): Dir. William Keighley
Feat. Mark Stevens, Richard Widmark, Lloyd Nolan…; One of the grittier film noirs of the 1940s, evokes its tale of corruption, mob violence and FBI infiltration with a semi–documentary surface.…
Velvet Touch, The (1948): Dir. Jack Gage
Feat. Rosalind Russell, Leon Ames, Leo Genn…; Film noir with Rosalind Russell (HIS GIRL FRIDAY) playing a Broadway star who accidentally kills her producer during an argument, then stands by as a…
A Double Life (1947): Dir. George Cukor
Feat. Ronald Colman, Signe Hasso, Shelley Winters…; Ronald Colman won a Best Actor Oscar as a Broadway idol who immerses himself in the role of Othello and allows his off–stage cruel streak to…
Born to Kill (1947): Dir. Robert Wise
Feat. Lawrence Tierney, Claire Trevor, Audrey Long…; Cracking, hard–edged B–movie thriller, with studly Lawrence Tierney as a ‘homme fatale’ who seduces his way into a cushy marriage in…
Brighton Rock (1947): Dir. John Boulting
Feat. Richard Attenborough, Hermione Baddeley, William Hartnell; One of the coolest British crime flicks sees Richard Attenborough give an attention–grabbing portrayal of a delinquent gang leader who wants…
Brute Force (1947): Dir. Jules Dassin
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Charles Bickford…; Surprisingly visceral and violent for its time, this prison drama sees Lancaster play a tough inmate in Westgate Penitentiary who decides to wage war…
Crossfire (1947): Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan…; Controversial Best Picture nominee, with Robert Mitchum investigating an anti–Semitic murder committed amongst American soldiers recently…
Dark Passage (1947): Dir. Delmer Daves
Feat. Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall; Smokey Bogie and Bacall noir thriller in which his convicted murderer flees prison and changes his face to prove his innocence. The first third is…
Desert Fury (1947): Dir. Lewis Allen
Feat. Lizabeth Scott, John Hodiak, Burt Lancaster…; Small town Nevada desert set suspense focusing around a gambling empire obstinately led by a tough woman whose perfect monopoly is interrupted by her…
Golden Earrings (1947): Dir. Mitchell Leisen
Feat. Marlene Dietrich, Ray Milland, Murvyn Vye; Romantic spy film set the eve of World War II in which Ray Milland plays an English officer on an espionage mission in Nazi Germany to recover a…
It Always Rains on Sunday (1947): Dir. Robert Hamer
Feat. Googie Withers, John McCallum, Jack Warner; Overlooked masterpiece of British crime noir which blends kitchen sink realism with the poetic sensibilities of 30's French cinema. An escaped…
Kiss of Death (1947): Dir. Henry Hathaway
Feat. Victor Mature, Brian Donlevy, Coleen Gray…; Fantastic film noir about a career criminal whose attempts to start a new life entangle him with a psychopathic murderer bent on revenge. Richard…
Odd Man Out (1947): Dir. Carol Reed
Feat. James Mason, Robert Newton; James Mason, in one of his best roles, plays a wounded IRA–gunman hunted by police through a nightmare city–scape that clearly…
Quai Des Orfevres (1947): Dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot
Feat. Louis Jouvet, Bernard Blier, Suzy Delair…; Romantically bleak French noir about an ambitious starlet and her protective husband who find themselves implicated in the murder of a lecherous…
Red House, The (1947): Dir. Delmer Daves
Feat. Edward G. Robinson, Lon McCallister, Dame Judith Anderson…; A man dares to unlock the mystery of the red house in the thick of the woods. Music, photography and Edward G. Robinson in a spooky key role combine…
Song of the Thin Man (1947): Dir. Edward Buzzell
Feat. William Powell, Myrna Loy, Keenan Wynn…; The Thin Man legacy is stretched out to a sixth film, with Nick and Nora busting one last case involving a dispute over owed money to a two–bit…
Two Mrs Carrolls, The (1947): Dir. Peter Godfrey
Feat. Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Alexis Smith; Bogie plays the baddie in this tense psychodrama – a mad artist who paints his female models before killing them. Barbara Stanwyk is the latest…
Blue Dahlia, The (1946): Dir. George Marshall
Feat. Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Bendix; Riveting Raymond Chandler noir teams Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake in their third on–screen pairing as an ex–bomber pilot accused of…
Dark Corner (1946): Dir. Henry Hathaway
Feat. Lucille Ball, Clifton Webb, Mark Stevens…; Expert film noir concerns a private detective (Stevens) living under the shadow of a murder frame–up concocted by villain Clifton Webb (LAURA).…
Dragonwyck (1946): Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Feat. Gene Tierney, Vincent Price, Walter Huston; 1940s gothic thriller. Gene Tierney gets married to the local lord of the manor, before discovering the skeletons in the closet of his big spooky…
Dressed To Kill (1946): Dir. Roy Neill
Feat. Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Patricia Morison; The final of the 14 Rathbone–Bruce 'Sherlock Holmes' adaptations concerning a criminal gang's pursuit of three music–boxes for mysterious…
Green for Danger (1946): Dir. Sidney Gilliat
Feat. Sally Gray, Trevor Howard, Alastair Sim; Sly whodunit finds Trevor Howard and Sally Gray prime suspects in the death of a hospital patient. Cue Scotland Yard’s finest (Alistair Sim), whose…
I See a Dark Stranger (The Adventuress) (1946): Dir. Frank Launder
Feat. Deborah Kerr, Trevor Howard, Raymond Huntley…; Absorbing thriller with Deborah Kerr outstanding as a young Irish woman who despises England so much she becomes a Nazi spy.
Locket, The (1946): Dir. John Brahm
Feat. Robert Mitchum, Laraine Day, Brian Aherne…; Film noir set during the day of a wedding, where a surprise guest tries to convince the groom that his bride–to–be is in fact a murderer…
Man I Love, The (1946): Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. Ida Lupino, Robert Alda, Bruce Bennett…; Romantic drama about a New York lounge singer who becomes homesick and decides to visit her siblings on the West Coast, where she unexpectedly falls…
MGM Film Noir Collection (The Stranger, He Walked By Night, He Ran All The Way, Odds Against Tomorrow ) (1946-1959): Dir. Orson Welles, John Berry, Robert Wise; Four vintage film noirs from the MGM vault.
Notorious (1946): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Ingrid Bergman, Cary Grant; Sexy, suspenseful romantic thriller with Ingrid Bergman at her most radiant as an American spy who unwittingly falls in love with her contact, Cary…
Panique (1946): Dir. Julien Duvivier
Feat. Michel Simon, Viviane Romance; Exemplary French noir based on the novel Les Fiançailles de M. Hire by Georges Simenon, the source of the Patrice Leconte film, MONSIEUR HIRE…
Pink String And Sealing Wax (1946): Dir. Robert Hamer
Feat. Mervyn Johns, Googie Withers, Gordon Jackson; Brit film noir set in a dark and dirty Brighton sees a scheming landlady (Withers) befriend a young chemist's assistant in order to obtain poison to…
Somewhere in the Night (1946): Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Feat. John Hodiak, Nancy Guild, Lloyd Nolan…; Often underrated 'film noir' has an amnesiac soldier (Hodiak) return to Los Angeles from WW2 to rediscover his identity, only he may not want to... A…
Stranger, The (1946): Dir. Orson Welles
Feat. Orson Welles, Edward G. Robinson; Orson Welles plays a Nazi war criminal who marries an unsuspecting American, but Edward G. Robinson is hot on his trail. Welles also directed this…
Terror By Night (1946): Dir. Roy Neill
Feat. Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Alan Mowbray; The penultimate Rathbone–Bruce "Sherlock Holmes", with the duo on the trail of a large diamond 'The Star of Rhodesia' which has gone missing…
Woman in Green, The (1946): Dir. Roy Neill
Feat. Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce; Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce play the definitive Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, in this updated (to the 40s) version of the original Conan Doyle…
And Then There Were None (1945): Dir. Rene Clair
Feat. Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston, Louis Hayward…; The best film version of Agatha Christie's novel, that is literally a by–the–numbers whodunnit. A little dated, but you'll have fun…
Blood On the Sun (1945): Dir. Frank Lloyd
Feat. James Cagney, Sylvia Sidney, Porter Hall; Minor Cagney suspense vehicle is distinguished by its unusual setup: Cagney plays a newspaper man in 1920s Japan who uncovers a military plot for…
Detour (1945): Dir. Edgar G. Ulmer
Feat. Tom Neal, Ann Savage; Often touted as the best B–movie ever made, this blistering film noir upstaged many of the Hollywood main features it was paired with. Short on…
Dillinger (1945): Dir. Max Nosseck
Feat. Lawrence Tierney; Lawrence Tierney stars in this robust B–Movie biopic as the notorious gangster who declared war on America's banking system.
Fallen Angel (1945): Dir. Otto Preminger
Feat. Dana Andrews, Alice Faye, Linda Darnell; Follow–up to Preminger's film noir LAURA stars Andrews as a penniless drifter who falls in love with beautiful waitress Stella (Darnell) so…
Seventh Veil, The (1945): Dir. Compton Bennett
Feat. James Mason, Ann Todd; Renowned film serves up psychiatry in bite sized chunks as a concert pianist is cured of her complexes by a shrink intent on fixing her up with the…
Sherlock Holmes Collection (The Woman in Green, Terror by Night, Dressed To Kill) (1945-1946): Feat. Basil Rathbone; Three of Basil Rathbone's classic renditions of the Victorian detective Sherlock Holmes.
Spellbound (1945): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck; Beguiling Hitchcock, with Ingrid Bergman psychoanalyzing murder suspect Gregory Peck. Famed dream sequence by Salvador Dali.
Thin Man Goes Home, The (1945): Dir. Richard Thorpe
Feat. William Powell, Myrna Loy, Lucile Watson…; Nick and Nora's reputation precedes them as they wrap up another murder mystery while visiting Nick's parents. The penultimate film in the popular…
Christmas Holiday (1944): Dir. Robert Siodmak
Feat. Deanna Durbin, Gene Kelly; Considered one of the bleakest Film Noirs of the 1940s, casting musical star Deanna Durbin in a rare serious role as a woman who marries an…
Gaslight (1944): Dir. George Cukor
Feat. Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Joseph Cotten; Menacing, atmospheric psycho–thriller in which Ingrid Bergman marries suave romantic Charles Boyer, unaware of his murderous obsession to find…
Ministry of Fear (1944): Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Ray Milland, Marjorie Reynolds, Carl Esmond…; Fritz Lang's classic film noir focuses on a man who, upon being released from an insane asylum, unwittingly discovers a piece of microfilm intended…
Murder, My Sweet (Farewell, My Lovely) (1944): Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley…; An iconic 'noir' whose unsavoury storyline is taken from Raymond Chandler's classic novel. Powell plays a detective dragged into a murky case of…
Phantom Lady (1944): Dir. Robert Siodmak
Feat. Alan Curtis, Ella Raines, Virginia Brissac…; Dark little treat of a thriller focused on a married man who spends a night with a mysterious lady and subsequently finds his wife murdered. The…
Hangmen Also Die (1943): Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Brian Donlevy, Walter Brennan, Anna Lee…; Moody political thriller with Donlevy on the run after assassinating a prominent Nazi and finding shelter with a Czech family as the manhunt consumes…
Le Corbeau (1943): Dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot
Feat. Pierre Fresnay; Fascinating as a wartime allegory made under the German Occupation of France, a small town becomes a hot–bed of paranoia following a rash of…
Ox Bow Incident, The (Strange Incident) (1943): Dir. William A. Wellman
Feat. Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Mary Beth Hughes…; Superlative moral drama in a Western setting, where three lynched cattle rustlers are later proven innocent by the upstanding Henry Ford. Although…
Power of the Press (1943): Dir. Lew Landers
Feat. Guy Kibbee, Lee Tracy, Otto Kruger; Based on a story by Samuel Fuller. During World War II, a newspaper publisher investigates the murder of a colleague, who was attempting to steer his…
Shadow of a Doubt (1943): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten; Teenager Teresa Wright is thrilled when relative Joseph Cotten comes to stay, then less so, gradually realising Uncle Charlie may be a psychopathic…
Day Will Dawn, The (1942): Dir. Harold French
Feat. Hugh Williams, Griffith Jones, Deborah Kerr…; Propaganda fuelled WW2 drama about a foreign journalist reporting on German U–Boats attacking Norwegian ships who finds himself up against the…
Glass Key, The (1942): Dir. Stuart Heisler
Feat. Veronica Lake, Alan Ladd, Brian Donlevy; Alan Ladd re–teams with blonde siren Veronica Lake in this almighty film noir of divided loyalties, crooked politicians, and underworld snares.…
Journey into Fear (1942): Dir. Norman Foster
Feat. Joseph Cotten, Dolores Del Rio, Orson Welles…; Hitchcockian suspenser set around an American engineer's adventures in WW2 Turkey. Loaded down with a maze–like plot (written by star Joseph…
Keeper of the Flame (1942): Dir. George Cukor
Feat. Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Richard Whorf…; Spencer Tracy plays a top–notch reporter who falls in love with the widow of the deceased national hero he's assigned to investigate. A tight…
Saboteur (1942): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Robert Cummings, Priscilla Lane; Robert Cummings dodges shady conspirators and skeptical patriots as the wrong man thought to be responsible for some anti–American sabotage.…
Secret Weapon, The (1942): Dir. Roy Neill
Feat. Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Lionel Atwill…; Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce play the definitive Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, in this updated (to the 40s) version of the original Conan Doyle…
Went the Day Well? (1942): Dir. Alberto Cavalcanti
Feat. Leslie Banks, Valerie Taylor, Marie Lohr; British pluck and courage is put to the test in this Graham Greene story, where a cosy English village is infiltrated during WWII by a truckload of…
Man Hunt (1941): Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Walter Pidgeon, Joan Bennett, George Sanders…; A Fritz Lang–directed thriller set in Europe just prior to World War II – the first of the German exile's four anti–Nazi films, and…
Shadow of the Thin Man (1941): Dir. W.S. Van Dyke
Feat. William Powell, Myrna Loy, Donna Reed…; Yet another relaxing weekend for sweethearts Nick and Nora turns into a head–scratcher, as the crime–stopping couple divert from a day at…
Suspicion (1941): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine; One of Hitch's first American films uses the artificial charms of Cary Grant to strangely sinister effect, as a manipulative playboy whom wife Joan…
Swamp Water (1941): Dir. Jean Renoir
Feat. Walter Brennan, Walter Huston, Anne Baxter…; An interesting melodrama, dank with the regional atmosphere of the Florida Everglades, about the problems undergone by a youthful fur trapper…
Foreign Correspondent (1940): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Joel McCrea, Laraine Day; On the eve of WWII, journalist Joel McCrea gets involved in European espionage, some classic Hitchcock set–pieces (esp. the Dutch windmill…
Gaslight (1940): Dir. Thorold Dickinson
Feat. Anton Walbrook, Diana Wynyard, Frank Pettingell…; This potently atmospheric "Victorian" thriller boasts a suitably wired Anton Walbrook as a repressed patriarch who torments his wife in an effort to…
Invisible Man Returns, The (1940): Dir. Joe May
Feat. Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Vincent Price, Nan Grey; A man falsely sentenced to death for murdering his brother – the original Invisible Man, takes a drug enabling him to vanish from his cell in…
Rebecca (1940): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders; A masterful gothic romance about a nobleman's second wife who becomes haunted by the image of his beloved first. Hitchcock's first American film was…
Another Thin Man (1939): Dir. W.S. Van Dyke
Feat. William Powell, Myrna Loy, Otto Kruger…; Nick and Nora, with newborn baby in tow, spend a weekend on Long Island, sleuthing out a shady character whose death threats lead to murder. Adapted…
Complete Sherlock Holmes Collection, The (1939-1946): Feat. Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce; Complete collection of all 14 SHERLOCK HOLMES films starring Basil Rathbone as the iconic detective and Nigel Bruce as his loyal sidekick Dr Watson.…
Nancy Drew...Reporter (1939): Dir. William Clemens
Feat. Bonita Granville; One of the very first screen adaptations of Edward Stratemeyer’s series of "Nancy Drew" mystery stories, Bonita Granville stars as the youthful…
Roaring Twenties, The (1939): Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Priscilla Lane…; Seminal gangster drama, paired screen–tough Cagney with a then lesser–known Bogart. Becoming buddies during WWI, they later enter and…
Adventure in Sahara (1938): Dir. D. Ross Lederman
Feat. C. Henry Gordon, Paul Kelly; Based on a story by Samuel Fuller. Following the death of his brother, Jim Wilson joins the French Foreign Legion and is stationed in Northern…
Algiers (1938): Dir. John Cromwell
Feat. Hedy Lamarr, Charles Boyer, Sigrid Gurie…; Remake of a PEPE LE MOKO, in which a dashing jewel thief who has been hiding out for two years in the mysterious, murky Casbah, falls madly in love…
Bete Humaine, La (1938): Dir. Jean Renoir
Feat. Jean Gabin, Simone Simon, Fernand Ledoux…; Adaptation of Zola's romantic tragedy brims with tension and exults the presense of French icon Jean Gabin as a hot–headed train driver coaxed…
Lady Vanishes, The (1938): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Dame May Whitty…; Prime British Hitchcock, tracks a brilliantly–plotted mystery of an old lady's disappearance on a trans–Europe train, with…
Dark Journey (1937): Dir. Victor Saville
Feat. Conrad Veidt, Vivien Leigh, Ursula Jeans…; British spy caper with Leigh as a French spy falling for a German double–agent.
Pepe Le Moko (1937): Dir. Julien Duvivier
Feat. Jean Gabin, Mireille Balin; Jean Gabin plays a super–cool gangster who finds immunity in the Algierian Casbah. Marvellously romantic, this classic of the French golden age…
You Only Live Once (1937): Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Henry Fonda, Sylvia Sidney; An awesome early film noir from dir. Lang with Fonda playing a career criminal determined to go straight, but compelled by fate into murdering a…
Young and Innocent (1937): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Nova Pilbeam, Derrick de Marney, Percy Marmont; A young girl aids a fugitive on the run, who she believes is innocent. Hitch adds some clever twists to his reworking of THE 39 STEPS.
After the Thin Man (1936): Dir. W.S. Van Dyke
Feat. William Powell, Myrna Loy, James Stewart…; That great American screen coupling, William Powell and Myrna Loy, forgo their New Year's celebrations to wittily dissect another murder mystery. A…
Sabotage (1936): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Sylvia Sidney, Oscar Homolka, John Loder; Suspenseful early Hitchcock, with a foreign saboteur terrorising London.
Secret Agent, The (1936): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Peter Lorre, Madeleine Carroll, John Gielgud; Peter Lorre plays a reluctant officer assigned to kill a WW2 spy. Good Hitchcock fare from his early career.
39 Steps, The (1935): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Madeleine Carroll, Robert Donat, Peggy Ashcroft; A ripping yarn about a innocent man embroiled in a spy conspiracy and is chased across Scotland. Set a sophisticated precedent for the spy/thriller…
Crime and Punishment (1935): Dir. Josef von Sternberg
Feat. Edward Arnold, Peter Lorre, Marian Marsh; Modest adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel about a criminology student turned murderer who becomes tortured with remorse.
Petrified Forest, The (1935): Dir. Archie Mayo
Feat. Bette Davis, Leslie Howard, Genevieve Tobin…; Featuring probably Bogart's first classic role, this adaptation of the Robert Sherwood play is set in a remote diner in Arizona where a fugitive…
Man Who Knew Too Much, The (1934): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Leslie Banks, Peter Lorre; Peter Lorre stars in this original version as the villain who kidnaps an innocent man's child to ensure his silence. Budget limitations are overcome…
Thin Man, The (1934): Dir. W.S. Van Dyke
Feat. William Powell, Myrna Loy; Taken from Dashiell Hammett's novel, this near–perfect comedy–thriller virtually invented the genre, with William Powell and Myrna Loy as…
A Shriek in the Night (1933): Dir. Albert Ray
Feat. Ginger Rogers, Lyle Talbot, Harvey Clark…; A murderer terrorises a quiet neighbourhood, with each victim ominously receiving a polite card before being dispatched. This solidly produced…
Kennel Murder Case, The (1933): Dir. Michael Curtiz
Feat. William Powell, Mary Astor; Stylish murder mystery from the pre code era with William Powell playing detective and Scottish Terrier owner Philo Vance, popularised in the novels…
Testament of Dr. Mabuse, The (1933): Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Rudolf Klein-Rogge; Dir. Lang's brilliant sequel to the silent DR. MABUSE – THE GAMBLER, rethinking his vision of the evil controlling mastermind for the nascent…
Most Dangerous Game, The (1932): Dir. Ernest B Shoedsack, Irving Pichel
Feat. Joel McCrea, Fay Wray, Leslie Banks; This mother of all chase–movies was adapted from Richard Connell's book by the makers of KING KONG. A fresh–faced Joel McCrea is…
M... Worst Crime of All (1931): Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Peter Lorre; A chilling expressionist classic starring Peter Lorre as psychotic child molester. Dir. Lang masterfully fills the screen with understated but…
Bat Whispers, The (1930): Dir. Roland West
Feat. Chester Morris, Una Merkel, Richard Tucker…; An early talkie about a mysterious criminal known as "The Bat", who terrorises a group of people looking for treasure in an old country…
Hitchcock Showcase (1930): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock; Four films from the early career of suspense's elder statesman, available on twin cassettes – MURDER (1930), SKIN GAME (1931), NUMBER 17…
Murder! (1930): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Herbert Marshall, Edward Chapman, Miles Mander; Hitchcock's second talkie is a clever whodunnit in which a juror (Marshall) in the murder trial of a young woman decides to open his own…
Blackmail (1929): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Anny Ondra, John Longden, Sara Allgood…; Notable early thriller from Hitch, with Ondra being blackmailed by someone who knows she accidentally killed a rapist. Features good London…
Silent Films Of Alfred Hitchcock, The (1927-1929): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock; Two of Hitchcock's early films showcasing the best from the Master Of Suspense during his silent era. THE RING: A boxer must compete with a rival…
Underworld (1927): Dir. Josef von Sternberg
Feat. George Bancroft, Evelyn Brent, Clive Brook; Josef von Sternberg’s breakthrough silent film arguably pioneered the American gangster genre, with George Bancroft cast as a criminal kingpin…
Lodger, The (1926): Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Malcolm Keen, Marie Ault, Arthur Chesney…; The first notable Hitchcock, this silent variant of the 'Jack the Ripper' features a memorable turn from Ivor Novello and some spine–tingling…
Dr. Mabuse, The Gambler (1922): Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Alfred Abel, Lil Dagover; Lang's first foray into ze evil exploits of Dr. Mabuse is a visually dazzling example of German expressionism, involving the master criminal's plan…
Ace of Hearts, The (1921): Dir. Wallace Worsley
Feat. Lon Chaney, Leatrice Joy, John Bowers; A silent–era crime drama with Lon Chaney as a member of a secret vigilante society. The group make a plan to dispatch a wealthy businessman…
Fantomas (1913-1914): Dir. Louis Feuillade
Feat. Edmund Breon, Rene Navarre, Georges Melchior…; Early French film serial adapting the novel of the same name by Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre about the criminal genius who is obsessively…
Bogart Collection 1, The (They Drive By Night, High Sierra, The Maltese Falcon, To Have and Have Not): Feat. Humphrey Bogart
Bogart Collection 2, The (The Big Sleep, Key Largo, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Dark Passage): Feat. Humphrey Bogart

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