Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema > Suspense/Crime: 474 Films to Buy & Rent
Nuits Rouges (1974)
- Dir. Georges Franju
Feat. Jacques Champreux, Gayle Hunnicutt
- Another Franju masked adventure launched from Louis Feuillade serials and his own excellent JUDEX, only this time in filmed in a garish, exagerrated…
Burned Barns, The (Les granges brulées) (1973)
- Dir. Jean Chapot
Feat. Alain Delon, Simone Signoret
- Moody provincial drama of death and betrayal reunites Delon and Signoret, this time on opposite sides of the law.
More a character study than a…
Cauldron Of Death (Ricco) (1973)
- Dir. Tulio DeMicheli
Feat. Christopher Mitchum, Barbara Bouchet, Malisa Longo
- Masquerading as a B–grade horror, this is actually a melodramatic Italian revenge thriller concerning the son of a murdered mobster who is…
Shock Treatment (Traitement de Choc) (1973)
- Dir. Alain Jessua
Feat. Alain Delon, Annie Girardot
- Pointed medical chiller set in an anti–aging clinic overseen by Delon. This minor genre film is memorable for Girardot and Delon's risque beach…
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…
Dirty Money (Un Flic) (1972)
- Dir. Jean-Pierre Melville
Feat. Alain Delon, Richard Crenna, Catherine Deneuve
- Final film by the suspense–specialist Melville (LE SAMOURAI), spins a familiar tale of cops and bank–robbers involving Alain Delon,…
Don't Torture a Duckling (1972)
- Dir. Lucio Fulci
Feat. Barbara Bouchet, Florinda Bolkan, Tomas Milian…
- A compelling Giallo mystery from Italian master Lucio Fulci (THE BEYOND) following a detective investigating a series of child murders in a southern…
French Screen Icons: Jean-Paul Belmondo 2 (The Inheritor, Scoumoune: Mafia Warfare, The Body of My Enemy) (1972-1976)
- Feat. Jean-Paul Belmondo
- Three films starring French leading–man Jean–Paul Belmondo.
French Screen Icons: Jean-Paul Belmondo 3 (The Professional, The Outside Man, The Loner, Amazone) (1972-1987)
- Feat. Jean-Paul Belmondo
- Four films starring French leading–man Jean–Paul Belmondo.
Inheritor, The (L'Heritier) (1972)
- Dir. Philippe Labro
Feat. Jean-Paul Belmondo, Carla Gravina, Jean Rochefort
- Shadowy thriller in which a wealthy industrialist dies in an air crash but his son suspects foul play. Soon he finds his own life in peril.
Set…