Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime > Policier: 259 Films to Buy & Rent
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…