Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime: 3176 Films to Buy & Rent
Backroads (1977)
- Dir. Phillip Noyce
Feat. Bill Hunter
- This short road–movie was a moody debut for dir. Noyce, laying out the tale of two drifters (one black, one white) who steal a car for an…
Bad (Andy Warhol's Bad) (1977)
- Dir. Jed Johnson
Feat. Carroll Baker, Perry King, Susan Tyrrell
- The last Andy Warhol production before his death is a pleasingly demented soap–opera directed by Jed Johnson, a man who originally worked…
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…
Death Weekend (1977)
- Dir. William Freut
Feat. Brenda Vaccaro, Don Stroud, Chuck Shamata
- Four sleazeballs invade a couple's country retreat and proceed to make things rather unpleasant. Well–acted shocker in the wake of the…
Demon Seed, The (1977)
- Dir. Donald Cammell
Feat. Julie Christie
- The thought of a woman (Julie Christie) being literally impregnated by a machine may be a dodgy premise for a movie, but it all works surprisingly…
Domino Principle, The (1977)
- Dir. Stanley Kramer
Feat. Gene Hackman, Candice Bergen, Richard Widmark…
- A thoroughly minor entry in the 1970s cycle of 'conspiracy thrillers', with Hackman playing an ex–Army marksman who is, sprung from prison by…
Fight For Your Life (1977)
- Dir. Robert A. Endelson
Feat. William Sanderson, Robert Judd
- A racist hillbilly and two sadistic jail–breakers terrorize a black minister and his family, who eventually fight back and take bloody…
Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries, The (TV Series) (1977)
- Feat. Shaun Cassidy, Parker Stevenson, Pamela Sue Martin
- Teen dreamboats Shaun Cassidy and Parker Stevenson teamed up as the dogged Hardy Boys in this popular seventies serialization of the paperback…
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.
Long Weekend (1977)
- Dir. Colin Eggleston
Feat. John Hargreaves, Briony Behets
- In remote coastal Australia, a couple go camping to patch–up their marriage, but find themselves victims of isolation, foreboding forces and…