Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime: 3176 Films to Buy & Rent
Icy Flesh (Icy Breasts; Les seins de glace) (1974)
- Dir. Georges Lautner
Feat. Alain Delon, Mireille Darc, Claude Brasseur
- Alain Delon potboiler, with the French leading man succumbing to the wiles of an alluring, if deadly femme fatale. Better known as 'Icy Breasts'.
Inn of the Damned (1974)
- Dir. Terry Bourke
Feat. Dame Judith Anderson, Lionel Long
- An unusual hybrid of Western and horror mystery set in 1890s Australia around an isolated hostel run by a vengeful Austrian (!) couple. Arriving into…
Juggernaut (1974)
- Dir. Richard Lester
Feat. Richard Harris, Omar Sharif, David Hemmings…
- Richard Harris leads a bomb disposal squad in a race against time to save an ocean liner and its 1200 passengers from disaster. Fine nail–biter…
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…
Macon County Line (1974)
- Dir. Richard Compton
Feat. Alan Vint, Jesse Vint, Cheryl Waters…
- An under–rated, gritty kids vs. rednecks thriller in the EASY RIDER tradition about three youngsters pursued on Georgian byways for a gruesome…
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…
Melissa (TV Mini-series) (1974)
- Dir. Peter Moffatt
Feat. Peter Barkworth, Moira Redmond
- Riveting BBC mystery thriller series adapted from the Francis Durbridge novel that tells the tale of a husband who begins to uncover the mysterious…
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.
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…
Odessa File, The (1974)
- Dir. Ronald Neame
Feat. Jon Voight, Maximilian Schell, Maria Schell…
- Jon Voight plays a German journalist on the trail of Nazi war criminals. From Frederic Forsyth's bestseller.