Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime: 3176 Films to Buy & Rent
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…
10 Rillington Place (1971)
- Dir. Richard Fleischer
Feat. Richard Attenborough, Judy Geeson, John Hurt…
- Richard Attenborough re–creates the activities of UK serial–killer John Christie.
A Lizard in a Woman's Skin (1971)
- Dir. Lucio Fulci
Feat. Florinda Bolkan, Sir Stanley Baker, Jean Sorel…
- Psychosexual giallo horror from director Lucio Fulci (THE BLACK CAT).
Set in London, where the repressed wife of a lawyer is having erotic dreams…
A Reflection of Fear (1971)
- Dir. William A. Fraker
Feat. Robert Shaw, Mary Ure, Sally Kellerman…
- A giallo inspired psychological thriller set in a seaside mansion in Eastern Canada.
A young girl's mental health declines rapidly when her…
Anderson Tapes, The (1971)
- Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Sean Connery, Dyan Cannon, Martin Balsam…
- An inventive, if over–ambitious thriller in which a master–thief (Connery) recently released from prison plans a difficult heist, without…
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…
Cat O' Nine Tails (1971)
- Dir. Dario Argento
Feat. Karl Malden, James Franciscus
- Unrestrained melodrama with Karl Malden as a blind reporter on a trail of blood. Argento's second feature, rooted in 'giallo' (Italian pulp fiction)…
Duel (1971)
- Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. Dennis Weaver, Tim Herbert, Charles Peel…
- Steven Spielberg's first feature film and still one of his best, about a man pursued by a faceless psychopath in a huge diesel truck. Required…
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…