Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime: 3176 Films to Buy & Rent
Callan (TV Series) (1970)
- Dir. James Goddard, Voytek
Feat. Edward Woodward
- The bold British TV spy series with Edward Woodward as the cold–blooded but very human secret agent.
Cercle Rouge, Le (The Red Circle) (1970)
- Dir. Jean-Pierre Melville
Feat. Alain Delon, Gian Maria Volonte, Yves Montand…
- A precisely–crafted colour 'noir' from the French master, dir. Melville, which rejigs the usual ingredients into an exemplary heist…
Cold Sweat (De La Part Des Copains) (1970)
- Dir. Terence Young
Feat. Charles Bronson, Liv Ullmann, James Mason
- Tight Charles Bronson vehicle see the tough guy play a retired convict who lives with his wife and daughter in the idyllic French Rivera, until some…
Conformist, The (Conformista, Il) (1970)
- Dir. Bernardo Bertolucci
Feat. Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, Gastone Moschin…
- Dazzling images and a potent brew of sex and politics merge seamlessly in this milestone of cinema about a submissive Italian Fascist recruited to…
Eyewitness (1970)
- Dir. John Hough
Feat. Mark Lester, Lionel Jeffries, Susan George
- A “boy who cried wolf” suspenser, centred on an imaginative youngster whose placid existence on the island of Malta is shaken when he witnesses…
Figures in a Landscape (1970)
- Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Robert Shaw, Malcolm McDowell
- A unique ‘chase’ thriller from dir. Losey, taking place in an enigmatic near future – with Malcolm Macdowell and Robert Shaw fleeing a menacing…
Gods of the Plague (Götter der Pest) (1970)
- Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Hanna Schygulla, Margarethe von Trotta, Harry Baer…
- The second in a loose trilogy of gangster films directed by prolific German iconoclast Rainer Werner Fassbinder early in his career.
In this…
La Rupture (The Breach) (1970)
- Dir. Claude Chabrol
Feat. Stephane Audran, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Jean-Claude Drouot…
- Stéphane Audran plays a good mother with a chequered past who divorces her deadbeat husband and is targeted by her aggrieved in–laws. In a bit…
Liberation of L.B. Jones, The (1970)
- Dir. William Wyler
Feat. Roscoe Lee Browne, Lee J. Cobb, Lee Majors…
- The final film by William Wyler, depicting racial tensions in a fictional Tennessee town, where a successful African–american businessman…
Man Who Haunted Himself, The (1970)
- Dir. Basil Dearden
Feat. Roger Moore
- In one of his rare serious roles, Roger Moore plays the survivor of a car crash who discovers his doppelganger has been released into the…