Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime: 3190 Films to Buy & Rent
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…
McCloud (TV Series) (1970-1977)
- Feat. Dennis Weaver, J.D. Cannon, Ken Lynch…
- Nicely executed crime series following an ex–sheriff from "out west" that joins up with a New York City police squadron to nab the baddies by…
Night Gallery (TV Series) (1970-1973)
- Feat. Rod Serling
- Spooky suspense series, hosted by Rod Serling, with each episode adapted from a sci–fi and horror short story. While not up to Serling's…
Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, The (1970)
- Dir. Billy Wilder
Feat. Robert Stephens, Colin Blakely, Genevieve Page…
- Late period Billy Wilder (THE APARTMENT) applies his ironic sensibility, with less acid than usual, to the mind of Conan Doyle's detecting hero and…
Rider on the Rain (Le passager de la pluie) (1970)
- Dir. Rene Clement
Feat. Marlène Jobert, Annie Cordy, Charles Bronson
- Stylish psychosexual French mystery thriller in obvious homage to Hitchcock, with Charles Bronson playing a US Army colonel hunting down an escaped…
Shadows of Fear (TV Series) (1970)
- Feat. Sheila Hancock, Ronald Hines, Edward Fox…
- Featuring some of Britain's most renowned stage and TV performers, this anthology series brings together eight plays with a 'chilling Hitchcockian…
They Call Me Mister Tibbs! (1970)
- Dir. Gordon Douglas
Feat. Sidney Poitier, Martin Landau, Juano Hernandez
- The first sequel to IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT has Sidney Poitier’s detective now settled in San Francisco and investigating a girl’s…