Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime: 3190 Films to Buy & Rent
Defector, The (1966)
- Dir. Raoul Levy
Feat. Montgomery Clift, Hardy Kruger, Macha Meril…
- Thriller about an American physicist who is blackmailed by the CIA into travelling to East Germany, where he must acquire a microfilm from a…
Fantastic Voyage (1966)
- Dir. Richard Fleischer
Feat. Donald Pleasence, Raquel Welch, Stephen Boyd…
- A team of 'experts' are miniaturized and injected into a high–ranking scientist as a last resort to repair his medical condition.
An…
Funeral in Berlin (1966)
- Dir. Guy Hamilton
Feat. Michael Caine, Oscar Homolka
- Sequel to THE IPCRESS FILE again features Michael Caine as the Harry Palmer, hero of Len Deighton's novel series. This time the espionage functionary…
Gambit (1966)
- Dir. Ronald Neame
Feat. Shirley Maclaine, Michael Caine
- Charming, clever heist flick about a Cockney conman and a kooky showgirl whose brilliantly elaborate plan to steal an invaluable sculpture backfires…
Harper (1966)
- Dir. Jack Smight
Feat. Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall, Julie Harris…
- Paul Newman is laconic as a P.I. in the Bogart tradition, investigating the disappearance of Lauren Bacall’s husband. Sleek, witty entertainment…
How to Steal a Million (1966)
- Dir. William Wyler
Feat. Audrey Hepburn, Peter O'Toole, Eli Wallach…
- A top cast lifts this romantically–inclined suspense caper, wherein Hepburn must steal a forged sculpture belonging to her own family before it…
Le Deuxieme Souffle (Second Breath) (1966)
- Dir. Jean-Pierre Melville
Feat. Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Raymond Pellegrin
- A gangster escapes from prison and returns to his criminal ways, but a determined inspector is on his tail. Has all the style and restraint we can…
Made in U.S.A (1966)
- Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Anna Karina, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Marianne Faithful
- Further political horseplay from Godard in the skin of a Nouvelle Vague alternate reality: this time, Anna Karina plays a war journalist on the hunt…
Man in a Suitcase (TV Series) (1966)
- Feat. Richard Bradford, Donald Sutherland, Felicity Kendall…
- Perhaps lesser known (and less innovative) than other suspense series of the 1960s, this ITC production still packs a gritty punch.
Bradford plays…
Quiller Memorandum, The (1966)
- Dir. Michael Anderson
Feat. George Segal, Max von Sydow, Alec Guinness
- Cold War thriller given an edge through the expert scripting of Harold Pinter, mapping out a game of psychological cat–and–mouse between…