Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime: 3190 Films to Buy & Rent
Ipcress File, The (1965)
- Dir. Sidney J. Furie
Feat. Michael Caine, Nigel Green, Guy Doleman…
- An academic James Bond–style thriller involving kidnapping, espionage, mysterious tapes and corrupt authorities. Stylised photography and an…
Major Dundee (1965)
- Dir. Sam Peckinpah
Feat. Charlton Heston, Richard Harris, Dana (Jim) Hutton…
- Important homage–critique of the Western from dir. Peckinpah, with Heston playing a misanthropic prison warden who pursues a murderous Apache…
Mirage (1965)
- Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Gregory Peck, Diane Baker, Walter Matthau…
- An excellent example of the Hitchcockian thriller with Peck an amnesiac caught up in the murder of a philanthropist.
Oshima's Outlaw Sixties (Pleasures of the Flesh, Violence at Noon a.k.a. Violence at High Noon, Sing a Song of Sex, Japanese Summer: Double Suicide, Three Resurrected Drunkards) (1965-1968)
- Dir. Nagisa Oshima
- Five films from provocative Japanese director Nagisa Oshima, all from the 60's, when he formed his own film production company and enjoyed the most…
Pierrot Le Fou (Crazy Pete) (1965)
- Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
Feat. Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina
- A striking example of the French New Wave. It's kiss, kiss, bang, bang all the way with Jean Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina as maverick intellectual…
Dead Ringer (1964)
- Dir. Paul Henreid
Feat. Bette Davis
- Enjoyable, high camp star vehicle for Bette Davis who is driven by jealousy to murder her twin sister in order to assume her identity. Bette, of…
Diamonds of the Night (1964)
- Dir. Jan Nemec
Feat. Ladislav Jansky, Antonin Kumbera, Irma Bischofova
- Extraordinarily intense account, told with almost no dialogue, of two Jewish teenagers running for their lives after escaping from a train bound for…
Fail Safe (1964)
- Dir. Sidney Lumet
Feat. Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau, Larry Hagman
- Henry Fonda plays the American president struggling to avert an imminent nuclear holocaust, due to a computer malfunction. A nailbiting Cold War…
Gideon's Way (TV Series) (1964-1965)
- Feat. John Gregson
- Superior mid–60s documentary–style police series that centres around the criminal investigations of Commander George Gideon of Scotland…
Hamlet (1964)
- Dir. Grigori Kozintsev
Feat. Innokenti Smoktunovsky
- The legendary Russian version of Shakespeare's play, which visually at least, stands as the greatest yet.
Staged amidst the massive battlements of…