Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime: 3190 Films to Buy & Rent
Kansas City Confidential (1952)
- Dir. Phil Karlson
Feat. Lee Van Cleef, John Payne, Coleen Gray…
- A grimly tough crime drama set in the Kansas City underworld.
Payne plays an ex–con who is jailed for an unrelated crime, and on release…
Narrow Margin (1952)
- Dir. Richard Fleischer
Feat. Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, Jacqueline White…
- A woman planning to testify against the mob must be protected against their assassins on the train trip from Chicago to Los Angeles.
Niagara (1952)
- Dir. Henry Hathaway
Feat. Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters…
- This bold film provided Marilyn with her first big part, and it's possibly her best. She's a scheming, faithless wife who plots to murder her husband…
Planter's Wife, The (Outpost in Malaya) (1952)
- Dir. Ken Annakin
Feat. Claudette Colbert, Jack Hawkins, Anthony Steel…
- Claudette Colbert and Jack Hawkins star in this fiery actioner as plantation owners under siege from commie bandits. Colbert is a dab hand with a…
Scandal Sheet (1952)
- Dir. Phil Karlson
Feat. Broderick Crawford, Donna Reed, John Derek
- When the editor of a sensationalist newspaper commits an accidental murder, his own staff start to report on the case, and gradually inch closer to…
Sniper, The (1952)
- Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Adolphe Menjou, Arthur Franz, Gerald Mohr…
- Film noir shot on location in San Francisco, with Arthur Franz (THE CAINE MUTINY) playing a disturbed professional driver who harbours misogynistic…
Sudden Fear (1952)
- Dir. David Miller
Feat. Joan Crawford, Jack Palance, Gloria Grahame…
- Enjoyable potboiler with Palance as an ambitious young actor who sets out to seduce and destroy wealthy playwright Crawford. Rollicking…
Venetian Bird (Assassin) (1952)
- Dir. Ralph Thomas
Feat. Richard Todd, Eva Bartok, John Gregson…
- Complex thriller with a detective sent to Venice by an insurance company finds himself on the run after being framed for a series of murders.…
Detective Story (1951)
- Dir. William Wyler
Feat. Kirk Douglas, Eleanor Parker, Cathy O'Donnell…
- Kirk Douglas is his grizzled, hard–bitten self as one of several detectives trying to get through the work day at a busy Brooklyn…
He Ran All The Way (1951)
- Dir. John Berry
Feat. John Garfield, Shelley Winters, Wallace Ford
- Tense film noir features John Garfield as a bank robber on the run and Shelly Winters as the woman who takes him into her home. Garfield's final…