Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Suspense/Crime: 3104 Films to Rent
Christmas Holiday (1944)
- Dir. Robert Siodmak
Feat. Deanna Durbin, Gene Kelly
- Considered one of the bleakest Film Noirs of the 1940s, casting musical star Deanna Durbin in a rare serious role as a woman who marries an…
Conspirators (1944)
- Dir. Jean Negulesco
Feat. Hedy Lamarr, Paul Henreid, Sydney Greenstreet…
- A somewhat Casablanca–esque combination of wartime espionage and exotic romance, which even has some cast overlap. Paul Henreid stars as a…
Gaslight (1944)
- Dir. George Cukor
Feat. Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Joseph Cotten
- Menacing, atmospheric psycho–thriller in which Ingrid Bergman marries suave romantic Charles Boyer, unaware of his murderous obsession to find…
Ministry of Fear (1944)
- Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Ray Milland, Marjorie Reynolds, Carl Esmond…
- Fritz Lang's classic film noir focuses on a man who, upon being released from an insane asylum, unwittingly discovers a piece of microfilm intended…
Murder, My Sweet (Farewell, My Lovely) (1944)
- Dir. Edward Dmytryk
Feat. Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley…
- An iconic 'noir' whose unsavoury storyline is taken from Raymond Chandler's classic novel.
Powell plays a detective dragged into a murky case of…
Phantom Lady (1944)
- Dir. Robert Siodmak
Feat. Alan Curtis, Ella Raines, Virginia Brissac…
- Dark little treat of a thriller focused on a married man who spends a night with a mysterious lady and subsequently finds his wife murdered. The…
Hangmen Also Die (1943)
- Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Brian Donlevy, Walter Brennan, Anna Lee…
- Moody political thriller with Donlevy on the run after assassinating a prominent Nazi and finding shelter with a Czech family as the manhunt consumes…
Le Corbeau (1943)
- Dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot
Feat. Pierre Fresnay
- Fascinating as a wartime allegory made under the German Occupation of France, a small town becomes a hot–bed of paranoia following a rash of…
Ox Bow Incident, The (Strange Incident) (1943)
- Dir. William A. Wellman
Feat. Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Mary Beth Hughes…
- Superlative moral drama in a Western setting, where three lynched cattle rustlers are later proven innocent by the upstanding Henry Ford.
Although…
Power of the Press (1943)
- Dir. Lew Landers
Feat. Guy Kibbee, Lee Tracy, Otto Kruger
- Based on a story by Samuel Fuller. During World War II, a newspaper publisher investigates the murder of a colleague, who was attempting to steer his…