Subgenre Sampler
Suspense/Crime > Drama: 727 Films to Buy & Rent
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…
Went the Day Well? (1942)
- Dir. Alberto Cavalcanti
Feat. Leslie Banks, Valerie Taylor, Marie Lohr
- British pluck and courage is put to the test in this Graham Greene story, where a cosy English village is infiltrated during WWII by a truckload of…
Swamp Water (1941)
- Dir. Jean Renoir
Feat. Walter Brennan, Walter Huston, Anne Baxter…
- An interesting melodrama, dank with the regional atmosphere of the Florida Everglades, about the problems undergone by a youthful fur trapper…
Rebecca (1940)
- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders
- A masterful gothic romance about a nobleman's second wife who becomes haunted by the image of his beloved first. Hitchcock's first American film was…
Algiers (1938)
- Dir. John Cromwell
Feat. Hedy Lamarr, Charles Boyer, Sigrid Gurie…
- Remake of a PEPE LE MOKO, in which a dashing jewel thief who has been hiding out for two years in the mysterious, murky Casbah, falls madly in love…
Burning Crucible, The (Le Brasier Ardent) (1923)
- Dir. Ivan Mosjoukine
Feat. Ivan Mosjoukine
- Melodrama styled as a semi–comic Kafkaesque nightmare. The film that inspired Jean Renoir to start directing.
Regeneration (w/ Young Romance) (1915)
- Dir. Raoul Walsh
Feat. Anna Q. Nilsson, Carl Harbaugh, Rockliffe Fellowes…
- The debut feature of director Raoul Walsh is an early gangster film following the trajectory of a poor orphan who grows up to assume a powerful…