Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Classics > Suspense/Crime: 409 Films to Rent
- Billion Dollar Brain (1968)
- Dir. Ken Russell
Feat. Michael Caine, Karl Malden, Ed Begley…
- The third 'Harry Palmer' spy caper taken from Len Deighton's series, with the bespectacled Caine this time chasing a meglomaniac Texas…
- Champions, The (TV Series) (1968-1969)
- Feat. Anthony Nicholls
- A superior, if earnest, sci–fi thriller series with an Anglo–American cast, created by spy–genre guru Monty Berman (The Baron,…
- Dandy in Aspic, A (1968)
- Dir. Anthony Mann
Feat. Laurence Harvey, Tom Courtenay, Mia Farrow
- A curious failure, Anthony Mann’s final film, completed by star Laurence Harvey after the director died during filming, muddles the deception of a…
- Danger Diabolik (1968)
- Dir. Mario Bava
Feat. John Phillip Law, Marisa Mell, Michel Piccoli…
- Cat–burgling cool from the pop–art 1960's, outfitted in futuristic chic and the effortless glamour of John Phillip Law and blonde…
- Deadfall (1968)
- Dir. Bryan Forbes
Feat. Michael Caine, Giovanna Ralli, Eric Portman…
- Somewhat lumpy thriller with Caine recruited by a husband and wife to pull of a daring diamond heist. The actual robbery is cross–cut with a…
- Detective, The (1968)
- Dir. Gordon Douglas
Feat. Frank Sinatra, Lee Remick, Ralph Meeker…
- Interestingly dark and unsentimental policier has Frank Sinatra play an embattled cop investigating the murder of a wealthy homosexual while trying…
- Ice Station Zebra (1968)
- Dir. John Sturges
Feat. Rock Hudson, Patrick McGoohan, Ernest Borgnine
- Good old–fashioned Cold War intrigue based on the Alistair Maclean novel. An all–bloke ensemble battle against human and natural force,…
- It Takes a Thief (TV Series) (1968)
- Feat. Robert Wagner
- A super–cool product of sixties spy style, with Robert Wagner globe–trotting as a world–class cat burglar recruited by the U.S…
- Lady in Cement (1968)
- Dir. Gordon Douglas
Feat. Frank Sinatra, Raquel Welch, Dan Blocker…
- Second–tier detective flick with Ol' Blue Eyes as a private dick hired to find the murderer of a beautiful young woman found underwater,…
- Magus, The (1968)
- Dir. Guy Green
Feat. Michael Caine, Anthony Quinn, Candice Bergen…
- A difficult, if beguiling adaptation of John Fowles’ supposedly unfilmable novel about a troubled schoolteacher (Caine) who arrives on a Greek…