Suspense

Alain Delon (THE LEOPARD) was at his most impossibly beautiful when PURPLE NOON (PLEIN SOLEIL) was released and made him an instant star. This ripe, colorful adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's vicious novel THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY, directed by the...

Blacklisted American director Jules Dassin's groundbreaking French film noir-with a memorable music- and dialogue-free opening scene-follows four thieves who pull off a heist at a reputedly impenetrable jewelry shop, then watch as their "perfect crime"...

Film actress Nikki Grace (Laura Dern) had hoped for a career boost from the suspenser she's signed on for. But between an ill-advised affair with her co-star (Justin Theroux) and the discovery that the script's a remake of a project abandoned because the...

Terrific suspense-filled thriller about two ruthless drug dealers and a young woman who head from Los Angeles to a small Arkansas town after committing a series of brutal murders. Waiting for them are two L.A. cops and the local sheriff, who's hiding a...

THE 39 STEPS is a heart-racing spy story by Alfred Hitchcock (PSYCHO), following Richard Hannay (Oscar winner Robert Donat of GOODBYE, MR. CHIPS), who stumbles into a conspiracy that thrusts him into a hectic chase across the Scottish moorsa chase in...

In a French village, doctor R?my Germain (Pierre Fresnay) found himself the primary target of an unknown person disseminating libelous letters across town. As distrust and paranoia-fueled violence begin to claim the community, Germain focused on a gambit...

Rock Hudson (ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS) is a revelation in this sinister, science-fiction-inflected dispatch from the fractured 1960s. SECONDS, directed by John Frankenheimer (THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE), concerns a middle-aged businessman dissatisfied with...

An ordinary British couple vacationing in Switzerland suddenly find themselves embroiled in a case of international intrigue when their daughter is kidnapped by spies plotting a political assassination. This fleet and gripping early thriller from the...

This diabolical thriller was the first film from director Danny Boyle, producer Andrew Macdonald, and screenwriter John Hodge (the smashing team behind TRAINSPOTTING). in SHALLOW GRAVE, three self-involved Edinburgh roommates - played by Kerry Fox (AN...

In a squalid South American oil town, four desperate men sign on for a suicide mission to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin over a treacherous mountain route. As they ferry their expensive cargo to a faraway oil fire, each bump and jolt tests their...

In this atomic adaptation of Mickey Spillane's novel, directed by Robert Aldrich (WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE?, THE DIRTY DOZEN), the good manners of the 1950s are blown to smithereens. Ralph Meeker (PATHS OF GLORY, THE DIRTY DOZEN) stars as snarling...

Legendary director Nicholas Ray began his career with this lyrical film noir, the first in a series of existential genre films overflowing with sympathy for America's outcasts and underdogs. When the wide-eyed fugitive Bowie (Farley Granger), having...