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Films with the genre "Thriller", sorted by production date
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Knife of Ice (1972)
, 1h31Directed by Umberto Lenzi, Franco Fantasia
Genres Thriller, Horror, Crime
Actors Carroll Baker, Ida Galli, George Rigaud, Alan Scott, Eduardo Fajardo, Franco Fantasia
A famous singer, Jenny Ascot (Evelyn Stewart), visits her cousin Martha Caldwell (Carroll Baker) at her home in the Pyrenees. Caldwell has long been rendered mute after witnessing both her parents being killed in a train crash. While Ascot and Caldwell are travelling to Caldwell's home, they notice a strange man who seems to be following them. That night, at Caldwell's villa, Ascot hears noises coming from the garage, and when she investigates, is killed by an unseen figure.
The Mechanic (1972)
, 1h40Directed by Michael Winner
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Actors Charles Bronson, Jan-Michael Vincent, Keenan Wynn, Jill Ireland, Frank DeKova, Steve Vinovich
Arthur Bishop (Charles Bronson) is a "mechanic" — a top hit man (assassin). He works exclusively for a secret international organization, which has very strict rules. Bishop is very sophisticated, as he regularly listens to classical music, has an art collection, and is a connoisseur of fine wines. However, he is forced to live alone - he cannot show emotions or trust people. Bishop is under constant emotional pressure, so much so that he is prescribed medication for depression, and one day he is temporarily hospitalized when he loses consciousness as a result of the stress. Bishop pays a call girl (Jill Ireland) for an ongoing girlfriend experience to have a simulated romantic (social and sexual) relationship, including her writing him fake love letters.
Death Walks at Midnight (1972)
, 1h43Directed by Luciano Ercoli
Origin Italie
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Horror, Crime
Actors Nieves Navarro, Peter Martell, Simón Andreu, Claudie Lange, Ivano Staccioli, Luciano Rossi
Fashion model Valentina (Susan Scott) agrees to help her journalist boyfriend Giò Baldi (Simón Andreu) research the effects of LSD. While under the influence of the drug, Valentina sees a man bludgeon a woman to death with a spiked gauntlet. Baldi publishes a report of her hallucinations; however, Valentina believes what she has seen is real. She begins to realise that the killer is stalking her, although neither Baldi nor the police will believe what she tells them.
, 1h32Directed by Alfonso Brescia
Origin Italie
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Robert James Hoffman III, Robert Hoffmann, Pilar Velázquez, Irina Demick, Howard Ross, Teresa Gimpera Flaquer
Un milliardaire, Johan Wallenberger, est assassiné dans le train fantôme d'une fête foraine. Avant de mourir, il a signé une assurance-vie élevée et sa compagnie d'assurances demande à leur meilleur enquêteur, Chris Buyer, de s'infiltrer dans la famille du défunt pour tenter de démasquer celui ou celle qui a assassiné leur client. Après avoir dragué l'une de ses filles, la fragile Catherine, en se faisant passer pour un journaliste, il réussit à pénétrer dans le manoir des Wallenberger. Il y rencontre la veuve de Johan, une femme alcoolique, sa seconde fille Barbara, une nymphomane ou encore le personnel dont Günther, le garçon d'écurie muet. Alors que Buyer enquête et se rapproche de Barbara, Catherine est harcelée par des appels téléphoniques et semble être suivie par un inconnu. Mais sa sœur est retrouvée égorgée dans le parc familial et leur mère est également tuée. Un tueur sème le carnage dans le manoir.
Man from Deep River (1972)
, 1h33Directed by Umberto Lenzi
Origin Italie
Genres Thriller, Action, Adventure, Horror
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Ivan Rassimov
The story focuses on a British photographer, John Bradley, who is sent into the Thai rain forest to take wildlife photographs. While on assignment, a tribe native to the area takes him captive.
Prime Cut (1972)
, 1h28Directed by Michael Ritchie
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films, Gangster films
Actors Lee Marvin, Gene Hackman, Sissy Spacek, Angel Tompkins, Gregory Walcott, Les Lannom
A slaughterhouse process follows the unloading of cattle to the making of sausages. A wristwatch and a shoe appear on a conveyor line, making it clear that a human cadaver is processed among the cattle. A woman operating the sausage machine is interrupted by "Weenie" (Gregory Walcott), who has timed the machine using his watch. He wraps up a string of sausages, then marks the package with an address in Chicago.
Private Parts (1972)
, 1h26Directed by Paul Bartel
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror, Slasher
Themes Films about families, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Comedy horror films
Actors Lucille Benson, John Rollin Lupton, Laurie Main, Stanley Livingston, Paul Bartel
When Cheryl and her roommate quarrel, Cheryl moves into her aunt's skid-row hotel in downtown L.A. rather than return home to Ohio. The lodgers are strange, Aunt Martha is a moralizer obsessed with funerals, murder is afoot, and the inexperienced and trusting Cheryl may be the next victim. She wants to be treated like a woman, and she's drawn to George, a handsome photographer who longs for human contact but sleeps with a water-inflated doll and spies on Cheryl as she bathes. Jeff, a neighborhood clerk, may be Cheryl's only ally in what she doesn't realize is a perilous residence haunted by family secrets. And, what happened to Alice, a model who used to have Cheryl's room?
, 1h31Directed by Andy Milligan
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Wolves in film, Werewolves in film
Actors Andy Milligan, Noel Collins
The film centers on the eccentric Mooney family whom live in a large house in rural England in the early 1900s. The invalid patriarch 'Pa' Mooney (Douglas Phair) is a retired medical doctor who claims to be 199 years old. His eldest daughter, Phoebe (Joan Ogden), more or less cares for him and is head of running the household. His eldest son, Mortimer (Noel Collins), is a businessman whom conducts the finances of the family and contributes to the family income. Younger daughter Monica (Hope Stansbury) is a sadist who keeps live rats as pets and frequently mutilates them and other small animals. Youngest son Malcolm (Berwick Kaler) is a halfwit with animalistic tendencies in which the family keeps him locked up in a room of the house with live chickens. The family has a secret: they are all werewolves! They are natural born, not made, werewolves whom turn once a month on the night of the full moon and Pa Mooney has been researching for years to find a way to break the family curse.
Slap the Monster on Page One (1972)
, 1h25Directed by Marco Bellocchio
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Gian Maria Volonté, Laura Betti, Jean Rougeul, John Steiner, Michel Bardinet, Jacques Herlin
Dans un contexte politique particulièrement explosif, le journal conservateur milanais "Il Giornale" affiche envers et contre tout son soutien à la classe patronale. Se préparant à des élections qui s'annoncent houleuses, la rédaction, menée par le peu scrupuleux Bizanti, met d'ailleurs tout en œuvre pour orienter l'opinion publique, profitant d'une sombre affaire de crime sexuel pour l'émouvoir. Le sinistre fait divers est ainsi monté en épingle et Mario Boni, jeune militant communiste soupçonné du meurtre, est très vite désigné comme coupable en première page afin de mieux discréditer les divers courants gauchistes. Intrigué par de criantes anomalies dans la façon dont est menée l'enquête, le jeune reporter Roveda, d'abord docile, finit par démonter la vaste machination médiatique dans laquelle se sont engagés ses employeurs et découvre le véritable coupable.
The Crimes of the Black Cat (1972)
, 1h30Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Anthony Steffen, Sylva Koscina, Giacomo Rossi Stuart, Umberto Raho, Renato De Carmine, Annabella Incontrera
Several fashion models are killed by a murderer who poisons a cat's claws with curare. Each victim is given a shawl as a gift, which is laced with a chemical attracting the cat. The first such victim, Paola, had been in a relationship with a blind composer, Peter Oliver (Anthony Steffen) who overhears a conversation he believes may help him track down the killer. Oliver, aided by his butler Burton (Umberto Raho) tracks the cat to its owner Susan (Jeannette Len), who is murdered before she can reveal who has been using the cat. However, the identity of the killer is eventually discovered to be Françoise (Sylva Koscina), the owner of the studio employing the murdered models. Francoise had killed Paola after discovering that her husband Victor (Giacomo Rossi-Stuart) had been having an affair with the young model, and had committed the other murders to help cover up the motive for the first killing.
Skyjacked (1972)
, 1h41Directed by John Guillermin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Disaster, Action, Adventure
Themes La fin du monde, Films about terrorism, Transport films, Aviation films, Dans un avion, Disaster films, American disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents, Films about hijackings
Actors Charlton Heston, Yvette Mimieux, James Brolin, Claude Akins, Jeanne Crain, Walter Pidgeon
During a routine flight to Minneapolis, a passenger (Susan Dey) aboard Global Airways Flight 502, a Boeing 707, discovers a bomb threat written on the mirror of one of the first-class bathrooms. A second threat is soon found left on a napkin in a galley. Captain Hank O'Hara (Charlton Heston) takes the cryptic threats seriously and follows the instructions -- "Bomb on plane divert to Anchorage Alaska. No Joke, No Tricks. Death"—by changing course for Alaska. To avoid an explosive decompression if a bomb goes off, he flies at lower altitude, increasing fuel consumption.
They Only Kill Their Masters (1972)
Directed by James Goldstone
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Romance
Actors James Garner, Katharine Ross, Hal Holbrook, June Allyson, Tom Ewell, Harry Guardino
Abel Marsh is a sarcastic, thick-skinned police chief in a small West Coast seaside town — the fictional Eden Landing, located somewhere between San Francisco and Los Angeles, where everyone knows each other. When one of its citizens is killed under mysterious circumstances many rumors arise, the most notorious of them being that the victim was killed by her own Doberman Pinscher.
The Visitors (1972)
, 1h30Directed by Elia Kazan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Political films
Actors Patrick McVey, James Woods, Steve Railsback
Bill Schmidt and his long-term girlfriend Martha Wayne and their young son Hal live in a small Connecticut farmhouse owned by Martha's overbearing father. One snowy winter Sunday, two of Bill's ex-army buddies, Mike and Tony, arrive. A few years ago, they had all served together in Vietnam in the same platoon but later ended up on opposite sides of a court-martial. Bill has never told his girlfriend what happened in Vietnam nor at the court-martial. The story slowly unfolds. Under orders in Vietnam not to take any prisoners, and faced with potentially hostile civilians who might attack them if left behind, Mike kills a civilian. Bill testifies against him and Mike is sent to the stockade (military prison) for two years. He is angry. There is sexual tension between Mike and Martha. The tension builds and culminates in a fight and a rape.
Walter Defends Sarajevo (1972)
, 2h13Directed by Hajrudin Krvavac
Genres War, Thriller, Action
Themes Politique, Political films
Actors Bata Živojinović, Ljubiša Samardžić, Slobodan Dimitrijević, Dragomir Bojanić, Neda Spasojević, Pavle Vuisić
In late 1944, as the end of World War II approaches, the Wehrmacht's high command determines to withdraw General Alexander Löhr's Army Group E from the Balkans back to Germany. They plan to supply the tank columns with fuel from a depot in Sarajevo. The Yugoslav partisans' leader in the city, a mysterious man known as Walter, presents a grave danger to the operation's success, and the Germans dispatch Standartenführer von Dietrich of the SD to deal with him. As no one in the city seems to know even how Walter looks, Dietrich manages to have an operative infiltrate the resistance under the guise of Walter himself. The partisans are caught in a deadly game of betrayal, fraud and duplicity while trying to frustrate the Germans' plans.
Wandering Ginza Butterfly (1972)
, 1h26Directed by Kazuhiko Yamaguchi
Genres Thriller, Action
Actors Meiko Kaji, Tsunehiko Watase, Koji Nanbara, Tomiko Ishii, Yayoi Watanabe, Haruo Tanaka
Nami, a Bōsōzoku leader, kills a high-ranking member of a yakuza organization, due to a turf war and is sent to prison. After serving three years, she finds a home living with her uncle at a pool hall. After meeting a pimp named Ryuji, she acquires a job as a hostess in Ginza, where she soon becomes very popular. However, her criminal past is not easily left behind. Further complicating matters is a local yakuza named Owada, who attempts to take control of the bar and kills Ryuji's sworn brother. Defending her uncle's business and seeking revenge, Nami goes after Owada.