6-packs

 

claustrophobia

Force of Evil (Abraham Polonsky) - 1948
Night & the City (Jules Dassin) - 1950
Touch of Evil (Orson Welles) - 1958
Underworld USA (Samuel Fuller) - 1961
The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola) - 1974
After Dark, My Sweet (James Foley) - 1990

 

escape

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (Mervyn LeRoy) - 1932
A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson) - 1956
Le Trou (Jacques Becker) - 1960
Lonely Are the Brave (Dave Miller) - 1962
The Killing Fields (Roland Joffé) - 1984
Down by Law (Jim Jarmusch) - 1986

 

the oldest profession

Pandora’s Box (Georg Wilhelm Pabst) - 1929
My Life to Live (Jean-Luc Godard) - 1962
The Naked Kiss (Samuel Fuller) - 1964
Belle de jour (Luis Buñuel) - 1967
Klute (Alan J Pakula) - 1971
Working Girls (Lizzie Borden) - 1986

 

madness

The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (Robert Wiene) - 1920
Shock Corridor (Samuel Fuller) - 1963
Repulsion (Roman Polanski) - 1965
Marat/Sade (Peter Brook) - 1967
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Werner Herzog) - 1972
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Milos Forman) - 1975

 

more noir

Phantom Lady (Robert Siodmak) - 1944
Scarlet Street (Fritz Lang) - 1945
DOA (Rudolph Maté) - 1950
The Red Circle (Jean-Pierre Melville) - 1970
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (Peter Yates) - 1973
Memento (Christopher Nolan) - 2000

 

more gothic

The Man Who Laughs (Paul Leni) - 1928
The 7th Victim (Mark Robson) - 1943
Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton) - 1955
Black Sunday (Mario Bava) - 1960
Ringu (Hideo Nakata) - 1998
A Tale of Two Sisters (Kim Ji-woon) - 2003