Some of the common themes of thrillers are crimes like ransoms, captivities, heists, revenge, kidnappings, "whodunit," and dirty investigators. Other characters may include criminals, stalkers, assassins, private investigators, victims, psychotic individuals, sociopaths, secret agents, terrorists, cops, cons, and more. Thematically, we are looking at things like terrorism, political conspiracy, pursuit, murder, and serial killings. When you're watching a thriller you can encounter tropes like plot twists, psychology see psychological thrillers , obsession, fringe theories, false accusations, and paranoia are common.
The cover-up of important information is a common element. Devices such as red herrings, MacGuffins , unreliable narrators, and cliffhangers are also part of the audience's expectations. Often called the master of suspense, Hitchcock's best films were in the thriller genre.
They were effectively roller coasters that became must-see movies. You had to show up and discuss what was happening. In fact, his particular style of using suspense and psychological elements to promote thrills got its own name The " Hitchcockian " style includes the use of camera movement to mimic a person's gaze, thereby turning viewers into voyeurs , and framing shots to maximize anxiety and fear.
Film critic Robin Wood wrote that the meaning of a Hitchcock film "is there in the method, in the progression from shot to shot. A Hitchcock film is an organism, with the whole implied in every detail and every detail related to the whole.
These details defined the Hitchcock move. He returned several times to cinematic tropes such as the audience as voyeur, suspense, the wrong man or woman, and the " MacGuffin ," and twist endings that provided shock and awe. It would be easy to fill any article with only Hitchcock examples. So I wanted to give him his own section so I could go into detail on other great works.
When it comes to finding examples of this genre, I wanted to keep things relatively current so you could see where we're at today. We might as well start off with best-picture winner and international sensation, Parasite.
This Bong Joon-ho movie really builds on the worry of what's living in your basement, by answering the question literally. Another movie I think had me so upset while watching that I nearly vomited was Uncut Gems.
Adam Sandler headlines this Safdie brothers ' masterpiece where the world of jewels and gambling is constantly swirled through high-risk sports betting. This character has his life turned upside down. Your heart beats so fast while watching the movie, it's fairly dangerous if you are out of shape. That brings us to David Fincher , who I think has become our new Hitchcock in many ways. He's got his own personal style, and he doesn't always make thrillers, but when he tackles the genre as he did in Gone Girl , he's one of the best at it.
Gone Girl subverts what we know about murder mysteries and has so many twists you have to hold on tight. Fincher is not only a master of thrillers on the big screen, but on the small one as well.
His work on Mindhunter helped the show find its thrilling tone. Each week we meet and get in the minds of serial killers. We're hunting someone while they are hunting someone else. Votes: 62, R min Horror, Thriller.
The saga of Michael Myers and Laurie Strode continues in the next thrilling chapter of the Halloween series. Votes: 54, Biochemist Michael Morbius tries to cure himself of a rare blood disease, but he inadvertently infects himself with a form of vampirism instead.
R min Action, Crime, Horror. Following a zombie outbreak in Las Vegas, a group of mercenaries take the ultimate gamble, venturing into the quarantine zone to pull off the greatest heist ever attempted. R min Crime, Drama, Thriller Completed. When Patrizia Reggiani, an outsider from humble beginnings, marries into the Gucci family, her unbridled ambition begins to unravel their legacy and triggers a reckless spiral of betrayal, decadence, revenge, and ultimately R 91 min Horror, Thriller.
Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween night , Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again. TV 88 min Drama, Horror, Mystery. A young woman seeking self-improvement enlists the help of a renowned hypnotherapist. But after a handful of intense sessions, she discovers unexpected and deadly consequences. Votes: 8, TV 44 min Drama, Horror, Thriller. Sheriff Deputy Rick Grimes wakes up from a coma to learn the world is in ruins and must lead a group of survivors to stay alive.
Eddie Brock attempts to reignite his career by interviewing serial killer Cletus Kasady, who becomes the host of the symbiote Carnage and escapes prison after a failed execution. Votes: 61, R min Action, Drama, History. King Charles VI declares that Knight Jean de Carrouges settle his dispute with his squire by challenging him to a duel.
Votes: 21, An anthology series centering on different characters and locations, including a house with a murderous past, an insane asylum, a witch coven, a freak show circus, a haunted hotel, a possessed farmhouse, a cult, the apocalypse, a slasher summer camp, and a bleak beach town and desert valley. He's smart. He's lovable.
He's Dexter Morgan, America's favorite serial killer, who spends his days solving crimes and nights committing them. Golden Globe winner Michael C. Stars: Michael C. TV 43 min Crime, Drama, Mystery. A new FBI profiler, Elizabeth Keen, has her entire life uprooted when a mysterious criminal, Raymond Reddington, who has eluded capture for decades, turns himself in and insists on speaking only to her.
Three strangers who share an obsession with true crime suddenly find themselves caught up in one. Votes: 39, Are thrillers just action movies or horror movies with more middle-brow aspirations? Although there are some obvious key themes the capriciousness of truth, the indefatigable nature of human cruelty and motifs shadows, crime, paranoia, dreams, conspiracy, suspicion , thrillers are more than the sum of their parts. They set about smashing through the floor — but what are they really after?
The would-be thieves' motives turn out to be a lot more upstanding than your average cash-grab, and the cast — Denzel Washington, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jodie Foster, Willem Dafoe — is top notch.
The trouble is, they'll need to pinch it from inside the boss's own house. This is a slower burn than some other thrillers here, and one that will reward your patience.
John Carpenter's second film, a low-budget exploitation flick which followed gangland rioters in Los Angeles who attack a police station in the hope of taking out some officers, was an R-rated flop on release. But it gradually became a cult hit thanks to the things which would become Carpenter's trademarks: the invasion of an apparently unstoppable force; splenetic violence with an undercurrent of sly wit; and an absolutely belting soundtrack from Carpenter himself.
Less a straightforward thriller than a feverish, hallucinatory minute trip into the subconscious. Engineer and sound effects expert Gilderoy travels to Italy to work on a film about horses, but instead finds it's a giallo horror being made by an overbearing producer and an unnervingly exuberant director. We never see this apparently horrifying film, but director Peter Strickland lovingly catalogues the mechanics behind the camera.
Don't go into it expecting to be guided by the hand — in fact, try not to expect a conventional plot at all — and just let it absorb you.
The Safdie Brothers — Josh and Benny — showed that they had the vision and unique tone to make an all-time great crime thriller with 's brilliant Good Time. Its follow-up, Uncut Gems , might very well prove to be that movie. Adam Sandler — yes, that Adam Sandler — is staggeringly good as Howard Ratner, a high-rolling, motormouth, diamond-dealing New Yorker who's deep in debt with all the wrong people and just about keeps the wolves from his door by making bigger and bigger bets.
Until he gets his hands on an extraordinarily rare black opal, at which point the powder keg ignites. You're best off going in with no idea what's going to happen, but we'll just give you some key phrases: NBA star Kevin Garnett; mystical powers; naked kidnap; bum tattoo; diamond-encrusted Furby.
Like the husbands in Hitchcock's Rebecca , Suspicion and Shadow of a Doubt from the same period, Gregory Anton isn't exactly the ideal spouse. You can't trust him as far as you could throw him. His new wife Paula Ingrid Bergman, on absolutely sparkling, Best-Actress-Oscar-winning form shacked up with him after a fortnight-long whirlwind romance. She's got no friends having just arrived in London, and when odd things start happening around her, she starts to feel like she's losing it.
But why do the gaslamps keep dimming? It's full of Edwardian froideur and noirish style, as well as being such an effective portrait of psychological abuse that it's where the term 'gaslighting' comes from in the first place. The terrorist attack at a Norwegian Labour Party youth camp which left 69 people dead formed the basis of two films that came out at about the same time in Instead, Erik Poppe's film follows a teenager, Kaja, in a single take as the horror unfolds in real time around her.
Yes, we've got a fair few Hitchcocks on here, but he's pretty indisputably the master. It follows LB 'Jeff' Jefferies, a magazine photographer cooped up in his New York apartment during a swelteringly hot summer. Jeff becomes obsessed with watching his neighbours through their open windows, and seeing their lives play out as a series of cute vignettes — until he witnesses a murder, and takes justice into his own hands.
But is his mind playing tricks on him? Cary Grant at the peak of his game — wearing one of cinema's greatest suits , no less — joins Hitchcock at the peak of his in this classic crime caper. A New York ad executive is mistaken for a government agent and pursued across the country by a real spy, as Grant's ineffable charm and Hitchcock's flair for producing an iconic action sequence the crop duster scene is one of the most influential in movie history culminate in a thriller many have copied but few have equalled.
Suspicion and paranoia are quite big these days, as you might have noticed, so it's perhaps a good time to revisit The Manchurian Candidate. It's about the son of a prominent right-wing political family who becomes an unknowing assassin in a communist conspiracy, with Frank Sinatra playing a tortured platoon commander. Blood Simple is a noir thriller about a bartender who starts an affair with his boss's wife only for it to end in gunshot and bloodshed — quite literally a tense affair from start to finish.
Frances McDormand 's terrified facial expressions and whispered scenes make the directorial debut of the Coen Brothers one that stands the test of time — even if it was grossly underrated when it was first released. The film that launched the Nineties cinema obsession with psychopathic killers Se7en , Scream , etc as well as one of the most memorable bad guys ever committed to celluloid, it's easy to forget that the second Hannibal Lecter film was a taut-as-hell thriller that also featured brilliant performances from Jodie Foster, as the cop playing psychological tennis with Anthony Hopkins's cannibal, and Ted Levine as 'Buffalo Bill'.
A clean sweep of the major Oscars Picture, Director, Actor, Actress made it one of the most successful films of the decade and it stands up just as well today. David Fincher's dark, seedy worlds are unrivalled in cinema and Se7en is up there with the best.
A pair of detectives played by Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman investigate a series of gruesome murders, each one symbolic of one of the seven sins: pride, lust, gluttony, wrath, sloth, greed and envy.
Brutal, brilliant and with a final twist that 12 years later will still drop your heart to your stomach. For our money the best film the Coen Brothers have ever produced, this majestically shot, thrillingly acted and unbelievably tense cat and mouse story sees Josh Brolin 's chancer making off with some stolen money, pursued by a mercenary played by an utterly chilling Javier Bardem.
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