Drama × Thriller Genre

  • Drama — endurance, and the weight of an ordinary life
  • Thriller — enemies, and the race to uncover their identity

Ordinary people under threat. The danger feels close enough to be real, and the story pays as much attention to the characters as to the tension.

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Drama × Thriller films

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  • Parasite

    2019

  • Fight Club

    1999

  • Whiplash

    2014

  • The Silence of the Lambs

    1991

  • Inglourious Basterds

    2009

  • Shutter Island

    2010

  • Rear Window

    1954

  • The Departed

    2006

  • Joker

    2019

  • The Usual Suspects

    1995

  • Prisoners

    2013

  • The Imitation Game

    2014

  • The Handmaiden

    2016

  • The Sixth Sense

    1999

  • Room

    2015

  • Blade Runner

    1982

  • Gone Girl

    2014

  • The Invisible Guest

    2017

  • Memories of Murder

    2003

  • Fargo

    1996

  • Mulholland Drive

    2001

  • The Shadow's Edge

    2025

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