Thriller Genre

  • Thriller — enemies, and the race to uncover their identity

Thrillers are about the threat you didn’t see coming. The danger is often close and often powerful, and the hero survives by working out the truth before it is used against them.

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Thriller films

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  • The Dark Knight

    2008

  • Pulp Fiction

    1994

  • Parasite

    2019

  • Fight Club

    1999

  • Se7en

    1995

  • Whiplash

    2014

  • Psycho

    1960

  • The Silence of the Lambs

    1991

  • Inglourious Basterds

    2009

  • Shutter Island

    2010

  • The Shining

    1980

  • Rear Window

    1954

  • Terminator 2: Judgment Day

    1991

  • Oldboy

    2003

  • Memento

    2000

  • The Departed

    2006

  • Joker

    2019

  • The Usual Suspects

    1995

  • Reservoir Dogs

    1992

  • Prisoners

    2013

  • Obsession

    2026

  • Vertigo

    1958

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