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Safety last
One the earliest thriller films that starred Harold Lloyd. About boy performing a daredevil stunt on the side of a skyscraper. -
The Lodger
One of the earliest thrillers directed by Alfred Hitchcock known as the "master of suspense". The lodger is a suspenseful Jack-the-Ripper story. -
Blackmail
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock his first sound film. There was also a silent version. -
M
haunting and chilling German film . directed by Fritz lang. starred Peter Lorre (in his first film role) as a criminal deviant - a child killer. The film's story was based on the life of serial killer Peter Kurten (known as the 'Vampire of Dusseldorf'). -
Murders in the Zoo
from Paramount starred Lionel Atwill as a murderous and jealous zoologist. Directed by Edward Sutherland. crime/horror thriller -
39 steps
Directed by Alfred Hitcock- about spies, secrets and Scotland -
The lady vanishes
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock -
Rebecca
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Foreign Correspondent
Directed by Alfred Hitcock. A spy thriller -
Suspicion
Romantic psychological thriller by Hitchcock -
Shadow of a doubt
Hitchcock's own personal favorite and based upon the actual case of a 1920s serial killer known as The Merry Widow Murderer. -
Gaslight
Director George Cukor's classic psychological thriller Gaslight (1944) (first made in Britain in 1939 with Anton Walbrook and Diana Wynward) featured a scheming husband (Charles Boyer) plotting to make his innocent young wife (Ingrid Bergman) go insane, in order to acquire her inheritance. -
The sprial staircase
psychological thriller directed by Robert Siodmak -
The lady from Shanghai
Directed by Orson Welles. a beautiful woman, her crippled lawyer/husband and his partner, and an Irish sailor ended up involved in a murder scheme. -
Sorry wrong number
An invalid woman (Barbara Stanwyck) overheard a murder plot on the phone - against herself. Directed by Anatole Litvak -
The third man
one of the best suspense films of all time, told the story of a writer (Joseph Cotten) in post-WW II Vienna who found out that his old friend (Orson Welles), a black marketeer, was not dead after all. Directed by Carol Reed -
Strangers on a train
Strangers on a Train is an American psychological thriller film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock. -
Vertigo
Light-weight psychological thriller by Hitchock. with James Stewart as a retired police detective who becomes obsessed with the disturbed enigmatic 'wife' (Kim Novak) of an old friend -
Peeping Tom
Directed by Michael Powell -
Psycho
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Dr.No
Directed by Terrence Young. The first James Bond film -
From Russia with love
2nd James Bond film by Terrence Young -
Charde
Directed by Stanley donen -
Wait until dark
Directed by Terence Young -
Duel
got a cult following, was about road rage between a hapless traveling salesman (Dennis Weaver) and the unseen, relentless driver of a truck. One of the first films about a fan being disturbingly obsessed with their idol was Clint Eastwood's directorial debut film. Directed by Steven Speilberg -
Frenzy
Started a violent start to thriller films. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
given an R rating for its vicious and explicit strangulation scene. -
Sisters
Independant psyco-thriller
a story of murderous Siamese twins,
Brian De Palma his first thriller -
Don't look now
Dazzling psychological thriller about grief and loss set in wintry Venice. Directed by Nicolas Roeg -
Obsession
Directed by Brian De Palma inspired by Veritgo -
Capricon one
Directed by Peter Hyman -
Eyes of Laura Mars
Directed by Irvin Kershner. Stalker themed thriller -
Dressed to Kill
the assassination thriller by Brain De palma -
Blow out
Dirceted by Brain de Palma -
Body Double
Directed by Brain De Palma -
Defence of the realm
A political thriller directed by David Drury -
Dead Calm
Directed by Peter Noce. A psychological thriller with Nicole Kidman, who must fight for her life on a yacht against a crazed castaway (Billy Zane). This thriller had elements of obsession and trapped protagonists who must find a way to escape the clutches of the villain – these devices influenced a number of thrillers in the following years, the early 90's. -
Misery
Direceted by Rob3ert Reiner. Started the 90's decade. based on the book by Stephen King, with Kathy Bates as an unbalanced fan named Annie who terrorizes, in her care, an incapacitated author named Paul (James Caan); in one horrifying scene, she 'hobbles' his ankles so that he can't escape -
The silence of the lambs
Directed by Johnathan Demme. Young FBI agent Jodie Foster in a psychological war against a cannibalistic psychiatrist named Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins), while tracking down transgender serial killer Buffalo Bill. -
Cape fear
Directed by John lee Thompson -
Se7en
Directed by David Fincher. About the search for a serial killer who re-enacts the seven deadly sins. -
Joy ride
Directed by John Dahl -
Hostage
Dircted by Florent Emilio Siri -
Unknown
Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra
