The thriller Genre.

Perils of Pauline-1914

Sep 23, 1914

As a motion picture serial, Perils of Pauline featured all of the stereotypical characters to a melodrama feature. For instance, a villainous cad, a damsel in distress, a hero etc. It also included cliffhangers which an audience of the early 20th century would find extremely thrilling.

Bulldog Drummond

Sep 23, 1929

A famous detective film. Won academy awards for 'Best art direction' and 'best leading actor'. This would have made the thriller genre more heard of.

Les Diaboliques

Sep 25, 1955

A murder plot. .
This film was remade under the title Diabolique in 1996 starring Sharon Stone

The Manchurian Candidate

Sep 25, 1962

Set in the Korean war. Dark and sinister

The Shining

Sep 23, 1980

'One of the thriller genre’s finest' Features thriller mise en scene such as eerie music, blood and ghosts.

Fatal attraction

Sep 25, 1987

written by Adrian Lyne. A classic psychological thriller from the eighties. The phrase 'bunny boiler' came from this film.

Silence of the Lambs

Sep 25, 1991

A brilliant and renowned psychiatrist turned serial killer.

se7en

Sep 25, 1995

This thriller portrays the exploits of a deranged serial-killer. His twisted agenda involves choosing seven victims who represent egregious examples of transgressions of each of the Seven Deadly Sins.

American psycho

Sep 25, 2000

Based around the American dream