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A story on Jack the Ripper, it was a silent movie.
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Blackmail, was the first thriller film with sound, and the first with sound from the UK
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A German film, it was based on the life of a serial killer
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Hitchcock was developing a recognisable brand of suspense thriller.
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Cloack and Dagger, by Fritz Lang, was about a developer of the Atomic bomb
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Dial M for Murder was shot in Technicolour and 3D
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One of the most famous thriller films of all time, by Hitchcock of course...
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The Spy Who Came In From the Cold was one of many spy thriller films released in the 1960s.
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Hitchcock's Frenzy was an R rated film. It had a strangling scene. Many thrillers were becoming more violent.
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Dead Calm, starring Nicole Kidman, had elements of obsession and trapped protagonists who needed to escape. This inspired many thrillers of the early 1990s
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Involved an FBI agent/detective hunting down a serial killer. The most famous example of this is The Silence of the Lambs, with Anthony Hopkins
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Today, thriller film borrow elements and themes from thriller films of old. Among these is Unknown (2011)
