History of the Thriller Genre By 63886 Apr 1, 1923 Safety Last! Feb 14, 1927 The Lodger - Alfred Hitchcock Jan 1, 1928 Spies - Fritz Lang Jan 1, 1929 Blackmail Jan 1, 1931 German Film - Fritz Lang Jan 1, 1933 Murders In The Zoo - Edward Sutherland Jan 1, 1940 Foreign Correspondant - Alfred Hitchcock Oct 1, 1940 Rebecca - Alfred Hitchcock Jan 1, 1941 Suspision - Alfred Hitchcock Jan 1, 1942 Saboteur - Alfred Hitchcock Jan 1, 1943 Shadow of Doubt - Alfred Hitchcock Jan 1, 1944 Gaslight Jan 1, 1946 The Spiral Staircase Oct 13, 1949 The Third Man Jan 1, 1950 Technicolour Jan 1, 1955 Dial M for Murder Jan 1, 1958 Vertigo - Alfred Hitchcock Jan 1, 1958 Orson Wells' Touch of Evil Jun 16, 1960 Psycho - Alfred Hitchcock Mar 28, 1963 The Birds - Alfred Hitchcock Jan 1, 1971 The Dual - Stephen Spielberg Jan 1, 1971 Play Misty For Me - Clint Eastwood Jan 1, 1972 Frenzy - Alfred Hitchcock Jan 1, 1974 The Conversation - Francis Ford Coppela Jan 1, 1980 Dressed to Kill Jan 1, 1990 Stephen King's Misery - Rob Reiner Jan 1, 1991 The Silence Of The Lambs - Johnathan Demme Oct 13, 1995 Se7en - David Fincher Apr 1, 2005 Sin City Apr 7, 2006 Brick - Rian Johnson Aug 22, 2014 Sin City: A Dame To Kill For