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One the earliest thriller films that starred Harold Lloyd. About boy performing a daredevil stunt on the side of a skyscraper.
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One of the earliest thrillers directed by Alfred Hitchcock known as the "master of suspense". The lodger is a suspenseful Jack-the-Ripper story.
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Directed by Alfred Hitchcock his first sound film. There was also a silent version.
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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').
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from Paramount starred Lionel Atwill as a murderous and jealous zoologist. Directed by Edward Sutherland. crime/horror thriller
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Directed by Alfred Hitcock- about spies, secrets and Scotland
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Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
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Directed by Alfred Hitcock. A spy thriller
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Romantic psychological thriller by Hitchcock
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Hitchcock's own personal favorite and based upon the actual case of a 1920s serial killer known as The Merry Widow Murderer.
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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.
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psychological thriller directed by Robert Siodmak
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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.
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An invalid woman (Barbara Stanwyck) overheard a murder plot on the phone - against herself. Directed by Anatole Litvak
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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
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Strangers on a Train is an American psychological thriller film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
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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
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Directed by Michael Powell
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Directed by Terrence Young. The first James Bond film
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2nd James Bond film by Terrence Young
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Directed by Stanley donen
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Directed by Terence Young
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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
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Started a violent start to thriller films. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
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Independant psyco-thriller
a story of murderous Siamese twins,
Brian De Palma his first thriller -
Dazzling psychological thriller about grief and loss set in wintry Venice. Directed by Nicolas Roeg
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Directed by Brian De Palma inspired by Veritgo
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Directed by Peter Hyman
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Directed by Irvin Kershner. Stalker themed thriller
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the assassination thriller by Brain De palma
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Dirceted by Brain de Palma
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Directed by Brain De Palma
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A political thriller directed by David Drury
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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.
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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
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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.
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Directed by John lee Thompson
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Directed by David Fincher. About the search for a serial killer who re-enacts the seven deadly sins.
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Directed by John Dahl
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Dircted by Florent Emilio Siri
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Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra
