Example of Thriller Films

There are so many different types of thriller films made by a lot of different directors some well known directors and films some are not as known.
Taken
North By Northwest
The Dark Knight
Final Destination
Paranormal Activity
Prom Night
Mirrors
No Country For Old Men
The Bodyguard
Scream
Munich
Premonition
The Nanny
These are but a mere few types of thriller films that there are out and many more that may not have been produced or shown because of difficulty within the film business with producing and showing a film.

Genre's

A genre is a category of type of film that will have many different aspects depending on the type of film. The many types of genre's of films are:
Acion
Romance
Thriller
Comedy
Sci-Fi
Fantasy
Drama
Horror
Western
Adventure
Musical
Rom/Com

Types of Thrillers

There are many different types of thrillers:
Spy Thriller
Political Thriller
Legal Thriller
Conspiracy Thriller
Drama Thriller
Psychology Thriller
Crime Thriller
Disaster Thriller
Medical Thriller
Erotic Thriller
Religious Thriller

Alfred Hitchcock KBE: Master of Suspense

Sir Alfred Joesph Hitchcock, born August 13th 1899, died April 29th 1980. He was a British director who was known commonly for his work within the thriller genre mainly. He was a man who pioneered many techniques in suspense and psychology thrillers. Hitchcock was known for making more than fifty feature films within his 60 year career. He is still one of the most popular and most recognised filmmakers with most of his work still popular even today.
I am now going to add a list of some of Hitchcock's films that made him so famous.
The Lodger (1926)
The Ring (1927)
Easy Virtue (1927)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
The 39 Steps (1935)
Foreign Correspondent (1940)
Mr & Mrs Smith (1941)
The Wrong Man (1956)
Vertigo (1958)
North By Northwest (1959)
Psycho (1960)
Frenzy (1972)
Family Plot (1976)
There is a list of 13 films that Alfred Hitchcock directed and there was so many more with his first film being shown in 1926 and his last one being made in 1976.

What is a Thriller/Aspects of a Thriller.

A Thriller is a well known genre of a film that was the forte of director Alfred Hitchcock who later on I will be going into detail on.
A thriller will have many different aspects when shown. One of the main ones will be that there will also be a mystery or conspiracy within the film, there will also be an aspect of terror and suspense within the film so that there will be something for the audience to not expect or see happening that will happen unexpectedly. There will also be an important sub-genre within the film and will be characterized by fast pacing, frequent action. Another aspect within a thriller will be that the main/central protagonist (main character/hero) will always be identified by the audience very early on in the film and will have good qualities and be liked by everyone in and out of a film. The central/main protagonist (bad guy) will have all the bad qualities and may not always be known to the audience but eventually will reveal throughout the film. The main protagonist will also be intriguing and interesting to the audience. Often the killer will usually be revealed at the end or revealed at the start or during the film so that they will often know more than the antagonist and protagonist. Also the antagonist will usually win the battle and walk away with everything whether it be the girl, the money or anything else that they was after during the film. A few more main aspects of a thriller will be shock moments and always elements of danger, violence and possibly death. Also there will usually be a race against time and the villain will always be better equipped that the antagonist. Thrillers are often taken in an exotic setting such as Hawaii, Australia, New Zealand, Barbados etc.