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Thriller (genre)
Y 77%
Genre of literature, film, and television
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Works in genre
26
Influencing rating
Y 83%
Run Lola Run
1998 film by Tom Tykwer
Die Hard (film series)
American action film series
Darkly Dreaming Dexter
2004 novel by Jeff Lindsay
Scooby-Doo
American animated media franchise
Mark Z. Danielewski
American author (born 1966)
American Psycho
1991 novel by Bret Easton Ellis
Colin Farrell
Irish actor (born 1976)
Peter Stormare
Swedish actor (born 1952)
Goosebumps
Series of children's novels by R. L. Stine
John Hawkes (actor)
American actor
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Subclasses
8
Influencing rating
Y? 75%
Comedy thriller
Film genre
Crime thriller
narrative that centre on criminal acts and especially on the investigation, either by an amateur or a professional detective, of a crime, often a murder
Erotic thriller
Film and literary sub-genre
Thriller film
Film genre
action thriller
fiction genre
Psychological thriller
Genre combining thriller and psychological fiction
Conspiracy fiction
Subgenre of thriller fiction
Techno-thriller
Thriller sub-genre with high level of technical detail
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Thriller is a genre of fiction with numerous, often overlapping, subgenres, including crime, horror, and detective fiction. Thrillers are characterized and defined by the moods they elicit, giving their audiences heightened feelings of suspense, excitement, surprise, anticipation and anxiety. This genre is well suited to film and television.

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fiction genre
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Fiction
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