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Crime Thrillers

Crime thrillers are a very popular sub genre within the thriller genre. It usually focuses on the criminal, not the police themselves, and focuses on topics such as serial killers, chases, shootouts, robberies, heists and more. Another feature that differs to other thriller sub genres is that they include more attention on the action aspects rather than the psychological aspects. Some films within the crime sub genre include:

No Country for Old Men: This film is about an ordinary man who is chasing after a fortune that is not his, as three men cross paths with each other in the desert landscape of 1980 Western Texas.

The Asphalt Jungle: In This film, the story is about a group of men planning and performing a jewel robbery. It is considered to be "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

Rififi: This is a French crime thriller. The story revolves around a burglary at a jewelry shop in the Rue de Rivoli. Four men team together to commit what seems to be an impossible theft.

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Alfred Hitchcock

Hitchcock, born 1899, was a highly regarded film maker and producer. He produced many films over his half a century career. He arguably revolutionised the way in which movies are filmed; he used techniques such as framing shots in a way to manipulate the feelings of the audience, and provoke fear, anxiety and empathy. His stories included themes such as violence, sex, murder and crime. Some of the films he has made include:

Psycho: Considered one of Hitchcock’s best films, Psycho follows an encounter between a secretary who is hiding from her employer, and the owner of the motel she is staying in. It has one of the most famous scenes in cinema history, “the shower scene”.

Vertigo: Another film from Hitchcock to be considered one of the greatest films of all time, Vertigo follows a retired acrophobic police detective, hired as a private investigator to follow the wife of an acquaintance to uncover the mystery of her strange behaviour.

North By Northwest: This film is about an innocent man followed across the USA by agents of an unknown organisation. They are attempting to put a stop to his interference in their plans to smuggle out microfilm, which contain government secrets.

Other films include ‘The 39 steps’, ‘Notorious’, ‘The birds’ and many more.