02/10/1911 - "What Women Suffer" - Director Unknown
- One of the first thriller films was an Australian film made in 1911 that was a silent movie. This was a the makings of the thriller genre within the modern world.
19/03/1921 - "The Cabinet of Dr Caligari"- Director Unknown-
The first thriller movie that had horror incorporated into it. This was made in tinted black and white and was made in the USA.
13/10/1930 - "The Bat Whispers" - Director Unknown
- This was the first thriller film with mono sound. This film inspired Bob Kane to make Batman.
1940 - "Rebecca" - Alfred Hitchcock
- This was the first film to have romance incorporated with the thriller.
12/06/1950 - "Panic in the Streets" - Director Unknown
- This was the first thriller film to have an added soundtrack on it. (I know why (and so do you) By Harry Warren)
1963 - "The Great Escape" - John Surges
- This was the first film that was registered in five different categories of genre. Action, Adventure, Drama, History, and War-Thriller.
1972 - "The Godfather" - Francis Ford Coppola
- This film has been voted the best thriller of all time with a rating of 9.2/10 with 411,088 people voting.
1980 - "The Shining" - Stanley Kubrick
The Shining has an 8.5/10 rating within the thriller genre and is widely seen as one of the best thriller/horro films of the 90's.
1994 - "Pulp Fiction" - Queniten Tarantino
Pulp Ficton has an 8.6/10 and is regarded as a very good film in the thriller genre.
2000 - "Momento" - Christopher Nolan
This is a film we are looking at using some conventons from for our film opening.
2010 - "Inception" - Christopher Nolan
- Inception currently hold the rank of the second best thriller film and was voted best physiological thriller in the last decade.
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This is very well presented and including the right amount of detail. However you have a gap of 40 years between the 70s and present day where because of film making techniques, this genre has really taken off. One film for each decade will be enough.
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