Examples of Thrillers

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1 - Silence of the Lambs is and American thriller made in 1991.
In the film, Clarice Starling a young U.S. FBI trainee, seeks the advice of the imprisoned Dr. Lecter to apprehend another serial killer, known only as "Buffalo Bill".

2 - Seven is a 1995 American psychological thriller and stars Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow, John C. McGinley, R. Lee Ermey and Kevin Spacey. In the film, Pitt and Freeman are partnered as detectives.

3 - Psycho is a 1960 American horror-slasher, directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The film centers on the encounter between a secretary, Marion Crane (Leigh), who ends up at a secluded motel after embezzling money from her employer, and the motel's disturbed owner-manager, Norman Bates (Perkins), and its after math.

 4 -  The Sixth Sense was produced in 1999 as an American super natural horror film. The film tells the story of Cole Sear, a troubled, isolated boy who is able to see and talk to the dead, and an equally troubled child psychologist who tries to help him.

5 - No Country for Old Men is a 2007 American neo-Western black comedy thriller directed, written, and edited by Joel and Ethan Coen.  It tells the story of a Texas welder and Vietnam vet to whom chance and greed deliver a fate that is neither wanted nor denied.