Crime thrillers revolve around anticipation, suspense, and keeping the audience on edge. They feature a protagonist facing a problem like a mystery or mission against the antagonist. Common elements include suspicion, drama, danger, crimes, investigations, and cliffhangers. Crime thrillers are usually set in large cities using iconic locations to quickly establish the setting and associate it with the story. Examples given are Prisoners about a father searching for his missing daughter, The Departed about an undercover cop and a police mole tracking each other in the mob, and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo about a journalist aided by a hacker to find a missing woman.

1. Crime Thriller
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2. Thing that normally occur in Crime
Thrillers
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- Suspicion
events
- Drama
danger
- Fast Pace
requires thinking
- Crime
Narrative
- Enigmas
- Investigation
- Extraordinary
- Antagonist in
- Antagonist & Protagonist
- Storyline that
- Cliff-hangers
- Complex

3. Thrillers
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Thriller Film is a genre that revolves around anticipation and
suspense. The aim for Thrillers is to keep the audience alert and on
the edge of their seats. The protagonist in these films is set against a
problem – an escape, a mission, or a mystery.
Crime Thrillers
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Crime Thriller film is a sub-genre that includes the aspects of a thriller
with a crime film plot. This sub-genre's plot usually centres around a
serial killer, murderer, robbery, or manhunt.

4. Setting and location
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Crime films are usually set in large, crowded cities to show a view of
the other side to an individual in their normal life, for example down
ally ways, fast cars, busy places and iconic buildings.
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TV Series'’ E.g Sherlock like to use London and it’s famous landmarks
to their advantage, Sherlock always gets in to the famous London
Cabs to travel, people would automatically associate Sherlock with
London straight away.
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Directors like to use this method to establish the setting quickly, for
example showing the London eye or Big Ben in the background will
automatically show the audience that the setting is London

5. Some Examples
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Prisoners (2013)
When Keller Dover's daughter and her friend go missing, he takes matters
into his own hands as the police pursue multiple leads and the pressure
mounts. But just how far will this desperate father go to protect his family?
The Departed (2006)
An undercover state cop who has infiltrated an Irish gang and a mole in the
police force working for the same mob race to track down and identify
each other before being exposed to the enemy
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
Journalist Mikael Blomkvist is aided in his search for a woman who has been
missing for forty years by Lisbeth Salander, a young computer hacker.