Thrillers use elements like suspense and tension to stimulate viewers' senses. There are different thriller sub-genres, like psychological thrillers involving mind games and horror-of-personality, and crime thrillers typically centered around heists and revenge. Alfred Hitchcock is a famous director known for thrillers like Psycho and The Birds that employ techniques such as low key lighting, fast cuts, flashbacks, and tense music to create anxiety and disorientation. The Godfather is an example of a crime thriller, focusing on the conflicts within and between five New York Mafia families, in particular the evolution of Michael Corleone taking over as head of the Corleone crime family.

1. By Aycan Mehmet

2.  Thriller uses elements of suspense and tension to
anticipate the viewers senses.
 There are different sub-genres such as psychological
thrillers, crime thrillers and many more. Crime thrillers
usually have a theme of heists and revenge.
Psychological thrillers have a theme of mind games
and horror-of-personality.
 Alfred Hitchcock is a notorious thriller director who is
infamous for the films Psycho and The Birds.

3. Low key lighting
Fast paced cuts
Montage editing
Flashbacks
Tense Music
Disorientation of
Time and Space
Shadows
Urban Cities

4. Untrained
Protagonist
Exotic/Abandoned
LocationsHorror-of-Personality
(Psychological
Thrillers)
Mystery that needs
to be solved
Innocence in a
corrupt world.
Suspense
Heists (Crime
Thrillers)
Stalking

5. Crime Thriller
Sci-Fi Thriller
Erotic Thriller
Spy Thriller
Conspiracy Thriller
Psychological
Thriller
Supernatural
Thriller
Mystery Thriller

6. The Godfather classes a Crime Thriller.
It was directed by Francis Ford
Coppola and was adapted from a
novel by Mario Puzo . This film is
based on the Italian Mafia
Plot: There are Five Sicilian Families
living in New York, the main focus
is on the Corleone Family. They go
through various conflicts with the
other families and one causes the
main protagonist Michael Corleone
to leave New York to Sicily for a little
while. for the majority of the film the
story focuses on Michael’s evolution
to be the Godfather
Codes and Conventions: we
expect to see a weapon and
blood as it is a crime thriller. We
mainly focus on the ‘criminals’
rather then the police. Also there
are a lot of close ups and extreme
close ups . The lighting is mainly
dark to evoke a sense of
mysteriousness. The main theme
is frequently played throughout
the film.