Her other notable film roles include Sara in Runaway Train in 1985, Helen McCaffrey in the thriller Backdraft in 1991, her portrayal of the chillingly twisted nanny Peyton Flanders in the popular 1992 thriller The Hand That Rocks the Cradle and as Wendy Torrance in Stephen King's 1997 television adaptation of The Shining.

Notable acting roles include the lead in the film Wilde, Melchett in the BBC television series Blackadder, the titular character in the the television series Kingdom, a recurring guest role as Dr. Gordon Wyatt on the crime series Bones and as Gordon Deitrich in the dystopian thriller V for Vendetta.

Marcus J. Mastin was born in 1975 in Carthage who now is an author whose books include the thriller Don't Pay the Ferryman.

Other appearances include the second Doctor Who film Daleks-Invasion Earth 2150 AD ( 1966 ), Mr Albert Perks, the station porter, in The Railway Children ( 1970 ) and Felix Forsythe in Alfred Hitchcock's disturbing thriller Frenzy ( 1972 ).

Upcoming projects include the thriller / drama The Heavy.

His other major screenplays include the Hitchcock thriller Frenzy ( 1972 ) and the British cult thriller The Wicker Man ( 1973 ) with whose director, Robin Hardy, Shaffer had previously set up a television production company Hardy, Shaffer & Associates.

Other film roles include Melman in the computer animated Madagascar films, the dark comedy Big Nothing ( 2006 ), and the thriller Nothing But the Truth ( 2008 ).

Notable examples of Hitchcock's early British suspense-thriller films include The Man Who Knew Too Much ( 1934 ), his first spy-chase / romantic thriller, The 39 Steps ( 1935 ) with Robert Donat handcuffed to Madeleine Carroll and The Lady Vanishes ( 1938 ).

His films include, the psycho-thriller Sisters ( 1973 ), a film about dual personalities and with music from Hitchcock's frequent and favorite collaborator, composer Bernard Herrmann, Obsession ( 1976 ) which was somewhat inspired by Vertigo, Dressed to Kill ( 1980 ), the assassination thriller Blow Out ( 1981 ) told about a sound-effects man who witnessed the ' accidental ' killing of the governor and the erotic Body Double ( 1984 ) which was about a struggling B-movie actor who became involved in a tale of intrigue and mystery involving his erotic next-door ' body double ' neighbor.

The thriller genre can include the following sub-genres, which may include elements of other genres:

Other film roles include the 2005 remake of King Kong, the 2006 remake of The Painted Veil, the 2007 thriller Eastern Promises, and the 2009 thriller The International.

Her film roles since include a happily married but ill-fated wife in the supernatural thriller The Mothman Prophecies ( 2002 ) and a supporting role in Along Came Polly ( 2004 ).

As of August 2012, her upcoming films include Reema Kagti's suspense thriller Talaash co-starring Aamir Khan and Kareena Kapoor and Sachin Kundalkar's Aiyyaa opposite Prithviraj.

Other film appearances include the remake of The Amityville Horror ( 2005 ), the thriller Turistas ( 2006 ), and the vampire horror film 30 Days of Night ( 2007 ).

Different types of secret history thriller include:

Notable musical roles include lead roles in The Phantom of the Opera ( as " The Phantom "), The Secret Garden ( as " Archibald Craven "), Annie ( as Daddy Warbucks ), Guys and Dolls ( as " Sky Masterson "), My Fair Lady ( as " Henry Higgins "), Jekyll and Hyde ( original gothic thriller cast recording only, as " Dr. Henry Jekyll / Edward Hyde "), Man of La Mancha ( as Don Quixote ), and A Little Night Music ( as Frederik Egerman ), as well as a significant supporting role in Les Misérables ( as Enjolras ).

His published works include the gothic tales collection Una lunga consuetudine ( Sellerio, 1994 ) and two novels, Locus Animae ( Passigli, 1999 ), a psychological thriller, and Angeli ( Passigli 2002 ), a gothic novel with themes of mysticism, politics, ethics and philosophy.

His works include the Mexican films Sólo con tu pareja ( 1991 ), his feature debut, and the critically acclaimed, Academy Award-nominated film Y tu mamá también, as well as A little princess ( 1995 ), the Charles Dickens contemporary adaptation Great expectations ( 1998 ), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban ( 2004 ) and, most recently, highly acclaimed dystopian thriller Children of Men ( 2006 ).

Their contributions would go on to include the voice-over narration of the character of Brian, along with a change of tone from a black comedy to a more violent thriller.

Other works in development include a fantasy film Luna and an independent thriller, Entity ..

His film noir thriller Niagara ( 1953 ) starred the up-and-coming Marilyn Monroe.

As a genre, spy fiction is thematically related to the novel of adventure ( The Prisoner of Zenda, 1894, The Scarlet Pimpernel, 1905 ), the thriller ( such as the works of Edgar Wallace ) and the politico – military thriller ( The Schirmer Inheritance, 1953, The Quiet American, 1955 ).

During the 1950s, Bogarde came to prominence playing a hoodlum who shoots and kills a police constable in The Blue Lamp ( 1950 ) co-starring Jack Warner and Bernard Lee ; a handsome artist who comes to rescue of Jean Simmons during the World's Fair in Paris in So Long at the Fair, a film noir thriller ; an accidental murderer who befriends a young boy played by Jon Whiteley in Hunted ( aka The Stranger in Between ) ( 1952 ); in Appointment in London ( 1953 ) as a young Wing-Commander in Bomber Command who, against orders, opts to fly his 90th mission with his men in a major air offensive against the Germans ; an unjustly imprisoned man who regains hope in clearing his name when he learns his sweetheart, Mai Zetterling, is still alive in Desperate Moment ( 1953 ); Doctor in the House ( 1954 ), as a medical student, in a film that made Bogarde one of the most popular British stars of the 1950s, and co-starring Kenneth More, Donald Sinden and James Robertson Justice as their crabby mentor ; The Sleeping Tiger ( 1954 ), playing a neurotic criminal with co-star Alexis Smith, and Bogarde's first film for American expatriate director Joseph Losey ; Doctor at Sea ( 1955 ), co-starring Brigitte Bardot in one of her first film roles ; as a returning Colonial who fights the Mau-Mau with Virginia McKenna and Donald Sinden in Simba ( 1955 ); Cast a Dark Shadow ( 1955 ), as a man who marries women for money and then murders them ; The Spanish Gardener ( 1956 ), co-starring Michael Hordern, Jon Whiteley, and Cyril Cusack ; Doctor at Large ( 1957 ), again with Donald Sinden, another entry in the " Doctor films series ", co-starring later Bond-girl Shirley Eaton ; the Powell and Pressburger production Ill Met by Moonlight ( 1957 ) co-starring Marius Goring as the German General Kreipe, kidnapped on Crete by Patrick " Paddy " Leigh Fermor ( Bogarde ) and a fellow band of adventurers based on W. Stanley Moss ' real-life account of the WW2 caper ; A Tale of Two Cities ( 1958 ), a faithful retelling of Charles Dickens ' classic ; as a Flt.

The Wages of Fear () is a 1953 French thriller film directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, starring Yves Montand, and based on a 1950 novel by Georges Arnaud.

Brian F. Haig ( born March 15, 1953 ) is an American thriller author and Fox News military analyst.

The Saint's Return ( released in the US as The Saint's Girl Friday ) is a British crime thriller from 1953, produced by Hammer Film Productions in London.

Inferno is a 1953 American film noir drama / thriller directed by Roy Ward Baker, shot in Technicolor and shown in 3-D Dimension and stereophonic sound on prints for the few theaters equipped for that sound system in 1953.

Christopher Fowler ( born March 26, 1953 ) is an English thriller writer.

* The Night of the Hunter ( novel ), a 1953 thriller novel by Davis Grubb

Wheatley also managed to appear in two versions of the thriller play Rope in 1950 and 1953.

Her other film credits include Jane Eyre ( 1943 ), The Enchanted Cottage ( 1945 ), Lucky Losers ( 1950 ) with The Bowery Boys, the Alfred Hitchcock thriller The Man Who Knew Too Much ( 1956 ), the 3-D film The Maze ( 1953 ), and the sci-fi B-movie classic Invaders from Mars ( 1953 ).

Algeria had also won an Oscar for the movie Z, a political thriller directed by Costa Gavras.

The psychic thriller Carrie is seen by some as De Palma's bid for a blockbuster.

* Cyrus ( 2010 thriller film ), a 2010 thriller directed by Mark Vadik

*" The Fan " ( 1977 ) by Bob Randall is a thriller in epistolary form.

Bug, a film directed by William Friedkin, is a psychological thriller filmed in 2005, starring Connick, Ashley Judd, and Michael Shannon.

House of Cards is a 1990 political thriller television drama serial by the BBC in four parts, set after the end of Margaret Thatcher's tenure as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

This film first teamed him with the actor-director Maximilian Schell, who acted out a character named, and based on, " Butcher Of Riga " Eduard Roschmann, and for whom Voight would appear in 1976's End of the Game, a psychological thriller based on a story by Swiss novelist and playwright, Friedrich Dürrenmatt.

The series has been adapted into three action thriller films with the fourth being discussed by Cloud Ten Pictures.

* Nemesis, a 1998 thriller novel by Bill Napier

Polywater is the central idea of the 1972 espionage / thriller novel A Report from Group 17 by Robert C. O ' Brien.

He also wrote historical fiction as Reagan O ' Neal, a western as Jackson O ' Reilly, and dance criticism as Chang Lung, and he had ghostwritten an " international thriller " that is still believed to have been written by someone else.

Although at this date the game appears to have been new enough to British readers to require explanation, the appearance by 1927 of a popular thriller with the title Scissors Cut Paper, followed by Stone Blunts Scissors ( 1929 ), suggests it quickly became popular.

Gellar next appeared in the thriller The Return, which was released the following month and in which she played a businesswoman haunted by memories of her childhood and the mysterious death of a young woman.

The Scarlatti Inheritance ( 1971 ) by Robert Ludlum is usually considered the first American modern ( glamour and dirt ) spy thriller weighing action and reflection.

* Sandman, antagonist and beachcomber in the psychological thriller " Sandman " by Ian Kingsley

On 23 September 2009 he became the producer for the British supernatural thriller Refuge, which is directed by Corin Hardy and published by Mandate Pictures.

He will produce the remake of the Danish thriller The Substitute, which will be directed by Scott Dickerson under his new Label Spooky Pictures.

Raimi produced with his company Ghost House Pictures the British thriller flick Burst 3D, which is directed by Neil Marshall.

In 2011 the Swans won a thriller at Etihad Stadium by one point.

Taxi Driver is a 1976 American psychological thriller film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Paul Schrader.

The Crying Game is a 1992 psychological thriller drama film written and directed by Neil Jordan.