Top 10 similar words or synonyms for thriller

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Top 30 analogous words or synonyms for thriller

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Political thriller Before 1950, there were spy novels with political elements.
Political thriller Shonda Rhimes' television series, "Scandal", contains many elements of a political thriller in a chronological format.
Erotic thriller Thriller as a film genre, however, contains subgenres other than the noir crime film and murder mystery. Any of these might provide the dramatic framework for an erotic thriller. This includes the psychological thriller ("Fatal Attraction", "Body Chemistry", "Object of Obsession"), the revenge thriller ("Scorned", "Improper Conduct"), and suspense stories of illicit romance and sexual obsession ("Erotic Boundaries", "Secret Games", "The Adjuster"). Like thrillers, romances can also be expressed in subgenres. These are as varied as the romance novel, the soap opera, and works of gothic fantasy. Softcore sex films are often romances of some kind, and the genre has a long tradition, particularly in Europe. Directors such as Radley Metzger ("Theresa and Isabelle" 1968), Joseph Sarno ("Inga" 1968), and Just Jaecklin ("Emmanuelle" 1974) were influential pioneers of the softcore-romance film. Their "middlebrow sexploitation" movies put stories of female desire at the center, and helped pave the way for softcore's reemergence in the 1990s.
Erotic thriller Though every writer on the subject encapsulates the erotic thriller film differently, the overlapping of the suspense thriller, romance, and softcore sex film is the unique domain of the erotic thriller.
Erotic thriller Provocateur and former pornographer Gregory Dark (credited variously as Gregory Brown, Alexander Hippolyte, and Gregory Hippolyte) left the porn industry in the mid 1980s for more fertile artistic grounds in the erotic thriller genre. Dark joined Andrew Garroni and Walter Gernert as the in-house director for Axis Films International, a company formed to produce films that could duplicate the success of Mundhra’s noirish "Night Eyes". Dark’s "Carnal Crimes" (1991), his first film with Axis, established a strong noir-romance hybrid for the erotic thriller, placing a female protagonist at the center of a romanticized story abundant with feminine imagery and softcore sex, setting the stage for many erotic thriller films to come. Dark’s subsequent filmography is a connoisseur’s collection of erotic thrillers in this mode, including "Mirror Images" (1992), "Secret Games" (1992), "Night Rhythms" (1992), "Animal Instincts" (1992), "Body of Influence" (1993), and "Object of Obsession" (1994). Dark eventually left the erotic thriller genre to direct music videos for Britney Spears and Mandy Moore, among others.