Thriller!

Fight club – 1999 – David Fincher
Usual suspects – 1995 – Bryan Singer
Memento - 2000 – Christopher Nolan
Panic room – 2002 – David Fincher
Taken - 2008 – Pierre Morel
Butterfly effect - 2004 – Eric Bress + J. Mackye Gruber
American psycho – 2000 – Mary Harron
The sixth sense – 1999 – M. Night shyamalan
Zodiac – 2007 – David Fincher
Se7en – 1995 – David Fincher
The godfather (part 1+2) – 1972 + 1974 – Francis Ford Coppola
Pulp Fiction – 1994 – Quentin Tarantino
Psycho – 1960 – Alfred Hitchcock
Phone booth -2002 – Joel Schumacher

Definitions:

a suspenseful adventure story or play or movie
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Thriller is a broad genre of literature, film, television, and gaming that includes numerous and often overlapping sub-genres. Thrillers are characterized by fast pacing, frequent action, and resourceful heroes who must thwart the plans of more-powerful and better-equipped villains.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thriller_(genre)
Thrillers often overlap with mystery stories, but are distinguished by the structure of their plots. In a thriller, the hero must thwart the plans of an enemy, rather than uncover a crime that has already happened; while a murder mystery would be spoiled by a premature disclosure of the murderer's identity, in a thriller the identity of a murderer or other villain is typically known all along. Thrillers also occur on a much grander scale: the crimes that must be prevented are serial or mass murder, terrorism, assassination, or the overthrow of governments. Jeopardy and violent confrontations are standard plot elements. While a mystery climaxes when the mystery is solved, a thriller climaxes when the hero finally defeats the villain, saving his own life and often the lives of others. In thrillers influenced by film noir and tragedy, the compromised hero is often killed in the process.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thriller_(genre)

Here is an Example of David Fincher's Fight club:



DIRECTOR STUDY

The Director im going to look into depth is David Fincher
David Fincher Is 47 and has already released some of the biggest, most popular and Iconic thrillers of all time.
One of Davids insperations for being a Director from an early age was "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid".
He worked his way up the ranks and was eventually offered to do a Commerical for the American Cancer Society, The advert was of a fetus smoking a cigarette. This quickly brought Fincher to the attention of producers in Los Angeles and he was given the chance to direct a couple documentary's (The beat of the live drum) He then went on to do more adverts for companies such as Converse,Nike,Pepsi,Sony,Apple And Levi's. Then Fincher moved into music videos and Directed for the likes of Micheal Jackson, Madonna, Aerosmith, The Rolling stones and George Micheal.
Fincher recently was Nominated for an Oscar as Best Achievement in Directing for his Work on "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"(2008)
Fincher has released that he will be making a new film "The Social Networker" (2011) According to IMDB its about the founders of facebook the cast will include Justine Timberlake...
These are all the famous films David Fincher has done:

1. The Social Network (2010) (post-production)
   
   
2. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
   ... aka The Curious Case (International: English title: informal short title)
3. Zodiac (2007/I)
4. George Michael: Twenty Five (2006) (V)
5. Video Hits: Paula Abdul (2005) (V) (videos "Straight Up", "Forever Your Girl" and "Cold Hearted")
6. Panic Room (2002)
   
   
7. Madonna: The Video Collection 93:99 (1999) (V) (video "Bad Girl")
8. Fight Club (1999)
   ... aka Fight Club (Germany)
9. Ladies & Gentlemen: The Best of George Michael (1999) (V) (video "Freedom '90")
10. The Game (1997)
11. Se7en (1995)
    ... aka Seven (UK: video title) (USA: alternative spelling) (USA: video title) (USA: DVD title)
12. The Best of Sting: Fields of Gold 1984-1994 (1994) (V) (video "Englishman In New York")
13. Aerosmith: Big Ones You Can Look at (1994) (V)
14. Dangerous: The Short Films (1993) (V) (video "Who Is It")
    ... aka Michael Jackson - Dangerous: The Short Films (USA: alternative title)
15. Alien³ (1992)
16. Madonna: The Immaculate Collection (1990) (V) (videos "Express Yourself", "Oh Father" and "Vogue")
    
    
17. Now That's What I Call Music 7 (1986) (V) (video "We Don't Have To Take Our Clothes Off")
18. The Beat of the Live Drum (1985)
    (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000399/)