Conspiracy - hero or heroine, journalist investigator linked into a powerful organisation, enemies, secret organisations, lies and propaganda,
Identification of good to over rule the evil of the world, secrecy of governments and secret organisations in history.
Crime thrillers - focuses on criminals and what they do, emphasises action over pscychological aspects, serial killers/murders, robberies, chases, bank robberies.
Disaster thriller - survival in conflict with natural or artificial disasters, causes of human activity, future going to bring. Eg. The Impossibe, based on a true story of a family on holiday where a tsunami takes place and the family get separated
Mystery thriller - crime related, detective/private investigator, mystery that needs to be solved, circumstance of the mystery of crime, gets audiences attention and makes the audience think, dramatic effect.
Political thriller - stability of government, hero or heroine prevents bad things happening,
eg elections, like V for Vendetta
Psychological thriller - plays with audience mind, produces suspense, shows mentality of the character and the thought processes. Eg. Flight Plan
Religious thriller - plots closely religious objects, institutions and questions. Show and provide good and bad points of religion.
Supernatural thriller - otherworldly element that shows something, tension and suspense, unsuspected twist, villains have supernatural gift, closely linked to religious thrillers. Eg. Avengers Assemble
Techno thriller - manipulation of sophisticated technology which plays a part of taking over the world, mostly based on fictional speculations on life. Based on world wars, action, and science fictional/supernatural events such as alien invasions.
Non linear - Where the film has a clear beginning, middle and end. A basic film to follow like The Impossible, they are together then the tsunami takes place then they find each other at the end.
Eg. Seven
Linear - has flashbacks of past life, like in Shutter Island where the woman has flash backs of the past.
Eg. Taken
Omniscient - where characters and the know details about what's happening, eg. Why someone is killed or what the aim of the event is.
Restricted - This is where only the audience know why a certain event is happening, for example the audience should know why a character is being killed and why whereas the other characters don't know who did it or why.