Other Similar Lists: Top 100 Political Thriller Top 100 Cat-and-Mouse Movies Top 100 War Moviesĭrama – Mystery – Thriller – Erotic Noir Mystery Drama – Married Couple – Sexual Fantasies Confession – Wife's Secret Unfulfilled Temptation – Husband's Narcissistic Injury – Traumatic Experience – Doubt – Jealousy – Commitment Crisis – Marital Alienation – High-Society Hedonism – Enigmatic Dark Activity – Shadowy Religious Sect – Ritualistic Orgy – Moral Hypocrisy – Relationship Drama – Paranoid Thriller – Shadowy Conspiracy – Confusion – Corruption – Paranoia – Dream-Like Reality – Psychological Thriller – Existential Crisis – Nightmarish Fears – Derealization Symptom – Delusional Disorder – Paranoid Fears – Paranoid-Schizoid Position – Psychosexual Thriller – Sexual Revenge Fantasy – Sexual Obsession – BDSM – Sexual Occultism – Voyeurism – Male Gaze Theory – Female Objectification – Scopophilia – Castration Anxiety – Gender-Behavior Study – Freudian Theory – Art-House – Eroticism – Existentialism – Symbolism – Surrealism – Psychedelic – Metaphorical – Thought-Provoking – Neo-Noir – Cult Status – Classic Status – T o p – Best 90's – F a v e – Re-Watch Value – European – U.K. ![]() Essential / Must-see / Genre-defying: paranoid thriller movies: Characteristics: shadowy conspiracy, a sense of distrust and paranoia, a loss of identity, a recurrent belief that the government is covering up the truth, the certainty that there is something fundamentally rotten at the heart of many respected social institutions, and the recurring surety that some golden past has been inevitably corrupted and that society is falling towards a moral collapse. At its most basic, paranoid fiction refers specifically to works about speculations and possible conspiracies by people in power. These forces can be external, such as a totalitarian government, or they can be internal, such as a character's mental illness. Definition: Paranoid thrillers describes works of cinema that explore the subjective nature of reality and how it can be manipulated by forces in power. In my book the most striking or penetrating paranoid films are, in fact, thrillers - The Conversation, Rosemary’s Baby, The Witch, It Follows, The Innocents, Taxi Driver, Three Days of the Condor, Repulsion, Cutter’s Way.Movies with Paranoid plot in any form (action, adventure, mystery, horror, science fiction, espionage/spy thrillers, conspiracy theories, political thrillers e.tc.). ![]() ![]() I’m actually not so sure about Pakula’s journalism docudrama but the first two are paranoid masterpieces. I never really thought about paranoid currents in movies until reading about Alan Pakula‘s paranoid trilogy - Klute, The Parallax View and All The President’s Men. This feeling gathers strength as the film progresses, but the superior paranoid films hold off at the climax…the prickly vibes linger after the payoff. Most of us would say it’s a vague but persuasive feeling that something undefined but threatening is approaching or waiting around the corner. ![]() Burroughs - “knowing all the facts.” But what exactly defines paranoia in films? My favorite definition of paranoia is one attributed to Willam S. I zeroed in on this during my last viewing of Todd Field’s film, and now I agree - once the paranoid stuff begins to manifest, it becomes stronger and stronger until Lydia Tar’s downfall. A friend recently said that he found the faint but distinct current of paranoia in Tar to be the film’s most arresting aspect.
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