Crime Thriller Conventions

Crime thrillers are a mixture of crime films and thrillers, these films usually show successful or unsuccessful crimes, and the repercussions that come with that crime, i.e what they had to do to make the crime successful or what happens to the criminal(s) if the crime is unsuccessful. As a result of this the main characters tend to be the criminals and not the police. Crime thrillers are unconventional in comparison to other thrillers as more emphasis is put on action as the main content, rather than psychological factors of the characters, such as mental illness. Typical themes of these films are serial killers, chases, shootouts, robberies or heists.

An example of a crime thriller is: Seven. We know this is a crime thriller as it falls under one of the conventions and typical themes, police hunting for a serial killer.