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- noun informal A
film ,television program , etc. that offers an atmosphere ofsuspense .
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Examples
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Fun, over-the-top foreign suspenser about a Ukranian woman (Xenia Rappoport) who moves to Italy to escape her sordid past as a prostitute.
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TCM included this suspenser on a morning-long salute to actress Loretta Young this week.
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Excellent indie suspenser with Joseph Gordon Levitt as a former high school hockey star who is left brain damaged after a terrible auto accident.
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Excellent indie suspenser with Joseph Gordon Levitt as a former high school hockey star who is left brain damaged after a terrible auto accident.
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TCM included this suspenser on a morning-long salute to actress Loretta Young this week.
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Fun, over-the-top foreign suspenser about a Ukranian woman (Xenia Rappoport) who moves to Italy to escape her sordid past as a prostitute.
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It is a tale of violence and sexual obsession, certainly, but atypical; it is hardly a straight suspenser, but much more modern in its perplexingly oblique depiction of fear and horror, which mixes in the kind of single-girl romantic comedy found in Varda's Cléo From 5 to 7, Godard's Clueless, Rivette's Paris Belongs To Us. Four young women work in a French store and dream of getting away somewhere, anywhere.
Claude Chabrol anatomised the French middle class with a twist of the scalpel 2010
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Panic In The Streets -- This stunning suspenser centers around an increasingly desperate search for two criminals on the lam in New Orleans (played by Jack Palance and Zero Mostel), who, unbeknownst to them, have been infested with Bubonic plague.
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New Orleans - Panic In The Streets (1950): Early Elia Kazan suspenser centers around an increasingly desperate search for two criminals on the lam in New Orleans (played by Jack Palance and Zero Mostel), who, unbeknownst to them, have been infested with bubonic plague.
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This sizzling suspenser concerns fate, temptation, and those irrational urges that drive people to murder.
John Farr: Graphic Sex in Movies and Media: Is More Actually Less? 2008
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