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Index Conspiracy fiction

The conspiracy thriller (or paranoid thriller) is a subgenre of thriller fiction.[1]

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  1. 88 relations: Alan J. Pakula, All the President's Men (film), Ballistic missile, British Film Institute, Catholic Church, Charlton Heston, Chris Carter (screenwriter), Dan Brown, Dashiell Hammett, David Morrell, Detective fiction, Detentionaire, Don DeLillo, Dreadful Sanctuary, Eric Frank Russell, First Blood, Foucault's Pendulum, Fringe (TV series), Fritz Lang, George P. Cosmatos, Graham Greene, Gravity's Rainbow, House of Cards (American TV series), Illuminati in popular culture, Inherent Vice, J. I. M. Stewart, J. J. Abrams, James Clancy Phelan, James Ellroy, John Buchan, John F. Kennedy, John Twelve Hawks, Joseph Heller, List of assassinations in fiction, List of conspiracy-thriller films and television series, Margaret Atwood, Martin Luther King Jr., Ministry of Fear, Morality play, Mystery fiction, Neal Stephenson, Nightmare Town, Novel, Opus Dei, Orson Welles, Paranoia, Paranoid fiction, Philip K. Dick, Phoebus cartel, Priory of Sion, ... Expand index (38 more) »

  2. Conspiracy
  3. Thriller films by genre
  4. Thriller genres

Alan J. Pakula

Alan Jay Pakula (April 7, 1928 – November 19, 1998) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer.

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All the President's Men (film)

All the President's Men is a 1976 American biographical political thriller film about the Watergate scandal that brought down the presidency of Richard Nixon.

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Ballistic missile

A ballistic missile (BM) is a type of missile that uses projectile motion to deliver warheads on a target.

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British Film Institute

The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and television charitable organisation which promotes and preserves film-making and television in the United Kingdom.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Charlton Heston

Charlton Heston (born John Charles Carter; October 4, 1923 – April 5, 2008) was an American actor and political activist.

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Chris Carter (screenwriter)

Christopher Carl Carter (born October 13, 1956) is an American television and film producer, director and writer who gained fame in the 1990s as the creator of the Fox science fiction supernatural drama series The X-Files.

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Dan Brown

Daniel Gerhard Brown (born June 22, 1964) is an American author best known for his thriller novels, including the Robert Langdon novels Angels & Demons (2000), The Da Vinci Code (2003), The Lost Symbol (2009), Inferno (2013), and ''Origin'' (2017).

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Dashiell Hammett

Samuel Dashiell Hammett (May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961) was an American writer of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories.

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David Morrell

David Morrell (born April 24, 1943) is a Canadian-American author whose debut 1972 novel First Blood, later adapted as the 1982 film of the same name, went on to spawn the successful ''Rambo'' franchise starring Sylvester Stallone.

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Detective fiction

Detective fiction is a subgenre of crime fiction and mystery fiction in which an investigator or a detective—whether professional, amateur or retired—investigates a crime, often murder. Conspiracy fiction and detective fiction are film genres.

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Detentionaire

Detentionaire is a Canadian mystery thriller animated series produced by Nelvana and aired on Teletoon from September 12, 2011, to January 29, 2015, for total of 53 episodes, spanning 4 seasons.

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Don DeLillo

Donald Richard "Don" DeLillo (born November 20, 1936) is an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, screenwriter and essayist.

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Dreadful Sanctuary

Dreadful Sanctuary is a science fiction novel by British author Eric Frank Russell.

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Eric Frank Russell

Category:British science fiction writers Eric Frank Russell (January 6, 1905 – February 28, 1978) was a British writer best known for his science fiction novels and short stories.

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First Blood

First Blood is a 1982 American action film directed by Ted Kotcheff and co-written by and starring Sylvester Stallone as Vietnam War veteran John Rambo.

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Foucault's Pendulum

Foucault's Pendulum (original title: Il pendolo di Foucault) is a novel by Italian writer and philosopher Umberto Eco.

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Fringe (TV series)

Fringe is an American science fiction television series created by J. J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman, and Roberto Orci.

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Fritz Lang

Friedrich Christian Anton Lang (December 5, 1890 – August 2, 1976), better known as Fritz Lang, was an Austrian-American film director, screenwriter, and producer who worked in Germany and later the United States.

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George P. Cosmatos

George Pan Cosmatos (4 January 1941 – 19 April 2005) was a Greek-Italian film director and screenwriter.

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Graham Greene

Henry Graham Greene (2 October 1904 – 3 April 1991) was an English writer and journalist regarded by many as one of the leading novelists of the 20th century.

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Gravity's Rainbow

Gravity's Rainbow is a 1973 novel by the American writer Thomas Pynchon.

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House of Cards (American TV series)

House of Cards is an American political thriller television series created by Beau Willimon.

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Founded by Adam Weishaupt in Bavaria in 1776, the Illuminati have been referred to in popular culture, in books and comics, television and films, and games.

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Inherent Vice

Inherent Vice is a novel by the American author Thomas Pynchon, originally published on August4, 2009.

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J. I. M. Stewart

John Innes Mackintosh Stewart (30 September 1906 – 12 November 1994) was a Scottish novelist and academic.

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J. J. Abrams

Jeffrey Jacob Abrams (born June 27, 1966) is an American filmmaker and composer.

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James Clancy Phelan

James Clancy Phelan (born 21 May 1979), known professionally as James Phelan, is an Australian writer of thrillers and young adult novels, including Fox Hunt, The Last 13 series for teens, and the Jed Walker and Lachlan Fox thrillers.

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James Ellroy

Lee Earle "James" Ellroy (born March 4, 1948) is an American crime fiction writer and essayist.

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John Buchan

John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (26 August 1875 – 11 February 1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian, and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation.

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John F. Kennedy

John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to as JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.

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John Twelve Hawks

John Twelve Hawks is the pseudonym of an author of four novels and one short non-fiction book.

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Joseph Heller

Joseph Heller (May 1, 1923 – December 12, 1999) was an American author of novels, short stories, plays, and screenplays.

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List of assassinations in fiction

Assassinations have formed a major plot element in various works of fiction.

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List of conspiracy-thriller films and television series

This is an incomplete list of conspiracy thriller films and TV series. Conspiracy fiction and list of conspiracy-thriller films and television series are conspiracy and thriller films by genre.

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Margaret Atwood

Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian novelist, poet, and literary critic.

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Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister, activist, and political philosopher who was one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968.

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Ministry of Fear

Ministry of Fear is a 1944 American spy thriller film noir directed by Fritz Lang, and starring Ray Milland and Marjorie Reynolds.

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Morality play

The morality play is a genre of medieval and early Tudor drama.

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Mystery fiction

Mystery is a fiction genre where the nature of an event, usually a murder or other crime, remains mysterious until the end of the story. Conspiracy fiction and mystery fiction are fiction by genre.

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Neal Stephenson

Neal Town Stephenson (born October 31, 1959) is an American writer known for his works of speculative fiction.

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Nightmare Town

"Nightmare Town" is a short story written by Dashiell Hammett in 1924.

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Novel

A novel is an extended work of narrative fiction usually written in prose and published as a book.

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Opus Dei

Opus Dei (Work of God) is an institution of the Catholic Church that, by a purported divine inspiration, was founded in Spain in 1928 by Catholic priest Josemaría Escrivá.

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Orson Welles

George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an American director, actor, writer, producer, and magician who is remembered for his innovative work in film, radio, and theatre.

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Paranoia

Paranoia is an instinct or thought process that is believed to be heavily influenced by anxiety, suspicion, or fear, often to the point of delusion and irrationality.

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Paranoid fiction

Paranoid fiction is a term sometimes used to describe works of literature that explore the subjective nature of reality and how it can be manipulated by forces in power.

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Philip K. Dick

Philip Kindred Dick (December 16, 1928 – March 2, 1982), often referred to by his initials PKD, was an American science fiction writer and novelist.

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Phoebus cartel

The Phoebus cartel was an international cartel that controlled the manufacture and sale of incandescent light bulbs in much of Europe and North America between 1925–1939.

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Priory of Sion

The Prieuré de Sion, translated as Priory of Sion, was a fraternal organisation founded and dissolved in France in 1956 by Pierre Plantard in his failed attempt to create a prestigious neo-chivalric order.

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Prison Break

Prison Break is an American drama television series created by Paul Scheuring for Fox.

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Propaganda

Propaganda is communication that is primarily used to influence or persuade an audience to further an agenda, which may not be objective and may be selectively presenting facts to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loaded language to produce an emotional rather than a rational response to the information that is being presented.

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Propinquity (novel)

Propinquity is a 1986 novel by Australian author/journalist John Macgregor.

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Quest

A quest is a journey toward a specific mission or a goal.

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Rambo: First Blood Part II

Rambo: First Blood Part II is a 1985 American action film directed by George P. Cosmatos from a story by Kevin Jarre, and a screenplay by James Cameron and Sylvester Stallone, who also reprises his role as Vietnam War veteran John Rambo.

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Richard Condon

Richard Thomas Condon (March 18, 1915 – April 9, 1996) was an American political novelist.

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Richard Nixon

Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913April 22, 1994) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 37th president of the United States from 1969 to 1974.

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Robert Anton Wilson

Robert Anton Wilson (born Robert Edward Wilson; January 18, 1932 – January 11, 2007) was an American author, futurist, psychologist, and self-described agnostic mystic.

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Robert F. Kennedy

Robert Francis Kennedy (November 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968), also known by his initials RFK, was an American politician and lawyer.

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Robert Ludlum

Robert Ludlum (May 25, 1927 – March 12, 2001) was an American author of 27 thriller novels, best known as the creator of Jason Bourne from the original The Bourne Trilogy series.

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Robert Shea

Robert Joseph Shea (February 14, 1933 – March 10, 1994) was an American novelist and former journalist best known as co-author with Robert Anton Wilson of the science fantasy trilogy Illuminatus! It became a cult success and was later turned into a marathon-length stage show put on at the British National Theatre and elsewhere.

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Screenonline

Screenonline is a website about the history of British film, television and social history as documented by film and television.

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Secret society

A secret society is an organization about which the activities, events, inner functioning, or membership are concealed.

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Solar System

The Solar SystemCapitalization of the name varies.

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Soylent Green

Soylent Green is a 1973 American dystopian thriller film directed by Richard Fleischer, and starring Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young, and Edward G. Robinson in his final film role.

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Spy fiction

Spy fiction is a genre of literature involving espionage as an important context or plot device. Conspiracy fiction and Spy fiction are fiction by genre and thriller genres.

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Star Trek: The Original Series

Star Trek is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry that follows the adventures of the starship and its crew.

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The Blacklist

The Blacklist is an American crime thriller television series created by Jon Bokenkamp and developed by John Eisendrath.

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The Crying of Lot 49

The Crying of Lot 49 is a novella by the American author Thomas Pynchon.

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The Da Vinci Code

The Da Vinci Code is a 2003 mystery thriller novel by Dan Brown.

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The Illuminatus! Trilogy

The Illuminatus! Trilogy is a series of three novels by American writers Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, first published in 1975.

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The Manchurian Candidate

The Manchurian Candidate is a novel by Richard Condon, first published in 1959.

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The Mentalist

The Mentalist is an American drama television series that ran from September 23, 2008, until February 18, 2015, broadcasting 151 episodes over seven seasons, on CBS.

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The Thirty-Nine Steps

The Thirty-Nine Steps is a 1915 adventure novel by the Scottish author John Buchan, first published by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh.

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The X-Files

The X-Files is an American science fiction drama television series created by Chris Carter.

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Thomas Pynchon

Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. (born May 8, 1937) is an American novelist noted for his dense and complex novels.

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Thriller (genre)

Thriller is a genre of fiction with numerous, often overlapping, subgenres, including crime, horror, and detective fiction. Conspiracy fiction and Thriller (genre) are thriller genres.

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Touch of Evil

Touch of Evil is a 1958 American film noir written and directed by Orson Welles, who also stars in the film.

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Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco (5 January 1932 – 19 February 2016) was an Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, novelist, cultural critic, and political and social commentator.

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Vietnam War

The Vietnam War was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.

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Vril

Vril: The Power of the Coming Race, originally published as The Coming Race, is a novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, published anonymously in 1871.

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Watergate scandal

The Watergate scandal was a major political controversy in the United States during the presidency of Richard Nixon from 1972 to 1974, ultimately resulting in Nixon's resignation.

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Whodunit

A whodunit (less commonly spelled—or misspelled—as whodunnit; a colloquial elision of "Who done it?") is a complex plot-driven variety of detective fiction in which the puzzle regarding who committed the crime is the main focus.

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William Gibson

William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an American-Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk.

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William Richert

William Richert (1942 – July 19, 2022) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter and actor.

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William S. Burroughs

William Seward Burroughs II (February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American writer and visual artist.

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Winter Kills (novel)

Winter Kills is a black comedy novel by Richard Condon, exploring the assassination of a U.S. president.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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See also

Conspiracy

Thriller films by genre

Thriller genres

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_fiction

Also known as Conspiracies in fiction, Conspiracy Novel, Conspiracy in fiction, Conspiracy thriller, Conspiracy thriller film, Conspiracy thriller novel, Paranoid thriller.

, Prison Break, Propaganda, Propinquity (novel), Quest, Rambo: First Blood Part II, Richard Condon, Richard Nixon, Robert Anton Wilson, Robert F. Kennedy, Robert Ludlum, Robert Shea, Screenonline, Secret society, Solar System, Soylent Green, Spy fiction, Star Trek: The Original Series, The Blacklist, The Crying of Lot 49, The Da Vinci Code, The Illuminatus! Trilogy, The Manchurian Candidate, The Mentalist, The Thirty-Nine Steps, The X-Files, Thomas Pynchon, Thriller (genre), Touch of Evil, Umberto Eco, Vietnam War, Vril, Watergate scandal, Whodunit, William Gibson, William Richert, William S. Burroughs, Winter Kills (novel), World War II.