This Timeline displays the evolution of the genre, movies and studios.
•The earliest tale of crime stories is The Three Apples, an Arabic story about finding a dead body of a young woman cut into pieces. It is uncertain of the date and authorship but the first English language edition
•Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson Mysteries is a key period that influenced the Police crime genre. In 1887 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about Sherlock in four novels and 56 short stories. They have continued into the 21st Century such as Sherlock Holmes in 2009.
In 1903 The Great Train Robbery was released. An American silent short western written, produced and directed film. Only 10 minutes long, it is said that this was considered a milestone in film making, as it used a number of unconventional techniques, but also one of the earliest to use cross cutting in two different locations
Created Gone Girl
In the 1940’s a new type of crime thriller emerged – post war films. Such as the Rope, Shadow Without Doubt and White Heat.
Cop films re-emerged in the 1970’s, The French Connection 1971 is one of the films that re-invented the cop/crime genre as they used to be based on a dirty cop, they now focused on fighting crime, and narcotics smuggling
New Line Cinema, is an American film studio founded in 1967 by Robert Shaye as a film distribution company, later becoming an independent film studio. Created Se7en.
Orion Pictures Corporation is an American distribution company that produced and released films from 1978 until 1999, and was also involved in television production and syndication throughout the 1980s until the early 1990s. Created Silence of the lambs.
Young FBI agent Clarice Starling is assigned to help find a missing woman to save her from a psychopathic serial killer who skins his victims. Clarice attempts to gain a better insight into the twisted mind of the killer by talking to another psychopath Hannibal Lecter, who used to be a respected psychiatrist. FBI agent Jack Crawford believes that Lecter, who is also a very powerful and clever mind manipulator, has the answers to their questions and can help locate the killer. However, Clarice must first gain Lecter's confidence before the inmate will give away any information.
In 1993 In The Line of Fire saw Clint Eastwood was a secret service agent trailing a president assassin.
A film about two homicide detectives' desperate hunt for a serial killer who justifies his crimes as absolution for the world's ignorance of the Seven Deadly Sins. The movie takes us from the tortured remains of one victim to the next as the sociopathic "John Doe" sermonizes to Detectives Sommerset and Mills -- one sin at a time. The sin of Gluttony comes first and the murderer's terrible capacity is graphically demonstrated in the dark and subdued tones characteristic of film noir. The seasoned and cultured but jaded Sommerset researches the Seven Deadly Sins in an effort to understand the killer's modus operandi while the bright but green and impulsive Detective Mills scoffs at his efforts to get inside the mind of a killer...
Most recently police crime thrillers have started to evolve, films like Rush Hour, Mission Impossible and The Avengers all have the simple basics of good police, law enforcement officers or special agents and fought against the bad guy. But there is an increasing amount of CGI and explosions in these films.
John Doe is an intelligent adventure series, named after the main character, albeit not by name: 'John Doe' is called thus because nobody knows the name of the man who literally fell from the sky, naked, in the sea near an obscure island. When Cambodian fishermen save him, it soon becomes clear his memory is in a paradoxical state: he has total amnesia concerning his own past, even his real name, but has more factual knowledge stored in his brain then even the Google computer banks on every possible other subject, as if he had memorized the Library of Congress, so one rarely needs to read anything when he's around.
Created John Doe
On the occasion of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick Dunne reports that his wife, Amy, has gone missing. Under pressure from the police and a growing media frenzy, Nick's portrait of a blissful union begins to crumble. Soon his lies, deceits and strange behavior have everyone asking the same dark question: Did Nick Dunne kill his wife?
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