Richard Gere starred in an American thriller film.
Gere made a notable departure from his traditional screen persona with Joseph Cedar's political drama Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer (2016)
 A famous example is Jonathan Demme's Best Picturewinning crime thriller The Silence of the Lambs (1991)in which young FBI agent Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) engages in a psychological conflict with a cannibalistic psychiatrist named Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) while tracking down serial killer Buffalo Billand David Fincher's crime thriller Seven (1995), about the search for a serial killer who re-enacts the seven deadly sins

