From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: a suspenseful adventure story or play or movie
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
81 Moby Thesaurus words for "thriller": 3-D, Cinemascope, Cinerama, Marchen, Technicolor, Western, Western story, Westerner, adventure story, allegory, animated cartoon, apologue, bedtime story, black-and-white film, cartoon, chiller, cinema, color film, creepie, detective story, dime novel, documentary, documentary film, educational film, fable, fabliau, fairy tale, fantasy, feature, fiction, film, flick, flicker, folk story, folktale, gest, ghost story, gothic, horror picture, horse opera, legend, love story, motion picture, motion-picture show, movie, moving picture, mystery, mystery story, myth, mythology, mythos, newsreel, nudie, nursery tale, parable, penny dreadful, photodrama, photoplay, picture, picture show, pornographic film, preview, romance, science fiction, shilling shocker, shocker, short, silent, silent film, skin flick, sneak preview, space fiction, space opera, spaghetti Western, suspense story, talkie, talking picture, trailer, underground film, whodunit, work of fiction
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