{"title":"Best Psychological Thriller Movies","theme":"psychological thriller","url":"https://framethrower.ai/list/psychological-thriller","source":"FrameThrower","license":{"name":"CC BY 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","scope":"Covers these measurements only — the ratios, counts and rankings computed by FrameThrower. The film frames they are derived from are not licensed and no rights to them are granted.","attribution":"FrameThrower — https://framethrower.ai"},"method":"Per-frame tags (shot size, lighting key, time of day, camera angle, colour, visible objects) aggregated across the films carrying this theme, expressed as a ratio against the same measurement over the whole catalogue. Films ranked by how closely they match the theme's over-indexed elements, weighted by how distinctive each element is; one film per series.","sample":{"films":52,"listedFilms":42,"frames":3744,"baselineFrames":404689},"signature":[{"element":"sweater","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.04,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.0039,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00192,"observedInFrames":83},{"element":"mirror","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":1.92,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00442,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.0023,"observedInFrames":94},{"element":"table lamp","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":1.82,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00616,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00338,"observedInFrames":131},{"element":"wall","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":1.69,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00884,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00524,"observedInFrames":188},{"element":"pillow","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":1.67,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00381,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00228,"observedInFrames":81},{"element":"curtains","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":1.62,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00362,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00223,"observedInFrames":77},{"element":"blood","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":1.58,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00503,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00318,"observedInFrames":107},{"element":"shirt","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":1.58,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.01002,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00636,"observedInFrames":213}],"cinematography":{"note":"Weakly differentiating: most dramatic genres skew dark and night-heavy. Use `signature` to tell genres apart.","values":[{"axis":"shot_size","value":"closeup","shareOfThemeFrames":0.2807,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.2073,"ratio":1.35},{"axis":"v4_lighting_key","value":"low_key","shareOfThemeFrames":0.4997,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.3929,"ratio":1.27},{"axis":"camera_angle","value":"eye_level","shareOfThemeFrames":0.8514,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.6903,"ratio":1.23},{"axis":"time_of_day","value":"night","shareOfThemeFrames":0.5091,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.4219,"ratio":1.21}]},"palette":{"note":"Hue shares are dominated by skin tones across all genres; treat as descriptive, not distinguishing.","dominantHues":[{"hue":"orange","share":0.445,"ratio":0.98},{"hue":"red","share":0.175,"ratio":1.16},{"hue":"blue","share":0.164,"ratio":0.94},{"hue":"cyan","share":0.078,"ratio":1.39}],"meanSaturation":0.215,"baselineSaturation":0.234,"meanLuminance":0.419,"baselineLuminance":0.434},"films":[{"rank":1,"title":"Thoroughbreds","year":2017,"director":"Cory Finley","cinematographer":"Lyle Vincent","exemplarScore":1.542,"framesIndexed":63,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/thoroughbreds-2017"},{"rank":2,"title":"The Gift","year":2015,"director":"Joel Edgerton","cinematographer":"Eduard Grau","exemplarScore":1.444,"framesIndexed":48,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/the-gift-2015"},{"rank":3,"title":"Get Out","year":2017,"director":"Jordan Peele","cinematographer":"Toby Oliver","exemplarScore":1.389,"framesIndexed":63,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/get-out-2017"},{"rank":4,"title":"Funny Games","year":1997,"director":"Michael Haneke","cinematographer":"Jürgen Jürges","exemplarScore":1.366,"framesIndexed":60,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/funny-games-1997"},{"rank":5,"title":"The Shining","year":1980,"director":"Stanley Kubrick","cinematographer":"John Alcott","exemplarScore":1.323,"framesIndexed":69,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/the-shining-1980"},{"rank":6,"title":"The Entity","year":1982,"director":"Sidney J. Furie","cinematographer":"Stephen H. Burum","exemplarScore":1.329,"framesIndexed":64,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/the-entity-1982"},{"rank":7,"title":"Swallow","year":2020,"director":"Carlo Mirabella-Davis","cinematographer":"Katelin Arizmendi","exemplarScore":1.27,"framesIndexed":58,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/swallow-2020"},{"rank":8,"title":"Fair Play","year":2023,"director":"Chloe Domont","cinematographer":"Menno Mans","exemplarScore":1.151,"framesIndexed":64,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/fair-play-2023"},{"rank":9,"title":"Psycho","year":null,"director":"Alfred Hitchcock","cinematographer":"John L. 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