Using the British Film Industry’s (BFI) website I collected photographic clippings from the Industry Statistical Yearbook as evidence to show the thriller movies reception over the years of film in the UK.

This is the box office results for the top 20 films released in the UK and Republic of Ireland, 2014:

As seen above, the thriller films (according to the genre determined by IMBD) most popularly liked (shown through box office sale) in 2014 were:-‘The Hunger Games: Mockingjay part 1’-‘Gone Girl’-‘The Imitation Game’Which is a vastly different amount compared action genre:-‘The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies’-‘The Lego Movie’-‘Dawn of the Planet of the Apes’-‘The Hunger Games: Mockingjay part 1’-‘Guardians of the Galaxy’

-‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’-‘How to Train Your dragon 2’-‘The Amazing Spiderman 2’-‘Gone Girl’-‘Intersteller’-‘Transformers: Age of Exinction’-‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’-‘Malicifent’-’22 Jump Street’

This is a table of films released in the UK and Republic of Ireland by genre, 2014 (ranked by average widest point of release)

This table proves how thrillers, on average didn’t do so well last year. The genre as a whole on average grossed £58.5 million on box office, the seventh from top genre.

These tables below show the fluctuation of highest grossing films over time. The first table shows statistics for the highest grossing films from

2001-1012 and the second shows statistics for UK qualifying films at the UK box office 1989-2014.

Out of the movies included in these tables, the only thriller movies are:‘Casino royale’‘The Dark knight rises’