ACTION THRILLER: the work often features a race against the clock, contains lots of violence, and an obvious antagonist. These films usually contain large amounts of guns, explosions, and large elaborate set pieces for the action to take place. These films often have elements of mystery films and crime films but these elements take a backseat to action.
Examples: the James Bond films, The Transporter, and the Jason Bourne trilogy.
CONSPIRACY THRILLER: the protagonist confronts a large, powerful group of antagonists whose true extent only he/she recognizes.
Examples: The Chancellor Manuscript, The Aquitane Progression (Robert Ludlum), Three Days of the Condor, Capricorn One, and JFK.
CRIME THRILLER: This particular genre is a hybrid type of both crime films and thrillers that offers a suspenseful account of a successful or failed crime or crimes. These films often focus on the criminal's perspective rather than the policeman's. Crime thrillers usually emphasize action over psychological aspects. Central topics include murders, robberies, chases, shootouts, and 'double-crosses'.
Examples: The Killing, Seven, Reservoir Dogs, Inside Man, and The Asphalt Jungle.
DISASTER THRILLER: the main conflict is due to some sort of natural or artificial disaster, such as floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, volcanoes, etc., or nuclear disasters as an artificial disaster.
Examples: Stormy Weather (Carl Hiaasen), Tremor (Winston Graham), and the 1974 film Earthquake.
DRAMA THRILLER: the story consists of the elements of a thriller and drama film. These films are usually slower paced and involves a great deal of character development along with plot twists.
Examples: The Illusionist, The Interpreter and The Prestige.
ECO THRILLER: the protagonist must avert or rectify an environmental or biological calamity, often in addition to dealing with the usual types of enemies or obstacles present in other thriller genres. This environmental component often forms a central message or theme of the story such as the danger presented by climate change/global warming.
Examples: The Loop (Nicholas Evans), Echoes in the Blue (C. George Muller), and Elephant song(Wilbur Smith), all of which highlight real-life environmental issues. Futuristic eco-thrillers are of the science fiction genre that propose ideas that will or may occur, for example, The Day After Tomorrow.
EROTIC THRILLER: It has become popular since the 1980s and consists of both erotica and thriller conventions.
Examples: Basic Instinct, Dressed to Kill, Color of Night, Eyes Wide Shut, Fatal Attraction, Looking for Mr. Goodbar, Obsessed, and In the Cut.
LEGAL THRILLER: the lawyer-heroes/heroines confront enemies outside, as well as inside, the courtroom and are in danger of losing not only their cases but their lives (very clear binary opposition between lawyers vs. criminals).
Examples: The Innocent Man (John Grisham).
MEDICAL THRILLER: the protagonists are medical doctors/personnel working to solve an expanding medical problem.
Examples: Awake.
POLITICAL THRILLER: the protagonists ensure the stability of the government that employs them. Terrorism, assasination and war often appears in the plot.
Examples: The success of Seven Days in May (1962) by Fletcher Knebel, The Day of the Jackal (1971) by Frederick Forsyth, and The Manchurian Candidate (1959) by Richard Condon established this subgenre. A more recent example is Vantage Point.
PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER: In which (until the often violent resolution) the conflict between the main characters is mental and emotional, rather than physical.
Examples: Suspicion, Shadow of a Doubt, and Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock), Blue Velvet (David Lynch) and The Good Son.
SPY THRILLER: the hero is generally a government agent who must take violent action against agents of a rival government or (in recent years) terrorists.
Examples: From Russia, with Love (Ian Fleming) and The Bourne Identity.
TECHNO THRILLER: In which (typically military) technology is described in detail and made essential to the viewer's understanding of the plot.
Examples: The Hunt for Red October, (Tom Clancy; considered to be the "Father of the Techno thriller")
RELIGIOUS THRILLER: the plot is closely connected to religious objects, institutions and questions. While suspense stories have always shown a significant affinity for religion and philosophical issues.
Examples: The Da Vinci Code.
Most thrillers are formed in some combination of the above, with horror, conspiracy, and psychological tricks used most commonly to heighten tension. Combinations are highly diverse, including:
Science fiction thrillers: Jurassic Park, Sunshine.
Techno/political/conspiracy/military: Robocop.
Legal/forensic/psychological: The Silence of the Lambs, Seven.
my source was wikipedia :)
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