Musician/author Boots Riley 's 2018 directorial debut '' Sorry to Bother You '' was tapped as being a social thriller by both '' The Guardian '' and '' Deadline '' , and multiple reviewers compared Riley 's film to '' Get Out '' . That same year '' Rolling Stone '' posited '' Tyrel '' , a drama about one black man 's weekend getaway with a bunch of drunk white men , as a social thriller . In 2019 '' Luce '' , a film about the external expectations placed on young black men in America , got the social thriller tag after its debut at the Sundance Film Festival . On the eve of the 2019 Academy Awards '' The A.V. Club '' added '' Cam '' , a psychological horror film told from the perspective of an online sex worker , to the genre 's roster , saying , " One year after '' Get Out '' , another social thriller deserves Oscar love for its script . Likewise the website '' Insider '' clamored " to see Lee Chang-dong 's tense social thriller '' Burning '' in this race " for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2019 Academy Awards . After the 2019 Cannes Film Festival '' The Associated Press '' headline proclaimed that " South Korean director Bong Joon-ho ’s social thriller '' Parasite '' wins Palme d’Or " and that third-place jury prizes were awarded to " two socially conscious thrillers : The French director Ladj Ly ’s feature-film debut '' Les Miserables '' and Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho ’s '' Bacurau '' . " With '' Get Out '' helping to codify the genre , critics have continued to apply the term retrospectively , with more than one review adding the 1975 science fiction thriller '' The Stepford Wives '' to the canon
2019 Cannes Film Festival
2019 Cannes Film Festival
Social thriller