The three films are Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow-Up (1966), Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation (1974), and Brian De Palma's Blow Out (1981). In this poetic video essay, Dr. Drew Morton, Assistant Professor of Mass Communication at Texas A&M University, edited together certain parts of each of the three aforementioned films, and what we begin to see is how similar the films truly are.
Furthermore, if you want to see how three incredible directors created tension and a sense of paranoia on screen for their audiences, then this video serves as a guide on how to do it with visuals and with sound.