American Film Institute's 100 Most Thrilling Movies
Updated August 5, 2020 |
Infoplease Staff
The American Film Institute asked more than 1,500 members of the film community to pick the 100 most thrilling films of all time.
1. | Psycho (1960) |
2. | Jaws (1975) |
3. | The Exorcist (1973) |
4. | North by Northwest (1959) |
5. | The Silence of the Lambs (1991) |
6. | Alien (1979) |
7. | The Birds (1963) |
8. | The French Connection (1971) |
9. | Rosemary's Baby (1968) |
10. | Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) |
11. | The Godfather (1972) |
12. | King Kong (1933) |
13. | Bonnie and Clyde (1967) |
14. | Rear Window (1954) |
15. | Deliverance (1972) |
16. | Chinatown (1974) |
17. | The Manchurian Candidate (1962) |
18. | Vertigo (1958) |
19. | The Great Escape (1963) |
20. | High Noon (1952) |
21. | A Clockwork Orange (1971) |
22. | Taxi Driver (1976) |
23. | Lawrence of Arabia (1962) |
24. | Double Indemnity (1944 |
25. | Titanic (1997) |
26. | The Maltese Falcon (1941) |
27. | Star Wars (1977) |
28. | Fatal Attraction (1987) |
29. | The Shining (1980) |
30. | The Deer Hunter (1978) |
31. | Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) |
32. | Strangers on a Train (1951) |
33. | The Fugitive (1993) |
34. | The Night of the Hunter (1955) |
35. | Jurassic Park (1993) |
36. | Bullitt (1968) |
37. | Casablanca (1942) |
38. | Notorious (1946) |
39. | Die Hard (1988) |
40. | 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968 |
41. | Dirty Harry (1971) |
42. | The Terminator (1984) |
43. | The Wizard of Oz (1939) |
44. | E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) |
45. | Saving Private Ryan (1998) |
46. | Carrie (1976) |
47. | Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) |
48. | Dial M for Murder (1964) |
49. | Ben-Hur (1959 |
50. | Marathon Man (1976) |
51. | Raging Bull (1980) |
52. | Rocky (1976) |
53. | Pulp Fiction (1994) |
54. | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) |
55. | Wait Until Dark (1967) |
56. | Frankenstein (1931) |
57. | All the President's Men (1976) |
58. | The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) |
59. | Planet of the Apes (1968) |
60. | The Sixth Sense (1999) |
61. | Cape Fear (1962) |
62. | Spartacus (1960) |
63. | What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) |
64. | Touch of Evil (1958) |
65. | The Dirty Dozen (1967) |
66. | The Matrix (1999 |
67. | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) |
68. | Halloween (1978) |
69. | The Wild Bunch (1969) |
70. | Dog Day Afternoon (1975) |
71. | Goldfinger (1964 |
72. | Platoon (1986) |
73. | Laura (1944) |
74. | Blade Runner (1982 |
75. | The Third Man (1949) |
76. | Thelma & Louise (1991) |
77. | Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) |
78. | Gaslight (1944) |
79. | The Magnificent Seven (1960) |
80. | Rebecca (1940) |
81. | The Omen (1976) |
82. | The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) |
83. | The Phantom of the Opera (1925) |
84. | Poltergeist (1982) |
85. | Dracula (1931) |
86. | The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) |
87. | The Thing from Another World (1951) |
88. | 12 Angry Men (1957) |
89. | The Guns of Navarone (1961) |
90. | The Poseidon Adventure (1972) |
91. | Braveheart (1995) |
92. | Body Heat (1981) |
93. | Night of the Living Dead (1968) |
94. | The China Syndrome (1979) |
95. | Full Metal Jacket (1987) |
96. | Blue Velvet (1986) |
97. | Safety Last (1923) |
98. | Blood Simple (1984) |
99. | Speed (1994) |
100. | The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) |
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