American Film Institute's 100 Most Thrilling Movies

Updated June 26, 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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