American Film Institute's 100 Most Thrilling Movies
Updated February 21, 2017 | Factmonster 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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