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Top Thrillers (#1-100)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Godfather 1972 Francis Ford Coppola 3
2 Psycho 1960 Alfred Hitchcock 9
3 Vertigo 1958 Alfred Hitchcock 10
4 The Godfather: Part II 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 15
5 Taxi Driver 1976 Martin Scorsese 16
6 Chinatown 1974 Roman Polanski 19
7 Blade Runner 1982 Ridley Scott 25
8 The Third Man 1949 Carol Reed 26
9 Jaws 1975 Steven Spielberg 27
10 North by Northwest 1959 Alfred Hitchcock 28
11 Rear Window 1954 Alfred Hitchcock 30
12 The Silence of the Lambs 1991 Jonathan Demme 39
13 Double Indemnity 1944 Billy Wilder 40
14 A Clockwork Orange 1971 Stanley Kubrick 43
15 High Noon 1952 Fred Zinnemann 45
16 King Kong 1933 Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack 47
17 Touch of Evil 1958 Orson Welles 49
18 Fargo 1996 Joel Coen 50
19 Alien 1979 Ridley Scott 54
20 The Matrix 1999 Andy and Larry Wachowski 59
21 Blue Velvet 1986 David Lynch 61
22 The Usual Suspects 1995 Bryan Singer 64
23 Metropolis 1927 Fritz Lang 66
24 The Night of the Hunter 1955 Charles Laughton 73
25 M 1931 Fritz Lang 74
26 Breathless 1960 Jean-Luc Godard 77
27 Aliens 1986 James Cameron 88
28 Reservoir Dogs 1992 Quentin Tarantino 90
29 Rashômon 1950 Akira Kurosawa 91
30 The Manchurian Candidate 1962 John Frankenheimer 93
31 The Exorcist 1973 William Friedkin 102
32 L.A. Confidential 1997 Curtis Hanson 105
33 The Terminator 1984 James Cameron 110
34 Nosferatu 1922 F.W. Murnau 115
35 Fight Club 1999 David Fincher 118
36 Notorious 1946 Alfred Hitchcock 121
37 The Big Sleep 1946 Howard Hawks 122
38 Die Hard 1988 John McTiernan 124
39 Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991 James Cameron 126
40 The Shining 1980 Stanley Kubrick 129
41 Jurassic Park 1993 Steven Spielberg 131
42 Seven 1995 David Fincher 143
43 The French Connection 1971 William Friedkin 153
44 Halloween 1978 John Carpenter 160
45 Night of the Living Dead 1968 George A. Romero 168
46 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956 Don Siegel 173
47 The Great Escape 1963 John Sturges 175
48 The Conversation 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 176
49 The Conformist 1970 Bernardo Bertolucci 184
50 Don't Look Now 1973 Nicolas Roeg 185
51 Thelma & Louise 1991 Ridley Scott 188
52 Memento 2000 Christopher Nolan 196
53 Laura 1944 Otto Preminger 207
54 Heat 1995 Michael Mann 208
55 Goldfinger 1964 Guy Hamilton 213
56 The Sixth Sense 1999 M. Night Shyamalan 215
57 Badlands 1973 Terrence Malick 218
58 Strangers on a Train 1951 Alfred Hitchcock 220
59 Out of the Past 1947 Jacques Tourneur 222
60 The 39 Steps 1935 Alfred Hitchcock 223
61 Rebecca 1940 Alfred Hitchcock 225
62 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 1920 Robert Wiene 237
63 The Birds 1963 Alfred Hitchcock 238
64 The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951 Robert Wise 240
65 Ugetsu 1953 Kenji Mizoguchi 250
66 Blow-Up 1966 Michelangelo Antonioni 253
67 Rosemary's Baby 1968 Roman Polanski 255
68 Dirty Harry 1971 Don Siegel 265
69 Donnie Darko 2001 Richard Kelly 269
70 Dawn of the Dead 1978 George A. Romero 273
71 Carrie 1976 Brian De Palma 275
72 The Thing 1982 John Carpenter 276
73 The Wages of Fear 1953 Henri-Georges Clouzot 285
74 Peeping Tom 1960 Michael Powell 287
75 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 1974 Tobe Hooper 298
76 Full Metal Jacket 1987 Stanley Kubrick 302
77 Scream 1996 Wes Craven 305
78 All the President's Men 1976 Alan J. Pakula 309
79 The Professional 1994 Luc Besson 312
80 The Wicker Man 1973 Robin Hardy 317
81 Dog Day Afternoon 1975 Sidney Lumet 324
82 Diabolique 1955 Henri-Georges Clouzot 327
83 To Have and Have Not 1944 Howard Hawks 332
84 Cat People 1942 Jacques Tourneur 338
85 Deliverance 1972 John Boorman 343
86 Repulsion 1965 Roman Polanski 348
87 The Killer 1989 John Woo 355
88 The Road Warrior 1981 George Miller 370
89 The Untouchables 1987 Brian De Palma 379
90 Yojimbo 1961 Akira Kurosawa 384
91 Akira 1988 Katsuhiro Ôtomo 386
92 The Godfather: Part III 1990 Francis Ford Coppola 387
93 Speed 1994 Jan de Bont 390
94 Twelve Monkeys 1995 Terry Gilliam 394
95 Independence Day 1996 Roland Emmerich 398
96 The Lady Vanishes 1938 Alfred Hitchcock 400
97 Shadow of a Doubt 1943 Alfred Hitchcock 401
98 Ghost 1990 Jerry Zucker 409
99 Kiss Me Deadly 1955 Robert Aldrich 418
100 Mulholland Dr. 2001 David Lynch 422
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