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Top Thrillers (#1-200)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Psycho 1960 Alfred Hitchcock 1
2 Blade Runner 1982 Ridley Scott 12
3 Jaws 1975 Steven Spielberg 13
4 Vertigo 1958 Alfred Hitchcock 15
5 The Dark Knight 2008 Christopher Nolan 18
6 The Silence of the Lambs 1991 Jonathan Demme 20
7 Chinatown 1974 Roman Polanski 34
8 Rear Window 1954 Alfred Hitchcock 37
9 The Third Man 1949 Carol Reed 42
10 North by Northwest 1959 Alfred Hitchcock 49
11 Aliens 1986 James Cameron 50
12 Double Indemnity 1944 Billy Wilder 51
13 The Night of the Hunter 1955 Charles Laughton 57
14 Fargo 1996 Joel Coen 67
15 Inception 2010 Christopher Nolan 74
16 On the Waterfront 1954 Elia Kazan 79
17 Jurassic Park 1993 Steven Spielberg 83
18 M 1931 Fritz Lang 84
19 Die Hard 1988 John McTiernan 85
20 Touch of Evil 1958 Orson Welles 87
21 Mulholland Dr. 2001 David Lynch 89
22 Seven 1995 David Fincher 90
23 Reservoir Dogs 1992 Quentin Tarantino 95
24 No Country for Old Men 2007 Ethan and Joel Coen 101
25 Night of the Living Dead 1968 George A. Romero 102
26 Mad Max: Fury Road 2015 George Miller 113
27 Brazil 1985 Terry Gilliam 114
28 Persona 1966 Ingmar Bergman 122
29 The Battleship Potemkin 1925 Sergei Eisenstein 131
30 Halloween 1978 John Carpenter 132
31 Blue Velvet 1986 David Lynch 133
32 The Usual Suspects 1995 Bryan Singer 134
33 Donnie Darko 2001 Richard Kelly 136
34 L.A. Confidential 1997 Curtis Hanson 139
35 Oldboy 2003 Park Chan-wook 141
36 Memento 2000 Christopher Nolan 145
37 Notorious 1946 Alfred Hitchcock 148
38 The Departed 2006 Martin Scorsese 153
39 The Great Escape 1963 John Sturges 154
40 Don't Look Now 1973 Nicolas Roeg 160
41 Parasite 2019 Bong Joon Ho 165
42 The French Connection 1971 William Friedkin 167
43 The Sixth Sense 1999 M. Night Shyamalan 168
44 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 1920 Robert Wiene 174
45 Frankenstein 1931 James Whale 177
46 Get Out 2017 Jordan Peele 187
47 Children of Men 2006 Alfonso Cuarón 193
48 High Noon 1952 Fred Zinnemann 206
49 The Conversation 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 207
50 RoboCop 1987 Paul Verhoeven 213
51 The Big Sleep 1946 Howard Hawks 215
52 The Hurt Locker 2008 Kathryn Bigelow 221
53 Dog Day Afternoon 1975 Sidney Lumet 227
54 Dawn of the Dead 1978 George A. Romero 242
55 The Lives of Others 2006 Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck 244
56 Goldfinger 1964 Guy Hamilton 246
57 Come and See 1985 Elem Klimov 255
58 Léon: The Professional 1994 Luc Besson 259
59 The Manchurian Candidate 1962 John Frankenheimer 261
60 Kill Bill: Vol. 1 2003 Quentin Tarantino 262
61 The Wicker Man 1973 Robin Hardy 267
62 The Wages of Fear 1953 Henri-Georges Clouzot 269
63 Peeping Tom 1960 Michael Powell 274
64 All the President's Men 1976 Alan J. Pakula 282
65 Mean Streets 1973 Martin Scorsese 283
66 Strangers on a Train 1951 Alfred Hitchcock 286
67 Diabolique 1955 Henri-Georges Clouzot 295
68 Dirty Harry 1971 Don Siegel 300
69 Rebecca 1940 Alfred Hitchcock 311
70 The Bourne Ultimatum 2007 Paul Greengrass 315
71 Ghost in the Shell 1995 Mizuho Nishikubo and Mamoru Oshii 324
72 The Road Warrior 1981 George Miller 325
73 District 9 2009 Neill Blomkamp 329
74 Twelve Monkeys 1995 Terry Gilliam 331
75 Blow-Up 1966 Michelangelo Antonioni 346
76 Yojimbo 1961 Akira Kurosawa 354
77 Casino Royale 2006 Martin Campbell 358
78 Rome, Open City 1945 Roberto Rossellini 360
79 Gravity 2013 Alfonso Cuarón 371
80 The Prestige 2006 Christopher Nolan 392
81 Repulsion 1965 Roman Polanski 396
82 Poltergeist 1982 Tobe Hooper 398
83 28 Days Later… 2002 Danny Boyle 409
84 Minority Report 2002 Steven Spielberg 413
85 The 39 Steps 1935 Alfred Hitchcock 415
86 Rififi 1955 Jules Dassin 419
87 Videodrome 1983 David Cronenberg 421
88 Shadow of a Doubt 1943 Alfred Hitchcock 425
89 Cat People 1942 Jacques Tourneur 435
90 In the Heat of the Night 1967 Norman Jewison 437
91 The Dark Knight Rises 2012 Christopher Nolan 438
92 Black Swan 2010 Darren Aronofsky 440
93 Kill Bill: Vol. 2 2004 Quentin Tarantino 445
94 Le Samouraï 1967 Jean-Pierre Melville 455
95 Dunkirk 2017 Christopher Nolan 460
96 Out of the Past 1947 Jacques Tourneur 461
97 Point Break 1991 Kathryn Bigelow 470
98 Blade Runner 2049 2017 Denis Villeneuve 472
99 Greed 1924 Erich von Stroheim 473
100 Logan 2017 James Mangold 478
101 Kiss Me Deadly 1955 Robert Aldrich 480
102 Hidden 2005 Michael Haneke 501
103 The Killing 1956 Stanley Kubrick 502
104 Zodiac 2007 David Fincher 507
105 The Fugitive 1993 Andrew Davis 519
106 Enter the Dragon 1973 Robert Clouse 520
107 V for Vendetta 2005 James McTeigue 524
108 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? 1962 Robert Aldrich 530
109 The Untouchables 1987 Brian De Palma 533
110 The Long Goodbye 1973 Robert Altman 538
111 Speed 1994 Jan de Bont 547
112 Zero Dark Thirty 2012 Kathryn Bigelow 549
113 Miller's Crossing 1990 Joel Coen 553
114 Deliverance 1972 John Boorman 556
115 Hot Fuzz 2007 Edgar Wright 561
116 In a Lonely Place 1950 Nicholas Ray 568
117 The Killer 1989 John Woo 569
118 The Lady Vanishes 1938 Alfred Hitchcock 574
119 Hereditary 2018 Ari Aster 575
120 Le Cercle rouge 1970 Jean-Pierre Melville 577
121 Misery 1990 Rob Reiner 585
122 The Handmaiden 2016 Park Chan-wook 590
123 The Big Heat 1953 Fritz Lang 594
124 Eyes Wide Shut 1999 Stanley Kubrick 595
125 Starship Troopers 1997 Paul Verhoeven 596
126 Under the Skin 2013 Jonathan Glazer 608
127 Blood Simple 1984 Joel Coen 609
128 Amores perros 2000 Alejandro G. Iñárritu 612
129 Mad Max 1979 George Miller 614
130 A Man Escaped 1956 Robert Bresson 617
131 Gattaca 1997 Andrew Niccol 623
132 In Bruges 2008 Martin McDonagh 631
133 Alphaville 1965 Jean-Luc Godard 636
134 Shutter Island 2010 Martin Scorsese 638
135 The Others 2001 Alejandro Amenábar 639
136 The Asphalt Jungle 1950 John Huston 641
137 High and Low 1963 Akira Kurosawa 642
138 Man on Wire 2008 James Marsh 644
139 Witness for the Prosecution 1957 Billy Wilder 648
140 Hard Boiled 1992 John Woo 649
141 Arsenic and Old Lace 1944 Frank Capra 656
142 Memories of Murder 2003 Bong Joon Ho 657
143 Repo Man 1984 Alex Cox 658
144 Battle Royale 2000 Kinji Fukasaku 664
145 Scarface 1932 Howard Hawks 665
146 The Warriors 1979 Walter Hill 666
147 X2 2003 Bryan Singer 675
148 Ex Machina 2014 Alex Garland 686
149 Safety Last! 1923 Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor 687
150 Jackie Brown 1997 Quentin Tarantino 688
151 Punch-Drunk Love 2002 Paul Thomas Anderson 689
152 Bound 1996 Lana and Lilly Wachowski 698
153 Skyfall 2012 Sam Mendes 703
154 Elevator to the Gallows 1958 Louis Malle 706
155 Mystic River 2003 Clint Eastwood 707
156 Winter's Bone 2010 Debra Granik 709
157 Infernal Affairs 2002 Wai Keung Lau and Alan Mak 711
158 Basic Instinct 1992 Paul Verhoeven 717
159 Dead Ringers 1988 David Cronenberg 725
160 Point Blank 1967 John Boorman 727
161 Sin City 2005 Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez 737
162 Friday the 13th 1980 Sean S. Cunningham 738
163 Bullitt 1968 Peter Yates 741
164 The Vanishing 1988 George Sluizer 743
165 Face/Off 1997 John Woo 744
166 JFK 1991 Oliver Stone 745
167 The Descent 2005 Neil Marshall 746
168 Run Lola Run 1998 Tom Tykwer 750
169 The Witch 2015 Robert Eggers 751
170 Serenity 2005 Joss Whedon 755
171 Captain America: The Winter Soldier 2014 Anthony and Joe Russo 760
172 Gone Girl 2014 David Fincher 762
173 A History of Violence 2005 David Cronenberg 769
174 The Player 1992 Robert Altman 770
175 The Crow 1994 Alex Proyas 772
176 Dr. No 1962 Terence Young 781
177 Deep Red 1975 Dario Argento 784
178 Get Carter 1971 Mike Hodges 789
179 The Bourne Identity 2002 Doug Liman 790
180 Ghost 1990 Jerry Zucker 798
181 Looper 2012 Rian Johnson 800
182 The Orphanage 2007 J.A. Bayona 803
183 Woman in the Dunes 1964 Hiroshi Teshigahara 805
184 They Live 1988 John Carpenter 815
185 Serpico 1973 Sidney Lumet 825
186 Saw 2004 James Wan 828
187 Snowpiercer 2013 Bong Joon Ho 831
188 The Long Good Friday 1980 John Mackenzie 834
189 Dark City 1998 Alex Proyas 839
190 Annihilation 2018 Alex Garland 849
191 THX-1138 1971 George Lucas 854
192 Rope 1948 Alfred Hitchcock 856
193 The Train 1964 John Frankenheimer 860
194 The Wind 1928 Victor Sjöström 861
195 Lethal Weapon 1987 Richard Donner 862
196 Shaft 1971 Gordon Parks 866
197 The Insider 1999 Michael Mann 871
198 Blow Out 1981 Brian De Palma 872
199 The Devil's Backbone 2001 Guillermo del Toro 873
200 The King of Comedy 1982 Martin Scorsese 875
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