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Top Thrillers (#201-400)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
201 Les Vampires 1915 Louis Feuillade 903
202 Westworld 1973 Michael Crichton 909
203 The Ipcress File 1965 Sidney J. Furie 912
204 Straw Dogs 1971 Sam Peckinpah 915
205 Brick 2005 Rian Johnson 919
206 The Rock 1996 Michael Bay 927
207 Sexy Beast 2000 Jonathan Glazer 941
208 THX-1138 1971 George Lucas 944
209 The White Ribbon 2009 Michael Haneke 946
210 The Abyss 1989 James Cameron 952
211 Duel 1971 Steven Spielberg 953
212 The Postman Always Rings Twice 1946 Tay Garnett 954
213 Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler 1922 Fritz Lang 957
214 The Crying Game 1992 Neil Jordan 958
215 Bad Lieutenant 1992 Abel Ferrara 961
216 The Talented Mr. Ripley 1999 Anthony Minghella 979
217 Ocean's Eleven 2001 Steven Soderbergh 984
218 Assault on Precinct 13 1976 John Carpenter 989
219 After Hours 1985 Martin Scorsese 992
220 Shaft 1971 Gordon Parks 993
221 Near Dark 1987 Kathryn Bigelow 998
222 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street 2007 Tim Burton 1006
223 Charade 1963 Stanley Donen 1007
224 Primer 2004 Shane Carruth 1011
225 United 93 2006 Paul Greengrass 1012
226 The Tenant 1976 Roman Polanski 1034
227 Blow Out 1981 Brian De Palma 1035
228 Zodiac 2007 David Fincher 1037
229 Soylent Green 1973 Richard Fleischer 1040
230 The Last Seduction 1994 John Dahl 1047
231 Deep Red 1975 Dario Argento 1049
232 Crash 2004 Paul Haggis 1054
233 Get Out 2017 Jordan Peele 1061
234 The Train 1964 John Frankenheimer 1064
235 Fireworks 1997 Takeshi Kitano 1069
236 Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer 1986 John McNaughton 1073
237 Funny Games 1997 Michael Haneke 1080
238 Shutter Island 2010 Martin Scorsese 1083
239 Curse of the Demon 1957 Jacques Tourneur 1086
240 Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai 1999 Jim Jarmusch 1093
241 Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia 1974 Sam Peckinpah 1097
242 Kiss Kiss Bang Bang 2005 Shane Black 1101
243 The Insider 1999 Michael Mann 1105
244 True Lies 1994 James Cameron 1107
245 Our Hospitality 1923 John G. Blystone and Buster Keaton 1117
246 Beverly Hills Cop 1984 Martin Brest 1119
247 Le Jour se lčve 1939 Marcel Carné 1124
248 The Orphanage 2007 J.A. Bayona 1131
249 Road to Perdition 2002 Sam Mendes 1149
250 Wild at Heart 1990 David Lynch 1157
251 Saw 2004 James Wan 1158
252 They Live 1988 John Carpenter 1164
253 Taken 2008 Pierre Morel 1166
254 Paprika 2006 Satoshi Kon 1168
255 Elephant 2003 Gus Van Sant 1170
256 The Game 1997 David Fincher 1173
257 Cape Fear 1991 Martin Scorsese 1179
258 Monster 2003 Patty Jenkins 1183
259 Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me 1992 David Lynch 1189
260 Hellraiser 1987 Clive Barker 1198
261 The Secret of NIMH 1982 Don Bluth 1203
262 Le Boucher 1970 Claude Chabrol 1218
263 Contact 1997 Robert Zemeckis 1222
264 Arrival 2016 Denis Villeneuve 1223
265 The Descent 2005 Neil Marshall 1228
266 Odd Man Out 1947 Carol Reed 1230
267 Cape Fear 1962 J. Lee Thompson 1237
268 The Trial 1962 Orson Welles 1244
269 Bob le Flambeur 1956 Jean-Pierre Melville 1247
270 King of New York 1990 Abel Ferrara 1255
271 Skyfall 2012 Sam Mendes 1259
272 The Grifters 1990 Stephen Frears 1261
273 A Touch of Zen 1971 King Hu 1265
274 Friday the 13th 1980 Sean S. Cunningham 1267
275 The Time Machine 1960 George Pal 1281
276 Dead Man's Shoes 2004 Shane Meadows 1295
277 La Femme Nikita 1990 Luc Besson 1309
278 Day of the Dead 1985 George A. Romero 1314
279 Watership Down 1978 Martin Rosen 1316
280 Perfect Blue 1997 Satoshi Kon 1317
281 The Raid: Redemption 2011 Gareth Evans 1331
282 A Few Good Men 1992 Rob Reiner 1335
283 Key Largo 1948 John Huston 1337
284 Under the Skin 2013 Jonathan Glazer 1338
285 Irréversible 2002 Gaspar Noé 1348
286 Spellbound 2002 Jeffrey Blitz 1351
287 Le Trou 1960 Jacques Becker 1352
288 A Better Tomorrow 1986 John Woo 1357
289 Inland Empire 2006 David Lynch 1361
290 Manhunter 1986 Michael Mann 1377
291 Three Days of the Condor 1975 Sydney Pollack 1378
292 Gaslight 1944 George Cukor 1380
293 Angels with Dirty Faces 1938 Michael Curtiz 1382
294 Fury 1936 Fritz Lang 1385
295 A Scanner Darkly 2006 Richard Linklater 1389
296 Die Hard with a Vengeance 1995 John McTiernan 1390
297 Marnie 1964 Alfred Hitchcock 1401
298 The Killing of a Chinese Bookie 1976 John Cassavetes 1402
299 Marathon Man 1976 John Schlesinger 1403
300 The Butterfly Effect 2004 Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber 1405
301 The Parallax View 1974 Alan J. Pakula 1411
302 Murder, My Sweet 1944 Edward Dmytryk 1413
303 Strange Days 1995 Kathryn Bigelow 1417
304 Zero Dark Thirty 2012 Kathryn Bigelow 1419
305 21 Grams 2003 Alejandro G. Ińárritu 1426
306 Sleuth 1972 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1430
307 Grosse Pointe Blank 1997 George Armitage 1434
308 Mission: Impossible 1996 Brian De Palma 1435
309 Sunshine 2007 Danny Boyle 1438
310 Dunkirk 2017 Christopher Nolan 1439
311 [Rec] 2007 Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza 1444
312 The Italian Job 1969 Peter Collinson 1447
313 Leave Her to Heaven 1945 John M. Stahl 1448
314 Traffic 2000 Steven Soderbergh 1452
315 The Secret in Their Eyes 2009 Juan José Campanella 1455
316 The Roaring Twenties 1939 Raoul Walsh 1456
317 Eastern Promises 2007 David Cronenberg 1459
318 The Man Who Knew Too Much 1956 Alfred Hitchcock 1463
319 Open Your Eyes 1997 Alejandro Amenábar 1466
320 Angel Heart 1987 Alan Parker 1468
321 Black Book 2006 Paul Verhoeven 1473
322 Captain America: The Winter Soldier 2014 Anthony and Joe Russo 1475
323 The Last House on the Left 1972 Wes Craven 1483
324 Logan 2017 James Mangold 1505
325 Con Air 1997 Simon West 1507
326 Scarlet Street 1945 Fritz Lang 1513
327 The Black Cat 1934 Edgar G. Ulmer 1518
328 3:10 to Yuma 1957 Delmer Daves 1519
329 Fail-Safe 1964 Sidney Lumet 1520
330 The Testament of Dr. Mabuse 1933 Fritz Lang 1521
331 Diva 1981 Jean-Jacques Beineix 1523
332 The Fog 1980 John Carpenter 1524
333 The Ghost and Mrs. Muir 1947 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1528
334 The Lodger 1927 Alfred Hitchcock 1532
335 Dressed to Kill 1980 Brian De Palma 1538
336 Gone Girl 2014 David Fincher 1542
337 Cruising 1980 William Friedkin 1549
338 Went the Day Well? 1942 Alberto Cavalcanti 1551
339 Kiss of Death 1947 Henry Hathaway 1555
340 Primal Fear 1996 Gregory Hoblit 1558
341 Alice 1988 Jan Svankmajer 1561
342 Prisoners 2013 Denis Villeneuve 1562
343 Phantom of the Paradise 1974 Brian De Palma 1565
344 The Day of the Jackal 1973 Fred Zinnemann 1573
345 X-Men: Days of Future Past 2014 Bryan Singer 1575
346 The Hunger Games 2012 Gary Ross 1581
347 Le Corbeau 1943 Henri-Georges Clouzot 1582
348 Menace II Society 1993 Albert and Allen Hughes 1586
349 Looper 2012 Rian Johnson 1603
350 D.O.A. 1949 Rudolph Maté 1604
351 Desperado 1995 Robert Rodriguez 1613
352 Munich 2005 Steven Spielberg 1624
353 Altered States 1980 Ken Russell 1626
354 The Handmaiden 2016 Chan-wook Park 1632
355 The Boondock Saints 1999 Troy Duffy 1636
356 The Fallen Idol 1948 Carol Reed 1639
357 The Woman in the Window 1944 Fritz Lang 1643
358 Collateral 2004 Michael Mann 1645
359 Blade Runner 2049 2017 Denis Villeneuve 1647
360 Quatermass and the Pit 1967 Roy Ward Baker 1650
361 Argo 2012 Ben Affleck 1660
362 Night Moves 1975 Arthur Penn 1666
363 The Imitation Game 2014 Morten Tyldum 1668
364 Star Trek: First Contact 1996 Jonathan Frakes 1672
365 War of the Worlds 2005 Steven Spielberg 1684
366 El Mariachi 1992 Robert Rodriguez 1685
367 Wild Things 1998 John McNaughton 1687
368 The American Friend 1977 Wim Wenders 1688
369 American Gangster 2007 Ridley Scott 1692
370 Purple Noon 1960 René Clément 1695
371 Midnight Express 1978 Alan Parker 1703
372 Candyman 1992 Bernard Rose 1705
373 3 Women 1977 Robert Altman 1706
374 The Hateful Eight 2015 Quentin Tarantino 1707
375 Sonatine 1993 Takeshi Kitano 1726
376 The Big Combo 1955 Joseph H. Lewis 1729
377 Unbreakable 2000 M. Night Shyamalan 1735
378 Shanghai Express 1932 Josef von Sternberg 1741
379 Sorcerer 1977 William Friedkin 1747
380 Armageddon 1998 Michael Bay 1748
381 The Naked City 1948 Jules Dassin 1749
382 To Catch a Thief 1955 Alfred Hitchcock 1756
383 Zentropa 1991 Lars von Trier 1757
384 Law of Desire 1987 Pedro Almodóvar 1758
385 Branded to Kill 1967 Seijun Suzuki 1769
386 Blood Diamond 2006 Edward Zwick 1771
387 To Live and Die in L.A. 1985 William Friedkin 1777
388 Bad Boys 1995 Michael Bay 1779
389 Ronin 1998 John Frankenheimer 1784
390 Thief 1981 Michael Mann 1789
391 The Old Dark House 1932 James Whale 1797
392 Nightcrawler 2014 Dan Gilroy 1811
393 Man on Fire 2004 Tony Scott 1813
394 Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior 2003 Prachya Pinkaew 1815
395 The Dead Zone 1983 David Cronenberg 1816
396 Salvador 1986 Oliver Stone 1820
397 The Limey 1999 Steven Soderbergh 1822
398 Super Fly 1972 Gordon Parks Jr. 1830
399 Match Point 2005 Woody Allen 1831
400 Mississippi Burning 1988 Alan Parker 1833
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