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Top Thrillers (#401-603)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
401 Port of Shadows 1938 Marcel Carné 1841
402 The Name of the Rose 1986 Jean-Jacques Annaud 1844
403 Changeling 2008 Clint Eastwood 1848
404 Commando 1985 Mark L. Lester 1850
405 The Tall T 1957 Budd Boetticher 1853
406 Attack the Block 2011 Joe Cornish 1857
407 Crank 2006 Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor 1863
408 Apocalypto 2006 Mel Gibson 1879
409 Fast Five 2011 Justin Lin 1882
410 High Sierra 1941 Raoul Walsh 1888
411 Foolish Wives 1922 Erich von Stroheim 1897
412 Kill List 2011 Ben Wheatley 1918
413 48 Hrs. 1982 Walter Hill 1919
414 The Getaway 1972 Sam Peckinpah 1920
415 Sanjuro 1962 Akira Kurosawa 1921
416 Silkwood 1983 Mike Nichols 1924
417 Lethal Weapon 2 1989 Richard Donner 1932
418 A Tale of Two Sisters 2003 Jee-woon Kim 1933
419 Devil in a Blue Dress 1995 Carl Franklin 1938
420 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire 2013 Francis Lawrence 1950
421 Idiocracy 2006 Mike Judge 1953
422 The Driver 1978 Walter Hill 1959
423 Insomnia 2002 Christopher Nolan 1962
424 The Constant Gardner 2005 Fernando Meirelles 1963
425 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 2011 David Fincher 1964
426 Stray Dog 1949 Akira Kurosawa 1965
427 Black Christmas 1974 Bob Clark 1968
428 Gone Baby Gone 2007 Ben Affleck 1977
429 The Unknown 1927 Tod Browning 1979
430 Advise & Consent 1962 Otto Preminger 1981
431 Ex Machina 2014 Alex Garland 1983
432 The Spy Who Came in from the Cold 1965 Martin Ritt 1984
433 Spellbound 1945 Alfred Hitchcock 1987
434 Death Wish 1974 Michael Winner 1991
435 Lucky Number Slevin 2006 Paul McGuigan 1992
436 Room 2015 Lenny Abrahamson 2005
437 Signs 2002 M. Night Shyamalan 2007
438 The Andromeda Strain 1971 Robert Wise 2011
439 A Page of Madness 1926 Teinosuke Kinugasa 2012
440 The Spy Who Loved Me 1977 Lewis Gilbert 2017
441 Seven Days in May 1964 John Frankenheimer 2018
442 The Raid 2 2014 Gareth Evans 2020
443 The Crucified Lovers 1954 Kenji Mizoguchi 2021
444 Die Hard 2 1990 Renny Harlin 2022
445 To Die For 1995 Gus Van Sant 2024
446 Michael Clayton 2007 Tony Gilroy 2027
447 Frenzy 1972 Alfred Hitchcock 2062
448 The Shape of Water 2017 Guillermo del Toro 2064
449 Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol 2011 Brad Bird 2080
450 Unfaithfully Yours 1948 Preston Sturges 2084
451 Something Wild 1986 Jonathan Demme 2086
452 Runaway Train 1985 Andrey Konchalovskiy 2090
453 Equilibrium 2002 Kurt Wimmer 2091
454 Batman: Mask of the Phantasm 1993 Eric Radomski and Bruce W. Timm 2094
455 Escape from Alcatraz 1979 Don Siegel 2107
456 Inside Man 2006 Spike Lee 2119
457 Scanners 1981 David Cronenberg 2121
458 Cube 1997 Vincenzo Natali 2123
459 Blackmail 1929 Alfred Hitchcock 2125
460 The Last King of Scotland 2006 Kevin Macdonald 2128
461 La Cérémonie 1995 Claude Chabrol 2129
462 The Long Kiss Goodnight 1996 Renny Harlin 2130
463 The Thomas Crown Affair 1968 Norman Jewison 2144
464 Mr. & Mrs. Smith 2005 Doug Liman 2146
465 The Hitcher 1986 Robert Harmon 2173
466 Supercop 1992 Stanley Tong 2180
467 Captain Phillips 2013 Paul Greengrass 2181
468 Targets 1968 Peter Bogdanovich 2188
469 Blade II 2002 Guillermo del Toro 2190
470 Spione 1928 Fritz Lang 2201
471 House of Games 1987 David Mamet 2207
472 Get Shorty 1995 Barry Sonnenfeld 2209
473 Cloverfield 2008 Matt Reeves 2214
474 The Narrow Margin 1952 Richard Fleischer 2216
475 Lust, Caution 2007 Ang Lee 2218
476 It Follows 2014 David Robert Mitchell 2221
477 Lady Vengeance 2005 Chan-wook Park 2227
478 The Hunt for Red October 1990 John McTiernan 2229
479 Foreign Correspondent 1940 Alfred Hitchcock 2232
480 GoldenEye 1995 Martin Campbell 2242
481 The Skin I Live In 2011 Pedro Almodóvar 2244
482 T-Men 1947 Anthony Mann 2246
483 Le Doulos 1962 Jean-Pierre Melville 2248
484 When Worlds Collide 1951 Rudolph Maté 2254
485 Sabotage 1936 Alfred Hitchcock 2257
486 Sholay 1975 Ramesh Sippy 2266
487 The Stunt Man 1980 Richard Rush 2267
488 Paranormal Activity 2007 Oren Peli 2279
489 The Lost World 1925 Harry O. Hoyt 2280
490 Ninja Scroll 1993 Yoshiaki Kawajiri 2283
491 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 2009 Niels Arden Oplev 2292
492 Missing 1982 Costa-Gavras 2295
493 Ménilmontant 1926 Dimitri Kirsanoff 2297
494 Twin Peaks Pilot 1990 David Lynch 2301
495 Dead Calm 1989 Phillip Noyce 2303
496 Vanishing Point 1971 Richard C. Sarafian 2305
497 The Towering Inferno 1974 John Guillermin and Irwin Allen 2306
498 Suspicion 1941 Alfred Hitchcock 2312
499 On Her Majesty's Secret Service 1969 Peter R. Hunt 2320
500 Drag Me to Hell 2009 Sam Raimi 2324
501 The Machinist 2004 Brad Anderson 2332
502 Rise of the Planet of the Apes 2011 Rupert Wyatt 2334
503 The Devil's Advocate 1997 Taylor Hackford 2337
504 Under Siege 1992 Andrew Davis 2341
505 Body Double 1984 Brian De Palma 2346
506 Air Force One 1997 Wolfgang Petersen 2347
507 Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance 2002 Chan-wook Park 2349
508 In the Line of Fire 1993 Wolfgang Petersen 2350
509 Destination Moon 1950 Irving Pichel 2359
510 The Quiet American 2002 Phillip Noyce 2360
511 Following 1998 Christopher Nolan 2370
512 John Wick 2014 Chad Stahelski 2372
513 The Wild One 1953 László Benedek 2382
514 I Am Legend 2007 Francis Lawrence 2385
515 Play Misty for Me 1971 Clint Eastwood 2387
516 eXistenZ 1999 David Cronenberg 2391
517 The Curse of Frankenstein 1957 Terence Fisher 2395
518 The Poseidon Adventure 1972 Ronald Neame 2402
519 The Hitch-Hiker 1953 Ida Lupino 2415
520 The Spiral Staircase 1946 Robert Siodmak 2425
521 Jackie Chan's Police Story 1985 Jackie Chan 2431
522 Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation 2015 Christopher McQuarrie 2435
523 Cutter's Way 1981 Ivan Passer 2436
524 Raw Deal 1948 Anthony Mann 2439
525 Stranger by the Lake 2013 Alain Guiraudie 2443
526 The Hidden 1987 Jack Sholder 2447
527 Arlington Road 1999 Mark Pellington 2449
528 Mission: Impossible III 2006 J.J. Abrams 2454
529 Hell or High Water 2016 David Mackenzie 2457
530 The Last Boy Scout 1991 Tony Scott 2466
531 Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country 1991 Nicholas Meyer 2468
532 Live Free or Die Hard 2007 Len Wiseman 2469
533 We Need to Talk about Kevin 2011 Lynne Ramsay 2471
534 Mission: Impossible - Fallout 2018 Christopher McQuarrie 2474
535 A Time to Kill 1996 Joel Schumacher 2488
536 Baby Driver 2017 Edgar Wright 2495
537 Falling Down 1993 Joel Schumacher 2511
538 Foxy Brown 1974 Jack Hill 2512
539 Charley Varrick 1973 Don Siegel 2515
540 Criss Cross 1949 Robert Siodmak 2518
541 A Simple Plan 1998 Sam Raimi 2523
542 Wait until Dark 1967 Terence Young 2526
543 Sherlock Holmes 2009 Guy Ritchie 2528
544 Blood and Black Lace 1964 Mario Bava 2531
545 Sleepers 1996 Barry Levinson 2533
546 Thunderball 1965 Terence Young 2535
547 Shallow Grave 1994 Danny Boyle 2537
548 Tenebrae 1982 Dario Argento 2542
549 Layer Cake 2004 Matthew Vaughn 2546
550 Zatôichi 2003 Takeshi Kitano 2550
551 Fist of Legend 1994 Gordon Chan 2555
552 Gloria 1980 John Cassavetes 2560
553 Wake in Fright 1971 Ted Kotcheff 2561
554 Saboteur 1942 Alfred Hitchcock 2562
555 Annihilation 2018 Alex Garland 2570
556 The Fast and the Furious 2001 Rob Cohen 2580
557 The In-Laws 1979 Arthur Hiller 2584
558 Sisters 1972 Brian De Palma 2587
559 The China Syndrome 1979 James Bridges 2588
560 Pulse 2001 Kiyoshi Kurosawa 2593
561 Santa Sangre 1989 Alejandro Jodorowsky 2596
562 Parasite 2019 Bong Joon Ho 2601
563 Bad Timing 1980 Nicolas Roeg 2636
564 Rush Hour 1998 Brett Ratner 2645
565 La Femme Infidčle 1969 Claude Chabrol 2650
566 Ministry of Fear 1944 Fritz Lang 2653
567 Enemy of the State 1998 Tony Scott 2655
568 The Italian Job 2003 F. Gary Gray 2656
569 Wolf Creek 2005 Greg McLean 2659
570 The Conjuring 2013 James Wan 2661
571 Carlos 2010 Olivier Assayas 2666
572 Hereditary 2018 Ari Aster 2667
573 Birth 2004 Jonathan Glazer 2672
574 Ichi the Killer 2001 Takashi Miike 2673
575 The Man Who Knew Too Much 1934 Alfred Hitchcock 2674
576 Outland 1981 Peter Hyams 2687
577 Cul-de-sac 1966 Roman Polanski 2694
578 Fright Night 1985 Tom Holland 2695
579 The Bad Seed 1956 Mervyn LeRoy 2701
580 Wild Tales 2014 Damián Szifrón 2706
581 It Happened in Broad Daylight 1958 Ladislao Vajda 2708
582 The Postman Always Rings Twice 1981 Bob Rafelson 2714
583 I Stand Alone 1998 Gaspar Noé 2717
584 Event Horizon 1997 Paul W.S. Anderson 2720
585 A Boy and His Dog 1975 L.Q. Jones 2722
586 Drunken Angel 1948 Akira Kurosawa 2723
587 Liquid Sky 1982 Slava Tsukerman 2725
588 Training Day 2001 Antoine Fuqua 2728
589 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 2011 Tomas Alfredson 2733
590 While the City Sleeps 1956 Fritz Lang 2743
591 The Imposter 2012 Bart Layton 2747
592 Punishment Park 1971 Peter Watkins 2756
593 Return of the Dragon 1972 Bruce Lee 2761
594 Citizenfour 2014 Laura Poitras 2764
595 The Petrified Forest 1936 Archie Mayo 2765
596 Vanilla Sky 2001 Cameron Crowe 2767
597 The Thomas Crown Affair 1999 John McTiernan 2769
598 The Illusionist 2006 Neil Burger 2771
599 The Bird with the Crystal Plumage 1970 Dario Argento 2783
600 Clear and Present Danger 1994 Phillip Noyce 2786
601 Silver Streak 1976 Arthur Hiller 2791
602 Nine Queens 2000 Fabián Bielinsky 2797
603 Femme Fatale 2002 Brian De Palma 2801
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