The
American Film Institute’s (AFI’s) List of the Top 100 Thrillers

The American Film Institute (AFI) presents it’s list of
the top 100 movie thrillers.

1. Psycho (1960) (on

VHS and

DVD)
2. Jaws (1975) (on

VHS and

DVD)
3. The Exorcist (1973) (on

VHS and

DVD)
4. North by Northwest (1959) (on

VHS and

DVD)
5. The Silence of the Lambs (1991) (on

VHS and

DVD)
6. Alien (1979) (on

VHS and

DVD)
7. The Birds (1963) (on

VHS and

DVD)
8. The French Connection (1971) (on

VHS and

DVD)
9. Rosemary’s Baby (1968) (on

VHS and

DVD)
10. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) (on

VHS and

DVD)
11. The Godfather (1972) (on

VHS and

DVD)
12. King Kong (1933) (on

VHS and

DVD)
13. Bonnie and Clyde (1967) (on

VHS and

DVD)
14. Rear Window (1954) (on

VHS and

DVD)
15. Deliverance (1972) (on

VHS and

DVD)
16. Chinatown (1974) (on

VHS and

DVD)
17. The Manchurian Candidate (1962) (on

VHS and

DVD)
18. Vertigo (1958) (on

VHS and

DVD)
19. The Great Escape (1963) (on

VHS and

DVD)
20. High Noon (1952) (on

VHS and

DVD)
21. A Clockwork Orange (1971) (on

VHS and

DVD)
22. Taxi Driver (1976) (on

VHS and

DVD)
23. Lawrence of Arabia (1962) (on

VHS and

DVD)
24. Double Indemnity (1944) (on

VHS and

DVD)
25. Titanic (1997) (on

VHS and

DVD)
26. The Maltese Falcon (1941) (on

VHS and

DVD)
27. Star Wars (1977) (on

VHS and

DVD)
28. Fatal Attraction (1987) (on

VHS and

DVD)
29. The Shining (1980) (on

VHS and

DVD)
30. The Deer Hunter (1978) (on

VHS and

DVD)
31. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) (on

VHS and

DVD)
32. Strangers on a Train (1951) (on

VHS and

DVD)
33. The Fugitive (1993) (on

VHS and

DVD)
34. The Night of the Hunter (1955) (on

VHS and

DVD)
35. Jurassic Park (1993) (on

VHS and

DVD)
36. Bullitt (1968) (on

VHS and

DVD)
37. Casablanca (1942) (on

VHS and

DVD)
38. Notorious (1946) (on

VHS and

DVD)
39. Die Hard (1988) (on

VHS and

DVD)
40. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) (on

VHS and

DVD)
41. Dirty Harry (1971) (on

VHS and

DVD)
42. The Terminator (1984) (on

VHS and

DVD)
43. The Wizard of Oz (1939) (on

VHS and

DVD)
44. E.T. the Extra Terrestrial (1982) (on

VHS and

DVD)
45. Saving Private Ryan (1999) (on

VHS and

DVD)
46. Carrie (1976) (on

VHS and

DVD)
47. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) (on

VHS and

DVD)
48. Dial M for Murder (1954) (on

VHS)
49. Ben-Hur (1959) (on

VHS and

DVD)
50. Marathon Man (1976) (on

VHS)
51. Raging Bull (1980) (on

VHS and

DVD)
52. Rocky (1976) (on

VHS and

DVD)
53. Pulp Fiction (1994) (on

VHS and

DVD)
54. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) (on

VHS and

DVD)
55. Wait Until Dark (1967) (on

VHS)
56. Frankenstein (1931) (on

VHS and

DVD)
57. All the President’s Men (1976) (on

VHS and

DVD)
58. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) (on

VHS and

DVD)
59. Planet of the Apes (1968) (on

VHS and

DVD)
60. The Sixth Sense (1999) (on

VHS and

DVD)
61. Cape Fear (1962) (on

VHS and

DVD)
62. Spartacus (1960) (on

VHS and

DVD)
63. Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) (on

VHS and

DVD)
64. Touch of Evil (1958) (on

VHS and

DVD)
65. The Dirty Dozen (1967) (on

VHS and

DVD)
66. The Matrix (1999) (on

VHS and

DVD)
67. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) (on

VHS and

DVD)
68. Halloween (1978) (on

VHS and

DVD)
69. The Wild Bunch (1969) (on

VHS and

DVD)
70. Dog Day Afternoon (1975) (on

VHS and

DVD)
71. Goldfinger (1964) (on

VHS and

DVD)
72. Platoon (1986) (on

VHS and

DVD)
73. Laura (1944) (on

VHS)
74. Blade Runner (1982) (on

VHS and

DVD)
75. The Third Man (1949) (on

VHS and

DVD)
76. Thelma & Louise (1991) (on

VHS and

DVD)
77. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) (on

VHS and

DVD)
78. Gaslight (1944) (on

VHS)
79. The Magnificent Seven (1960) (on

VHS and

DVD)
80. Rebecca (1940) (on

VHS and

DVD)
81. The Omen (1976) (on

VHS and

DVD)
82. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) (on

VHS)
83. The Phantom of the Opera (1925) (on

VHS and

DVD)
84. Poltergeist (1982) (on

VHS and

DVD)
85. Dracula (1931) (on

VHS and

DVD)
86. The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) (on

VHS)
87. The Thing from Another World (1951) (on

VHS)
88. 12 Angry Men (1957) (on

VHS and

DVD)
89. The Guns of Navarone (1961) (on

VHS and

DVD)
90. The Poseidon Adventure (1972) (on

VHS and

DVD)
91. Braveheart (1995) (on

VHS and

DVD)
92. Body Heat (1981) (on

VHS and

DVD)
93. Night of the Living Dead (1968) (on

VHS and

DVD)
94. The China Syndrome (1979) (on

VHS and

DVD)
95. Full Metal Jacket (1987) (on

VHS and

DVD)
96. Blue Velvet (1986) (on

VHS and

DVD)
97. Safety Last (1923)
98. Blood Simple (1984) (on

VHS and

DVD)
99. Speed (1994) (on

VHS and

DVD)
100. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) (on

VHS)