AFI's 100 Years... 100 Thrills

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Part of the AFI 100 Years... series, AFI's 100 Years... 100 Thrills is a list of the top 100 thrilling movies in American cinema. The list was unveiled by the American Film Institute on June 12, 2001 during a CBS special hosted by Harrison Ford, who starred in four of the films on the list, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars, Blade Runner and The Fugitive.

Alfred Hitchcock leads the list with nine films, including the film at the top of the list, and three of the top seven.

Steven Spielberg, another acclaimed master of thrills, has six films, including two inside the top 10.

Stanley Kubrick has a total of five films.

  1. Psycho (1960)
  2. Jaws (1975)
  3. The Exorcist (1973)
  4. North by Northwest (1959)
  5. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
  6. Alien (1979)
  7. The Birds (1963)
  8. The French Connection (1971)
  9. Rosemary's Baby (1968)
  10. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
  11. The Godfather (1972)
  12. King Kong (1933)
  13. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
  14. Rear Window (1954)
  15. Deliverance (1972)
  16. Chinatown (1974)
  17. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
  18. Vertigo (1958)
  19. The Great Escape (1963)
  20. High Noon (1952)
  21. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
  22. Taxi Driver (1976)
  23. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
  24. Double Indemnity (1944)
  25. Titanic (1997)
  26. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
  27. Star Wars (1977)
  28. Fatal Attraction (1987)
  29. The Shining (1980)
  30. The Deer Hunter (1978)
  31. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
  32. Strangers on a Train (1951)
  33. The Fugitive (1993)
  34. The Night of the Hunter (1955)
  35. Jurassic Park (1993)
  36. Bullitt (1968)
  37. Casablanca (1942)
  38. Notorious (1946)
  39. Die Hard (1988)
  40. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
  41. Dirty Harry (1971)
  42. The Terminator (1984)
  43. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
  44. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
  45. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
  46. Carrie (1976)
  47. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
  48. Dial M for Murder (1954)
  49. Ben-Hur (1959)
  50. Marathon Man (1976)
  51. Raging Bull (1980)
  52. Rocky (1976)
  53. Pulp Fiction (1994)
  54. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
  55. Wait Until Dark (1967)
  56. Frankenstein (1931)
  57. All the President's Men (1976)
  58. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
  59. Planet of the Apes (1968)
  60. The Sixth Sense (1999)
  61. Cape Fear (1962)
  62. Spartacus (1960)
  63. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
  64. Touch of Evil (1958)
  65. The Dirty Dozen (1967)
  66. The Matrix (1999)
  67. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
  68. Halloween (1978)
  69. The Wild Bunch (1969)
  70. Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
  71. Goldfinger (1964)
  72. Platoon (1986)
  73. Laura (1944)
  74. Blade Runner (1982)
  75. The Third Man (1949)
  76. Thelma and Louise (1991)
  77. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
  78. Gaslight (1944)
  79. The Magnificent Seven (1960)
  80. Rebecca (1940)
  81. The Omen (1976)
  82. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
  83. The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
  84. Poltergeist (1982)
  85. Dracula (1931)
  86. The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
  87. The Thing from Another World (1951)
  88. 12 Angry Men (1957)
  89. The Guns of Navarone (1961)
  90. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
  91. Braveheart (1995)
  92. Body Heat (1981)
  93. Night of the Living Dead (1968)
  94. The China Syndrome (1979)
  95. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
  96. Blue Velvet (1986)
  97. Safety Last (1923)
  98. Blood Simple (1984)
  99. Speed (1994)
  100. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

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