AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills

AFI 100 Years... series
1998	100 Movies
1999	100 Stars
2000	100 Laughs
2001	100 Thrills
2002	100 Passions
2003	100 Heroes & Villains
2004	100 Songs
2005	100 Movie Quotes
2005	25 Scores
2006	100 Cheers
2006	25 Musicals
2007	100 Movies (Updated)
2008	AFI's 10 Top 10

Part of the AFI 100 Years… series, AFI's 100 Years…100 Thrills is a list of the top 100 suspense/thriller 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.

Nine Alfred Hitchcock films made the list, making him the most represented director.

List of films

#	Film	Year
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 & 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

Criteria

Feature-Length Fiction Film: The film must be in narrative format, typically more than 60 minutes long.
American Film: The film must be in the English language with significant creative and/or financial production elements from the United States.
Thrills: Regardless of genre, the total adrenaline-inducing impact of a film’s artistry and craft must create an experience that engages our bodies as well as our minds.
Legacy: Films whose "thrills" have enlivened and enriched America’s film heritage while continuing to inspire contemporary artists and audiences.

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