
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.
The list:
- Psycho
- Jaws
- The Exorcist
- North By Northwest
- The Silence of the Lambs
- Alien
- The Birds
- The French Connection
- Rosemary's Baby
- Raiders of the Lost Ark
- The Godfather
- King Kong (1933)
- Bonnie and Clyde
- Rear Window
- Deliverance
- Chinatown
- The Manchurian Candidate
- Vertigo
- The Great Escape
- High Noon
- A Clockwork Orange
- Taxi Driver
- Lawrence of Arabia
- Double Indemnity
- Titanic (1997)
- The Maltese Falcon (1941)
- Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
- Fatal Attraction
- The Shining
- The Deer Hunter
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- Strangers on a Train
- The Fugitive
- The Night of the Hunter
- Jurassic Park
- Bullitt
- Casablanca
- Notorious
- Die Hard
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Dirty Harry
- The Terminator
- The Wizard of Oz
- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
- Saving Private Ryan
- Carrie (1976)
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
- Dial M for Murder
- Ben-Hur
- Marathon Man
- Raging Bull
- Rocky
- Pulp Fiction
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
- Wait Until Dark
- Frankenstein (1931)
- All the President's Men
- The Bridge on the River Kwai
- Planet of the Apes (1968)
- The Sixth Sense
- Cape Fear
- Spartacus
- What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
- Touch of Evil
- The Dirty Dozen
- The Matrix
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
- Halloween (1978)
- The Wild Bunch
- Dog Day Afternoon
- Goldfinger
- Platoon
- Laura
- Blade Runner
- The Third Man
- Thelma & Louise
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day note
- Gaslight
- The Magnificent Seven (1960)
- Rebecca
- The Omen (1976)
- The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
- The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
- Poltergeist
- Dracula (1931)
- The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
- The Thing from Another World
- 12 Angry Men
- The Guns of Navarone
- The Poseidon Adventure
- Braveheart
- Body Heat
- Night of the Living Dead (1968)
- The China Syndrome
- Full Metal Jacket
- Blue Velvet
- Safety Last!
- Blood Simple
- Speed
- The Adventures of Robin Hood