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 suspense/thriller movies in American cinema. The list was unveiled by the American Film Institute on June 12, 2001.

(The 400 nominated films)

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The list:

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