American Film Institute: AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills | Award Season

The AFI's hundred most thrilling American films, ranked by how much suspense and excitement they deliver.

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