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AFI's 100 Most Thrilling American Movies
| Rank |
| 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
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| 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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