AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills : Film Illiterate

AFI's list of the hundred most thrilling American films from the first hundred years of American cinema.

This list is ranked and is shown in descending order.

Rank	Title	Year
1	Psycho	1960
2	Jaws	1975
3	Exorcist, The	1973
4	North by Northwest	1959
5	Silence of the Lambs, The	1991
6	Alien	1979
7	Birds, The	1963
8	French Connection, The	1971
9	Rosemary's Baby	1968
10	Raiders of the Lost Ark	1981
11	Godfather, The	1972
12	King Kong	1933
13	Bonnie and Clyde	1967
14	Rear Window	1954
15	Deliverance	1972
16	Chinatown	1974
17	Manchurian Candidate, The	1962
18	Vertigo	1958
19	Great Escape, The	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	Maltese Falcon, The	1941
27	Star Wars	1977
28	Fatal Attraction	1987
29	Shining, The	1980
30	Deer Hunter, The	1978
31	Close Encounters of the Third Kind	1977
32	Strangers on a Train	1951
33	Fugitive, The	1993
34	Night of the Hunter, The	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	Terminator, The	1984
43	Wizard of Oz, The	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	Bridge on the River Kwai, The	1957
59	Planet of the Apes	1968
60	Sixth Sense, The	1999
61	Cape Fear	1962
62	Spartacus	1960
63	What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?	1962
64	Touch of Evil	1958
65	Dirty Dozen, The	1967
66	Matrix, The	1999
67	Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The	1948
68	Halloween	1978
69	Wild Bunch, The	1969
70	Dog Day Afternoon	1975
71	Goldfinger	1964
72	Platoon	1986
73	Laura	1944
74	Blade Runner	1982
75	Third Man, The	1949
76	Thelma & Louise	1991
77	Terminator 2: Judgment Day	1991
78	Gaslight	1944
79	Magnificent Seven, The	1960
80	Rebecca	1940
81	Omen, The	1976
82	Day the Earth Stood Still, The	1951
83	Phantom of the Opera, The	1925
84	Poltergeist	1982
85	Dracula	1931
86	Picture of Dorian Gray, The	1945
87	Thing From Another World, The	1951
88	12 Angry Men	1957
89	Guns of Navarone, The	1961
90	Poseidon Adventure, The	1972
91	Braveheart	1995
92	Body Heat	1981
93	Night of the Living Dead	1968
94	China Syndrome, The	1979
95	Full Metal Jacket	1987
96	Blue Velvet	1986
97	Safety Last!	1923
98	Blood Simple.	1984
99	Speed	1994
100	Adventures of Robin Hood, The	1938