AFI's 100 Years... 100 Thrills
Part of the AFI 100 Years... series, AFI's 100 Years... 100 Thrills is a list of the top 100 thrilling movies in American cinema. The American Film Institute presented it on June 12, 2001.
- Psycho (1960)
- Jaws (1975)
- The Exorcist (1973)
- North by Northwest (1959)
- The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
- Alien (1979)
- The Birds (1963)
- The French Connection (1971)
- Rosemary's Baby (1968)
- Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
- The Godfather (1972)
- King Kong (1933)
- Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
- Rear Window (1954)
- Deliverance (1972)
- Chinatown (1974)
- The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
- Vertigo (1958)
- The Great Escape (1963)
- High Noon (1952)
- A Clockwork Orange (1971)
- Taxi Driver (1976)
- Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
- Double Indemnity (1944)
- Titanic (1997)
- The Maltese Falcon (1941)
- Star Wars (1977)
- Fatal Attraction (1987)
- The Shining (1980)
- The Deer Hunter (1978)
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
- Strangers on a Train (1951)
- The Fugitive (1993)
- The Night of the Hunter (1955)
- Jurassic Park (1993)
- Bullitt (1968)
- Casablanca (1942)
- Notorious (1946)
- Die Hard (1988)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
- Dirty Harry (1971)
- The Terminator (1984)
- The Wizard of Oz (1939)
- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
- Saving Private Ryan (1998)
- Carrie (1976)
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
- Dial M for Murder (1954)
- Ben-Hur (1959)
- Marathon Man (1976)
- Raging Bull (1980)
- Rocky (1976)
- Pulp Fiction (1994)
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
- Wait Until Dark (1967)
- Frankenstein (1931)
- All the President's Men (1976)
- The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
- Planet of the Apes (1968)
- The Sixth Sense (1999)
- Cape Fear (1962)
- Spartacus (1960)
- What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
- Touch of Evil (1958)
- The Dirty Dozen (1967)
- The Matrix (1999)
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
- Halloween (1979)
- The Wild Bunch (1969)
- Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
- Goldfinger (1964)
- Platoon (1986)
- Laura (1944)
- Blade Runner (1982)
- The Third Man (1949)
- Thelma and Louise (1991)
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
- Gaslight (1944)
- The Magnificent Seven (1960)
- Rebecca (1940)
- The Omen (1976)
- The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
- The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
- Poltergeist (1982)
- Dracula (1931)
- The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
- The Thing from Another World (1951)
- 12 Angry Men (1957)
- The Guns of Navarone (1961)
- The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
- Braveheart (1995)
- Body Heat (1981)
- Night of the Living Dead (1968)
- The China Syndrome (1979)
- Full Metal Jacket (1987)
- Blue Velvet (1986)
- Safety Last (1923)
- Blood Simple (1984)
- Speed (1994)
- The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)