America’s Most Heart-Pounding Movies

America’s Most Heart-Pounding Movies

This is the American Film Institute’s list of the top 100 Most Heart-Pounding American Movies.

AFI’s 100 YEARS…100 THRILLS (2001)

1 – Psycho (1960)

2 – Jaws (1975)

3 – The Exorcist (1973)

4 – North By Northwest (1959)

5 – Silence of the Lambs (1991)

6 – Alien (1979)

7 – The Birds (1963)

8 – 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 – Night of the Hunter (1955)

35 – Jurassic Park (1933)

36 – Bullitt (1968)

37 – Casablanca (1942)

38 – Notorious (1946)

39 – Die Hard (1988)

40 – 2001 (1968)

41 – Dirty Harry (1971)

42 – The Terminator (1984)

43 – The Wizard of Oz (1939)

44 – E.T. (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 – Whatever 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 and Louise (1991)

77 – Terminator 2 (1991)

78 – Gaslight (1944)

79 – The Magnificent Seven (1960)

80 – Rebecca (1940)

81 – The Omen (1976)

82 – The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

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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