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)
5 – Silence of the Lambs (1991)
6 – Alien (1979)
7 – The Birds (1963)
9 – Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
10 – Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
11 – The Godfather (1972)
12 – King Kong (1933)
14 – Rear Window (1954)
15 – Deliverance (1972)
16 – Chinatown (1974)
17 – The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
18 – Vertigo (1958)
20 – High Noon (1952)
21 – A Clockwork Orange (1971)
22 – Taxi Driver (1976)
23 – Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
25 – Titanic (1997)
26 – The Maltese Falcon (1941)
27 – Star Wars (1977)
28 – Fatal Attraction (1987)
29 – The Shining (1980)
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)
44 – E.T. (1982)
45 – Saving Private Ryan (1998)
46 – Carrie (1976)
47 – Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
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)
66 – The Matrix (1999)
67 – The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
68 – Halloween (1978)
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)