AFI'S 100 Most Thrilling American Films (100 Years...100 Thrills)

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The 100 most thrilling films were selected by a blue-ribbon panel of leaders from the film community, including film artists (directors, screenwriters, actors, editors, cinematographers, visual effects artists, stunt men and women and make-up artists), critics and historians. The nominated films crossed many genres, including Action-Adventure, Silent, Film Noir, Horror, Science Fiction, Suspense, War, and Western.

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  1. 1.
    Psycho (Collector's Edition)

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  2. 3.
    The Exorcist (The Version You've Never Seen)
    by William Friedkin

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  3. 4.
    North by Northwest

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  4. 5.
    The Silence of the Lambs - Criterion Collection
    by Jonathan Demme

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  5. 6.
    Alien
    by Ridley Scott

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  6. 7.
    The Birds (Collector's Edition)

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  7. 9.
    Rosemary's Baby

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  8. 11.
    The Godfather (Widescreen Edition)
    by Francis Ford Coppola

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  9. 12.
    King Kong (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Ernest B. Schoedsack

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  10. 13.
    Bonnie and Clyde
    by Arthur Penn

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  11. 14.
    Rear Window (Collector's Edition)

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  12. 15.
    Deliverance
    by John Boorman

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  13. 16.
    Chinatown

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  14. 17.
    The Manchurian Candidate
    by John Frankenheimer

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  15. 18.
    Vertigo (Collector's Edition)

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  16. 19.
    The Great Escape
    by John Sturges

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  17. 20.
    High Noon (Collector's Edition)
    by Fred Zinnemann

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  18. 21.
    A Clockwork Orange
    by Stanley Kubrick

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  19. 22.
    Taxi Driver (Collector's Edition)

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  21. 24.
    Double Indemnity
    by Billy Wilder

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  22. 25.
    Titanic

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  23. 26.
    The Maltese Falcon
    by John Huston

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  24. 27.
    Star Wars, Episode IV- A New Hope (Widescreen Edition)
    by George Lucas

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  25. 29.
    The Shining
    by Stanley Kubrick

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  26. 30.
    The Deer Hunter
    by Michael Cimino

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  27. 32.
    Strangers on a Train

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  28. 33.
    The Fugitive
    by Andrew Davis

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  29. 34.
    The Night of the Hunter
    by Charles Laughton

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  30. 35.
    Jurassic Park (Widescreen Collector's Edition)
    by Steven Spielberg

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  31. 36.
    Bullitt
    by Peter Yates

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  32. 37.
    Casablanca
    by Michael Curtiz

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  33. 38.
    Notorious - Criterion Collection

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  34. 39.
    Die Hard (Five Star Collection)
    by John McTiernan

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  35. 40.
    2001 - A Space Odyssey
    by Stanley Kubrick

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  36. 41.
    Dirty Harry

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  37. 42.
    The Terminator (Special Edition)
    by James Cameron

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  38. 43.
    The Wizard of Oz
    by Victor Fleming

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  39. 44.
    E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial (Full Screen Collector's Edition)
    by Steven Spielberg

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  40. 45.
    Saving Private Ryan
    by Steven Spielberg

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  41. 46.
    Carrie (Special Edition)
    by Brian De Palma

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  42. 47.
    Invasion of the Body Snatchers
    by Don Siegel

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  43. 48.
    Dial M for Murder
    by Alfred Hitchcock

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  44. 49.
    Ben-Hur
    by William Wyler

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  45. 50.
    Marathon Man
    by John Schlesinger

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Comments

HUH — 16 weeks ago

What about
The creature from the Black Lagoon,
Out of Africa
Body Heat
Lost Boys
and on and on and on


penguinmdh
Pittsburgh

#86--The Picture of Dorian Gray — 2 years ago

The AFI list refers to the 1945 version of the film, directed by Albert Lewin. I updated this list to match AFI