AFI's "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)
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  2. 2.
    Jaws (Widescreen Anniversary Collector's Edition)
    by Laurent Bouzereau

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

  4. 4.
    North by Northwest
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  5. 5.
    The Silence of the Lambs (Criterion Collection Spine #13)
    by Jonathan Demme

  6. 6.
    Alien
    by Ridley Scott

  7. 7.
    The Birds (Collector's Edition)
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  8. 8.
    The French Connection (Five Star Collection)
    by William Friedkin

  9. 9.
    Rosemary's Baby
    by Roman Polanski

  10. 10.

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

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

  13. 13.
    Bonnie and Clyde
    by Arthur Penn

  14. 14.
    Rear Window (Collector's Edition)
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  15. 15.
    Deliverance
    by John Boorman

  16. 16.
    Chinatown
    by Roman Polanski

  17. 17.
    The Manchurian Candidate

  18. 18.
    Vertigo (Collector's Edition)
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  19. 19.
    The Great Escape
    by John Sturges

  20. 20.
    High Noon (Collector's Edition)

  21. 21.
    A Clockwork Orange
    by Stanley Kubrick

  22. 22.
    Taxi Driver (Collector's Edition)
    by Martin Scorsese

  23. 23.
    Lawrence of Arabia
    by David Lean

  24. 24.
    Double Indemnity
    by Billy Wilder

  25. 25.
    Titanic
    by James Cameron

  26. 26.
    The Maltese Falcon
    by John Huston

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

  28. 29.
    The Shining
    by Stanley Kubrick

  29. 30.
    The Deer Hunter
    by Michael Cimino

  30. 32.
    Strangers on a Train
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  31. 33.
    The Fugitive
    by Andrew Davis

  32. 34.
    The Night of the Hunter
    by Charles Laughton

  33. 36.
    Bullitt

  34. 37.
    Casablanca (Snap Case)
    by Michael Curtiz

  35. 38.
    Notorious (The Criterion Collection)
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  36. 39.
    Die Hard (Five Star Collection)
    by John McTiernan

  37. 40.
    2001 - A Space Odyssey
    by Stanley Kubrick

  38. 41.
    Dirty Harry
    by Don Siegel

  39. 42.
    The Terminator (Special Edition)
    by James Cameron

  40. 43.
    The Wizard of Oz
    by King Vidor

  41. 45.
    Saving Private Ryan (Single-Disc Special Limited Edition)
    by Steven Spielberg

  42. 46.
    Carrie (Special Edition)
    by Brian De Palma

  43. 47.
    Invasion of the Body Snatchers
    by Don Siegel

  44. 48.
    Dial M for Murder

  45. 49.
    Ben-Hur
    by William Wyler

  46. 50.
    Marathon Man
    by Allan Garden

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Created by Robot Co-op on Nov 30, 2005.
 

Comments

Edit — 18 weeks ago

Replaced #97 “From Hand to Mouth” with “Safety Last.”


HUH — 4 years ago

What about

The creature from the Black Lagoon,

Out of Africa

Body Heat

Lost Boys

and on and on and on


#86--The Picture of Dorian Gray — 5 years ago

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




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