The 100 most heart-pounding U.S. movies, as chosen for the American Film Institute by a group of 1,800 actors, directors, studio executives, critics and others in Hollywood.
1. Psycho, 1960
2. Jaws, 1975
3. The Exorcist, 1973
4. North by Northwest, 1959
5. The Silence of the Lambs, 1991
6. Alien, 1979
7. The Birds, 1963
8. The 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. The Night of the Hunter, 1955
35. Jurassic Park, 1993
36. Bullitt, 1968
37. Casablanca, 1942
38. Notorious, 1946
39. Die Hard, 1988
40. 2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968
41. Dirty Harry, 1971
42. The Terminator, 1984
43. The Wizard of Oz, 1939
44. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, 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. What Ever 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 & Louise, 1991
77. Terminator 2: Judgment Day, 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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