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AFI 100 Years... 100 Thrills Another in the American Film Institute's series of annual lists, this one aims to capture the most thrilling American films of all time. It was broadcast on CBS with Harrison Ford as the host on 12th June, 2001. The source list can be found here. The List # Title Year Director IMDb 1 Psycho 1960 Alfred Hitchcock IMDb 2 Jaws 1975 Steven Spielberg IMDb 3 The Exorcist 1973 William Friedkin IMDb 4 North by Northwest 1959 Alfred Hitchcock IMDb 5 The Silence of the Lambs 1991 Jonathan Demme IMDb 6 Alien 1979 Ridley Scott IMDb 7 The Birds 1963 Alfred Hitchcock IMDb 8 The French Connection 1971 William Friedkin IMDb 9 Rosemary's Baby 1968 Roman Polanski IMDb 10 Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981 Steven Spielberg IMDb 11 The Godfather 1972 Francis Ford Coppola IMDb 12 King Kong 1933 Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack IMDb 13 Bonnie and Clyde 1967 Arthur Penn IMDb 14 Rear Window 1954 Alfred Hitchcock IMDb 15 Deliverance 1972 John Boorman IMDb 16 Chinatown 1974 Roman Polanski IMDb 17 The Manchurian Candidate 1962 John Frankenheimer IMDb 18 Vertigo 1958 Alfred Hitchcock IMDb 19 The Great Escape 1963 John Sturges IMDb 20 High Noon 1952 Fred Zinnemann IMDb 21 A Clockwork Orange 1971 Stanley Kubrick IMDb 22 Taxi Driver 1976 Martin Scorsese IMDb 23 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 David Lean IMDb 24 Double Indemnity 1944 Billy Wilder IMDb 25 Titanic 1997 James Cameron IMDb 26 The Maltese Falcon 1941 John Huston IMDb 27 Star Wars 1977 George Lucas IMDb 28 Fatal Attraction 1987 Adrian Lyne IMDb 29 The Shining 1980 Stanley Kubrick IMDb 30 The Deer Hunter 1978 Michael Cimino IMDb 31 Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977 Steven Spielberg IMDb 32 Strangers on a Train 1951 Alfred Hitchcock IMDb 33 The Fugitive 1993 Andrew Davis IMDb 34 The Night of the Hunter 1955 Charles Laughton IMDb 35 Jurassic Park 1993 Steven Spielberg IMDb 36 Bullitt 1968 Peter Yates IMDb 37 Casablanca 1942 Michael Curtiz IMDb 38 Notorious 1946 Alfred Hitchcock IMDb 39 Die Hard 1988 John McTiernan IMDb 40 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 Stanley Kubrick IMDb 41 Dirty Harry 1971 Don Siegel IMDb 42 The Terminator 1984 James Cameron IMDb 43 The Wizard of Oz 1939 Victor Fleming IMDb 44 ET: The Extra-Terrestrial 1982 Steven Spielberg IMDb 45 Saving Private Ryan 1998 Steven Spielberg IMDb 46 Carrie 1976 Brian De Palma IMDb 47 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956 Don Siegel IMDb 48 Dial M for Murder 1954 Alfred Hitchcock IMDb 49 Ben-Hur 1959 William Wyler IMDb 50 Marathon Man 1976 John Schlesinger IMDb 51 Raging Bull 1980 Martin Scorsese IMDb 52 Rocky 1976 John G. Avildsen IMDb 53 Pulp Fiction 1994 Quentin Tarantino IMDb 54 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 George Roy Hill IMDb 55 Wait Until Dark 1967 Terence Young IMDb 56 Frankenstein 1931 James Whale IMDb 57 All the President's Men 1976 Alan J Pakula IMDb 58 The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 David Lean IMDb 59 Planet of the Apes 1968 Franklin J Schaffner IMDb 60 The Sixth Sense 1999 M Night Shayamalan IMDb 61 Cape Fear 1962 J. Lee Thompson IMDb 62 Spartacus 1960 Stanley Kubrick IMDb 63 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? 1962 Robert Aldrich IMDb 64 Touch of Evil 1958 Orson Welles IMDb 65 The Dirty Dozen 1967 Robert Aldrich IMDb 66 The Matrix 1999 Andy & Larry Wachowski IMDb 67 The Treasure of the Sierra Madre 1948 John Huston IMDb 68 Halloween 1978 John Carpenter IMDb 69 The Wild Bunch 1969 Sam Peckinpah IMDb 70 Dog Day Afternoon 1975 Sidney Lumet IMDb 71 Goldfinger 1964 Guy Hamilton IMDb 72 Platoon 1986 Oliver Stone IMDb 73 Laura 1944 Otto Preminger IMDb 74 Blade Runner 1982 Ridley Scott IMDb 75 The Third Man 1949 Carol Reed IMDb 76 Thelma & Louise 1991 Ridley Scott IMDb 77 Terminator 2: Judgment Day 1991 James Cameron IMDb 78 Gaslight 1944 George Cukor IMDb 79 The Magnificent Seven 1960 John Sturges IMDb 80 Rebecca 1940 Alfred Hitchcock IMDb 81 The Omen 1976 Richard Donner IMDb 82 The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951 Robert Wise IMDb 83 The Phantom of the Opera 1925 Rupert Julian et al IMDb 84 Poltergeist 1982 Tobe Hooper IMDb 85 Dracula 1931 Tod Browning IMDb 86 The Picture of Dorian Gray 1945 Albert Lewin IMDb 87 The Thing from Another World 1951 Christian Nyby IMDb 88 12 Angry Men 1957 Sidney Lumet IMDb 89 The Guns of Navarone 1961 J. Lee Thompson IMDb 90 The Poseidon Adventure 1972 Ronald Neame IMDb 91 Braveheart 1995 Mel Gibson IMDb 92 Body Heat 1981 Lawrence Kasdan IMDb 93 Night of the Living Dead 1968 George A. Romero IMDb 94 The China Syndrome 1979 James Bridges IMDb 95 Full Metal Jacket 1987 Stanley Kubrick IMDb 96 Blue Velvet 1987 David Lynch IMDb 97 Safety Last! 1923 Fred Newmeyer & Sam Taylor IMDb 98 Blood Simple 1984 Joel Coen IMDb 99 Speed 1994 Jan De Bont IMDb 100 The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938 Michael Curtiz & William Keighley IMDb

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