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)

4 - North By Northwest (1959)

5 - Silence of the Lambs (1991)

6 - Alien (1979)

7 - The Birds (1963)

8 - 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 - 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)

43 - The Wizard of Oz (1939)

44 - E.T. (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 - Whatever 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 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)

100 - The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)