THRILLER and SUSPENSE FILMS

Selection of Greatest Thriller and Suspense Films:

See AFI's list of 100 Greatest Thrillers at 100 Years...100 Thrills.

Greatest Thriller and Suspense Films (see Hitchcock films below):
M (1931, Ger.)
Mata Hari (1931)
King Kong (1933)
The Black Cat (1934)
Fury (1936)
Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Gaslight (1944)
Laura (1944)
The Woman in the Window (1944)
The House on 92nd Street (1945)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
The Spiral Staircase (1946)
Odd Man Out (1947)
Key Largo (1948)
The Lady From Shanghai (1948)
The Snake Pit (1948)
Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
The Third Man (1949)
White Heat (1949)
The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
Five Fingers (1952)
High Noon (1952)
Niagara (1953)
Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
Diabolique (Fr.) (1955)
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
The Killing (1956)
I Want to Live! (1958)
Touch Of Evil (1958)
Compulsion (1959)
Peeping Tom (1960)
Cape Fear (1962)
Dr. No (1962)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
Charade (1963)
From Russia With Love (1963)
Fail Safe (1964)
Goldfinger (1964)
Marnie (1964)
Seven Days in May (1964)
The Ipcress File (1965)
Repulsion (1965)
In Cold Blood (1967)
Wait Until Dark (1967)
Pretty Poison (1968)
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Z (1969)
The Anderson Tapes (1971)
Klute (1971)
Play Misty For Me (1971)
Deliverance (1972)
The Day of the Jackal (1973)
Don't Look Now (1973)
Sisters (1973)
The Conversation (1974)
The Parallax View (1974)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Jaws (1975)
Three Days of the Condor (1975)
Carrie (1976)
Marathon Man (1976)
Obsession (1976)
The Eyes of Laura Mars (1978)
Alien (1979)
The China Syndrome (1979)
Dressed to Kill (1980)
Blow Out (1981)
Body Double (1984)
Defence of the Realm (1985)
Witness (1985)
Fatal Attraction (1987)
House of Games (1987)
No Way Out (1987)
The Vanishing (Dutch and English) (1988 and 1993)
Dead Calm (1989)
Sea of Love (1989)
The Grifters (1990)
Misery (1990)
Cape Fear (1991)
One False Move (1991)
Reservoir Dogs (1991)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Sleeping with the Enemy (1991)
Basic Instinct (1992)
Final Analysis (1992)
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992)
Single White Female (1992)
The Fugitive (1993)
In the Line of Fire (1993)
Jurassic Park (1993)
Malice (1993)
Blink (1994)
Speed (1994)
True Lies (1994)
Crimson Tide (1995)
Se7en (1995)
The Usual Suspects (1995)
Mission: Impossible (1996)
Out of Sight (1998)
A Simple Plan (1998)
Arlington Road (1999)
The Sixth Sense (1999)
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
Memento (2000)

 

Greatest Alfred Hitchcock Thriller/Suspense Films:
The 39 Steps (1935)
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Foreign Correspondent (1940)
Rebecca (1940)
Suspicion (1941)
Saboteur (1942)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Lifeboat (1944)
Spellbound (1945)
Notorious (1946)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
Dial M for Murder (1954)
Rear Window (1954)
To Catch a Thief (1955)
Vertigo (1958)
North By Northwest (1959)
Psycho (1960)
The Birds (1963)


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