MOVIES
Critical Response - Time Out
Top 100 Thrillers Of All Time
This list features movies that are ranked as the best thrillers of all time by Time Out Magazine.
RANK | FILMS | YEAR |
1 | North by Northwest | 1959 |
2 | M | 1931 |
3 | Chinatown | 1974 |
4 | The Third Man | 1949 |
5 | Reservoir Dogs | 1992 |
6 | Touch of Evil | 1958 |
7 | The Silence of the Lambs | 1991 |
8 | The 39 Steps | 1935 |
9 | The Maltese Falcon | 1941 |
10 | Les Diaboliques | 1955 |
11 | Double Indemnity | 1944 |
12 | Zodiac | 2007 |
13 | Kiss Me Deadly | 1955 |
14 | The Fugitive | 1993 |
15 | Vertigo | 1958 |
16 | Mulholland Drive | 2001 |
17 | Taxi Driver | 1976 |
18 | Seven | 1995 |
19 | The Manchurian Candidate | 1962 |
20 | L.A. Confidential | 1997 |
21 | The Conversation | 1974 |
22 | The Killing | 1956 |
23 | Rififi | 1955 |
24 | The Big Sleep | 1946 |
25 | Blue Velvet | 1986 |
26 | Rear Window | 1954 |
27 | Dog Day Afternoon | 1975 |
28 | Dr. No | 1962 |
29 | Blow-Up | 1966 |
30 | The Wages of Fear | 1953 |
31 | Oldboy | 2003 |
32 | The Usual Suspects | 1995 |
33 | The Vanishing | 1988 |
34 | Notorious | 1946 |
35 | The Night of the Hunter | 1955 |
36 | The Long Goodbye | 1973 |
37 | Heat | 1995 |
38 | Point Blank | 1967 |
39 | Deep Red | 1975 |
40 | Elevator to the Gallows | 1958 |
41 | Shadow of a Doubt | 1943 |
42 | Blood Simple | 1984 |
43 | The Grifters | 1990 |
44 | Knife in the Water | 1962 |
45 | The French Connection | 1971 |
46 | Blow Out | 1981 |
47 | Le Samouraï | 1967 |
48 | One False Move | 1992 |
49 | Mother | 2009 |
50 | Zero Dark Thirty | 2012 |
51 | The Lady from Shanghai | 1947 |
52 | Le Cercle Rouge | 1970 |
53 | The Big Heat | 1953 |
54 | The Lady Vanishes | 1938 |
55 | Sicario | 2015 |
56 | Dressed to Kill | 1980 |
57 | Black Swan | 2010 |
58 | The Untouchables | 1989 |
59 | Memento | 2000 |
60 | The Last Seduction | 1994 |
61 | Klute | 1971 |
62 | The Thin Man | 1934 |
63 | Deliverance | 1972 |
64 | Cape Fear | 1962 |
65 | In a Lonely Place | 1950 |
66 | Basic Instinct | 1992 |
67 | Dead Calm | 1989 |
68 | Funny Games | 1987 |
69 | Dirty Harry | 1971 |
70 | The Thousand Eyes of Dr Mabuse | 1960 |
71 | Z | 1969 |
72 | The Handmaiden | 2016 |
73 | Where Eagles Dare | 1968 |
74 | The Parallax View | 1974 |
75 | Strangers on a Train | 1951 |
76 | Coup de Torchon | 1981 |
77 | The Taking of Pelham One Two Three | 1974 |
78 | Plein Soleil | 1960 |
79 | Stray Dog | 1949 |
80 | The American Friend | 1977 |
81 | Dead Man’s Shoes | 2004 |
82 | Caché | 2005 |
83 | Kill List | 2011 |
84 | Night and the City | 1950 |
85 | In the Cut | 2003 |
86 | Misery | 1990 |
87 | King of New York | 1990 |
88 | The Spy Who Loved Me | 1977 |
89 | Animal Kingdom | 2010 |
90 | Play Misty for Me | 1971 |
91 | The Ipcress File | 1965 |
92 | Gaslight | 1944 |
93 | Run Lola Run | 1998 |
94 | Gone Girl | 2014 |
95 | Thief | 1981 |
96 | The Talented Mr Ripley | 1999 |
97 | Infernal Affairs | 2002 |
98 | The Long Good Friday | 1980 |
99 | The Stranger | 1946 |
100 | Wild Things | 1998 |
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