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Here is the complete list of the American Film Institute's
Top 100 Most Heart-Pounding Films as announced June 12, 2001.
Click on individual movie links to see information about the
movie and links to tie-ins.
These movies were chosen by a panel of 1,800 people in the
movie industry from a list of 400 movies compiled by the Institute.
Compare with AFI's
Top 100 Films of the 20th Century.
Compare with the British
Film Institute's Top 100.
Compare with the AFI Top 100 Most
Passionate Films.
Compare with the AFI Top 100 Funniest
Films.
Check out our Academy
Awards® page to see the awards for Best Picture year-by-year.
Visit the American Film Institute's official
site and find out more about the organization. Or visit their
AFI's 100 Years, 100 Movies
site.
 
 
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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) [VHS
/ DVD
/ poster]
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) [VHS
/ DVD
/ poster]
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) [VHS
/ DVD
/ poster]
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) [VHS
/ DVD
/ poster]
34. The Night of the Hunter (1955)
35. Jurassic Park (1993)
36. Bullitt (1968) [VHS
/ DVD
/ poster]
37. Casablanca (1942)
38. Notorious (1946) [VHS
/ DVD
/ poster]
39. Die Hard (1988) [VHS
/ DVD
/ poster]
40. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
41. Dirty Harry (1971) [VHS
/ DVD
/ poster]
42. The Terminator (1984) [VHS
/ DVD
/ poster]
43. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
44. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
45. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
46. Carrie (1976) [VHS
/ DVD
/ poster]
47. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
48. Dial M for Murder (1954) [VHS
/ DVD / poster]
49. Ben-Hur (1959)
50. Marathon Man (1976) [VHS
/ DVD / poster]
51. Raging Bull (1980)
52. Rocky (1976)
53. Pulp Fiction (1994)
54. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance
Kid (1969)
55. Wait Until Dark (1967) [VHS
/ DVD / poster]
56. Frankenstein (1931)
57. All the President's Men (1976) [VHS
/ DVD
/ poster]
58. The Bridge on the River Kwai
(1957)
59. Planet of the Apes (1968) [VHS
/ DVD
/ poster]
60. The Sixth Sense (1999)
61. Cape Fear (1962) [VHS
/ DVD
/ poster]
62. Spartacus (1960) [VHS
/ DVD
/ poster]
63. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) [VHS
/ DVD
/ poster]
64. Touch of Evil (1958)
65. The Dirty Dozen (1967) [VHS
/ DVD
/ poster]
66. The Matrix (1999)
67. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
(1948)
68. Halloween (1978) [VHS
/ DVD
/ poster]
69. The Wild Bunch (1969)
70. Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
71. Goldfinger (1964)
72. Platoon (1986)
73. Laura (1944) [VHS
/ DVD / poster]
74. Blade Runner (1982)
75. The Third Man (1949)
76. Thelma & Louise (1991) [VHS
/ DVD
/ poster]
77. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) [VHS
/ DVD
/ poster]
78. Gaslight (1944) [VHS
/ DVD / poster]
79. The Magnificent Seven
(1960)
80. Rebecca (1940)
81. The Omen (1976) [VHS
/ DVD
/ poster]
82. The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) [VHS
/ DVD / poster]
83. The Phantom of the Opera (1925) [VHS
/ DVD
/ poster]
84. Poltergeist (1982) [VHS
/ DVD
/ poster]
85. Dracula (1931)
86. The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) [VHS
/ DVD / poster]
87. The Thing from Another World (1951) [VHS
/ DVD / poster]
88. 12 Angry Men (1957)
89. The Guns of Navarone (1961) [VHS
/ DVD
/ poster]
90. The Poseidon Adventure (1972) [VHS
/ DVD
/ poster]
91. Braveheart (1995)
92. Body Heat (1981) [VHS
/ DVD
/ poster]
93. Night of the Living Dead (1968) [VHS
/ DVD
/ poster]
94. The China Syndrome (1979) [VHS
/ DVD
/ poster]
95. Full Metal Jacket (1987)
96. Blue Velvet (1986)
97. Safety Last (1923) [VHS / DVD / poster]
98. Blood Simple (1984)
99. Speed (1994) [VHS
/ DVD
/ poster]
100. The Adventures of Robin
Hood (1938)
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