Greatest Thrillers
AMC Movie List

Greatest Thrillers

Which movie packs the most thrills?

rank title points votes your vote
1 Psycho
Hitchcock's twists don't stop until the very end when Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) appears be as disturbed as his mother. 1198 1906
2 North by Northwest
Arguably, Hitchcock's best (starring Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint), it includes the famous crop dusting scene. 843 1675
3 The Silence of the Lambs
Not one, but two creepy serial killlers: Buffalo Bill, a psycho who makes suits from flesh, and Hannibal Lecter, a cannibal-psychiatrist. 487 2173
4 Cape Fear
Robert Mitchum's sexual menace and brutality still chills audiences to this day. De Niro didn't do bad in the remake either. 325 1223
5 The Manchurian Candidate
Ask Angela Lansbury... she knows. There's nothing like a conspiracy movie set during the Cold War. 96 1052
6 Fatal Attraction
She just won't stay dead! Glenn Close taunts and then torments Michael Douglas, her one night stand. 95 1147
7 In the Line of Fire
The cat-and-mouse game between Malkovich's assassin and Eastwood's Secret Service man is also a life and death battle for the President. 89 1073
8 Duel
Steven Spielberg made this horror flick about road rage; a motorist (Dennis Weaver) is stalked by a truck he dares to pass! 86 1078
9 Wait Until Dark
Audrey Hepburn's besieged heroine is blind which makes her helplessness that much more harrowing. 84 1008
10 Marathon Man
Dustin Hoffman's marathon-runner-turned-war-crimes-avenger learns about fear from Laurence Olivier's Nazi dentist. 75 1027