What is the best thriller movie of all time?

By YPB Team

Hitchcock shadows, neo-noir masterpieces, and modern mind-benders all compete for the crown of cinema's most gripping genre. Which keeps you on the edge of your seat?

  1. Psycho — ranked #11
    Psycho
    Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 seminal thriller featuring the iconic shower scene that shocked a generation and redefined screen violence.
  2. Vertigo — ranked #22
    Vertigo
    Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 haunting obsession study starring James Stewart as a detective undone by acrophobia and desire.
  3. Rear Window — ranked #33
    Rear Window
    Hitchcock's 1954 masterclass in voyeurism about a photographer confined to a wheelchair who believes he has witnessed a murder.
  4. The Silence of the Lambs — ranked #44
    The Silence of the Lambs
    Jonathan Demme's 1991 Oscar-winning thriller in which FBI trainee Clarice Starling seeks the help of cannibalistic genius Hannibal Lecter.
  5. Se7en — ranked #55
    Se7en
    David Fincher's 1995 relentlessly bleak detective thriller following two detectives tracking a serial killer using the seven deadly sins.
  6. No Country for Old Men — ranked #66
    No Country for Old Men
    The Coen Brothers' 2007 Pulitzer-adapted neo-western thriller following a merciless hitman across the Texas-Mexico borderlands.
  7. Zodiac — ranked #77
    Zodiac
    David Fincher's 2007 meticulous procedural about the decades-long investigation into the real Zodiac Killer case in California.
  8. Oldboy — ranked #88
    Oldboy
    Park Chan-wook's 2003 relentless Korean revenge thriller about a man imprisoned for 15 years without explanation who seeks the truth.
  9. Gone Girl — ranked #99
    Gone Girl
    David Fincher's 2014 Gillian Flynn adaptation about a man suspected of his wife's disappearance as media scrutiny intensifies.
  10. Memento — ranked #1010
    Memento
    Christopher Nolan's 2000 ingeniously structured reverse-chronology thriller about a man with short-term memory loss hunting his wife's killer.
  11. The Dark Knight — ranked #1111
    The Dark Knight
    Christopher Nolan's 2008 operatic crime thriller pitting Batman against the anarchic Joker in a morality-testing battle for Gotham.
  12. Heat — ranked #1212
    Heat
    Michael Mann's 1995 epic crime thriller featuring parallel portraits of a master thief and the detective obsessed with catching him.
  13. The French Connection — ranked #1313
    The French Connection
    William Friedkin's 1971 Oscar-winning gritty police procedural with a legendary car chase through the streets of New York.
  14. Three Days of the Condor — ranked #1414
    Three Days of the Condor
    Sydney Pollack's 1975 Cold War paranoia thriller about a CIA analyst who returns from lunch to find his entire office massacred.
  15. Parasite — ranked #1515
    Parasite
    Bong Joon-ho's 2019 Palme d'Or and Oscar-winning genre-defying thriller about class conflict between two Korean families.

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