What is the best thriller movie of all time?
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?
1PsychoAlfred Hitchcock's 1960 seminal thriller featuring the iconic shower scene that shocked a generation and redefined screen violence.
2VertigoAlfred Hitchcock's 1958 haunting obsession study starring James Stewart as a detective undone by acrophobia and desire.
3Rear WindowHitchcock's 1954 masterclass in voyeurism about a photographer confined to a wheelchair who believes he has witnessed a murder.
4The Silence of the LambsJonathan Demme's 1991 Oscar-winning thriller in which FBI trainee Clarice Starling seeks the help of cannibalistic genius Hannibal Lecter.
5Se7enDavid Fincher's 1995 relentlessly bleak detective thriller following two detectives tracking a serial killer using the seven deadly sins.
6No Country for Old MenThe Coen Brothers' 2007 Pulitzer-adapted neo-western thriller following a merciless hitman across the Texas-Mexico borderlands.
7ZodiacDavid Fincher's 2007 meticulous procedural about the decades-long investigation into the real Zodiac Killer case in California.
8OldboyPark Chan-wook's 2003 relentless Korean revenge thriller about a man imprisoned for 15 years without explanation who seeks the truth.
9Gone GirlDavid Fincher's 2014 Gillian Flynn adaptation about a man suspected of his wife's disappearance as media scrutiny intensifies.
10MementoChristopher Nolan's 2000 ingeniously structured reverse-chronology thriller about a man with short-term memory loss hunting his wife's killer.
11The Dark KnightChristopher Nolan's 2008 operatic crime thriller pitting Batman against the anarchic Joker in a morality-testing battle for Gotham.
12HeatMichael Mann's 1995 epic crime thriller featuring parallel portraits of a master thief and the detective obsessed with catching him.
13The French ConnectionWilliam Friedkin's 1971 Oscar-winning gritty police procedural with a legendary car chase through the streets of New York.
14Three Days of the CondorSydney Pollack's 1975 Cold War paranoia thriller about a CIA analyst who returns from lunch to find his entire office massacred.
15ParasiteBong Joon-ho's 2019 Palme d'Or and Oscar-winning genre-defying thriller about class conflict between two Korean families.
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