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?

1

Psycho

Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 seminal thriller featuring the iconic shower scene that shocked a generation and redefined screen violence.

2

Vertigo

Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 haunting obsession study starring James Stewart as a detective undone by acrophobia and desire.

3

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

Jonathan Demme's 1991 Oscar-winning thriller in which FBI trainee Clarice Starling seeks the help of cannibalistic genius Hannibal Lecter.

5

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

The Coen Brothers' 2007 Pulitzer-adapted neo-western thriller following a merciless hitman across the Texas-Mexico borderlands.

7

Zodiac

David Fincher's 2007 meticulous procedural about the decades-long investigation into the real Zodiac Killer case in California.

8

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

David Fincher's 2014 Gillian Flynn adaptation about a man suspected of his wife's disappearance as media scrutiny intensifies.

10

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

Christopher Nolan's 2008 operatic crime thriller pitting Batman against the anarchic Joker in a morality-testing battle for Gotham.

12

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

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

Sydney Pollack's 1975 Cold War paranoia thriller about a CIA analyst who returns from lunch to find his entire office massacred.

15

Parasite

Bong Joon-ho's 2019 Palme d'Or and Oscar-winning genre-defying thriller about class conflict between two Korean families.