The Top 100 Psychological Thrillers of All Time

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The Top 100 Psychological Thrillers of All Time
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Ranking		 Movie Title Release
Year		 Director MPAA
Rating		 Your
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15 Rear Window 1954 Alfred Hitchcock PG -
19 The Silence of the Lambs 1991 Jonathan Demme R -
23 Se7en 1995 David Fincher R -
28 M 1931 Fritz Lang NR -
36 The Night of the Hunter 1955 Charles Laughton NR -
41 The Third Man 1949 Carol Reed NR -
47 Taxi Driver 1976 Martin Scorsese R -
51 The Wages of Fear 1953 Henri-Georges Clouzot NR -
52 Psycho 1960 Alfred Hitchcock NR -
62 Vertigo 1958 Alfred Hitchcock PG -
63 Touch of Evil 1958 Orson Welles NR -
72 Memento 2000 Christopher Nolan R -
93 Strangers on a Train 1951 Alfred Hitchcock PG -
106 The Conversation 1974 Francis Ford Coppola PG -
116 Shadow of a Doubt 1943 Alfred Hitchcock PG -
139 Rope 1948 Alfred Hitchcock NR -
140 Diabolique 1955 Henri-Georges Clouzot NR -
162 Rebecca 1940 Alfred Hitchcock NR -
164 Laura 1944 Otto Preminger NR -
173 The Prestige 2006 Christopher Nolan PG13 -
204 Dial M for Murder 1954 Alfred Hitchcock NR -
208 The Lady Vanishes 1938 Alfred Hitchcock NR -
230 The Sixth Sense 1999 M. Night Shyamalan PG13 -
238 Oldboy 2003 Chan-wook Park R -
290 Repulsion 1965 Roman Polanski NR -
300 Blow Out 1981 Brian De Palma R -
334 Peeping Tom 1960 Michael Powell NR -
374 The Manchurian Candidate 1962 John Frankenheimer PG13 -
377 Gaslight 1944 George Cukor NR -
382 Get Out 2017 Jordan Peele R -
390 Wait Until Dark 1967 Terence Young NR -
391 Ex Machina 2015 Alex Garland R -
394 Elevator to the Gallows 1958 Louis Malle NR -
425 Bad Day at Black Rock 1955 John Sturges NR -
434 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? 1962 Robert Aldrich NR -
440 Videodrome 1983 David Cronenberg R -
444 Perfect Blue 1997 Satoshi Kon R -
472 Freaks 1932 Tod Browning NR -
480 Deep Red 1975 Dario Argento R -
489 Black Swan 2010 Darren Aronofsky R -
505 Straw Dogs 1971 Sam Peckinpah R -
529 Nightcrawler 2014 Dan Gilroy R -
531 Don't Look Now 1973 Nicolas Roeg R -
538 Marathon Man 1976 John Schlesinger R -
545 Gone Girl 2014 David Fincher R -
587 The Man Who Knew Too Much 1956 Alfred Hitchcock PG -
604 Cape Fear 1962 J. Lee Thompson NR -
611 Spellbound 1945 Alfred Hitchcock NR -
612 Suspicion 1941 Alfred Hitchcock NR -
613 Seconds 1966 John Frankenheimer R -
614 Sleuth 1972 Joseph L. Mankiewicz PG -
615 I Saw the Devil 2010 Jee-woon Kim NR -
688 Blow-Up 1966 Michelangelo Antonioni NR -
700 Unbreakable 2000 M. Night Shyamalan PG13 -
703 Shutter Island 2010 Martin Scorsese R -
735 The Vanishing 1988 George Sluizer NR -
792 Misery 1990 Rob Reiner R -
835 Manhunter 1986 Michael Mann R -
842 Mulholland Dr. 2001 David Lynch R -
863 The Game 1997 David Fincher R -
865 Tenebre 1982 Dario Argento R -
894 House of Games 1987 David Mamet R -
921 The Stranger 1946 Orson Welles NR -
964 A History of Violence 2005 David Cronenberg R -
1032 The Bird with the Crystal Plumage 1970 Dario Argento NR -
1051 Caché 2005 Michael Haneke R -
1058 Dressed to Kill 1980 Brian De Palma R -
1065 Mystic River 2003 Clint Eastwood R -
1070 Twin Peaks 1990 David Lynch NR -
1072 The Parallax View 1974 Alan J. Pakula R -
1077 Wake in Fright 1971 Ted Kotcheff R -
1084 Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me 1992 David Lynch R -
1117 The Lighthouse 2019 Robert Eggers R -
1160 The Skin I Live In 2011 Pedro Almodóvar R -
1162 WarGames 1983 John Badham PG -
1168 Sisters 1972 Brian De Palma R -
1191 Jacob's Ladder 1990 Adrian Lyne R -
1196 Frenzy 1972 Alfred Hitchcock R -
1280 The Brood 1979 David Cronenberg R -
1292 Falling Down 1993 Joel Schumacher R -
1302 Shock Corridor 1963 Samuel Fuller NR -
1350 Funny Games 1997 Michael Haneke NR -
1371 House on Haunted Hill 1959 William Castle NR -
1377 Lost Highway 1997 David Lynch R -
1378 The Man Who Knew Too Much 1934 Alfred Hitchcock NR -
1389 10 Cloverfield Lane 2016 Dan Trachtenberg PG13 -
1408 Dead of Night 1945 Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer NR -
1410 We Need to Talk About Kevin 2011 Lynne Ramsay R -
1435 Cape Fear 1991 Martin Scorsese R -
1441 The Woman in the Window 1944 Fritz Lang NR -
1453 Martha Marcy May Marlene 2011 Sean Durkin R -
1466 Blood and Black Lace 1964 Mario Bava NR -
1473 Santa Sangre 1989 Alejandro Jodorowsky R -
1483 Annihilation 2018 Alex Garland R -
1488 Body Double 1984 Brian De Palma R -
1576 Us 2019 Jordan Peele R -
1614 Marnie 1964 Alfred Hitchcock PG -
1624 Primal Fear 1996 Gregory Hoblit R -
1632 The Bad Seed 1956 Mervyn LeRoy NR -
1649 Open Your Eyes 1997 Alejandro Amenábar R -

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