Best Thriller Movies
Compiled 2026-10-24. All 100 films published 2026-02-17. North by Northwest is No. 1.
Compiled 2026-10-24. The main table is the 100 best thrillers published on 2026-02-17, all 100 films. No. 1 is North by Northwest (1959). No. 2 is M (1931). No. 100 is Wild Things (1998). The publish date and the compile date stay separate. The top 10 and the top 25 are the first 10 and first 25 rows of this table. The 2026 update places Uncut Gems (2019) at No. 27.
The 100 films
All 100 rows follow the countdown. Years are copied from the page.
| # | Title | Year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | North by Northwest | 1959 |
| 2 | M | 1931 |
| 3 | Chinatown | 1974 |
| 4 | The Third Man | 1949 |
| 5 | Reservoir Dogs | 1992 |
| 6 | Touch of Evil | 1958 |
| 7 | The Silence of the Lambs | 1991 |
| 8 | The 39 Steps | 1935 |
| 9 | The Maltese Falcon | 1941 |
| 10 | Les Diaboliques | 1955 |
| 11 | Double Indemnity | 1944 |
| 12 | Zodiac | 2007 |
| 13 | Kiss Me Deadly | 1955 |
| 14 | The Fugitive | 1993 |
| 15 | Vertigo | 1958 |
| 16 | Mulholland Drive | 2001 |
| 17 | Taxi Driver | 1976 |
| 18 | Seven | 1995 |
| 19 | The Manchurian Candidate | 1962 |
| 20 | LA Confidential | 1997 |
| 21 | The Conversation | 1974 |
| 22 | The Killing | 1956 |
| 23 | Rififi | 1955 |
| 24 | The Big Sleep | 1946 |
| 25 | Blue Velvet | 1986 |
| 26 | Rear Window | 1954 |
| 27 | Uncut Gems | 2019 |
| 28 | Dog Day Afternoon | 1975 |
| 29 | Dr No | 1962 |
| 30 | Blow-Up | 1966 |
| 31 | The Wages of Fear | 1953 |
| 32 | Oldboy | 2003 |
| 33 | The Usual Suspects | 1995 |
| 34 | The Vanishing | 1988 |
| 35 | Notorious | 1946 |
| 36 | The Night of the Hunter | 1955 |
| 37 | The Long Goodbye | 1973 |
| 38 | Heat | 1995 |
| 39 | Point Blank | 1967 |
| 40 | Deep Red | 1975 |
| 41 | Elevator to the Gallows | 1958 |
| 42 | Shadow of a Doubt | 1943 |
| 43 | Blood Simple | 1984 |
| 44 | The Grifters | 1990 |
| 45 | Knife in the Water | 1962 |
| 46 | The French Connection | 1971 |
| 47 | Blow Out | 1981 |
| 48 | Le Samouraï | 1967 |
| 49 | One False Move | 1992 |
| 50 | Mother | 2009 |
| 51 | Zero Dark Thirty | 2012 |
| 52 | The Lady from Shanghai | 1947 |
| 53 | Le Cercle Rouge | 1970 |
| 54 | The Big Heat | 1953 |
| 55 | The Lady Vanishes | 1938 |
| 56 | Sicario | 2015 |
| 57 | Dressed to Kill | 1980 |
| 58 | Black Swan | 2010 |
| 59 | The Untouchables | 1987 |
| 60 | Memento | 2000 |
| 61 | The Last Seduction | 1994 |
| 62 | Klute | 1971 |
| 63 | Deliverance | 1972 |
| 64 | Cape Fear | 1962 |
| 65 | In a Lonely Place | 1950 |
| 66 | Basic Instinct | 1992 |
| 67 | Dead Calm | 1989 |
| 68 | Funny Games | 1997 |
| 69 | Dirty Harry | 1971 |
| 70 | The Thousand Eyes of Dr Mabuse | 1960 |
| 71 | Z | 1969 |
| 72 | The Handmaiden | 2016 |
| 73 | Where Eagles Dare | 1968 |
| 74 | The Parallax View | 1974 |
| 75 | Strangers on a Train | 1951 |
| 76 | Coup de Torchon | 1981 |
| 77 | The Taking of Pelham One Two Three | 1974 |
| 78 | Plein Soleil (Purple Noon) | 1960 |
| 79 | Stray Dog | 1949 |
| 80 | The American Friend | 1977 |
| 81 | Dead Man’s Shoes | 2004 |
| 82 | Caché | 2005 |
| 83 | Kill List | 2011 |
| 84 | Night and the City | 1950 |
| 85 | In the Cut | 2003 |
| 86 | Misery | 1990 |
| 87 | King of New York | 1990 |
| 88 | The Spy Who Loved Me | 1977 |
| 89 | Animal Kingdom | 2010 |
| 90 | Play Misty for Me | 1971 |
| 91 | The Ipcress File | 1965 |
| 92 | Gaslight | 1944 |
| 93 | Run Lola Run | 1998 |
| 94 | Gone Girl | 2014 |
| 95 | Thief | 1981 |
| 96 | The Talented Mr Ripley | 1999 |
| 97 | Infernal Affairs | 2002 |
| 98 | The Long Good Friday | 1980 |
| 99 | The Stranger | 1946 |
| 100 | Wild Things | 1998 |
How this ranking was built
Compiled 2026-10-24. Time Out published the countdown on 2026-02-17, and the page was modified the same day. Matthew Singer is the byline. The main table is all 100 ranks. The page runs from No. 100 down to No. 1. This table runs from No. 1 to No. 100. The top 10 and the top 25 are the first 10 and first 25 rows.
The update note adds Uncut Gems. It is No. 27, from 2019. The page prints title and year. Directors appear inside the blurbs, not as a column, so this table has none. Chinese and Russian titles are Wikidata labels. Chinese labels are simplified.
1 films have no Chinese Wikidata label, so the Chinese cell keeps the English title: No. 48 Le Samouraï. 2 films keep the English title in the Russian cell.
| Source | Snapshot | Scope | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| The 100 best thriller movies of all time (best-thriller-movies) | Published 2026-02-17; read 2026-10-24 | Editorial countdown of 100. No. 1 North by Northwest, 1959. No. 2 M, 1931. No. 27 Uncut Gems, 2019. No. 100 Wild Things, 1998 | Primary |
The picture, and the other movie pages
Rows S through D hold all 100 films in rank order, 20 a row. The drag-and-drop pool is the same 100.
Mystery: best mystery movies. Crime: best crime movies.
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