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Top 100 Classic Thriller/Suspense Movies

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RankTitleCastScore
1 . Double Indemnity (1944)Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Porter Hall score
2 . North by Northwest (1959)Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jessie Royce Landis score
3 . Rear Window (1954)James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter score
4 . The Birds (1963)Tippi Hedren, Suzanne Pleshette, Rod Taylor, Jessica Tandy score
5 . The Big Sleep (1946)Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely, Martha Vickers score
6 . Vertigo (1958)James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore score
7 . Charade (1963)Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau, James Coburn score
8 . Notorious (1946)Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Louis Calhern score
9 . Psycho (1960)Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin score
10 . Rebecca (1940)Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Judith Anderson score
11 . Dial M for Murder (1954)Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings, John Williams score
12 . Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, Ann Richards, Wendell Corey score
13 . Suspicion (1941)Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce score
14 . To Catch a Thief (1955)Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jessie Royce Landis, John Williams score
15 . What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono, Wesley Addy score
16 . The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway, Hume Cronyn score
17 . The Blue Dahlia (1946)Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Bendix, Howard Da Silva score
18 . The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947)Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Alexis Smith, Nigel Bruce score
19 . They Drive by Night (1940)George Raft, Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart score
20 . Laura (1944)Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, Vincent Price score
21 . Key Largo (1948)Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall, Lionel Barrymore score
22 . The Lady Vanishes (1938)Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas, May Whitty score
23 . Strangers on a Train (1951)Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker, Leo G. Carroll score
24 . The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)James Stewart, Doris Day, Brenda De Banzie, Bernard Miles score
25 . Bullitt (1968)Steve McQueen, Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Vaughn, Don Gordon score
26 . Dark Passage (1947)Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett, Agnes Moorehead score
27 . Gaslight (1944)Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, May Whitty score
28 . Gilda (1946)Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready, Joseph Calleia score
29 . The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Hugh Marlowe, Sam Jaffe score
30 . The Black Cat (1934)Boris Karloff, B?la Lugosi, David Manners, Julie Bishop score
31 . In a Lonely Place (1950)Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy, Carl Benton Reid score
32 . Rope (1948)James Stewart, Joan Chandler, John Dall, Farley Granger score
33 . To Have and Have Not (1944)Humphrey Bogart, Walter Brennan, Lauren Bacall, Dolores Moran score
34 . The Roaring Twenties (1939)James Cagney, Priscilla Lane, Humphrey Bogart, Gladys George score
35 . Witness for the Prosecution (1957)Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester score
36 . Shadow of a Doubt (1943)Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Macdonald Carey, Henry Travers score
37 . House on Haunted Hill (1959)Vincent Price, Carol Ohmart, Richard Long, Alan Marshal score
38 . Foreign Correspondent (1940)Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall, George Sanders score
39 . Brute Force (1947)Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Charles Bickford, Yvonne De Carlo score
40 . Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis, Dean Jagger score
41 . The Stranger (1946)Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Orson Welles, Philip Merivale score
42 . High Sierra (1941)Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Curtis, Arthur Kennedy score
43 . The Bad Seed (1956)Nancy Kelly, Patty McCormack, Henry Jones, Eileen Heckart score
44 . Act of Violence (1948)Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh, Mary Astor score
45 . Night Nurse (1931)Barbara Stanwyck, Ben Lyon, Joan Blondell, Clark Gable score
46 . The 39 Steps (1935)Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim, Godfrey Tearle score
47 . Blowup (1966)Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, David Hemmings, John Castle score
48 . In the Heat of the Night (1967)Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates, Lee Grant score
49 . The Third Man (1949)Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard score
50 . Spellbound (1945)Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov, Leo G. Carroll score
51 . Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1949)Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Boris Karloff, Lenore Aubert score
52 . Touch of Evil (1958)Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles, Joseph Calleia score
53 . And Then There Were None (1945)Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston, Louis Hayward, Roland Young score
54 . The Trouble with Harry (1955)John Forsythe, Shirley MacLaine, Edmund Gwenn, Mildred Natwick score
55 . Marked Woman (1937)Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Lola Lane, Isabel Jewell score
56 . Dead Reckoning (1947)Humphrey Bogart, Lizabeth Scott, Morris Carnovsky, Charles Cane score
57 . Detour (1945)Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake, Edmund MacDonald score
58 . The Big Heat (1953)Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Jocelyn Brando, Alexander Scourby score
59 . Rosemary's Baby (1968)Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Sidney Blackmer score
60 . Niagara (1953)Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters, Max Showalter score
61 . The Killing (1956)Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards, Jay C. Flippen score
62 . Arabesque (1966)Gregory Peck, Sophia Loren, Alan Badel, Kieron Moore score
63 . The Ladykillers (1955)Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers score
64 . Night and the City (1950)Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers, Hugh Marlowe score
65 . The Naked City (1948)Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart, Don Taylor score
66 . Marnie (1964)Tippi Hedren, Sean Connery, Diane Baker, Martin Gabel score
67 . Murder, My Sweet (1944)Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley, Otto Kruger score
68 . The Invisible Man (1933)Claude Rains, Gloria Stuart, William Harrigan, Henry Travers score
69 . Cape Fear (1962)Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen, Lori Martin score
70 . The Night of the Hunter (1955)Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, James Gleason score
71 . The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)Richard Greene, Basil Rathbone, Wendy Barrie, Nigel Bruce score
72 . Lifeboat (1944)Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Walter Slezak, Mary Anderson score
73 . Bulldog Drummond (1929)Ronald Colman, Claud Allister, Lawrence Grant, Montagu Love score
74 . Above Suspicion (1943)Joan Crawford, Fred MacMurray, Conrad Veidt, Basil Rathbone score
75 . Crossfire (1947)Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan, Gloria Grahame score
76 . Safety Last! (1923)Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Bill Strother, Noah Young score
77 . Gun Crazy (1950)Peggy Cummins, John Dall, Berry Kroeger, Morris Carnovsky score
78 . Saboteur (1942)Priscilla Lane, Robert Cummings, Otto Kruger, Alan Baxter score
79 . The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed, Angela Lansbury score
80 . The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Ida Lupino, Alan Marshal score
81 . I Confess (1953)Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter, Karl Malden, Brian Aherne score
82 . The Fly (1958)David Hedison, Patricia Owens, Vincent Price, Herbert Marshall score
83 . House of Wax (1953)Vincent Price, Frank Lovejoy, Phyllis Kirk, Carolyn Jones score
84 . The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison, George Sanders, Edna Best score
85 . Kiss of Death (1947)Victor Mature, Brian Donlevy, Coleen Gray, Richard Widmark score
86 . Ministry of Fear (1944)Ray Milland, Marjorie Reynolds, Carl Esmond, Hillary Brooke score
87 . No Way to Treat a Lady (1968)Rod Steiger, Lee Remick, George Segal, Eileen Heckart score
88 . Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead score
89 . The Bribe (1949)Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Charles Laughton, Vincent Price score
90 . Bullets or Ballots (1936)Edward G. Robinson, Joan Blondell, Barton MacLane, Humphrey Bogart score
91 . The Big Combo (1955)Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, Brian Donlevy, Jean Wallace score
92 . Assault on a Queen (1966)Frank Sinatra, Virna Lisi, Anthony Franciosa, Richard Conte score
93 . Pickup on South Street (1953)Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter, Murvyn Vye score
94 . The Lady from Shanghai (1947)Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane, Glenn Anders score
95 . Kiss Me Deadly (1955)Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker, Wesley Addy, Marian Carr score
96 . Dr. No (1962)Sean Connery, Ursula Andress, Joseph Wiseman, Jack Lord score
97 . The Most Dangerous Game (1932)Joel McCrea, Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Leslie Banks score
98 . Thieves' Highway (1949)Richard Conte, Valentina Cortese, Lee J. Cobb, Barbara Lawrence score
99 . The Manchurian Candidate (1962)Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, Angela Lansbury score
100 . The Assassination Bureau (1969)Oliver Reed, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas, Philippe Noiret score

This chart uses a weighted rating based on the average rating per film and the number of votes per film.