Best thriller movies filmaffinity
In the following page, you will see a ranking of the best thriller movies of all time. We have gathered the ratings of Imdb, Metacritic, Filmaffinity and crafted our own algorithm and generated the following ratings.
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1. Psycho (1960)
A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run, and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother. read more
Genres: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
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97
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8.5
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8.9
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2. M (1931)
When the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt. read more
Genres: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
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3. Rear Window (1954)
A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his Greenwich Village courtyard apartment window, and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder, despite the skepticism of his fashion-model girlfriend. read more
Genres: Mystery, Thriller
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100
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8.9
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4. Vertigo (1958)
A former San Francisco police detective juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becoming obsessed with the hauntingly beautiful woman he has been hired to trail, who may be deeply disturbed. read more
Genres: Mystery, Romance, Thriller
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100
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5. North by Northwest (1959)
A New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and falls for a woman whose loyalties he begins to doubt. read more
Genres: Adventure, Mystery, Thriller
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98
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6. Dial M for Murder (1954)
A former tennis player tries to arrange his wife's murder after learning of her affair. read more
Genres: Crime, Thriller
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75
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7. The Third Man (1949)
Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime. read more
Genres: Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller
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97
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8. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
A former child star torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion. read more
Genres: Drama, Horror, Thriller
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75
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9. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
When a simple jewelry heist goes horribly wrong, the surviving criminals begin to suspect that one of them is a police informant. read more
Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller
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10. The Wages of Fear (1953)
In a decrepit South American village, four men are hired to transport an urgent nitroglycerine shipment without the equipment that would make it safe. read more
Genres: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
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85
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11. Blade Runner (1982)
A blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space, and have returned to Earth to find their creator. read more
Genres: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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84
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12. On the Waterfront (1954)
An ex-prize fighter turned New Jersey longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses, including his older brother, as he starts to connect with the grieving sister of one of the syndicate's victims. read more
Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller
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13. Persona (1966)
A nurse is put in charge of a mute actress and finds that their personae are melding together. read more
Genres: Drama, Thriller
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86
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14. High Noon (1952)
A town Marshal, despite the disagreements of his newlywed bride and the townspeople around him, must face a gang of deadly killers alone at high noon when the gang leader, an outlaw he sent up years ago, arrives on the noon train. read more
Genres: Drama, Thriller, Western
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89
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8.3
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15. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
Hypnotist Dr. Caligari uses a somnambulist, Cesare, to commit murders. read more
Genres: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
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16. Joker (2019)
In Gotham City, mentally troubled comedian Arthur Fleck is disregarded and mistreated by society. He then embarks on a downward spiral of revolution and bloody crime. This path brings him face-to-face with his alter-ego: the Joker. read more
Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller
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59
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7.4
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17. The Lives of Others (2006)
In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police, conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover, finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives. read more
Genres: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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89
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18. Yojimbo (1961)
A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town. read more
Genres: Action, Drama, Thriller
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93
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8.5
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19. Battleship Potemkin (1925)
In the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutiny against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel's officers. The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre. read more
Genres: Drama, History, Thriller
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97
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7.9
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8.5
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20. The Departed (2006)
An undercover cop and a mole in the police attempt to identify each other while infiltrating an Irish gang in South Boston. read more
Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller
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85
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8.5
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8.3
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