The 30 Best Thrillers of All Time, Ranked

From Hitchcock's Vertigo and Psycho to more modern classics like Parasite and Se7en, this is Collider's ranking of the best thriller movies ever made.

April 28, 2023 · 1 min · 95 words · Johnny Hardy

Everything adds up to makeDouble Indemnityeasily up there withthe very best releases of the 1940s, regardless of genre.

And no one can deny that Hitchcock was undoubtedly on fire throughout the 1950s.

However, things don’t go to plan.

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Certain townspeople harass the new couple, with things escalating from verbal to physical abuse.

Thomas Levy (Dustin Hoffman) protecting Elsa Opel (Martha Keller) with a gun and a screen door in Marathon Man

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Kim Yeon-sook as Joong-ho Eom staring in a car in ‘The Chaser’.

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Alain Delon as Jef Costello walks down a Paris metro in Le Samourai

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Barbara Stanwyck standing behind a door as Fred MacMurray stands in the doorway in Double Indemnity

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A photographer peers over his camera, intrigued yet concerned, as he aims his large lens out the window.

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Nina performing Swan Lake on stage in ‘Black Swan’

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Dustin Hoffman as David Sumner holding a gun in Straw Dogs

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Frances McDormand as Abby holding a gun and looking scared in the film Blood Simple

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Gene Hackman as Harry Caul working on surveillance equipment in ‘The Conversation’

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