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Defining Genre
Peak 2010s

THE THRILLER

THE TIGHTENING GRIP
The genre that runs on pacing. Where a fluorescent corridor or a ringing phone can do the work of a body count.
Peak 2010s
17,016
Films Catalogued
63.6
Avg Master Score
5.7
Avg IMDb
2010s
Peak Decade
ALFRED HITCHCOCK
Top Director
Of which 118 won at least one Oscar
The Defining Three

ESSENTIAL VIEWING

Top-ranked by master score. If you only saw three films from this decade, these are the three.

No.01
MS95.3
ALFRED HITCHCOCK|1960
PSYCHO

“A new and altogether different screen excitement!”

No.02
MS95.2
ALFRED HITCHCOCK|1954
REAR WINDOW

“It only takes one witness to spoil the perfect crime.”

No.03
MS93.4
FRITZ LANG|1931
M

“Who is the murderer?”

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Master Score
Awards
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01
Psycho
1960 · Alfred Hitchcock · 4 noms
95.3
02
Rear Window
1954 · Alfred Hitchcock · 4 noms
95.2
03
M
1931 · Fritz Lang
93.4
04
On the Waterfront
1954 · Elia Kazan · 8 Oscars
93.1
05
The Big Sleep
1946 · Howard Hawks
92.9
06
Halloween
1978 · John Carpenter
92.8
07
The Man from Nowhere
2010 · Lee Jeong-beom
92.7
08
The Wages of Fear
1953 · Henri-Georges Clouzot
92.6
09
Night of the Living Dead
1968 · George A. Romero
92.5
10
The Terminator
1984 · James Cameron
92.2
11
Sanjuro
1962 · Akira Kurosawa
92.2
12
Woman in the Dunes
1964 · Hiroshi Teshigahara · 2 noms
92.0
13
Come and See
1985 · Elem Klimov
92.0
14
The Silence of the Lambs
1991 · Jonathan Demme · 5 Oscars
92.0
15
Memories of Murder
2003 · Bong Joon Ho
92.0
16
The Sixth Sense
1999 · M. Night Shyamalan · 6 noms
91.9
17
Se7en
1995 · David Fincher · 1 nom
91.9
18
Parasite
2019 · Bong Joon Ho · 4 Oscars
91.8
19
Searching
2018 · Aneesh Chaganty
91.7
20
Notorious
1946 · Alfred Hitchcock · 2 noms
91.7
21
Godzilla
1954 · Ishirô Honda
91.4
22
Rome, Open City
1945 · Roberto Rossellini · 1 nom
91.3
23
Persona
1966 · Ingmar Bergman
91.3
24
Diabolique
1955 · Henri-Georges Clouzot
91.3
25
Enter the Dragon
1973 · Robert Clouse
91.3
26
The Roundup
2022 · Lee Sang-yong
91.0
27
Dawn of the Dead
1978 · George A. Romero
90.9
28
Blackfish
2013 · Gabriela Cowperthwaite
90.8
29
The Killing
1956 · Stanley Kubrick
90.8
30
Train to Busan
2016 · Yeon Sang-ho
90.7
31
From Russia with Love
1963 · Terence Young
90.6
32
Kantara
2022 · Rishab Shetty
90.4
33
Drishyam
2013 · Jeethu Joseph
90.4
34
The Night of the Hunter
1955 · Charles Laughton
90.3
35
The Killer
1989 · John Woo
90.3
36
In the Heat of the Night
1967 · Norman Jewison · 5 Oscars
90.3
37
Silenced
2011 · Hwang Dong-hyuk
90.2
38
The Invisible Man
2020 · Leigh Whannell
90.2
39
The Big Heat
1953 · Fritz Lang
90.1
40
Pi
1998 · Darren Aronofsky
90.1
41
Dr. No
1962 · Terence Young
90.1
42
The French Connection
1971 · William Friedkin · 5 Oscars
90.1
43
Shadow of a Doubt
1943 · Alfred Hitchcock · 1 nom
90.0
44
The Conjuring
2013 · James Wan
89.9
45
The Orphanage
2007 · J.A. Bayona
89.9
46
Thirteen Lives
2022 · Ron Howard
89.9
47
Le cercle rouge
1970 · Jean-Pierre Melville
89.8
48
Out of the Past
1947 · Jacques Tourneur
89.7
49
Jaws
1975 · Steven Spielberg · 3 Oscars
89.7
50
Bad Genius
2017 · Baz Poonpiriya
89.7
51
Dirty Harry
1971 · Don Siegel, Clint Eastwood
89.6
52
Strangers on a Train
1951 · Alfred Hitchcock · 1 nom
89.6
53
Split
2016 · M. Night Shyamalan
89.6
54
Battleship Potemkin
1925 · Sergei Eisenstein
89.4
55
Die Hard
1988 · John McTiernan · 4 noms
89.4
56
It
2017 · Andy Muschietti
89.4
57
Repulsion
1965 · Roman Polanski
89.4
58
REC
2007 · Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza
89.4
59
Soodhu Kavvum
2013 · Nalan Kumarasamy
89.3
60
In a Lonely Place
1950 · Nicholas Ray
89.3
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