Andrew Klavan Ranks The Greatest Thriller Movies Of All Time

The Andrew Klavan Show

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🗓️ 14 May 2026

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Today, I'll be ranking a list of cinematic thrillers. While I haven't picked the list, I can say with confidence that the thriller genre is tailored made for cinema. So, this list should be interesting. - - - Today's Sponsor: PreBorn! - Make a difference for generations to come. Donate securely online at https://preborn.com/KLAVAN or dial #250 keyword 'BABY' - - - DailyWire+: Become a Daily Wire Member and watch all of our content ad-free: https://dailywire.com/subscribe 📲 Download the free Daily Wire app today on iPhone, Android, Roku, Apple TV, Samsung, and more. 📗 Read my short story "Jesus, the Movie" at the New English Review: https://www.newenglishreview.org/articles/jesus-the-movie 📙 My Edgar nominated NY Times best-selling non-fiction book "The Kingdom of Cain: Finding God in the Literature of Darkness" is available for purchase here: https://dwplus.shop/KingdomofCain 📘 My latest novel "After That, The Dark" is available here: https://dwplus.shop/AfterThatTheDark 📚 Save the Klavan by shopping my merch here: https://dwplus.shop/AndrewKlavanMerch - - - Socials: Follow on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3B5RI1j Follow on Instagram: https://bit.ly/3D7AzXp Follow on Facebook: https://bit.ly/3TXNt08 Subscribe on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3Rtfifp - - - Privacy Policy: https://www.dailywire.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:38.7	All right, today we're not going to do one of my, one of the painful things where I have to sit and watch TikTok videos, which are, I think, is just taking years off my life.
0:43.6	But what we're going to do is we're going to rank a list of thriller movies. Now, I didn't pick these, and I haven't seen them yet. So don't write in and say, how could you have left off
0:48.1	that, you know, that whatever movie you feel was left off? That's the wrong question. The wrong
0:53.0	question is, when are you going to get, when am I going to get a real life and do something worthwhile for
0:57.4	society? And the answer to that is probably never. So we're going to rank a list of thriller
1:02.8	movies. This is the S-tier ranking system, which was created by somebody who had nothing else to
1:07.4	do. S means superb or super or spectacular or whatever it means.
1:13.1	S, A, B, C, D.
1:14.5	And after that, I don't know the alphabet after that, so it doesn't matter.
1:17.6	All right, let's go.
1:18.6	Thriller movies, Psycho, by 1960, directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
1:24.1	A great movie.
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