8 Most Suspenseful Thrillers of the Last 100 Years

The roots of the thriller genre go back hundreds and hundreds of years, but it didn't start becoming a fully-formed genre with a style all of its own until the late-19th and early-20th centuries—part of that evolution coming in the form of some of the most suspenseful movies the world has ever seen. Over the course of the last century, thriller filmmakers around the world have offered some of the most nail-biting movies one can ever possibly find.