Top Mystery Movies


The Top Mystery Movies List is calculated by overall movie ratings and members' "Top Mystery List". Lists are calculated daily.

91. Rififi ( Rififi chez les hommes, Du )

Year of Release: 1956
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Crime/Mystery
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Jules Dassin
Actors: Jean Servais, Carl Möhner, Pierre Grasset, Janine Darcey
Plot: A group of aspiring men plan the perfect rip off on paper when human error causes it to go wrong.

92. The Stranger

Year of Release: 1946
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Orson Welles
Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Orson Welles, Philip Merivale
Plot: Edward G. Robinson plays a government agent who tracks an escaped Nazi, masquerading as a teacher, to a small New England town.

93. Bay of Blood ( Reazione a catena )

Year of Release: 1972
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Horror/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Mario Bava
Actors: Claudine Auger, Luigi Pistilli, Claudio Camaso, Anna Maria Rosati
Plot: After en elderly heiress is killed off by her husband, who wants the fortune for himself, is sets off a chain reaction as other member's of the family work to whittle down the inheritance pool - by killing off one another. A hapless group of teens camping out in one of the abandoned buildings on the property are caught in the middle.

94. Lost Highway

Year of Release: 1997
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: David Lynch
Actors: Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Balthazar Getty, Richard Pryor
Plot: A man with Dissociative Fugue disorder is accused of murder. He wouldn't kill the one he loves, would he?

95. Confessions ( Kokuhaku )

Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Tetsuya Nakashima
Actors: Takako Matsu, Yoshino Kimura, Masaki Okada, Yukito Nishii

96. The Man Who Knew Too Much

Year of Release: 1956
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Mystery
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Actors: James Stewart, Doris Day, Brenda De Banzie, Bernard Miles
Plot: An American doctor and former singer are traveling with their young son in Marrakesh when the doctor witnesses a murder. Shortly thereafter, their son is kidnapped and taken to London. As the couple attempts to save their boy, a fiendish plot extending far beyond them is revealed.

97. The Draughtsman's Contract

Year of Release: 1983
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Peter Greenaway
Actors: Anthony Higgins, Janet Suzman, Anne-Louise Lambert, Hugh Fraser

98. The Immigrant

Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: James Gray
Actors: Joaquin Phoenix, Jeremy Renner, Marion Cotillard, Dagmara Dominczyk
Plot: In 1920 two sisters, Ewa and Magda, emigrate to New York. But on Ellis Island, Magda is discovered to be ill and put into quarantine. Alone, Ewa finds herself on the mean streets of Manhattan, desperate to reunite with her sister. Bruno finds her and forces her in to prostitution - all seems to be lost until Bruno's brother, the magician Orlando, finds her and falls for her, representing her only chance of escape.

99. Very Long Engagement, A ( long dimanche de fiançailles, Un )

Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Actors: Audrey Tautou, Gaspard Ulliel, Dominique Pinon, Chantal Neuwirth
Plot: Set in France near the end of World War I in the deadly trenches of the Somme, in the gilded Parisien halls of power, and in the modest home of an indomitable provincial girl and her relentless search to find her fiancée, who has disappeared. He is one of five French soldiers believed to have been court-martialed under mysterious circumstances and pushed out of an allied trench into an almost-certain death in no-man's land. All an investigation into the arbitrary nature of secrecy, the absurdity of war, and the enduring passion, intuition and tenacity of the human heart.

100. The Last Wave

Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Peter Weir
Actors: Richard Chamberlain, Olivia Hamnett, David Gulpilil, Frederick Parslow
Plot: A Sydney lawyer is called on to defend five Aboriginals in court over a ritualized murder. Determined to break their silence, he is drawn deeper into a prophesy that portends an Armageddon where all shall drown.

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