Top Mystery Movies


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

101. Friday the 13th

Year of Release: 1980
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sean S. Cunningham
Actors: Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King, Kevin Bacon, Harry Crosby
Plot: When a young boy drowns in a lake due to his camp counselors not supervising him, revenge is taken. The question is, who is taking the revenge?

102. Suspicion

Year of Release: 1941
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Actors: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce
Plot: A would-be spinster is swept off her feet by a dashing stranger, only to suspect that he is a murderer. Is she his next intended victim, or is her overactive imagination getting the best of her?

103. Gosford Park

Year of Release: 2001
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Mystery/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Robert Altman
Actors: Michael Gambon, Maggie Smith, Camilla Rutherford, Kristin Scott Thomas
Plot: A mystery involving a party in a wealthy persons house in which the servants are upstairs and the guests are down stairs. Set in 1932.

104. Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Mystery
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Philip Kaufman
Actors: Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Jeff Goldblum, Veronica Cartwright
Plot: In San Francisco a group of people are brought together when they notice friends and relatives somehow changing. As more and more people are affected, they soon realize an alien life-form is behind the changes and must act before they are all taken.

105. The Three Faces of Eve

Year of Release: 1957
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Nunnally Johnson
Actors: Joanne Woodward, David Wayne, Lee J. Cobb, Edwin Jerome
Plot: Eve White is sometimes Eve Black. A woman with dueling personalities has hidden the reason for her suffering from even herself. Joanne Woodward won the Oscar for this role.

106. You Were Never Really Here

Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Lynne Ramsay
Actors: Joaquin Phoenix, Ekaterina Samsonov, Alessandro Nivola, Alex Manette
Plot: A missing teen girl spurs a tormented and brutal enforcer on a path of violence against corruption and power leading to a personal transformation.

107. Ready or Not

Year of Release: 2019
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett
Actors: Samara Weaving, Andie MacDowell, Mark O'Brien, Adam Brody
Plot: Grace has just married Alex - who is part of the rich, eccentric Le Domas family. When Grace is introduced to a time-honored family tradition - she is more than happy to play along, but the game soon takes a sinister turn and it turns out the real prize is going to be survival.

108. Saboteur

Year of Release: 1942
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Mystery
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Actors: Priscilla Lane, Robert Cummings, Otto Kruger, Alan Baxter
Plot: A factory worker (Robert Cummings) is blamed for an act of sabotage at an airplane factory. The fugitive then attempts to track down the man who framed him, uncovering a wealthy network of domestic terrorists along the way.

109. Mildred Pierce

Year of Release: 1945
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Michael Curtiz
Actors: Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden
Plot: A woman learns the hard way that money truly does not buy happiness. In Mildred's quest to reach the top, she drives away her husband, raises a selfish daughter, hooks up with a duplicitous lover and ultimately ends up at the bottom again.

110. In a Lonely Place

Year of Release: 1950
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Nicholas Ray
Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy, Carl Benton Reid
Plot: Bogart stars as a boozy, moody Hollywood screenwriter who may or may not be a twisted murderer.

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