Top Mystery Movies


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

221. The Bourne Identity

Year of Release: 1988
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Roger Young
Actors: Richard Chamberlain, Jaclyn Smith, Anthony Quayle, Donald Moffat

222. Scream

Year of Release: 2022
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett
Actors: Courteney Cox, Jack Quaid, Jenna Ortega, Neve Campbell
Plot: Even after 25 years, Sidney Prescott, Gale Weathers and Dewey Riley cannot escape the tendrils of the Woodsboro killer. Now a new generation, with ties to original survivors, are being targeted and the trio return to keep them alive, explain the rules and stop another killing spree.

223. Kissed by Winter ( Vinterkyss )

Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: Norwegian
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Sara Johnsen
Actors: Annika Hallin, Kristoffer Joner, Fridtjov Såheim, Göran Ragnerstam

224. Dead Silence

Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: James Wan
Actors: Amber Valletta, Ryan Kwanten, Donnie Wahlberg, Bob Gunton
Plot: A young man returns home to Ravens Fair after he receives a ventriloquist doll at his apartment, and his wife if brutally murdered. He finds that a local legend about Mary Shaw, the doll's owner, is much more than just a ghost story.

225. Bad Girls ( biches, Les )

Year of Release: 1968
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Claude Chabrol
Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Nane Germon, Stéphane Audran, Jacqueline Sassard

226. The Number 23

Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Joel Schumacher
Actors: Jim Carrey, Virginia Madsen, Danny Huston, Lynn Collins
Plot: A man becomes obsessed by the number 23 after reading a novel that seems to parellel his own life.

227. The Eyes of Laura Mars

Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Irvin Kershner
Actors: Faye Dunaway, Tommy Lee Jones, Brad Dourif, Rene Auberjonois
Plot: A "psychic" fashion photographer, who sees the ice pick murders of several women, works with a rugged police detective to catch the killer.

228. Buried

Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Rodrigo Cortés
Actors: Ryan Reynolds, Robert Paterson, Stephen Tobolowsky, Samantha Mathis
Plot: After an attack, a contractor working in Iraq wakes up to find he has been buried alive. With little time and scant resources, he must find a way to survive.

229. And Soon the Darkness

Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Mystery
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Robert Fuest
Actors: Pamela Franklin, Michele Dotrice, Sandor Elès, John Nettleton

230. Oldboy

Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Spike Lee
Actors: Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Olsen, Sharlto Copley, Samuel L. Jackson
Plot: A man is kidnapped and confined for 20 years and then, one day, is inexplicably released. He obsessively hunts the man responsible for his imprisonment. Along the way he starts an ill-fated relationship with a social worker and finds he is part of a much larger conspiracy as he unravels the mystery.

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