Top Mystery Movies


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

121. Angel Heart

Year of Release: 1987
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Alan Parker
Actors: Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, Lisa Bonet, Charlotte Rampling
Plot: Harold Angel (Mickey Rourke) is a detective on a mission to find a solider who welched on a deal with Lou Cypher. Lou intends to collect the hard way.

122. All the Money in the World

Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ridley Scott
Actors: Mark Wahlberg, Christopher Plummer, Michelle Williams, Timothy Hutton
Plot: It is 1973 and J. Paul Getty is the richest man in the world - his fortune built on oil and also his notoriously miserly nature. When his grandson, Paul Getty, is kidnapped by a left-wing paramilitary organization in Italy, he cannot be swayed to part with any of his fortune to placate them. But Gail, Paul's mother, who believes in family over money, will stop at nothing to save her son. With time running out, and the kidnapper's becoming more anxious and brutal, Gail will team up with Fletcher Chace, who runs security for Getty, in order to get her son back.

123. Shock Corridor

Year of Release: 1963
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Samuel Fuller
Actors: Peter Breck, Constance Towers, Gene Evans, James Best
Plot: An ambitious journalist, on a quest for a Pulitzer Prize, commits himself to a mental asylum in order to solve a mysterious murder.

124. The Man from Laramie

Year of Release: 1955
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Mystery/Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Anthony Mann
Actors: James Stewart, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Crisp, Cathy O'Donnell
Plot: In a quest to find out who sold rifles to the Apaches that killed his brother, Will Lockhart (James Stewart) comes across a cattle baron and his arrogant son that may hold the key to his search.

125. Death on the Nile

Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Mystery
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: John Guillermin
Actors: Peter Ustinov, Jane Birkin, Bette Davis, Mia Farrow
Plot: Based on the Agatha Christie novel, Detective Hercule Poirot must solve the mystery of a murdered heiress who is killed on a cruise down the Nile before it reaches port.

126. Kiss Me Deadly

Year of Release: 1955
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Robert Aldrich
Actors: Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker, Paul Stewart, Juano Hernandez
Plot: L.A. private eye Mike Hammer picks up a female hitchhiker only to become involved in a twisted plot after she is killed for information. It could mean a big payday, if he can figure out the mystery and survive to use it.

127. Spellbound

Year of Release: 1945
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Actors: Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov, Leo G. Carroll
Plot: A new young doctor arrives at a psychiatric institute, arousing the interest of a female colleague. Soon, however, it appears the doctor may not be who he claims, and that murder is in his past. His dreams hold the key to unlocking the truth--if only they can be deciphered.

128. Fallen

Year of Release: 1998
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Gregory Hoblit
Actors: Denzel Washington, John Goodman, Donald Sutherland, Embeth Davidtz
Plot: Convicted killer Edgar Reese is brought to justice and executed thanks to the efforts of detective John Hobbes. However, soon after his deaths, a series of killings done in the style of Reese and Hobbes finds that the cause is an ancient evil that can move from person to person with just a touch.

129. Following

Year of Release: 1998
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Christopher Nolan
Actors: Lucy Russell, Alex Haw, Jeremy Theobald , John Nolan
Plot: A man spends his days following strangers around London. But soon his is caught by Cobb, a thief who takes him under his wing. They burble a woman's apartment - and he becomes obsessed with her, but Cobb has his own agenda.

130. Nightmare Alley

Year of Release: 2021
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Actors: Rooney Mara, Cate Blanchett, Paul Anderson, Bradley Cooper
Plot: A carney with a talent for manipulation leaves the sideshow behind for the big city - but not before leaving a wake of chaos behind. Using the talents he's learned to swindle millionaires - he finds his match in a brilliant, devious psychologist - who becomes his greatest challenge and ultimate downfall.

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