Top Mystery Movies


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

131. The Ghost Writer

Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Roman Polanski
Actors: Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan, Kim Cattrall, Olivia Williams
Plot: When a man is hired to finish the memoirs of a former British prime minister, he uncovers information that puts his life in jeopardy.

132. Affliction

Year of Release: 1998
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Paul Schrader
Actors: Nick Nolte, Sissy Spacek, James Coburn, Willem Dafoe

133. Game Night

Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Francis Daley, Jonathan Goldstein
Actors: Jason Bateman, Rachel McAdams, Kyle Chandler, Jesse Plemons
Plot: A group of friends who routinely get together for game night find themselves playing for real stakes when they become part of an actual murder mystery.

134. The Changeling

Year of Release: 1980
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Peter Medak
Actors: George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Melvyn Douglas, Jean Marsh
Plot: A man staying at a secluded historical mansion, finds his life being haunted by the presence of a specter.

135. Diva

Year of Release: 1982
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jean-Jacques Beineix
Actors: Wilhelmenia Fernandez, Frédéric Andréi, Richard Bohringer, Thuy An Luu

136. It Comes at Night

Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Trey Edward Shults
Actors: Joel Edgerton, Riley Keough, Christopher Abbott, Carmen Ejogo
Plot: An isolated home houses a family as the world faces an unnatural threat. After establishing a tenuous order, with his wife and son, a father faces a new test when a young family shows up seeking refuge. Although the two families work together, paranoia and mistrust begin to build as something inside the father also builds and he realized to save his own family, may cost him everything else.

137. Basic Instinct

Year of Release: 1992
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Actors: Sharon Stone, Michael Douglas, Denis Arndt, Jeanne Tripplehorn
Plot: A police detective is seduced by a possible murder suspect when she convinces him she is innocent all the while playing mind games and writing a book about him. Passion stirs in this erotic thriller.

138. A Simple Favor

Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Paul Feig
Actors: Anna Kendrick, Blake Lively, Henry Golding, Joshua Satine
Plot: A mother and budding vlogger, Stephanie finds herself in the middle of an intriguing and dangerous mystery when she attempts to figure out what happened to her friend, Emily, who suddenly goes missing from their small town.

139. Dead Again

Year of Release: 1991
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Actors: Kenneth Branagh, Andy Garcia, Emma Thompson, Robin Williams
Plot: A husband and wife find out that the wife has been reincarnated after the wife has been having very vivid dreams about her past. She finds out that in order to save herself in her future, she has to find out exactly what happened to her in her past so she doesn't repeat the same mistake.

140. Theater of Blood

Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Douglas Hickox
Actors: Vincent Price, Diana Rigg, Ian Hendry, Harry Andrews
Plot: A theater actor seeks revenge on the critics that scorned him by killing them based on famous death scenes in Shakespeare's plays.

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