Top Mystery Movies


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

201. Fire in the Sky

Year of Release: 1993
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Mystery/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Robert Lieberman
Actors: D.B. Sweeney, Robert Patrick, Craig Sheffer, Peter Berg
Plot: A group of men return from clearing brush in the woods with a story that one of them was abducted by aliens. Soon, they are accused of murdering the missing man, but when he reappears, a startling story emerges.

202. A Letter to Three Wives

Year of Release: 1949
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Actors: Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern, Kirk Douglas
Plot: Addie Ross has just delivered a letter to her three married friends: she has run off with one of their husbands - but they won't find out who until later that night.

203. Sleuth

Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Actors: Jude Law, Michael Caine, Eve Channing, Alec Cawthorne
Plot: A remake of the 1972 classic cat and mouse game about a rich man who puts his wife's boyfriend through various games in which he can't tell when the man is being serious.

204. The Dead Girl

Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Karen Moncrieff
Actors: Toni Collette, Piper Laurie, Giovanni Ribisi, Rose Byrne

205. Dead and Buried

Year of Release: 1981
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Gary Sherman
Actors: James Farentino, Melody Anderson, Jack Albertson, Robert Englund
Plot: Citizens of a small town believe a series of murders have been committed by the eccentric local coroner.

206. All Good Things

Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Andrew Jarecki
Actors: Ryan Gosling, Kirsten Dunst, Lily Rabe, Frank Langella
Plot: Based on the true story of Robert Durst - In the 1980s the son of a real estate magnate marries a working-class girl and escape the hectic life of New York for country living. When they are drawn back to the city, and his wife gains more independence, he grows more violent until, one day, she disappears without a trace.

207. In My Father's Den

Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Mystery/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Brad McGann
Actors: Matthew Macfadyen, Miranda Otto, Emily Barclay, Colin Moy

208. 8MM

Year of Release: 1999
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Joel Schumacher
Actors: Nicolas Cage, Joaquin Phoenix, James Gandolfini, Peter Stormare
Plot: A surveillance specialist/private eye is hired by a wealthy widow to track down the origins of a snuff film she found in her husbands possession and find out if it is real or not.

209. Snow Falling on Cedars

Year of Release: 1999
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Scott Hicks
Actors: Ethan Hawke, Youki Kudoh, Reeve Carney, Max von Sydow

210. Dead Reckoning

Year of Release: 1947
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: John Cromwell
Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Lizabeth Scott, Morris Carnovsky, Charles Cane
Plot: Bogart and a buddy return from WW II to go to an award ceremony, but quickly get wrapped up with shady underworld types. Of course, there's a dame involved.

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