Top Mystery Movies


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

271. Vivarium

Year of Release: 2019
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Mystery/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Lorcan Finnegan
Actors: Jesse Eisenberg, Imogen Poots, Senan Jennings, Jonathan Aris, Eanna Hardwicke, Molly McCann
Plot: A young couple looking for the perfect house instead find themselves trapped in a labyrinthine nightmare of suburbia where every house looks identical.

272. The Conjuring: Last Rites

Year of Release: 2025
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Michael Chaves
Actors: Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Mia Tomlinson, Kíla Lord Cassidy, Ben Hardy, Kate Fahy
Plot: The Warrens have all but retired from the business of looking into supernatural events, mostly due to Ed's heart health, as they stick to lectures even if the interest seems to be waning. Their daughter, Judy, is in a serious relationship with former police officer Tony, even as she begins having some unexpected episodes much like Lorraine. Everything changes, however, when the Smurl family in West Pittston, Pennsylvania begins to experience frightening occurrences. When close friend Father Gordon dies shortly after visiting the Smurl household, Judy is drawn to figure out why - and the Warrens follow, not knowing the answer is connected to their own past.

273. Nightwatch ( Nattevagten )

Year of Release: 1994
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: Danish
Genre: Horror/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ole Bornedal
Actors: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Sofie Gråbøl, Kim Bodnia, Lotte Andersen, Ulf Pilgaard, Rikke Louise Andersson
Plot: The new night watchman in a morgue is suspected of murdering and scalping prostitutes, but he suspects his best friend of being the real killer.

274. Stay

Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Marc Forster
Actors: Ewan McGregor, Ryan Gosling, Naomi Watts, Bob Hoskins, Janeane Garofalo, Kate Burton
Plot: This movie focuses on the attempts of a psychiatrist to prevent one of his
patients from committing suicide, while trying to maintain his own grip on
reality.

275. Spider

Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: David Cronenberg
Actors: Ralph Fiennes, Miranda Richardson, Gabriel Byrne, Lynn Redgrave, John Neville, Philip Craig
Plot: A schizophrenic man moves into a halfway house for the mentally ill in London after being institutionalized for 20 years. As memories from his past creep in on his life, he slides farther away from reality.

276. Mortal Thoughts

Year of Release: 1991
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Alan Rudolph
Actors: Demi Moore, Glenne Headly, Bruce Willis, Harvey Keitel, John Pankow, Billie Neal
Plot: A woman (Demi Moore) is telling a detective (Harvey Keitel) the story of
how her best friend's husband was brutally attacked and what she did to
stop it.

277. The Deep

Year of Release: 1977
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Mystery
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Peter Yates
Actors: Robert Shaw, Jacqueline Bisset, Nick Nolte, Louis Gossett Jr., Eli Wallach, Bob Minor
Plot: In Bermuda a pair of underwater divers discover a shipwreck and learn it could contain vast wealth, including a load of morphine. Things get complicated when a local drug lord learns of find and seeks the drugs for himself.

278. The Big Sleep

Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Michael Winner
Actors: Robert Mitchum, Sarah Miles, Richard Boone, Candy Clark, James Stewart, Joan Collins

279. Swimming Pool

Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: François Ozon
Actors: Charlotte Rampling, Ludivine Sagnier, Charles Dance, Jean-Marie Lamour, Marc Fayolle, Mireille Mossé
Plot: A prim, conservative and very successful mystery author takes up her publisher's offer to use his country house in the off season for a relaxing change of pace. The appearance of his uninhibited daughter gives a jolt to her life and her writing.

280. Inferno

Year of Release: 1980
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Horror/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Dario Argento
Actors: Leigh McCloskey, Irene Miracle, Eleonora Giorgi, Daria Nicolodi, Sacha Pitoëff, Alida Valli

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