Top Mystery Movies


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

81. The Client

Year of Release: 1994
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Mystery
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Joel Schumacher
Actors: Susan Sarandon, Tommy Lee Jones, Mary-Louise Parker, Anthony LaPaglia
Plot: A young boy witnesses the suicide of a prominent mob lawyer, but not before learning a very big secret. He tracks down an attorney, Reggie Love, to help him through but soon they are both caught between the mob who wants the secret buried and a gruff federal prosecutor who wants the truth.

82. Sweet Smell of Success

Year of Release: 1957
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Actors: Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison, Martin Milner
Plot: Columnist J.J. Hunsecker can make or break a career with a single newspaper item, and has no qualms with so doing. Press agent Sidney Falco aspires to be the next Hunsecker and has cast off morals to do Hunsecker's bidding, including breaking up the romance between Hunsecker's sister and a young musician. An excellent, memorable script highlights this look at the symbiotic relationship between two hearts of darkness.

83. Black Christmas aka Silent Night, Evil Night

Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Bob Clark
Actors: Olivia Hussey, Keir Dullea, Margot Kidder, John Saxon
Plot: A sorority house is terrorized by a stranger who makes frightening phone calls and then murders the sorority sisters during Christmas break.

84. Blow Out

Year of Release: 1981
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Brian De Palma
Actors: John Travolta, Nancy Allen, John Lithgow, Dennis Franz
Plot: A sound technician inadvertently records a car crash one evening while sampling noises. As he listens to the recording, he realizes that it wasn't an accident.

85. Alphaville, a Strange Adventure of Lemmy Caution ( Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution )

Year of Release: 1965
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Mystery/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Actors: Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff
Plot: A American detective is sent to a distant planet where logic rules but emotion and freedom has been suppressed. His intrusion threatens to bring Alphaville down.

86. Village of the Damned

Year of Release: 1960
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Wolf Rilla
Actors: George Sanders, Barbara Shelley, Martin Stephens, Michael Gwynn
Plot: An entire small English village loses consciousness for a day; later every woman in the village discovers she's pregnant. The children that are born to them all look similar and share unusual powers.

87. I'm Not Scared ( Io non ho paura )

Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Gabriele Salvatores
Actors: Giuseppe Cristiano, Mattia Di Pierro, Adriana Conserva, Fabio Tetta

88. 10 Cloverfield Lane

Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Mystery
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Dan Trachtenberg
Actors: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, John Goodman, John Gallagher Jr., Suzanne Cryer
Plot: Following a car accident, a young woman wakes up in a strange place. The man keeping her in his basement claims a chemical attack has left the outside world uninhabitable.

89. The Bone Collector

Year of Release: 1999
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Phillip Noyce
Actors: Denzel Washington, Angelina Jolie, Queen Latifah, Michael Rooker
Plot: A quadriplegic ex-police officer helps a rookie cop catch a killer.

90. Foreign Correspondent

Year of Release: 1940
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Actors: Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall, George Sanders
Plot: A New York reporter, tired of the city grind, is assigned as the European correspondent in order to get the inside story on a new treaty. But things turn out much more exciting than expected as he finds himself in the middle of spy ring.

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