Top Mystery Movies


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

21. In the Heat of the Night

Year of Release: 1967
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Norman Jewison
Actors: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates, Lee Grant, Larry Gates, James Patterson
Plot: A black man is sent to investigate a murder in a racist southern state, where is met with racism, bigotry, and scrutiny.

22. Strangers on a Train

Year of Release: 1951
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Actors: Ruth Roman, Farley Granger, Robert Walker, Leo G. Carroll, Patricia Hitchcock, Kasey Rogers
Plot: A man develops a theory of how complete strangers can get away with murder, and tells a tennis star of his intentions. Who will go through with what?

23. The Illusionist

Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Neil Burger
Actors: Edward Norton, Paul Giamatti, Jessica Biel, Rufus Sewell, Eddie Marsan, Aaron Johnson
Plot: In Vienna around the turn of the century, fantastic magician uses his abilities to get the love of a woman.

24. Arsenic and Old Lace

Year of Release: 1944
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Frank Capra
Actors: Cary Grant, Peter Lorre, Josephine Hull, Jean Adair, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey
Plot: A nephew of two aunts comes home to find that his aunts may have been killing people and storing them in the basement, as if it was normal - he finds out on his wedding day.

25. Gone Baby Gone

Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ben Affleck
Actors: Casey Affleck, Morgan Freeman, Michelle Monaghan, Amy Madigan, Robert Wahlberg, Ed Harris
Plot: A young girl is kidnapped in the Boston area which stretches two detectives professional and home lives to the brink. Based on a novel.

26. Mulholland Drive

Year of Release: 2001
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: David Lynch
Actors: Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Justin Theroux, Ann Miller, Brent Briscoe, Dan Hedaya
Plot: A car accident leaves a woman amnesic, but she teams up with a young, eager Hollywood hopeful in search of clues that lead them both deeper into a world that is part dream and part reality.

27. Rope

Year of Release: 1948
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Mystery/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Actors: James Stewart, John Dall, Cedric Hardwicke, Farley Granger, Constance Collier, Douglas Dick
Plot: A group of men strangle one of their friends and hide him in a closet, then invite guest over to test how well they committed the crime - think they had achieved the perfect crime.

28. Charade

Year of Release: 1963
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Mystery/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Stanley Donen
Actors: Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant, James Coburn, Walter Matthau, George Kennedy, Dominique Minot
Plot: A women living in Paris is being chased down by different groups as they
are all after money that her murdered ex-husband had stolen. Who can she
trust to protect her?

29. The Big Sleep

Year of Release: 1946
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Mystery/Crime
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Howard Hawks
Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely, Martha Vickers, Dorothy Malone, Peggy Knudsen
Plot: A private detective witnesses murder and a serious of criminal events during his investigation - he is not sure who to believe or who to love.

30. Rebecca

Year of Release: 1940
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Mystery/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Actors: Joan Fontaine, Laurence Olivier, George Sanders, Judith Anderson, Nigel Bruce, Reginald Denny
Plot: A young woman marries a widower to live in a gigantic mansion. Is the dead wife still controlling her husband?

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