101. Suspicion
Year of Release: 1941
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Actors: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce, Dame May Whitty, Isabel Jeans
Plot: A would-be spinster is swept off her feet by a dashing stranger, only to suspect that he is a murderer. Is she his next intended victim, or is her overactive imagination getting the best of her?
102. Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Mystery
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Philip Kaufman
Actors: Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Jeff Goldblum, Veronica Cartwright, Leonard Nimoy, Art Hindle
Plot: In San Francisco a group of people are brought together when they notice friends and relatives somehow changing. As more and more people are affected, they soon realize an alien life-form is behind the changes and must act before they are all taken.
103. The Last Wave
Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Peter Weir
Actors: Richard Chamberlain, Olivia Hamnett, David Gulpilil, Frederick Parslow, Vivean Gray, Nandjiwarra Amagula
Plot: A Sydney lawyer is called on to defend five Aboriginals in court over a ritualized murder. Determined to break their silence, he is drawn deeper into a prophesy that portends an Armageddon where all shall drown.
104. The Three Faces of Eve
Year of Release: 1957
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Nunnally Johnson
Actors: Joanne Woodward, David Wayne, Lee J. Cobb, Edwin Jerome, Nancy Kulp, Douglas Spencer
Plot: Eve White is sometimes Eve Black. A woman with dueling personalities has hidden the reason for her suffering from even herself. Joanne Woodward won the Oscar for this role.
105. Very Long Engagement, A ( long dimanche de fiançailles, Un )
Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Actors: Audrey Tautou, Gaspard Ulliel, Dominique Pinon, Chantal Neuwirth, André Dussollier, Jodie Foster
Plot: Set in France near the end of World War I in the deadly trenches of the Somme, in the gilded Parisien halls of power, and in the modest home of an indomitable provincial girl and her relentless search to find her fiancée, who has disappeared. He is one of five French soldiers believed to have been court-martialed under mysterious circumstances and pushed out of an allied trench into an almost-certain death in no-man's land. All an investigation into the arbitrary nature of secrecy, the absurdity of war, and the enduring passion, intuition and tenacity of the human heart.
106. Saboteur
Year of Release: 1942
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Mystery
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Actors: Priscilla Lane, Robert Cummings, Otto Kruger, Alan Baxter, Clem Bevans, Norman Lloyd
Plot: A factory worker (Robert Cummings) is blamed for an act of sabotage at an airplane factory. The fugitive then attempts to track down the man who framed him, uncovering a wealthy network of domestic terrorists along the way.
107. You Were Never Really Here
Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Lynne Ramsay
Actors: Joaquin Phoenix, Ekaterina Samsonov, Alessandro Nivola, Alex Manette, John Doman, Judith Roberts
Plot: A missing teen girl spurs a tormented and brutal enforcer on a path of violence against corruption and power leading to a personal transformation.
108. Mildred Pierce
Year of Release: 1945
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Michael Curtiz
Actors: Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden, Ann Blyth, Bruce Bennett
Plot: A woman learns the hard way that money truly does not buy happiness. In Mildred's quest to reach the top, she drives away her husband, raises a selfish daughter, hooks up with a duplicitous lover and ultimately ends up at the bottom again.
109. In a Lonely Place
Year of Release: 1950
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Nicholas Ray
Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy, Carl Benton Reid, Art Smith, Jeff Donnell
Plot: Bogart stars as a boozy, moody Hollywood screenwriter who may or may not be a twisted murderer.
110. A Soldier's Story
Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Norman Jewison
Actors: Denzel Washington, Howard E. Rollins Jr., Adolph Caesar, Robert Townsend, David Alan Grier, Patti LaBelle
Plot: When a black soldier is found murdered in the deep south, a no-nonsense army attorney, who is also black, is brought in to get to the bottom of the crime. Despite the tense racial situation, he learns the truth about the soldier, and closes in on his killer.