Top Mystery Movies


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

111. 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.

112. The Naked City

Year of Release: 1948
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jules Dassin
Actors: Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart, Don Taylor, Frank Conroy, Ted de Corsia
Plot: A blond model was murdered. Lt. Dan Muldoon (Barry Fitzgerald) was given the assignment of the case. Detective Jimmy Halloran (Don Taylor) aids with the legwork. They investigate a myriad of people to resolve the difficult case including a friend of the victim Ruth Morrison (Dorothy Hart).

113. The Lady from Shanghai

Year of Release: 1948
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Mystery/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Orson Welles
Actors: Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth, Everett Sloane, Ted de Corsia, Glenn Anders, Gus Schilling
Plot: A sailer gets mixed up with a gorgeous woman and a murder plot in which he may or may not be involved in.

114. Ju-On: The Grudge

Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Horror/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Takashi Shimizu
Actors: Megumi Okina, Misaki Ito, Misa Uehara, Yui Ichikawa, Kanji Tsuda, Kayako Shibata
Plot: A house with a violent past curses anyone who steps inside.

115. In the Mouth of Madness

Year of Release: 1995
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Carpenter
Actors: Sam Neill, David Warner, Jürgen Prochnow, Peter Jason, Julie Carmen, John Glover
Plot: When horror author Sutter Cane disappears, an insurance agent has to track him down. But the closer he gets to finding him, the more he finds the walls of reality and fiction bleeding together.

116. The Snake Pit

Year of Release: 1948
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Anatole Litvak
Actors: Olivia de Havilland, Mark Stevens, Leo Genn, Celeste Holm, Glenn Langan, Helen Craig
Plot: Virginia Cunningham wakes up in state mental asylum with no memory of how she got there. Through flashbacks, we see her relationship with her husband, Robert, and early symptoms to her current plight. Dr. Mark Kik attempts to get the root of the problem while fear and the regimental attitude keep Virginia in a constant state of misery.

117. Who Can Kill a Child? ( Quién puede matar a un niño? )

Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Horror/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Narciso Ibáñez Serrador
Actors: Lewis Fiander, Prunella Ransome, Miguel Narros, Luis Ciges, María Luisa Arias, Antonio Canal

118. Bubba Ho-Tep

Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Don Coscarelli
Actors: Bruce Campbell, Ossie Davis, Heidi Marnhout, Ella Joyce, Bob Ivy, Daniel Roebuck
Plot: Two men in a nursing home who claim they are Elvis (Campbell) and JFK (Davis) battle delusions and reality as they try to save their fellow nursing home companions from evil.

119. Marnie

Year of Release: 1964
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Mystery/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Actors: Tippi Hedren, Martin Gabel, Sean Connery, Louise Latham, Diane Baker, Alan Napier
Plot: A troubled young kleptomaniac is blackmailed into marrying one of the men from whom she stole. Will he be able to unlock the secret to her neuroses before it's too late?

120. Another Thin Man

Year of Release: 1939
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Actors: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Virginia Grey, Otto Kruger, C. Aubrey Smith, Nat Pendleton
Plot: In this third film of The Thin Man series, Nick and Nora Charles are invited to spend the weekend at the house of Nora's father's former business partner Colonel Burr McKay. When McKay is murdered, Nick is once again called upon to solve the murder whose prime suspect involves a man wanting revenge for a past injustice by McKay.

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