Top Mystery Movies


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

151. D.O.A.

Year of Release: 1950
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Rudolph Maté
Actors: Edmond O'Brien, Pamela Britton, Luther Adler, Beverly Garland, Lynn Baggett, William Ching

152. Meet Joe Black

Year of Release: 1998
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Fantasy/Mystery
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Martin Brest
Actors: Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Claire Forlani, Jake Weber, Marcia Gay Harden, Jeffrey Tambor
Plot: Just about to celebrate his 65th birthday, media mogul Bill Parrish meets death - literally in the form of a young man named Joe Black. Yet something happens as Black, at first only interested in taking Bill with him, instead finds himself entranced by his daughter, Susan, and life itself.

153. Shutter

Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: Thai
Genre: Horror/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Banjong Pisanthanakun, Parkpoom Wongpoom
Actors: Ananda Everingham, Natthaweeranuch Thongmee, Achita Sikamana, Unnop Chanpaibool, Chachchaya Chalemphol, Achita Wuthinounsurasit
Plot: After a party with friends, a young photographer and his girlfriend flee the scene of an accident after they hit a girl. Following the incident strange images begin to appear in his photographs and it soon becomes apparent the girl from the accident is somehow involved and all the friends are in jeopardy.

154. Nightmare Alley

Year of Release: 2021
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Actors: Rooney Mara, Cate Blanchett, Paul Anderson, Bradley Cooper, Mary Steenburgen, Toni Collette
Plot: A carney with a talent for manipulation leaves the sideshow behind for the big city - but not before leaving a wake of chaos behind. Using the talents he's learned to swindle millionaires - he finds his match in a brilliant, devious psychologist - who becomes his greatest challenge and ultimate downfall.

155. Hearts in Atlantis

Year of Release: 2001
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Scott Hicks
Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Anton Yelchin, Hope Davis, Mika Boorem, David Morse, Alan Tudyk

156. Dark Night of the Scarecrow

Year of Release: 1981
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Frank De Felitta
Actors: Charles Durning, Robert F. Lyons, Claude Earl Jones, Lane Smith, Tonya Crowe, Larry Drake
Plot: A mentally-challenged young man, dressed as a scarecrow, saves a young
woman, but a crowd blames him for the attack and kills him. When members
of the posse start dying, it appears the man has come back from the dead
seeking vengeance.

157. The Trouble with Harry

Year of Release: 1955
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Mystery/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Actors: Edmund Gwenn, John Forsythe, Shirley MacLaine, Royal Dano, Jerry Mathers, Mildred Natwick
Plot: Hitchcock dispenses with much of the suspense in favor of macabre humor. In a beautiful Vermont village in autumn, Harry's dead body appears. Various townspeople, believing they have killed Harry, bury him, only to discover that they were not the culprit, requiring them to unearth Harry--again and again and again.

158. Murder on the Orient Express

Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Actors: Kenneth Branagh, Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Daisy Ridley, Penélope Cruz, Judi Dench
Plot: Based on the classic murder-mystery from Agatha Christie - a lavish train ride for the well-to-do turns into something much more when a murder occurs. Thirteen strangers - one culprit and one dashing investigator, Hercule Poirot - everyone claims their innocence but the truth will come out - but will it be soon enough before another murder?

159. My Name is Julia Ross

Year of Release: 1945
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Joseph H. Lewis
Actors: Nina Foch, Dame May Whitty, George Macready, Roland Varno, Anita Sharp-Bolster, Doris Lloyd
Plot: A woman is employed by a employment agency to work for the widow Mrs. Hughes. Arriving at the house she is surprised when, two days later, she awakens in a different house, with new clothes and new identity - daughter-in-law of Mrs. Hughes - told she suffered a nervous breakdown. But it is all a plot by Ralph, the son of Mrs. Hughes - to maker her his new bride - for the woman he murdered. And she just may suffer the same fate.

160. Unknown Woman, The ( sconosciuta, La )

Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
Actors: Kseniya Rappoport, Pierfrancesco Favino, Alessandro Haber, Claudia Gerini, Michele Placido, Piera Degli Esposti

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