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Best Mystery Movies of All Time, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
722 mystery films are in our catalog; the 100 best are ranked below. Top of the list is Se7en ('1995), at 8.6 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.8. Biggest split between audiences and critics: Saw, 7.6 on IMDb against 46 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Se7en '1995 | Crime / Mystery / Thriller | 8.6 | 84% | 65 | 8.4 | David Fincher |
| 2 | Psycho '1960 | Horror / Thriller / Mystery | 8.5 | 97% | 97 | 8.4 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 3 | Rear Window '1954 | Thriller / Mystery / Drama | 8.4 | 99% | 100 | 8.3 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 4 | Witness for the Prosecution '1957 | Drama / Mystery / Crime | 8.4 | 100% | 76 | 8.2 | Billy Wilder |
| 5 | The Prestige '2006 | Drama / Mystery / Sci-Fi | 8.5 | 77% | 66 | 8.2 | Christopher Nolan |
| 6 | 2001: A Space Odyssey '1968 | Sci-Fi / Mystery | 8.3 | 90% | 84 | 8.0 | Stanley Kubrick |
| 7 | High and Low '1963 | Drama / Crime / Thriller / Mystery | 8.4 | 97% | 90 | 8.4 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 8 | Memento '2000 | Mystery / Thriller | 8.4 | 94% | 83 | 8.2 | Christopher Nolan |
| 9 | Citizen Kane '1941 | Mystery / Drama | 8.2 | 99% | 100 | 8.0 | Orson Welles |
| 10 | Vertigo '1958 | Mystery / Romance / Thriller | 8.2 | 94% | 100 | 8.1 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 11 | The Thing '1982 | Horror / Mystery / Sci-Fi | 8.2 | 85% | 57 | 8.1 | John Carpenter |
| 12 | The Third Man '1949 | Thriller / Mystery | 8.1 | 99% | 97 | 7.9 | Carol Reed |
| 13 | Rashomon '1950 | Crime / Drama / Mystery | 8.1 | 98% | 98 | 8.0 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 14 | The Sixth Sense '1999 | Mystery / Thriller / Drama | 8.2 | 86% | 64 | 8.0 | M. Night Shyamalan |
| 15 | Sherlock Jr. '1924 | Action / Comedy / Mystery | 8.1 | 87% | - | 8.0 | Buster Keaton |
| 16 | Chinatown '1974 | Crime / Mystery / Thriller | 8.1 | 98% | 92 | 7.9 | Roman Polanski |
| 17 | Diabolique '1955 | Thriller / Mystery | 8.1 | 95% | - | 7.9 | Henri-Georges Clouzot |
| 18 | L.A. Confidential '1997 | Crime / Mystery / Thriller | 8.2 | 99% | 91 | 7.8 | Curtis Hanson |
| 19 | Shutter Island '2010 | Drama / Thriller / Mystery | 8.2 | 69% | 63 | 8.2 | Martin Scorsese |
| 20 | Oldboy '2003 | Thriller / Mystery | 8.3 | 82% | 78 | 8.2 | Park Chan-wook |
| 21 | Rebecca '1940 | Mystery / Romance / Thriller | 8.0 | 98% | 86 | 7.9 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 22 | Anatomy of a Murder '1959 | Crime / Drama / Mystery | 8.0 | 100% | 95 | 7.8 | Otto Preminger |
| 23 | Ugetsu '1953 | Fantasy / Drama / Mystery | 8.1 | 100% | - | 8.0 | Kenji Mizoguchi |
| 24 | Gone Girl '2014 | Mystery / Thriller / Drama | 8.1 | 88% | 79 | 7.9 | David Fincher |
| 25 | The Maltese Falcon '1941 | Mystery / Crime / Thriller | 7.9 | 99% | 97 | 7.7 | John Huston |
| 26 | The Big Sleep '1946 | Mystery / Crime / Thriller | 7.9 | 96% | 86 | 7.6 | Howard Hawks |
| 27 | Twelve Monkeys '1995 | Sci-Fi / Thriller / Mystery | 8.0 | 88% | 75 | 7.6 | Terry Gilliam |
| 28 | The Thin Man '1934 | Comedy / Mystery / Crime | 7.9 | 98% | 86 | 7.5 | W.S. Van Dyke |
| 29 | Laura '1944 | Drama / Mystery | 7.9 | 100% | - | 7.6 | Otto Preminger |
| 30 | In a Lonely Place '1950 | Thriller / Drama / Romance / Mystery | 7.9 | 96% | - | 7.6 | Nicholas Ray |
| 31 | Solaris '1972 | Drama / Sci-Fi / Mystery | 7.9 | 92% | 93 | 7.8 | Andrei Tarkovsky |
| 32 | In the Heat of the Night '1967 | Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller | 7.9 | 96% | 76 | 7.7 | Norman Jewison |
| 33 | All the President's Men '1976 | Drama / Mystery / Thriller | 7.9 | 95% | 84 | 7.7 | Alan J. Pakula |
| 34 | The Testament of Dr. Mabuse '1933 | Crime / Mystery / Thriller | 7.9 | 86% | - | 7.6 | Fritz Lang |
| 35 | Shadow of a Doubt '1943 | Thriller / Mystery / Crime | 7.8 | 100% | 94 | 7.5 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 36 | Sleuth '1972 | Thriller / Mystery / Crime | 7.9 | 90% | - | 7.7 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
| 37 | Donnie Darko '2001 | Fantasy / Drama / Mystery | 8.0 | 88% | 88 | 7.8 | Richard Kelly |
| 38 | Fanny and Alexander '1982 | Fantasy / Drama / Mystery | 8.1 | 100% | 100 | 7.8 | Ingmar Bergman |
| 39 | Charade '1963 | Comedy / Mystery / Romance | 7.8 | 95% | 83 | 7.7 | Stanley Donen |
| 40 | Gaslight '1944 | Thriller / Drama / Mystery / Crime | 7.8 | 94% | 78 | 7.5 | George Cukor |
| 41 | The Bourne Ultimatum '2007 | Action / Drama / Mystery / Thriller | 8.0 | 92% | 85 | 7.4 | Paul Greengrass |
| 42 | Stray Dog '1949 | Crime / Drama / Thriller / Mystery | 7.8 | 100% | - | 7.6 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 43 | Arrival '2016 | Drama / Sci-Fi / Mystery | 7.9 | 94% | 81 | 7.6 | Denis Villeneuve |
| 44 | The Batman '2022 | Crime / Mystery / Thriller | 7.8 | 85% | 72 | 7.7 | Matt Reeves |
| 45 | Knives Out '2019 | Comedy / Crime / Mystery | 7.9 | 97% | 82 | 7.8 | Rian Johnson |
| 46 | The Lady Vanishes '1938 | Mystery / Thriller | 7.7 | 98% | 98 | 7.4 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 47 | Meshes of the Afternoon '1943 | Mystery / Fantasy | 7.8 | 100% | - | 7.6 | Maya Deren |
| 48 | The Conversation '1974 | Crime / Drama / Mystery | 7.7 | 94% | 88 | 7.5 | Francis Ford Coppola |
| 49 | The Killers '1946 | Crime / Mystery / Thriller | 7.7 | 97% | - | 7.4 | Robert Siodmak |
| 50 | L'Avventura '1960 | Drama / Mystery / Romance | 7.7 | 94% | - | 7.5 | Michelangelo Antonioni |
| 51 | Mystic River '2003 | Thriller / Drama / Mystery / Crime | 7.9 | 89% | 84 | 7.7 | Clint Eastwood |
| 52 | The Innocents '1961 | Horror / Mystery | 7.7 | 95% | 88 | 7.5 | Jack Clayton |
| 53 | Le Corbeau '1943 | Mystery / Drama / Thriller | 7.8 | 97% | - | 7.5 | Henri-Georges Clouzot |
| 54 | Get Out '2017 | Mystery / Thriller / Horror | 7.8 | 98% | 85 | 7.6 | Jordan Peele |
| 55 | The Bourne Identity '2002 | Action / Mystery / Thriller | 7.8 | 84% | 68 | 7.5 | Doug Liman |
| 56 | The 39 Steps '1935 | Mystery / Thriller | 7.6 | 96% | 93 | 7.3 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 57 | Mississippi Burning '1988 | Drama / Crime / Mystery / Thriller | 7.8 | 79% | 65 | 7.7 | Alan Parker |
| 58 | Blue Velvet '1986 | Mystery / Thriller / Crime | 7.7 | 87% | 75 | 7.6 | David Lynch |
| 59 | The Hateful Eight '2015 | Drama / Mystery / Western | 7.8 | 74% | 68 | 7.8 | Quentin Tarantino |
| 60 | The Game '1997 | Drama / Thriller / Mystery | 7.7 | 77% | 63 | 7.6 | David Fincher |
| 61 | Incendies '2010 | Drama / War / Mystery | 8.3 | 91% | 80 | 8.1 | Denis Villeneuve |
| 62 | The Trial '1962 | Crime / Drama / Mystery | 7.6 | 84% | - | 7.4 | Orson Welles |
| 63 | Three Colors: Red '1994 | Drama / Mystery / Romance | 8.0 | 100% | 100 | 7.9 | Krzysztof Kieślowski |
| 64 | The Secret in Their Eyes '2009 | Mystery / Thriller / Drama | 8.2 | 89% | 80 | 8.0 | Juan José Campanella |
| 65 | Mulholland Drive '2001 | Thriller / Drama / Mystery | 7.9 | 83% | 87 | 7.8 | David Lynch |
| 66 | Jenny Lamour '1947 | Drama / Mystery / Thriller | 7.7 | 100% | 89 | 7.5 | Henri-Georges Clouzot |
| 67 | Bad Day at Black Rock '1955 | Western / Drama / Crime / Mystery / Thriller | 7.6 | 97% | - | 7.3 | John Sturges |
| 68 | A Letter to Three Wives '1949 | Romance / Drama / Mystery | 7.6 | 100% | - | 7.2 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
| 69 | After the Thin Man '1936 | Comedy / Mystery / Crime | 7.6 | 96% | 76 | 7.3 | W.S. Van Dyke |
| 70 | Zodiac '2007 | Crime / Mystery / Thriller | 7.7 | 90% | 79 | 7.5 | David Fincher |
| 71 | Portrait of Jennie '1948 | Drama / Romance / Fantasy / Mystery | 7.6 | 93% | - | 7.2 | William Dieterle |
| 72 | The Name of the Rose '1986 | Drama / Thriller / Mystery | 7.7 | 74% | 54 | 7.5 | Jean-Jacques Annaud |
| 73 | Hedgehog in the Fog '1975 | Animation / Mystery | 8.1 | - | - | 7.5 | Yuri Norstein |
| 74 | Spellbound '1945 | Drama / Crime / Mystery / Romance / Thriller | 7.5 | 86% | 78 | 7.4 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 75 | The Lady from Shanghai '1947 | Mystery / Crime / Thriller / Drama | 7.5 | 86% | - | 7.3 | Orson Welles |
| 76 | Dark Passage '1947 | Thriller / Mystery | 7.5 | 90% | 68 | 7.3 | Delmer Daves |
| 77 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo '2011 | Thriller / Crime / Mystery | 7.8 | 86% | 71 | 7.4 | David Fincher |
| 78 | The Naked City '1948 | Crime / Mystery / Thriller | 7.5 | 85% | 74 | 7.2 | Jules Dassin |
| 79 | The Snake Pit '1948 | Drama / Mystery | 7.5 | 100% | 76 | 7.1 | Anatole Litvak |
| 80 | Pitfall '1962 | Mystery / Fantasy / Crime | 7.5 | 100% | - | 7.3 | Hiroshi Teshigahara |
| 81 | Kiss Me Deadly '1955 | Mystery / Thriller / Crime | 7.5 | 98% | - | 7.2 | Robert Aldrich |
| 82 | Murder, My Sweet '1944 | Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller | 7.5 | 94% | - | 7.2 | Edward Dmytryk |
| 83 | The Long Goodbye '1973 | Mystery / Crime | 7.5 | 93% | 87 | 7.4 | Robert Altman |
| 84 | Deep Red '1975 | Horror / Mystery / Thriller | 7.5 | 94% | 89 | 7.7 | Dario Argento |
| 85 | The Invisible Guest '2017 | Drama / Mystery / Thriller | 8.0 | 67% | - | 8.1 | Oriol Paulo |
| 86 | The Tenant '1976 | Thriller / Mystery / Drama | 7.5 | 85% | 71 | 7.6 | Roman Polanski |
| 87 | Watchmen '2009 | Mystery / Action / Sci-Fi | 7.6 | 64% | 56 | 7.4 | Zack Snyder |
| 88 | To Catch a Thief '1955 | Mystery / Romance / Thriller | 7.4 | 95% | 82 | 7.3 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 89 | The Great Piggy Bank Robbery '1946 | Animation / Comedy / Mystery | 7.7 | - | - | 7.0 | Robert Clampett |
| 90 | The Man Who Knew Too Much '1956 | Thriller / Mystery / Drama | 7.4 | 89% | 76 | 7.4 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 91 | The Devil's Advocate '1997 | Horror / Drama / Mystery | 7.5 | 65% | 60 | 7.5 | Taylor Hackford |
| 92 | Saw '2004 | Horror / Mystery / Crime | 7.6 | 50% | 46 | 7.4 | James Wan |
| 93 | Eyes Wide Shut '1999 | Drama / Thriller / Mystery | 7.5 | 77% | 69 | 7.5 | Stanley Kubrick |
| 94 | Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte '1964 | Horror / Mystery / Thriller | 7.5 | 84% | - | 7.3 | Robert Aldrich |
| 95 | Vampyr '1932 | Horror / Fantasy / Mystery | 7.4 | 98% | - | 7.2 | Carl Theodor Dreyer |
| 96 | Blow-Up '1966 | Drama / Mystery / Thriller | 7.4 | 87% | 82 | 7.3 | Michelangelo Antonioni |
| 97 | High Plains Drifter '1973 | Western / Drama / Mystery | 7.4 | 91% | 69 | 7.3 | Clint Eastwood |
| 98 | Lucky Number Slevin '2006 | Drama / Thriller / Crime / Mystery | 7.7 | - | 53 | 7.5 | Paul McGuigan |
| 99 | The Others '2001 | Horror / Mystery / Thriller | 7.6 | 85% | 74 | 7.6 | Alejandro Amenábar |
| 100 | Foreign Correspondent '1940 | Thriller / Mystery / Action | 7.4 | 95% | 89 | 7.0 | Alfred Hitchcock |
Our catalog covers roughly the 8,800 most-rated films on TMDB, so lesser-known titles may be missing. Order uses a confidence-weighted IMDb score so a perfect score from a handful of votes does not beat a well-established classic; the scores shown are the raw ones.
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