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Best Mystery Movies of the 1960s, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
62 mystery films from the 1960s are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is Psycho (1960), at 8.5 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.2. Biggest split between audiences and critics: Alphaville, 6.9 on IMDb against 92 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Psycho '1960 | Horror / Thriller / Mystery | 8.5 | 97% | 97 | 8.4 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 2 | 2001: A Space Odyssey '1968 | Sci-Fi / Mystery | 8.3 | 91% | 84 | 8.0 | Stanley Kubrick |
| 3 | High and Low '1963 | Drama / Crime / Thriller / Mystery | 8.4 | 97% | 90 | 8.4 | Akira Kurosawa |
| 4 | In the Heat of the Night '1967 | Crime / Drama / Mystery | 7.9 | 96% | 76 | 7.7 | Norman Jewison |
| 5 | Charade '1963 | Comedy / Mystery / Romance | 7.8 | 95% | 83 | 7.7 | Stanley Donen |
| 6 | L'Avventura '1960 | Drama / Mystery / Romance | 7.7 | 94% | - | 7.5 | Michelangelo Antonioni |
| 7 | The Innocents '1961 | Horror / Mystery | 7.7 | 95% | 88 | 7.5 | Jack Clayton |
| 8 | The Trial '1962 | Crime / Drama / Mystery | 7.6 | 84% | - | 7.4 | Orson Welles |
| 9 | Pitfall '1962 | Mystery / Fantasy / Crime | 7.5 | 100% | - | 7.3 | Hiroshi Teshigahara |
| 10 | Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte '1964 | Horror / Mystery / Thriller | 7.5 | 84% | - | 7.3 | Robert Aldrich |
| 11 | Blow-Up '1966 | Drama / Mystery / Thriller | 7.4 | 87% | 82 | 7.3 | Michelangelo Antonioni |
| 12 | The Saragossa Manuscript '1966 | Fantasy / Mystery / Drama | 7.8 | 94% | - | 7.7 | Wojciech Has |
| 13 | A Shot in the Dark '1964 | Comedy / Mystery / Crime | 7.3 | 94% | 70 | 7.2 | Blake Edwards |
| 14 | Taste of Fear '1961 | Thriller / Mystery / Horror | 7.4 | 100% | 65 | 7.1 | Seth Holt |
| 15 | Shock Corridor '1963 | Drama / Thriller / Mystery | 7.3 | 94% | - | 7.0 | Samuel Fuller |
| 16 | Murder She Said '1961 | Comedy / Crime / Drama / Mystery | 7.3 | 90% | - | 7.3 | George Pollock |
| 17 | Bunny Lake Is Missing '1965 | Mystery / Thriller | 7.3 | 87% | 77 | 7.3 | Otto Preminger |
| 18 | Youth of the Beast '1963 | Thriller / Crime / Action / Mystery | 7.3 | 86% | - | 7.0 | Seijun Suzuki |
| 19 | Murder at the Gallop '1963 | Comedy / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller | 7.2 | 100% | - | 7.1 | George Pollock |
| 20 | The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse '1960 | Crime / Mystery / Thriller | 6.9 | 100% | - | 6.8 | Fritz Lang |
| 21 | Tales of Terror '1962 | Horror / Comedy / Mystery / Thriller | 6.8 | 71% | 68 | 6.7 | Roger Corman |
| 22 | The Ghost and Mr. Chicken '1966 | Comedy / Mystery / Romance | 7.3 | 67% | - | 6.7 | Alan Rafkin |
| 23 | Mirage '1965 | Mystery / Thriller | 7.2 | 100% | - | 7.1 | Edward Dmytryk |
| 24 | The Assassin '1961 | Drama / Crime / Mystery / Thriller | 7.0 | - | - | 6.9 | Elio Petri |
| 25 | The Premature Burial '1962 | Horror / Drama / Mystery / Thriller | 6.5 | 50% | - | 6.3 | Roger Corman |
| 26 | The Night of the Generals '1967 | Thriller / Mystery / War / Crime | 7.2 | 43% | - | 6.8 | Anatole Litvak |
| 27 | Carnival of Souls '1962 | Horror / Mystery / Fantasy | 7.0 | 87% | - | 7.0 | Herk Harvey |
| 28 | The Sleeping Car Murders '1965 | Crime / Thriller / Mystery | 7.2 | - | - | 6.9 | Costa-Gavras |
| 29 | Marnie '1964 | Thriller / Mystery / Romance | 7.1 | 78% | 73 | 7.1 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 30 | Blood and Black Lace '1964 | Crime / Horror / Mystery | 7.1 | 75% | - | 7.3 | Mario Bava |
| 31 | The Bride Wore Black '1968 | Crime / Drama / Mystery | 7.2 | 85% | - | 7.1 | François Truffaut |
| 32 | Murder Most Foul '1964 | Comedy / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller | 7.1 | - | - | 7.1 | George Pollock |
| 33 | Midnight Lace '1960 | Mystery / Thriller | 6.8 | 83% | 60 | 6.6 | David Miller |
| 34 | The Pit and the Pendulum '1961 | Horror / Mystery / Drama | 7.0 | 89% | 78 | 6.8 | Roger Corman |
| 35 | Murder Ahoy '1964 | Drama / Thriller / Crime / Mystery / Comedy | 7.0 | - | - | 7.1 | George Pollock |
| 36 | The Girl Who Knew Too Much '1963 | Horror / Thriller / Mystery | 6.9 | 71% | - | 6.9 | Mario Bava |
| 37 | The Killers '1964 | Crime / Mystery | 7.0 | 83% | 72 | 6.9 | Don Siegel |
| 38 | Even the Wind Is Afraid '1968 | Mystery / Horror / Drama | 7.2 | - | - | 7.9 | Carlos Enrique Taboada |
| 39 | We Still Kill the Old Way '1967 | Mystery / Drama / Crime | 7.0 | - | - | 6.7 | Elio Petri |
| 40 | The Prize '1963 | Mystery / Thriller | 6.8 | 45% | - | 6.7 | Mark Robson |
| 41 | The List of Adrian Messenger '1963 | Mystery / Thriller | 6.8 | 64% | - | 6.7 | John Huston |
| 42 | Theorem '1968 | Mystery / Drama | 7.0 | 83% | - | 7.0 | Pier Paolo Pasolini |
| 43 | The City of the Dead '1960 | Mystery / Horror | 6.7 | 75% | - | 6.5 | John Llewellyn Moxey |
| 44 | Angelique: The Road to Versailles '1965 | Mystery / Romance | 6.5 | - | - | 6.6 | Bernard Borderie |
| 45 | Alphaville '1965 | Drama / Sci-Fi / Mystery | 6.9 | 92% | 92 | 6.9 | Jean-Luc Godard |
| 46 | Matango '1963 | Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Drama / Mystery / Fantasy | 6.4 | - | - | 6.7 | Ishirō Honda |
| 47 | Ten Little Indians '1965 | Crime / Mystery / Thriller | 6.6 | - | - | 6.3 | George Pollock |
| 48 | The Deadly Affair '1967 | Thriller / Mystery / Drama | 6.7 | - | - | 6.3 | Sidney Lumet |
| 49 | The House That Screamed '1969 | Horror / Mystery / Thriller | 6.8 | - | - | 6.5 | Chicho Ibáñez Serrador |
| 50 | Night Tide '1961 | Romance / Mystery / Horror / Thriller | 6.4 | 86% | - | 6.4 | Curtis Harrington |
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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