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Best Mystery Movies of the 1990s, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
72 mystery films from the 1990s are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is Se7en (1995), at 8.6 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.2. Biggest split between audiences and critics: 8MM, 6.6 on IMDb against 21 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 | The Sixth Sense '1999 | Mystery / Thriller / Drama | 8.2 | 86% | 64 | 8.0 | M. Night Shyamalan |
| 3 | L.A. Confidential '1997 | Crime / Mystery / Thriller | 8.2 | 99% | 91 | 7.8 | Curtis Hanson |
| 4 | Twelve Monkeys '1995 | Sci-Fi / Thriller / Mystery | 8.0 | 88% | 75 | 7.6 | Terry Gilliam |
| 5 | The Game '1997 | Drama / Thriller / Mystery | 7.7 | 77% | 63 | 7.6 | David Fincher |
| 6 | Three Colors: Red '1994 | Drama / Mystery / Romance | 8.0 | 100% | 100 | 7.9 | Krzysztof Kieślowski |
| 7 | The Devil's Advocate '1997 | Horror / Drama / Mystery | 7.5 | 66% | 60 | 7.5 | Taylor Hackford |
| 8 | Eyes Wide Shut '1999 | Drama / Thriller / Mystery | 7.5 | 77% | 69 | 7.5 | Stanley Kubrick |
| 9 | Batman: Mask of the Phantasm '1993 | Animation / Crime / Mystery | 7.8 | 83% | 65 | 7.5 | Bruce Timm |
| 10 | Contact '1997 | Drama / Sci-Fi / Mystery | 7.5 | 69% | 62 | 7.5 | Robert Zemeckis |
| 11 | Glengarry Glen Ross '1992 | Crime / Drama / Mystery | 7.6 | 95% | 84 | 7.3 | James Foley |
| 12 | Lost Highway '1997 | Drama / Thriller / Mystery | 7.6 | 70% | 53 | 7.6 | David Lynch |
| 13 | Scream '1996 | Crime / Horror / Mystery | 7.4 | 78% | 66 | 7.4 | Wes Craven |
| 14 | Dark City '1998 | Mystery / Sci-Fi | 7.5 | - | 66 | 7.3 | Alex Proyas |
| 15 | Three Colors: White '1994 | Comedy / Drama / Mystery | 7.6 | 91% | 91 | 7.4 | Krzysztof Kieślowski |
| 16 | Sleepy Hollow '1999 | Fantasy / Thriller / Mystery / Horror | 7.3 | 71% | 65 | 7.2 | Tim Burton |
| 17 | Jacob's Ladder '1990 | Drama / Mystery / Horror | 7.4 | 71% | 62 | 7.4 | Adrian Lyne |
| 18 | The Player '1992 | Mystery / Drama / Thriller | 7.5 | 97% | 86 | 7.2 | Robert Altman |
| 19 | Pi '1998 | Mystery / Drama / Thriller | 7.3 | 88% | 72 | 7.1 | Darren Aronofsky |
| 20 | Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me '1992 | Drama / Mystery / Horror | 7.3 | 67% | 46 | 7.4 | David Lynch |
| 21 | Manhattan Murder Mystery '1993 | Comedy / Mystery | 7.3 | 94% | 71 | 7.2 | Woody Allen |
| 22 | Basic Instinct '1992 | Thriller / Mystery | 7.1 | 56% | 43 | 7.0 | Paul Verhoeven |
| 23 | Amistad '1997 | Drama / Mystery | 7.3 | 78% | 64 | 7.0 | Steven Spielberg |
| 24 | Dolores Claiborne '1995 | Crime / Drama / Mystery | 7.4 | 87% | 62 | 7.3 | Taylor Hackford |
| 25 | Cube '1997 | Thriller / Sci-Fi / Mystery | 7.1 | 61% | 61 | 6.8 | Vincenzo Natali |
| 26 | Arlington Road '1999 | Crime / Drama / Thriller / Mystery | 7.2 | 62% | 65 | 7.0 | Mark Pellington |
| 27 | Cure '1997 | Horror / Mystery / Crime | 7.5 | 94% | 71 | 7.6 | Kiyoshi Kurosawa |
| 28 | In the Mouth of Madness '1995 | Horror / Mystery | 7.1 | 61% | 53 | 7.2 | John Carpenter |
| 29 | The Thirteenth Floor '1999 | Thriller / Sci-Fi / Mystery | 7.0 | 29% | 36 | 7.1 | Josef Rusnak |
| 30 | The Firm '1993 | Drama / Mystery / Thriller | 6.9 | 77% | 58 | 6.7 | Sydney Pollack |
| 31 | The X-Files '1998 | Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller | 7.0 | 66% | 60 | 6.9 | Rob Bowman |
| 32 | Ace Ventura: Pet Detective '1994 | Comedy / Crime / Mystery | 6.9 | 48% | 37 | 6.6 | Tom Shadyac |
| 33 | Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island '1998 | Animation / Mystery / Horror | 7.8 | 89% | - | 7.7 | Jim Stenstrum |
| 34 | Stir of Echoes '1999 | Horror / Mystery / Thriller | 6.9 | 70% | 67 | 6.7 | David Koepp |
| 35 | Breakdown '1997 | Crime / Mystery / Thriller / Action / Drama | 7.0 | 83% | 74 | 7.0 | Jonathan Mostow |
| 36 | Presumed Innocent '1990 | Mystery / Crime / Thriller | 6.9 | 86% | 72 | 6.8 | Alan J. Pakula |
| 37 | True Crime '1999 | Crime / Thriller / Mystery / Drama | 6.6 | 59% | 64 | 6.5 | Clint Eastwood |
| 38 | The Long Kiss Goodnight '1996 | Crime / Action / Mystery / Thriller | 6.8 | 67% | 43 | 6.6 | Renny Harlin |
| 39 | Fire in the Sky '1993 | Sci-Fi / Mystery / Thriller / Drama / Horror | 6.5 | 52% | 42 | 6.7 | Rob Lieberman |
| 40 | The Bone Collector '1999 | Crime / Thriller / Drama / Mystery | 6.7 | 30% | 45 | 6.8 | Phillip Noyce |
| 41 | The Ninth Gate '1999 | Mystery / Thriller / Horror | 6.7 | 44% | 44 | 6.5 | Roman Polanski |
| 42 | The Client '1994 | Drama / Thriller / Crime / Mystery | 6.7 | 78% | 65 | 6.7 | Joel Schumacher |
| 43 | Double Jeopardy '1999 | Thriller / Crime / Mystery | 6.6 | 28% | 41 | 6.6 | Bruce Beresford |
| 44 | Conspiracy Theory '1997 | Action / Drama / Mystery / Thriller | 6.7 | 59% | 50 | 6.6 | Richard Donner |
| 45 | 8MM '1999 | Thriller / Crime / Mystery | 6.6 | 23% | 21 | 6.5 | Joel Schumacher |
| 46 | Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil '1997 | Mystery / Crime / Drama | 6.6 | 50% | 56 | 6.4 | Clint Eastwood |
| 47 | Copycat '1995 | Thriller / Crime / Mystery | 6.6 | 76% | 54 | 6.5 | Jon Amiel |
| 48 | Society '1990 | Comedy / Horror / Mystery | 6.5 | 69% | 50 | 6.7 | Brian Yuzna |
| 49 | Kiss the Girls '1997 | Thriller / Crime / Mystery | 6.6 | 39% | 46 | 6.5 | Gary Fleder |
| 50 | The General's Daughter '1999 | Thriller / Mystery / Crime | 6.4 | 22% | 47 | 6.4 | Simon West |
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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