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Best Mystery Movies of the 2000s, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
70 mystery films from the 2000s are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is The Prestige (2006), at 8.5 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.2. Biggest split between audiences and critics: Pandorum, 6.7 on IMDb against 28 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Prestige '2006 | Drama / Mystery / Sci-Fi | 8.5 | 77% | 66 | 8.2 | Christopher Nolan |
| 2 | Memento '2000 | Mystery / Thriller | 8.4 | 94% | 83 | 8.2 | Christopher Nolan |
| 3 | Oldboy '2003 | Thriller / Mystery | 8.3 | 82% | 78 | 8.2 | Park Chan-wook |
| 4 | Donnie Darko '2001 | Fantasy / Drama / Mystery | 8.0 | 88% | 88 | 7.8 | Richard Kelly |
| 5 | The Bourne Ultimatum '2007 | Action / Drama / Mystery / Thriller | 8.0 | 92% | 85 | 7.4 | Paul Greengrass |
| 6 | Mystic River '2003 | Thriller / Drama / Mystery / Crime | 7.9 | 89% | 84 | 7.7 | Clint Eastwood |
| 7 | The Bourne Identity '2002 | Action / Mystery / Thriller | 7.8 | 84% | 68 | 7.5 | Doug Liman |
| 8 | Mulholland Drive '2001 | Thriller / Drama / Mystery | 7.9 | 83% | 87 | 7.8 | David Lynch |
| 9 | The Secret in Their Eyes '2009 | Mystery / Thriller / Drama | 8.2 | 89% | 80 | 8.0 | Juan José Campanella |
| 10 | Zodiac '2007 | Crime / Mystery / Thriller | 7.7 | 90% | 79 | 7.5 | David Fincher |
| 11 | Watchmen '2009 | Mystery / Action / Sci-Fi | 7.6 | 64% | 56 | 7.4 | Zack Snyder |
| 12 | Saw '2004 | Horror / Mystery / Crime | 7.6 | 50% | 46 | 7.4 | James Wan |
| 13 | The Others '2001 | Horror / Mystery / Thriller | 7.6 | 85% | 74 | 7.6 | Alejandro Amenábar |
| 14 | Lucky Number Slevin '2006 | Drama / Thriller / Crime / Mystery | 7.7 | - | 53 | 7.5 | Paul McGuigan |
| 15 | Sherlock Holmes '2009 | Action / Mystery / Crime | 7.5 | 69% | 57 | 7.2 | Guy Ritchie |
| 16 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo '2009 | Drama / Thriller / Crime / Mystery | 7.8 | 85% | 76 | 7.5 | Niels Arden Oplev |
| 17 | Gone Baby Gone '2007 | Crime / Drama / Mystery | 7.6 | 94% | 72 | 7.3 | Ben Affleck |
| 18 | Eastern Promises '2007 | Thriller / Crime / Mystery | 7.6 | 89% | 83 | 7.3 | David Cronenberg |
| 19 | Changeling '2008 | Crime / Drama / Mystery | 7.7 | 61% | 63 | 7.6 | Clint Eastwood |
| 20 | Unbreakable '2000 | Thriller / Drama / Mystery | 7.3 | 71% | 62 | 7.1 | M. Night Shyamalan |
| 21 | K-PAX '2001 | Sci-Fi / Drama / Mystery | 7.4 | 41% | 49 | 7.2 | Iain Softley |
| 22 | [REC] '2007 | Horror / Mystery | 7.4 | 90% | 71 | 7.2 | Jaume Balagueró |
| 23 | Identity '2003 | Mystery / Thriller | 7.3 | 64% | 64 | 7.2 | James Mangold |
| 24 | Kiss Kiss Bang Bang '2005 | Comedy / Crime / Mystery / Thriller | 7.4 | 86% | 73 | 7.2 | Shane Black |
| 25 | The Ring '2002 | Horror / Mystery | 7.1 | 72% | 57 | 6.7 | Gore Verbinski |
| 26 | The Crimson Rivers '2000 | Crime / Mystery / Thriller | 6.9 | 68% | 49 | 6.9 | Mathieu Kassovitz |
| 27 | Vanilla Sky '2001 | Mystery / Romance / Sci-Fi | 6.9 | 41% | 45 | 6.8 | Cameron Crowe |
| 28 | The Score '2001 | Action / Crime / Thriller / Mystery / Drama | 6.8 | 74% | 71 | 6.7 | Frank Oz |
| 29 | National Treasure '2004 | Action / Mystery | 6.9 | 47% | 40 | 6.7 | Jon Turteltaub |
| 30 | State of Play '2009 | Thriller / Crime / Mystery | 7.1 | 84% | 64 | 6.8 | Kevin Macdonald |
| 31 | From Hell '2001 | Horror / Mystery / Thriller | 6.7 | 57% | 54 | 6.7 | Albert Hughes |
| 32 | Disturbia '2007 | Thriller / Drama / Mystery | 6.8 | 69% | 62 | 6.7 | D.J. Caruso |
| 33 | 1408 '2007 | Horror / Mystery | 6.8 | 80% | 64 | 6.7 | Mikael Håfström |
| 34 | What Lies Beneath '2000 | Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller | 6.6 | 49% | 51 | 6.4 | Robert Zemeckis |
| 35 | The Girl Who Played with Fire '2009 | Drama / Action / Thriller / Crime / Mystery | 7.1 | 69% | 66 | 7.0 | Daniel Alfredson |
| 36 | Along Came a Spider '2001 | Crime / Mystery / Thriller / Action | 6.4 | 32% | 42 | 6.4 | Lee Tamahori |
| 37 | The Village '2004 | Drama / Mystery / Thriller | 6.6 | 43% | 44 | 6.5 | M. Night Shyamalan |
| 38 | The Da Vinci Code '2006 | Thriller / Mystery | 6.7 | 25% | 46 | 6.7 | Ron Howard |
| 39 | Jeepers Creepers '2001 | Horror / Mystery | 6.3 | 47% | 49 | 6.5 | Victor Salva |
| 40 | Secret Window '2004 | Mystery / Thriller | 6.5 | 46% | 46 | 6.6 | David Koepp |
| 41 | Angels & Demons '2009 | Thriller / Mystery | 6.7 | 36% | 48 | 6.7 | Ron Howard |
| 42 | Pandorum '2009 | Action / Horror / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller | 6.7 | 26% | 28 | 6.6 | Christian Alvart |
| 43 | The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus '2009 | Fantasy / Mystery | 6.7 | 63% | 65 | 6.4 | Terry Gilliam |
| 44 | Exam '2009 | Thriller / Mystery | 6.7 | 61% | - | 6.7 | Stuart Hazeldine |
| 45 | National Treasure: Book of Secrets '2007 | Action / Mystery | 6.5 | 35% | 48 | 6.4 | Jon Turteltaub |
| 46 | Eagle Eye '2008 | Mystery / Thriller / Action | 6.6 | 27% | 43 | 6.5 | D.J. Caruso |
| 47 | The Number 23 '2007 | Thriller / Mystery / Crime / Drama | 6.4 | 7% | - | 6.4 | Joel Schumacher |
| 48 | Silent Hill '2006 | Horror / Mystery | 6.5 | 34% | 31 | 6.6 | Christophe Gans |
| 49 | Hoodwinked! '2005 | Animation / Comedy / Crime / Mystery | 6.5 | 46% | 45 | 6.3 | Cory Edwards |
| 50 | The Skeleton Key '2005 | Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller | 6.5 | 38% | 47 | 6.6 | Iain Softley |
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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