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Best Mystery Movies of the 2010s, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
69 mystery films from the 2010s are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is Shutter Island (2010), at 8.2 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.1. Biggest split between audiences and critics: Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, 7.4 on IMDb against 48 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shutter Island '2010 | Drama / Thriller / Mystery | 8.2 | 69% | 63 | 8.2 | Martin Scorsese |
| 2 | Gone Girl '2014 | Mystery / Thriller / Drama | 8.1 | 88% | 79 | 7.9 | David Fincher |
| 3 | Arrival '2016 | Drama / Sci-Fi / Mystery | 7.9 | 94% | 81 | 7.6 | Denis Villeneuve |
| 4 | Knives Out '2019 | Comedy / Crime / Mystery | 7.9 | 97% | 82 | 7.8 | Rian Johnson |
| 5 | Get Out '2017 | Mystery / Thriller / Horror | 7.8 | 98% | 85 | 7.6 | Jordan Peele |
| 6 | The Hateful Eight '2015 | Drama / Mystery / Western | 7.8 | 74% | 68 | 7.8 | Quentin Tarantino |
| 7 | Incendies '2010 | Drama / War / Mystery | 8.3 | 91% | 80 | 8.1 | Denis Villeneuve |
| 8 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo '2011 | Thriller / Crime / Mystery | 7.8 | 86% | 71 | 7.4 | David Fincher |
| 9 | The Invisible Guest '2017 | Drama / Mystery / Thriller | 8.0 | 67% | - | 8.1 | Oriol Paulo |
| 10 | Wind River '2017 | Crime / Mystery / Thriller | 7.7 | 87% | 73 | 7.4 | Taylor Sheridan |
| 11 | Source Code '2011 | Thriller / Sci-Fi / Mystery | 7.5 | 92% | 74 | 7.3 | Duncan Jones |
| 12 | Limitless '2011 | Thriller / Mystery / Sci-Fi | 7.4 | 68% | 59 | 7.2 | Neil Burger |
| 13 | Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows '2011 | Action / Mystery | 7.4 | 60% | 48 | 7.1 | Guy Ritchie |
| 14 | Searching '2018 | Drama / Mystery / Thriller | 7.6 | 92% | 71 | 7.6 | Aneesh Chaganty |
| 15 | Hereditary '2018 | Horror / Mystery / Thriller | 7.3 | 90% | 87 | 7.3 | Ari Aster |
| 16 | The Skin I Live In '2011 | Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller | 7.6 | 81% | 70 | 7.5 | Pedro Almodóvar |
| 17 | The Adventures of Tintin '2011 | Animation / Mystery | 7.3 | 75% | 68 | 6.9 | Steven Spielberg |
| 18 | Midsommar '2019 | Horror / Drama / Mystery | 7.1 | 83% | 72 | 7.1 | Ari Aster |
| 19 | Prometheus '2012 | Sci-Fi / Mystery / Horror | 7.0 | 73% | 64 | 6.6 | Ridley Scott |
| 20 | The Cabin in the Woods '2012 | Horror / Mystery | 7.0 | 92% | 72 | 6.7 | Drew Goddard |
| 21 | The Witch '2016 | Horror / Fantasy / Mystery | 7.0 | 91% | 84 | 7.0 | Robert Eggers |
| 22 | Oblivion '2013 | Action / Sci-Fi / Mystery | 7.0 | 53% | 54 | 6.7 | Joseph Kosinski |
| 23 | Super 8 '2011 | Thriller / Sci-Fi / Mystery | 7.0 | 81% | 72 | 6.8 | J.J. Abrams |
| 24 | Bad Times at the El Royale '2018 | Thriller / Mystery / Crime / Drama | 7.1 | 75% | 60 | 6.8 | Drew Goddard |
| 25 | The Gift '2015 | Thriller / Mystery / Drama | 7.0 | 92% | 77 | 6.7 | Joel Edgerton |
| 26 | Black Mirror: Bandersnatch '2018 | Thriller / Sci-Fi / Mystery | 7.1 | - | - | 6.8 | David Slade |
| 27 | The Killing of a Sacred Deer '2017 | Drama / Thriller / Mystery | 7.0 | 79% | 73 | 7.0 | Yorgos Lanthimos |
| 28 | Non-Stop '2014 | Action / Thriller / Mystery | 6.9 | 62% | 56 | 6.8 | Jaume Collet-Serra |
| 29 | Sinister '2012 | Horror / Thriller / Mystery | 6.8 | 64% | 53 | 6.9 | Scott Derrickson |
| 30 | Game Night '2018 | Mystery / Comedy / Crime | 6.9 | 85% | 66 | 6.9 | John Francis Daley |
| 31 | Enemy '2014 | Thriller / Mystery | 6.8 | 74% | 61 | 6.8 | Denis Villeneuve |
| 32 | The Maze Runner '2014 | Action / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller | 6.8 | 66% | 57 | 7.2 | Wes Ball |
| 33 | The Autopsy of Jane Doe '2016 | Horror / Mystery | 6.8 | 86% | 65 | 6.9 | André Øvredal |
| 34 | It Follows '2015 | Horror / Mystery | 6.8 | 95% | 83 | 6.6 | David Robert Mitchell |
| 35 | Unknown '2011 | Action / Mystery / Thriller | 6.8 | 56% | 56 | 6.7 | Jaume Collet-Serra |
| 36 | What Happened to Monday '2017 | Sci-Fi / Thriller / Mystery / Action | 6.8 | 62% | 47 | 7.1 | Tommy Wirkola |
| 37 | A Walk Among the Tombstones '2014 | Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller | 6.5 | 68% | 57 | 6.3 | Scott Frank |
| 38 | A Simple Favor '2018 | Thriller / Comedy / Mystery | 6.7 | 84% | 67 | 6.6 | Paul Feig |
| 39 | Nymphomaniac: Vol. II '2013 | Drama / Mystery | 6.6 | 59% | 61 | 6.7 | Lars von Trier |
| 40 | Happy Death Day '2017 | Comedy / Horror / Mystery | 6.6 | 71% | 58 | 6.7 | Christopher Landon |
| 41 | Nerve '2016 | Mystery / Crime | 6.5 | 66% | 58 | 7.0 | Henry Joost |
| 42 | Life '2017 | Horror / Sci-Fi / Mystery | 6.6 | 67% | 54 | 6.5 | Daniel Espinosa |
| 43 | Red Sparrow '2018 | Thriller / Mystery | 6.6 | 45% | 53 | 6.5 | Francis Lawrence |
| 44 | The Girl on the Train '2016 | Crime / Mystery / Thriller | 6.5 | 44% | 48 | 6.4 | Tate Taylor |
| 45 | Escape Room '2019 | Horror / Mystery / Thriller | 6.4 | 51% | 48 | 6.5 | Adam Robitel |
| 46 | Salt '2010 | Action / Mystery / Thriller | 6.5 | 61% | 65 | 6.4 | Phillip Noyce |
| 47 | Tomorrowland '2015 | Mystery / Sci-Fi | 6.4 | 49% | 60 | 6.3 | Brad Bird |
| 48 | A Cure for Wellness '2017 | Horror / Mystery / Sci-Fi | 6.4 | 42% | 47 | 6.4 | Gore Verbinski |
| 49 | Devil '2010 | Horror / Mystery / Thriller | 6.3 | 49% | 44 | 6.1 | John Erick Dowdle |
| 50 | Paper Towns '2015 | Mystery / Drama / Romance | 6.2 | 58% | 56 | 6.2 | Jake Schreier |
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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