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Mystery Movies Critics Rated Higher Than Audiences
22 mystery films in our catalog have at least 10,000 IMDb votes and a score that is higher with critics than with audiences by 15 points or more. The widest gap: Alphaville (1965), 6.9 on IMDb against 92 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alphaville '1965 | Drama / Sci-Fi / Mystery | 6.9 | 92% | 92 | 6.9 | Jean-Luc Godard | -23 |
| 2 | The Lady Vanishes '1938 | Mystery / Thriller | 7.7 | 98% | 98 | 7.4 | Alfred Hitchcock | -21 |
| 3 | Three Colors: Red '1994 | Drama / Mystery / Romance | 8.0 | 100% | 100 | 7.9 | Krzysztof Kieślowski | -20 |
| 4 | Fanny and Alexander '1982 | Fantasy / Drama / Mystery | 8.1 | 100% | 100 | 7.8 | Ingmar Bergman | -19 |
| 5 | Black Bag '2025 | Mystery / Thriller | 6.7 | 96% | 85 | 6.4 | Steven Soderbergh | -18 |
| 6 | Vertigo '1958 | Mystery / Romance / Thriller | 8.2 | 94% | 100 | 8.1 | Alfred Hitchcock | -18 |
| 7 | Citizen Kane '1941 | Mystery / Drama | 8.2 | 99% | 100 | 8.0 | Orson Welles | -18 |
| 8 | The Maltese Falcon '1941 | Mystery / Crime / Thriller | 7.9 | 99% | 97 | 7.7 | John Huston | -18 |
| 9 | Saint Maud '2020 | Horror / Mystery / Thriller | 6.6 | 92% | 83 | 6.5 | Rose Glass | -17 |
| 10 | Rashomon '1950 | Crime / Drama / Mystery | 8.1 | 98% | 98 | 8.0 | Akira Kurosawa | -17 |
| 11 | The 39 Steps '1935 | Mystery / Thriller | 7.6 | 96% | 93 | 7.3 | Alfred Hitchcock | -17 |
| 12 | Kimi '2022 | Thriller / Mystery / Crime | 6.3 | 92% | 79 | 6.2 | Steven Soderbergh | -16 |
| 13 | The Passenger '1975 | Drama / Mystery / Thriller | 7.4 | 88% | 90 | 7.2 | Michelangelo Antonioni | -16 |
| 14 | The Last Wave '1977 | Drama / Mystery / Fantasy | 6.9 | 78% | 85 | 6.7 | Peter Weir | -16 |
| 15 | Rear Window '1954 | Thriller / Mystery / Drama | 8.4 | 99% | 100 | 8.3 | Alfred Hitchcock | -16 |
| 16 | The Third Man '1949 | Thriller / Mystery | 8.1 | 99% | 97 | 7.9 | Carol Reed | -16 |
| 17 | Shadow of a Doubt '1943 | Thriller / Mystery / Crime | 7.8 | 100% | 94 | 7.5 | Alfred Hitchcock | -16 |
| 18 | It Follows '2015 | Horror / Mystery | 6.8 | 95% | 83 | 6.6 | David Robert Mitchell | -15 |
| 19 | The Blair Witch Project '1999 | Horror / Mystery | 6.5 | 86% | 80 | 6.4 | Daniel Myrick | -15 |
| 20 | Three Colors: White '1994 | Comedy / Drama / Mystery | 7.6 | 91% | 91 | 7.4 | Krzysztof Kieślowski | -15 |
| 21 | Anatomy of a Murder '1959 | Crime / Drama / Mystery | 8.0 | 100% | 95 | 7.8 | Otto Preminger | -15 |
| 22 | Foreign Correspondent '1940 | Thriller / Mystery / Action | 7.4 | 95% | 89 | 7.0 | Alfred Hitchcock | -15 |
Gap is IMDb score times 10 minus Metacritic score, in points. Only films with at least 10,000 IMDb votes and both scores are included, and only gaps of 15 points or more. This list is ordered by the size of the gap, not by quality. Scores shown are the raw ones.
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