Best Mystery Movies of All Time
#1 Project Hail Mary (2026) · ★ 8.6 · 8,086 votes · 2h 37m · adventure, drama, science-fictionScience teacher Ryland Grace wakes up on a spaceship light years from home with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. As his memory returns, he begins to uncover his mi…
#2 Remarkably Bright Creatures (2026) · ★ 8.5 · 846 votes · 1h 54m · fantasy, drama, mysteryThrough unlikely bonds formed during night shifts at a local aquarium, Tova, an elderly widow, learns of a life-changing discovery that may bring her joy and wonder once again.…
#3 Twin Peaks (1989) · ★ 8.5 · 677 votes · 1h 56m · tv-movie, thriller, dramaAn idiosyncratic FBI agent investigates the murder of a young woman in the even more idiosyncratic town of Twin Peaks. (This standalone version of the series pilot was produced for…
#4 Se7en (1995) · ★ 8.4 · 23,805 votes · 2h 7m · thriller, crime, mysteryTwo homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the "seven deadly sins" in this dark and haunting film that takes viewers from the tor…
#5 Psycho (1960) · ★ 8.4 · 11,281 votes · 1h 49m · thriller, horror, mysteryWhen larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Ba…
#6 High and Low (1963) · ★ 8.4 · 1,201 votes · 2h 22m · thriller, drama, crimeA Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but demand the ransom anyway.…
#7 Rear Window (1954) · ★ 8.3 · 7,347 votes · 1h 53m · thriller, drama, mysteryA wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.…
#8 Michael Jackson's Thriller (1983) · ★ 8.3 · 804 votes · 0h 14m · thriller, horror, musicA night at the movies turns terrifying when Michael and his date are attacked by zombies. Released at the height of Thriller’s success, the short film redefined the music video, br…
#9 Shutter Island (2010) · ★ 8.2 · 26,482 votes · 2h 18m · thriller, drama, mysteryWorld War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by tro…
#10 The Prestige (2006) · ★ 8.2 · 18,162 votes · 2h 10m · drama, science-fiction, mysteryA mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequ…
#11 Memento (2000) · ★ 8.2 · 16,816 votes · 1h 53m · thriller, mysteryLeonard Shelby is tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The difficulty of locating his wife's killer, however, is compounded by the fact that he suffers from a rar…
#12 Oldboy (2003) · ★ 8.2 · 10,241 votes · 2h 0m · action, thriller, dramaWith no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate man seeks revenge on his captors.…
#13 Witness for the Prosecution (1957) · ★ 8.2 · 1,759 votes · 1h 56m · drama, crime, mysteryAn ailing barrister is thrust back into the courtroom in what becomes one of the most unusual and eventful murder cases of the lawyer's career when he finds himself defending a man…
#14 The Thing (1982) · ★ 8.1 · 8,235 votes · 1h 49m · horror, science-fiction, mysteryA research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.…
#15 Vertigo (1958) · ★ 8.1 · 6,517 votes · 2h 8m · thriller, romance, mysteryA retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.…
#16 The Invisible Guest (2017) · ★ 8.1 · 5,123 votes · 1h 47m · thriller, drama, mysteryBarcelona, Spain. Adrián Doria, a young and successful businessman accused of murder, meets one night with Virginia Goodman, an expert interrogation lawyer, in order to devise a de…
#17 Incendies (2010) · ★ 8.1 · 3,473 votes · 2h 11m · drama, war, mysteryA mother's last wishes send twins Jeanne and Simon on a journey to Middle East in search of their tangled roots. Adapted from Wajdi Mouawad's acclaimed play, Incendies tells the po…
#18 Along with the Gods: The Two Worlds (2017) · ★ 8.1 · 1,272 votes · 2h 19m · action, fantasy, adventureHaving died unexpectedly, firefighter Ja-hong is taken to the afterlife by 3 afterlife guardians. Only when he passes 7 trials over 49 days and proves he was innocent in human life…
#19 Colony (2026) · ★ 8.1 · 893 votes · 2h 3m · action, thriller, horrorProfessor Se-jeong is thrust into a bloody nightmare when a rapidly mutating virus is released during a biotech conference causing authorities to seal the facility. Trapped inside…
#20 The Sixth Sense (1999) · ★ 8.0 · 13,363 votes · 1h 47m · thriller, drama, mysteryFollowing an unexpected tragedy, child psychologist Malcolm Crowe meets a nine year old boy named Cole Sear, who is hiding a dark secret.…
#21 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) · ★ 8.0 · 12,983 votes · 2h 29m · adventure, science-fiction, mysteryHumanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer.…
#22 Citizen Kane (1941) · ★ 8.0 · 6,252 votes · 1h 59m · drama, mysteryNewspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive m…
#23 North by Northwest (1959) · ★ 8.0 · 4,632 votes · 2h 17m · adventure, thriller, mysteryAdvertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.…
#24 The Secret in Their Eyes (2009) · ★ 8.0 · 2,947 votes · 2h 10m · thriller, drama, mysteryHoping to put to rest years of unease concerning a past case, retired criminal investigator Benjamín begins writing a novel based on the unsolved mystery of a newlywed’s rape and m…
#25 Loving Vincent (2017) · ★ 8.0 · 2,663 votes · 1h 35m · drama, animation, historyA young man arrives at the last hometown of painter Vincent van Gogh to deliver the troubled artist's final letter and ends up investigating his final days there.…
#26 Rashomon (1950) · ★ 8.0 · 2,620 votes · 1h 28m · drama, crime, mysteryFour people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.…
#27 Sherlock Jr. (1924) · ★ 8.0 · 1,216 votes · 0h 45m · action, comedy, mysteryA film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meager skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.…
#28 Ugetsu (1953) · ★ 8.0 · 668 votes · 1h 36m · fantasy, drama, mysteryIn 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers in a nearby village, in defiance of a local sage's warning against seeking to p…
#29 Gone Girl (2014) · ★ 7.9 · 20,461 votes · 2h 29m · thriller, drama, mysteryWith his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.…
#30 Chinatown (1974) · ★ 7.9 · 4,427 votes · 2h 10m · thriller, drama, crimePrivate eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-ma…
#31 The Third Man (1949) · ★ 7.9 · 2,187 votes · 1h 45m · thriller, mysteryIn postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to learn he has died. Martins develops a c…
#32 Rebecca (1940) · ★ 7.9 · 2,037 votes · 2h 10m · thriller, romance, dramaStory of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died mysteriously several years earlier.…
#33 When Marnie Was There (2014) · ★ 7.9 · 2,025 votes · 1h 43m · drama, animation, familyUpon being sent to live with relatives in the countryside due to an illness, an emotionally distant adolescent girl becomes obsessed with an abandoned mansion and infatuated with a…
#34 The Sheep Detectives (2026) · ★ 7.9 · 1,737 votes · 1h 49m · comedy, adventure, dramaGeorge Hardy is a shepherd who reads detective novels to his beloved sheep every night, assuming they can't possibly understand. But when a mysterious incident disrupts life on the…
#35 Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2 (2013) · ★ 7.9 · 1,640 votes · 1h 18m · action, science-fiction, animationBatman has stopped the reign of terror that The Mutants had cast upon his city. Now an old foe wants a reunion and the government wants The Man of Steel to put a stop to Batman.…
#36 Three Colors: Red (1994) · ★ 7.9 · 1,606 votes · 1h 40m · romance, drama, mysteryPart-time model Valentine unexpectedly befriends a retired judge after she runs over his dog. At first, the grumpy man shows no concern about the dog, and Valentine decides to keep…
#37 Forgotten (2017) · ★ 7.9 · 1,408 votes · 1h 48m · thriller, crime, mysteryJin-seok, 21-year-old, moves into a new house with his family. He suffers from a slight schizophrenia but he carries an ordinary life under the warm care of the family. His older b…
#38 Diabolique (1955) · ★ 7.9 · 1,139 votes · 1h 58m · thriller, drama, horrorThe cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delassalle, is murdered by an unlikely duo -- his meek wife and the mistress he brazenly flaunts. The women become inc…
#39 Monster (2023) · ★ 7.9 · 967 votes · 2h 5m · thriller, drama, mysteryAfter an outburst at school involving her son, a concerned single mother demands answers, triggering a sequence of deepening suspicion and turmoil.…
#40 The Witch: Part 1. The Subversion (2018) · ★ 7.9 · 805 votes · 2h 6m · action, thriller, dramaJa-yoon is a high school student who struggles with memory loss after she endured some unknown trauma during her childhood. While trying to uncover the truth, she is unwittingly dr…