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Best Mystery Movies of the 1960s

Mystery films released 1960–1969, ranked by TMDB rating among titles with at least 500 votes.

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   #1 Psycho (1960) · ★ 8.4 · 11,281 votes · 1h 49m · thriller, horror, mystery

   When 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…

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   #2 High and Low (1963) · ★ 8.4 · 1,201 votes · 2h 22m · thriller, drama, crime

   A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but demand the ransom anyway.…

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   #3 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) · ★ 8.0 · 12,983 votes · 2h 29m · adventure, science-fiction, mystery

   Humanity 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.…

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   #4 Charade (1963) · ★ 7.7 · 1,602 votes · 1h 53m · comedy, romance, mystery

   After Regina Lampert falls for the dashing Peter Joshua on a skiing holiday in the French Alps, she discovers upon her return to Paris that her husband has been murdered. Soon, she…

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   #5 In the Heat of the Night (1967) · ★ 7.7 · 1,290 votes · 1h 49m · thriller, drama, crime

   African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny Sparta, Mississippi. After Tibbs p…

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   #6 L'Avventura (1960) · ★ 7.5 · 773 votes · 2h 24m · romance, drama, mystery

   Claudia and Anna join Anna's lover, Sandro, on a boat trip to a remote volcanic island. When Anna goes missing, a search is launched. In the meantime, Sandro and Claudia become inv…

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   #7 The Innocents (1961) · ★ 7.5 · 693 votes · 1h 40m · drama, horror, mystery

   In a mid-19th century Essex country house, a young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted by ghosts and that the children are being pos…

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   #8 The Trial (1962) · ★ 7.4 · 591 votes · 1h 59m · drama, crime, mystery

   Arrested for an unnamed crime, Josef K. is trapped in a surreal bureaucratic maze where justice is unknowable and guilt is assumed.…

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   #9 Blow-Up (1966) · ★ 7.3 · 1,408 votes · 1h 51m · thriller, drama, mystery

   A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. But in the course of a singl…

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    #10 A Shot in the Dark (1964) · ★ 7.2 · 685 votes · 1h 42m · comedy, crime, mystery

    Inspector Jacques Clouseau, smitten with the accused maid Maria Gambrelli, unwittingly turns a straightforward murder investigation into a comedic series of mishaps, testing the pa…

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    #11 Marnie (1964) · ★ 7.1 · 1,261 votes · 2h 10m · thriller, romance, drama

    Marnie is a beautiful but emotionally withdrawn thief, stealing from employers before disappearing under new identities. When her new boss, Mark Rutland, discovers her secret, his…

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    #12 Carnival of Souls (1962) · ★ 7.0 · 553 votes · 1h 18m · fantasy, horror, mystery

    Mary Henry ends up the sole survivor of a fatal car accident through mysterious circumstances. Trying to put the incident behind her, she moves to Utah and takes a job as a church…

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    #13 Alphaville (1965) · ★ 6.9 · 630 votes · 1h 39m · drama, science-fiction, mystery

    Lemmy Caution is on a mission to eliminate Professor Von Braun, the creator of a malevolent computer that rules the city of Alphaville. Befriended by the scientist’s daughter Natas…

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