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Best Mystery Movies of the 2000s
#1 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…
#2 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…
#3 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.…
#4 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…
#5 Donnie Darko (2001) · ★ 7.8 · 13,789 votes · 1h 54m · fantasy, drama, mysteryAfter narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to commit a series of crimes.…
#6 Mulholland Drive (2001) · ★ 7.8 · 7,326 votes · 2h 27m · thriller, drama, mysteryBlonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second wom…
#7 Infernal Affairs (2002) · ★ 7.8 · 1,938 votes · 1h 41m · action, thriller, dramaChan Wing Yan, a young police officer, has been sent undercover as a mole in the local mafia. Lau Kin Ming, a young mafia member, infiltrates the police force. Years later, their o…
#8 Joint Security Area (2000) · ★ 7.8 · 882 votes · 1h 48m · action, thriller, dramaTwo North Korean soldiers are killed in the border area between North and South Korea, prompting an investigation by a neutral body. The sergeant is the shooter, but the lead inves…
#9 Mystic River (2003) · ★ 7.7 · 7,693 votes · 2h 18m · thriller, drama, crimeThe lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them suffers a family tragedy.…
#10 Mother (2009) · ★ 7.7 · 1,739 votes · 2h 9m · drama, crime, mysteryA mother lives quietly with her son. One day, a girl is brutally killed, and the boy is charged with the murder. Now, it's his mother's mission to prove him innocent.…
#11 The Others (2001) · ★ 7.6 · 7,406 votes · 1h 41m · thriller, horror, mysteryGrace is a woman who lives in an old house kept dark because her two children, Anne and Nicholas, have a rare sensitivity to light. When the family begins to suspect the house is h…
#12 Changeling (2008) · ★ 7.6 · 4,605 votes · 2h 22m · drama, crime, mysteryLos Angeles, 1928. When single mother Christine Collins leaves for work, her son vanishes without a trace. Five months later, the police reunite mother and son. But when Christine…
#13 Zodiac (2007) · ★ 7.5 · 11,884 votes · 2h 37m · thriller, drama, crimeThe story follows the manhunt for the Zodiac Killer, a serial killer who terrorized the San Francisco Bay Area during the late 1960s and early 1970s, taunting police with letters,…
#14 The Bourne Identity (2002) · ★ 7.5 · 10,412 votes · 1h 59m · action, thriller, dramaWounded to the brink of death and suffering from amnesia, Jason Bourne is rescued at sea by a fisherman. With nothing to go on but a Swiss bank account number, he starts to reconst…
#15 Lucky Number Slevin (2006) · ★ 7.5 · 4,638 votes · 1h 50m · thriller, drama, crimeSlevin is mistakenly put in the middle of a personal war between the city’s biggest criminal bosses. Under constant watch, Slevin must try not to get killed by an infamous assassin…
#16 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009) · ★ 7.5 · 3,333 votes · 2h 32m · thriller, drama, crimeSwedish thriller based on Stieg Larsson's novel about a male journalist and a young female hacker. In the opening of the movie, Mikael Blomkvist, a middle-aged publisher for the ma…
#17 The White Ribbon (2009) · ★ 7.5 · 1,176 votes · 2h 24m · drama, mysteryAn aged tailor recalls his life as the schoolteacher of a small village in Northern Germany that was struck by a series of strange events in the year leading up to WWI.…
#18 Saw (2004) · ★ 7.4 · 10,368 votes · 1h 43m · horror, crime, mysteryTwo men wake up to find themselves shackled in a grimy, abandoned bathroom. As they struggle to comprehend their predicament, they discover a disturbing tape left behind by the sad…
#19 Watchmen (2009) · ★ 7.4 · 10,302 votes · 2h 43m · action, science-fiction, mysteryIn a gritty and alternate 1985, the glory days of costumed vigilantes have been brought to a close by a government crackdown. But after one of the masked veterans is brutally murde…
#20 The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) · ★ 7.4 · 8,628 votes · 1h 55m · action, thriller, dramaBourne is brought out of hiding once again by reporter Simon Ross who is trying to unveil Operation Blackbriar, an upgrade to Project Treadstone, in a series of newspaper columns.…
#21 A Matter of Loaf and Death (2008) · ★ 7.4 · 634 votes · 0h 30m · comedy, romance, animationWallace and Gromit open a bakery, accidentally getting tied up with a murder mystery in the process. But when Wallace falls in love, Gromit is left to solve the case by himself.…
#22 Gone Baby Gone (2007) · ★ 7.3 · 4,323 votes · 1h 53m · drama, crime, mysteryWhen 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in solving the case, the girl's aunt, Beatrice McCready hires two private detectives, Pa…
#23 Eastern Promises (2007) · ★ 7.3 · 3,826 votes · 1h 40m · thriller, crime, mysteryA Russian teenager living in London dies during childbirth but leaves clues in her diary that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family.…
#24 Shutter (2004) · ★ 7.3 · 1,449 votes · 1h 36m · thriller, horror, mysteryWhen Jane and Tun run over a girl in a car accident, they speed away immediately from the crime scene. However, Tun, a photographer, soon discovers strange shadows in his photos, w…
#25 The Return (2003) · ★ 7.3 · 731 votes · 1h 51m · drama, mysteryTwo young brothers in contemporary Russia are reunited with a father they know only from an old photograph after his sudden return from a long absence. With their mother’s reluctan…
#26 Sherlock Holmes (2009) · ★ 7.2 · 15,083 votes · 2h 9m · action, adventure, crimeEccentric consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and Doctor John Watson battle to bring down a new nemesis and unravel a deadly plot that could destroy England.…
#27 [REC] (2007) · ★ 7.2 · 5,031 votes · 1h 18m · horror, mysteryA television reporter and cameraman follow emergency workers into a dark apartment building and are quickly locked inside with something terrifying.…
#28 Identity (2003) · ★ 7.2 · 4,540 votes · 1h 30m · thriller, mysteryComplete strangers stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm soon find themselves the target of a deranged murderer. As their numbers thin out, the travelers begin to…
#29 Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005) · ★ 7.2 · 3,127 votes · 1h 43m · comedy, thriller, crimeA petty thief posing as an actor is brought to Los Angeles for an unlikely audition and finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation along with his high school dream girl…
#30 K-PAX (2001) · ★ 7.2 · 2,879 votes · 2h 0m · drama, science-fiction, mysteryProt is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away planet. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations.…
#31 Tell No One (2006) · ★ 7.2 · 1,560 votes · 2h 11m · thriller, drama, crimeA man receives a mysterious email appearing to be from his wife, who was murdered years earlier. As he frantically tries to find out whether she's alive, he finds himself being imp…
#32 Unbreakable (2000) · ★ 7.1 · 10,165 votes · 1h 46m · thriller, drama, mysteryAn ordinary man makes an extraordinary discovery when a train accident leaves his fellow passengers dead — and him unscathed. The answer to this mystery could lie with the mysterio…
#33 The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (2009) · ★ 7.1 · 1,516 votes · 2h 27m · action, thriller, crimeAfter taking a bullet to the head, Salander is under close supervision in a hospital and is set to face trial for attempted murder on her eventual release. With the help of journal…
#34 A Tale of Two Sisters (2003) · ★ 7.1 · 1,387 votes · 1h 55m · drama, horror, mysteryTwo sisters return home after a stay in a mental institution, only to face disturbing events and a strained relationship with their stepmother. As eerie occurrences unfold, dark fa…
#35 I'm Not Scared (2003) · ★ 7.1 · 981 votes · 1h 48m · thriller, drama, crimeIn a tiny community enclosed by wheat fields, the adults shelter indoors, while six children venture out on their bikes across the scorched, deserted countryside. Exploring a dilap…
#36 Death Note (2006) · ★ 7.1 · 833 votes · 2h 6m · fantasy, thriller, mysteryLight Yagami finds the "Death Note," a notebook with the power to kill, and decides to create a Utopia by killing the world's criminals, and soon the world's greatest detective, "L…
#37 Death Note: The Last Name (2006) · ★ 7.1 · 553 votes · 2h 20m · fantasy, thriller, mysteryIn the second installment of the Death Note film franchise, Light Yagami meets a second Kira and faithful follower Misa Amane and her Shinigami named Rem. Light attempts to defeat…
#38 Orphan (2009) · ★ 7.0 · 5,793 votes · 2h 3m · thriller, horror, mysteryAfter losing their baby, a married couple adopt 9-year old Esther, who may not be as innocent as she seems.…
#39 The Lake House (2006) · ★ 7.0 · 3,076 votes · 1h 39m · fantasy, romance, dramaWhen architect Alex Wyler moves into an unusual glass house on stilts over a lake, he discovers a note from the previous tenant in the mailbox--but no one's lived in the house for…
#40 The Girl Who Played with Fire (2009) · ★ 7.0 · 1,862 votes · 2h 9m · action, thriller, dramaMikael Blomkvist, publisher of Millennium magazine, has made his living exposing the crooked and corrupt practices of establishment Swedish figures. So when a young journalist appr…