Top Mystery Movies


The Top Mystery Movies List is calculated by overall movie ratings and members' "Top Mystery List". Lists are calculated daily.

131. Angel Heart

Year of Release: 1987
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Alan Parker
Actors: Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, Lisa Bonet, Charlotte Rampling, Stocker Fontelieu, Brownie McGhee
Plot: Harold Angel (Mickey Rourke) is a detective on a mission to find a solider who welched on a deal with Lou Cypher. Lou intends to collect the hard way.

132. The Ghost Writer

Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Roman Polanski
Actors: Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan, Kim Cattrall, Olivia Williams, Tom Wilkinson, Eli Wallach
Plot: When a man is hired to finish the memoirs of a former British prime minister, he uncovers information that puts his life in jeopardy.

133. All the Money in the World

Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ridley Scott
Actors: Mark Wahlberg, Christopher Plummer, Michelle Williams, Timothy Hutton, Charlie Plummer, Andrew Buchan
Plot: It is 1973 and J. Paul Getty is the richest man in the world - his fortune built on oil and also his notoriously miserly nature. When his grandson, Paul Getty, is kidnapped by a left-wing paramilitary organization in Italy, he cannot be swayed to part with any of his fortune to placate them. But Gail, Paul's mother, who believes in family over money, will stop at nothing to save her son. With time running out, and the kidnapper's becoming more anxious and brutal, Gail will team up with Fletcher Chace, who runs security for Getty, in order to get her son back.

134. Diva

Year of Release: 1982
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jean-Jacques Beineix
Actors: Wilhelmenia Fernandez, Frédéric Andréi, Richard Bohringer, Thuy An Luu, Jacques Fabbri, Chantal Deruaz

135. Game Night

Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Francis Daley, Jonathan Goldstein
Actors: Jason Bateman, Rachel McAdams, Kyle Chandler, Jesse Plemons, Billy Magnussen, Kabby Borders
Plot: A group of friends who routinely get together for game night find themselves playing for real stakes when they become part of an actual murder mystery.

136. Pit, The ( Teddy )

Year of Release: 1981
Overall Rating: 3.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Lew Lehman
Actors: Sammy Snyders, Jeannie Elias, Sonja Smits, Laura Hollingsworth, John Auten, Laura Press
Plot: A sexually precocious 12 year old boy takes revenge on the people who make his life miserable by feeding them to his imaginary friends, meat eating creatures he calls "Tra-la-logs". Along the way he partakes in some extremely questionable behavior involving the ladies in his life. The blatant perversity makes this a particularly tasty and delicious gem of a movie.

137. The Changeling

Year of Release: 1980
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Peter Medak
Actors: George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Melvyn Douglas, Jean Marsh, John Colicos, Barry Morse
Plot: A man staying at a secluded historical mansion, finds his life being haunted by the presence of a specter.

138. It Comes at Night

Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Trey Edward Shults
Actors: Joel Edgerton, Riley Keough, Christopher Abbott, Carmen Ejogo, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Griffin Robert Faulkner
Plot: An isolated home houses a family as the world faces an unnatural threat. After establishing a tenuous order, with his wife and son, a father faces a new test when a young family shows up seeking refuge. Although the two families work together, paranoia and mistrust begin to build as something inside the father also builds and he realized to save his own family, may cost him everything else.

139. Basic Instinct

Year of Release: 1992
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Actors: Sharon Stone, Michael Douglas, Denis Arndt, Jeanne Tripplehorn, George Dzundza, Kayla Blake
Plot: A police detective is seduced by a possible murder suspect when she convinces him she is innocent all the while playing mind games and writing a book about him. Passion stirs in this erotic thriller.

140. Dead Again

Year of Release: 1991
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Actors: Kenneth Branagh, Andy Garcia, Emma Thompson, Robin Williams, Lois Hall, Richard Easton
Plot: A husband and wife find out that the wife has been reincarnated after the wife has been having very vivid dreams about her past. She finds out that in order to save herself in her future, she has to find out exactly what happened to her in her past so she doesn't repeat the same mistake.

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