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Best Mystery Films

Filmaffinity's Ranking of the best Thrillers in the history of film with +1000 votes

- 1
- 12 Angry Men (1957)
  
  Sidney Lumet
  
  Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Jack Warden, E.G. Marshall, Martin Balsam, Ed Begley, John Fiedler, Robert Webber ...
- 8.7
  
  70,102
- 2
- Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
  
  Billy Wilder
  
  Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester, John Williams, Una O'Connor, Henry Daniell, Norma Varden ...
- 8.6
  
  44,528
- 3
- The Sting (1973)
  
  George Roy Hill
  
  Robert Redford, Paul Newman, Robert Shaw, Charles Durning, Ray Walston, Eileen Brennan, Harold Gould, Dana Elcar ...
- 8.5
  
  100,394
- 4
- To Be or Not to Be (1942)
  
  Ernst Lubitsch
  
  Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack, Stanley Ridges, Felix Bressart, Lionel Atwill, Sig Ruman, Tom Dugan ...
- 8.5
  
  35,298
- 5
- High and Low (1963)
  
  Akira Kurosawa
  
  Toshirô Mifune, Kyôko Kagawa, Yutaka Sada, Takashi Shimura, Tatsuya Mihashi, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kenji Kodama, Isao Kimura ...
- 8.4
  
  9,686
- 6
- Double Indemnity (1944)
  
  Billy Wilder
  
  Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Tom Powers, Porter Hall, Jean Heather, Byron Barr, Richard Gaines ...
- 8.4
  
  33,804
- 7
- Psycho (1960)
  
  Alfred Hitchcock
  
  Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, John Gavin, Vera Miles, John McIntire, Martin Balsam, Simon Oakland, Patricia Hitchcock
- 8.4
  
  108,717
- 8
- M (1931)
  
  Fritz Lang
  
  Peter Lorre, Otto Wernicke, Gustaf Gründgens, Theo Lingen, Theodor Loos, Georg John, Ellen Widman, Inge Landgut
- 8.3
  
  20,711
- 9
- Seven (1995)
  
  David Fincher
  
  Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kevin Spacey, John C. McGinley, Richard Roundtree, R. Lee Ermey, Leland Orser ...
- 8.3
  
  174,249
- 10
- North by Northwest (1959)
  
  Alfred Hitchcock
  
  Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Martin Landau, Leo G. Carroll, Philip Ober, Josephine Hutchinson, Edward Platt ...
- 8.2
  
  69,857
- 11
- Vertigo (1958)
  
  Alfred Hitchcock
  
  James Stewart, Kim Novak, Henry Jones, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore, Raymond Bailey, Ellen Corby, Lee Patrick, Konstantin Shayne
- 8.2
  
  71,141
- 12
- Rebecca (1940)
  
  Alfred Hitchcock
  
  Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Judith Anderson, Nigel Bruce, Reginald Denny, C. Aubrey Smith, Gladys Cooper
- 8.2
  
  37,578
- 13
- The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
  
  Jonathan Demme
  
  Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Ted Levine, Anthony Heald, Diane Baker, Brooke Smith, Tracey Walter ...
- 8.2
  
  174,192
- 14
- The Third Man (1949)
  
  Carol Reed
  
  Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Trevor Howard, Orson Welles, Bernard Lee, Paul Hörbiger, Ernst Deutsch, Siegfried Breuer ...
- 8.2
  
  44,416
- 15
- Rear Window (1954)
  
  Alfred Hitchcock
  
  James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Thelma Ritter, Raymond Burr, Judith Evelyn, Wendell Corey
- 8.2
  
  77,169
- 16
- Dial M for Murder (1954)
  
  Alfred Hitchcock
  
  Grace Kelly, Ray Milland, Robert Cummings, John Williams, Anthony Dawson, Leo Britt, Patrick Allen, George Leigh
- 8.2
  
  28,200
- 17
- Touch of Evil (1958)
  
  Orson Welles
  
  Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles, Marlene Dietrich, Joseph Calleia, Akim Tamiroff, Dennis Weaver, Ray Collins ...
- 8.2
  
  30,231
- 18
- Twin Peaks - Pilot Episode (TV) (1990)
  
  David Lynch
  
  Kyle MacLachlan, Michael Ontkean, Piper Laurie, Joan Chen, Lara Flynn Boyle, Dana Ashbrook, Sherilyn Fenn, Warren Frost ...
- 8.1
  
  29,250
- 19
- Sleuth (1972)
  
  Joseph L. Mankiewicz
  
  Laurence Olivier, Michael Caine, Alec Cawthorne, John Matthews, Eve Channing, Teddy Martin
- 8.1
  
  31,446
- 20
- Persona (1966)
  
  Ingmar Bergman
  
  Liv Ullmann, Bibi Andersson, Margaretha Krook, Gunnar Björnstrand, Jörgen Lindström
- 8.1
  
  23,824
- 21
- The Big Heat (1953)
  
  Fritz Lang
  
  Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Lee Marvin, Jocelyn Brando, Alexander Scourby, Jeanette Nolan, Peter Whitney, Willis Bouchey ...
- 8.1
  
  11,549
- 22
- The Night of the Hunter (1955)
  
  Charles Laughton
  
  Robert Mitchum, Billy Chapin, Sally Ann Bruce, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, Peter Graves, Evelyn Varden, James Gleason
- 8.1
  
  31,313
- 23
- The Woman in the Window (1944)
  
  Fritz Lang
  
  Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond Massey, Edmund Breon, Dan Duryea, Thomas E. Jackson, Dorothy Peterson, Arthur Loft, Frank Dawson
- 8.1
  
  16,303
- 24
- The Big Sleep (1946)
  
  Howard Hawks
  
  Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely, Martha Vickers, Dorothy Malone, Regis Toomey, Elisha Cook Jr., Peggy Knudsen ...
- 8.1
  
  23,783
- 25
- The Secret in Their Eyes (2009)
  
  Juan José Campanella
  
  Ricardo Darín, Soledad Villamil, Pablo Rago, Javier Godino, Guillermo Francella, José Luis Gioia, Mario Alarcón, Mariano Argento ...
- 8.1
  
  86,738
- 26
- Out of the Past (1947)
  
  Jacques Tourneur
  
  Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming, Richard Webb, Steve Brodie, Virginia Huston, Paul Valentine ...
- 8.1
  
  13,394
- 27
- Laura (1944)
  
  Otto Preminger
  
  Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, Judith Anderson, Vincent Price, Dorothy Adams
- 8.1
  
  18,385
- 28
- Notorious (1946)
  
  Alfred Hitchcock
  
  Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Louis Calhern, Leopoldine Konstantin, Reinhold Schünzel, Moroni Olsen, Ivan Triesault ...
- 8.1
  
  20,496
- 29
- Rope (1948)
  
  Alfred Hitchcock
  
  James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger, Cedric Hardwicke, Joan Chandler, Douglas Dick, Constance Collier, Dick Hogan
- 8.1
  
  36,337
- 30
- Rashomon (1950)
  
  Akira Kurosawa
  
  Toshirô Mifune, Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki, Kichijiro Ueda, Noriko Honma, Daisuke Kato
- 8.1
  
  21,238

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