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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 ...
- 8.7
  
  71,612
- 2
- Witness for the Prosecution
  
  1957
  
  Billy Wilder
  
  Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester, John Williams ...
- 8.6
  
  45,419
- 3
- The Sting
  
  1973
  
  George Roy Hill
  
  Robert Redford, Paul Newman, Robert Shaw, Charles Durning, Ray Walston ...
- 8.5
  
  101,613
- 4
- To Be or Not to Be
  
  1942
  
  Ernst Lubitsch
  
  Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack, Stanley Ridges, Felix Bressart ...
- 8.5
  
  36,040
- 5
- High and Low
  
  1963
  
  Akira Kurosawa
  
  Toshirô Mifune, Kyôko Kagawa, Yutaka Sada, Takashi Shimura, Tatsuya Mihashi ...
- 8.4
  
  10,499
- 6
- Double Indemnity
  
  1944
  
  Billy Wilder
  
  Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Tom Powers, Porter Hall ...
- 8.4
  
  34,624
- 7
- Psycho
  
  1960
  
  Alfred Hitchcock
  
  Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, John Gavin, Vera Miles, John McIntire ...
- 8.4
  
  110,123
- 8
- M
  
  1931
  
  Fritz Lang
  
  Peter Lorre, Otto Wernicke, Gustaf Gründgens, Theo Lingen, Theodor Loos ...
- 8.3
  
  21,640
- 9
- Seven
  
  1995
  
  David Fincher
  
  Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kevin Spacey, John C. McGinley ...
- 8.3
  
  176,262
- 10
- North by Northwest
  
  1959
  
  Alfred Hitchcock
  
  Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Martin Landau, Leo G. Carroll ...
- 8.2
  
  70,834
- 11
- Vertigo
  
  1958
  
  Alfred Hitchcock
  
  James Stewart, Kim Novak, Henry Jones, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore ...
- 8.2
  
  72,256
- 12
- The Silence of the Lambs
  
  1991
  
  Jonathan Demme
  
  Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Ted Levine, Anthony Heald ...
- 8.2
  
  176,036
- 13
- Rebecca
  
  1940
  
  Alfred Hitchcock
  
  Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Judith Anderson, Nigel Bruce ...
- 8.2
  
  38,290
- 14
- The Third Man
  
  1949
  
  Carol Reed
  
  Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Trevor Howard, Orson Welles, Bernard Lee ...
- 8.2
  
  45,351
- 15
- Rear Window
  
  1954
  
  Alfred Hitchcock
  
  James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Thelma Ritter, Raymond Burr, Judith Evelyn, Wendell Corey
- 8.2
  
  78,379
- 16
- Dial M for Murder
  
  1954
  
  Alfred Hitchcock
  
  Grace Kelly, Ray Milland, Robert Cummings, John Williams, Anthony Dawson ...
- 8.2
  
  29,168
- 17
- Touch of Evil
  
  1958
  
  Orson Welles
  
  Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles, Marlene Dietrich, Joseph Calleia ...
- 8.2
  
  30,919
- 18
- Twin Peaks - Pilot Episode
  
  1990
  
  David Lynch
  
  Kyle MacLachlan, Michael Ontkean, Piper Laurie, Joan Chen, Lara Flynn Boyle ...
- 8.1
  
  29,645
- 19
- Sleuth
  
  1972
  
  Joseph L. Mankiewicz
  
  Laurence Olivier, Michael Caine, Alec Cawthorne, John Matthews, Eve Channing, Teddy Martin
- 8.1
  
  32,173
- 20
- The Big Heat
  
  1953
  
  Fritz Lang
  
  Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Lee Marvin, Jocelyn Brando, Alexander Scourby ...
- 8.1
  
  11,907
- 21
- The Secret in Their Eyes
  
  2009
  
  Juan José Campanella
  
  Ricardo Darín, Soledad Villamil, Pablo Rago, Javier Godino, Guillermo Francella ...
- 8.1
  
  89,076
- 22
- The Woman in the Window
  
  1944
  
  Fritz Lang
  
  Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond Massey, Edmund Breon, Dan Duryea ...
- 8.1
  
  16,690
- 23
- The Big Sleep
  
  1946
  
  Howard Hawks
  
  Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely, Martha Vickers, Dorothy Malone ...
- 8.1
  
  24,289
- 24
- The Night of the Hunter
  
  1955
  
  Charles Laughton
  
  Robert Mitchum, Billy Chapin, Sally Ann Bruce, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish ...
- 8.1
  
  32,162
- 25
- Build My Gallows High
  
  1947
  
  Jacques Tourneur
  
  Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming, Richard Webb ...
- 8.1
  
  13,675
- 26
- Laura
  
  1944
  
  Otto Preminger
  
  Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, Judith Anderson, Vincent Price, Dorothy Adams
- 8.1
  
  18,812
- 27
- Notorious
  
  1946
  
  Alfred Hitchcock
  
  Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Louis Calhern, Leopoldine Konstantin ...
- 8.1
  
  21,126
- 28
- Rope
  
  1948
  
  Alfred Hitchcock
  
  James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger, Cedric Hardwicke, Joan Chandler ...
- 8.1
  
  37,280
- 29
- High Noon
  
  1952
  
  Fred Zinnemann
  
  Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Bridges, Katy Jurado ...
- 8.1
  
  28,272
- 30
- Fury
  
  1936
  
  Fritz Lang
  
  Sylvia Sidney, Spencer Tracy, Walter Abel, Bruce Cabot, Edward Ellis ...
- 8.0
  
  6,220

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