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Best Mystery Films

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

1

12 Angry Men 12 Angry Men

1957

Sidney Lumet

Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Jack Warden, E.G. Marshall, Martin Balsam ...

8.7

73,417
2

Witness for the Prosecution Witness for the Prosecution

1957

Billy Wilder

Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester, John Williams ...

8.6

46,477
3

The Sting The Sting

1973

George Roy Hill

Robert Redford, Paul Newman, Robert Shaw, Charles Durning, Ray Walston ...

8.5

102,671
4

To Be or Not to Be To Be or Not to Be

1942

Ernst Lubitsch

Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack, Stanley Ridges, Felix Bressart ...

8.5

36,606
5

High and Low High and Low

1963

Akira Kurosawa

Toshirô Mifune, Kyôko Kagawa, Yutaka Sada, Takashi Shimura, Tatsuya Mihashi ...

8.4

11,074
6

Double Indemnity Double Indemnity

1944

Billy Wilder

Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Tom Powers, Porter Hall ...

8.4

35,303
7

Psycho Psycho

1960

Alfred Hitchcock

Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, John Gavin, Vera Miles, John McIntire ...

8.4

111,355
8

M M

1931

Fritz Lang

Peter Lorre, Otto Wernicke, Gustaf Gründgens, Theo Lingen, Theodor Loos ...

8.3

22,321
9

Seven Seven

1995

David Fincher

Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kevin Spacey, John C. McGinley ...

8.3

178,352
10

North by Northwest North by Northwest

1959

Alfred Hitchcock

Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Martin Landau, Leo G. Carroll ...

8.2

71,652
11

Vertigo Vertigo

1958

Alfred Hitchcock

James Stewart, Kim Novak, Henry Jones, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore ...

8.2

73,445
12

The Silence of the Lambs The Silence of the Lambs

1991

Jonathan Demme

Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Ted Levine, Anthony Heald ...

8.2

177,945
13

Rebecca Rebecca

1940

Alfred Hitchcock

Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Judith Anderson, Nigel Bruce ...

8.2

38,981
14

The Third Man The Third Man

1949

Carol Reed

Joseph Cotten, Orson Welles, Alida Valli, Trevor Howard, Bernard Lee ...

8.2

46,135
15

Rear Window Rear Window

1954

Alfred Hitchcock

James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Thelma Ritter, Raymond Burr, Judith Evelyn, Wendell Corey

8.2

79,647
16

Dial M for Murder Dial M for Murder

1954

Alfred Hitchcock

Grace Kelly, Ray Milland, Robert Cummings, John Williams, Anthony Dawson ...

8.2

29,943
17

Touch of Evil Touch of Evil

1958

Orson Welles

Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles, Marlene Dietrich, Joseph Calleia ...

8.2

31,420
18

Twin Peaks - Pilot Episode Twin Peaks - Pilot Episode

1990

David Lynch

Kyle MacLachlan, Michael Ontkean, Piper Laurie, Joan Chen, Lara Flynn Boyle ...

8.1

30,221
19

Sleuth Sleuth

1972

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Laurence Olivier, Michael Caine, Alec Cawthorne, John Matthews, Eve Channing, Teddy Martin

8.1

32,821
20

The Big Heat The Big Heat

1953

Fritz Lang

Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Lee Marvin, Jocelyn Brando, Alexander Scourby ...

8.1

12,185
21

The Secret in Their Eyes The Secret in Their Eyes

2009

Juan José Campanella

Ricardo Darín, Soledad Villamil, Pablo Rago, Javier Godino, Guillermo Francella ...

8.1

90,846
22

The Woman in the Window The Woman in the Window

1944

Fritz Lang

Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond Massey, Edmund Breon, Dan Duryea ...

8.1

17,078
23

The Big Sleep The Big Sleep

1946

Howard Hawks

Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely, Martha Vickers, Dorothy Malone ...

8.1

24,705
24

The Night of the Hunter The Night of the Hunter

1955

Charles Laughton

Robert Mitchum, Billy Chapin, Sally Ann Bruce, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish ...

8.1

32,899
25

Out of the Past Out of the Past

1947

Jacques Tourneur

Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming, Richard Webb ...

8.1

14,067
26

Laura Laura

1944

Otto Preminger

Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, Judith Anderson, Vincent Price, Dorothy Adams

8.1

19,145
27

Notorious Notorious

1946

Alfred Hitchcock

Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Louis Calhern, Leopoldine Konstantin ...

8.1

21,702
28

Rope Rope

1948

Alfred Hitchcock

James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger, Cedric Hardwicke, Joan Chandler ...

8.1

38,396
29

High Noon High Noon

1952

Fred Zinnemann

Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Bridges, Katy Jurado ...

8.0

28,794
30

Fury Fury

1936

Fritz Lang

Sylvia Sidney, Spencer Tracy, Walter Abel, Bruce Cabot, Edward Ellis ...

8.0

6,382

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