Best Mystery Movies List

Psycho (1960)

Aggregate Rating: 282 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 97 | Earnings: $32.00M

Lead Role: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin, | Director: Alfred Hitchcock,

A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run, and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.

Se7en (1995)

Aggregate Rating: 251 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 65 | Earnings: $100.13M

Lead Role: Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt, Kevin Spacey, Andrew Kevin Walker, | Director: David Fincher,

Two detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his motives.

Memento (2000)

Aggregate Rating: 251 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 80 | Earnings: $25.53M

Lead Role: Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano, Mark Boone Junior, | Director: Christopher Nolan,

A man juggles searching for his wife's murderer and keeping his short-term memory loss from being an obstacle.

The Prestige (2006)

Aggregate Rating: 249 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 66 | Earnings: $53.08M

Lead Role: Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman, Scarlett Johansson, Michael Caine, | Director: Christopher Nolan,

After a tragic accident two stage magicians engage in a battle to create the ultimate illusion whilst sacrificing everything they have to outwit the other.

The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)

Aggregate Rating: 245 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 85 | Earnings: $227.14M

Lead Role: Matt Damon, Edgar Ramírez, Joan Allen, Julia Stiles, | Director: Paul Greengrass,

Jason Bourne dodges a ruthless CIA official and his agents from a new assassination program while searching for the origins of his life as a trained killer.

The Usual Suspects (1995)

Aggregate Rating: 235 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 77 | Earnings: $23.27M

Lead Role: Kevin Spacey, Gabriel Byrne, Chazz Palminteri, Stephen Baldwin, | Director: Bryan Singer,

A sole survivor tells of the twisty events leading up to a horrific gun battle on a boat, which began when five criminals met at a seemingly random police lineup.

L.A. Confidential (1997)

Aggregate Rating: 225 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 90 | Earnings: $64.60M

Lead Role: Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, Kim Basinger, | Director: Curtis Hanson,

As corruption grows in 1950s LA, three policemen - one strait-laced, one brutal, and one sleazy - investigate a series of murders with their own brand of justice.

Gone Girl (2014)

Aggregate Rating: 220 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 79 | Earnings: $167.74M

Lead Role: Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris, Tyler Perry, | Director: David Fincher,

With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.

Arrival (2016)

Aggregate Rating: 219 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 81 | Earnings: $100.50M

Lead Role: Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker, Michael Stuhlbarg, | Director: Denis Villeneuve,

When twelve mysterious spacecraft appear around the world, linguistics professor Louise Banks is tasked with interpreting the language of the apparent alien visitors.

Get Out (2017)

Aggregate Rating: 217 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 84 | Earnings: $176.04M

Lead Role: Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Bradley Whitford, Catherine Keener, | Director: Jordan Peele,

It's time for a young African-American to meet with his white girlfriend's parents for a weekend in their secluded estate in the woods, but before long, the friendly and polite ambience will give way to a nightmare.

Source Code (2011)

Aggregate Rating: 217 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 74 | Earnings: $54.70M

Lead Role: Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga, Jeffrey Wright, | Director: Duncan Jones,

A soldier wakes up in someone else's body and discovers he's part of an experimental government program to find the bomber of a commuter train. A mission he has only 8 minutes to complete.

Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

Aggregate Rating: 216 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 81 | Earnings: $92.05M

Lead Role: Harrison Ford, Ryan Gosling, Ana de Armas, Dave Bautista, | Director: Denis Villeneuve,

A young blade runner's discovery of a long-buried secret leads him to track down former blade runner Rick Deckard, who's been missing for thirty years.

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)

Aggregate Rating: 212 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 76 | Earnings: $424.65M

Lead Role: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Philip Seymour Hoffman, | Director: Francis Lawrence,

Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark become targets of the Capitol after their victory in the 74th Hunger Games sparks a rebellion in the Districts of Panem.

Limitless (2011)

Aggregate Rating: 208 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 59 | Earnings: $79.24M

Lead Role: Bradley Cooper, Anna Friel, Abbie Cornish, Robert De Niro, | Director: Neil Burger,

With the help of a mysterious pill that enables the user to access 100 percent of his brain abilities, a struggling writer becomes a financial wizard, but it also puts him in a new world with lots of dangers.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)

Aggregate Rating: 208 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 71 | Earnings: $102.52M

Lead Role: Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Christopher Plummer, Stellan Skarsgård, | Director: David Fincher,

Journalist Mikael Blomkvist is aided in his search for a woman who has been missing for forty years by Lisbeth Salander, a young computer hacker.

Jodaeiye Nader az Simin (2011)

Aggregate Rating: 207 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 95 | Earnings: $7.10M

Lead Role: Payman Maadi, Leila Hatami, Sareh Bayat, Shahab Hosseini, | Director: Asghar Farhadi,

A married couple are faced with a difficult decision - to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's disease.

Prisoners (2013)

Aggregate Rating: 205 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 74 | Earnings: $60.96M

Lead Role: Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis, Melissa Leo, | Director: Denis Villeneuve,

When Keller Dover's daughter and her friend go missing, he takes matters into his own hands as the police pursue multiple leads and the pressure mounts.

The Bourne Supremacy (2004)

Aggregate Rating: 203 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 73 | Earnings: $176.05M

Lead Role: Matt Damon, Franka Potente, Joan Allen, Brian Cox, | Director: Paul Greengrass,

When Jason Bourne is framed for a CIA operation gone awry, he is forced to resume his former life as a trained assassin to survive.

A Quiet Place (2018)

Aggregate Rating: 202 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 82 | Earnings: $188.02M

Lead Role: Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe, | Director: John Krasinski,

In a post-apocalyptic world, a family is forced to live in silence while hiding from monsters with ultra-sensitive hearing.

Twelve Monkeys (1995)

Aggregate Rating: 198 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 74 | Earnings: $56.88M

Lead Role: Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, Brad Pitt, Joseph Melito, | Director: Terry Gilliam,

In a future world devastated by disease, a convict is sent back in time to gather information about the man-made virus that wiped out most of the human population on the planet.