Best mystery crime films - Charts
Best mystery crime films
1. The Green Mile (1999)
USA, Drama / Mystery
Directed by: Frank Darabont
Cast: Tom Hanks, David Morse
3. L.A. Confidential (1997)
USA, Drama / Crime
Directed by: Curtis Hanson
Cast: Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe
4. The Usual Suspects (1995)
USA / Germany, Drama / Crime
Directed by: Bryan Singer
Cast: Stephen Baldwin, Gabriel Byrne
5. Prisoners (2013)
USA, Thriller / Mystery
Directed by: Denis Villeneuve
Cast: Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal
6. Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
USA, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Billy Wilder
Cast: Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich
7. Gone Girl (2014)
USA, Mystery / Thriller
Directed by: David Fincher
Cast: Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike
8. High and Low (1963)
Japan, Thriller / Crime
Directed by: 黒澤明
Cast: Toshirō Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai
9. Mississippi Burning (1988)
USA, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Alan Parker
Cast: Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe
10. Zootopia (2016)
USA, Animation / Mystery
Directed by: Byron Howard, Rich Moore
Cast: Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman
12. Changeling (2008)
USA, Drama / Historical
Directed by: Clint Eastwood
Cast: Angelina Jolie, John Malkovich
13. Double Indemnity (1944)
USA, Drama / Film-Noir
Directed by: Billy Wilder
Cast: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck
14. The Invisible Guest (2016)
Spain, Mystery / Crime
Directed by: Oriol Paulo
Cast: Mario Casas, Ana Wagener
15. Wind River (2017)
UK / USA, Drama / Crime
Directed by: Taylor Sheridan
Cast: Jeremy Renner, Elizabeth Olsen
16. The Name of the Rose (1986)
Italy / France, Drama / Crime
Directed by: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Cast: Sean Connery, F. Murray Abraham
18. Chinatown (1974)
USA, Mystery / Drama
Directed by: Roman Polański
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway
19. Dial M for Murder (1954)
USA, Crime / Mystery
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Ray Milland, Grace Kelly
20. Basic Instinct (1992)
USA / France, Thriller / Drama
Directed by: Paul Verhoeven
Cast: Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone
21. The Best Offer (2013)
Italy, Drama / Romance
Directed by: Giuseppe Tornatore
Cast: Geoffrey Rush, Jim Sturgess
22. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)
Sweden / Denmark, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Niels Arden Oplev
Cast: Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace
23. Knives Out (2019)
USA, Mystery / Crime
Directed by: Rian Johnson
Cast: Daniel Craig, Ana de Armas
24. Gone, Baby, Gone (2007)
USA, Drama / Crime
Directed by: Ben Affleck
Cast: Casey Affleck, Michelle Monaghan
25. In the Heat of the Night (1967)
USA, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Norman Jewison
Cast: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger
27. Three Days of the Condor (1975)
USA, Mystery / Thriller
Directed by: Sydney Pollack
Cast: Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway
28. Dogville (2003)
Denmark / Sweden, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Lars von Trier
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Harriet Andersson
29. The Thin Blue Line (1988)
USA, Documentary / Crime
Directed by: Errol Morris
Cast: Marianne Leone, Adam Goldfine
30. I, Robot (2004)
USA / Germany, Sci-fi / Action
Directed by: Alex Proyas
Cast: Will Smith, Bridget Moynahan
31. Blue Velvet (1986)
USA, Mystery / Thriller
Directed by: David Lynch
Cast: Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper
32. Lost Highway (1997)
USA / France, Mystery / Thriller
Directed by: David Lynch
Cast: Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette
33. Infernal Affairs (2002)
Hong Kong, Drama / Crime
Directed by: Andrew Lau, Alan Mak
Cast: Andy Lau, Tony Chiu-wai Leung
34. Following (1998)
UK, Crime / Mystery
Directed by: Christopher Nolan
Cast: Jeremy Theobald, Alex Haw
35. Dolores Claiborne (1995)
USA, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Taylor Hackford
Cast: Kathy Bates, Jennifer Jason Leigh
36. The Purity of Vengeance (2018)
Denmark / Germany, Crime / Mystery
Directed by: Christoffer Boe
Cast: Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Fares Fares
37. Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
USA, Drama / Mystery
Directed by: Otto Preminger
Cast: James Stewart, Lee Remick
39. Mystic River (2003)
USA / Australia, Mystery / Drama
Directed by: Clint Eastwood
Cast: Sean Penn, Tim Robbins
40. The Big Sleep (1946)
USA, Film-Noir / Mystery
Directed by: Howard Hawks
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall
41. Mildred Pierce (1945)
USA, Drama / Film-Noir
Directed by: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Joan Crawford, Jack Carson
42. Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993)
USA, Comedy / Mystery
Directed by: Woody Allen
Cast: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton
43. Eastern Promises (2007)
UK / Canada, Drama / Crime
Directed by: David Cronenberg
Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts
44. Murder by Death (1976)
USA, Comedy / Crime
Directed by: Robert Moore
Cast: Eileen Brennan, Truman Capote
45. Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
UK, Drama / Crime
Directed by: Sidney Lumet
Cast: Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall
46. A Shot in the Dark (1964)
UK / USA, Comedy / Mystery
Directed by: Blake Edwards
Cast: Peter Sellers, Elke Sommer
47. Sherlock Holmes (2009)
USA / Germany, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Guy Ritchie
Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law
48. Ten Little Indians (1987)
Soviet Union, Crime / Mystery
Directed by: Stanislav Govorukhin
Cast: Владимир Зельдин, Tatyana Drubich
49. Death on the Nile (1978)
UK, Crime / Drama
Directed by: John Guillermin
Cast: Peter Ustinov, Jane Birkin
50. The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001)
USA / Germany, Comedy / Crime
Directed by: Woody Allen
Cast: John Tormey, Woody Allen
52. Character (1997)
Netherlands / Belgium, Drama / Crime
Directed by: Mike van Diem
Cast: Jan Decleir, Fedja van Huêt
53. Hot Fuzz (2007)
UK / France, Action / Comedy
Directed by: Edgar Wright
Cast: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost
54. I... For Icarus (1979)
France, Mystery / Thriller
Directed by: Henri Verneuil
Cast: Yves Montand, Michel Etcheverry
56. 8MM (1999)
USA / Germany, Crime / Mystery
Directed by: Joel Schumacher
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Joaquin Phoenix
57. Insomnia (2002)
USA / Canada, Mystery / Crime
Directed by: Christopher Nolan
Cast: Al Pacino, Robin Williams
59. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
USA / Sweden, Crime / Drama
Directed by: David Fincher
Cast: Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara
60. The Batman (2022)
USA, Action / Drama
Directed by: Matt Reeves
Cast: Robert Pattinson, Zoë Kravitz
61. The Stranger (1946)
USA, Drama / Film-Noir
Directed by: Orson Welles
Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young
62. Memories of Murder (2003)
South Korea, Mystery / Crime
Directed by: Joon-ho Bong
Cast: Kang-ho Song, Sang-kyung Kim
65. After the Thin Man (1936)
USA, Comedy / Romance
Directed by: W. S. Van Dyke
Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy
66. Evil Under the Sun (1982)
UK, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Guy Hamilton
Cast: Peter Ustinov, Colin Blakely
67. Sicario (2015)
USA, Action / Crime
Directed by: Denis Villeneuve
Cast: Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro
68. Death Note: The Last Name (2006)
Japan / USA, Adventure / Crime
Directed by: Shūsuke Kaneko
Cast: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Shidō Nakamura
70. Le Corbeau (1943)
France, Drama / Thriller
Directed by: Henri-Georges Clouzot
Cast: Pierre Fresnay, Ginette Leclerc
71. In the Line of Fire (1993)
USA, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Wolfgang Petersen
Cast: Clint Eastwood, John Malkovich
72. The Crimson Rivers (2000)
France, Crime / Mystery
Directed by: Mathieu Kassovitz
Cast: Jean Reno, Vincent Cassel
73. The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)
UK, Crime / Mystery
Directed by: Terence Fisher
Cast: Peter Cushing, André Morell
74. Black Butler: Book of Murder (2014)
Japan, Animation / Fantasy
Directed by: Noriyuki Abe
Cast: Maaya Sakamoto, Jun'ichi Suwabe
76. The Trial (1962)
France / Italy, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Orson Welles
Cast: Anthony Perkins, Elsa Martinelli
78. The Absent One (2014)
Denmark / Germany, Crime / Mystery
Directed by: Mikkel Nørgaard
Cast: Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Fares Fares
79. A Few Good Men (1992)
USA, Drama / Crime
Directed by: Rob Reiner
Cast: Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson
80. Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922)
German Empire, Crime / Mystery
Directed by: Fritz Lang
Cast: Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Alfred Abel
81. Ten Little Indians (1965)
UK, Mystery / Crime
Directed by: George Pollock
Cast: Hugh O'Brian, Shirley Eaton
83. Shadows and Fog (1991)
USA, Comedy / Crime
Directed by: Woody Allen
Cast: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow
84. Now You See Me (2013)
USA / France, Mystery / Crime
Directed by: Louis Leterrier
Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo
87. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)
USA, Action / Adventure
Directed by: Guy Ritchie
Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law
88. Fracture (2007)
USA / Germany, Crime / Drama
Directed by: Gregory Hoblit
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Ryan Gosling
89. The Bride Wore Black (1968)
France / Italy, Crime / Drama
Directed by: François Truffaut
Cast: Jeanne Moreau, Michel Bouquet
91. Le Samouraï (1967)
France / Italy, Drama / Crime
Directed by: Jean-Pierre Melville
Cast: Alain Delon, François Périer
92. Jack Reacher (2012)
USA, Action / Crime
Directed by: Christopher McQuarrie
Cast: Tom Cruise, Rosamund Pike
93. The Foreigner (2017)
UK / China, Action / Crime
Directed by: Martin Campbell
Cast: Jackie Chan, Pierce Brosnan
94. Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
USA, Film-Noir / Crime
Directed by: Robert Aldrich
Cast: Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker
95. Bad Education (2004)
Spain, Drama / Crime
Directed by: Pedro Almodóvar
Cast: Gael García Bernal, Fele Martínez
96. A History of Violence (2005)
USA / Germany, Crime / Thriller
Directed by: David Cronenberg
Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello
100. From Hell (2001)
USA, Thriller / Crime
Directed by: Allen Hughes, Albert Hughes
Cast: Johnny Depp, Heather Graham