Mystery Movies

Here's a selection of my favorite mystery movies, plus some highly-rated (or highly recommeneded) ones still waiting on my "to be watched" list. For the at-home sleuth who loves big-screen mysteries, from silver screen classics, to true crime docudramas, to modern blockbusters, I hope you find your next favorite.

My goal is to do more than just a "top 20" list, and instead provide you with a robust batch of mystery movies you can filter by tags and sort by release year to find a hidden gem you might have missed.

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When the kidnapping of a 4-year-old Amanda McCready baffles Boston police desperate t...

Released:
2007
Streaming on:
HBO Max

It's 1947 Hollywood, and Eddie Valiant, a down-on-his-luck detective, is hired to fin...

Released:
1988
Streaming on:
Disney+

Set in Los Angeles in the 1950s, L.A. Confidential follows police officers Ed Exley, ...

Released:
1997

Suppose for a moment that Dr. Watson was the real brains behind Sherlock Holmes. The ...

Released:
1988
Streaming on:
Apple TV

Based on a short story by Philip K. Dick, Paycheck follows Michael Jennings, a revers...

Released:
2003
Streaming on:
Paramount+

Sherlock Holmes has a reputation for solving the most complex mysteries. With the aid...

Released:
2009

A detective investigates the death of the patriarch of an eccentric, combative family...

Released:
2019

What starts out as a lavish train ride through Europe quickly unfolds into one of the...

Released:
2017
Streaming on:
Disney+

A visiting city reporter's assignment suddenly revolves around the murder trial of a ...

Released:
1997
Streaming on:
HBO Max

In the West End of 1950s London, plans for a movie version of a smash-hit play come t...

Released:
2022
Streaming on:
HBO Max

In 1970s South Boston, FBI Agent John Connolly (Joel Edgerton) persuades Irish mobste...

Released:
2015

Wheelchair-bound photographer L.B. "Jeff" Jefferies spies on his neighbors from his G...

Released:
1954

Computer hacker Martin heads a group of specialists who test the security of various ...

Released:
1992
Streaming on:
Starz

When Enola Holmes (Sherlock's sister) discovers that her mother has gone missing on h...

Released:
2020
Streaming on:
Netflix

The story of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and the aftermath, which includes the c...

Released:
2016

Criminal psychologist Helen Hudson is an expert on serial killers. She's gotten so cl...

Released:
1995

On the cobblestone streets of 1897 London, some suspicious "mousechief" sets the scen...

Released:
1986
Streaming on:
Disney+

When an escort girl is found dead in the offices of a Japanese company in Los Angeles...

Released:
1993

During the era of Prohibition, U.S. Treasury Agent Eliot Ness sets out to stop ruthle...

Released:
1987
Streaming on:
Showtime

Disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist accepts an invitation to surreptitiously invest...

Released:
2011

The acclaimed illusionist Eisenheim has not only captured the imaginations of all of ...

Released:
2006
Streaming on:
Peacock

Libby Parsons, a Seattle wife and mother caught in a nightmare when she's convicted o...

Released:
1999
Streaming on:
HBO Max

What if you had the chance to travel back in time and change just one event in your l...

Released:
2000

The world's greatest detectives have been invited to dinner. But when murder is on th...

Released:
1976

As a hunting party gathers at the country estate, no one is aware that before the wee...

Released:
2001

Based on a short story by the late Philip K. Dick. John Anderton, a Washington, D.C. ...

Released:
2002
Streaming on:
Netflix

Director Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece of double-cross and intrigue in which former ...

Released:
1954

An F.B.I. Agent and an Interpol Detective track a team of illusionists who pull off b...

Released:
2013

Young Sherlock Holmes follows the adventures of young John Watson when he is shipped ...

Released:
1985

The murderously funny movie based on the world-famous Clue board game. Mr. Boddy host...

Released:
1985
Streaming on:
Prime Video

A ladykiller prowls the Carolina woods...and Detective Alex Cross tracks his murderou...

Released:
1997
Streaming on:
HBO Max

During the darkest days of World War II, the English mathematical genius and logician...

Released:
2014
Streaming on:
Netflix

A mob enforcer's son in 1930s Illinois witnesses a brutal murder, forcing him and his...

Released:
2002
Streaming on:
Paramount+

The body of a young woman is found in a ditch in the woods of the small California co...

Released:
2002

Clarice Starling, a gutsy young FBI trainee haunted by her past, risks her life in an...

Released:
1991
Streaming on:
HBO Max

The story begins when ace detective Harry Goodman goes mysteriously missing, promptin...

Released:
2019

Teenage loner Brendan pushes his way into the underworld of a high school crime ring ...

Released:
2005

Memento follows Leonard Shelby, a man suffering from anterograde amnesia, a condition...

Released:
2000
Streaming on:
HBO Max

A small-time thief Harry Lockhart unintentionally ends up in the world of Hollywood a...

Released:
2005

Bad Times at the El Royale is a 2018 neo-noir thriller set in the late 1960s at the E...

Released:
2018

In this classic Agatha Christie detective story, former diplomat Charles Hayward has ...

Released:
2017

Between 1968 and 1983, a San Francisco cartoonist becomes an amateur detective obsess...

Released:
2007

Three childhood best friends who grew up in working-class Boston drift apart after a ...

Released:
2003
Streaming on:
HBO Max

It's 1954 and World War II veteran and current federal marshal Teddy Daniels and his ...

Released:
2010
Streaming on:
Netflix