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.
When the kidnapping of a 4-year-old Amanda McCready baffles Boston police desperate t...
It's 1947 Hollywood, and Eddie Valiant, a down-on-his-luck detective, is hired to fin...
Set in Los Angeles in the 1950s, L.A. Confidential follows police officers Ed Exley, ...
Suppose for a moment that Dr. Watson was the real brains behind Sherlock Holmes. The ...
Based on a short story by Philip K. Dick, Paycheck follows Michael Jennings, a revers...
Sherlock Holmes has a reputation for solving the most complex mysteries. With the aid...
A detective investigates the death of the patriarch of an eccentric, combative family...
What starts out as a lavish train ride through Europe quickly unfolds into one of the...
A visiting city reporter's assignment suddenly revolves around the murder trial of a ...
In the West End of 1950s London, plans for a movie version of a smash-hit play come t...
In 1970s South Boston, FBI Agent John Connolly (Joel Edgerton) persuades Irish mobste...
Wheelchair-bound photographer L.B. "Jeff" Jefferies spies on his neighbors from his G...
Computer hacker Martin heads a group of specialists who test the security of various ...
When Enola Holmes (Sherlock's sister) discovers that her mother has gone missing on h...
The story of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and the aftermath, which includes the c...
Criminal psychologist Helen Hudson is an expert on serial killers. She's gotten so cl...
On the cobblestone streets of 1897 London, some suspicious "mousechief" sets the scen...
When an escort girl is found dead in the offices of a Japanese company in Los Angeles...
During the era of Prohibition, U.S. Treasury Agent Eliot Ness sets out to stop ruthle...
Disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist accepts an invitation to surreptitiously invest...
The acclaimed illusionist Eisenheim has not only captured the imaginations of all of ...
Libby Parsons, a Seattle wife and mother caught in a nightmare when she's convicted o...
What if you had the chance to travel back in time and change just one event in your l...
The world's greatest detectives have been invited to dinner. But when murder is on th...
As a hunting party gathers at the country estate, no one is aware that before the wee...
Based on a short story by the late Philip K. Dick. John Anderton, a Washington, D.C. ...
Director Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece of double-cross and intrigue in which former ...
An F.B.I. Agent and an Interpol Detective track a team of illusionists who pull off b...
Young Sherlock Holmes follows the adventures of young John Watson when he is shipped ...
A ladykiller prowls the Carolina woods...and Detective Alex Cross tracks his murderou...
During the darkest days of World War II, the English mathematical genius and logician...
A mob enforcer's son in 1930s Illinois witnesses a brutal murder, forcing him and his...
The body of a young woman is found in a ditch in the woods of the small California co...
Clarice Starling, a gutsy young FBI trainee haunted by her past, risks her life in an...
The story begins when ace detective Harry Goodman goes mysteriously missing, promptin...
Teenage loner Brendan pushes his way into the underworld of a high school crime ring ...
Memento follows Leonard Shelby, a man suffering from anterograde amnesia, a condition...
A small-time thief Harry Lockhart unintentionally ends up in the world of Hollywood a...
Bad Times at the El Royale is a 2018 neo-noir thriller set in the late 1960s at the E...
In this classic Agatha Christie detective story, former diplomat Charles Hayward has ...
Between 1968 and 1983, a San Francisco cartoonist becomes an amateur detective obsess...
Three childhood best friends who grew up in working-class Boston drift apart after a ...
It's 1954 and World War II veteran and current federal marshal Teddy Daniels and his ...