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32 Best Movies in Genre Mystery
Apocalypse Now ( 1979 )
Genre: Drama | Mystery | War
Runtime: 147
Country: United States
Language: English | French | Vietnamese
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Writer: John Milius | Francis Ford Coppola | Michael Herr | Joseph Conrad
Stars: Marlon Brando | Martin Sheen | Robert Duvall | Frederic Forrest
Plot: A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.
The Thing ( 1982 )
Genre: Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi
Runtime: 109
Country: United States | Canada
Language: English | Norwegian
Director: John Carpenter
Writer: Bill Lancaster | John W. Campbell Jr.
Stars: Kurt Russell | Wilford Brimley | T.K. Carter | David Clennon
Plot: A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.
Chinatown ( 1974 )
Genre: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Runtime: 130
Country: United States
Language: English | Cantonese | Spanish
Director: Roman Polanski
Writer: Robert Towne | Roman Polanski
Stars: Jack Nicholson | Faye Dunaway | John Huston | Perry Lopez
Plot: A private detective hired to expose an adulterer in 1930s Los Angeles finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder.
Sleuth ( 1972 )
Genre: Mystery | Thriller
Runtime: 138
Country: United Kingdom | United States
Language: English | Italian
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Writer: Anthony Shaffer | Anthony Shaffer
Stars: Laurence Olivier | Michael Caine | Alec Cawthorne | John Matthews
Plot: A man who loves games and theater invites his wife's lover to meet him, setting up a battle of wits with potentially deadly results.
Mississippi Burning ( 1988 )
Genre: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Runtime: 128
Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Alan Parker
Writer: Chris Gerolmo
Stars: Gene Hackman | Willem Dafoe | Frances McDormand | Brad Dourif
Plot: Two FBI agents with wildly different styles arrive in Mississippi to investigate the disappearance of three civil rights activists.
3 Women ( 1977 )
Genre: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Runtime: 124
Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Robert Altman
Writer: Robert Altman | Patricia Resnick
Stars: Shelley Duvall | Sissy Spacek | Janice Rule | Robert Fortier
Plot: Two roommates/physical therapists, one a vain woman and the other an awkward teenager, share an increasingly bizarre relationship.
The Conversation ( 1974 )
Genre: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Runtime: 113
Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Writer: Francis Ford Coppola
Stars: Gene Hackman | John Cazale | Allen Garfield | Frederic Forrest
Plot: A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit ( 1988 )
Genre: Animation | Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Family | Fantasy | Mystery
Runtime: 104
Country: United States | United Kingdom
Language: English
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Writer: Jeffrey Price | Peter S. Seaman | Gary K. Wolf | Ted Osborne | Al Taliaferro
Stars: Bob Hoskins | Christopher Lloyd | Joanna Cassidy | Charles Fleischer
Plot: When a cartoon rabbit is accused of murder, he enlists the help of a burnt out private investigator to prove his innocence.
Blue Velvet ( 1986 )
Genre: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Runtime: 120
Country: United States
Language: English
Director: David Lynch
Writer: David Lynch
Stars: Isabella Rossellini | Kyle MacLachlan | Dennis Hopper | Laura Dern
Plot: The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.
The Name of the Rose ( 1986 )
Genre: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Runtime: 130
Country: West Germany | Italy | France
Language: English | Latin
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Writer: Umberto Eco | Andrew Birkin | Gérard Brach | Howard Franklin | Alain Godard
Stars: Sean Connery | Christian Slater | Helmut Qualtinger | Elya Baskin
Plot: An intellectually nonconformist friar investigates a series of mysterious deaths in an isolated abbey.
Missing ( 1982 )
Genre: Biography | Drama | History | Mystery | Thriller
Runtime: 122
Country: United States | Mexico
Language: English | Spanish | French
Director: Costa-Gavras
Writer: Costa-Gavras | Donald E. Stewart | Thomas Hauser | John Nichols
Stars: Jack Lemmon | Sissy Spacek | Melanie Mayron | John Shea
Plot: "When an idealistic American writer disappears during the Chilean coup d'état in September 1973, his wife and father try to find him."
The Omen ( 1976 )
Genre: Horror | Mystery
Runtime: 111
Country: United Kingdom | United States
Language: English | Latin | Italian
Director: Richard Donner
Writer: David Seltzer | Harvey Bernhard
Stars: Gregory Peck | Lee Remick | David Warner | Billie Whitelaw
Plot: Mysterious deaths surround an American ambassador. Could the child that he is raising actually be the Antichrist? The Devil's own son?
The Wicker Man ( 1973 )
Genre: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Runtime: 88
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Director: Robin Hardy
Writer: Anthony Shaffer | David Pinner
Stars: Edward Woodward | Christopher Lee | Diane Cilento | Britt Ekland
Plot: A puritan police sergeant arrives in a Scottish island village in search of a missing girl, who the pagan locals claim never existed.
The Long Goodbye ( 1973 )
Genre: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Runtime: 112
Country: United States
Language: English | Spanish
Director: Robert Altman
Writer: Leigh Brackett | Raymond Chandler
Stars: Elliott Gould | Nina van Pallandt | Sterling Hayden | Mark Rydell
Plot: Private eye Philip Marlowe helps friend Terry Lennox out of a jam and is implicated in his wife Sylvia's murder. He also is hired by Eileen Wade to locate her dipsomaniac husband Roger, who frequently disappears when he wants to dry out.
The Abyss ( 1989 )
Genre: Adventure | Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Runtime: 140
Country: United States
Language: English
Director: James Cameron
Writer: James Cameron
Stars: Ed Harris | Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio | Michael Biehn | Leo Burmester
Plot: A civilian diving team is enlisted to search for a lost nuclear submarine and faces danger while encountering an alien aquatic species.
The Secret of NIMH ( 1982 )
Genre: Animation | Adventure | Drama | Family | Fantasy | Mystery | Sci-Fi
Runtime: 82
Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Don Bluth
Writer: Robert C. O'Brien | Don Bluth | John Pomeroy | Gary Goldman | Will Finn | Ken Anderson
Stars: Derek Jacobi | Elizabeth Hartman | Arthur Malet | Dom DeLuise
Plot: To save her ill son, a field mouse must seek the aid of a colony of rats, with whom she has a deeper link than she suspected.
The Long Good Friday ( 1980 )
Genre: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Runtime: 114
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English | French
Director: John Mackenzie
Writer: Barrie Keeffe
Stars: Paul Freeman | Leo Dolan | Kevin McNally | Patti Love
Plot: An up-and-coming gangster is tested by the insurgence of an unknown, very powerful threat.
Der amerikanische Freund ( 1977 )
Genre: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Runtime: 128
Country: West Germany | France
Language: German | English | French
Director: Wim Wenders
Writer: Patricia Highsmith | Wim Wenders
Stars: Dennis Hopper | Bruno Ganz | Lisa Kreuzer | Gérard Blain
Plot: Tom Ripley, who deals in forged art, suggests a picture framer he knows would make a good hit man.
Carrie ( 1976 )
Genre: Horror | Mystery
Runtime: 98
Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Brian De Palma
Writer: Stephen King | Lawrence D. Cohen
Stars: Sissy Spacek | Piper Laurie | Amy Irving | William Katt
Plot: Carrie White, a shy, friendless teenage girl who is sheltered by her domineering, religious mother, unleashes her telekinetic powers after being humiliated by her classmates at her senior prom.
Picnic at Hanging Rock ( 1975 )
Genre: Drama | Mystery
Runtime: 115
Country: Australia
Language: English | French
Director: Peter Weir
Writer: Cliff Green | Joan Lindsay
Stars: Rachel Roberts | Vivean Gray | Helen Morse | Kirsty Child
Plot: During a rural summer picnic, a few students and a teacher from an Australian girls' school vanish without a trace. Their absence frustrates and haunts the people left behind.