Best Mystery Movies: Puzzling, Gripping, Full of Twists

Mystery movies thrive on open questions, dense atmosphere and twists that genuinely surprise. This page collects the highlights of the genre: films that grip you and leave you thinking about what really happened long after the credits roll.





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Knives Out

2019
131 Min
MOVIE
ComedyCrimeMystery
When renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey is found dead at his estate just after his 85th birthday, the inquisitive and debonair Detective Benoit Blanc is mysteriously enlisted to investigate. From Harlan's dysfunctional family to his d…
Available on: Netflix Prime Video Magenta TV

Midsommar

2019
147 Min
MOVIE
HorrorDramaMystery
Several friends travel to Sweden to study as anthropologists a summer festival that is held every ninety years in the remote hometown of one of them. What begins as a dream vacation in a place where the sun never sets, gradually turns into…
Available on: Magenta TV

Anon

2018
100 Min
MOVIE
Science FictionCrimeMysteryThriller
Set in a near-future world where there is no privacy, ignorance or anonymity, our private memories are recorded and crime almost ceases to exist. In trying to solve a series of unsolved murders, Sal Frieland stumbles onto a young woman who…

Happy Death Day

2017
97 Min
MOVIE
ComedyHorrorMystery
Caught in a bizarre and terrifying time warp, college student Tree finds herself repeatedly reliving the day of her murder, ultimately realizing that she must identify the killer and the reason for her death before her chances of survival …

What Happened to Monday

2017
123 Min
MOVIE
Science FictionThrillerMysteryAction
In a world where families are limited to one child due to overpopulation, a set of identical septuplets must avoid being put to a long sleep by the government and dangerous infighting while investigating the disappearance of one of their o…
Available on: Prime Video

Get Out

2017
104 Min
MOVIE
MysteryThrillerHorror
Chris and his girlfriend Rose go upstate to visit her parents for the weekend. At first, Chris reads the family's overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter's interracial relationship, but as the weekend …
Available on: Netflix Prime Video

Synchronicity

2015
101 Min
MOVIE
MysteryScience FictionThriller
A daring physicist travels into the past to stop a mysterious woman from stealing his invention. But once there, he uncovers a surprising truth about the machine, the woman, and his own fractured reality.

Stonehearst Asylum

2014
112 Min
MOVIE
ThrillerMysteryHorror
An Oxford Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes obsessed with a female mental patient, but he has no idea of a recent and horrifying staffing change.
Available on: Prime Video

Before I Go to Sleep

2014
92 Min
MOVIE
ThrillerMystery
A woman wakes up every day, remembering nothing as a result of a traumatic accident in her past. One day, new terrifying truths emerge that force her to question everyone around her.

Oblivion

2013
124 Min
MOVIE
ActionScience FictionAdventureMystery
Jack Harper is one of the last few drone repairmen stationed on Earth. Part of a massive operation to extract vital resources after decades of war with a terrifying threat known as the Scavs, Jack’s mission is nearly complete. His existenc…

Limitless

2011
106 Min
MOVIE
ThrillerMysteryScience Fiction
The life of an unsuccessful writer is transformed by a top-secret 'smart drug' that allows him to use 100% of his brain and become a perfect version of himself. His enhanced abilities soon attract shadowy forces that threaten his new life.
Available on: Prime Video

Shutter Island

2010
138 Min
MOVIE
DramaThrillerMystery
World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by troubling visions and a mysterious doctor.

Exam

2009
97 Min
MOVIE
ThrillerMystery
Eight talented candidates have reached the final stage of selection to join the ranks of a mysterious and powerful corporation. Entering a windowless room, where an armed guard keeps watch, they are given 80 minutes to answer one simple qu…

Watchmen

2009
163 Min
MOVIE
MysteryActionScience Fiction
In a gritty and alternate 1985, the glory days of costumed vigilantes have been brought to a close by a government crackdown. But after one of the masked veterans is brutally murdered, an investigation into the killer is initiated. The reu…
Available on: HBO Max

The Prestige

2006
130 Min
MOVIE
DramaMysteryScience Fiction
A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences.

Lucky Number Slevin

2006
110 Min
MOVIE
DramaThrillerCrimeMystery
Slevin is mistakenly put in the middle of a personal war between the city’s biggest criminal bosses. Under constant watch, Slevin must try not to get killed by an infamous assassin and come up with an idea of how to get out of his current …

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

2005
102 Min
MOVIE
ComedyCrimeMysteryThriller
A petty thief posing as an actor is brought to Los Angeles for an unlikely audition and finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation along with his high school dream girl and a detective who's been training him for his upcoming ro…

Revolver

2005
115 Min
MOVIE
DramaThrillerCrimeMystery
Hotshot gambler Jake Green is long on bravado and seriously short of common sense. Rarely is he allowed in any casino because he's a bona fide winner and, in fact, has taken so much money over the years that he's the sole client of his acc…

Vanilla Sky

2001
136 Min
MOVIE
MysteryRomanceScience Fiction
David Aames has it all: wealth, good looks and gorgeous women on his arm. But just as he begins falling for the warmhearted Sofia, his face is horribly disfigured in a car accident. That's just the beginning of his troubles as the lines be…

Donnie Darko

2001
114 Min
MOVIE
FantasyDramaMystery
After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to commit a series of crimes.

Memento

2000
113 Min
MOVIE
MysteryThriller
Leonard Shelby is tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The difficulty of locating his wife's killer, however, is compounded by the fact that he suffers from a rare, untreatable form of short-term memory loss. Although he …

The Thirteenth Floor

1999
101 Min
MOVIE
ThrillerScience FictionMystery
In Los Angeles, a wealthy man, known as Mr. Fuller, discovers a shocking secret about the world he lives in. Fearing for his life, he leaves a desperate message for a friend of his in the most unexpected place.

Dark City

1998
101 Min
MOVIE
MysteryScience Fiction
A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic powers who seek the souls of humans.

L.A. Confidential

1997
138 Min
MOVIE
CrimeMysteryThrillerDrama
Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night diner.
Available on: Disney+

The Game

1997
129 Min
MOVIE
DramaThrillerMystery
In honor of his birthday, San Francisco banker Nicholas Van Orton, a financial genius and a cold-hearted loner, receives an unusual present from his younger brother, Conrad: a gift certificate to play a unique kind of game. In nary a nanos…
Available on: Prime Video Magenta TV

Gattaca

1997
107 Min
MOVIE
ThrillerScience FictionMysteryRomance
Vincent is an all-too-human man who dares to defy a system obsessed with genetic perfection. He is an "In-Valid" who assumes the identity of a member of the genetic elite to pursue his goal of traveling into space with the Gattaca Aerospac…

Twelve Monkeys

1995
129 Min
MOVIE
Science FictionThrillerMystery
In the year 2035, convict James Cole reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to discover the origin of a deadly virus that wiped out nearly all of the earth's population and forced the survivors into underground communities. But whe…

Se7en

1995
127 Min
MOVIE
CrimeMysteryThriller
Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the "seven deadly sins" in this dark and haunting film that takes viewers from the tortured remains of one victim to the next. The seasoned Det. …
Available on: HBO Max

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How are these Mystery picks selected?

Each pick on this page is curated based on community ratings, professional reception and lasting relevance. We focus on films that hold up over time rather than chasing every new release.

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Yes. The list reflects current availability and ratings. New films are added when they meet the quality threshold; older entries stay listed when they remain genuinely worth watching.

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