25 Greatest Mystery Movies of All Time

The film tells the story of top FBI student Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) and her pursuit of a serial killer in her investigation. Agent Starling tries to see advice from an imprisoned serial killer and brilliant psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins). The film won the Big Five Academy Awards. Also, Anthony Hopkins won the Best Actor Award by playing Dr. Hannibal Lecter 16 minutes. The film is ranked for the 5th greatest and most influential thriller film of all time by American Film Instıtute.

David Fincher's Se7en is one of the best detective movies of all time. The movie tells the story of two detectives David Mills (Brad Pitt) and William Somerset(Morgan Freeman) who hunt a serial killer who uses seven deadly sins as a murder pattern. 

Alfred Hitchcock is the master of suspense and horror films and Psyco is one of his best films. The film is a psychological horror movie and based on Robert Boch's novel of the same name. Phoenix office worker Marion Crane is fed up with the way life has treated her. She has to meet her lover Sam in lunch breaks and they cannot get married because Sam has to give most of his money away in alimony. One Friday Marion is trusted to bank $40,000 by her employer. Seeing the opportunity to take the money and start a new life, Marion leaves town and heads towards Sam's California store. Tired after the long drive and caught in a storm, she gets off the main highway and pulls into The Bates Motel. The motel is managed by a quiet young man called Norman who seems to be dominated by his ...

This great movie is another psychological horror film based on Stephen King's novel of the same name and directed by Stanley Kubrick. The film told the story of an aspiring writer Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) and his family when Jack accepts a position of an off-season isolated hotel caretaker.

A Christopher Nolan movie is also written by Nolan's brother. The film stars David Bowie, Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Michael Caine, and Scarlett Johansson. It is about two rival stage magicians Robert Angier and Alfred Borden. The Prestige is one of the most popular films of all time according to its IMDb rating of 8.5.

A supernatural mystery thriller from director M. Night Shyamalan. Malcolm Crowe (Bruce Willis)is a child psychologist who receives an award on the same night that he is visited by a very unhappy ex-patient. After this encounter, Crowe takes on the task of curing a young boy with the same ills as the ex-patient (Donnie Wahlberg). This boy "sees dead people.

Murder on the Orient Express is a detective mystery movie directed by Sidney Lumet. The film is adapted from Agatha Christie's novel of the same name. It is one of the best Agatha Christie's novel adaptation. The film features the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot (Albert Finney). The detective is asked to investigate the murder of an American businessman aboard the Orient Express train. 

David Lynch is most known for his surrealist films. Due to the developed his own unique cinematic style, his style has been dubbed "Lynchian". Mulholland Drive reflects the style of the director and also one of the finest works of him. Lynch won the Best Director Award at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival with this film.

Memento chronicles two separate stories of Leonard (Guy Pearce), an ex-insurance investigator who can no longer build new memories, as he attempts to find the murderer of his wife (Carrie-Anne Moss), which is the last thing he remembers. One storyline moves forward in time while the other tells the story backward revealing more each time.

In an airport waiting room, a man in a wheelchair tells a stranger a story about a fixed horse race in 1979 that resulted in a family's deaths. In Manhattan, two bookies and the son of a Mob boss die. A young man just out of the shower answers the door to a neighbor woman and explains that he's visiting, has had a bad week, including being mugged, and doesn't know where his pal, who lives there, is. 

Michelangelo Antonioni's first entirely English work. A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. Then he meets a mysterious beauty and also notices something frightfully suspicious on one of his photographs of her taken in a park. The fact that he may have photographed a murder does not occur to him until he studies and then blows up his negatives, uncovering details, blowing up smaller and smaller elements, and finally putting the puzzle together.

L.A. Confidential (1997) is one of the best police detective films set in 1940s Los Angeles Police department and nominated for nine Academy Awards and won two of them (Best Supporting Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay). The film tells the story of a group of Los Angeles Police Department officers and the stories of police corruption and Hollywood celebrities in 1953.

Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island (2010), starring Leonardo DiCaprio, is a must-see neo-noir psychological mystery movie. Shutter Island based on Dennis Lehane's novel of the same name.  Leonardo DiCaprio stars as U.S. Marshal "Teddy" Daniels who is assigned to investigate the disappearance of a patient from Boston's Shutter Island Ashecliffe Hospital. Mark Ruffalo plays his partner officer.

A botched robbery indicates a police informant, and the pressure mounts in the aftermath at a warehouse. Crime begets violence as the survivors -- veteran Mr. White, newcomer Mr. Orange, psychopathic parolee Mr. Blonde, bickering weasel Mr. Pink and Nice Guy Eddie -- unravel.

Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs (1992) is regarded as a classic and cult film and also one of the greatest independent movies of all time.