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Top Mysteries (#1-100)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Citizen Kane 1941 Orson Welles 1
2 Vertigo 1958 Alfred Hitchcock 10
3 Chinatown 1974 Roman Polanski 19
4 The Third Man 1949 Carol Reed 26
5 North by Northwest 1959 Alfred Hitchcock 28
6 Rear Window 1954 Alfred Hitchcock 30
7 The Maltese Falcon 1941 John Huston 33
8 Blue Velvet 1986 David Lynch 61
9 The Usual Suspects 1995 Bryan Singer 64
10 Rashômon 1950 Akira Kurosawa 91
11 The Manchurian Candidate 1962 John Frankenheimer 93
12 L.A. Confidential 1997 Curtis Hanson 105
13 The Big Sleep 1946 Howard Hawks 122
14 Seven 1995 David Fincher 143
15 Persona 1966 Ingmar Bergman 151
16 The Conversation 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 176
17 Don't Look Now 1973 Nicolas Roeg 185
18 L'Avventura 1960 Michelangelo Antonioni 189
19 Memento 2000 Christopher Nolan 196
20 Laura 1944 Otto Preminger 207
21 The Sixth Sense 1999 M. Night Shyamalan 215
22 The 39 Steps 1935 Alfred Hitchcock 223
23 Rebecca 1940 Alfred Hitchcock 225
24 Sherlock, Jr. 1924 Buster Keaton 226
25 Fanny and Alexander 1982 Ingmar Bergman 247
26 Blow-Up 1966 Michelangelo Antonioni 253
27 Donnie Darko 2001 Richard Kelly 269
28 The Thing 1982 John Carpenter 276
29 Planet of the Apes 1968 Franklin J. Schaffner 279
30 The Big Lebowski 1998 Joel Coen 283
31 Scream 1996 Wes Craven 305
32 The Wicker Man 1973 Robin Hardy 317
33 In the Heat of the Night 1967 Norman Jewison 319
34 Diabolique 1955 Henri-Georges Clouzot 327
35 The Thin Man 1934 W.S. Van Dyke 337
36 Mildred Pierce 1945 Michael Curtiz 371
37 The Lady Vanishes 1938 Alfred Hitchcock 400
38 Who Framed Roger Rabbit 1988 Robert Zemeckis 408
39 Ghost 1990 Jerry Zucker 409
40 The Blair Witch Project 1999 Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez 417
41 Mulholland Dr. 2001 David Lynch 422
42 JFK 1991 Oliver Stone 424
43 A Nightmare on Elm Street 1984 Wes Craven 451
44 In a Lonely Place 1950 Nicholas Ray 453
45 Suspiria 1977 Dario Argento 456
46 Z 1969 Costa-Gavras 483
47 Stalker 1979 Andrei Tarkovsky 513
48 Anatomy of a Murder 1959 Otto Preminger 517
49 The Thin Blue Line 1988 Errol Morris 525
50 Solaris 1972 Andrei Tarkovsky 526
51 Picnic at Hanging Rock 1975 Peter Weir 556
52 The Big Heat 1953 Fritz Lang 558
53 Raising Arizona 1987 Joel Coen 569
54 Charade 1963 Stanley Donen 582
55 Chungking Express 1994 Kar Wai Wong 593
56 Witness for the Prosecution 1957 Billy Wilder 600
57 Dead of Night 1945 Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, and Robert Hamer 638
58 Klute 1971 Alan J. Pakula 644
59 Celine & Julie Go Boating 1974 Jacques Rivette 649
60 The Exterminating Angel 1962 Luis Buńuel 655
61 Lone Star 1996 John Sayles 667
62 Gaslight 1944 George Cukor 688
63 Lost Horizon 1937 Frank Capra 690
64 Les Vampires 1915 Louis Feuillade 697
65 Videodrome 1983 David Cronenberg 723
66 The Long Goodbye 1973 Robert Altman 744
67 Contact 1997 Robert Zemeckis 750
68 Detour 1945 Edgar G. Ulmer 757
69 Basic Instinct 1992 Paul Verhoeven 762
70 A Shot in the Dark 1964 Blake Edwards 763
71 Diva 1981 Jean-Jacques Beineix 788
72 The Lady from Shanghai 1947 Orson Welles 801
73 Gosford Park 2001 Robert Altman 813
74 Minority Report 2002 Steven Spielberg 817
75 Heathers 1989 Michael Lehmann 833
76 The Omen 1976 Richard Donner 840
77 Alphaville 1965 Jean-Luc Godard 873
78 Eyes Wide Shut 1999 Stanley Kubrick 877
79 Curse of the Demon 1957 Jacques Tourneur 888
80 Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones 2002 George Lucas 907
81 Shock Corridor 1963 Samuel Fuller 913
82 The Others 2001 Alejandro Amenábar 915
83 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1978 Philip Kaufman 932
84 Sleuth 1972 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 975
85 D.O.A. 1950 Rudolph Maté 988
86 House of Games 1987 David Mamet 993
87 The Vanishing 1988 George Sluizer 1001
88 Carnival of Souls 1962 Herk Harvey 1020
89 Friday the 13th 1980 Sean S. Cunningham 1034
90 Spellbound 1945 Alfred Hitchcock 1062
91 Seconds 1966 John Frankenheimer 1068
92 Dark City 1998 Alex Proyas 1072
93 Waking Life 2001 Richard Linklater 1087
94 To Catch a Thief 1955 Alfred Hitchcock 1090
95 Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler 1922 Fritz Lang 1113
96 Duel 1971 Steven Spielberg 1155
97 Candyman 1992 Bernard Rose 1157
98 Ring 1998 Hideo Nakata 1189
99 Oldboy 2003 Chan-wook Park 1203
100 Blow Out 1981 Brian De Palma 1210
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