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| 1 |  | Citizen Kane (1941) |  4.0000 157 reviews | PG | Drama, Mystery |
$18.26
| Newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane dies alone in his extravagant mansion, speaking a single word: ...more about Citizen Kane starring Joseph Cotten and Dorothy Comingore |
| 2 |  | 12 Angry Men (1957) | 3.9683 68 reviews | PG | Drama, Crime, Mystery |
$11.03
| The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if ...more about 12 Angry Men starring Martin Balsam and Lee J. Cobb |
| 3 |  | Rear Window (1954) | 3.9056 97 reviews | NA | Thriller, Mystery |
$8.84
| In this Alfred Hitchcock Thriller, James Stewart plays L.B. Jefferies who is homebound after ...more about Rear Window starring James Stewart and Grace Kelly |
| 4 |  | Chinatown (1974) | 3.8626 83 reviews | R | Drama, Thriller, Crime, Mystery |
$6.40
| When smooth P.I. Jake Gittes is tricked into taking a case tailing an unfaithful husband he finds ...more about Chinatown starring Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway |
| 5 |  | Third Man, The (1950) |  3.7039 64 reviews | Not Rated | Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller, Mystery, Film-Noir |
$23.99
| Novelist Holly Martins goes to post-war Vienna on the invite of his friend, Harry Lime, who ...more about Third Man starring Joseph Cotten and Geoffrey Keen |
| 6 |  | Vertigo (1958) | 3.7026 132 reviews | PG | Drama, Thriller, Crime, Mystery, Romance |
$13.99
| Retired police detective Scottie Fergusson is asked by an old college friend to follow his wife, ...more about Vertigo starring James Stewart and Kim Novak |
| 7 |  | Rebecca (1940) | 3.6061 32 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Mystery, Romance |
$294.95
| A young woman is haunted by her new husband's dead wife, Rebecca. After a quick courtship and world ...more about Rebecca starring Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine |
| 8 |  | North by Northwest (1959) | 3.5541 115 reviews | NA | Adventure, Thriller, Mystery |
$10.53
| Middle-aged Madison Avenue advertising executive Roger O. Thornhill is mistaken for a government ...more about North by Northwest starring Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint |
| 9 |  | Maltese Falcon, The (1941) | 3.5377 71 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Crime, Mystery |
$14.92
| Sam Spade is a partner in a private-eye firm who finds himself hounded by police when his partner ...more about Maltese Falcon starring Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor |
| 10 |  | Manchurian Candidate, The (1962) | 3.5363 105 reviews | PG-13 | Drama, Thriller, Sci-Fi, Mystery |
$4.86
| A Korean War veteran is sent home a hero. He later finds he was captured and brainwashed by ...more about Manchurian Candidate starring Frank Sinatra and Laurence Harvey |
| 11 |  | Conversation, The (1974) | 3.5006 72 reviews | PG | Drama, Thriller, Crime, Mystery |
$6.13
| Surveillance expert Harry Caul is hired to tail a young couple. As he listens to their ...more about Conversation starring Gene Hackman and John Cazale |
| 12 |  | Memento (2000) | 3.4288 439 reviews | R | Drama, Thriller, Crime, Mystery |
$3.86
| By using Polaroid pictures and tattoos, an insurance agent with short-term memory loss tries every ...more about Memento starring Guy Pearce and Carrie-Anne Moss |
| 13 |  | Charade (1963) | 3.3154 61 reviews | Not Rated | Thriller, Crime, Mystery, Romance, Comedy |
$3.95
| Regina returns home to find her house empty and her husband dead. The police inform her her husband ...more about Charade starring Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn |
| 14 |  | Big Sleep, The (1946) | 3.3104 57 reviews | PG | Crime, Mystery, Film-Noir |
$12.47
| Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) is a private eye that is hired by the dying General Sternwood, a ...more about Big Sleep starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall |
| 15 |  | Bonnie and Clyde (1967) | 3.2982 77 reviews | R | Drama, Biography, Crime, Mystery, Romance |
$7.99
| A small-time bank robber and a small country girl team up to become two of the most notorious bank ...more about Bonnie and Clyde starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway |
| 16 |  | Laura (1944) | 3.2884 62 reviews | PG | Crime, Mystery, Romance, Film-Noir |
$6.59
| Detective Mark McPherson (Dana Andrews) is investigating the murder of a famous advertising agent ...more about Laura starring Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews |
| 17 |  | Badlands (1973) | 3.2672 58 reviews | PG | Drama, Thriller, Crime, Mystery |
$13.79
| Kit Carruthers, a young garbage collector and his girlfriend Holly Sargis from Fort Dupree, South ...more about Badlands starring Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek |
| 18 |  | Bourne Ultimatum, The (2007) |  3.2467 336 reviews | PG-13 | Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller, Mystery |
$11.85
| All he wanted was to disappear. Instead, Jason Bourne is now hunted by the people who made him what ...more about Bourne Ultimatum starring Matt Damon and Julia Stiles |
| 19 |  | JFK (1991) | 3.2375 86 reviews | R | Drama, History, Thriller, Crime, Mystery |
$1.45
| New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison, begins investigating the assassination of President ...more about JFK starring Kevin Costner and Tommy Lee Jones |
| 20 |  | Thin Man, The (1934) | 3.2333 37 reviews | NA | Crime, Mystery, Comedy |
$12.71
| Young Dorothy Wynant approaches amateur sleuth Nick Charles when her inventor father appears to be ...more about Thin Man starring William Powell and Myrna Loy |
| 21 |  | Witness for the Prosecution (1957) | 3.2087 20 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Mystery |
$10.65
| When Leonard Vole is arrested for the sensational murder of a rich, middle-aged widow, the famous ...more about Witness for the Prosecution starring Tyrone Power and Marlene Dietrich |
| 22 |  | Very Long Engagement, A (2004) | 3.1843 173 reviews | R | Drama, War, Mystery, Romance, Foreign |
$12.71
| During WWI, five French men are court marshaled and exiled to no man's land between enemy and ...more about Very Long Engagement starring Audrey Tautou and Gaspard Ulliel |
| 23 |  | In the Heat of the Night (1967) | 3.1822 42 reviews | NA | Drama, Crime, Mystery |
$9.99
| Virgil Tibbs is a Philadelphia Homicide detective home to see his mother in the rural south. He is ...more about In the Heat of the Night starring Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger |
| 24 |  | Shot in the Dark, A (1964) | 3.1782 28 reviews | NA | Crime, Mystery, Comedy |
$6.59
| When rich M. Ballon's spanish driver is found shot dead, Inspector Jacques Clouseau is the first ...more about Shot in the Dark starring Peter Sellers and Elke Sommer |
| 25 |  | L.A. Confidential (1997) | 3.1672 268 reviews | R | Drama, Thriller, Crime, Mystery |
$4.99
| A murder investigation leads three detectives into the sleazy and seedy underworld of LA including ...more about L.A. Confidential starring Kevin Spacey and Russell Crowe |
| 26 |  | Suspicion (1941) | 3.1664 35 reviews | NA | Thriller, Mystery, Film-Noir |
$7.99
| Johnny Aysgarth is a handsome gambler who seems to live by borrowing money from friends. He meets ...more about Suspicion starring Joan Fontaine and Cary Grant |
| 27 |  | Fanny and Alexander (1982) | 3.1550 11 reviews | R | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Foreign, Classic |
$39.99
| The title characters are children in the exuberant and colorful Ekdahl household in a Swedish town ...more about Fanny and Alexander starring Pernilla Allwin and Bertil Guve |
| 28 |  | Anatomy of a Murder (1959) | 3.1520 49 reviews | NA | Drama, Mystery |
$13.34
| Since being voted out of office as local prosecutor, Paul Biegler spends more time fishing than ...more about Anatomy of a Murder starring James Stewart and Lee Remick |
| 29 |  | Lone Star (1996) | 3.1440 117 reviews | R | Drama, Crime, Mystery |
$8.63
| John Sayles' murder-mystery explores interpersonal and interracial tensions in Rio County, Texas. ...more about Lone Star starring Stephen Mendillo and Stephen J. Lang |
| 30 |  | Blood Simple. (1984) | 3.1408 148 reviews | R | Drama, Thriller, Crime, Mystery |
$29.99
| A Texas bar-owner hires a P.I. to kill his cheating wife and her lover, but the investigator has ...more about Blood Simple. starring John Getz and Frances McDormand |
| 31 |  | Wicker Man, The (1973) | 3.1354 90 reviews | NA | Thriller, Horror, Mystery |
$5.99
| Sgt. Howie travels to Summerisle to investigate the disappearance of a young girl. He discovers ...more about Wicker Man starring Edward Woodward and Christopher Lee |
| 32 |  | Detour (1945) | 3.1323 41 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Crime, Mystery, Film-Noir |
$4.99
| In flashback, New York nightclub pianist Al Roberts hitchhikes to Hollywood to join his girl Sue. ...more about Detour starring Esther Howard and Ann Savage |
| 33 |  | Capote (2005) | 3.1265 475 reviews | R | Drama, Biography, Crime, Mystery |
$9.32
| When writer Truman Capote reads an article about a slain family in Kansas, he is inspired to ...more about Capote starring Allie Mickelson and Kelci Stephenson |
| 34 |  | And Then There Were None (1945) | 3.1173 17 reviews | NA | Drama, Crime, Mystery |
$3.00
| Ten people are invited for a weekend on an island by a Mr U. N. Own, but he isn't on the island. At ...more about And Then There Were None starring Barry Fitzgerald and Walter Huston |
| 35 |  | Fargo (1996) | 3.1161 174 reviews | R | Drama, Thriller, Crime, Mystery |
$6.89
| Jerry Lundegaard is in a financial jam and, out of desperation, comes up with a plan to hire ...more about Fargo starring William H. Macy and Steve Buscemi |
| 36 |  | Mystic River (2003) | 3.1132 495 reviews | R | Drama, Crime, Mystery |
$1.45
| Childhood friends Jimmy Markum (Penn), Sean Devine (Bacon) and Dave Boyle (Robbins) reunite ...more about Mystic River starring Sean Penn and Tim Robbins |
| 37 |  | Mildred Pierce (1945) | 3.1115 45 reviews | NA | Drama, Mystery, Romance, Film-Noir |
$12.71
| Mildred Pierce dotes on her daughters while husband Bert looks to Maggie Binderhof for affection. ...more about Mildred Pierce starring Joan Crawford and Jack Carson |
| 38 |  | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) | 3.1088 497 reviews | PG | Adventure, Thriller, Fantasy, Mystery, Family |
$5.31
| In Harry's third year at Hogwarts a maniac killer has escaped from Azkaban and is on a mission to ...more about Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban starring Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson |
| 39 |  | Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) | 3.1073 46 reviews | NA | Thriller, Horror, Sci-Fi, Mystery |
$3.91
| Strange underground alien spores are planted in the earth and eventually begin to flower. As people ...more about Invasion of the Body Snatchers starring Donald Sutherland and Brooke Adams |
| 40 |  | Late Show, The (1977) | 3.1046 14 reviews | PG | Drama, Crime, Mystery, Comedy |
$7.00
| Art Carney stars as aging gumshoe Ira Wells in Robert Benton's affectionately offbeat homage to the ...more about Late Show starring Art Carney and Lily Tomlin |
| 41 |  | Klute (1971) | 3.1030 37 reviews | R | Drama, Thriller, Crime, Mystery |
$12.71
| John Klute's friend has totally disappeared. The only clue a connection with a call girl, Bree ...more about Klute starring Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland |
| 42 |  | Fight Club (1999) | 3.1027 410 reviews | R | Drama, Thriller, Crime, Mystery |
$12.99
| You're young. You have an easy, well-paid deskjob. You have a condo, Swedish furniture, artistic ...more about Fight Club starring Brad Pitt and Helena Bonham Carter |
| 43 |  | Oldboy (2003) | 3.0979 232 reviews | R | Thriller, Crime, Mystery, Foreign |
$14.37
| An average man is kidnapped and imprisoned in a shabby cell for 15 years without explanation. He ...more about Oldboy starring Min-sik Choi and Ji-tae Yu |
| 44 |  | 39 Steps, The (1935) | 3.0973 59 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Mystery |
$2.42
| Richard Hannay is a Canadian visitor to London. At the end of "Mr Memory"'s show in a music hall, ...more about 39 Steps starring Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll |
| 45 |  | Gone Baby Gone (2007) | 3.0900 228 reviews | R | Drama, Crime, Mystery |
$17.76
| Based on the Dennis Lehane novel about two Boston area detectives investigating a little girl's ...more about Gone Baby Gone starring Casey Affleck and Michelle Monaghan |
| 46 |  | Scream (1996) | 3.0869 119 reviews | R | Thriller, Horror, Mystery, Teen |
$7.02
| A masked killer is on the loose in a small town. He terrorizes local teenagers using his knowledge ...more about Scream starring David Arquette and Neve Campbell |
| 47 |  | Hound of the Baskervilles, The (1959) | 3.0859 13 reviews | PG | Horror, Crime, Mystery |
$5.74
| Returning to his familie’s manor house on the lonely moors after his father dies under mysterious ...more about Hound of the Baskervilles starring Peter Cushing and André Morell |
| 48 |  | House of Games (1987) | 3.0858 33 reviews | R | Thriller, Crime, Mystery |
$6.59
| A famous psychologist, Margaret Ford, decides to try to help one of her patients get out of a ...more about House of Games starring Lindsay Crouse and Paul Walsh |
| 49 |  | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) | 3.0854 357 reviews | PG-13 | Adventure, Thriller, Fantasy, Mystery, Family |
$10.49
| In Harry's fourth year at Hogwarts he is mysteriously chosen to participate in the Triwizard ...more about Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire starring Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint |
| 50 |  | Mask of Dimitrios, The (1944) | 3.0744 9 reviews | PG | Drama, Crime, Mystery | N/A | A mystery writer named Leyden is intrigued by the tale of notorious criminal Dimitrios Makropolous, ...more about Mask of Dimitrios starring Sydney Greenstreet and Zachary Scott |
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