Genre: Mystery

Find the best movies, series, and documentaries in the Mystery genre. Discover the most popular titles among fans and critics.


12 Angry Men

1957 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Lumet

Cast Henry Fonda · Lee J. Cobb · Jack Warden · E.G. Marshall

Synopsis Eleven jurors are convinced that the defendant is guilty of murder. The twelfth has no doubt of his innocence. How can this one man steer the others toward the same conclusion?

8.7

67K votes

8.7

67K votes

Game of Thrones (TV Series)

2011 · Series · 55 min. · United States

Direction David Benioff · D.B. Weiss · Timothy Van Patten · Brian Kirk

Cast Emilia Clarke · Kit Harington · Lena Headey · Peter Dinklage

Synopsis TV Series (2011-2019). 8 Seasons. 73 Episodes. An adaptation of George R. R. Martin's epic fantasy series "A Song of Ice and Fire," in which kings, queens, knights and renegades use swords and magic to battle for the throne. Seven...

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8.6

110K votes

8.6

110K votes

Witness for the Prosecution

1957 · Movie · 114 min. · United States

Direction Billy Wilder

Cast Tyrone Power · Marlene Dietrich · Charles Laughton · Elsa Lanchester

Synopsis Leonard Vole (Tyrone Power), a young and attractive man, is accused of the murder of Miss French, a rich old woman. Wilfred Roberts (Charles Laughton), a criminal lawyer from London, takes charge of the case.

8.6

43K votes

8.6

43K votes

The Sting

1973 · Movie · 129 min. · United States

Direction George Roy Hill

Cast Robert Redford · Paul Newman · Robert Shaw · Charles Durning

Synopsis When small-time con man Johnny Hooker (Robert Redford) and his partner, Luther (Robert Earl Jones), unwittingly con a numbers runner courier, they find themselves in danger from mobster Doyle Lonigan (Robert Shaw). When Hooker finds out that Lonigan's after them,...

8.6

98K votes

8.6

98K votes

True Detective (TV Miniseries)

2014 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Nic Pizzolatto · Cary Joji Fukunaga

Cast Matthew McConaughey · Woody Harrelson · Michelle Monaghan · Michael Potts

Synopsis TV Series (2014). 8 Episodes. Two detectives, Rust Cohle and Martin Hart, lives become entangled during a 17-year hunt for a serial killer in Louisiana... True Detective is a new series on HBO that follows the lives of detectives on...

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8.5

62K votes

8.5

62K votes

To Be or Not to Be

1942 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Carole Lombard · Jack Benny · Robert Stack · Stanley Ridges

Synopsis Joseph Tura and his wife Maria top the bill at a Warsaw theatre company. Young aviator Lieutenant Sobinski is madly in love with the girl and the two arrange to meet in her dressing room during the play they are...

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8.5

34K votes

8.5

34K votes

High and Low

1963 · Movie · 143 min. · Japan

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Kyôko Kagawa · Yutaka Sada · Takashi Shimura

Synopsis It is the story of Gondo, a shoe company executive (Toshirô Mifune) planning a boardroom intrigue to gain control of the company. He has raised the capital for his plan, when word comes that his son has been kidnapped for...

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8.4

9K votes

8.4

9K votes

Psycho

1960 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Anthony Perkins · Janet Leigh · John Gavin · Vera Miles

Synopsis Office worker Marion Crane is fed up with the way life has treated her. One Friday Marion is entrusted with $40,000 to take to the bank. Seeing the opportunity to keep the money and start a new life, Marion leaves...

8.4

106K votes

8.4

106K votes

Double Indemnity

1944 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction Billy Wilder

Cast Fred MacMurray · Barbara Stanwyck · Edward G. Robinson · Tom Powers

Synopsis Unsuspecting Mr. Dietrichson becomes increasingly accident prone after his icily calculating wife (Barbara Stanwyck) encourages him to sign a double indemnity policy proposed by a smooth-talking insurance agent (Fred MacMurray). Against a backdrop of distinctly California settings, the partners in...

8.4

32K votes

8.4

32K votes

M

1931 · Movie · 111 min. · Germany

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Peter Lorre · Otto Wernicke · Gustaf Gründgens · Theo Lingen

Synopsis In Fritz Langs startling and exquisite film M, fear stalks the streets of Berlin in the form of a serial child murderer whose grisly accomplishments are so heinous even the criminal minds of the underworld want him dead. Filmed in...

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8.3

20K votes

8.3

20K votes

Seven

1995 · Movie · 127 min. · United States

Direction David Fincher

Cast Brad Pitt · Morgan Freeman · Gwyneth Paltrow · Kevin Spacey

Synopsis Set in a perpetually gloomy unnamed city, the film follows Somerset (Morgan Freeman), a retiring police detective, as he experiences his final week on the job, reluctantly working with assertive newcomer Mills (Brad Pitt). When an obese man is found...

8.3

171K votes

8.3

171K votes

North by Northwest

1959 · Movie · 136 min. · United States

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Cary Grant · Eva Marie Saint · James Mason · Martin Landau

Synopsis Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. Suddenly, the hapless businessman is targeted as an American intelligence agent and set up as a killer. All of Thornhills attempts to straighten things out only...

8.3

68K votes

8.3

68K votes

Dial M for Murder

1954 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Grace Kelly · Ray Milland · Robert Cummings · John Williams

Synopsis British tennis pro (Ray Milland) suspects that his wealthy wife (Grace Kelly) is fooling around with a handsome American (Robert Cummings). He blackmails a disgraced former army comrade (Anthony Dawson) into murdering his wife and making it look like the...

8.2

27K votes

8.2

27K votes

Persona

1966 · Movie · 81 min. · Sweden

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Liv Ullmann · Bibi Andersson · Margaretha Krook · Gunnar Björnstrand

Synopsis A nurse is put in charge of an actress who can't talk and finds that the actress's persona is melding with hers.

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8.2

23K votes

8.2

23K votes

Rear Window

1954 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast James Stewart · Grace Kelly · Thelma Ritter · Raymond Burr

Synopsis A professional photographer, L.B. "Jeff" Jeffries (Stewart), is obliged to stay at home because he broke a leg. Despite the company of his girlfriend (Kelly) and his nurse (Ritter), he tries to escape from boredom by looking through the window...

8.2

75K votes

8.2

75K votes

The Silence of the Lambs

1991 · Movie · 115 min. · United States

Direction Jonathan Demme

Cast Jodie Foster · Anthony Hopkins · Scott Glenn · Ted Levine

Synopsis Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster), a young and ambitious FBI agent, enlists the aid of criminally insane ex-psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) to help track down a vicious serial killer named "Buffalo Bill" who skins his victims and who has...

8.2

171K votes

8.2

171K votes

Death Note (TV Series)

2006 · Series · 25 min. · Japan

Direction Tetsurō Araki

Synopsis TV Series (2006-2007). 37 Episodes. During just another normal day, Yagami Light stumbles upon a black notebook known as the Death Note. This notebook belongs to a shinigami, having the ability to kill anyone who has their name written in...

8.2

41K votes

8.2

41K votes

Sleuth

1972 · Movie · 138 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast Laurence Olivier · Michael Caine · Alec Cawthorne · John Matthews

Synopsis Andrew Wyke (Laurence Olivier) is a famous writer of crime novels. Moreover, his passion for puzzles and riddles has led him to transform his mansion into a museum where bizarre toys and mechanisms are exposed. One evening, Milo Tindle (Michael...

8.2

30K votes

8.2

30K votes

Vertigo

1958 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast James Stewart · Kim Novak · Henry Jones · Barbara Bel Geddes

Synopsis San Francisco police detective Scottie Fergusson (James Stewart) develops a fear of heights and is forced to retire when a colleague falls to his death during a chase. An old college friend hires Scottie to watch his wife Madeleine (Kim...

8.2

69K votes

8.2

69K votes

Direction Paul McGuigan

Cast Benedict Cumberbatch · Martin Freeman · Lara Pulver · Mark Gatiss

Synopsis Following a bizarre stand-off with master criminal Moriarty, ended when the villain responds to a phone call, Sherlock interrupts his investigation of a rural slaying when summoned to Buckingham Palace. Dominatrix Irene Adler has incriminating photos of a royal princess...

8.2

13K votes

8.2

13K votes