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List of the AFI’s Top Mystery Movies. In 2008 the American Film Institute honored America’s 10 greatest films in 10 classic film genres, of which Mystery was one. These were chosen from a ballot of 500 nominated films, to a jury of over 1500 leaders in the film industry. The ballot include films from 1915 to 2006.

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Rank   Name Release Directed by Genre(s) Actor(s)
  1. 1
    1958
    Alfred Hitchcock
    Drama, Crime, Psychological thriller, Mystery, Thriller, Romance Film, Crime Thriller, Suspense, Film adaptation, Film noir, Detective More
    James Stewart, Tom Helmore, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Konstantin Shayne, Lee Patrick, Henry Jones, Raymond Bailey, Ellen Corby, Alfred Hitchcock More
  2. 2
    1974
    Roman Polanski
    Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Crime Fiction
    Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, James O'Rear, Richard Bakalyan, Joe Mantell, Diane Ladd, Roman Polanski, Nandu Hinds, Roy Jenson, James Hong, Bruce Glover, John Huston, Darrell Zwerling, John Hillerman, Perry Lopez, Burt Young More
  3. 3
    1954
    Alfred Hitchcock
    Psychological thriller, Mystery, Thriller, Crime Thriller, Suspense
    Georgine Darcy, Rand Harper, Frank Cady, Jesslyn Fax, Raymond Burr, Sara Berner, James Stewart, Irene Winston, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter, Ross Bagdasarian, Alfred Hitchcock, Grace Kelly, Judith Evelyn More
  4. 4
    1944
    Otto Preminger
    Drama, Black-and-white, Psychological thriller, Mystery, Thriller, Romance Film, Crime Fiction, Crime Thriller, Suspense, Film noir, Detective More
    Clifton Webb, Grant Mitchell, Judith Anderson, Dana Andrews, John Dexter, Gene Tierney, Vincent Price, Cy Kendall More
  5. 5
    1949
    Carol Reed
    Drama, Black-and-white, Psychological thriller, Mystery, Thriller, Suspense, Film adaptation, Film noir More
    Ray Browne, Brookes Kyle, Hedwig Bleibtreu, Harold Ayer, Paul Hardtmuth, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Erich Ponto, Peter Fontaine, Paul Hörbiger, Ernst Deutsch, Leo Bieber, Robert Brown, Alexis Chesnakov, Paul Birch, Annie Rosar, Martin Boddey, Joseph Cotten, Carol Reed, Guy De Monceau, Noel Gallagher, Karel Štěpánek, Bernard Lee, Michael Godfrey, Eric Pohlmann, Charles Irwin, Jack Arrow, Trevor Howard, Nelly Arno, Harry Belcher, Walter Hertner, Geoffrey Keen, Lee Strasberg, Herbert Halbik, Lily Kann, Alida Valli, Gordon Tanner, Hannah Norbert, Siegfried Breuer, \tFrederick Schreicker, Paul Carpenter, Vernon Greeves, Jenny Werner, Hugo Schuster, Ernst Ulman, Orson Welles, Madge Brindley, Reed De Rouen, Jack Faint, Martin Miller , Helga Wahlrow More
  6. 6
    1941
    John Huston
    Drama, Black-and-white, Crime, Mystery, Thriller, LGBT, Crime Fiction, Crime Thriller, Detective fiction, Film adaptation, Film noir, Detective More
    Barton MacLane, Elisha Cook Jr., John Hamilton, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre, Gladys George, James Burke, Sydney Greenstreet, Ward Bond, Lee Patrick, Humphrey Bogart, Jerome Cowan, Murray Alper More
  7. 7
    1959
    Alfred Hitchcock
    Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Action/Adventure, Romance Film, Suspense, Airplanes and airports, Spy More
    Jessie Royce Landis, Alfred Hitchcock, Robert Ellenstein, Eva Marie Saint, Phillip Coolidge, James Mason, Josephine Hutchinson, Martin Landau, Leo G. Carroll, Adam Williams, Ed Binns, Cary Grant, Edward Platt, Philip Ober, Ken Lynch More
  8. 8
    David Lynch
    Mystery, Thriller, Crime Fiction
    Dennis Hopper, J. Michael Hunter, Ken Stovitz, Jack Harvey, Priscilla Pointer, Jack Nance, Dick Green, Hope Lange, George Dickerson, Isabella Rossellini, Frances Bay, Dean Stockwell, Brad Dourif, Kyle MacLachlan, Laura Dern More
  9. 9
    1954
    Alfred Hitchcock
    Psychological thriller, Mystery, Thriller, Crime Thriller
    Patrick Allen, Grace Kelly, George Leigh, Anthony Dawson, Leo Britt, Ray Milland, John Williams, Antonio Margheriti, Robin Hughes, Robert Cummings, George Alderson, Alfred Hitchcock More
  10. 10
    Bryan Singer
    Mystery, Thriller, Crime Fiction, Crime Thriller, Neo-noir
    Stephen Baldwin, Pete Postlethwaite, Gabriel Byrne, Kevin Pollak, Scott B. Morgan, Giancarlo Esposito, Kevin Spacey, Benicio del Toro, Suzy Amis, Dan Hedaya, Chazz Palminteri More

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