Best Mystery Movies
A good mystery is a contract: pay attention and the film plays fair. Whodunits, locked rooms, unreliable narrators and slow-burn investigations, ranked by rating and popularity. Track the ones you've solved and find where the rest are streaming - no spoilers here.
Watchmen (2009)
Bacurau (2019)
The Tenant (1976)
The Big Sleep (1946)
Enola Holmes 2 (2022)
Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island (1998)
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021)
Hereditary (2018)
Eastern Promises (2007)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)
The Book of Henry (2017)
Laura (1944)
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993)
Sleuth (1972)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
The Wailing (2016)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Sherlock Holmes (2009)
Jacob's Ladder (1990)
Last Night in Soho (2021)
Weapons (2025)
Limitless (2011)
The Maze Runner (2014)
Enola Holmes (2020)
Sleepy Hollow (1999)
The Housemaid (2025)
In a Lonely Place (1950)
Missing (2023)
Videodrome (1983)
L'Avventura (1960)
Blow Out (1981)
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)
Identity (2003)
Midsommar (2019)
Marrowbone (2017)
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025)
K-PAX (2001)
Decision to Leave (2022)
High Plains Drifter (1973)
Scooby-Doo! and KISS: Rock and Roll Mystery (2015)
Blow-Up (1966)
Three Days of the Condor (1975)
The Long Goodbye (1973)
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
The Innocents (1961)
Clue (1985)
In the Mouth of Madness (1995)
Batman: The Long Halloween, Part One (2021)
Gaslight (1944)
Tell No One (2006)
Pi (1998)
Straight Outta Nowhere: Scooby-Doo! Meets Courage the Cowardly Dog (2021)
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022)
The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
The Witch (2016)
Scooby-Doo! Camp Scare (2010)
Dolores Claiborne (1995)
Batman: The Long Halloween, Part Two (2021)
Made in Abyss: Dawn of the Deep Soul (2020)
Mercy (2026)