# AFI's 10 greatest mystery films

The mystery category of the American Film Institute's 10 Top 10 (2008): detectives, twists and Hitchcock.

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- Aug 8, 2020 · amy_matinee
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## Top 10

1. **Chinatown (1974)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Jack Nicholson investigates water and corruption in 1930s Los Angeles.
2. **Rear Window (1954)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — A photographer in a wheelchair spies on his neighbours.
3. **The Usual Suspects (1995)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Who is Keyser Söze?
4. **Vertigo (1958)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Number one: Hitchcock, James Stewart and an obsession in San Francisco.
5. **The Third Man (1949)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Orson Welles, Vienna and the zither theme.
6. **The Maltese Falcon (1941)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade.
7. **Laura (1944)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Otto Preminger's noir about a detective in love with a murdered woman.
8. **North by Northwest (1959)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Cary Grant, mistaken identity and Mount Rushmore.
9. **Blue Velvet (1986)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — David Lynch's dark side of small-town America.
10. **Dial M for Murder (1954)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Grace Kelly and the perfect crime that goes wrong.

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