AFI's 10 greatest mystery films
The top 3 according to 9 votes from people: Chinatown (1974) · Rear Window (1954) · The Usual Suspects (1995). (Updated Aug 8, 2020.)
The mystery category of the American Film Institute's 10 Top 10 (2008): detectives, twists and Hitchcock.
Top 10
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1
Chinatown (1974)
Jack Nicholson investigates water and corruption in 1930s Los Angeles.
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2
Rear Window (1954)
A photographer in a wheelchair spies on his neighbours.
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3
The Usual Suspects (1995)
Who is Keyser Söze?
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4
Vertigo (1958)
Number one: Hitchcock, James Stewart and an obsession in San Francisco.
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5
The Third Man (1949)
Orson Welles, Vienna and the zither theme.
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6
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade.
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7
Laura (1944)
Otto Preminger's noir about a detective in love with a murdered woman.
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8
North by Northwest (1959)
Cary Grant, mistaken identity and Mount Rushmore.
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9
Blue Velvet (1986)
David Lynch's dark side of small-town America.
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10
Dial M for Murder (1954)
Grace Kelly and the perfect crime that goes wrong.
How is this ranking ordered? By people's votes: each ▲ adds a point and each ▼ takes one away. Anyone can vote and add what is missing.
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