Otto Penzler's 101 Greatest Films of Mystery & Suspense

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From the book of the same name. This list does not include any foreign films, silent films or made for television movies.

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  1. 2.
    The Maltese Falcon
    by John Huston

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  2. 4.
    The Godfather (Widescreen Edition)
    by Francis Ford Coppola

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  3. 5.
    The Godfather, Part II (Two-Disc Widescreen Edition)
    by Francis Ford Coppola

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  4. 6.
    Laura
    by Rouben Mamoulian

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  5. 7.
    The Thin Man (Keepcase)
    by W.S. Van Dyke

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  6. 8.
    Out of the Past
    by Jacques Tourneur

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  7. 9.
    White Heat
    by Raoul Walsh

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  8. 10.
    The French Connection
    by William Friedkin

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  9. 11.
    Psycho (Collector's Edition)

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  10. 12.
    The Sting
    by George Roy Hill

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  11. 13.
    Double Indemnity (Universal Legacy Series)
    by Billy Wilder

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  12. 14.
    Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Vista Series)
    by Robert Zemeckis

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  13. 15.
    Sunset Boulevard (Special Collector's Edition)
    by Billy Wilder

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  14. 16.
    The Night of the Hunter
    by Charles Laughton

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  15. 17.
    The Public Enemy
    by William A. Wellman

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  16. 19.
    North By Northwest

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  17. 20.
    The Conversation

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  18. 21.
    Shadow of a Doubt

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  19. 22.
    The Usual Suspects (Special Edition)
    by Bryan Singer

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  20. 23.
    Vertigo (Collector's Edition)

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  21. 24.
    The Killers (1946)
    by Robert Siodmak

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  22. 26.
    Body Heat (Deluxe Edition)
    by Lawrence Kasdan

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  23. 27.
    Witness For the Prosecution
    by Billy Wilder

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  24. 28.
    Rebecca

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  25. 29.
    The Big Sleep
    by Howard Hawks

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  26. 30.
    The Postman Always Rings Twice
    by Tay Garnett

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  27. 31.
    Murder, My Sweet
    by Edward Dmytryk

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  28. 32.
    The Silence of the Lambs (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
    by Jonathan Demme

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  29. 33.
    Criss Cross
    by Robert Siodmak

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  30. 34.
    Rear Window (Collector's Edition)

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  31. 35.
    The Untouchables (Special Collector's Edition)
    by Brian De Palma

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  32. 36.
    Goodfellas (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Martin Scorsese

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  33. 37.
    Blade Runner (The Director's Cut)
    by Ridley Scott

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  34. 38.
    To Have and Have Not (Snap case)
    by Howard Hawks

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  35. 39.
    The Day of the Jackal
    by Fred Zinnemann

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  36. 40.
    L.A. Confidential
    by Curtis Hanson

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  37. 41.
    Detective Story (1951)
    by William Wyler

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  38. 42.
    And Then There Were None
    by René Clair

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  39. 43.
    The Big Heat
    by Fritz Lang

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  40. 44.
    Little Caesar
    by Mervyn LeRoy

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  41. 45.
    Dirty Harry

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  42. 46.
    Mean Streets (Special Edition)

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  43. 47.
    The Manchurian Candidate (Special Edition)
    by John Frankenheimer

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  44. 48.
    I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang
    by Mervyn LeRoy

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  45. 49.
    Goldfinger (Special Edition)
    by Guy Hamilton

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  46. 50.
    Scarface (1932)
    by Howard Hawks (dir.)

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Untitled — 7 weeks ago

well, not a bad selection of films in English- but it’s a pity he called the list simply the greatest, when so many international + silent classics are missing