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Otto Penzler's 101 Greatest Films of Mystery & Suspense

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. The Third Man - Criterion Collection (2-Disc Edition)  
2. The Maltese Falcon
by John Huston
  
3. Chinatown (Special Collector's Edition)
by Roman Polanski
  
4. The Godfather (Widescreen Edition)
by Francis Ford Coppola
  
5. The Godfather, Part II (Two-Disc Widescreen Edition)
by Francis Ford Coppola
  
6. Laura
by Rouben Mamoulian
  
7. The Thin Man (Keepcase)
by W.S. Van Dyke
  
8. Out of the Past
by Jacques Tourneur
  
9. White Heat
by Raoul Walsh
  
10. The French Connection
by William Friedkin
  
11. Psycho (Collector's Edition)  
12. The Sting
by George Roy Hill
  
13. Double Indemnity (Universal Legacy Series)
by Billy Wilder
  
14. Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Vista Series)
by Robert Zemeckis
  
15. Sunset Boulevard (Special Collector's Edition)
by Billy Wilder
  
16. The Night of the Hunter
by Charles Laughton
  
17. The Public Enemy
by William A. Wellman
  
18.
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 Touch of Evil (Restored to Orson Welles' Vision)  
19. North By Northwest  
20. The Conversation  
21. Shadow of a Doubt  
22. The Usual Suspects (Special Edition)
by Bryan Singer
  
23. Vertigo (Collector's Edition)  
24.
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 The Killers (1946)
by Robert Siodmak
  
25. The Lady Vanishes - Criterion Collection  
26. Body Heat (Deluxe Edition)
by Lawrence Kasdan
  
27. Witness For the Prosecution
by Billy Wilder
  
28. Rebecca  
29. The Big Sleep
by Howard Hawks
  
30. The Postman Always Rings Twice
by Tay Garnett
  
31. Murder, My Sweet
by Edward Dmytryk
  
32. The Silence of the Lambs (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
by Jonathan Demme
  
33. Criss Cross
by Robert Siodmak
  
34. Rear Window (Collector's Edition)  
35. The Untouchables (Special Collector's Edition)
by Brian De Palma
  
36. Goodfellas (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Martin Scorsese
  
37. Blade Runner (The Director's Cut)
by Ridley Scott
  
38. To Have and Have Not (Snap case)
by Howard Hawks
  
39. The Day of the Jackal
by Fred Zinnemann
  
40. L.A. Confidential
by Curtis Hanson
  
41. Detective Story (1951)
by William Wyler
  
42. And Then There Were None
by René Clair
  
43. The Big Heat
by Fritz Lang
  
44. Little Caesar
by Mervyn LeRoy
  
45. Dirty Harry  
46. Mean Streets (Special Edition)  
47. The Manchurian Candidate (Special Edition)
by John Frankenheimer
  
48. I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang
by Mervyn LeRoy
  
49. Goldfinger (Special Edition)
by Guy Hamilton
  
50.
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 Scarface (1932)
by Howard Hawks (dir.)
  
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Created by Jess on Sep 19, 2007.