AFI - Greatest Mystery Movies - The 50 Nominees

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The American Film Institute’s official 50 nominees for the Top 10 Mystery Films of All-Time (listed here: http://www.listsofbests.com/list/56461).

"AFI defines “mystery” as a genre that revolves around the solution of a crime."

"Steeped in the unpredictability of human nature and wrapped in a tangle of plot twists, mysteries inhabit a world where the secrets are dark and the agendas well hidden. Unlike the open-endedness that characterizes so much of real life, a movie mystery delivers the ultimate satisfaction of a solution in the final reel."

Check out all the entries from "AFI’s Top 10" here: http://www.listsofbests.com/list/55322/tagged_as?name=afi+top+10

In alphabetical order.

  1. 1.
    And Then There Were None
    by René Clair

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  2. 2.
    The Big Easy
    by Jim McBride

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  3. 3.
    The Big Heat
    by Fritz Lang

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  4. 4.
    The Big Lebowski (Widescreen Collector's Edition)
    by Joel Coen

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  5. 5.
    The Big Sleep
    by Howard Hawks

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  6. 6.
    Blow Out
    by Brian De Palma

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  7. 7.
    Blue Velvet (Special Edition)
    by David Lynch

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  8. 8.
    The Bourne Identity (Widescreen Extended Edition)
    by Doug Liman

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  9. 9.
    Charade

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  11. 11.
    The Conversation

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  12. 12.
    D.O.A.
    by Rudolph Maté

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  13. 13.
    Devil in a Blue Dress
    by Carl Franklin

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  14. 14.
    Dial M for Murder
    by Alfred Hitchcock

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  15. 15.
    The Fugitive
    by Andrew Davis

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  16. 16.
    The Game
    by David Fincher

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  17. 17.
    Gaslight
    by George Cukor

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  18. 18.
    Gosford Park

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  19. 19.
    Sherlock Holmes - The Hound of the Baskervilles
    by Sidney Lanfield

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  20. 20.
    House of Games
    by David Mamet

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  21. 21.
    In a Lonely Place
    by Nicholas Ray

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  22. 22.
    In the Heat of the Night
    by Norman Jewison

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  23. 23.
    Kiss Me Deadly
    by Robert Aldrich

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  24. 24.
    Klute
    by Alan J. Pakula

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  25. 25.
    L.A. Confidential
    by Curtis Hanson

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  26. 26.
    The Lady from Shanghai

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  27. 27.
    The Last of Sheila
    by Herbert Ross

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  28. 28.
    Laura
    by Rouben Mamoulian

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  29. 29.
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    The List of Adrian Messenger
    by John Huston

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  30. 30.
    The Maltese Falcon
    by John Huston

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  31. 31.
    The Man Who Knew Too Much

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  32. 32.
    Memento

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  33. 33.
    Mulholland Dr.
    by David Lynch

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  34. 34.
    Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express
    by Sidney Lumet

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  35. 35.
    Naked City - Criterion Collection
    by Jules Dassin

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  36. 36.
    North By Northwest

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  37. 37.
    The Postman Always Rings Twice
    by Tay Garnett

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  38. 38.
    Rear Window (Collector's Edition)

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  39. 39.
    Rebecca - Criterion Collection

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  40. 40.
    Seven (New Line Platinum Series)
    by David Fincher

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  41. 41.
    Sea of Love (Collector's Edition)
    by Harold Becker

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  42. 42.
    A Shot in the Dark
    by Blake Edwards

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  43. 43.
    Sleuth
    by Joseph L. Mankiewicz

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  44. 44.
    Alfred Hitchcock - Spellbound
    by Alfred Hitchcock

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  45. 45.
    Suspicion

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  46. 46.
    The Thin Man (Keepcase)
    by W.S. Van Dyke

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  47. 49.
    The Usual Suspects
    by Bryan Singer

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  48. 50.
    Vertigo (Collector's Edition)

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