AFI's "10 Greatest Mystery Films: 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

  2. 2.
    The Big Easy

  3. 3.
    The Big Heat
    by Fritz Lang

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

  5. 5.
    The Big Sleep
    by Howard Hawks

  6. 6.
    Blow Out

  7. 7.
    Blue Velvet (Special Edition)

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

  9. 9.
    Charade
    by Stanley Donen

  10. 10.
    Chinatown (Special Collector's Edition)
    by Roman Polanski

  11. 11.
    The Conversation
    by Francis Ford Coppola

  12. 12.
    D.O.A.

  13. 13.
    Devil in A Blue Dress

  14. 14.
    Dial M for Murder
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  15. 15.
    The Fugitive
    by Andrew Davis

  16. 16.
    The Game
    by David Fincher

  17. 17.
    Gaslight
    by George Cukor

  18. 18.
    Gosford Park
    by Robert Altman

  19. 20.
    House of Games

  20. 21.
    In a Lonely Place
    by Nicholas Ray

  21. 22.
    In the Heat of the Night

  22. 23.
    Kiss Me Deadly
    by Robert Aldrich

  23. 24.
    Klute
    by Alan J. Pakula

  24. 25.
    L.A. Confidential (Snap Case)

  25. 26.
    The Lady from Shanghai
    by Orson Welles

  26. 27.
    The Last of Sheila
    by Herbert Ross

  27. 28.
    Laura (Fox Film Noir)
    by Otto Preminger

  28. 29.
    The List of Adrian Messenger (1963)
    by John Huston

  29. 30.
    The Maltese Falcon
    by John Huston

  30. 31.
    The Man Who Knew Too Much

  31. 32.
    Memento
    by Christopher Nolan

  32. 33.
    Mulholland Dr.
    by David Lynch

  33. 34.
    Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express
    by Sidney Lumet

  34. 35.
    Naked City - Criterion Collection

  35. 36.
    North By Northwest
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  36. 37.
    The Postman Always Rings Twice
    by David Heeley

  37. 38.
    Rear Window (Collector's Edition)
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  38. 39.
    Rebecca (The Criterion Collection)
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  39. 40.
    Seven (New Line Platinum Series)
    by David Fincher

  40. 41.
    Sea of Love (Collector's Edition)

  41. 42.
    A Shot in the Dark
    by Blake Edwards

  42. 43.
    Sleuth
    by Joseph L. Mankiewicz

  43. 44.
    Spellbound (The Criterion Collection)
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  44. 45.
    Suspicion
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  45. 46.
    The Thin Man (Keepcase)
    by W.S. Van Dyke

  46. 47.
    The Third Man - Criterion Collection (2-Disc Edition)
    by Carol Reed

  47. 48.
    To Catch a Thief (Special Collector's Edition)
    by Alfred Hitchcock

  48. 49.
    The Usual Suspects [VHS]
    by Bryan Singer

  49. 50.
    Vertigo (Collector's Edition)
    by Alfred Hitchcock

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Created by Mark Kaiserman on May 20, 2008.
 

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