AFI's "10 Greatest Mystery Films: The 50 Nominees"

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.

(found at: http://www.afi.com/tvevents/100years/10top10.aspx)

Send to Printer AFI's "10 Greatest Mystery Films: The 50 Nominees" 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. (found at: http://www.afi.com/tvevents/100years/10top10.aspx)
	1.		And Then There Were None by René Clair
	2.		The Big Easy by Jim McBride
	3.		The Big Heat by Fritz Lang
	4.		The Big Lebowski (Widescreen Collector's Edition) by Joel Coen
	5.		The Big Sleep by Howard Hawks
	6.		Blow Out by Brian De Palma
	7.		Blue Velvet (Special Edition) by David Lynch
	8.		The Bourne Identity (Widescreen Extended Edition) by Doug Liman
	9.		Charade
	10.		Chinatown (Special Collector's Edition) by Roman Polanski
	11.		The Conversation
	12.		D.O.A. by Rudolph Maté
	13.		Devil in a Blue Dress by Carl Franklin
	14.		Dial M for Murder by Alfred Hitchcock
	15.		The Fugitive by Andrew Davis
	16.		The Game by David Fincher
	17.		Gaslight by George Cukor
	18.		Gosford Park
	19.		Sherlock Holmes - The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sidney Lanfield
	20.		House of Games by David Mamet
	21.		In a Lonely Place by Nicholas Ray
	22.		In the Heat of the Night by Norman Jewison
	23.		Kiss Me Deadly by Robert Aldrich
	24.		Klute by Alan J. Pakula
	25.		L.A. Confidential by Curtis Hanson
	26.		The Lady from Shanghai
	27.		The Last of Sheila by Herbert Ross
	28.		Laura by Rouben Mamoulian
	29.	?	The List of Adrian Messenger (1963) by John Huston
	30.		The Maltese Falcon by John Huston
	31.		The Man Who Knew Too Much
	32.		Memento
	33.		Mulholland Dr. by David Lynch
	34.		Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express by Sidney Lumet
	35.		Naked City - Criterion Collection by Jules Dassin
	36.		North By Northwest
	37.		The Postman Always Rings Twice by Tay Garnett
	38.		Rear Window (Collector's Edition)
	39.		Rebecca - Criterion Collection
	40.		Seven (New Line Platinum Series) by David Fincher
	41.		Sea of Love (Collector's Edition) by Harold Becker
	42.		A Shot in the Dark by Blake Edwards
	43.		Sleuth by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
	44.		Alfred Hitchcock - Spellbound by Alfred Hitchcock
	45.		Suspicion
	46.		The Thin Man (Keepcase) by W.S. Van Dyke
	47.		The Third Man - Criterion Collection (2-Disc Edition)
	48.		To Catch a Thief (Special Collector's Edition)
	49.		The Usual Suspects by Bryan Singer
	50.		Vertigo (Collector's Edition)
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