Best Mystery Thriller, a list by dave Miller

8.6

/1987308/

85

/43194/

84

/22463/

4.4

/3097724/

84

/156/

95

/26052/

65

/22/

3.5

age 17+

Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the "seven deadly sins" in this dark and haunting film that takes viewers from the tortured remains of one victim to the next. The seasoned Det. Somerset researches each sin in an effort to get inside the killer's mind, while his novice partner, Mills, scoffs at his efforts to unravel the case.

79

8.2

/1130090/

81

/26682/

79

/12479/

4.1

/1207924/

86

/167/

90

/39164/

64

/35/

3.0

age 14+

Following an unexpected tragedy, child psychologist Malcolm Crowe meets a nine year old boy named Cole Sear, who is hiding a dark secret.

88

8.2

/653716/

79

/10292/

78

/5339/

4.1

/375785/

99

/165/

94

/6453/

91

/28/

4.0

age 17+

Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night diner.

84

8.2

/114308/

79

/1884/

76

/589/

3.9

/46572/

100

/15/

90

/111/

A series of mysterious events changes the life of a blind pianist who now must report a crime that was actually never witnessed by him.

85

8.2

/239355/

80

/4204/

79

/2753/

4.2

/172741/

89

/137/

93

/2238/

80

/36/

4.0

Hoping to put to rest years of unease concerning a past case, retired criminal investigator Benjamín begins writing a novel based on the unsolved mystery of a newlywed’s rape and murder. With the help of a former colleague, judge Irene, he attempts to make sense of the past.

87

8.1

/258923/

80

/7508/

80

/4349/

4.4

/850953/

95

/80/

92

/1038/

82

/18/

4.0

age 16+

During the late 1980s, two detectives in rural South Korea attempt to solve a series of gruesome rape-and-murders of young women that leave the community terrified using limited resources and outdated methods. But when the murderer strikes several more times with the same pattern, the detectives realize that they are chasing the country's first documented serial killer. They then attempt to piece together the clues in this thriller based on true events.

82

8.1

/1153629/

80

/38315/

79

/19528/

4.1

/2798111/

88

/377/

87

/8258/

79

/49/

3.5

age 17+

With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.

79

8.0

/674337/

79

/18575/

76

/8841/

3.9

/415546/

88

/74/

88

/14944/

75

/20/

3.0

age 17+

In the year 2035, convict James Cole reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to discover the origin of a deadly virus that wiped out nearly all of the earth's population and forced the survivors into underground communities. But when Cole is mistakenly sent to 1990 instead of 1996, he's arrested and locked up in a mental hospital. There he meets psychiatrist Dr. Kathryn Railly and the son of a famous virus expert who may hold the key to the Army of the 12 Monkeys; thought to be responsible for unleashing the killer disease.

81

7.8

/229436/

78

/6659/

75

/3134/

3.8

/78023/

85

/186/

87

/6163/

76

/36/

4.0

age 18+

Swedish thriller based on Stieg Larsson's novel about a male journalist and a young female hacker. In the opening of the movie, Mikael Blomkvist, a middle-aged publisher for the magazine Millennium, loses a libel case brought by corrupt Swedish industrialist Hans-Erik Wennerström. Nevertheless, he is hired by Henrik Vanger in order to solve a cold case, the disappearance of Vanger's niece

79

7.7

/76511/

75

/1678/

74

/1138/

3.9

/56987/

87

/45/

88

/1481/

Handsome 25-year-old Cesar had it all -- a successful career, expensive cars, a swank bachelor's pad, and an endless string of beautiful and willing women -- until he is thrown into a strange psychological mystery after a car accident scars his face and lands him in prison.

81

7.7

/661084/

76

/21134/

75

/11234/

4.0

/1691873/

90

/264/

77

/27621/

79

/40/

4.0

age 18+

Over the course of a decade, editors of the San Francisco Chronicle entice themselves in the murders of the Zodiac Killer. However, as time runs its course, interest in the case dwindles in the eyes of the professionals. The Killer stops interacting with the public. However, believing he has the answers, an amateur cartoonist from the initial sightings races against time to prevent what he believes is another murder.

79

7.7

/44618/

77

/1608/

75

/943/

4.0

/60324/

81

/16/

88

/553/

Devastated at the death of her four-year-old daughter, a grieving middle school teacher is horrified to discover that her students aren't as innocent as she thinks.

70

7.6

/167915/

75

/3776/

75

/2845/

4.1

/377471/

69

/62/

87

/3626/

53

/21/

2.0

age 18+

A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.

76

7.6

/178488/

75

/5038/

74

/4509/

3.8

/335831/

81

/177/

84

/2020/

70

/37/

3.0

age 18+

A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.

78

7.6

/190463/

77

/11759/

76

/4095/

3.7

/299091/

92

/260/

88

/1372/

71

/34/

3.0

age 13+

After David Kim's 16-year-old daughter goes missing, a local investigation is opened and a detective is assigned to the case. But 37 hours later and without a single lead, David decides to search the one place no one has looked yet, where all secrets are kept today: his daughter's laptop.

82

7.6

/275379/

74

/5555/

73

/3585/

3.9

/204990/

90

/200/

83

/20489/

83

/35/

4.0

age 18+

A Russian teenager living in London dies during childbirth but leaves clues in her diary that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family.

75

7.6

/422351/

76

/12109/

76

/6953/

3.8

/512444/

84

/174/

77

/13100/

74

/29/

2.5

age 14+

Grace is a religious woman who lives in an old house kept dark because her two children, Anne and Nicholas, have a rare sensitivity to light. When the family begins to suspect the house is haunted, Grace fights to protect her children at any cost in the face of strange events and disturbing visions.

76

7.6

/421239/

76

/12352/

73

/6168/

3.7

/279268/

86

/210/

85

/14531/

76

/39/

2.5

age 17+

When an armed, masked gang enter a Manhattan bank, lock the doors and take hostages, the detective assigned to effect their release enters negotiations preoccupied with corruption charges he is facing.

73

7.5

/33131/

72

/1746/

70

/760/

3.1

/18769/

80

/5/

83

/1562/

Light Yagami finds the "Death Note," a notebook with the power to kill, and decides to create a Utopia by killing the world's criminals, and soon the world's greatest detective, "L," is hired to find the mysterious murderer. An all out battle between the two greatest minds on earth begins and the winner will control the world.

60

7.5

/131464/

75

/2936/

74

/2129/

3.5

/45203/

19

/155/

81

/2962/

31

/36/

age 17+

A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.

76

7.5

/417061/

73

/10192/

75

/6755/

4.0

/1135351/

76

/165/

74

/6980/

69

/34/

3.5

age 18+

After Dr. Bill Harford's wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He discovers an underground sexual group and attends one of their meetings -- and quickly discovers that he is in over his head.

79

76

7.4

/10452/

75

/299/

72

/213/

4.0

/8168/

93

/539/

Five bizarre stories with no apparent connection to one another eventually become intertwined, resulting in surreal circumstances.

77

7.4

/179215/

74

/5292/

75

/3002/

3.8

/483573/

74

/208/

78

/2725/

68

/37/

4.0

age 17+

After her son Kevin commits a horrific act, troubled mother Eva reflects on her complicated relationship with her disturbed son as he grew from a toddler into a teenager.

78

7.4

/169640/

72

/4114/

72

/3032/

3.6

/141374/

87

/180/

86

/12143/

74

/33/

3.5

age 15+

A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, which used to be an orphanage, intent on reopening it. Before long, her son starts to communicate with a new invisible friend.

77

7.4

/59144/

75

/2269/

78

/1261/

3.8

/200251/

82

/70/

age 17+

Seoul, South Korea, 1997. When the young but extremely anxious student Jin-seok, his parents and his successful older brother Yoo-seok move to a new home, mysterious and frightening events begin to happen around them, unexplained events that threaten to ruin their seemingly happy lives. Unable to understand what is happening, Jin-seok wonders if he is losing his mind.

78

7.4

/45742/

74

/1260/

74

/905/

3.9

/105015/

83

/12/

89

/520/

While doing a thesis about violence, Ángela finds a snuff video where a girl is tortured to death. Soon she discovers that the girl was a former student at her college...

73

7.4

/108676/

72

/2511/

71

/1766/

3.5

/133999/

82

/39/

85

/1756/

60

/11/

Bill, an idle, unemployed aspiring writer, walks the crowded streets of London following randomly chosen strangers, a seemingly innocent entertainment that becomes dangerous when he crosses paths with a mysterious character.

73

7.4

/66192/

75

/2761/

75

/1657/

3.5

/44771/

74

/47/

Benjamin, a young German computer whiz, is invited to join a subversive hacker group that wants to be noticed on the world's stage.

74

7.4

/122246/

74

/4096/

73

/1931/

3.6

/39160/

70

/125/

81

/3411/

67

/32/

3.5

age 15+

When a rare phenomenon gives police officer John Sullivan the chance to speak to his father, 30 years in the past, he takes the opportunity to prevent his dad's tragic death. After his actions inadvertently give rise to a series of brutal murders he and his father must find a way to fix the consequences of altering time.

64

31

7.3

/3699/

69

/41/

60

/20/

3.4

/1051/

53

/4/

A brilliant student starts hallucinating after moving into a room that was occupied by another who committed suicide.

73

7.3

/409599/

73

/10775/

71

/7189/

3.5

/461055/

71

/129/

80

/21126/

65

/35/

3.5

age 18+

Skeptical young detective Ichabod Crane gets transferred to the hamlet of Sleepy Hollow, New York, where he is tasked with investigating the decapitations of three people – murders the townsfolk attribute to a legendary specter, The Headless Horseman.

82

7.3

/33766/

77

/2133/

76

/1104/

3.9

/163796/

93

/170/

84

/114/

82

/27/

4.0

Bacurau, a small town in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants notice that their community has vanished from most maps.

80

7.3

/445562/

73

/20609/

72

/8296/

3.9

/2435032/

90

/386/

72

/4637/

87

/49/

4.0

age 17+

Following the death of the Leigh family matriarch, Annie and her children uncover disturbing secrets about their heritage. Their daily lives are not only impacted, but they also become entangled in a chilling fate from which they cannot escape, driving them to the brink of madness.

68

62

7.3

/10864/

71

/178/

69

/66/

3.7

/12919/

50

/12/

71

/175/

A heavily addicted smoker is unprepared for the true price he must pay when he asks a guru's help to kick the habit.

71

7.3

/48982/

72

/1229/

73

/1099/

3.3

/14474/

73

/110/

A Spanish orchestra conductor deals with the mysterious disappearance of his girlfriend.

69

7.3

/160566/

70

/4240/

72

/3168/

3.7

/291991/

59

/128/

80

/3940/

51

/38/

3.0

A woman’s lover and her ex-boyfriend take justice into their own hands after she becomes the victim of a rapist. Because some acts can’t be undone. Because man is an animal. Because the desire for vengeance is a natural impulse. Because most crimes remain unpunished.

66

7.2

/97221/

72

/2103/

70

/1187/

3.5

/33306/

62

/90/

74

/1656/

65

/26/

2.0

age 18+

Bedraggled college professor Michael Faraday has been vexed — and increasingly paranoid — since his wife's accidental death in a botched FBI operation. When a seemingly all-American couple set up house next door, Michael begin to suspect there’s more to them than meets the eye.

77

7.2

/338217/

71

/8112/

69

/5099/

3.5

/325453/

92

/203/

77

/3960/

78

/37/

3.5

age 18+

Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.

67

7.1

/259623/

71

/10312/

68

/5060/

3.3

/235848/

61

/41/

76

/4467/

61

/12/

A group of strangers find themselves trapped in a maze-like prison. It soon becomes clear that each of them possesses the peculiar skills necessary to escape, if they don't wind up dead first.

60

7.1

/123891/

71

/3096/

68

/1618/

3.3

/33799/

44

/160/

73

/3407/

44

/35/

2.0

age 17+

A military veteran goes on a journey into the future, where he can foresee his death and is left with questions that could save his life and those he loves.

65

64

7.1

/142612/

69

/9400/

67

/4084/

3.3

/362859/

56

/37/

age 15+

In 1984, a young programmer begins to question reality as he adapts a dark fantasy novel into a video game. A mind-bending tale with multiple endings.

69

7.0

/53110/

69

/1652/

72

/1350/

3.4

/76009/

61

/23/

77

/1445/

When Jane and Tun run over a girl in a car accident, they speed away immediately from the crime scene. However, Tun, a photographer, soon discovers strange shadows in his photos, which unsettles them.

72

7.0

/68169/

71

/1918/

69

/1034/

3.6

/48405/

83

/58/

69

/908/

74

/19/

3.0

On their cross-country drive, a married couple, Jeff and Amy Taylor, experience car trouble after their SUV breaks down. Stranded in the New Mexico desert, the two catch a break when a passing truck driver offers Amy a ride to a nearby café to call for help. Meanwhile, Jeff is able to fix the car and make his way to the café, but Amy isn't there. He tracks down the trucker ― who tells the police he's never seen Jeff or his wife before. Jeff then begins a desperate, frenzied search for Amy.

71

7.0

/175316/

68

/5256/

66

/2953/

3.3

/88703/

87

/159/

65

/6251/

65

/29/

3.5

age 17+

Paul is a U.S. truck driver working in Iraq. After an attack by a group of Iraqis he wakes to find he is buried alive inside a coffin. With only a lighter and a cell phone it's a race against time to escape this claustrophobic death trap.

73

7.0

/224501/

70

/5897/

66

/2825/

3.7

/149135/

84

/229/

65

/5128/

85

/42/

3.0

age 17+

In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet mole within his former colleagues at the heart of MI6.

66

7.0

/274870/

71

/8377/

69

/5518/

3.3

/538183/

60

/163/

63

/11146/

42

/25/

3.5

age 18+

After losing their baby, a married couple adopt 9-year old Esther, who may not be as innocent as she seems.

73

7.0

/183415/

69

/7431/

66

/3398/

3.3

/191098/

91

/199/

75

/2193/

77

/31/

3.0

age 16+

Simon and Robyn are a young married couple whose life is going as planned until a chance run-in with Simon's high school acquaintance sends their world into a tailspin.

68

7.0

/280569/

72

/11153/

67

/4774/

3.2

/109537/

71

/258/

67

/9671/

60

/41/