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40 murder mystery movies for every mood, from classic whodunits and hard-boiled investigations to clever modern crime stories.
A murder mystery works when the investigation reveals something about the people hiding behind it. These 40 films range from witty whodunits to patient, morally difficult detective stories. The guide is spoiler-free: use the filters to choose a light ensemble mystery, a dark procedural or a recent crime film without learning who did it before the movie earns the answer.
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2007 · 2h 37m
★ 7.5 TMDB · 11,908 votes
Best for Patient investigative detail
Why it belongs on this list
Police officers, reporters and a cartoonist are pulled into an unsolved case that changes their lives over many years. The tension comes from incomplete evidence and creeping fixation, not easy answers.
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2001 · 2h 17m
★ 6.8 TMDB · 1,288 votes
Best for A witty period-piece evening
Why it belongs on this list
A country-house weekend brings wealthy guests and the servants who know their private lives into the same tightly observed mystery. The pleasure is as much in the social detail as in the investigation.
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2022 · 2h 20m
★ 7.0 TMDB · 7,179 votes
Best for Colorful ensemble fun
Why it belongs on this list
Detective Benoit Blanc visits an island gathering hosted by a tech billionaire whose friends all have reasons to manage the truth. It is broader and sunnier than its predecessor, with a puzzle built for conversation afterward.
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2013 · 2h 33m
★ 8.1 TMDB · 13,512 votes
Best for Slow, morally difficult suspense
Why it belongs on this list
A child's disappearance pushes a father and a detective toward very different ideas of justice. The mystery is gripping, but the film's real pressure comes from watching fear harden into certainty.
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2016 · 1h 56m
★ 7.1 TMDB · 8,928 votes
Best for Funny, fast crime banter
Why it belongs on this list
Two mismatched private investigators follow a missing-person case through 1970s Los Angeles. Its plot is satisfyingly tangled, but the odd-couple chemistry keeps it breezy instead of bleak.
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Why it belongs on this list
Dinner guests with colorful aliases become trapped in a mansion where everyone has something to conceal. It is pure theatrical fun: quick jokes, a closed setting and a mystery that embraces the game.
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2011 · 2h 38m
★ 7.4 TMDB · 7,807 votes
Best for A dark, methodical mystery
Why it belongs on this list
A journalist and a gifted investigator reopen the disappearance of a woman from an influential family. Its wintry atmosphere and careful research make it absorbing, though its subject matter is disturbing.
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2017 · 1h 47m
★ 7.4 TMDB · 5,963 votes
Best for A stark modern procedural
Why it belongs on this list
A wildlife officer helps an FBI agent investigate a death on a Wyoming reservation. The landscape intensifies the isolation and grief surrounding the case. It is powerful but contains violent material.
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Why it belongs on this list
A murder in a Boston neighborhood forces three old friends to confront the past that connects them. The case matters, but the film is most interested in how suspicion travels through a close community.
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1996 · 1h 52m
★ 7.4 TMDB · 8,238 votes
Best for Horror with a detective game
Why it belongs on this list
A masked killer stalks a teenager and her friends while everyone debates the rules of horror movies. It has real scares, but its self-awareness turns guessing the killer into part of the fun.
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2015 · 3h 8m
★ 7.8 TMDB · 15,621 votes
Best for A long, tense snowbound watch
Why it belongs on this list
Strangers wait out a blizzard in a remote lodge, each carrying a version of the truth that may not hold. The talk is deliberate and the violence is graphic, but the shifting alliances are gripping.
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2022 · 1h 34m
★ 6.2 TMDB · 1,536 votes
Best for A sharp, messy party mystery
Why it belongs on this list
A wealthy young group gathers during a storm and turns an innocent game into a paranoid crisis. It skewers online language and self-image while still giving you a real mystery to track.
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Why it belongs on this list
A murder threatens a West End production, sending a weary inspector and an eager rookie into a backstage maze. It is playful, stylish and intentionally old-fashioned in the best sense.
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2023 · 1h 44m
★ 6.6 TMDB · 2,955 votes
Best for Mystery with supernatural atmosphere
Why it belongs on this list
Hercule Poirot attends a séance in a decaying Venetian palazzo and soon has a death to investigate. The film leans into shadows and jumpy nerves more than the brighter earlier Poirot cases.
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2020 · 1h 39m
★ 6.6 TMDB · 500 votes
Best for A small, smart modern gem
Why it belongs on this list
A former child sleuth, still trading on old local fame, takes a case that demands more from him than the mysteries of his youth. Its dry humor gradually makes room for genuine emotional stakes.
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1973 · 2h
★ 7.0 TMDB · 174 votes
Best for Classic puzzle-box plotting
Why it belongs on this list
A group of Hollywood friends is invited aboard a yacht for a game built around their secrets. The movie understands that a good mystery is also a social machine: every clue changes who can trust whom.
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Why it belongs on this list
A solitary student investigates a death through the hard-boiled language and social territories of his suburban high school. Its commitment to noir makes a familiar setting feel strange and dangerous.
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1988 · 1h 44m
★ 7.5 TMDB · 6,351 votes
Best for A family-friendly detective adventure
Why it belongs on this list
A cynical private eye investigates a murder in a Hollywood where animated characters live alongside people. The technical magic still impresses, but the detective story is what gives the comedy shape.
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1973 · 1h 52m
★ 7.4 TMDB · 812 votes
Best for A loose, offbeat classic
Why it belongs on this list
Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend and finds himself pulled through a Los Angeles full of evasive people and changing rules. It is shaggy, funny and more interested in mood than tidy procedure.
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Why it belongs on this list
A retired detective promises a grieving mother he will find the person responsible for her daughter's death. The investigation becomes a study of what a promise can do to someone who cannot let a case go.
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2010 · 2h 11m
★ 8.1 TMDB · 3,473 votes
Best for A serious, emotionally intense mystery
Why it belongs on this list
Twins follow the instructions in their mother's will and uncover a history she had kept from them. It is a profound, difficult film whose investigation is inseparable from war, family and identity.
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2025 · 2h 25m
★ 7.2 TMDB · 2,883 votes
Best for A current Benoit Blanc mystery
Why it belongs on this list
Benoit Blanc returns for another case designed around a fresh group of suspects and hidden motives. Choose this when you want the polished, clue-forward pleasure of a modern studio whodunit.
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2017 · 1h 54m
★ 6.7 TMDB · 10,735 votes
Best for A polished period ensemble mystery
Why it belongs on this list
Hercule Poirot boards a luxurious train where a murder leaves every passenger with a possible motive. The film gives its cast plenty to do and makes a familiar golden-age setup feel handsome and accessible.
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1974 · 2h 10m
★ 7.9 TMDB · 4,405 votes
Best for A hard-boiled classic with atmosphere
Why it belongs on this list
A private investigator takes a domestic case and finds himself inside a much larger web of power. The sunlit Los Angeles setting makes its moral darkness feel even more unsettling.
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1941 · 1h 40m
★ 7.7 TMDB · 1,938 votes
Best for The roots of film noir
Why it belongs on this list
A sharp private eye is pulled into a search involving a valuable object and a cast of people who never tell the whole truth. It is brisk, witty and foundational detective cinema.
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1997 · 2h 18m
★ 7.8 TMDB · 5,739 votes
Best for A lush, intricate crime epic
Why it belongs on this list
Three very different officers investigate a case that exposes a city built on image, corruption and competing loyalties. The mystery is satisfying on its own, while the period world gives every clue extra pressure.
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2003 · 2h 11m
★ 8.1 TMDB · 4,821 votes
Best for A patient Korean crime film
Why it belongs on this list
Detectives working a rural case face inadequate evidence, institutional pressure and their own growing fixation. It is both an absorbing procedural and a searching portrait of what uncertainty does to people.
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2022 · 2h 19m
★ 7.3 TMDB · 1,624 votes
Best for Elegant, emotionally complex noir
Why it belongs on this list
A detective becomes drawn to the widow at the center of a suspicious death, making professional distance increasingly difficult. The film is lush, romantic and attentive to the tension between observation and desire.
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2017 · 1h 47m
★ 8.1 TMDB · 5,133 votes
Best for A fast, twisty Spanish thriller
Why it belongs on this list
A businessman wakes beside a body in a locked room and has little time to construct a credible account. It moves briskly through competing explanations while staying close to the pressure of the interrogation.
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2009 · 2h 10m
★ 8.0 TMDB · 2,958 votes
Best for A moving long-form investigation
Why it belongs on this list
A retired legal worker returns to a case that has stayed unresolved in his mind for years. The investigation becomes a story about memory, love and the different forms justice can take.
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2018 · 1h 42m
★ 7.6 TMDB · 4,371 votes
Best for A smart, modern screen-life mystery
Why it belongs on this list
A father searches through his missing daughter's online life, learning how much a person can be present and unknowable at the same time. The screen-based format serves the clues instead of being a gimmick.
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2023 · 1h 51m
★ 7.4 TMDB · 1,345 votes
Best for A brisk contemporary companion to Searching
Why it belongs on this list
A young woman tries to locate her mother from afar using every digital trace she can find. It is fast, accessible and turns everyday apps into parts of a suspenseful investigation.
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2022 · 2h 8m
★ 6.8 TMDB · 2,276 votes
Best for Gothic winter atmosphere
Why it belongs on this list
A detective investigates a death at a military academy with the help of a cadet who will later become a famous writer. Its chilly setting and deliberate pacing make it a strong pick for viewers who value mood as much as clues.
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1986 · 2h 10m
★ 7.5 TMDB · 3,404 votes
Best for A cerebral medieval whodunit
Why it belongs on this list
A monk arrives at an abbey where a series of deaths has made doctrine, fear and knowledge inseparable. The dense setting rewards viewers who want an investigation shaped by ideas as much as suspects.
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1988 · 1h 46m
★ 7.4 TMDB · 873 votes
Best for A relentlessly unsettling Dutch thriller
Why it belongs on this list
Years after his partner disappears during a road trip, a man remains unable to let the absence go. It is a spare, psychologically exact mystery best discovered with as little advance information as possible.
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2021 · 1h 57m
★ 6.8 TMDB · 874 votes
Best for A grounded Australian procedural
Why it belongs on this list
A federal agent returns to his drought-stricken hometown after a family tragedy and finds old suspicions waiting for him. The landscape and history of the town give the investigation a quiet, lived-in pressure.
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2018 · 1h 57m
★ 6.6 TMDB · 4,694 votes
Best for A stylish, playful modern mystery
Why it belongs on this list
A suburban friendship turns into an investigation when one woman disappears, leaving behind an image that may be more carefully made than it first appears. It is glossy, funny and enjoys its reversals.
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1976 · 1h 34m
★ 7.1 TMDB · 932 votes
Best for A silly, classic ensemble watch
Why it belongs on this list
Famous fictional detectives are invited to a remote mansion for a case designed to challenge all of them. The film is a broad parody, best suited to viewers who enjoy old mystery conventions being affectionately teased.
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2017 · 1h 55m
★ 6.4 TMDB · 1,016 votes
Best for A polished Agatha Christie-style mystery
Why it belongs on this list
An investigator enters a wealthy family home after the death of its patriarch and finds that every relative has a motive. It is a handsome, contained choice for a relaxed evening of classic suspects and secrets.
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Why it belongs on this list
A detective investigates the death of a wealthy novelist while every family member performs a different version of grief. It is funny, sharp and unusually fair with its clues. Pick it for a lively group watch.
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Behind the picks
These picks have a genuine investigation, not merely a crime in the background. We balance fair-play whodunits, detective procedurals and stories where solving the case exposes larger questions about class, grief or justice. The notes never reveal a culprit, a late discovery or a film's final image. Order is editorial, not based on TMDB rating.
Movie facts and community ratings come from TMDB. Streaming information is provided by JustWatch through TMDB and varies by country. Missing availability means no option was returned by the provider; it does not prove a film is unavailable everywhere. Dates above refer to editorial updates.
