Underrated Mystery Movies
Mystery films our TML Score rates highly that never found a big audience: critically strong, commercially overlooked. Ranked by our TML Score, a transparent blend of IMDb and Metascore, and filtered to titles with modest box office.
30 Underrated Mystery Films
- 1
Citizen Kane
Orson Welles·1941·DramaTML 94★ 8.3$1.6M box officeStarring
Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead
- 2
Vertigo
Alfred Hitchcock·1958·MysteryTML 94★ 8.3$3.2M box officeStarring
James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore
- 3
Three Colors: Red
Krzysztof Kieslowski·1994·DramaTML 93★ 8.1$3.6M box officeStarring
Irène Jacob, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Frédérique Feder, Jean-Pierre Lorit
- 4
Trois couleurs: Rouge
Krzysztof Kieslowski·1994·DramaTML 93★ 8.1$4.0M box officeStarring
Irène Jacob, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Frédérique Feder, Jean-Pierre Lorit
- 5
Rashomon
Akira Kurosawa·1950·CrimeTML 92★ 8.2$47K box officeStarring
Toshirô Mifune, Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura
- 6
Rashômon
Akira Kurosawa·1950·CrimeTML 92★ 8.2$97K box officeStarring
Toshirô Mifune, Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura
- 7
The Third Man
Carol Reed·1949·Film-NoirTML 91★ 8.1$449K box officeStarring
Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Trevor Howard
- 8
High and Low
Akira Kurosawa·1963·CrimeTML 90★ 8.4$47K box officeStarring
Toshirô Mifune, Yutaka Sada, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyôko Kagawa
- 9
The Maltese Falcon
John Huston·1941·Film-NoirTML 90★ 8.0$2.1M box officeStarring
Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George, Peter Lorre
- 10
Solaris
Andrei Tarkovsky·1972·DramaTML 89★ 8.1$22K box officeStarring
Natalya Bondarchuk, Donatas Banionis, Jüri Järvet, Vladislav Dvorzhetskiy
- 11
Le samouraï
Jean-Pierre Melville·1967·CrimeTML 89★ 8.1$39K box officeStarring
Alain Delon, François Périer, Nathalie Delon, Cathy Rosier
- 12
Werckmeister Harmonies
Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky·2000·DramaTML 89★ 8.0$70K box officeStarring
Ágnes Hranitzky, Lars Rudolph, Peter Fitz, Hanna Schygulla
- 13
The Father
Florian Zeller·2020·DramaTML 88★ 8.2$2.1M box officeStarring
Anthony Hopkins, Olivia Colman, Mark Gatiss, Olivia Williams
- 14
M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder
Fritz Lang·1931·CrimeTML 87★ 8.3$29K box officeStarring
Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut, Otto Wernicke
- 15
M
Fritz Lang·1931·CrimeTML 87★ 8.3$36K box officeStarring
Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut, Otto Wernicke
- 16
Darbareye Elly
Asghar Farhadi·2009·DramaTML 87★ 8$107K box officeStarring
Golshifteh Farahani, Shahab Hosseini, Taraneh Alidoosti, Merila Zare'i
- 17
Donnie Darko
Richard Kelly·2001·DramaTML 87★ 8$1.5M box officeStarring
Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, Mary McDonnell, Holmes Osborne
- 18
Rebecca
Alfred Hitchcock·1940·DramaTML 87★ 8.1$4.4M box officeStarring
Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Judith Anderson
- 19
Talvar
Meghna Gulzar·2015·CrimeTML 86★ 8.2$342K box officeStarring
Irrfan Khan, Konkona Sen Sharma, Neeraj Kabi, Sohum Shah
- 20
About Elly
Asghar Farhadi·2009·DramaTML 86★ 7.9$471K box officeStarring
Golshifteh Farahani, Shahab Hosseini, Taraneh Alidoosti, Sajjad Dolati
- 21
Three Colors: Blue
Krzysztof Kieslowski·1993·DramaTML 86★ 7.8$1.3M box officeStarring
Juliette Binoche, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Julie Delpy, Benoît Régent
- 22
Salinui chueok
Bong Joon Ho·2003·CrimeTML 85★ 8.1$14K box officeStarring
Kang-ho Song, Kim Sang-kyung, Roe-ha Kim, Jae-ho Song
- 23
Memories of Murder
Bong Joon Ho·2003·CrimeTML 85★ 8.1$15K box officeStarring
Song Kang-ho, Kim Sang-kyung, Roe-ha Kim, Jae-ho Song
- 24
Oldeuboi
Chan-wook Park·2003·ActionTML 85★ 8.4$707K box officeStarring
Choi Min-sik, Yoo Ji-Tae, Kang Hye-jeong, Kim Byeong-Ok
- 25
Kahaani
Sujoy Ghosh·2012·MysteryTML 85★ 8.1$1.0M box officeStarring
Vidya Balan, Parambrata Chattopadhyay, Indraneil Sengupta, Nawazuddin Siddiqui
- 26
Trois couleurs: Bleu
Krzysztof Kieslowski·1993·DramaTML 85★ 7.9$1.3M box officeStarring
Juliette Binoche, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Julie Delpy, Benoît Régent
- 27
Le passé
Asghar Farhadi·2013·DramaTML 85★ 7.8$1.3M box officeStarring
Bérénice Bejo, Tahar Rahim, Ali Mosaffa, Pauline Burlet
- 28
Oldboy
Park Chan-wook·2003·ActionTML 85★ 8.3$2.5M box officeStarring
Choi Min-sik, Yoo Ji-tae, Kang Hye-jeong, Kim Byeong-Ok
- 29
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Robert Wiene·1920·HorrorTML 84★ 8.0$9K box officeStarring
Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Friedrich Feher, Lil Dagover
- 30
The Wicker Man
Robin Hardy·1973·HorrorTML 84★ 7.5$149K box officeStarring
Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Diane Cilento, Britt Ekland