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41. Prometheus
Director – Ridley Scott
Cast – Michael Fassbender, Guy Pearce, Noomi Rapace, Logan Marshall-Green, Idris Elba
IMDB Rating – 7
Rotten Tomatoes – 73%
Release Date – June 1, 2012
Box Office – $403.4 million
Genre – Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
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40. Anatomy of a Murder
Director – Otto Preminger
Cast – Ben Gazzara, James Stewart, Eve Arden, Lee Remick, Arthur O’Connell
IMDB Rating – 8
Rotten Tomatoes – 100%
Release Date – 1 July 1959
Box Office – $11 million
Genre – Crime, Drama, Mystery
Awards – None
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39. The Manchurian Candidate
Director – John Frankenheimer
Cast – Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, Frank Sinatra, Angela Lansbury
IMDB Rating – 8
Rotten Tomatoes – 96%
Release Date – 24 October 1962
Box Office – $7.7 million
Genre – Drama, Thriller
Awards – None
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38. M (1931)
Director – Fritz Lang
Cast – Gustaf Gründgens, Peter Lorre, Otto Wernicke
IMDB Rating – 8.3
Rotten Tomatoes – 100%
Release Date – 11 May 1931
Box Office – $ 1 million
Genre – Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Awards – None
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37. Chinatown
Director – Roman Polanski
Cast – Faye Dunaway, Jack Nicholson, Perry Lopez, Burt Young, John Hillerman
IMDB Rating – 8.2
Rotten Tomatoes – 99%
Release Date – 20 June 1974
Box Office – $29.2 million
Genre – Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Awards – Won 1 Oscar
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36. Contact
Director – Robert Zemeckis
Cast – Matthew McConaughey, John Hurt, James Woods, Jodie Foster
IMDB Rating – 7.4
Rotten Tomatoes – 63%
Release Date – 11 July 1997
Box Office – $171.1 million
Genre – Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
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35. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Director – David Fincher
Cast – Christopher Plummer, Daniel Craig, Stellan Skarsgård, Rooney Mara, Joely Richardson
IMDB Rating – 7.8
Rotten Tomatoes – 86%
Release Date – 12 December 2011
Box Office – $232.6 million
Genre – Crime, Drama, Mystery
Awards – Won 1 Oscar
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34. The Lady Vanishes
Director – Alfred Hitchcock
Cast – Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas, Margaret Lockwood, Dame May Whitty
IMDB Rating – 7.9
Rotten Tomatoes – 98%
Release Date – 7 October 1938
Box Office – $ 1 million
Genre – Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller
Awards – None
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33. Scream Series
Director – Wes Craven
Cast – Matthew Lillard, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Neve Campbell
IMDB Rating – 7.2
Rotten Tomatoes – 79%
Release Date – 18 December 1996
Box Office – $173 million
Genre – Horror, Mystery
Awards – None
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32. The Big Sleep
Director – Howard Hawks
Cast – Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart
IMDB Rating – 8
Rotten Tomatoes – 97%
Release Date – 23 August 1946
Box Office – $4.9 million
Genre – Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
Awards – None
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31. Bullitt
Director – Peter Yates
Cast – Don Gordon, Robert Vaughn, Simon Oakland, Steve McQueen, Jacqueline Bisset
IMDB Rating – 7.4
Rotten Tomatoes – 97%
Release Date – 17 October 1968
Box Office – $42.3 million
Genre – Action, Crime, Thriller
Awards – Won 1 Oscar
Plot –
30. Shadow of a Doubt
Director – Alfred Hitchcock
Cast – Macdonald Carey, Joseph Cotten, Teresa Wright, Patricia Collinge
IMDB Rating – 7.9
Rotten Tomatoes – 100%
Release Date – 12 January 1943
Box Office – $1.2 million
Genre – Thriller
Awards – None
Plot –
29. Witness for the Prosecution
Director – Billy Wilder
Cast – Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton, Tyrone Power
IMDB Rating – 8.4
Rotten Tomatoes – 100%
Release Date – 17 December 1957
Box Office – $9 million
Genre – Crime, Drama, Mystery
Awards – None
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28. Blue Velvet
Director – David Lynch
Cast – Hope Lange, Kyle MacLachlan, Laura Dern, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper
IMDB Rating – 7.8
Rotten Tomatoes – 94%
Release Date – 19 September 1986
Box Office – $8.6 million
Genre – Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Awards – None
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27. The Thin Man
Director – W. S. Van Dyke
Cast – Myrna Loy, Maureen O’Sullivan, William Powell, Nat Pendleton
IMDB Rating – 8
Rotten Tomatoes – 97%
Release Date – 23 May 1934
Box Office – $1,423,000
Genre – Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Awards – None
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26. Cube
Director – Vincenzo Natali
Cast – Andrew Miller, Nicky Guadagni, Nicole de Boer, Julian Richings, David Hewlett
IMDB Rating – 7.2
Rotten Tomatoes – 63%
Release Date – 11 July 1998
Box Office – $9 million
Genre – Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
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25. The Game
Director – David Fincher
Cast – Sean Penn, James Rebhorn, Michael Douglas, Deborah Kara Unger, Carroll Baker
IMDB Rating – 7.8
Rotten Tomatoes – 73%
Release Date – 12 September 1997
Box Office – $109.4 million
Genre – Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Awards – None
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24. Now You See Me
Director – Louis Leterrier
Cast – Mélanie Laurent, Isla Fisher, Mark Ruffalo, Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson
IMDB Rating – 7.3
Rotten Tomatoes – 50%
Release Date – 21 May 2013
Box Office – $351.7 million
Genre – Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Awards – None
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23. The Bourne Identity
Director – Doug Liman
Cast – Franka Potente, Matt Damon, Brian Cox, Clive Owen, Chris Cooper
IMDB Rating – 7.9
Rotten Tomatoes – 83%
Release Date – 6 June 2002
Box Office – $214 million
Genre Action, Mystery, Thriller
Awards – None
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22. Black Swan
Director – Darren Aronofsky
Cast – Barbara Hershey, Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel
IMDB Rating –8
Rotten Tomatoes – 85%
Release Date – December 3, 2010
Box Office – $329.4 million
Genre – Drama, Thriller
Awards – Won 1 Oscar
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