DETECTIVE-MYSTERY
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Detective-Mystery Films
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Selection of Greatest Detective-Mystery Films:


Early Greatest Detective-Mystery Films:
The Perils of Pauline (1914) - serials
Sherlock Holmes (1922)
Behind That Curtain (1929)
The Canary Murder Case (1929)
M (1931, Germ.) (aka M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder)
The Kennel Murder Case (1933)
The Thin Man (1934)
After the Thin Man (1936)
Charlie Chan at the Opera (1936)
The Lady Vanishes (1938, UK)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)
Rebecca (1940)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Suspicion (1941)
The Falcon Takes Over (1942)
The Glass Key (1942)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Gaslight (1944)
Laura (1944)
Murder, My Sweet (1944)
And Then There Were None (1945) (remade as Ten Little Indians (1965, 1974, 1989))
Spellbound (1945)
The Big Sleep (1946)
Lady in the Lake (1946)
Notorious (1946)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
The Lady from Shanghai (1948)
The Naked City (1948)
The Third Man (1949)
D.O.A. (1950)
In a Lonely Place (1950)
The Big Heat (1953)
Dial M For Murder (1954)
Rear Window (1954)
Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
To Catch a Thief (1955)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Touch of Evil (1958)
Vertigo (1958)
North By Northwest (1959)
Recent Greatest Detective-Mystery Films:
L'Avventura (1960, It.)
Last Year at Marienbad (1961, Fr.)
Charade (1963)
The List of Adrian Messenger (1963)
The Pink Panther (1963)
A Shot in the Dark (1964)
Blow-Up (1966)
Harper (1966)
In The Heat Of The Night (1967)
Point Blank (1967)
Tony Rome (1967)
Bullitt (1968)
Madigan (1968)
Marlowe (1969)
Dirty Harry (1971)
Klute (1971)
The French Connection (1971)
Sleuth (1972)
The Last of Sheila (1973)
The Long Goodbye (1973)
Chinatown (1974)
The Conversation (1974)
Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
Farewell, My Lovely (1975)
Night Moves (1975)
Death on the Nile (1978)
Blow Out (1981)
Prince of the City (1981)
Evil Under the Sun (1982)
Blood Simple (1983)
Blue Velvet (1986)
The Big Easy (1987)
House of Games (1987)
The Vanishing (1988, Netherlands) (aka Spoorloos)
Sea of Love (1989)
The Crying Game (1992, UK)
The Fugitive (1993)
Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)
Se7en (1995)
The Usual Suspects (1995)
Fargo (1996)
The Game (1997)
L. A. Confidential (1997)
The Big Lebowski (1998)
A Simple Plan (1998)
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
Memento (2000)
Gosford Park (2001)
Mulholland Dr. (2001)
Talk to Her (2002, Sp.) (aka Hable con ella)
Mystic River (2003)
Caché (2005, Fr.)
The Lives of Others (2006, Germ.) (aka Das Leben der Anderen)
Zodiac (2007)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009, Swe.) (and sequels)
Prisoners (2013)
Gone Girl (2014)
Knives Out (2019)




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