Otto Penzler's 101 Greatest Movies of Mystery and Suspense

Added on by C. Maoxian.

Sorted chronologically:

  1. Bulldog Drummond, 1929

  2. Little Caesar, 1930

  3. The Public Enemy, 1931

  4. Freaks, 1932

  5. Scarface, 1932

  6. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, 1932

  7. The Kennel Murder Case, 1933

  8. The Thin Man, 1934

  9. The 39 Steps, 1935

  10. Charlie Chan at the Opera, 1936

  11. The Petrified Forest, 1936

  12. Dead End, 1937

  13. The Lady Vanishes, 1938

  14. The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1939

  15. Foreign Correspondent, 1940

  16. Rebecca, 1940

  17. High Sierra, 1941

  18. I Wake Up Screaming, 1941

  19. Suspicion, 1941

  20. The Maltese Falcon, 1941

  21. The Glass Key, 1942

  22. The Gun for Hire, 1942

  23. Shadow of a Doubt, 1943

  24. The Woman in the Window, 1944

  25. To Have and Have Not, 1944

  26. Murder, My Sweet, 1944

  27. Double Indemnity, 1944

  28. Laura, 1944

  29. Spellbound, 1945

  30. And Then There Were None, 1945

  31. The Blue Dahlia, 1946

  32. Notorious, 1946

  33. The Postman Always Rings Twice, 1946

  34. The Big Sleep, 1946

  35. The Killers, 1946

  36. Crossfire, 1947

  37. Kiss of Death, 1947

  38. Out of the Past, 1947

  39. The Fallen Idol, 1948

  40. Key Largo, 1948

  41. Criss Cross, 1949

  42. White Heat, 1949

  43. The Third Man, 1949

  44. In a Lonely Place, 1950

  45. The Asphalt Jungle, 1950

  46. D.O.A., 1950

  47. Sunset Boulevard, 1950

  48. Strangers on a Train, 1951

  49. Detective Story, 1951

  50. The Big Heat, 1953

  51. Rear Window, 1954

  52. Kiss Me Deadly, 1955

  53. The Night of the Hunter, 1955

  54. The Killing, 1956

  55. The Man Who Knew Too Much, 1956

  56. Witness for the Prosecution, 1957

  57. Vertigo, 1958

  58. Touch of Evil, 1958

  59. Anatomy of a Murder, 1959

  60. North by Northwest, 1959

  61. Psycho, 1960

  62. To Kill a Mockingbird, 1962

  63. The Manchurian Candidate, 1962

  64. Charade, 1963

  65. A Shot in the Dark, 1964

  66. Topkapi, 1964

  67. Goldfinger, 1964

  68. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, 1965

  69. The Ipcress File, 1965

  70. Harper, 1966

  71. In Cold Blood, 1967

  72. In the Heat of the Night, 1967

  73. Bonnie and Clyde, 1967

  74. Bullitt, 1968

  75. Dirty Harry, 1971

  76. The French Connection, 1971

  77. Sleuth, 1972

  78. The Godfather, 1972

  79. Mean Streets, 1973

  80. The Day of the Jackal, 1973

  81. The Sting, 1973

  82. Murder on the Orient Express, 1974

  83. The Conversation, 1974

  84. The Godfather Part II, 1974

  85. Chinatown, 1974

  86. Taxi Driver, 1976

  87. Body Heat, 1981

  88. Blade Runner, 1982

  89. Fatal Attraction, 1987

  90. The Untouchables, 1987

  91. Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, 1988

  92. The Grifters, 1990

  93. GoodFellas, 1990

  94. Silence of the Lambs, 1991

  95. Reservoir Dogs, 1992

  96. In the Line of Fire, 1993

  97. The Fugitive, 1993

  98. The Last Seduction, 1994

  99. The Usual Suspects, 1995

  100. Fargo, 1996

  101. L.A. Confidential, 1997