Mystery Films
Pattern Statistics
371
Movies
6.9
Avg Arcplot
109
Avg Runtime
1931-2024
Year Range
6.7
Avg IMDb
64%
Avg RT
60
Avg Metacritic
$20412M
Total Box Office
150
With Awards
13.7
Avg Plot Points
Mystery Films - Structural Analysis
This body of work of 371 mystery films exhibits flexible handling of narrative structure common to the genre. Covering works from 1931 to 2024, the average Arcplot score of 6.9 suggests a balance between convention and innovation.
Within this genre, 1% of films reach scores above 8.0, indicating that narrative approaches vary considerably. Notable examples include Insomnia (8.2), Club Dread (8.1), and Made in Abyss: Dawn of the Deep Soul (7.9).
Runtime Patterns
Mystery films in this sample average 1 hour and 50 minutes, suggesting efficient narrative compression.
+50-5
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2007
11-11-11
2011
1408
2007
24 Hours to Live
2017
8 Women
2002
88 Minutes
2007
8MM
1999
A Beautiful Mind
2001
A Conspiracy of Faith
2016
A Cure for Wellness
2017
A Haunting in Venice
2023
A Kiss Before Dying
1991
A Nightmare on Elm Street
2010
A Perfect Getaway
2009
A Shot in the Dark
1964
A Soldier's Story
1984
A Walk Among the Tombstones
2014
Abduction
2011
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
1994
Affliction
1998
After.Life
2009
Alex Cross
2012
All the Old Knives
2022
All the President's Men
1976
Along Came a Spider
2001
American Gigolo
1980
Amsterdam
2022
An American Haunting
2005
Anatomy of a Fall
2023
Anatomy of a Murder
1959
Angel Heart
1987
Angelique: The Road To Versailles
1965
Apocalypse Now
1979
Armored
2009
Arrival
2016
ATL
2006
Atlas Shrugged: Part I
2011
Atonement
2007
Awake
2007
Backdraft
1991
Bad Times at the El Royale
2018
Basic
2003
Basic Instinct 2
2006
Beasts Clawing at Straws
2020
Before and After
1996
Before I Go to Sleep
2014
Beloved
1998
Birth
2004
Black Box
2021
Black Christmas
2019
Black Christmas
2006
Blind Horizon
2003
Blindness
2008
Blink Twice
2024
Blood Work
2002
Bloodline
1979
Blue Exorcist: The Movie
2012
Blue Velvet
1986
Bodies at Rest
2019
Bodies Bodies Bodies
2022
Body Double
1984
Boogeyman
2005
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
2000
Bordertown
2007
Brahms: The Boy II
2020
Brokedown Palace
1999
Broken Flowers
2005
Bugsy
1991
Burning
2018
Buster's Mal Heart
2017
Case 39
2009
Changeling
2008
Charade
1963
Chernobyl Diaries
2012
Child's Play
1972
Chinatown
1974
Citizen Kane
1941
City by the Sea
2002
Cleaner
2007
Clockers
1995
Closed Circuit
2013
Cloud Atlas
2012
Club Dread
2004
Clue
1985
Cocoon
1985
Cold Creek Manor
2003
Color of Night
1994
Come Play
2020
Confidence
2003
Congo
1995
Conspiracy Theory
1997
Contact
1997
Copycat
1995
Courage Under Fire
1996
Creep
2004
Crimson Peak
2015
Cruising
1980
Cry_Wolf
2005
Cube
1998
Cuckoo
2024
Curse of the Pink Panther
1983
D.O.A.
1988
Dark City
1998
Dark Places
2015
Dark Water
2005
Day of the Dead
1985
Dead Again
1991
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
1982
Death and the Maiden
1994
Death Note
2006
Death Note: L Change the WorLd
2008
Death Note: The Last Name
2006
Death on the Nile
1978
Death on the Nile
2022
Death Warrant
1990
Deception
2008
Decision to Leave
2022
Deep Water
2022
Detective Chinatown
2015
Devil
2010
Devil's Due
2014
Diabolique
1996
Dial M for Murder
1954
Disturbia
2007
Disturbing Behavior
1998
DOA: Dead or Alive
2006
Dolores Claiborne
1995
Domestic Disturbance
2001
Don't Let Go
2019
Don't Say a Word
2001
Don't Worry Darling
2022
Donnie Darko
2001
Double Jeopardy
1999
Dr. Cheon and the Lost Talisman
2023
Dragonfly
2002
Dressed to Kill
1980
Drowning Mona
2000
Dude, Where's My Car?
2000
Dylan Dog: Dead of Night
2011
Eagle Eye
2008
Eastern Promises
2007
Edge of Darkness
2010
Enigma
2001
Game Night
2018
Get Low
2010
Get Out
2017
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
2004
Ghost Ship
2002
Glengarry Glen Ross
1992
Gogol. The Beginning
2017
Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain
1995
Gone Girl
2014
Gorky Park
1983
Gosford Park
2001
Gossip
2000
Gothika
2003
Hail, Caesar!
2016
Halloween III: Season of the Witch
1982
Handling the Undead
2024
Happy Birthday to Me
1981
Happy Death Day
2017
Harakiri
1962
Harper
1966
Head Over Heels
2001
Hide and Seek
2005
High and Low
1963
High Anxiety
1977
High Plains Drifter
1973
Hollywoodland
2006
Holmes & Watson
2018
Hoodwinked!
2005
Hot Fuzz
2007
House of Voices
2004
House of Wax
2005
Hustle
1975
I Know What You Did Last Summer
1997
I Know Who Killed Me
2007
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
1998
Identity
2003
In the Cut
2003
In the Heat of the Night
1967
In the House
2012
In the Mouth of Madness
1995
In the Valley of Elah
2007
Incendies
2010
Infernal Affairs
2002
Insidious: Chapter 2
2013
Insidious: The Last Key
2018
Insomnia
2002
Intruder
2020
L.A. Confidential
1997
Last Night in Soho
2021
M
1931
Macabre
1958
Made in Abyss: Dawn of the Deep Soul
2020
Magnum Force
1973
Maigret
2022
Memento
2000
Memories of Murder
2003
Minority Report
2002
Moon
2009
Mother
2009
Mr. Holmes
2015
Mulholland Drive
2001
Mulholland Falls
1996
North by Northwest
1959
Oldboy
2003
Prisoners
2013
Psycho
1960
Raging Fire
2021
Rear Window
1954
Rebecca
1940
Rope
1948
RRRrrrr!!!
2004
Saw
2004
Saw 3D
2010
Saw II
2005
Saw III
2006
Saw X
2023
Scoob!
2020
Scream
1996
Scream 2
1997
Scream 3
2000
Se7en
1995
Searching
2018
Secret Window
2004
See How They Run
2022
Separation
2021
Serenity
2019
Shaft
2019
Shanghai
2010
Shanghai
2012
Shattered
1991
Shutter Island
2010
The Andromeda Strain
1971
The Arrival
1996
The Autopsy of Jane Doe
2016
The Awakening
2011
The Babadook
2014
The Bedroom Window
1987
The Big Easy
1986
The Big Sleep
1946
The Birds
1963
The Blair Witch Project
1999
The Exorcist III
1990
The Father
2020
The Final Conflict
1981
The Firm
1993
The Flock
2007
The Fog
2005
The Forest
2016
The Forgotten
2004
The Fountain
2006
The Fourth Kind
2009
The General's Daughter
1999
The Ghost Writer
2010
The Gift
2015
The Girl on the Train
2016
The Girl Who Played with Fire
2009
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
2011
The Good German
2006
The Gray Man
2022
The Great Muppet Caper
1981
The Grudge
2019
The Grudge 3
2009
The Guardian
1990
The Hateful Eight
2015
The Haunting
1999
The Lives of Others
2006
The Night House
2021
The Ninth Gate
1999
The Number 23
2007
The Nun
2018
The Omen
2006
The Order
2003
The Others
2001
The Past
2013
The People Under the Stairs
1991
The Pink Panther 2
2009
The Player
1992
The Pledge
2001
The Presidio
1988
The Prestige
2006
The Priests
2015
The Professor and the Madman
2019
The Raven
2012
The Red Violin
1998
The Relic
1997
The Return of the Pink Panther
1975
The Ring
2002
The Ring Two
2005
The Score
2001
The Secret in Their Eyes
2009
The Sense of an Ending
2017
The Sixth Sense
1999
The Skeleton Key
2005
The Skin I Live In
2011
The Snowman
2017
The Spanish Prisoner
1997
The Stepford Wives
1975
The Tenant
1976
The Thing
2011
The Thing
1982
The Thirteenth Floor
1999
The Tragedy of Macbeth
2021
The Trouble with Harry
1955
The Turkish Gambit
2005
The Two Jakes
1990
The Unborn
2009
The Unholy
2021
The Unknown Woman
2006
The Usual Suspects
1995
The Vanishing
1993
The Village
2004
The Voyeurs
2021
The Wailing
2016
The Ward
2010
The Watchers
2024
The White Ribbon
2009
The Wicker Man
2006
The Witch: Part 1. The Subversion
2018
The Witch: Part 2. The Other One
2022
The Wolf Man
1941
The X Files: I Want to Believe
2008
They
2002
Three Days of the Condor
1975
Tightrope
1984
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
2011
To Catch a Thief
1955
Tomorrowland
2015
Trail of the Pink Panther
1982
Trance
2013
Transcendence
2014
TransSiberian
2008
Trap
2024
Trespass
2011
True Crime
1999
Tully
2018
Turistas
2006
Twisted
2004
Unfriended
2014
Unknown
2011
Unlawful Entry
1992
Unsane
2018
Untraceable
2008
Urban Legend
1998
Urban Legends: Final Cut
2000
Vertigo
1958
Wazir
2016
What Lies Beneath
2000
When a Stranger Calls
2006
Where the Crawdads Sing
2022
While We're Young
2014
Whiteout
2009
Who Am I
2014
Who's Harry Crumb?
1989
Wicker Park
2004
Wild Things
1998
Wind River
2017
Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2
2024
Winter's Bone
2010
Winter's Tale
2014
Witchboard
1986
Without a Clue
1988
Without a Paddle
2004
Without a Trace
1983
Witness for the Prosecution
1957
X
2022
You're Next
2013
Young Sherlock Holmes
1985
Zodiac
2007