Mystery Genre

  • Mystery — questioning, and the guilt behind the mystery

A mystery is a question with a hidden answer. Something has been done, and the story is the work of finding out who did it, and why it matters that we know.

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Mystery films

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  • Se7en

    1995

  • Psycho

    1960

  • Shutter Island

    2010

  • The Prestige

    2006

  • Rear Window

    1954

  • Oldboy

    2003

  • Memento

    2000

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey

    1968

  • Vertigo

    1958

  • The Thing

    1982

  • The Sixth Sense

    1999

  • Gone Girl

    2014

  • The Invisible Guest

    2017

  • Citizen Kane

    1941

  • Knives Out

    2019

  • Incendies

    2010

  • The Hateful Eight

    2015

  • Donnie Darko

    2001

  • Mulholland Drive

    2001

  • Chinatown

    1974

  • L.A. Confidential

    1997

  • The Batman

    2022

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