Alfred Hitchcock
Psycho (1960), Vertigo (1958), Rear Window (1940), North by Northwest (1959)
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Poll: Greatest Mystery Film Director
A mystery film usually revolves around the solving of an unexplained event, with bits of information which give clarity into said event gradually revealed over its course. The climax of a mystery, in most cases, delivers a huge revelation or plot twist, sometimes causing the audience to question nearly everything which was said or established earlier in the movie.
There have been many twisty and shocking mystery films over the decades, with some of the greatest directors being the brain behind them. Which of these mystery film-makers do you consider to the best at their craft ?
Make Your Choice
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David Fincher
Se7en (1995), Gone Girl (2014), Zodiac (2007), The Game (1997) -
Christopher Nolan
Memento (2000), The Prestige (2006), Interstellar (2014), Insomnia (2002) -
David Lynch
Mulholland Drive (2001), Blue Velvet (1986), Lost Highway (1997) -
Roman Polanski
Chinatown (1982), The Ninth Gate (1999), The Ghost Writer (2010) -
Brian De Palma
Dressed to Kill (1980), Blow Out (1981), Stir of Echoes (1999), Femme Fatale (2002) -
M. Night Shyamalan
The Sixth Sense (1999), Unbreakable (2000), Signs (2002), The Village (2004) -
James Wan
Saw (2004), The Conjuring (2013), Insidious (2010), The Conjuring 2 (2016) -
John Huston
The Maltese Falcon (1941), The Stranger (1946), The Killers (1946) -
Steven Spielberg
Minority Report (2002), The Adventures of Tintin (2011) -
David Mamet
Spartan (2004), The Spanish Prisoner (1997) -
Bong Joon Ho
Parasite (2019), Memories of Murder (2003) -
Wes Craven
Scream (1996), Scream 2 (1997), Scream 4 (2011) -
Denis Villeneuve
Prisoners (2013), Arrival (2016), Blade Runner 2049 (2017), Sicario (2015) -
Lynne Ramsay
We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011), You Were Never Really Here (2017) -
Paul Greengrass
The Bourne Ultimatum (2007), The Bourne Supremacy (2004) -
Martin Scorsese
Shutter Island (2010), Hugo (2011) -
John Carpenter
The Thing (1981), In the Mouth of Madness (1994), The Ward (2010) -
David Cronenberg
Cosmopolis (2012), Spider (2002) -
Ari Aster
Hereditary (2018), Midsommar (2019) -
Billy Wilder
Double Indemnity (1944), Witness for the Prosecution (1957), The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970) -
Fritz Lang
M (1931), The Woman in the Window (1944), The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933) -
Akira Kurosawa
Rashomon (1950), High and Low (1963), Stray Dog (1949) -
Rian Johnson
Knives Out (2019), Brick (2005) -
Oriol Paulo
The Invisible Guest (2016), The Body (2012) -
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Three Colors: Red (1994), Three Colors: Blue (1993), The Double Life of Véronique (1991) -
Carol Reed
The Third Man (1949), The Fallen Idol (1948) -
Robert Wiene
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), The Hands of Orlac (1924) -
Terry Gilliam
12 Monkeys (1995), The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009), The Brothers Grimm (2005) -
Bryan Singer
The Usual Suspects (1995) -
Orson Welles
Citizen Kane (1941), The Lady from Shanghai (1947), The Stranger (1946)
