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Defining Genre
Peak 2010s

THE MYSTERY

THE QUESTION, THE ANSWER
The genre built on the audience's patience and the screenplay's nerve. Where every shot is a clue and every cut is a tell.
Peak 2010s
7,628
Films Catalogued
64.7
Avg Master Score
5.9
Avg IMDb
2010s
Peak Decade
ALFRED HITCHCOCK
Top Director
Of which 67 earned Oscar nominations or wins
The Defining Three

ESSENTIAL VIEWING

Top-ranked by master score. If you only saw three films from this decade, these are the three.

No.01
MS95.3
ALFRED HITCHCOCK|1960
PSYCHO

“A new and altogether different screen excitement!”

No.02
MS95.2
ALFRED HITCHCOCK|1954
REAR WINDOW

“It only takes one witness to spoil the perfect crime.”

No.03
MS94.5
MASAKI KOBAYASHI|1962
HARAKIRI

“What befalls others today, may be your own fate tomorrow.”

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Psycho
1960 · Alfred Hitchcock
95.3
02
Rear Window
1954 · Alfred Hitchcock
95.2
03
Harakiri
1962 · Masaki Kobayashi
94.5
04
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1931 · Fritz Lang
93.4
05
The Big Sleep
1946 · Howard Hawks
92.9
06
The Rescue
2021 · Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
92.5
07
Memories of Murder
2003 · Bong Joon Ho
92.0
08
The Sixth Sense
1999 · M. Night Shyamalan
91.9
09
Se7en
1995 · David Fincher
91.9
10
Searching
2018 · Aneesh Chaganty
91.7
11
Ugetsu
1953 · Kenji Mizoguchi
91.7
12
Notorious
1946 · Alfred Hitchcock
91.7
13
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Sherlock Jr.
1924 · Buster Keaton
91.6
14
Diabolique
1955 · Henri-Georges Clouzot
91.3
15
Drishyam
2013 · Jeethu Joseph
90.4
16
In the Heat of the Night
1967 · Norman Jewison · 5 Oscars
90.3
17
The Invisible Man
2020 · Leigh Whannell
90.2
18
Pi
1998 · Darren Aronofsky
90.1
19
Shadow of a Doubt
1943 · Alfred Hitchcock
90.0
20
The Conjuring
2013 · James Wan
89.9
21
The Orphanage
2007 · J.A. Bayona
89.9
22
Solaris
1972 · Andrei Tarkovsky
89.6
23
The Thin Man
1934 · W.S. Van Dyke
89.5
24
REC
2007 · Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza
89.4
25
In a Lonely Place
1950 · Nicholas Ray
89.3
26
The Ring
1998 · Hideo Nakata
89.2
27
The Lady Vanishes
1938 · Alfred Hitchcock
89.1
28
Kahaani
2012 · Sujoy Ghosh
89.1
29
The Invisible Guest
2016 · Oriol Paulo
89.0
30
Andhadhun
2018 · Sriram Raghavan
89.0
31
Hot Fuzz
2007 · Edgar Wright
89.0
32
Memento
2000 · Christopher Nolan
89.0
33
The Killers
1946 · Robert Siodmak
88.8
34
Guilty
2015 · Meghna Gulzar
88.7
35
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
2009 · Niels Arden Oplev
88.6
36
Oldboy
2003 · Park Chan-wook
88.6
37
Gone Girl
2014 · David Fincher
88.5
38
Zootopia 2
2025 · Jared Bush, Byron Howard
88.5
39
The Maltese Falcon
1941 · John Huston
88.4
40
L'Avventura
1960 · Michelangelo Antonioni
88.3
41
Jai Bhim
2021 · T.J. Gnanavel
88.3
42
Insidious
2010 · James Wan
88.3
43
All the President's Men
1976 · Alan J. Pakula · 4 Oscars
88.2
44
Picnic at Hanging Rock
1975 · Peter Weir
88.1
45
The 39 Steps
1935 · Alfred Hitchcock
88.1
46
12 Monkeys
1995 · Terry Gilliam
88.1
47
Maharaja
2024 · Nithilan Saminathan
88.0
48
The Others
2001 · Alejandro Amenábar
87.9
49
Cure
1997 · Kiyoshi Kurosawa
87.9
50
Deep Red
1975 · Dario Argento
87.9
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