Highly Recommended Mystery/Neo-Noir/Thriller Movies of the 1960s & Later

12 Monkeys (1995)

127 Hours (2010)

A Few Good Men (1992)

A History of Violence (2005)

A Most Wanted Man (2014)

A Simple Plan (1998)

Aliens (1986)

All the President's Men (1976)

Black Book (2006)

Blow Out (1981)

Body Heat (1981)

Cape Fear (1962)

Cape Fear (1991)

Charade (1963)

Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)

Coma (1978)

Contagion (2011)

Das Boot (1981)

Deliverance (1972)

Diamonds Are Forever (1971)

Die Hard (1988)

Dirty Harry (1971)

Dirty Pretty Things (2002)

Donnie Brasco (1997)

Doubt (2008)

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to ... (1964)

Drive (2011)

Eastern Promises (2007)

Emily the Criminal (2022)

Enter the Dragon (1973)

Ex Machina (2015)

Fail-Safe (1964)

Fargo (1996)

Fatal Attraction (1987)

Frenzy (1972)

From Russia with Love (1963)

Get Out (2017)

Goldfinger (1964)

Gravity (2013)

Hannibal (2001)

Headhunters (2011)

High and Low (1963)

House of Games (1987)

In the Heat of the Night (1967)

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

Jackie Brown (1997)

Jurassic Park (1993)

Le Samourai (1967)

Limitless (2011)

Lord of the Flies (1963)

Marathon Man (1976)

Maria Full of Grace (2004)

Memories of Murder (2003)

Michael Clayton (2007)

Midnight Express (1978)

Minority Report (2002)

Misery (1990)

Mississippi Burning (1988)

Never Take Sweets from a Stranger (1960)

Night of the Living Dead (1968)

Nine Queens (2000)

No Way to Treat a Lady (1968)

Nothing But the Truth (2008)

Omar (2013)

Peeping Tom (1960)

Planet of the Apes (1968)

Psycho (1960)

Purple Noon (1960)

Red Rock West (1993)

Repulsion (1965)

RoboCop (1987)

Runaway Train (1985)

Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964)

Seconds (1966)

Seven Days in May (1964)

Seven Thieves (1960)

Sleuth (1972)

Straw Dogs (1971)

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

The Andromeda Strain (1971)

The Attack (2012)

The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008)

The Bedford Incident (1965)

The Big Risk (1960)

The China Syndrome (1979)

The Conformist (1970)

The Conversation (1974)

The Counterfeit Traitor (1962)

The Departed (2006)

The Face of Another (1966)

The Fool (2014)

The Fugitive (1993)

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)

The Great Escape (1963)

The Guilty (2018)

The Honeymoon Killers (1969)

The Incident (1967)

The Insider (1999)

The Last Seduction (1994)

The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976)

The Lives of Others (2006)

The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)

The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

The Matrix (1999)

The Mist (2007)

The Naked Kiss (1964)

The Omen (1976)

The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

The Silent Partner (1978)

The Sixth Sense (1999)

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965)

The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)

The Thing (1982)

The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)

The Town (2010)

The Train (1964)

The Usual Suspects (1995)

The Wicker Man (1973)

To Die For (1995)

Total Recall (1990)

Traffic (2000)

Transsiberian (2008)

Village of the Damned (1960)

Wait Until Dark (1967)

Westworld (1973)

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane (1962)

Winter's Bone (2010)

Witness (1985)

X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963)

Zero Dark Thirty (2012)