Mystery
AFI defines "mystery" as a genre that revolves around the solution of a crime.
| # | Film | Year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vertigo | 1958 |
| 2 | Chinatown | 1974 |
| 3 | Rear Window | 1954 |
| 4 | Laura | 1944 |
| 5 | The Third Man | 1949 |
| 6 | The Maltese Falcon | 1941 |
| 7 | North by Northwest | 1959 |
| 8 | Blue Velvet | 1986 |
| 9 | Dial M for Murder | 1954 |
| 10 | The Usual Suspects | 1995 |
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Famous quotes containing the word mystery:
“So we’ll live,
And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh
At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues
Talk of court news; and we’ll talk with them too—
Who loses and who wins; who’s in, who’s out—
And take upon ‘s the mystery of things,
As if we were God’s spies.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Mystery is in the morning, and mystery in the night, and the beauty of mystery is everywhere; but still the plain truth remains, that mouth and purse must be filled.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“The mystery of the evening-star brilliant in silence and distance between the downward-surging plunge of the sun and the vast, hollow seething of inpouring night. The magnificence of the watchful morning-star, that watches between the night and the day, the gleaming clue to the two opposites.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)