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:
“A proper secrecy is the only mystery of able men; mystery is the only secrecy of weak and cunning ones.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.”
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)
“Oh! mystery of man, from what a depth
Proceed thy honours. I am lost, but see
In simple childhood something of the base
On which thy greatness stands; but this I feel,
That from thyself it comes, that thou must give,
Else never canst receive. The days gone by
Return upon me almost from the dawn
Of life: the hiding-places of man’s power
Open; I would approach them, but they close.”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)