Best Mystery Plot in Film — Rated 4/4 on Quartile

Quartile rates every film 1–4 across Plot, Acting, Cinematography, Novelty and Ending. These mystery films earned a 4 — Well Above Average — for Plot, ranked by their overall Q score.

1. Arrival (2016) — Q 9.5
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) — Q 9
3. The Batman (2022) — Q 9
4. The Prestige (2006) — Q 8.5
5. Memento (2000) — Q 8.5
6. Witness for the Prosecution (1957) — Q 8.5
7. Shutter Island (2010) — Q 8.5
8. Oldboy (2003) — Q 8.5
9. Psycho (1960) — Q 8.5
10. Murder on the Orient Express (2017) — Q 8.5
11. Rear Window (1954) — Q 8.5
12. Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2 (2013) — Q 8.5
13. Incendies (2010) — Q 8.5
14. The Da Vinci Code (2006) — Q 8.5
15. Se7en (1995) — Q 8.5
16. Where the Crawdads Sing (2022) — Q 8
17. Nope (2022) — Q 8
18. Bad Times at the El Royale (2018) — Q 8
19. Gone Girl (2014) — Q 8
20. Mystic River (2003) — Q 8
21. Get Out (2017) — Q 8
22. Donnie Darko (2001) — Q 8
23. The Sixth Sense (1999) — Q 8
24. Anon (2018) — Q 8
25. Twelve Monkeys (1995) — Q 8
26. Hereditary (2018) — Q 8
27. The Others (2001) — Q 8
28. Mulholland Drive (2001) — Q 8
29. Vertigo (1958) — Q 8
30. The Skin I Live In (2011) — Q 8

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