The Top 100 Detective Films of All Time

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The Top 100 Detective Films of All Time
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Ranking		 Movie Title Release
Year		 Director MPAA
Rating		 Your
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65 Chinatown 1974 Roman Polanski R -
123 The Maltese Falcon 1941 John Huston NR -
125 The Big Sleep 1946 Howard Hawks NR -
144 The Thin Man 1934 W.S. Van Dyke NR -
164 Laura 1944 Otto Preminger NR -
198 The Long Goodbye 1973 Robert Altman R -
378 Who Framed Roger Rabbit 1988 Robert Zemeckis PG -
459 Kiss Me Deadly 1955 Robert Aldrich NR -
484 Knives Out 2019 Rian Johnson PG13 -
564 Brick 2005 Rian Johnson R -
578 The Killers 1946 Robert Siodmak NR -
607 Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang 2005 Shane Black R -
761 The Nice Guys 2016 Shane Black R -
823 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 2011 David Fincher R -
835 Manhunter 1986 Michael Mann R -
858 Murder, My Sweet 1944 Edward Dmytryk NR -
921 The Stranger 1946 Orson Welles NR -
980 Gone Baby Gone 2007 Ben Affleck R -
1032 The Bird with the Crystal Plumage 1970 Dario Argento NR -
1099 Mississippi Burning 1988 Alan Parker R -
1125 Night Moves 1975 Arthur Penn R -
1159 After the Thin Man 1936 W.S. Van Dyke NR -
1167 Murder on the Orient Express 1974 Sidney Lumet PG -
1184 Alphaville 1965 Jean-Luc Godard NR -
1196 Frenzy 1972 Alfred Hitchcock R -
1222 The Maltese Falcon 1931 Roy Del Ruth NR -
1226 Sherlock Holmes 2009 Guy Ritchie PG13 -
1235 Klute 1971 Alan J. Pakula R -
1286 The Name of the Rose 1986 Jean-Jacques Annaud R -
1457 Sleepy Hollow 1999 Tim Burton R -
1476 Angel Heart 1987 Alan Parker R -
1477 Murder by Death 1976 Robert Moore PG -
1494 Winter's Bone 2010 Debra Granik R -
1498 Ace Ventura: Pet Detective 1994 Tom Shadyac PG13 -
1570 Joint Security Area 2000 Chan-wook Park NR -
1646 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 2009 Niels Arden Oplev NR -
1969 Inherent Vice 2014 Paul Thomas Anderson R -
1976 Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery 2022 Rian Johnson PG13 -
2060 The Hound of the Baskervilles 1939 Sidney Lanfield NR -
2124 Another Thin Man 1939 W.S. Van Dyke NR -
2218 Death on the Nile 1978 John Guillermin PG -
2439 Sherlock: A Study in Pink 2010 Paul McGuigan NR -
2440 The Great Mouse Detective 1986 Ron Clements NR -
2482 Young Sherlock Holmes 1985 Barry Levinson PG13 -
2631 Sea of Love 1989 Harold Becker R -
2676 The Hound of the Baskervilles 1959 Terence Fisher NR -
2681 Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls 1995 Steve Oedekerk PG13 -
2778 Shaft 1971 Gordon Parks R -
2797 The Glass Key 1942 Stuart Heisler NR -
2814 Backdraft 1991 Ron Howard R -
2829 Devil in a Blue Dress 1995 Carl Franklin R -
2943 The Return of the Pink Panther 1975 Blake Edwards G -
3035 The Night Stalker 1972 John Llewellyn Moxey NR -
3044 Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows 2011 Guy Ritchie PG13 -
3076 Fallen 1998 Gregory Hoblit R -
3100 Harper 1966 Jack Smight NR -
3137 Constantine 2005 Francis Lawrence R -
3179 Sherlock: The Reichenbach Fall 2012 Toby Haynes NR -
3199 Tango & Cash 1989 Andrey Konchalovskiy R -
3203 Family Plot 1976 Alfred Hitchcock PG -
3239 Sherlock: The Great Game 2010 Paul McGuigan NR -
3246 The Thin Man Goes Home 1945 Richard Thorpe NR -
3364 Jack Reacher 2012 Christopher McQuarrie PG13 -
3421 Evil Under the Sun 1982 Guy Hamilton PG -
3517 Without a Clue 1988 Thom Eberhardt PG -
3538 The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes 1970 Billy Wilder PG13 -
3593 Sherlock: A Scandal in Belgravia 2012 Paul McGuigan NR -
3597 The Girl Who Played with Fire 2009 Daniel Alfredson R -
3647 The X-Files 1998 Rob Bowman PG13 -
3852 Sherlock: The Blind Banker 2010 Euros Lyn NR -
3863 Farewell, My Lovely 1975 Dick Richards R -
3891 Shadow of the Thin Man 1941 W.S. Van Dyke NR -
3928 Courage Under Fire 1996 Edward Zwick R -
4140 Under the Silver Lake 2018 David Robert Mitchell R -
4214 The Hard Way 1991 John Badham R -
4252 Q: The Winged Serpent 1982 Larry Cohen R -
4340 What Have You Done to Solange? 1972 Massimo Dallamano R -
4493 Lady in the Lake 1947 Robert Montgomery NR -
4660 Sherlock: The Hounds of Baskerville 2012 Paul McGuigan NR -
4668 The Ninth Gate 1999 Roman Polanski R -
4755 Veronica Mars 2014 Rob Thomas PG13 -
4780 Mystery Team 2009 Dan Eckman R -
4802 Sherlock: His Last Vow 2014 Nick Hurran NR -
4824 Gorky Park 1983 Michael Apted R -
4869 Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man 1951 Charles Lamont NR -
4925 Mr. Holmes 2015 Bill Condon NR -
4971 Thunderheart 1992 Michael Apted R -
4973 Sherlock: The Sign of Three 2014 Colm McCarthy NR -
4982 Murder, She Said 1961 George Pollock NR -
5118 Rising Sun 1993 Philip Kaufman R -
5124 The Seven-Per-Cent Solution 1976 Herbert Ross PG -
5167 The Late Show 1977 Robert Benton PG -
5170 T-Men 1947 Anthony Mann NR -
5178 Murder by Decree 1979 Bob Clark PG -
5247 Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974 2009 Julian Jarrold NR -
5264 Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff 1949 Charles Barton NR -
5274 Blown Away 1994 Stephen Hopkins R -
5389 True Crime 1999 Clint Eastwood R -
5406 House of Bamboo 1955 Samuel Fuller NR -
5448 Hollywoodland 2006 Allen Coulter R -

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