Fresh mysteries are apparently in short supply on Netflix. We’d start a hunt for the killer, but it was probably the Netflix algorithm. There are so few choices that we had to add I Know What You Did Last Summer. It’s not a bad film at all, it’s just not a traditional mystery.
Similarly, To Catch a Killer plays better as a thriller than a mystery, but it does have elements of both. In the absence of better choices, these are the two we have to go with. You can find those films and the rest of the best mysteries on Netflix below.
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I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)
52%
5.8/10In 1997, I Know What You Did Last Summer was the successor to Scream. It is more of a horror film than a mystery, but the identity of the killer is hidden for most of the film. Four young friends — Julie James (Jennifer Love Hewitt), Helen Shivers (Sarah Michelle Gellar), Barry Cox (Ryan Phillippe), and Ray Bronson (Freddie Prinze Jr.) accidentally killed a man and covered up their crime. A year later, the estranged friends are brought back together when they receive threatening messages about their shared secret. Someone knows everything that happened, and they’re going to target the kids one by one until no one is left standing.
To Catch a Killer (2023)
43%
6.6/10A sniper is stalking the city of Baltimore in To Catch a Killer, and he’s always one step ahead of the local cops. As the situation escalates, FBI agent Geoffrey Lammark (Ben Mendelsohn) is brought in to oversee the investigation.
Lammark singles out police officer Eleanor Falco (Shailene Woodley) to help him crack the case after noticing that she’s got a good mind for detials. Unfortunately for Falco and Lammark, the killer isn’t finished playing games with them. Until they figure out the man behind the crime, more people are going to die.
Ad Vitam (2025)
6.0/10Someone really wants Franck Lazarev (Guillaume Canet) out of the way in Ad Vitam, the first breakout Netflix original film of 2025. After Franck escapes an attempt on his life, armed gunmen kidnap his wife, Léo (Stéphane Caillard), and frame him for murder as well.
The mystery unfolds as Franck attempts to figure out who is doing this to him and why. Franck and Léo were both former members of the French Elite Intervention Squad. All Franck can think of is that someone from that part of his life doesn’t just want him to die; they want him to suffer.
Under Suspicion (2000)
43%
6.4/10Under Suspicion may not be a masterpiece like many of Gene Hackman’s and Morgan Freeman’s other movies, but they still give great performances in this one. Hackman plays Henry Hearst, a high-profile lawyer who is brought in by Captain Victor Benezet (Freeman) and Detective Felix Owens (Thomas Jane) because they believe he killed a young girl and may have murdered another.
Henry doesn’t take their questions as a threat until it becomes clear that they intend to make him confess. Meanwhile, Henry’s wife, Chantal Hearst (Monica Bellucci), seems all too willing to offer her husband up to the police and implicate him as a killer.
Wicked Little Letters (2023)
58%
7.0/10The stakes of the mystery in Wicked Little Letters may be small, but the freedom of a single mother depends on the outcome. Set over a century ago during the women’s suffragette movement, an unmarried older woman, Edith Swan (Olivia Colman), has been the target of a series of hateful letters. Edith’s overbearing father, Edward Swan (Timothy Spall), accuses her former friend, Rose Gooding (Men‘s Jessie Buckley), of orchestrating the campaign.
With Rose locked up and unable to post bail, PC Gladys Moss (Anjana Vasan) is the only one among the police who believes she may be innocent. But, proving innocence and exposing the real writer will take the help of Rose’s closest friends.
Vanished into the Night (2024)
5.2/10Vanished Into the Night is an Italian mystery thriller that features Riccardo Scamarcio as Pietro and Annabelle Wallis as Elena, a married couple who are working their way through a divorce. The only thing that unites them is the love they share for their children. When the kids are abducted from Pietro’s home, Elena pushes him to do anything to get them back.
When a ransom demand arrives, Pietro risks his life and his freedom by doing a job for a sketchy friend to raise the money. However, Pietro begins to suspect that the abduction was pulled off by someone he knows.
Colors of Evil: Red (2024)
6.3/10In the Polish thriller Colors of Evil: Red, a popular local bartender, Monika Bogucka (Zofia Jastrzebska), has been brutally murdered. And whoever the killer was couldn’t resist mutilating her as well. The news shatters Monika’s mother, Judge Helena Bogucka (Maja Ostaszewski), and she soon has reasons to suspect that the criminal connections of her husband, Roman (Andrzej Zieliński), may have links to their daughter’s murder.
Leopold Bilski (Jakub Gierszał) leads the investigation into Monkia’s death, and he makes the connection between this case and a murder from years earlier. As Leopold and Helena continue to search for answers, their own lives become endangered when they attract the wrong kind of attention from the criminal element.
A Simple Favor (2018)
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6.8/10What is the simple favor mentioned in this film’s title? Emily Nelson (Blake Lively) asks her new best friend, Stephanie Smothers (Anna Kendrick), to babysit her child while Emily’s husband, Sean Townsend (Henry Golding), is out of town. From there, A Simple Favor throws Stephanie into a world of intrigue when Emily doesn’t show up to collect her son, leaving the former with a lot of questions.
When Emily turns up dead, Stephanie and Sean become closer. But the more that Stephanie looks into Emily’s life, the less sense it makes. And Stephanie is forced to wonder if she even knew Emily at all, and if her death was more than just a tragic event.
Reptile (2023)
52%
6.8/10Like many mysteries, Reptile opens with the discovery of a dead body. In this film, the victim is Summer Elswick (Matilda Lutz). And between Summer’s boyfriend, Will Grady (Justin Timberlake), her estranged husband, Sam Gifford (Karl Glusman), and Eli Phillips (Michael Pitt), there’s no shortage of suspects.
Detective Tom Nichols (Benicio del Toro) has had to solve plenty of murders before. But Tom finds this case particularly challenging because the clues lead him to people he knows and works with. The rot goes deep in this police department, and Tom’s life is about to be turned upside down.
The Weekend Away (2022)
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5.7/10The Weekend Away starts with a girls weekend gone wrong, as Beth (Leighton Meester) awakens without clear memories of what happened to her the night before. More alarmingly, Beth’s friend, Kate (Christina Wolfe), is missing without a trace. Beth’s husband, Rob (Luke Norris), is surprisingly unmoved by her panic. So Beth turns to a local cab driver, Zain (Ziad Bakri), to help her piece together the previous night’s events.
But when Kate’s body finally turns up, Beth and Zain are both considered suspects by the police. And that’s not the only unpleasant surprise waiting for Beth as she attempts to discover who killed her friend.
In for a Murder (2021)
5.4/10If you don’t speak Polish, then you should be glad to hear that In For a Murder has an English dub. Anna Smolowik headlines the film as Magda Borowska, a mother and a true crime fan who gave up on her dreams a long time ago. But when a dead young woman is found in town, Magda is taken aback when she realizes that the girl was wearing the same necklace that her friend, Weronika Bielecka (Emma Giegzno), wore before she disappeared years ago.
Determined to know if the girl is somehow linked to Weronika, Magda embarks on her own investigation, much to the annoyance of her ex, Commissioner Jacek Sikora (Pawel Domagala). And while Magda’s family mocks her amateur detective routine, the danger she uncovers is all too real.
No One Gets Out Alive (2021)
43%
5.3/10No One Gets Out Alive blends mystery and horror as it puts the audience in the shoes of Ambar (Cristina Rodlo), an undocumented Mexican immigrant who has few options in the U.S.
After finding a place to stay courtesy of her landlord, Red (Marc Menchaca), Ambar is unnerved by Red’s unhinged brother, Becker (David Figlioli). More alarmingly, Ambar witnesses several ghostly women in the house and becomes convinced that it is haunted. But given her situation, Ambar has no choice but to stay until it becomes too late to run.
Luther: The Fallen Sun (2023)
Serving as a cinematic follow-up to the Luther series, Luther: The Fallen Sun follows the titular detective on an all-new adventure. After a stint behind bars, Luther is forced to plan a prison break when elusive serial killer David Robey (Andy Serkis) starts hunting people down. As the clock starts ticking and the bodies start piling up, Luther must make a series of harrowing decisions to track down and eliminate his foe before his evildoing becomes totally unstoppable.
For those dedicated viewers of the episodic run, The Fallen Sun plays like a silver screen extension of the series which precedes it. Gripping from start to finish, it’s not exactly changing the genre in any way, but The Fallen Sun certainly delivers an exceptional story with great characters.
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022)
The Pale Blue Eye (2022)
Christian Bale and writer-director Scott Cooper unite once again for the latter’s latest feature, The Pale Blue Eye. Bale stars as Augustus Landor, an 1830s New York detective who is tasked with investigating a horrific murder at the United States Military Academy. Hoping to gain intel from a devoutly silent bunch of cadets, Landor takes on an assistant for the homicide case — a disillusioned recruit named Edgar Allan Poe (Harry Melling).
Together, the hardened vet and aspiring poet follow a series of leads that seem to point toward an especially sinister kind of black magic as the culprit. While Bale may be the reason we arrive to the film, the performance that will bewilder most viewers is that of Harry Melling, who delivers a defiant take on the classic American writer.
Enola Holmes 2 (2022)
58%
7.8/10Murder Mystery (2019)
38%
6/10Spenser Confidential (2020)
49%
6.2/10In the Shadow of the Moon (2019)
48%
6.2/10Forgotten (2017)
7.5/10In the Korean thriller, Forgotten, Kang Ha-neul stars as Jin-seok, a young man living with his family in 1997. After moving into a new home, Jin witnesses the abduction of his brother, Yoo-seok (Kim Mu-yeol). Nineteen days later, Yoo is seemingly returned unharmed. And yet Jin becomes convinced that not only is his brother an impersonator, but so are their parents. Jin’s attempt to go for help leads to another shocking twist that completely destroys his world. There’s been a crime committed, but who is responsible and how is Jin connected to it?
Your Son (2018)
6.1/10Fractured (2019)
36%
6.4/10Shimmer Lake (2017)
6%
6.3/10The Legacy of the Bones (2019)
6.3/10I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House (2016)
68%
4.6/10Enola Holmes (2020)
68%
6.6/10Earthquake Bird (2019)
51%
5.9/10Lost Girls (2020)
67%
6.1/10
