Best Mystery & Thriller Movies on Amazon Prime 

On one hand, mysteries belong to one of the most prescribed genres: create a conundrum, solve it, and there!

Yet the sheer number of mysteries out there speaks to how this formula only opens the possibilities for mysteries, allowing writers to toy with its conventions in all sorts of exciting ways. 

Whether the classic whodunits of the 1940s, procedural and detective fiction, or modern legal thrillers, there are infinite possible permutations of this seemingly straightforward genre. 

One thing will always be true of a good mystery though: it will keep you guessing until the very end! These riveting mystery movies on Amazon Prime certainly hit that mark with their suspenseful storytelling and twisty plots. 

Just one of many incredible Alfred Hitchcock movies available on Amazon Prime Video, including Rope, Psycho, and The Man Who Knew Too Much, this mystery is a classic for a reason.

Temporarily confined to a wheelchair with a broken leg, photographer L.B. “Jeff” Jefferies (James Stewart) entertains himself by peeking through his neighbor's windows.

One evening he becomes convinced he's witnessed a murder, but his socialite girlfriend, Lisa Fremont (Grace Kelly) is skeptical.

Determined to unravel the mystery, Jeff and Lisa put themselves in mounting danger.

This bleak neo-noir mystery from 1974 stars Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway.

 Private detective J.J. “Jake” Gittes (Nicholson) is hired by Evelyn Mulwray to get proof of her husband's infidelity.

After Jake's pictures of the husband's meeting end up in the paper, he finds out that the woman who hired him was a fake, and the real wife (Dunaway) hires him to unravel a twisted web of corruption and murder.

Nick Curran (Michael Douglas) is a homicide detective with a violent and messy record.

When he's called in to investigate a murder, he believes the main suspect to be crime novelist Catherine Tramell (Sharon Stone), as her latest novel parallels the real-life crime.

Despite feeling he's being toyed with, Nick strikes up a torrid affair with Catherine.

But things only get more complicated from there…

In this beloved film adaption of an even more beloved board game, six guests arrive at a remote mansion only to find their mysterious host has been murdered.

Initially united in their fear of the killer, their solidarity begins to deteriorate as the deaths pile up as the guests turn their suspicions onto each other. 

Who is the murderer? And can the other guests stop them before it’s too late? Everyone is a suspect in this charmingly funny and suspenseful whodunit.

Fans of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express will love this suspenseful whodunnit that unfolds on a train bound for England from the snowy Balkans.

When an avalanche delays the train and forces its passengers to spend the night at a provincial hotel, young Iris Henderson befriends the elderly Miss Froy. 

Once on the train again, Iris faints and knocks herself unconscious, waking to find that not only is Miss Froy nowhere to be seen, but that every passenger denies her having existed in the first place. 

With the help of a handsome passenger and the only other sane person on the train, Iris resolves to find out what happened to Miss Froy, no matter how much the other passengers try to stop her. 

In this staple of the neo-noir and detective fiction genres, five petty criminals placed together in a police lineup devise a plan for a jewel heist.

Their plan goes terribly awry when they accidentally steal from mysterious Turkish crime lord Keyser Söze, whose presence looms large over the plot even as his identity is concealed. 

Söze agrees to spare the conspirators’ lives if they agree to an even more dangerous and high-stakes job on his behalf.

The film opens on Roger “Verbal” Kint, one of just two men to survive the fated operation that left 27 dead, in an LAPD interrogation room.

As Kint tells the tale of the disaster that unfolded the night before, one question nags at his interrogators that not even he can answer: Who is Keyser Söze? 

The answer to that question has shocked and delighted audiences for decades, and is the cherry on top of an already phenomenal crime thriller. 

In this legal thriller and mystery based on John Grisham’s first widely successful book, a young accountant named Mitch (Tom Cruise) takes a job at a Memphis firm that makes him and his family rich beyond their wildest dreams.

Everything is perfect, until multiple coworkers die under mysterious circumstances, and their deaths are ruled accidents with little investigation. And an FBI agent approaches Mitch with evidence of corruption with the firm. And no one seems willing to answer Mitch’s questions about it. 

Suddenly, Mitch is compelled to uncover dark secrets about his firm that may threaten his job—and his life. How much is he willing to risk in the name of justice? And how much is he willing to ignore in the name of peace?

There are so many sub-genres of thrillers out there that some thrillers can sometimes seem to belong to completely different genres altogether—surely borderline horror movie The Menu (2022) and action-packed Sicario (2015) can't fall under the same generic umbrella, right?

Although types of thrillers can range from psychological and supernatural to crime and legal to natural disaster movies, what bonds them is their ability to get our adrenaline pumping and our hearts racing.

These suspense and thriller movies on Amazon Prime are sure to make your heart race.

This 2022 dark comedic thriller by Mark Mylod was a huge box office success, raking in $79.6 million worldwide and receiving overwhelmingly positive reviews from critics. With its killer plot and talented cast, it’s not hard to understand why.

A young couple (Anya Taylor-Joy and Nicholas Hoult) travel to an exclusive island for an extravagant meal prepared by an internationally renowned chef (Ralph Fiennes).

The chef’s team spares no pains in perfecting every aspect of the lavish experience, but as the night progresses, the couple and their fellow guests begin to realize that the chef may have prepared far more than their dinner for them tonight—and it just might be their doom. 

From the twisted mind of M. Night Shyamalan comes the story of a father-daughter outing gone horribly wrong. 

As a reward for her good grades, Cooper Abbott treats his teenage daughter, Riley, to a concert by her favorite pop star.

Everything is going smoothly, save for the expected chorus of screaming teenagers, until Cooper becomes aware that the venue is slowly locking its doors. And word of a notorious serial killer on the loose starts to spread…

Cooper’s mission? Protect his daughter. And don’t let the police catch him. 

This incredible 2005 thriller was directed by the legendary Wes Craven.

After her grandmother's funeral, Lisa Reisert (Rachel McAdams) hops on a red eye flight back to Miami. Unfortunately, she has more to worry about than turbulence when she meets the seemingly charming Jackson Rippner (Cillian Murphy).

Secretly held hostage on the plane, Lisa is threatened with the murder of her father if she doesn't assist Rippner in a political assassination.

Bank robber Jack Foley (George Clooney) hatches a plan to break out of prison, but he doesn't account for running into US Marshal Karen Sisco (Jennifer Lopez).

When Foley kidnaps Sisco during his escape, the pair share a charged moment of attraction. But that spark isn't going to stop Foley from going after a cache of diamonds, and it isn't going to stop Sisco from tracking him down.

This highly underrated, darkly comedic social thriller from 2022 is one of my favorites.

Three BIPOC college students—Kunle (Donald Elise Watkins), Sean (RJ Cyler), and Carlos (Sebastian Chacon)—are ready for a night of unmatched partying. But their plans are waylaid when they find an unconscious white girl in their living room.

Concerned with how it would appear if they called the authorities, they set out to discretely drop her off at the hospital. Trouble follows them when the girl's sister, Maddy (Sabrina Carpenter), believes she's been kidnapped by the men.

This psychological thriller by Emerald Fennell took the world—or at least social media—by storm. Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan) is an Oxford University student whose unfamiliarity with the ways of the upper class makes him an outcast.

When affluent student Felix Catton (Jacob Elordi) befriends Oliver and invites him to his family's country house for the summer, things take a strange and intense turn.

After an impressive raid on a cartel safe house, FBI agent Kate Macer (Emily Blunt) is recruited to a government task force focusing on the war on drugs at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Their mission is to apprehend Sonora Cartel lieutenant Manuel Díaz (Bernardo Saracino), who has been hiding out on American soil. 

Unfortunately, the work on this task force is far more violent and disturbing than Macer bargained for.

This gripping film from 2018 is actually based on true events. In Colorado Springs, Colorado, Ron Stallworth (John David Washington) is hired as the force's first Black police officer.

While he's first confined to the records room, he soon makes a splash in the intelligence division when he infiltrates the local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan, with help from Jewish officer Flip Zimmerman (Adam Driver).

This 2002 thriller from David Fincher has a concept that remains unique and exciting today. Meg Altman (Jodie Foster) is a recently divorced woman who moves into the Manhattan home which formerly belonged to a reclusive millionaire.

When three criminals (Forest Whitaker, Jared Leto, and Dwight Yoakam) break into the home to search for stashed money, Meg and her 11-year-old diabetic daughter Sarah (Kristen Stewart) must hide in the home's panic room.