The quest for the true claimant drove people mad. Here are secrets and codes, an elaborate cipher-breaking machine, an obsession with graves and crazy adventures to find lost manuscripts.
The list was rounded out by "The Hangover" (No. 4), "Twilight" (No. 5), "District 9" (No. 6), "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" (No. 7), "State of Play" (No. 8), and "Knowing" (No. 10).
The arrest of a former Goldman Sachs employee in July for allegedly stealing the firm's proprietary computer codes thrust the arcane world of high-frequency trading (HFT) into the spotlight.