Best Murder Mystery movies of 1960s

Actors : Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Lee Grant, Warren Oates,
Directors : Norman Jewison,

An African American police detective is asked to investigate a murder in a racially hostile southern town.

Actors : François Périer, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Irene Papas, Yves Montand,
Directors : Costa-Gavras,

Following the murder of a prominent leftist, an investigator tries to uncover the truth while government officials attempt to cover up their roles.

Actors : Henry Fonda, George Kennedy, Tony Curtis, Mike Kellin,
Directors : Richard Fleischer,

A series of brutal murders in Boston sparks a seemingly endless and increasingly complex manhunt.

Actors : Donald Pleasence, Tom Courtenay, Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif,
Directors : Anatole Litvak,

In 1942, a Polish prostitute is murdered in Warsaw. Suspicion falls on three generals, and Major Grau of German Intelligence seeks justice despite the ongoing atrocities committed during WWII.

Actors : Vincent Price, Judy Huxtable, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee,
Directors : Gordon Hessler,

A serial killer who drains his victims' blood is on the loose in London; the police follow him to a house owned by an eccentric scientist.

Actors : Jeffrey Hunter, Billie Burke, Woody Strode, Constance Towers,
Directors : John Ford,

Respected black cavalry Sergeant Brax Rutledge stands court-martial for raping and killing a white woman and murdering her father, his superior officer.

Actors : Senta Berger, Alec Guinness, Max von Sydow, George Segal,
Directors : Michael Anderson,

Two British agents are murdered by a mysterious Neonazi organization in West Berlin. The British Secret Service sends agent Quiller to investigate. Soon Quiller is confronted with Neonazi ...

Actors : Alan Bates, Bernard Lee, Diane Clare, Norman Bird,
Directors : Bryan Forbes,

When an injured wife murderer takes refuge on a remote Lancashire farm, the owners three children mistakenly believe him to be the Second Coming of Christ.

Actors : Gayle Hunnicutt, Rita Moreno, Carroll O'Connor, James Garner,
Directors : Paul Bogart,

A young woman from Kansas hires LA private detective Philip Marlowe to find her missing brother.

Actors : Ralph Meeker, Frank Sinatra, Jack Klugman, Lee Remick,
Directors : Gordon Douglas,

Police detective Joe Leland investigates the murder of a homosexual man. While investigating, he discovers links to official corruption in New York City in this drama that delves into a world of sex and drugs.

Actors : Anthony Zerbe, Barbara McNair, Sidney Poitier, Martin Landau,
Directors : Gordon Douglas,

In San Francisco, a high-priced call girl is murdered and the case is assigned to Police Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs.

Actors : Burt Lancaster, Edward Andrews, Vivian Nathan, Dina Merrill,
Directors : John Frankenheimer,

A district attorney investigates the racially charged case of three teenagers accused of the murder of a blind Puerto Rican boy. He begins to discover that the facts in the case aren't ...

Actors : Gena Rowlands, Jill St. John, Richard Conte, Frank Sinatra,
Directors : Gordon Douglas,

Tony Rome, a tough Miami PI living on a houseboat, is hired by a local millionaire to find jewelry stolen from his daughter, and in the process has several encounters with local hoods as well as the Miami Beach PD.

Actors : Dolores Dorn, Beatrice Kay, Paul Dubov, Cliff Robertson,
Directors : Samuel Fuller,

Fourteen-year-old Tolly Devlin sees four hoods beat his father to death. Twenty years later, the killers have risen to the top of the crime syndicate and Tolly has a plan for revenge.

Actors : James Mason, Harriet Andersson, Simone Signoret, Maximilian Schell,
Directors : Sidney Lumet,

A British agent sets out to uncover the hidden facts behind a British government employee's suicide.

Actors : Lana Turner, Sandra Dee, Richard Basehart, Anthony Quinn,
Directors : Michael Gordon,

After a married woman and her lover murder her cruel husband, they find themselves targeted by someone who is aware of their crime.

Actors : Anthony Quayle, John Neville, John Fraser, Donald Houston,
Directors : James Hill,

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson join the hunt for the notorious serial killer, Jack The Ripper.

Actors : Elke Sommer, Sylva Koscina, Richard Johnson, Nigel Green,
Directors : Ralph Thomas,

British agent Bulldog Drummond is assigned to stop a master criminal who uses beautiful women to do his killings.

Actors : Claudia Cardinale, Lee J. Cobb, Franco Nero, Tano Cimarosa,
Directors : Damiano Damiani,

Rosa Nicolosi is not the widow of Salvatore Colasberna, the man murdered in the beginning of the movie, but she is in fact the wife of Paolo Nicolosi, the only eyewitness of the murder. ...

Actors : Jean Gaven, André Pousse, Jean Gabin, Dany Carrel,
Directors : Georges Lautner,

Six months before his retirement from the criminal police, inspector Joss finds his colleague Gouvion dead, in a poorly faked suicide attempt. Joss loses his temper, and investigates on his...