Best Mystery movies of 1973

Actors : Britt Ekland, Christopher Lee, Edward Woodward, Diane Cilento,
Directors : Robin Hardy,

A police sergeant is sent to a Scottish island village in search of a missing girl whom the townsfolk claim never existed. Stranger still are the rites that take place there.

Actors : Edward G. Robinson, Leigh Taylor-Young, Charlton Heston, Chuck Connors,
Directors : Richard Fleischer,

In the world ravaged by the greenhouse effect and overpopulation, an NYPD detective investigates the murder of a big company CEO.

Actors : Verna Bloom, Clint Eastwood, Marianna Hill, Mitchell Ryan,
Directors : Clint Eastwood,

A gunfighting stranger comes to the small settlement of Lago and is hired to bring the townsfolk together in an attempt to hold off three outlaws who are on their way.

Actors : Hal Holbrook, Clint Eastwood, Mitchell Ryan, David Soul,
Directors : Ted Post,

Dirty Harry is on the trail of vigilante cops who are not above going beyond the law to kill the city's undesirables.

Actors : Richard Benjamin, James Mason, Dyan Cannon, James Coburn,
Directors : Herbert Ross,

A year after Sheila is killed in a hit-and-run, her multi-millionaire husband invites a group of friends to spend a week on his yacht playing a scavenger hunt-style mystery game. The game turns out to be all too real and all too deadly.

Actors : Billy Green Bush, Robert Blake, Mitchell Ryan, Jeannine Riley,
Directors : James William Guercio,

Bored with his highway traffic duties, Arizona motorcycle patrolman John Wintergreen is assigned to Homicide where his polite investigative style irks his macho boss.

Actors : Luc Merenda, Tina Aumont, John Richardson, Suzy Kendall,
Directors : Sergio Martino,

Someone is strangling coeds in Perugia. The only clue is that the killer owns a red and black scarf, and police are stumped. American exchange student Jane and her friends decide to take a ...

Actors : Elke Sommer, Sylva Koscina, Telly Savalas, Alessio Orano,
Directors : Mario Bava,

Surreal goings-on at a Spanish villa in this poetic horror fairytale, which was crassly re-edited into The House of Exorcism (1975) for US release.

Actors : Cemil Sahbaz, Sadri Alisik, Ferdi Merter, Erol Amaç,
Directors : Hulki Saner,

The Enterprise picks up a Turkish hobo.

Actors : Robert Lang, Laurence Harvey, Billie Whitelaw, Elizabeth Taylor,
Directors : Brian G. Hutton,

Ellen Wheeler, a rich woman, is recovering from a nervous breakdown with the help of her husband and a good friend. One day, while staring out the window, she witnesses a murder. But does ...

Actors : Henry Fonda, Helmut Berger, Keith Baxter, Elizabeth Taylor,
Directors : Larry Peerce,

Barbara gets secret plastic surgery in Switzerland in an attempt to save her marriage to Mark, but he doesn't seem interested in meeting her. She checks in to a ski resort to wait for Mark,...

Actors : Diana Dors, Georgia Brown, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee,
Directors : Peter Sasdy,

Already three trustees of the Van Traylen fund have died during the last months, looking like suicides. However after a mysterious accident of a bus with the last three trustees and 30 ...

Actors : Françoise Christophe, Hiram Keller, Venantino Venantini, Jane Birkin,
Directors : Antonio Margheriti,

In a small Scottish village, horribly murdered bodies keep turning up. Suspicion falls upon the residents of a nearby castle that is haunted by a curse involving a killer cat.

Actors : Ewa Aulin, Klaus Kinski, Angela Bo, Sergio Doria,
Directors : Joe D'Amato,

A man discovers an ancient Incan formula for raising the dead, and uses it for a series of revenge murders.

Actors : Simone Signoret, Paul Crauchet, Bernard Le Coq, Alain Delon,
Directors : Jean Chapot,

The body of a young woman is discovered near a farm. The judge Larcher is in charge and thinks that the farmers (Rose and Pierre) have a link with the murder.

Actors : David Bailey, Randolph Roberts, Scott Brady, Tiffany Bolling,
Directors : Richard L. Bare,

A tongue-in-cheek psycho movie in "Duo-vision." The entire feature employs the split-screen technique used in parts of Brian De Palma's "Sisters" that same year. As a handyman at a seacoast...

Actors : Robert Ginnaven, Gary Brockette, Rod Serling, John Leslie,
Directors : Harry Thomason,

Three eerie tales based on actual events are enacted in this film. First, three college students play a prank on a geeky classmate, who is accidentally shot and killed. His vengeful mother ...

Actors : Sanjay Khan, Danny Denzongpa, Navin Nischol, Zeenat Aman,
Directors : B.R. Chopra,

A traveler decides to assist a woman involved in a murder.

Actors : Anuska Borova, George Martin, Nieves Navarro, Robert Hoffmann,
Directors : Maurizio Pradeaux,

A photographer named Kitty (Susan Scott) watched through a tourist telescope the killing of a woman through the window of a nearby house. She is unable to get a clear view of the killer's ...

Actors : Frankie Howerd, Kenneth Griffith, Hugh Burden, Ray Milland,
Directors : Peter Sykes,

In 1907, an actor is invited to perform in an isolated country house, and becomes involved in mysterious and dangerous events.