Best Mystery movies of 1981

Actors : Nancy Allen, John Lithgow, Dennis Franz, John Travolta,
Directors : Brian De Palma,

A movie sound recordist accidentally records the evidence that proves that a car accident was actually murder and consequently finds himself in danger.

Actors : Betsy Palmer, Amy Steel, John Furey, Adrienne King,
Directors : Steve Miner,

Mrs. Voorhees is dead, and Camp Crystal Lake is shut down, but a camp next to the infamous place is stalked by an unknown assailant.

Actors : Lori Hallier, Neil Affleck, Paul Kelman, Keith Knight,
Directors : George Mihalka,

A decades-old folk tale surrounding a deranged murderer killing those who celebrate Valentine's Day turns out to be true to legend when a group defies the killer's order and people start turning up dead.

Actors : Bulle Ogier, Pascale Ogier, Pierre Clémenti, Jean-François Stévenin,
Directors : Jacques Rivette,

A woman recently released from prison and a strange young female street urchin keep running into each other on the streets of Paris and finally become companions in a very strange and very ...

Actors : Melody Anderson, Jack Albertson, Dennis Redfield, James Farentino,
Directors : Gary Sherman,

A suspense horror film set in a small coastal town where, after a series of gory murders commited by mobs of townspeople against visiting tourists, the corpses begin to come back to life.

Actors : Melissa Sue Anderson, Sharon Acker, Glenn Ford, Lawrence Dane,
Directors : J. Lee Thompson,

At the snobby Crawford Academy, Virginia's group of friends start to go missing years after horrible events that happened to her as a child around her birthday.

Actors : John Heard, Jeff Bridges, Ann Dusenberry, Lisa Eichhorn,
Directors : Ivan Passer,

Richard spots a man dumping a body, and decides to expose the man he thinks is the culprit with his friend Alex Cutter.

Actors : Lawrence Tierney, Vicky Dawson, Christopher Goutman, Farley Granger,
Directors : Joseph Zito,

An unknown killer, clad in World War II U.S. Army fatigues, stalks a small New Jersey town bent on reliving a 35 year-old double murder by focusing on a group of college kids holding an annual Spring Dance.

Actors : Christopher George, Patch Mackenzie, E. Danny Murphy, E.J. Peaker,
Directors : Herb Freed,

A masked killer begins murdering students on the school track team after a track runner dies upon completion of a 30 second 200-meter race.

Actors : James Woods, Sigourney Weaver, William Hurt, Christopher Plummer,
Directors : Peter Yates,

Eccentric Vietnam War vet turned janitor claims to have witnessed a murder of a man tied to international political underground in order to get the attention of a TV reporter he has a huge crush on. The cops suspect his loser best friend.

Actors : Stacy Keach, Grant Page, Marion Edward, Jamie Lee Curtis,
Directors : Richard Franklin,

A truck driver plays a cat-and-mouse game with a mysterious serial killer on a desolate Australian highway.

Actors : Bruce Lee, Jang Lee Hwang, Roy Horan, Tae-jeong Kim,

While investigating his friend Chin Ku's (Hwang Jang Lee) death, martial artist Billy Lo (Bruce Lee) is killed. His younger brother, Bobby Lo (Kim Tai Chung), investigates both deaths. His ...

Actors : Dan Shor, Fiona Lewis, Michael Murphy, Louise Fletcher,
Directors : Michael Laughlin,

A scientist is experimenting with teenagers and turning them into murderers.

Actors : Hume Cronyn, Kris Kristofferson, Josef Sommer, Jane Fonda,
Directors : Alan J. Pakula,

An Arab oil organization devises a plan to wreck the world economy in order to cause anarchy and chaos.

Actors : Jeannie Elias, Sonja Smits, Sammy Snyders, Laura Hollingsworth,
Directors : Lew Lehman,

A solitary and strange preteen boy wreaks revenge on his harassers when he makes a disturbing discovery in the depth of a forest.

Actors : Richard Hatch, Peter Ustinov, Lee Grant, Angie Dickinson,
Directors : Clive Donner,

Famous detective Charlie Chan is called out of retirement to help a San Francisco detective solve a mysterious series of murders. With his bumbling grandson as his sidekick, Chan also ...

Actors : Drew Snyder, Leonard Mann, Joseph R. Sicari, Rachel Ward,
Directors : Ken Hughes,

Who's been decapitating the innocent girls at a local night school? The police are baffled.

Actors : Christoph Moosbrugger, Nadja Gerganoff, Olivia Pascal, Jasmin Losensky,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

Girls are killed at a language-school in Spain.

Actors : John Gielgud, Lesley-Anne Down, Maurice Ronet, Frank Langella,
Directors : Franklin J. Schaffner,

Egyptologist Erica Baron finds more than she bargained for during her long-planned trip to The Land of the Pharoahs: murder, theft, betrayal, love, and a mummy's curse.

Actors : Angela Punch McGregor, Robert Powell, Joseph Cotten, Jenny Agutter,
Directors : David Hemmings,

A plane crashes just after takeoff and the only survivor, the pilot, walks out of the wreckage. He doesn't remember the crash, but 300 passengers and crew are dead. As the investigation goes on people are wanting answers.