Best Mystery movies of 1980s

Actors : Rod Taylor, Sam Cook, Christopher Lee, Valerie Perrine,
Directors : Arne Mattsson,

In a Canadian village are women being killed by a psychopath. Chief Rich and Inspector McLane have no clue until McLane shoots a suspicious man. Now the killing seems to have ended, but the...

Actors : Nancy Allen, Richard Blackburn, Don Peoples, Catherine Schultz,
Directors : Paul Bartel,

Tabloid reporter Lois Thornedyke and her photographer Barry Denver stumble upon evidence of a sex scandal, blackmail and political conspiracy that may involve her love interest Franklyn - the saintly Mayor of New York City.

Actors : Rajesh Khanna, Hema Malini, Raaj Kumar, Vinod Khanna,
Directors : Chetan Anand,

The setting is in scenic Simla, summer capital of the British Raj in the 1970's. Chandramukhi from Bombay is on holiday with her parents and so is Naresh, a US educated medical professional...

Actors : Bonnie Bedelia, Peter Riegert, David Spielberg, Barry Primus,
Directors : Adolfo Aristarain,

A woman suffering from amnesia discovers that she is the sole surviving witness to a brutal murder. Although the police can find no clues about any murder, the killers begin to hunt her.

Actors : Miyuki Nakano, Eri Fukatsu, Eri Miyajima, Tomoko Ôtakara,
Directors : Shûsuke Kaneko,

Summer vacation has emptied a Japanese boys' school of all but three boys: the junior Norio & the seniors Kazuhiko & Naoto. They have no families to return to for the summer, so they spend ...

Actors : Jean-Louis Trintignant, Charlotte Rampling, Michel Piccoli, Evelyne Bouix,
Directors : Claude Lelouch,

The movie starts with an interview with director Claude Lelouch. He pleads viewers not to disclose the plot of the movie after leaving the projection room. Even the movie's trailer shows ...

Actors : Boris Plotnikov, Igor Klass, Aleksandr Kharitonov, Elena Dimitrova,
Directors : Valeri Rubinchik,

A mystical drama based on a story by V. Korotkevich. The film is set in out-of-the-way Belarusian woodlands at the end of the 19th century. A young ethnographer, Andrej Bielarecki, comes here to research local folk legends.

Actors : Sergi Mateu, Assumpta Serna, Raul Solnado, Patrick Bauchau,
Directors : José Fonseca e Costa,

In Portugal, in the 60s, the corpse of a man appears on Dog's Beach. The corpse is identified as the major Dantas, a man wanted by authorities after his escape from a military prison where he was awaiting trial for insurrection.

Actors : Igor Starygin, Vasiliy Livanov, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Yuriy Solomin,

After a strange incident, a group of russian space commandos starts developing supernatural powers. But how did they acquire such abilities and what is their intentions?

Actors : Susan Blakely, Edward Albert, Wings Hauser, Lynn-Holly Johnson,
Directors : Greydon Clark,

A woman is haunted by her dead daughter.

Actors : Rick Dean, Marie-Alise Recasner, Ron Gardner, Terence Goodman,
Directors : William T. Naud,

While filming on a remote island, a low-budget film cast and crew fall prey to a mysterious killer hellbent on making a real-life snuff horror film.

Actors : Ernesto Laguardia, Erika Buenfil, Fernando Almada, Edna Bolkan,
Directors : Rubén Galindo Jr.,

Teenagers accidentally resurrect a satanic killer who targets the local police captain's daughter to birth the antichrist.

Actors : Ita Ever, Vladimir Sedov, Vsevolod Sanaev, Lyubov Polishchuk,
Directors : Vadim Derbenyov,

Mr. Fortescue, owner of a big company, unexpectedly dies. The autopsy shows that he has been poisoned. Nobody actually loved him, and even his family members had their reasons to kill him. ...

Actors : José Bódalo, Miguel Rellán, Alfredo Landa, María Casanova,
Directors : José Luis Garci,

Private detective Germán Areta is investigating the life of a man who has apparently abandoned another man. When they both turn up dead, it seems one killed the other before committing ...

Actors : Tom Jansen, Leen Jongewaard, Renée Fokker, Marie Kooyman,
Directors : Theo van Gogh,

A lawyer must defend a nightclub owner accused of committing a crime-of-passion.

Actors : Sau Lan Chow, Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Elaine Jin, Yun-Fat Chow,
Directors : Stanley Kwan,

Actors : John Phillip Law, William Smith, Britt Ekland, Lewis Van Bergen,
Directors : Gary Graver,

Ex-soldiers on a yachting trip run into the ghosts of victims of a massacre.

Actors : Soledad Silveyra, Federico Luppi, Julio De Grazia, Ulises Dumont,
Directors : Adolfo Aristarain,

The story of a hitman, a man who kills other people for money, and the dangers that come with the job.

Actors : Luis Camarena, Joaquín Cordero, Pedro Fernández, Tatiana,
Directors : Pedro Galindo III,

The diabolical doll and Pedro return in this sequel. Julio is invited to a birthday party for a little girl on Halloween in a closed movie studio. At the party, he notices she has a doll that resembles the one that his little sister had.

Actors : Christine Cattell, Barbara Law, Jayne Catling, Kip Gilman,
Directors : William Fruet,

A mans voyeurism lands him in the middle of a murder case.