Best Mystery movies of 1980s

Actors : Christine Amor, Andrew Booth, Linda Blair, Tony Bonner,
Directors : Alec Mills,

Young nurse investigates suspicious deaths in a psychiatric ward.

Actors : Sandra Montaigu, Lucas Belvaux, Alice de Poncheville, Fabienne Babe,
Directors : Jacques Rivette,

Mistreated foundling Heathcliff and his stepsister Catherine fall in love, but when she marries a wealthy man, he becomes obsessed with getting revenge, even well into the next generation.

Actors : Wendy Sherman, Eddie Deezen, Mona Lyden, Rick Overton,
Directors : Richard Fleischer,

A disparate group of travelers is eating in an isolated restaurant when a man drops dead of a heart attack. Before he dies, they discover that he is wanted for stealing several million ...

Actors : Mathieu Carrière, Marina Pierro, Josy Bernard, Isabelle Tinard,
Directors : Walerian Borowczyk,

Hugo, a vain clothing buyer, meets Myriam on a train and pursues a relationship with her. He is delighted to learn she is a prostitute and has no idea she has more in mind than Hugo bargained for.

Actors : Meg Foster, Dorothée Berryman, James Brolin, June Chadwick,
Directors : Jim Kaufman,

An architect goes to bed with a seductive stranger only to awaken beside the corpse of his boss.

Actors : Kamal Haasan, Y.G. Parthasarathy, Radha, Madhavi,
Directors : Bharathiraja,

A fashion photographer gets embroiled in a series of grisly murders

Actors : Keith Carradine, Angelo Infanti, Phyllis Logan, Harvey Keitel,
Directors : Damiano Damiani,

A Roman agent is sent to Palestine to investigate rumors of the resurrection of an executed criminal.

Actors : Eri Misawa, Hideo Murota, Yôji Matsuda, Shijaku Katsura,
Directors : Toshio Matsumoto,

A young man kills his bride on the day of his marriage and goes insane. He wakes up in an asylum with no memory, left in the hands of two mysterious doctors who relate his condition with his biological identity.

Actors : Andrea Occhipinti, Burt Lancaster, Daniel Olbrychski, Ben Cross,
Directors : Michael Anderson,

Based on a play by Pope John Paul II about couples who have reached either the hight or a crisis in their relationships. Their stories are connected by the local jeweler's shop.

Actors : Bombolo, Olimpia Di Nardo, Tomas Milian, Enzo Cannavale,
Directors : Bruno Corbucci,

The officer Nico Giraldi investigates a homicide which has taken place in a Chinese restaurant in Rome. His wife and his son are kidnappeded by the murderer in the course of the inquiry. In...

Actors : Terry O'Quinn, Kristy McNichol, Blair Parker, Elisabeth Brooks,
Directors : Phillip Badger,

A recently widowed writer moves into a Victorian house that is supposedly haunted. Although he is attracted to his pretty next-door neighbor, he finds himself being seduced by the spirit of...

Actors : Jono Smith, Daniel McLaren, Tracy Mann, John Carradine,
Directors : Sam Pillsbury,

The same night as a girl is slain in the woods, the teenagers Sam and Les are robbed of all of their hard earned hens. In the quest for their hens they cross the murderer's path.

Actors : Sheri Able, Wayne Crawford, Ted Le Plat, June Chadwick,

A down-on-his-luck sea captain goes treasure hunting for a wrecked Spanish galleon that is rumored to be cursed by God and protected by supernatural forces.

Actors : Béatrice Romand, Milena Vukotic, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Erland Josephson,
Directors : Carlo Lizzani,

Franca and her husband Antonio decide to sell a yellow rug which was a gift of Franca's stepfather. One day, while Antonio is out, a strange man rings saying he wishes to buy the rug. But ...

Actors : Sarika, Shatrughan Sinha, Sanjeev Kumar, Ranjeeta Kaur,
Directors : R.K. Nayyar,

A blind man plans revenge on his adulterous wife.... by murder. A taut thriller that keeps you on the edge of your seat.

Actors : Mukesh, Mammootty, Jagathi Sreekumar, Devan,
Directors : K. Madhu,

Sethurama Iyer and the CBI investigate the mysterious murder of a famous actress.

Actors : Tsui Ling Yu, Ni Tien, Siu-Kwan Lau, Jung Wang,
Directors : Chih-Hung Kuei,

A necrophiliac killer is murdering the prostitutes at Madame Lan's brothel.

Actors : Shane Briant, Colin Friels, Bruno Lawrence, John Waters,
Directors : Mark Joffe,

A schoolteacher (John Waters) becomes obsessed with the idea that his wife (Joy Bell) did not die in a car accident, as everyone else thinks.

Actors : Barbara May, Romina Nowack, Dominic Raacke, Ortrud Beginnen,
Directors : Ralf Huettner,

When a young family, father, mother and their daughter, is on a trip in the mountains, they loose orientation and have to stay there for the night. The daughter finds a dead young girl who ...

Actors : Ian McShane, Anne Archer, Leon Isaac Kennedy, Mike Connors,
Directors : Tony Lo Bianco,

A killer is brutually attacking several tenants that live in a high rise apartment building in New York City.