Best Mystery movies of 1980s

Actors : Shashi Kapoor, Sharmila Tagore, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Om Puri,
Directors : Romesh Sharma,

When a politician is killed, a journalist discovers that a member of parliament had the man assassinated. As his editor digs deeper, the complicity of higher-placed politicians comes to the...

Actors : Ilavarasi, Chandrasekhar, Jaishankar, C. Arunpandian,
Directors : R. Aravindraj,

A resort 'Picnic Village' used to abduct young girls and serve them to satisfy powerful politicians .When a newspaper media gets hook of it , they were attacked.By then honest police ...

Actors : Tania Boscoli, Neusinha Brizola, Dedina Bernardelli, Andrea Beltrão,
Directors : Ivan Cardoso,

Botanist is incapable of handling a carnivore plant that turns its victims into vampires. Clumsy detective and his secretary are hired to solve the mysterious deaths happening in a nightclub show.

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

Actors : Vanity, Morgan Fairchild, Billy Dee Williams, John Beck,

A detective is framed for a murder he didn't commit.

Actors : Wendy Sherman, Mona Lyden, Eddie Deezen, 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 : Debbie Harry, Hanna Schygulla, Annie Golden, Alec Baldwin,
Directors : Amos Kollek,

A beautiful novelist gets involved with the violent underworld crime elements in New York City and becomes a target. Alec Baldwin plays the cop who pursues her killers.

Actors : Richard E. Grant, Cassie Stuart, Bill Paterson, Charles Dance,
Directors : Stephen Poliakoff,

Sharon Newton (Cassie Stuart) leads the uncooperative James Richards (Charles Dance) into a world of misplaced government secrets, capitalistic artists and bungling secret agents. Will the ...

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 : Bonnie Bedelia, Peter Riegert, Barry Primus, David Spielberg,
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 : Tracey Tainsh, David Reyne, John Meillon, Norman Kaye,
Directors : Ron Way,

An Australian woman's car breaks down in the country, and when she goes to get help, she's whisked back in time to 1944 and witnesses a murder. Returning to her car, time reverts to normal,...

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

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

Actors : Kamal Haasan, Kushboo, Prabhu, Amala Akkineni,
Directors : Prathap Pothen,

An amnesiac trying to put his life back together is increasingly suspicious of his own past.

Actors : Monique van de Ven, John Kraaykamp, Roger Van Hool, Titus Tiel Groenestege,
Directors : Mady Saks,

When Iris moves to the country to start a veterinary practice, she finds a lot of skeptical villagers as well as disapproval from her city bound boyfriend.

Actors : Antônio Fagundes, José Lewgoy, Maitê Proença, Jorge Dória,
Directors : Guilherme de Almeida Prado,

Real estate broker and former boxer enters an old cinema in the decadent downtown São Paulo and meets an intriguing and mysterious woman, very much alike the leading lady of the film. He ...

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 : Renji Ishibashi, Midori Ebina, Masato Hoshi, Eimei Esumi,
Directors : Toshio Masuda,

Based on a science-fiction novel by Sakyo Komatsu. Tokyo is suddendly covered by a dome shaped electromagantic cloud for an unknown reason and is totally blocked and isolated from other ...

Actors : Julio Alemán, Nuria Bages, Pedro Fernández, Gabriela Hassel,
Directors : René Cardona III,

An evil witch gets burned at the stake, but not before vowing to return and get her revenge. A hundred years later a family arrived to spend their vacation at a summer home located in the ...

Actors : Knut Husebø, Chad Lowe, Mia Sara, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Ralph L. Thomas,

Fire-and-brimstone preacher sees Satan everywhere, trains gullible young boy to "detect" evil, and the two of them commit several murders in the name of Jesus. Based on a true story.