Best Mystery movies of 1970s

Actors : James Mason, Orazio Orlando, Jennifer O'Neill, Franco Nero,
Directors : Luigi Zampa,

A female school teacher is implicated in a murder in a Sicilian town only hours after her arrival. The dead man insulted her on the bus on the way into town. As the mystery unfolds, it ...

Actors : Klaus Maria Brandauer, Barry Newman, Karen Jensen, Anna Karina,
Directors : Lee H. Katzin,

A list of agents and collaborators, hidden by the Nazis in an Austrian lake in 1945, is sought after by various interested parties during the Cold War.

Actors : Raymond Burr, Martin Landau, Cybill Shepherd, Jan-Michael Vincent,
Directors : Greydon Clark,

Two young children and an adult in a small town have an encounter with an alien spaceship. 25 years later the children are reunited as adults in the same town which is now beset by strange ...

Actors : Ezzat El Alaili, Seif El Dine, Soad Hosny, Mahmoud El-Meliguy,
Directors : Youssef Chahine,

Actors : John Wood, Tammy Grimes, Farrah Fawcett, Jeff Bridges,
Directors : Lamont Johnson,

A woman's husband is murdered and she and her lover must find the killer or stand accused of doing it themselves.

Actors : Mayumi Ogawa, Yôko Yamamoto, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Ken'ichi Hagiwara,
Directors : Yoshitarô Nomura,

The heir to a family fortune discovers that a curse has been placed on it, put there centuries before by a band of samurai warriors.

Actors : Elisa Montés, Barbara Rütting, Fred Williams, Horst Tappert,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

A London slasher pack the suitcases of his victims before stabbing them to death in this adaptation of Edgar Wallace's 'Secret of the Black Suitcases.'

Actors : Gayle Hunnicutt, Flora Robson, David Hemmings, Wilfrid Hyde-White,
Directors : Richard C. Sarafian,

Reformed drug addict Tim Brett is holidaying in Italy with his aunt. When she is murdered, he tries to investigate, and soon his whole life is out of control.

Actors : Deven Verma, Om Prakash, Archana, Navin Nischol,
Directors : Hrishikesh Mukherjee,

Two unemployed slackers, Bhola and Ajay come across a newspaper advertisement about a missing elderly gentleman, whose estate is worth millions. They come across this male in the Hanging ...

Actors : Yun Ling, Hua Yueh, Tony Liu, Li Ching,
Directors : Yuen Chor,

Following such hits as Killer Clans and Clans Of Intrigue, the winning team of director Chu Yuan and novelist Ku Lung reunite with revered martial art choreographers Tang Chia and Huang ...

Actors : Moushumi Chatterjee, Satyendra Kapoor, Madan Puri, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Narendra Bedi,

After helping a stabbing victim to the hospital, a man begins to receive anonymous threats. The only way to save his wife and child is to unravel the mystery of the killer's identity.

Actors : Perla Cristal, Jean Seberg, Marisol, Barry Stokes,
Directors : Juan Antonio Bardem,

A serial killer uses a scythe to slash his murder victims--or maybe it's *her* murder victims?

Actors : Jaime Fernández, Ignacio López Tarso, Salvador Sánchez, José Alonso,
Directors : Jorge Fons,

A watchman is murdered in a building site. The movie narrates the several versions of implicates. Based in the Vicente Leñero's novel.

Actors : Helena Rojo, David Young, Cristina Ferrare, John Carradine,
Directors : Juan López Moctezuma,

A female bisexual artist turns out to be a vampire.

Actors : Anna Moffo, Gastone Moschin, Peter Baldwin, Ida Galli,
Directors : Michele Lupo,

A family goes to a British estate to hear the reading of a will and while there they are murdered one by one.

Actors : Akiko Nishina, Keiko Kishi, Kôji Kita, Kôji Ishizaka,
Directors : Kon Ichikawa,

Kôsuke Kindaichi, a somewhat peculiar private detective, visits a remote town. He meets a police detective and they start to investigate an old unsolved murder. Then some murders happen. ...

Actors : Elsa Lanchester, Maurice Evans, Ray Milland, John Carradine,
Directors : Georg Fenady,

The murder of a Wax Museum proprietor and some other strange goings-on in the vicinity prompt a police investigator to determine whether the killer is one of the principles who wants to own...

Actors : Franco Abbina, Luciano Catenacci, Gianni Garko, Mimma Biscardi,
Directors : Lorenzo Gicca Palli,

Gunfighter Silver is hired by a lawyer to prove that his client, Chester Conway, is innocent of the saloon hold-up he's condemned to hang for.

Actors : Vinod Mehra, Sunil Dutt, Shatrughan Sinha, Sanjeev Kumar,
Directors : Rajkumar Kohli,

A newly married bride disappears after her marriage.

Actors : Joel Grey, Dorothy Tristan, Elizabeth Wilson, Cliff Robertson,
Directors : Frank Perry,

A small-town police chief investigating a murder is offered help by a self-described psychic. However, when the chief discovers that the "psychic" is in possession of information known only...