Best Mystery movies of 1980s

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 : 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 : Burt Lancaster, Daniel Olbrychski, Andrea Occhipinti, 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 : Antonio Banderas, Victoria Abril, Carmen Maura, Ángel de Andrés López,
Directors : Rafael Moleón,

Antonio dotes on his mute brother and promises him a better life, symbolized by Baton Rouge. He's a gigolo who moves in with Isabel, wealthy and separated from her husband. She has ...

Actors : Mia Sara, Ned Beatty, Michael Madsen, Donna Mitchell,
Directors : Terrell Tannen,

A married man suffering from midlife crisis obsesses over a girl from his romantic fantasy. He meets her exact duplicate on vacation and helps her get rid of her abusive husband. They run off together but a caller starts blackmailing him.

Actors : Morio Kazama, Kumiko Akiyoshi, Tsurutarô Kataoka, Atsuko Kawata,
Directors : Nobuhiko Ôbayashi,

Harada is a successful scenario writer, and his best buddy has just announced an intention to propose to Harada's ex-wife. Recovering from the shock, Harada indulges in melancholy, mainly ...

Actors : Sam Cook, Rod Taylor, 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 : 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 : Jayaram, Madhu, Sukumari, Shobana,
Directors : P. Padmarajan,

Viswanathan, new in town, soon learns that he is being chased by enemies of his look-alike, who is a con man. Vishwanathan tries to find out Uthaman before its too late, but things don't go as planned.

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 : Antonio Banderas, Javier Gurruchaga, Victoria Abril, Jorge Sanz,
Directors : Vicente Aranda,

In the post Spanish civil war years, Catalan kids would sit in circles among the ruins and tell stories, known as "aventis" (the film's original title in Catalan, its original language). ...

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 : 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 : Rishi Kapoor, Satish Shah, Naseeruddin Shah, Kimi Katkar,
Directors : Keshu Ramsay,

Ravi gets a call from Father Anthony saying that his missing wife is with him in the Church.But when he meets her claims that she is not his wife. Inspector Balbir finds all the proofs are against Ravi but why is Ravi not ready to face it?

Actors : Hédi Temessy, Károly Eperjes, Brigitte Karner, Dóra Szinetár,
Directors : Robert Sigl,

Children have been disappearing under mysterious circumstances in a 19th century German village. A young girl soon becomes haunted by disturbing visions of the missing kids.

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 : 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 : 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 : Mammootty, Parvathi, Suparna Anand, Sukumaran,
Directors : V.K. Pavithran,

One fine morning, not any different from every other day, a promising poet shoots herself. Leaving no trace of motive, her husband's best friend and journalist, Balu embarks on a journey to find the truth.

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

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