Best Mystery movies of 1980s

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 : 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 : 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 : 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.

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 : 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 : 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 : Eri Misawa, Yôji Matsuda, Hideo Murota, 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 : Shannon Tweed, Art Hindle, Carole Laure, Jim Bailey,
Directors : Don Carmody,

Stuck in a sexless marriage, a frustrated well-to-do couple agrees to see a female sex therapist. Unfortunately, she only helps escalate the tensions between them. Meanwhile, the police is baffled by a string of brutal nightly killings.

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 : 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.

Actors : Leanne Lau, Tony Liu, Jung Wang, Norman Chu,
Directors : Chin-Ku Lu,

Hsu Shao-chiang stars as a veritable "Spider-Swordsman" - master of the "Silkworm Style" - in this eye-filling, mind-bending martial arts phantasmagorical which truly warrants the description: "unforgettable."

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

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

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

Young nurse investigates suspicious deaths in a psychiatric ward.

Actors : John Gielgud, Robert Hays, M. Emmet Walsh, Ron Travis,
Directors : Rob Cohen,

An investigative reporter following an espionage story goes to London and gets involved with murder, scam artists and rock concerts.

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 : Michael Ansara, Macdonald Carey, Martin Landau, Michael Durrell,
Directors : Mark Sobel,

A secret organisation gains control over the American nuclear weapons. A journalist ventures out to stop them.

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

A fashion photographer gets embroiled in a series of grisly murders