Best Mystery movies of 1970s

Actors : Maribel Hidalgo, Alberto Dalbés, Evelyne Scott, William Berger,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

Horror mystery about the residents of a Louisiana castle who are being murdered by a masked killer. When the family arrives for the reading of Marion's will, his wife is strapped to the ...

Actors : Krista Nell, Patrizia Webley, Femi Benussi, Giacomo Rossi Stuart,
Directors : Alfredo Rizzo,

Gothic lesbians prowl the corridors of a miserable little castle in Italy and fall prey to a deranged count with resplendent canine gnashers, a ghostly white complexion and the personality of Atilla the Hun.

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

A female bisexual artist turns out to be a vampire.

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 : Ángel Aranda, María Kosty, Erika Blanc, Paul Naschy,
Directors : León Klimovsky,

A killer is cleaning up the streets of Milan by murdering those considered as deviant. An ornamental dragonfly, soaked in the blood of the victim, is left on each body.

Actors : Jon Finch, Tony Beckley, Judy Geeson, Christopher Lee,
Directors : Sidney Hayers,

Anonymous notes accuse a psychiatrist of having murdered his wife. A bedraggled policeman attempts to uncover the truth behind her disappearance.

Actors : Klaus Kinski, Hiram Keller, Tina Aumont, Fons Rademakers,
Directors : Sandy Whitelaw,

A doctor trying to develop a serum to lengthen life tries his formula out on the unsuspecting residents of an old-age home.

Actors : Claudia Cardinale, Monica Vitti, Renato Pozzetto, Vittorio Gassman,
Directors : Marcello Fondato,

Tina is on trial for the murder of her lover, Gino. The violent nature of their relationship, revealed in the trial, seems to make obvious that she accidentally killed him during a fight. ...

Actors : Johnnie Hill, Emerson Boozer, Owen Watson, René Van Clief,
Directors : Michael Fink,

The female head of a detective agency is hired by a crime lord to figure out who's taking his action.

Actors : Susan Keller, John Candy, Stephen Young, Lawrence Dane,
Directors : Martyn Burke,

Four men kidnap an old girlfriend on Halloween night as a joke to ruin a real estate deal, only to have a very real clown-masked killer stalk them seeking revenge.

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 : Tell Schreiber, Christopher Lee, Sally Drake, Ross Vezarian,
Directors : T.Y. Drake,

The Keeper of Underwood Asylum has the mental patients of the wealthiest families in British Columbia. The rest of the family members have been dying under mysterious circumstances, so ...

Actors : Hiroshi Chô, Renji Ishibashi, Kyôichi Mizuki, Junko Miyashita,
Directors : Noboru Tanaka,

The landlord of a boarding house in 1923 Tokyo, is keen on spying on the bizarre close encounters taking place beneath his roof. One day he sees a prostitute killing a customer, and decides he's found his soulmate.

Actors : David Chiang, Yi Chang, Lieh Lo, Yu Wang,

The martial world is now awash in one-armed knights, who aren't inclined to make any permanent alliances among themselves.

Actors : Charles Janssens, Cox Habbema, Hugo Metsers, Willeke van Ammelrooy,
Directors : Harry Kümel,

Actors : John Phillip Law, Alessandro Poggi, Olga Bisera, Nathalie Delon,
Directors : Marcello Aliprandi,

Martino is a young child who claims to have an invisible friend called Luca. His parents assume it is just a game, but strange things start to happen...

Actors : Esmat Safavi, Khosrow Shojazadeh, Manuchehr Farid, Parvaneh Massoumi,
Directors : Bahram Beizai,

In a remote village beside the sea in north of Iran the villagers see a boat which approaching them. In the boat is a wounded man Ayat who can not remember what had happened to him. A widow...

Actors : Claudine Gabay, Noëlle Chatelet, Delphine Seyrig, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Marguerite Duras,

In response to her new friend's queries, Vera recounts the story of her life, beginning with marrying her no-good husband Cayre (Gerard Depardieu), who has been using her for some time to keep his failing building business afloat.

Actors : Samantha Eggar, Barry Morse, Keir Dullea, Jack Palance,
Directors : Peter Sasdy,

A group of people find themselves as slaves in what looks like a Wild West town, but with no memory of who they are or how they got there. In this town, people advance through killing ...

Actors : Ray Sharkey, Robert Forster, Joanna Cassidy, Fiona Lewis,
Directors : Mark L. Lester,

After a stunt man dies while he is involved in the making of a motion picture, his brother takes his place in order to find out what really happened.