Best Mystery movies of 1970s

Actors : John Harmon, Robert Gribbin, Russell Johnson, Randy Echols,
Directors : Irvin Berwick,

Howard is a mild-mannered young man who drives a truck for a commercial laundry. He's also a mother-obsessed psycho who picks up young female hitchhikers, rapes them and kills them. As the ...

Actors : Nick Tate, Michelle Jarman, Elizabeth Alexander, John Waters,
Directors : Ken Hannam,

A teacher discovers one of his students has a rare blood disease, and is drawn into a mystery that culminates in a thrilling climax.

Actors : Shreeram Lagoo, Vinod Khanna, Vidya Sinha, Sadhu Meher,
Directors : Raj N. Sippy,

A police detective helps a wealthy shoe company owner search for the young son of the owner's chaufeur whom was kidnapped by a disgruntled ex-employee and his gang for a large ransom.

Actors : Mayumi Ogawa, Yôko Yamamoto, Ken'ichi Hagiwara, Tsutomu Yamazaki,
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 : 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 : Johnny Dorelli, Renzo Palmer, Yves Beneyton, Sydne Rome,
Directors : Luigi Zampa,

Actors : Mi-hye Kwon, Jeong-cheol Kim, Hwa-shi Lee, Yun-seok Choi,
Directors : Ki-young Kim,

An investor planning on developing a tourist resort begins an investigation into the legends of the mysterious Io Island in the hope of exploiting its unspoiled beauty.

Actors : Esther Studer, Nanda Van Bergen, Lina Romay, Michael Maien,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

Margarita, the only witness of a brutal murder, has temporary amnesia due to shock. She's sent to a psychiatric clinic where a masked man rapes her and kills another woman. She must piece her memory back together before he returns.

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 : Sylvia Kristel, David Rappaport, Rita Tushingham, Rutger Hauer,
Directors : Paul de Lussanet,

A wealthy visitor to a small town befriends a midget and gets involved with two women as his behaviour becoming ever stranger.

Actors : Rena Niehaus, Yorgo Voyagis, Fabio Gamma, Renato Cestiè,
Directors : Ugo Liberatore,

A blind boy, who lives alone with his mean sister in a rundown hotel in Venice, receives a vision that warns him of the upcoming birth of the Antichrist. Soon, his sister mysteriously becomes pregnant.

Actors : Elke Sommer, Donald Pilon, Chuck Shamata, George Touliatos,
Directors : Murray Markowitz,

A woman is murdered and her millionaire husband is accused. But is he guilty?

Actors : Yun Ling, Tony Liu, Lung Ti, Li Ching,
Directors : Yuen Chor,

Once again we follow the ultimate playboy sword master, Chu Liu Hsiang, and his faithful friend, Yi Tien Hung, on another amazing adventure in Southeastern China. This time, our heroes make...

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 : Tamara Syomina, Gennadi Korolkov, Konstantin Grigorev, Lev Prygunov,
Directors : Aleksandr Faintsimmer,

Actors : Isabela Corona, María Rebeca, Manuel Ojeda, Diana Bracho,
Directors : Arturo Ripstein,

Old aunt Alejandra goes to live with a Mexican middle-class family; she's bitter and the children tease her and make her life miserable, but the old woman is truly a witch, and takes revenge.

Actors : Patrick Byers, Mary Agen Cox, Matt Borel, Gil Glasgow,
Directors : James L. Wilson,

10 college students go camping, when they get there, they tell scary stories to each other.

Actors : Ed 'Too Tall' Jones, Elke Sommer, Ernest Borgnine, George Kennedy,
Directors : Joe Camp,

Some school kids stumble across a briefcase full of money, when they go back for it, they find a body instead. When they bring the police, neither is there, and the police refuses to ...

Actors : Sylvia Chang, Chun Shih, Feng Hsu, Hui Lou Chen,
Directors : King Hu,

A scholar, tasked to copy a sutra, meets with a mysterious old lady and her daughter in the mountains.

Actors : John Mills, Margaret Tyzack, Simon MacCorkindale, Barbara Kellerman,
Directors : Piers Haggard,

A separate screenplay by Nigel Kneale for theaters, parallel to the 1979 Quatermass four part mini-series. The story set in the near future involves influences from outer space that are possessing people. Professor Quatermass must save his granddaughter from the clutches of a popular and sinister cult "Planet People" that "performs raptures".