Best Investigation movies of 1985

Actors : Jean-Pierre Léaud, Laurent Terzieff, Nathalie Baye, Aurelle Doazan,
Directors : Jean-Luc Godard,

In a palace of Paris. Two detectives are investigating a two-year-old murder. Emile and Francoise Chenal are putting pressure on Jim Fox Warner, a boxing manager, who owes them a huge ...

Actors : Amol Palekar, Shabana Azmi, Sudhir Mishra, Soni Razdan,
Directors : Vidhu Vinod Chopra,

When a starlet is murdered on a film location, her detective brother arrives there to solve the mystery.

Actors : Christoph Hofrichter, Wolfgang Kieling, Gerhard Wollner, Dieter Hallervorden,

A series of murders eliminates the poverty-stricken heirs to a 10 million-dollar fortune while Didi Dodel, the unsuspecting main heir, blithely escapes the attempts on his life. After a ...

Actors : Seymour Brussel, Didier Bourdon, Bernard Campan, Pascal Légitimus,
Directors : Jean-Pierre Vergne,

A serial killer murders women by knocking them out with the handset of a phone and signs his crime by sticking the dial in his victims' forehead. Private eye Marc Elbichon (whose real name ...

Actors : Donald Pleasence, Renée Simonsen, Nicola Perring, Tom Schanley,
Directors : Carlo Vanzina,

A serial killer roams the city of Milan, Italy, using scissors to assassinate and kill top-models. A park ranger from USA arrives in the city to protect his sister, but realizes that she ...

Actors : Steven Berkoff, Nicola Cowper, Denholm Elliott, Larry Lamb,
Directors : George Pavlou,

When high class hooker Nicole is kidnapped from her brothel, Rich businessman Hugo Motherskille hires her ex love Roy Bain to find her. Investigating the disappearance, he eventually finds ...

Actors : Anant Nag, Ashok Mandanna, Shankar Nag, Srinivasa Prabhu,
Directors : Shankar Nag,

Young man kills people sleeping on the footpath while driving under influence. Young man's influential father struggles to silence the police investigation and media coverage.

Actors : Diane Venora, David McCallum, Joe Spano, Robert Joy,
Directors : Sheldon Larry,

A patient in an hospital dies under mysterious circumstances. The attending doctor Fank Holt gets under suspect - he'd been fired already from his last position due to mispractice. For his ...

Actors : Denise Coward, Frank Runyeon, Jaime Tirelli, Robert Trumbull,
Directors : Sig Shore,

A New York City career woman becomes a vigilante after being raped by two car thieves.

Actors : Bert Remsen, James Keach, Charles Durning, Pam Grier,
Directors : Alan Beattie,

A World War II vet is pushed to the limit when gang members and drug dealers take over his neighborhood.

Actors : Cheryl Hirshman, James McCann, Rufus Butler Seder, Eugene Seder,
Directors : Rufus Butler Seder,

A detective investigating a series of murders discovers that they are similar to the slayings that occur in the new script of a Hollywood screenwriter.

Actors : Bhanupriya, Sarath Babu, Satyanarayana Kaikala, Karthik,
Directors : Vamshi,

The story of an Ornithologist and a Police investigator coming to a forest and trying to solve the mystery of a series of killings allegedly by a man-eating tiger.

Actors : Eli Rich, Bonnie Sikowitz, Rochelle Taylor, Dennis Gannon,
Directors : Donald M. Jones,

A serial killer, who is actually a handsome Sunday school teacher, abducts young women and disposes their bodies in the Mojave Desert.

Actors : Jean Simmons, Lea Thompson, Chris Lemmon, Viveca Lindfors,
Directors : James Kenelm Clarke,

Forever bungling private investigator Henry Brilliant (Chris Lemmon) has been hired by Maxine de la Hunt (Jean Simmons) to protect her step-daughter Marigold (Lea Thompson) during her trip ...

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 : Wai-Man Chan, Yue Wong, Lung Ti, Sibelle Hu,
Directors : Chung Sun,

A famous weapons instructor goes on a killing spree, packed with martial arts, after his son is kidnapped and castrated.

Actors : Jan Peszek, Wojciech Wysocki, Gustaw Holoubek, Janusz Michalowski,
Directors : Wojciech Has,

Set during the World War I in a prison cell. A newspaper satirist, a safecracker and a clerical murderer have been loaded into a common cell until the investigation into their supposed ...

Actors : Ramachandran, Mammootty, Gopi, Jayabharati,
Directors : K.N. Sasidharan,

Film that opens with a missing of a girl who later identified to be killed by someone who is close to her. The film is in a format of investigation thriller giving importance to the plot rather to the characters.

Actors : Ali MacGraw, Hywel Bennett, Billie Whitelaw, Ray Lonnen,
Directors : Claude Whatham,

An English woman (Ali MacGraw) returns to her homeland after losing her fortune in America, and is stalked by a serial killer.