Best Murder Mystery movies of 1960s

Actors : Karin Baal, Wolfgang Lukschy, Dieter Borsche, Joachim Fuchsberger,
Directors : Alfred Vohrer,

Wealthy, heavily insured men are being murdered at an alarming rate. Scotland Yard investigates and finds clues that lead to a ring of blind men, led by a mysterious "reverend."

Actors : Deborah Kerr, Gary Cooper, Eric Portman, Diane Cilento,
Directors : Michael Anderson,

Five years after George Radcliffe was the chief witness in a high profile murder case, his wife receives a blackmailing letter accusing him of the crime.

Actors : Klaus Kinski, Elisabeth Flickenschildt, Brigitte Grothum, Joachim Fuchsberger,
Directors : Alfred Vohrer,

A serial killer named The Shark is terrorizing London by killing his victims with a speargun and then, dressed in a scruba-diver's wetsuit, using the city's sewer tunnels to make his ...

Actors : Alan Bates, Laurence Harvey, Lee Remick, Felix Aylmer,
Directors : Carol Reed,

Hard up and with a grudge against insurance companies, Rex Black feigns his death and meets up with his wife and the money in Malaga when things seemed to have quietened down. But when the ...

Actors : Uschi Glas, Grit Boettcher, Konrad Georg, Joachim Fuchsberger,
Directors : Alfred Vohrer,

Police try to track down a hooded serial killer who murders his victims with a combination of acid and poison gas.

Actors : Audie Murphy, Ben Cooper, Colleen Miller, DeForest Kelley,
Directors : Frank McDonald,

In 1875 a murderous outlaw gang breaks criminals from jail, uses them to help in crimes, and then kills them for the reward, when it goes high enough.

Actors : Alexander Knox, John Standing, Patrick Wymark, Margaret Johnston,
Directors : Freddie Francis,

Four men who were involved in the investigation of a German millionaire at the end of the Second World War are found murdered with tiny dolls left next to their corpses.

Actors : Pier Paolo Capponi, Marzio Margine, Renato Lupi, Nieves Navarro,
Directors : Fernando Di Leo,

Some youngsters kill their teacher; but they won't tell their motivation. The police detective on the case feels some sinister influence behind the young murderers.

Actors : Michael Goodliffe, Yolande Donlan, Ronald Lewis, Jack Warner,
Directors : Val Guest,

A woman is found murdered in a house along the coast from Brighton. Local detectives Fellows and Wilks lead an investigation methodically following up leads and clues mostly in Brighton and...

Actors : Jan Hendriks, Günter Pfitzmann, Barbara Rütting, Heinz Drache,
Directors : Alfred Vohrer,

Scotland Yard investigates a series of murders where the victims have died by snake venom poisoning.

Actors : Uttam Kumar, Shekhar Chatterjee, Kalipada Chakraborty, Nripati Chatterjee,
Directors : Satyajit Ray,

Byomkesh Bakshi, a detective, is hired by a rich man to investigate the name of an actress appeared in a movie decades ago, who has eloped ever since. The case became complicated when the rich man is murdered by someone for that.

Actors : Rudolf Hrusínský, Libuse Holeckova, Hana Brejchová, Jana Vanková,
Directors : Petr Schulhoff,

Major Kalas (Rudolf Hrusínský) from the Prague criminal intelligence service has been sent to a small town of Dubá in North Bohemia to help with the investigation of the puzzling death of a...

Actors : Sylva Koscina, Eli Wallach, Kenneth Haigh, Kirk Douglas,
Directors : David Lowell Rich,

A cop quits the force after too much disappointment in the system. He becomes a bodyguard of a rich recent widow. She is on trial for her husband's murder. He decides to help her clear her name... and get over her husband.

Actors : Flora Robson, Gayle Hunnicutt, David Hemmings, Wilfrid Hyde-White,
Directors : Richard C. Sarafian,

Reformed drug addict Tim Brett is holidaying in Italy with his aunt. When she is murdered, he tries to investigate, and soon his whole life is out of control.

Actors : John Gielgud, Patrick O'Neal, Herbert Lom, Joan Hackett,
Directors : Sheldon Reynolds,

A private eye is hired by an insurance company to investigate a shipping magnate suspected of deliberately sinking his own ships for the insurance money. He finds himself involved in a web of deception, double-crossing and murder.

Actors : Frank Wolff, Raf Vallone, Gillian Bray, Gabriele Tinti,
Directors : Duccio Tessari,

A chief police inspector investigates the disappearance of a 25-year-old, intellectually disabled woman, the daughter of a lonely widower. After she turns up dead, the cops race to find the...

Actors : Wolfgang Kieling, Siw Mattson, Pinkas Braun, Joachim Fuchsberger,
Directors : Alfred Vohrer,

A serial killer who calls himself "The Laughing Corpse" dresses up in a skeleton costume and kills his victims with a poison-filled scorpion-shaped ring.

Actors : Werner Peters, Karin Dor, Horst Frank, Joachim Fuchsberger,
Directors : Harald Reinl,

(1963) Karin Dor, Joachim Fuchsberger. When gamblers who recently increased their life insurance begin dying, Scotland Yard.gets involved. When their chief inspector is murdered, they bring in a mysterious detective to solve the case.

Actors : Robert Hossein, Annie Anderson, Roger Dutoit, Marie-France Pisier,
Directors : Robert Hossein,

A true story of Peter Kurten, a serial killer who committed nine murders and many other offenses in Dusseldorf during the Great Depression era.

Actors : Barry Newman, Diana Muldaur, Robert Colbert, Harold Gould,
Directors : Sidney J. Furie,

Tony Petrocelli, a bright young lawyer practicing in the rich cattle town of Baker, becomes embroiled in a murder case.