Best Mystery movies of 1981

Actors : Pepper Martin, Hank Worden, Ethan Wayne, Ann Bronston,
Directors : Byron Quisenberry,

A group of friends on a rafting trip down a river stop in at an old ghost town to spend the night. Soon their rafts disappear, and then they begin to be eliminated one by one by a mysterious killer.

Actors : Miguel Rellán, Alfredo Landa, Manuel Tejada, María Casanova,
Directors : José Luis Garci,

Private detective Germán Areta gets a terminally ill client who wishes to see his long lost, runaway daughter before he dies. But when Areta starts looking into case, that leads him to the ...

Actors : Marcello Mastroianni, Eva Maria Meineke, Wolfgang Preiss, Romy Schneider,
Directors : Dino Risi,

Over two decades after their affair ended, a married man is haunted by the presence of his former lover.

Actors : Rajesh Khanna, Hema Malini, Raaj Kumar, Vinod Khanna,
Directors : Chetan Anand,

The setting is in scenic Simla, summer capital of the British Raj in the 1970's. Chandramukhi from Bombay is on holiday with her parents and so is Naresh, a US educated medical professional...

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

A fashion photographer gets embroiled in a series of grisly murders

Actors : Bombolo, Olimpia Di Nardo, Tomas Milian, Enzo Cannavale,
Directors : Bruno Corbucci,

The officer Nico Giraldi investigates a homicide which has taken place in a Chinese restaurant in Rome. His wife and his son are kidnappeded by the murderer in the course of the inquiry. In...

Actors : Pierre Tornade, Maurice Risch, Pierre Tchernia, Maurice Chevit,
Directors : Marc Simenon,

The notorious and mysterious criminal Furax steals France's famous monuments, replacing them with replicas.

Actors : Martyn Sanderson, Tony Barry, John Hargreaves, David Hemmings,
Directors : John Laing,

A docu-drama covering one of the most famous murder cases in New Zealand history. Did Arthur Thomas kill Jeannette and Harvey Crewe at their Pukekawa farm house? Arthur was sure that ...

Actors : Tarcísio Meira, Christiane Torloni, Lídia Brondi, Ney Latorraca,
Directors : Bruno Barreto,

When a pedestrian is hit by a bus, the simple clerk Arandir runs and kisses the moribund in a gesture of sympathy and unconditional pure love. The opportunist scum photographer Amado ...

Actors : Rakesh Roshan, Navin Nischol, Neelam Mehra, Bindiya Goswami,

Suraj is separated from his love Seema and wants to build a hotel at the location where he met her, he tells his secretary Lalwani to check out the location.Lalwani finds the scenic ...

Actors : Pauline Teutscher, Grazia De Giorgi, Roger Beach, Marcella Petrelli,
Directors : Ilias Mylonakos,

Nathalie (Marcella Petri) is the young, sheltered daughter of a wealthy businessman who discovers sex through intimate relations with her father's business partner. The partner plans to use...

Actors : José Luis de Vilallonga, Anne Parillaud, José Antonio Ceinos, Sascha Hehn,
Directors : Hubert Frank,

A young heiress leads a life of excess and wants to marry a man her rich father despises. When her father suspiciously dies, and someone tries to kill her, she surrounds herself with her cousins, friends and lovers, all possible suspects.

Actors : Jeremy Brett, Nicky Henson, Prunella Ransome, Pamela Salem,
Directors : Nestore Ungaro,

A woman searches for her blind sister in this feature-length English-language cut of the TV miniseries _Seagull Island (1981) (TV Mini-Series)_.

Actors : Rekha, Shreeram Lagoo, Leela Mishra, Vijay Anand,

Thakur Ranjit Singh buys Kajal's freedom from a panderer and installs her in his house with the status of a daughter-in-law - much to the disgust of his uncle, Jasbir. When the sleazy ...

Actors : Tsunehiko Watase, Makoto Fujita, Kaoru Kobayashi, Asami Kobayashi,
Directors : Yoshitarô Nomura,

A mysterious story involving the disappearance of Tatsuo's three brothers. Tatsuo, thinks that he too may disappear and has a nervous breakdown. His fiance visits a neurologist, who ...

Actors : Herbert Bautista, Hero Bautista, William Martinez, Harlene Bautista,
Directors : Antonio B. Pascua,

Filipino take on Agatha Christie's classic story about ten people stuck in a remote place, who are killed one by one by someone as punishment for their supposed crimes.

Actors : Gioia Scola, Mara Maryl, Gerardo Amato, Luciano Pigozzi,

When a member of a group of occultists is violently slain, the rest repair to the woods, where they are haunted by an apparently supernatural force.

Actors : Kwok Kuen Chan, Erik Chan Ka Kei, Shao-Chia Chen, Fei Ai,
Directors : Yuen Chor,

Liu Yung and Sun Chien (the Korean kicking The Five Venom from Chang Cheh's internationally popular series) team up to investigate the martial-art murders of a supposedly mortally wounded ...

Actors : Petar Kralj, Dragan Nikolic, Merima Isakovic, Ljubisa Samardzic,
Directors : Miomir 'Miki' Stamenkovic,

The murder of a famous gynecologist occurred under unusual circumstances. Inspectors found the doctor's apartment door open.