Best Murder Mystery movies of 1960s

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 : Charles McGraw, Richard Kiley, Jean Seberg, George Peppard,
Directors : George Schaefer,

When police captain Frank Matthews is accused of murdering his adulterous wife and her lover he avoids arrest and sets out to find the killer.

Actors : Delia Boccardo, Florinda Bolkan, Franco Nero, Adolfo Celi,
Directors : Romolo Guerrieri,

A crooked detective begins investigating a situation on behalf of a friend and gets involved in murder, deception and double-cross.

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 : 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 : 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.

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 : Robert Lansing, Kathy Carlyle, Douglas Rodgers, Felice Orlandi,
Directors : Gene Milford,

A detective investigating the murder of a heroin addict discovers that there is a connection between the junkie and his fiance, who is his boss' daughter.

Actors : Grant Richards, Russ Conway, Nico Minardos, Barbara Eden,
Directors : Edward L. Cahn,

Based on the Saturday Evening Post serial "Set Up For Murder" by Richard Stern, 12 Hours to Kill traces the problems of a young Greek national (Nico Minardos) who, after ogling a murder, is...

Actors : Teruo Yoshida, Mako Sanjô, Yôko Mihara, Shigeru Amachi,
Directors : Teruo Ishii,

A criminal drama told in a semi-documentary fashion. The murder of the chief official of Kobe city's Customs triggers an investigation of a prostitution ring called the 'Yellow Line' that sells Japanese women.

Actors : Howard Pays, Patrick Barr, Ruth Dunning, Terence Knapp,
Directors : Vernon Sewell,

A psychopathic killer murders three girls before police catch him.

Actors : Brian Donlevy, Victor Merinow, Andrea Bayard, Elizabeth Howard,
Directors : Richard E. Cunha,

A letter summons American detective Steve Marshall to Sao Paulo, Brazil, in search of fugitive murderess Louise Dunning. Marshall contacts Louise and learns that she murdered her husband ...

Actors : Yôko Mihara, Kyôko Katsura, Shigeru Amachi, Toshio Hosokawa,
Directors : Teruo Ishii,

A reporter investigating a prostitution ring is framed for murder.

Actors : Sven Lindberg, Åke Falck, Gio Petré, Anita Björk,
Directors : Rolf Husberg,

A member of a highly successful crime drama TV-series is found murdered in a TV studio. The screenwriter of the TV-series is found as prime suspect but claims his innocence and tries to ...

Actors : Tatsuya Mihashi, Izumi Yukimura, Akemi Kita, Akira Takarada,
Directors : Kôzô Saeki,

Crime thriller about the investigation of a man murdered at a Tokyo race track, Clues lead Detective Yoneyama (Misashi) to Kobe where a narcotics gang is smuggling drugs in golf balls with the aid of an ex-cop (Takarada).

Actors : Jesse White, Greta Thyssen, Elaine Edwards, Jock Mahoney,
Directors : Leon Chooluck,

An insurance investigator goes to Los Angeles to investigate the disappearance of a colleague.

Actors : Colette Wilde, Patrick Holt, John Horsley, Bill Nagy,
Directors : Francis Searle,

When the director of a successful racing car company is shot dead the other directors have reason to believe their lives are at risk too. Suspect number one is an ex-employee just released ...

Actors : Allan Cuthbertson, Yvonne Buckingham, Michael Coles, Michael Caine,
Directors : Gordon Flemyng,

A group of crooks accidentally kill an elderly shop assistant while stealing the keys to the jewelry shop where she works.

Actors : Patrick Holt, Emrys Jones, Bruce Beeby, Honor Blackman,
Directors : Peter Maxwell,

Scotland Yard investigate when a woman, apparently the estranged wife of a London painter, is murdered with a shotgun in rural Surrey at the same time as the artist's striking model with ...

Actors : Susan Travers, James Hayter, David Sumner, John Arnatt,
Directors : Montgomery Tully,

An ex-con is the prime suspect when a series of murders occur under the full moon, every victim a young blonde woman.