Best Mystery movies of 1970s

Actors : Joan Van Ark, Adam Roarke, Sam Elliott, Ray Milland,
Directors : George McCowan,

A group of hapless victims celebrate a birthday on an island estate crawling with killer amphibians, birds, insects, and reptiles.

Actors : Paula Prentiss, Katharine Ross, Peter Masterson, Nanette Newman,
Directors : Bryan Forbes,

Joanna Eberhart has come to the quaint little town of Stepford, Connecticut with her family, but soon discovers there lies a sinister truth in the all too perfect behavior of the female residents.

Actors : Charles Bronson, Ben Johnson, Richard Crenna, Jill Ireland,
Directors : Tom Gries,

John Deakin is being transported, as a prisoner, on a train with supplies and medicine to Fort Humboldt, Nevada.

Actors : Gert Fröbe, Liv Ullmann, David Carradine, Heinz Bennent,
Directors : Ingmar Bergman,

Following the suicide of his beloved brother and deaths of even the most distant acquaintances, Abel Rosenberg attempts to discover the truth while facing depression, alcoholism, and anti-semitism.

Actors : Sevda Aktolga, Kemal Sunal, Sener Sen, Halit Akçatepe,
Directors : Ertem Egilmez,

Actors : Barton Heyman, Kevin O'Connor, Zohra Lampert, Gretchen Corbett,
Directors : John D. Hancock,

A recently institutionalized woman has bizarre experiences after moving into a supposedly haunted country farmhouse and fears she may be losing her sanity once again.

Actors : William Finley, Margot Kidder, Charles Durning, Jennifer Salt,
Directors : Brian De Palma,

A journalist witnesses a brutal murder in a neighboring apartment, but the police do not believe that the crime took place. With the help of a private detective, she seeks out the truth.

Actors : Burgess Meredith, Rachel Roberts, Goldie Hawn, Chevy Chase,
Directors : Colin Higgins,

A shy San Francisco librarian and a bumbling cop fall in love as they solve a crime involving albinos, dwarves, and the Catholic Church.

Actors : James Mason, Richard Benjamin, Dyan Cannon, James Coburn,
Directors : Herbert Ross,

A year after Sheila is killed in a hit-and-run, her multi-millionaire husband invites a group of friends to spend a week on his yacht playing a scavenger hunt-style mystery game. The game turns out to be all too real and all too deadly.

Actors : Joanne Woodward, Paul Newman, Murray Hamilton, Anthony Franciosa,
Directors : Stuart Rosenberg,

A big-city private detective travels to the Deep South to help out an old girlfriend who is worried that her husband will find out that she is cheating on him.

Actors : Jeanne Moreau, Francine Bergé, Juliet Berto, Alain Delon,
Directors : Joseph Losey,

Paris, 1942. Robert Klein cannot find any fault with the state of affairs in German-occupied France. He has a well-furnished flat, a mistress, and business is booming. Jews facing ...

Actors : Gérard Blain, Dennis Hopper, Lisa Kreuzer, Bruno Ganz,
Directors : Wim Wenders,

Tom Ripley, who deals in forged art, suggests a picture framer he knows would make a good hit man.

Actors : Bill Macy, Eugene Roche, Art Carney, Lily Tomlin,
Directors : Robert Benton,

A grumpy semi-retired private investigator partners with a quirky female client to catch the people who murdered his partner.

Actors : Richard Dysart, Barnard Hughes, Diana Rigg, George C. Scott,
Directors : Arthur Hiller,

An over-burdened doctor struggles to find meaning in his life while a murderer stalks the halls of his hospital.

Actors : Eileen Brennan, Peter Falk, Sid Caesar, Ann-Margret,
Directors : Robert Moore,

San Francisco, 1940, detectives, dames, documents, Nazis, and a treasure.

Actors : Mireille Darc, Bernard Blier, Pierre Richard, Jean Rochefort,
Directors : Yves Robert,

A hapless orchestra player becomes an unwitting pawn of rival factions within the French secret service after he is chosen as a decoy by being identified as a super secret agent.

Actors : Robert Blake, Billy Green Bush, Mitchell Ryan, Jeannine Riley,
Directors : James William Guercio,

Bored with his highway traffic duties, Arizona motorcycle patrolman John Wintergreen is assigned to Homicide where his polite investigative style irks his macho boss.

Actors : James Mason, Susan Clark, Christopher Plummer, David Hemmings,
Directors : Bob Clark,

Sherlock Holmes investigates the murders commited by Jack the Ripper and discovers a conspiracy to protect the killer.

Actors : John Glover, Roy Scheider, Janet Margolin, Sam Levene,
Directors : Jonathan Demme,

Harry breaks down and loses his job after his wife is assassinated - could it be his turn next ?

Actors : Sylvia Kristel, Don Adams, Andrea Howard, Rhonda Fleming,
Directors : Clive Donner,

Maxwell Smart is recalled to duty to help fight a villian who threatens to detonate a weapon that destroys clothing.