Best Mystery movies of 1980s

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.

Actors : Bruce Dern, Rachel Ward, Jason Patric, Rocky Giordani,
Directors : James Foley,

An ex-boxer is drifting around after escaping from the mental hospital. He meets a widow who convinces him to help fix up the neglected estate her ex-husband left. Her Uncle talks them both...

Actors : Lawrence Tierney, Vicky Dawson, Christopher Goutman, Farley Granger,
Directors : Joseph Zito,

An unknown killer, clad in World War II U.S. Army fatigues, stalks a small New Jersey town bent on reliving a 35 year-old double murder by focusing on a group of college kids holding an annual Spring Dance.

Actors : Rip Torn, Kim Basinger, Jeff Bridges, Gwen Verdon,
Directors : Robert Benton,

In 1950s Texas, a woman trying to recover sexy photos of herself and divorce her husband witnesses a murder and uncovers corrupt land dealings.

Actors : Andrea Occhipinti, Howard Ross, Almanta Suska, Jack Hedley,
Directors : Lucio Fulci,

A burned-out New York police detective teams up with a college psychoanalyst to track down a vicious serial killer randomly stalking and killing various young women around the city.

Actors : Art Garfunkel, Harvey Keitel, Denholm Elliott, Theresa Russell,
Directors : Nicolas Roeg,

A psychiatrist living in Vienna enters a torrid relationship with a married woman. When she ends up in the hospital from an overdose, an inspector becomes set on discovering the demise of their affair.

Actors : Adam Ant, Lesley-Anne Down, Anna Maria Monticelli, Pierce Brosnan,
Directors : John McTiernan,

A French anthropologist moves to Los Angeles and is followed by the evil spirits of an extinct tribe he once uncovered.

Actors : Christopher George, Lynda Day George, Edmund Purdom, Frank Braña,
Directors : Juan Piquer Simón,

Young co-eds are being dismembered by a mysterious murderer on a college campus. The killer is attempting to put together a human jigsaw puzzle made from body parts.

Actors : Richard Herd, Christian Slater, Steven Bauer, Le Tuan,
Directors : Graeme Clifford,

Brian's adopted brother is killed when he discovers that the shop he works in sends weapons to Vietnam instead of medications. To the police it looks like suicide, but Brian knows better so...

Actors : Frederic Forrest, Roy Kinnear, Peter Boyle, Marilu Henner,
Directors : Wim Wenders,

Fictional account of real-life mystery writer Dashiell Hammett, and his involvement in the investigation of a beautiful Chinese cabaret actress' mysterious disappearance in San Francisco.

Actors : Susan Sarandon, Harvey Keitel, Kevin Kline, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio,
Directors : Pat O'Connor,

Nick and Frank Starkey were both policemen. A scandal forced Nick to leave the force, now a serial killer has driven the police to take him back. A web that includes Frank's wife, bribery, ...

Actors : Cora Venus Lunny, Kelly Piper, David Dukes, Hugh O'Conor,
Directors : George Pavlou,

Ireland will never be the same after Rawhead Rex, a particularly nasty demon, is released from his underground prison by an unwitting farmer. The film follows Rex's cross country rampage, while a man struggles to stop it.

Actors : Thom Hoffman, Dolf de Vries, Renée Soutendijk, Jeroen Krabbé,
Directors : Paul Verhoeven,

A man who has been having visions of an impending danger begins an affair with a woman who may lead him to his doom.

Actors : Jack Scalia, Tom Berenger, Billy Dee Williams, Melanie Griffith,
Directors : Abel Ferrara,

Strippers in Manhattan are being stalked and maimed by a psycho-killer. A conflicted ex-boxer-turned-talent-manager and his business partner and friend, who represent some of the girls, set out to find him before he strikes again.

Actors : Kate McNeil, Eileen Davidson, Janis Ward, Robin Meloy,
Directors : Mark Rosman,

After a seemingly innocent prank goes horribly wrong, a group of sorority sisters are stalked and murdered one by one in their sorority house while throwing a party to celebrate their graduation.

Actors : Joe Grifasi, Roy Scheider, Jessica Tandy, Meryl Streep,
Directors : Robert Benton,

A Manhattan psychiatrist probes a patient's murder and falls for the victim's mysterious mistress.

Actors : Sally Ann Howes, Nick Mancuso, Richard Crenna, George Kennedy,
Directors : Alvin Rakoff,

A mysterious ghostly freighter rams and sinks a modern day cruise ship whose survivors climb aboard the freighter and discover that it is a WW2 Nazi torture vessel.

Actors : Samantha Eggar, Linda Thorson, John Vernon, Anne Ditchburn,
Directors : Richard Ciupka,

Six young actresses auditioning for a movie role at a remote mansion are targeted by a mysterious masked murderer.

Actors : Bud Cort, Bill Pullman, Nicholas Pryor, Bill Paxton,
Directors : Adam Simon,

In a showdown of man vs. machine, Martin plunges into a chaotic nightmare trying to save his mind from the megalomaniacal corporation.

Actors : Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Fanny Ardant, Philippe Laudenbach,
Directors : François Truffaut,

Claude Massoulier is murdered while hunting at the same place than Julien Vercel, an estate agent that knew him and whose fingerprints are found on Massoulier's car. As the police discovers...