Best Mystery movies of 1980s

Actors : Don Knotts, Tim Conway, Trisha Noble, Bernard Fox,
Directors : Lang Elliott,

This spoof of the Sherlock Holmes stories finds Inspector Winship and Dr. Tart investigating a strange death in a possibly haunted mansion, while dealing with the beautiful heiress and the ...

Actors : Anne Archer, Kate Capshaw, Tom Berenger, Elizabeth Perkins,
Directors : Alan Rudolph,

Vampish miss Dolan hires hardboiled P.I. Harry Dobbs to tail her shady boyfriend. Harry realizes that the man leads a double life but then his client disappears. Harry teams up with his own tail, P.I. Stella Wynkowski, to clear things up.

Actors : Kate Nelligan, Stockard Channing, Judd Hirsch, David Dukes,
Directors : Stanley R. Jaffe,

This film, centering on a child's abduction, casts Kate Nelligan as the distraught mother who lashes out at the police (in the person of a relentless detective played by Judd Hirsch), who ...

Actors : Fabiola Toledo, Andrea Occhipinti, Anny Papa, Michele Soavi,
Directors : Lamberto Bava,

A killer stalks a composer staying at a posh Tuscany villa while writing the score to a horror film which has an incriminating clue to the killer's identity.

Actors : Nick Nolte, Debra Winger, Will Patton, Judith Ivey,
Directors : Karel Reisz,

A seeming good Samaritan (Debra Winger) hires a private detective (Nolte) to prove a teen sitting in prison on a murder charge is innocent. His investigation discovers deep corruption in a ...

Actors : Richard Hatch, Peter Ustinov, Angie Dickinson, Lee Grant,
Directors : Clive Donner,

Famous detective Charlie Chan is called out of retirement to help a San Francisco detective solve a mysterious series of murders. With his bumbling grandson as his sidekick, Chan also ...

Actors : Mukesh, Asokan, Jagadish, Siddique,

Four unemployed men try to impress a new neighbor. Hilarity ensues, until the antagonist puts in an appearance.

Actors : Jeannie Elias, Sonja Smits, Sammy Snyders, Laura Hollingsworth,
Directors : Lew Lehman,

A solitary and strange preteen boy wreaks revenge on his harassers when he makes a disturbing discovery in the depth of a forest.

Actors : Joe Turkel, Will Bledsoe, Robert Sampson, Camilla More,
Directors : D.J. Webster,

In 2022, a repair crew is sent to fix an orbital weapon but their spaceship malfunctions and ends up heading towards the dark side of the moon. There, in a mysterious, seemingly abandoned space shuttle, a sinister force lies in wait.

Actors : Isabelle Adjani, Stéphane Audran, Guy Marchand, Michel Serrault,
Directors : Claude Miller,

Beauvoir, lonely, aging private detective, is put on the bloody track of beautiful Catherine Leiris who kills and robs her rich husband(s) on their wedding night. Although he never ...

Actors : Clu Gulager, Daphne Zuniga, James Read, Vera Miles,

While trying to understand a frightening reoccurring nightmare, a pledge is coaxed into breaking into her father's department store by her sorority sisters, where a deranged killer targets the girls and their boyfriends.

Actors : Tatyana Drubich, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy, Aleksey Zharkov, Vladimir Zeldin,
Directors : Stanislav Govorukhin,

A psychological thriller based on the novel by Agatha Christie. Ten strangers are forced to come face to face with their dark pasts after receiving invitation to an isolated island off the coast of England.

Actors : Ron Houck, Lara Wendel, Greg Rhodes, Mary Sellers,
Directors : Umberto Lenzi,

Visions of a deceased girl and her doll bring doom to the visitors of a deserted house.

Actors : Robert Powell, Broderick Crawford, David Hemmings, Carmen Duncan,
Directors : Simon Wincer,

A modern-day politician is faced with an incomprehensible in this mystical-fantasy. Senator Rast is a very powerful man. But his is nothing compared to the extraordinary power of the ...

Actors : Karen Austin, Richard Masur, Drew Barrymore, Matt Frewer,
Directors : Meiert Avis,

A teenage girl and her father driving cross-country become stranded when their car runs out of gas in a remote Nevada desert town and they're forced to stay in a dilapidated trailer park where a serial killer lurks.

Actors : Art Metrano, Shelley Taylor Morgan, Darby Hinton, Sybil Danning,
Directors : Andy Sidaris,

A smooth-talking private eye is assigned the task of investigating who is behind the hi-tech computer technology leaks to the Russians.

Actors : Alan King, Barbara Carrera, Laurene Landon, Armand Assante,
Directors : Richard T. Heffron,

An old friend of a private detective is murdered. The detective, Mike Hammer, will make every effort to find out the killer. At each step he does, there is someone taking advantage of his ...

Actors : Belinda Mayne, Alan Lake, Mark Jones, Edmund Purdom,
Directors : Edmund Purdom,

Somebody with very little Christmas spirit is killing anyone in a Santa suit one London holiday season, and Scotland Yard has to stop him before he makes his exploits an annual tradition.

Actors : Jean Topart, Michel Bouquet, Jean Poiret, Stéphane Audran,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

When a small town begins losing its citizenry in a series of grisly murders, out-of-town police inspector Jean Lavardin (Jean Poiret) is sent to investigate. Could the killers be a bullied ...

Actors : Drew Snyder, Leonard Mann, Joseph R. Sicari, Rachel Ward,
Directors : Ken Hughes,

Who's been decapitating the innocent girls at a local night school? The police are baffled.