Best Mystery movies of 1980s

Actors : Vincent Price, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Desi Arnaz Jr.,
Directors : Pete Walker,

An American writer goes to a remote Welsh manor on a $20,000 bet: can he write a classic novel like "Wuthering Heights" in twenty-four hours? Upon his arrival, however, the writer discovers...

Actors : Andrea Occhipinti, Fabiola Toledo, 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 : Virginia Madsen, Tom Hulce, Don Keith Opper, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio,
Directors : Wayne Wang,

An artist, framed for the murder of a woman, is drawn into a web of corruption, blackmail and deceit.

Actors : Hume Cronyn, Kris Kristofferson, Josef Sommer, Jane Fonda,
Directors : Alan J. Pakula,

An Arab oil organization devises a plan to wreck the world economy in order to cause anarchy and chaos.

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 : Richard Hatch, Peter Ustinov, Lee Grant, Angie Dickinson,
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 : 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, Guy Marchand, Stéphane Audran, 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 : 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 : Mukesh, Asokan, Jagadish, Siddique,

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

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : James Westmoreland, Nicholas Worth, Ben Frank, Flo Lawrence,
Directors : Robert Hammer,

A deeply disturbed Vietnam veteran terrorizes the young women of Los Angeles and taunts a radio psychologist with descriptions of his grisly crimes.

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 : Christoph Moosbrugger, Nadja Gerganoff, Olivia Pascal, Jasmin Losensky,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

Girls are killed at a language-school in Spain.

Actors : Vladimir Menshov, Leonid Filatov, Oleg Basilashvili, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan,
Directors : Karen Shakhnazarov,

An engineer in charge of the production line of a factory in Moscow is sent to a small town to try to specify the distributor the new dimensions of a mechanic part they need. But in this ...

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.