Best Investigation movies of 1960

Actors : Jeffrey Hunter, Billie Burke, Woody Strode, Constance Towers,
Directors : John Ford,

Respected black cavalry Sergeant Brax Rutledge stands court-martial for raping and killing a white woman and murdering her father, his superior officer.

Actors : Pina Pellicer, Ignacio López Tarso, Mario Alberto Rodríguez, Enrique Lucero,
Directors : Roberto Gavaldón,

Poor, hungry peasant Macario longs for just one good meal on the Day of the Dead. After his wife cooks a turkey for him, he meets three apparitions, the Devil, God, and Death. Each asks him...

Actors : Ignacy Machowski, Oldrich Lukes, Yôko Tani, Julius Ongewe,
Directors : Kurt Maetzig,

When an alien artifact discovered on Earth is found to have come from Venus, an international team of astronauts embarks to investigate its origins.

Actors : Lana Turner, Sandra Dee, Richard Basehart, Anthony Quinn,
Directors : Michael Gordon,

After a married woman and her lover murder her cruel husband, they find themselves targeted by someone who is aware of their crime.

Actors : Elina Pohjanpää, Joel Rinne, Leo Riuttu, Matti Ranin,
Directors : Matti Kassila,

A closed room mystery begins when an infamous tycoon is found dead in his bath tub. The famous police lieutenant Palmu is summoned to investigate.

Actors : Maria Sebaldt, Karl Schönböck, Siegfried Lowitz, Heinz Rühmann,
Directors : Helmuth Ashley,

Father Brown tries to solve some murders.

Actors : Rajendra Kumar, Nana Palsikar, Nanda, Ashok Kumar,
Directors : B.R. Chopra,

A lawyer holds the eyewitness evidence to catch a killer, but the identified criminal is the lawyer's own mentor, prospective father-in-law, and also the judge who presides over the case.

Actors : Mickey Rooney, Conway Twitty, Dan Duryea, Terry Moore,
Directors : Charles F. Haas,

Re-issued in 1964 as "Trouble At Sixteen" by Cinema Associates as part of a double-bill with "Girls Town" (now called "The Innocent and the Damned" and a rather descriptive title ...

Actors : Ziva Rodann, Walter Reed, June Wilkinson, William Wellman Jr.,
Directors : Douglas Fowley,

A writer who specializes in exposing fake witchcraft journeys to Brazil to investigate a voodoo cult.

Actors : Tony Louis, Marilyn O'Connor, Jeanne Baird, Doug Wilson,
Directors : Charles Davis,

In this obscure B potboiler, a longtime criminal returns to his native Los Angeles, determined to avenge his brother's murder.

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 : Sarah Branch, Charlie Drake, Raymond Huntley, Peter Arne,
Directors : John Paddy Carstairs,

A diminutive travel against goes out to investigate a desert holiday camp which has suffered from sabotage

Actors : Richard Chamberlain, Jeff Richards, Peter Falk, Margia Dean,
Directors : William Witney,

After Robert Christopher and his ship mysteriously disappear in the Caribbean, his two brothers -- Mark and Dean -- travel to St. Kitts to begin their own investigation.

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 : Dev Anand, Harbans Darshan M. Arora, Kundan, Madhubala,
Directors : Shakti Samanta,

Inspector Dinesh goes undercover in order to infiltrate a gang that is counterfeiting banknotes. In the course of his investigation he becomes romantically entangled with a female reporter ...

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 : Mayumi Shimizu, Sanae Nakahara, Hiroyuki Nagato, Yuji Kodaka,
Directors : Seijun Suzuki,

Two reporters of divergent morals investigate a drug ring, delving deeper into the underworld in the process.

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

A reporter investigating a prostitution ring is framed for murder.

Actors : Jill Williams, Francis Matthews, Jack Gwillim, Basil Dignam,
Directors : Max Varnel,

An engineer is wrongly convicted of selling secrets to enemy agents and is sentenced to life in prison. Convinced it was his former partner who framed him, he enlists his son to investigate.

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 ...