Best Investigation movies of 1982

Actors : Bill McKinney, Richard Crenna, Sylvester Stallone, Brian Dennehy,
Directors : Ted Kotcheff,

Former Green Beret John Rambo is pursued into the mountains surrounding a small town by a tyrannical sheriff and his deputies, forcing him to survive using his combat skills.

Actors : Nick Nolte, Frank McRae, Eddie Murphy, Annette O'Toole,
Directors : Walter Hill,

A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him, in order to track down a killer.

Actors : Wood Moy, Peter Wang, Marc Hayashi, Laureen Chew,
Directors : Wayne Wang,

Two cabbies search San Francisco's Chinatown for a mysterious character who has disappeared with their $4000. Their quest leads them on a humorous, if mundane, journey which illuminates the...

Actors : Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Dave Goelz, Kathryn Mullen,

On another planet in the distant past, a Gelfling embarks on a quest to find the missing shard of a magical crystal, and so restore order to his world.

Actors : Irene Worth, Dyan Cannon, Michael Caine, Christopher Reeve,
Directors : Sidney Lumet,

A Broadway playwright puts murder in his plan to take credit for a student's script.

Actors : Carl Reiner, Alan Ladd, Steve Martin, Rachel Ward,
Directors : Carl Reiner,

Film noir parody with a detective uncovering a sinister plot. Characters from real noirs appear as scenes from various films are intercut.

Actors : Giuliano Gemma, John Saxon, Daria Nicolodi, Anthony Franciosa,
Directors : Dario Argento,

An American writer in Rome is stalked by a serial killer bent on harassing him while killing all people associated with his work on his latest book.

Actors : Dana Kimmell, Richard Brooker, Terry Ballard, Tracie Savage,
Directors : Steve Miner,

Having revived from his wound, Jason Voorhees takes refuge at a cabin near Crystal Lake. As a group of co-eds arrive for their vacation, Jason continues his killing spree.

Actors : Colin Blakely, James Mason, Maggie Smith, Peter Ustinov,
Directors : Guy Hamilton,

Trying to find how a millionaire wound up with a phony diamond brings Hercule Poirot to an exclusive island resort frequented by the rich and famous. When a murder is committed, everyone has an alibi.

Actors : David Carradine, Richard Roundtree, Michael Moriarty, Candy Clark,
Directors : Larry Cohen,

NYPD detectives Shepard and Powell are working on a bizarre case of a ritualistic Aztec murder. Meanwhile, something big is attacking people of New York and only greedy small time crook Jimmy Quinn knows where its lair is.

Actors : David Niven, Herbert Lom, Richard Mulligan, Peter Sellers,
Directors : Blake Edwards,

Inspector Clouseau mysteriously disappears and a journalist attempts to uncover the mystery. New scenes are interspersed with old footage of Peter Sellers from the previous films.

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 : 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 : Toni Kalem, Ron Silver, Chuck Norris, Steven Keats,
Directors : Michael Miller,

A sheriff tries to stop the killing spree of a mute maniacal murderer who, as the result of years of medical experimentation, has the ability to self-heal.

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

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

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 : Paul Le Mat, Wilford Brimley, Catherine Hicks, Stephen McHattie,
Directors : Dick Richards,

A divorced mother, her young son and her new boyfriend set out on a road trip through Death Valley and run afoul of a local serial killer.

Actors : Julia Montgomery, Suzanne Barnes, James Carroll, Rutanya Alda,
Directors : Robert Deubel,

A killer, wearing a dancing bear suit, stalks a variety of cheerleaders during an all-night scavenger hunt at a remote Ohio college.

Actors : John Hurt, Robyn Douglass, Ryan O'Neal, Kenneth McMillan,
Directors : James Burrows,

A straight police detective is unnerved when ordered to go undercover with a gay police clerk, as a couple, to solve a series of murders in the gay community.

Actors : Kara Hui, Hou Hsiao, Chia Yung Liu, Chia-Liang Liu,
Directors : Chia-Liang Liu,

A band of killers from an ailing kung fu and magic society are sent on a manhunt for a former member of the society, whose bad mouthing threatens it's existence.