Best Mystery movies of 1984

Actors : Craig Wasson, Gregg Henry, Deborah Shelton, Melanie Griffith,
Directors : Brian De Palma,

A young actor's obsession with spying on a beautiful woman who lives nearby leads to a baffling series of events with drastic consequences.

Actors : Roy Scheider, Helen Mirren, Bob Balaban, John Lithgow,
Directors : Peter Hyams,

A joint U.S.-Soviet expedition is sent to Jupiter to learn what happened to the Discovery.

Actors : Clint Eastwood, Dan Hedaya, Alison Eastwood, Geneviève Bujold,
Directors : Richard Tuggle,

New Orleans single dad and cop Wes Block goes after a serial rapist-killer but when he gets too close to the target the hunter suddenly becomes the hunted.

Actors : Adolph Caesar, David Alan Grier, Howard E. Rollins Jr., Art Evans,
Directors : Norman Jewison,

An African American officer investigates a murder in a racially charged situation in World War II.

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 : 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 : 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 : Roger Moore, Elliott Gould, Art Carney, Rod Steiger,
Directors : Bryan Forbes,

Chicago psychiatrist Judd Stevens is suspected of murdering one of his patients when the man turns up stabbed to death in the middle of the city. After repeated attempts to convince two ...

Actors : John Karlen, Hume Cronyn, Tim Matheson, Meg Tilly,
Directors : Graham Baker,

After a small earthquake in a small and quiet town, local citizens start to have a bizarre, violent and self-destructive behaviour...

Actors : Ray Lovelock, Cosimo Cinieri, Olga Karlatos, Claudio Cassinelli,
Directors : Lucio Fulci,

The owner of a prestigious New York ballet school teams up with a male model to solve a series of bizarre murders of a few of the students.

Actors : Kathy LaCommare, Ric Randig, Dick Biel, Forbes Riley,
Directors : Richard W. Haines,

A patient escapes from a mental hospital, killing one of his keepers and then a University professor after he makes his way to the local college. Next semester, the late prof's replacement ...

Actors : Sarah Miles, Faye Dunaway, Christopher Plummer, Donald Sutherland,

Dr Calgary returns home from an expedition and goes looking for a hitchhiker whom he gave a lift to two years previously in order to return the man's address book. He discovers the man has been executed for his mother's murder.

Actors : Mark Keyloun, Debra Winger, Darrell Larson, Brooke Alderson,
Directors : James Bridges,

Betty has a crush on her tennis coach Mike. He keeps on promising to call, but never does - she doesn't know that he's a little dealer. After a failed deal in someone else's district he has...

Actors : Hardy Krüger, Dennis Hopper, Gösta Ekman, Kåre Mölder,
Directors : Tom Clegg,

"The Inside Man" is based on a real-life incident during the days of the Cold War when a Soviet submarine was spotted in Swedish waters.

Actors : FM Einheit, William Rice, Britzhold Baron De Belle, Christiane Felscherinow,
Directors : Muscha,

A burger shop employee discovers that by changing the background music from pleasantly calming to industrial "noise" music, he can incite riots and a revolution against the looming power of the government.

Actors : David Allen Brooks, Lolita Lorre, Rachael Kelly, Marie Masters,
Directors : Michael Winner,

A teenaged girl discovers that her stepfather is trying to murder her and her mother, but when she tells people, no one will believe her.

Actors : Pedro Oliveira, Ana Zanatti, Luís Lima Barreto, Teresa Madruga,
Directors : António-Pedro Vasconcelos,

Alvaro, a divorced journalist with a complicated love life, watches someone he doesn't know killing himself after a fight with a woman who he gave a lift. Intrigued by that mysterious ...

Actors : Nancy Allen, Richard Blackburn, Don Peoples, Catherine Schultz,
Directors : Paul Bartel,

Tabloid reporter Lois Thornedyke and her photographer Barry Denver stumble upon evidence of a sex scandal, blackmail and political conspiracy that may involve her love interest Franklyn - the saintly Mayor of New York City.

Actors : Jean-Louis Trintignant, Charlotte Rampling, Michel Piccoli, Evelyne Bouix,
Directors : Claude Lelouch,

The movie starts with an interview with director Claude Lelouch. He pleads viewers not to disclose the plot of the movie after leaving the projection room. Even the movie's trailer shows ...

Actors : Mayumi Ogawa, Yoshio Harada, Yôko Takahashi, Tsutomu Yamazaki,
Directors : Shûji Terayama,

A surreal, isolated village sees its inhabitants gradually leave behind their mutual traditions and superstitions as they leave for the city. Among them are two cousins who love each other and who get into a quarrel with other villagers.