Best Mystery movies of 1989

Actors : Al Pacino, John Goodman, Ellen Barkin, Michael Rooker,
Directors : Harold Becker,

A detective investigating a series of murders becomes involved with a woman who may be the culprit.

Actors : Bruce Dern, Carrie Fisher, Tom Hanks, Corey Feldman,
Directors : Joe Dante,

An overstressed suburbanite and his fellow neighbors are convinced that the new family on the block are part of a murderous Satanic cult.

Actors : Hal Holbrook, Julianne Phillips, R. Lee Ermey, Chevy Chase,
Directors : Michael Ritchie,

After receiving an inheritance in Louisiana, Los Angeles reporter Irvin Fletcher heads to the Belle Isle plantation where he gets himself into hilarious trouble.

Actors : Daniel Stern, Richard Crenna, Amanda Pays, Peter Weller,
Directors : George P. Cosmatos,

An American deep-sea mining colony stumbles upon a sunken Soviet vessel hiding a horrific secret.

Actors : Annie Potts, John Candy, Tim Thomerson, Jeffrey Jones,
Directors : Paul Flaherty,

Harry Crumb is a bumbling and inept private investigator who is hired to solve the kidnapping of a young heiress which he's not expected to solve because his employer is the mastermind behind the kidnapping.

Actors : William Daniels, Paulina Porizkova, Tom Selleck, James Farentino,
Directors : Bruce Beresford,

A writer of BAD detective novels is in full writers' block. He pretends to be the alibi of a beautiful woman who was arrested for murder at first thinking her innocent, but as she shows ...

Actors : Bryan Madorsky, Mary Beth Hurt, Sandy Dennis, Randy Quaid,
Directors : Bob Balaban,

A young boy living in 1950s suburbia suspects his parents are cannibalistic murderers.

Actors : Kris Kristofferson, Robert Joy, Daniel J. Travanti, Cheryl Ladd,
Directors : Michael Anderson,

An NTSB investigator seeking the cause of an airline disaster meets a warrior woman from 1000 years in the future. She replaces the people from airplanes before they crash with corpses with the same features.

Actors : Susan Sarandon, Harvey Keitel, Kevin Kline, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio,
Directors : Pat O'Connor,

Nick and Frank Starkey were both policemen. A scandal forced Nick to leave the force, now a serial killer has driven the police to take him back. A web that includes Frank's wife, bribery, ...

Actors : Richard Herd, Christian Slater, Steven Bauer, Le Tuan,
Directors : Graeme Clifford,

Brian's adopted brother is killed when he discovers that the shop he works in sends weapons to Vietnam instead of medications. To the police it looks like suicide, but Brian knows better so...

Actors : Ned Beatty, Burt Reynolds, Kay Lenz, Theresa Russell,
Directors : Michael Crichton,

A police officer suspended and now accused of murder is forced to join forces with his court-appointed attorney to assemble the pieces of a deadly puzzle to find the missing link before time runs out.

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 : Bronson Pinchot, Stuart Pankin, Bess Armstrong, John Larroquette,
Directors : Joel Zwick,

John Larroquette is the head of a detective agency that is hired to find a missing person, probably kidnapped. They employ the help of a mystic/psychic to help find the missing girl.

Actors : Daniel Ceccaldi, Anémone, Miranda Richardson, Jeff Goldblum,
Directors : Fernando Trueba,

American writer in Paris is hired to do a script for an edgy young director he can't stand. When he falls in love with the director's cold and manipulative pretty sister, his life starts to unravel and he realizes that he's been used.

Actors : Laurence Côte, Bulle Ogier, Benoît Régent, Fejria Deliba,
Directors : Jacques Rivette,

A drama following 4 women at stage school. Considered by some to be the summation of director Jacques Rivette's work as a whole.

Actors : Donald Pleasence, Brenda Vaccaro, Herbert Lom, Frank Stallone,
Directors : Alan Birkinshaw,

Ten people are invited to go on an African safari, only to find that an unseen person is killing them one by one. Could one of them be the killer?

Actors : Inês de Medeiros, Luís Miguel Cintra, Pedro Hestnes, Nuno Ferreira,
Directors : Pedro Costa,

Vicente, seventeen, lives with brother Nino, ten-years-old, and his ailing father in a derelict house on the outskirts of the capital. They don't seem to remember their mother, and are very...

Actors : Carol Lynley, Jenny Agutter, Michael Moriarty, Theodore Bikel,

The construction of a skyscraper is being haunted by a ghost.

Actors : Ernesto Laguardia, Erika Buenfil, Fernando Almada, Edna Bolkan,
Directors : Rubén Galindo Jr.,

Teenagers accidentally resurrect a satanic killer who targets the local police captain's daughter to birth the antichrist.

Actors : Tom Jansen, Leen Jongewaard, Renée Fokker, Marie Kooyman,
Directors : Theo van Gogh,

A lawyer must defend a nightclub owner accused of committing a crime-of-passion.