Best Mystery movies of 1980s

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 : 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 : Dennis Lipscomb, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Eric Stoltz, Judith Ivey,
Directors : Bill Condon,

Two sisters turn their family mansion in Louisiana into a guest house. One of their guests is an aide to a congressman, and turns their lives inside out.

Actors : Amol Palekar, Shabana Azmi, Sudhir Mishra, Soni Razdan,
Directors : Vidhu Vinod Chopra,

When a starlet is murdered on a film location, her detective brother arrives there to solve the mystery.

Actors : François Cluzet, Christophe Malavoy, Claire Nebout, Jean-Pierre Bisson,
Directors : Claude Zidi,

Actors : Vanessa Hidalgo, Helga Liné, Jeffrey Healey, Alfred Lucchetti,
Directors : José Ramón Larraz,

A young woman travels with her partner to England on the unexpected death of her brother. Staying with her sister-in-law, she finds her companion soon drawn into a satanic cult based in the...

Actors : David Michael O'Neill, Pamela Gilbert, George Kennedy, Billy Jayne,
Directors : Emmett Alston,

A man and his daughter are attacked in the woods by what they believe is a Bigfoot-type creature. However, they soon begin to suspect that they may have stumbled onto a nest of aliens in a hidden spacecraft.

Actors : Marianna Hill, Donna Wilkes, Klaus Kinski, Craig Wasson,
Directors : David Paulsen,

An advice columnist begins receiving threatening notes from an anonymous stalker; meanwhile, members of her group therapy session are being murdered by an unknown assailant.

Actors : Keith Carradine, Jeff Fahey, Karen Allen, Bernie Casey,
Directors : Gilbert Cates,

Disgruntled wife cheats on her well off husband, who's been suffering from PTSD ever since he came home from the Vietnam War. After an incident he ends up in a catatonic state. Soon, she begins to suspect that someone is after her.

Actors : Robin Gammell, John Houseman, Sara Botsford, Richard Chamberlain,
Directors : Michael Anderson,

A disgruntled phone company employee develops a device whereby those answering a phone can be murdered, and it's up to Nat Bridger to stop the killer.

Actors : Talia Balsam, Nichelle Nichols, Bradford Bancroft, Maxwell Caulfield,
Directors : Armand Mastroianni,

Nichelle Nichols is an army sergeant who leads her platoon into the woods of the deep south on a training exercise. Unfortunately, it is the site where a bunch of yankee soldiers murdered a...

Actors : Naseeruddin Shah, Amrish Puri, Smita Patil, Om Puri,
Directors : Govind Nihalani,

A public prosecutor discovers the harsh realities about life of the scheduled tribes in India during 1980s while defending a case of a tribesman charged of murdering his wife.

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

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

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 : Jennifer Beals, Alan Bates, Jan Niklas, Hanns Zischler,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

In the not-too-distant future Berlin is shocked by a series of spectacular suicides; a policeman's investigations lead him to a beautiful, enigmatic woman and the revelation of a sinister ...

Actors : Xavier Deluc, Charlotte Rampling, Elisabeth Depardieu, Michel Serrault,
Directors : Jacques Deray,

The inspector Staniland as always try to put himself in the place of the victim, this time an unsuccessful pianist. That's when the victim's mistress Barbara entered the appartment, look ...

Actors : David Birney, Andra Millian, Alexis Kanner, Sarah Douglas,
Directors : Paul Mayersberg,

Far across the cosmos from our world lies a planet bathed in perpetual daylight. Soon nightfall will come and bring with it tremendous destruction. Science struggles against superstition in...

Actors : Suzy Aitchison, Nikki Brooks, Daniel James, Mark Powley,
Directors : Norman J. Warren,

Five shipwrecked English teenagers take refuge in an island hotel that is decorated for New Years. The problem is, it's early summer, and soon enough, even the walls themselves are striking out against them...

Actors : Robert Sacchi, Michelle Phillips, Olivia Hussey, Franco Nero,
Directors : Robert Day,

A man with a fixation on Humphrey Bogart gets plastic surgery to make him look exactly like Bogart. Then he changes his name to Sam Marlowe (after Sam Spade and Phillip Marlowe, two of ...

Actors : Ritchie Singer, Celine O'Leary, Steven Vidler, Vincent Gil,
Directors : Rolf de Heer,

Ex-con Eddie Cleary gets a job working on his older brother's isolated farm. It's not long before bizarre things start happening--dead birds falling out of the sky, family pets attacking ...