Best Investigation movies of 1980s

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 : Barbara Carrera, Alan King, 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 : Michael Rubin, Craig Sabin, Steve McCoy, George Seminara,
Directors : John Elias Michalakis,

Six high school buddies accidentally kill a drug pusher and dump his body in toxic waters. When the pusher returns as a zombie and goes on a killing spree, their only recourse is to dump ...

Actors : Pat Morita, Chris Sarandon, Jay Leno, Tom Noonan,
Directors : Lewis Teague,

A Japanese investigator (Morita) and a Detroit cop (Leno) team up to track down a stolen prototype turbocharger.

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 : Art Metrano, Shelley Taylor Morgan, Darby Hinton, Sybil Danning,
Directors : Andy Sidaris,

A smooth-talking private eye is assigned the task of investigating who is behind the hi-tech computer technology leaks to the Russians.

Actors : Jean Topart, Michel Bouquet, Jean Poiret, Stéphane Audran,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

When a small town begins losing its citizenry in a series of grisly murders, out-of-town police inspector Jean Lavardin (Jean Poiret) is sent to investigate. Could the killers be a bullied ...

Actors : James Westmoreland, Nicholas Worth, Ben Frank, Flo Lawrence,
Directors : Robert Hammer,

A deeply disturbed Vietnam veteran terrorizes the young women of Los Angeles and taunts a radio psychologist with descriptions of his grisly crimes.

Actors : Don Barrett, Sherry Leigh, Joe B. Barton, Bill Brinsfield,
Directors : Rick Roessler,

The owner of a slaughterhouse facing foreclosure instructs his obese and mentally disabled son to go on a killing spree against the people who want to buy his property.

Actors : Conan Lee, Nina Li Chi, Norman Chu, Yun-Fat Chow,
Directors : Chia-Liang Liu,

A seasoned cop and his rookie partner are a pair of mismatched partners in this Hong Kong action-comedy in the style of 'Lethal Weapon'. The wacky twosome are up in arms as they try to solve the murder of a heroin trafficker.

Actors : Janardanan, Mammootty, Jagathi Sreekumar, Suresh Gopi,
Directors : K. Madhu,

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) led by Sethuram Iyer investigate an unnatural death.

Actors : Laurent Terzieff, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Nathalie Baye, Aurelle Doazan,
Directors : Jean-Luc Godard,

In a palace of Paris. Two detectives are investigating a two-year-old murder. Emile and Francoise Chenal are putting pressure on Jim Fox Warner, a boxing manager, who owes them a huge ...

Actors : David Wysocki, Mary Beth McDonough, Lynda Day George, Bill Paxton,
Directors : Howard Avedis,

Convinced that her father's death was not accidental, a beautiful girl decides to investigate to find out the truth, aided by her boyfriend. Her sleuthing draws her to a local mortuary, where many secrets will be revealed.

Actors : Jack Hallett, Brenda Vaccaro, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Nicholas Love,
Directors : Matthew Chapman,

Carol inherits a night club from her weird uncle. She moves into the place, only to find out just how weird her uncle really was. She begins to remember more about her very special ...

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 : Josef Sommer, Charles Durning, Belinda Bauer, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Fred Walton,

A priest is put in a dilemma when the serial killer who has been murdering priests and nuns confesses to him.

Actors : Jean-Claude Brialy, Jean-Luc Bideau, Bernadette Lafont, Jean Poiret,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

Inspector Lavardin is induced to investigate the murder of a province's notable who was taking himself as the moral guardian of his village. The perspective of the inquiry changes when the ...

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.

Actors : Serene Hedin, James Remar, Trevor Howard, Nick Ramus,
Directors : Kieth Merrill,

An ancient Indian warrior who has reached the end of his life is brought back from his 'death' to save his family from a raiding party of enemy Indians in this unique story of 'Indians ...