Best Mystery movies of 1970s

Actors : Rod Taylor, Theodore Bikel, Suzy Kendall, Ahna Capri,
Directors : Robert Clouse,

Professional beach bum and 'knight errant' Travis McGee goes up against psychotic body-builder Terry Bartell. McGee pulls out all the stops when he joins a Carribean cruise to bring the killer to justice.

Actors : John Saxon, Tisa Farrow, Stuart Whitman, Martin Landau,
Directors : Alberto De Martino,

An Ottawa police captain searches for the person who poisoned his sister, who was attending the university in Montreal. So desperate is he for revenge that he begin to use his own brutal ...

Actors : Alan Scott, Carroll Baker, Eduardo Fajardo, Ida Galli,
Directors : Umberto Lenzi,

As a thirteen year old, Martha Caldwell witnessed the death of her parents in a terrible railway accident. Barely surviving the tragedy herself, Martha was struck dumb due to the shock. Now...

Actors : Ralph Bellamy, Forrest Tucker, Bob Hope, Eva Marie Saint,
Directors : Paul Bogart,

Bob Hope is a stressed out talk show host who is sent on a vacation to Arizona on doctor's orders and has to play Sherlock Holmes with his wife, the lovely Eva Marie Saint, to solve a series of murders that has Bob as the prime suspect.

Actors : Michelle Phillips, Robert Sacchi, 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 : Jackson Beck, Pamela Gruen, Devin Goldenberg, Allen Garfield,
Directors : John G. Avildsen,

Private detective takes on a case and gets mixed up in murder, sex and blackmail.

Actors : Jole Fierro, Luc Merenda, Francisco Rabal, Leonora Fani,
Directors : Francesco Barilli,

A young girl and her mother run a hotel during the war. When the mother dies, the girl finds herself at the mercy of her sex-crazed guests. Soon enough, a cloaked figure starts killing off everyone that tries to harm her.

Actors : Sanjay Khan, Danny Denzongpa, Navin Nischol, Zeenat Aman,
Directors : B.R. Chopra,

A traveler decides to assist a woman involved in a murder.

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 : Victor French, Jean Durand, Mike Evans, Janee Michelle,
Directors : Ron Honthaner,

Murders occur at the southern estate of a voodoo priestess when four relatives gather to hear her will.

Actors : Nadja Tiller, Samantha Eggar, John Marley, Alex Cord,
Directors : Armando Crispino,

A photographer on an archaeological expedition digging up Etruscan ruins in Italy begins to suspect that not all the Etruscans buried there are actually dead.

Actors : Anuska Borova, Nieves Navarro, George Martin, Robert Hoffmann,
Directors : Maurizio Pradeaux,

A photographer named Kitty (Susan Scott) watched through a tourist telescope the killing of a woman through the window of a nearby house. She is unable to get a clear view of the killer's ...

Actors : Jacqueline Bisset, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Marcello Mastroianni, Aldo Reggiani,
Directors : Luigi Comencini,

Police commissioner Santamaria is investigating the murdering of the ambiguous architect Mr. Garrone. The investigations soon drive him into the Torino's high society. Santamaria suspect ...

Actors : Joseph Bova, Elliott Gould, Edward Grover, Trevor Howard,
Directors : Jack Gold,

After an American scientist is severely injured and scarred in a car crash along the border with East Germany, he is captured by East German military. The scientists use metal implants to save him. Once he's back in the States, no one can tell if it's really him, so an intelligence specialist must determine who is under the "mask".

Actors : Frank Finlay, Freddie Jones, Suzy Kendall, James Laurenson,
Directors : Sidney Hayers,

After one schoolgirl is raped while taking a short cut through the local woods, and another is murdered in the same woods a few days later, the local police are baffled. With the help of a ...

Actors : Michelle Yim, Siu-Ming Lau, Kuo-Chu Chang, Shu Tong Wong,
Directors : Hark Tsui,

A journalist attempting to solve a mystery in "Martial World" enlists the aid of a master fighter and a woman named Green Breeze. They go to a mysterious castle where they come across poisonous butterflies and a black-leather-clad killer.

Actors : Claudia Cardinale, Enzo Jannacci, Michel Piccoli, Ugo Tognazzi,
Directors : Marco Ferreri,

A young man from north Italy named Amedeo decides to come to Rome.He has a crazy idea in his head to meet the pope.

Actors : Jacqueline Bisset, John Phillip Law, Sam Wanamaker, Christopher Plummer,
Directors : Peter Collinson,

Helen has been incapable of speech since seeing her husband die - will she become the target of a deranged serial killer targeting disabled people?

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 : Arthur O'Sullivan, Anton Diffring, Luigi Pistilli, Dagmar Lassander,
Directors : Riccardo Freda,

In Dublin, a young woman is brutally murdered in her home by a maniac that throws acid in her face and then slits her throat with a razor. Her mangled body is later discovered in the boot ...