Best Investigation movies of 1980s

Actors : Brittain Frye, Annette Sinclair, Bunky Jones, George Thomas,
Directors : Skip Schoolnik,

A group of teenagers spends the night in a furniture store for a graduation party. A psycho killer starts to hunt them down and kill them off.

Actors : Donald Pleasence, Suzanna Love, Robert Walker Jr., Paul Willson,
Directors : Ulli Lommel,

Dr. Worley investigates a 300-year-old witch's curse in the New England town of Devonsville. Three liberated, assertive women move into town, which angers the bigoted, male-dominated town ...

Actors : Martin Balsam, Franco Nero, Anthony Quinn, Sybil Danning,
Directors : Peter Zinner,

An Italian policeman investigates a series of murders involving people in prominent positions. Left behind at each murder scene is a drawing of a salamander. The policeman begins to suspect...

Actors : Kiefer Sutherland, Liz Fraser, Emily Lloyd, John Lahr,
Directors : Bernard Rose,

During World War II, an American serviceman in London decides to impress his English girlfriend by acting as an American gangster, which soon turns deadly.

Actors : Donald Pleasence, Klaus Kinski, Barbara De Rossi, Christopher Plummer,

Professor Paris Catalano visits Venice, to investigate the last known appearance of the famous vampire Nosferatu during the carnival of 1786.

Actors : Sara Hauser, Lisa Jane Todd, Patrick Danz, Mark Jacobs,
Directors : Jim Mallon,

During a local fishing contest, people are being mysteriously dragged into the lake and killed by a giant fish hook. After a sufficient number of deaths, the killer is finally revealed.

Actors : Eb Lottimer, Christina Applegate, Jane Chung, David Mendenhall,
Directors : Katt Shea,

Serious, well-made story of runaways living in Venice, California, under the threat of a psychotic cop who is a serial killer of prostitutes.

Actors : Angela Punch McGregor, Robert Powell, Joseph Cotten, Jenny Agutter,
Directors : David Hemmings,

A plane crashes just after takeoff and the only survivor, the pilot, walks out of the wreckage. He doesn't remember the crash, but 300 passengers and crew are dead. As the investigation goes on people are wanting answers.

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 : Peter MacNeill, Chris Sarandon, Victoria Tennant, Jean LeClerc,
Directors : Douglas Jackson,

A woman is stalked by a psychotic killer.

Actors : David Moses, Diana Davidson, Toni Jannotta, John Stinson,
Directors : William Malone,

An ex-cop, now working as a hack novelist, is called out of retirement to help investigate a string of deaths that appear to be the work of a serial killer but soon are revealed to be the ...

Actors : Kathleen Bailey, Derek Rydall, Jovanni Brascia, Allen Garfield,
Directors : Rupert Hitzig,

A student known for telling stories witnesses a murder, the latest in a series of satanic killings of hookers.

Actors : Seymour Brussel, Didier Bourdon, Bernard Campan, Pascal Légitimus,
Directors : Jean-Pierre Vergne,

A serial killer murders women by knocking them out with the handset of a phone and signs his crime by sticking the dial in his victims' forehead. Private eye Marc Elbichon (whose real name ...

Actors : Marie Claes, Helga Vandevelde, Let Jotts, Nick Van Suyt,
Directors : Johan Vandewoestijne,

A serial killer awakens from a coma and escapes from a mental hospital to kill a survivor of his slayings years ago, all the while stalking, terrifying, and killing women on the way.

Actors : Elizabeth Kemp, Norman Parker, Perry King, Kenneth McMillan,
Directors : Armand Mastroianni,

Two uneasy friends, a police officer and a TV talk show host, each pursue the mysterious "handcuff killer" with the aid of an artist who sees - and draws - the killer's crimes before they're committed.

Actors : Mako, David Carradine, Lee Van Cleef, Lois Hamilton,
Directors : Fred Olen Ray,

One of Tanaka's underlings has stolen a rare statuette that he had planned to use as a peace offering between the local Yakusa and Chinese Tong. He hires two private investigators to ...

Actors : Cameron Mitchell, Faith Clift, Marc Lawrence, Richard Moll,

Police detective, Mitchell, investigating the death of a victim of a Nazi concentration camp discovers a nightclubbing playboy who has strange powers over women and is seemingly ageless.

Actors : Richard Bradford, Roy Scheider, Lane Smith, Karen Young,
Directors : Peter Masterson,

A police detective tracks a serial killer who is stalking young women on a beach front after each game that a baseball pitcher wins.

Actors : Donald Pleasence, Renée Simonsen, Nicola Perring, Tom Schanley,
Directors : Carlo Vanzina,

A serial killer roams the city of Milan, Italy, using scissors to assassinate and kill top-models. A park ranger from USA arrives in the city to protect his sister, but realizes that she ...

Actors : Gwynyth Walsh, Don Lake, Steve Railsback, Ivan E. Roth,
Directors : William Fruet,

Detective Jim Bishop and Dr. Rachel Carson must find a way to stop a giant monstrous insect that's eating people in her quarantined hospital before it procreates and spreads a deadly infection it's carrying,