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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Rob Lowe, Colleen Camp, Kenneth Mars, Kim Myers,
Directors : Peter Bogdanovich,

Called up for jury duty, Richard Dice finds his first crush and only real, but unrequited love, on trial for murder. Richard desperately tries to prove Mollys innocence while untangling a ...

Actors : Amy Irving, Andy Garcia, Lou Diamond Phillips, Robert Duvall,
Directors : Bruno Barreto,

An American journalist in Puerto Rico in 1978 investigates the death of nationalists who may have been murdered by the police.

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 : Joly Garbi, Manos Destounis, Harry Klynn, Dimitris Piatas,

This film consists of three hilarious parts. In the first one we see a great police detective entering a house to solve a crime and destroying everything and everyone inside it, the second ...

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

A woman is stalked by a psychotic killer.

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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,

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 : 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 : 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 : 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.