Best Investigation movies of 1980s

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 : Arnold Marquis, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Günther Kaufmann, Boy Gobert,
Directors : Wolf Gremm,

In a totalitarian society of the future, in which the government controls all facets of the media, a homicide detective investigates a string of bombings, and finds out more than he bargained for.

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 : 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 : Raymond Carbone, Bruce Paquette, Asbestos Felt, Courtney Lercara,
Directors : Tim Ritter,

A man suspects his wife of adultery and goes on a killing spree, eliminating all he believes are sleeping with her, but his victims don't stay dead.

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 : Robin Gammell, Sara Botsford, John Houseman, 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 : Jack Starrett, Elizabeth Kaitan, Alisha Das, Brian Thompson,
Directors : Bruce R. Cook,

A professor and four graduate students journey to a crumbling mansion to investigate paranormal activity and must battle ghosts, aliens and satanic entities.

Actors : Thomas Bern, Sylvia Summers, Lauren Peterson, Ashlyn Gere,
Directors : David DeCoteau,

A heavy-metal musician makes a deal with a satanic succubus to make him successful with women, in return for the succubus being able to feed on the girls.

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

A woman is stalked by a psychotic killer.

Actors : Lino Banfi, Maurizio Ferrini, Maurizio Micheli, Isabel Russinova,
Directors : Dino Risi,

Police commissioner Lo Gatto is in charge of the local Italian police station within Vatican State. During an investigation, following the murder of a Vatican priest, he decides to question...

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 : Blue Thompson, Brad McCormick, Scott Davis, Jude Johnson,
Directors : Bret McCormick,

An old woman coughs up what she believes to be a tumor. While asleep, the thing crawls inside of her son and reproduces inside him, then causes him to go on a killing spree to feed it.

Actors : Patti Chambers, Carla Bragoli, Carrie Gordon, Carmine Capobianco,
Directors : Gorman Bechard,

A strip-joint owner and a manicurist find that they have many things in common, the foremost being that they are psychotic serial killers. They fall in love and are happy being the family ...

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 : 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 : Billy Dee Williams, Robert Carradine, Valerie Bertinelli, Peter Graves,
Directors : Jack Smight,

A pair of detectives is assigned to investigate a murder, and discover a trail of corruption and criminal activity that leads right back to their own police department.

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 : Christine Amor, Leon Lissek, Ian Williams, Helen Thomson,
Directors : Alec Mills,

A serial killer is loose at an all girl school, where he strangles girls with a piece of barbed wire.

Actors : Allu Aravind, Suhasini, Chandramohan, Chiranjeevi,
Directors : Jandhyala,

A comedy about the famous (Self-proclaimed) detective - James Pond - as he tries to find the lost son of a famous industrialist