Best Investigation movies of 1980s

Actors : Robert Mitchum, Mike Connors, James Franciscus, Jaclyn Smith,
Directors : Ted Post,

A woman is convinced by her lover to poison her cruel husband, a rich businessman. However, she becomes terrified when she finds the lover dead as well. A sinister PI, who's investigating her husband's disappearance, contacts her.

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 : Steven Berkoff, Nicola Cowper, Denholm Elliott, Larry Lamb,
Directors : George Pavlou,

When high class hooker Nicole is kidnapped from her brothel, Rich businessman Hugo Motherskille hires her ex love Roy Bain to find her. Investigating the disappearance, he eventually finds ...

Actors : Gyula Bodrogi, László Bánhidi, István Bujtor, András Kern,

The first part of the popular crime-comedies starring Csöpi Ötvös, who investigates about a hidden treasure this time.

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 : Shoshana Ascher, Ryan Hilliard, Ron Armstrong, Jamie Gillis,
Directors : Joel M. Reed,

Investigators search for soldiers' missing bodies, and hear unbelievable rumors about zombies. Dismissing those rumors they set out to investigate. After two men are found dead, CIA ...

Actors : Matthew Wong, Phillip Chung-Fung Kwok, Waise Lee, Joey Wang,

Inspector Waipong Wong has to put his life and resignation from the Hong Kong police department on hold to investigate his former partner's mysterious murder. What he and his crack team of ...

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 : Mei-Wah Wong, Wilson Lam, Kiu Wai Miu, Ching-Ying Lam,
Directors : Wei Tung,

A former cop rejoins the police department to investigate a drug ring that employs ghosts and vampires.

Actors : Nicola Stapleton, Billy Barty, Diana Rigg, Sarah Patterson,
Directors : Michael Berz,

Dame Diana Rigg (TV's "The Avengers"), Billy Barty ("Willow") and Sarah Patterson ("The Company of Wolves") as Snow White star in this feature-length, live-action, musical version of the classic fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm.

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 : 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 : 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 : 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

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Robin Gammell, John Houseman, Sara Botsford, 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.