Best Mystery movies of 1970s

Actors : Anthony Steffen, Umberto Raho, Anita Strindberg, Gabriele Tinti,

A couple who vacationing in Haiti happens to stumble upon an old doctor friend. Dr Steffen has cooked up a powerful new hallucinogenic drug and there are quite a few different parties interesting in acquiring the formula.

Actors : Elke Sommer, Donald Pilon, Chuck Shamata, George Touliatos,
Directors : Murray Markowitz,

A woman is murdered and her millionaire husband is accused. But is he guilty?

Actors : Yun Ling, Tony Liu, Lung Ti, Li Ching,
Directors : Yuen Chor,

Once again we follow the ultimate playboy sword master, Chu Liu Hsiang, and his faithful friend, Yi Tien Hung, on another amazing adventure in Southeastern China. This time, our heroes make...

Actors : Mariya Kapnist, Natalya Petrova, Vladimir Fyodorov, Valeri Kozinets,
Directors : Aleksandr Ptushko,

Based on Russian poet Alexander Pushkin's fairy tale poem of the same name. In the midst of the wedding party of Prince Ruslan and Ludmila, Ludmila is kidnapped by an evil sorcerer. Her ...

Actors : Patricia Neal, Cloris Leachman, Bobby Darin, Tessa Dahl,
Directors : Darren McGavin,

Also known as "Run Stranger Run", this small film centres round an adopted teen who runs away to what he believes to be his birth town and mother... See full synopsis »

Actors : Sylvia Chang, Chun Shih, Feng Hsu, Hui Lou Chen,
Directors : King Hu,

A scholar, tasked to copy a sutra, meets with a mysterious old lady and her daughter in the mountains.

Actors : John Scanlon, Angelo Infanti, Rosalba Neri, Daniela Giordano,
Directors : William Rose,

A sadistic killer cult kidnaps and sacrifices beautiful women. A young girl, just paroled from prison, moves into a strange house and appears to be the cult's next victim.

Actors : John Mills, Margaret Tyzack, Simon MacCorkindale, Barbara Kellerman,
Directors : Piers Haggard,

A separate screenplay by Nigel Kneale for theaters, parallel to the 1979 Quatermass four part mini-series. The story set in the near future involves influences from outer space that are possessing people. Professor Quatermass must save his granddaughter from the clutches of a popular and sinister cult "Planet People" that "performs raptures".

Actors : Claudia Cardinale, Monica Vitti, Renato Pozzetto, Vittorio Gassman,
Directors : Marcello Fondato,

Tina is on trial for the murder of her lover, Gino. The violent nature of their relationship, revealed in the trial, seems to make obvious that she accidentally killed him during a fight. ...

Actors : Andrés Mejuto, Gianni Garko, Guglielmo Spoletini, María Silva,
Directors : Rafael Romero Marchent,

A pair of outlaws are on the hunt for some loot they know is missing from a robbery. Outsmarting and killing anyone who tries to foil their plans.

Actors : Susan Keller, John Candy, Stephen Young, Lawrence Dane,
Directors : Martyn Burke,

Four men kidnap an old girlfriend on Halloween night as a joke to ruin a real estate deal, only to have a very real clown-masked killer stalk them seeking revenge.

Actors : Dyanne Thorne, Lory Hansen, Leslie Simms, Peter Carpenter,
Directors : Alex Nicol,

A nightclub singer has nightmares about being involved in adultery and murder, only to wake up and find that they may not be nightmares.

Actors : Narendra Nath, Shashi Kapoor, Rakhee Gulzar, Nasir Hussain,
Directors : Samir Ganguly,

An army captain falls for an outgoing young woman, but unknowingly weds her shy twin sister.

Actors : Khosrow Shojazadeh, Esmat Safavi, Manuchehr Farid, Parvaneh Massoumi,
Directors : Bahram Beizai,

In a remote village beside the sea in north of Iran the villagers see a boat which approaching them. In the boat is a wounded man Ayat who can not remember what had happened to him. A widow...

Actors : Elizabeth Alexander, Nick Tate, Michelle Jarman, John Waters,
Directors : Ken Hannam,

A teacher discovers one of his students has a rare blood disease, and is drawn into a mystery that culminates in a thrilling climax.

Actors : Shreeram Lagoo, Vinod Khanna, Vidya Sinha, Sadhu Meher,
Directors : Raj N. Sippy,

A police detective helps a wealthy shoe company owner search for the young son of the owner's chaufeur whom was kidnapped by a disgruntled ex-employee and his gang for a large ransom.

Actors : Jaya Bhaduri, Iftekhar, Sanjeev Kumar, Asrani,
Directors : Raghunath Jhalani,

A writer rescues a young woman lying injured on the road. She awakens with amnesia, but insists that she is the writer's wife. Is she the victim or the perpetrator of a devious plot?

Actors : Marcel Bozzuffi, Charlotte Rampling, Michael Lonsdale, David Birney,
Directors : Geoffrey Reeve,

American Neil Bowman is traveling through France when he meets British photographer Lila. They are hired by French land owner Duc de Croyter to escort a Hungarian scientist to New York. But...

Actors : John Harmon, Robert Gribbin, Russell Johnson, Randy Echols,
Directors : Irvin Berwick,

Howard is a mild-mannered young man who drives a truck for a commercial laundry. He's also a mother-obsessed psycho who picks up young female hitchhikers, rapes them and kills them. As the ...

Actors : James Daly, Bradford Dillman, Leslie Nielsen, Angie Dickinson,
Directors : Bob Wynn,

A reporter uncovers an amazing medical plot.