Best Mystery movies of 1970s

Actors : Sylvia Kristel, David Rappaport, Rita Tushingham, Rutger Hauer,
Directors : Paul de Lussanet,

A wealthy visitor to a small town befriends a midget and gets involved with two women as his behaviour becoming ever stranger.

Actors : Roddy McDowall, Elsa Lanchester, Shani Wallis, Stella Stevens,
Directors : Georg Fenady,

Upon his death, Arnold marries his lover, Karen, in spite of his widow, and leaves deathtraps accompanied by audiotapes and his preserved and articulate corpse for those who cared only for his money.

Actors : Bruno Cremer, Raffaella Carrà, Renaud Verley, Marianne Comtell,
Directors : Yves Boisset,

Duca Lamberti est un ancien médecin, radié de l'ordre pour avoir pratiqué l'euthanasie; il est appelé par l'ing. Auseri pour essayer de sortir son fils David d'une dépression nerveuse qu'il...

Actors : Ivano Staccioli, Gianni Garko, Carroll Baker, Pilar Velázquez,
Directors : Gianfranco Piccioli,

A wealthy doctor Andrea Valenti (Gianni Garko) accidentally kills his mistress, then the doctor falls victim of blackmail.

Actors : Silvano Tranquilli, Ewa Aulin, Jean Sorel, Lucia Bosé,
Directors : Romolo Guerrieri,

A man is shot in an underground car-park by a mysterious bearded man. As he dies he recollects the events that led him to this situation, including adulterous liaisons and jealous envy.

Actors : Isabela Corona, María Rebeca, Manuel Ojeda, Diana Bracho,
Directors : Arturo Ripstein,

Old aunt Alejandra goes to live with a Mexican middle-class family; she's bitter and the children tease her and make her life miserable, but the old woman is truly a witch, and takes revenge.

Actors : Patty Shepard, Dean Selmier, Fernando Cebrián, Carmen Sevilla,
Directors : Eloy de la Iglesia,

Marta spends a few days alone while her husband is on a business trip. But she starts to get scared when she hears some mysterious steps every night on the top floor. Her neighbor will try ...

Actors : Johnnie Hill, Emerson Boozer, Owen Watson, René Van Clief,
Directors : Michael Fink,

The female head of a detective agency is hired by a crime lord to figure out who's taking his action.

Actors : Orchidea de Santis, Erika Blanc, Ezio Marano, Peter Lee Lawrence,
Directors : Sauro Scavolini,

German ornithologist rents old Villa, in which supposedly has many years no one lived. Walking around the neighborhood, he finds a crumpled foil. Purging them and after listening, he learns...

Actors : Charles Janssens, Cox Habbema, Hugo Metsers, Willeke van Ammelrooy,
Directors : Harry Kümel,

Actors : John Phillip Law, Alessandro Poggi, Nathalie Delon, Olga Bisera,
Directors : Marcello Aliprandi,

Martino is a young child who claims to have an invisible friend called Luca. His parents assume it is just a game, but strange things start to happen...

Actors : Samantha Eggar, Barry Morse, Keir Dullea, Jack Palance,
Directors : Peter Sasdy,

A group of people find themselves as slaves in what looks like a Wild West town, but with no memory of who they are or how they got there. In this town, people advance through killing ...

Actors : Ray Sharkey, Joanna Cassidy, Robert Forster, Fiona Lewis,
Directors : Mark L. Lester,

After a stunt man dies while he is involved in the making of a motion picture, his brother takes his place in order to find out what really happened.

Actors : Simone Bach, Maurice Ronet, Romy Schneider, Gabriele Tinti,
Directors : Léonard Keigel,

Marina and her boyfriend have an argument while on a trip in France. While driving with the car among the cliffs, he starts speeding and the car falls into the sea. Marina can jump out of ...

Actors : Olive Denneccio, João Fernandes, Linda Southern, Larry Hunter,
Directors : Doris Wishman,

A seemingly pleasant fellow, Arthur goes berserk and rapes any woman in front of him wearing gold earrings. One woman tells the investigating detective (who is Arthur's uncle) she was raped...

Actors : Robert Ginnaven, Gary Brockette, Rod Serling, John Leslie,
Directors : Harry Thomason,

Three eerie tales based on actual events are enacted in this film. First, three college students play a prank on a geeky classmate, who is accidentally shot and killed. His vengeful mother ...

Actors : Patrick Byers, Mary Agen Cox, Matt Borel, Gil Glasgow,
Directors : James L. Wilson,

10 college students go camping, when they get there, they tell scary stories to each other.

Actors : Maurizio Degli Esposti, Lucia Bosé, Rosaria, Tina Aumont,
Directors : Giulio Questi,

A Sicilian widow earns her living as a clairvoyant, in Milan, but she hasn't got any power at all. Her son instead holds supernatural powers and with the help of his mother he becomes a ...

Actors : Esther Studer, Nanda Van Bergen, Lina Romay, Michael Maien,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

Margarita, the only witness of a brutal murder, has temporary amnesia due to shock. She's sent to a psychiatric clinic where a masked man rapes her and kills another woman. She must piece her memory back together before he returns.

Actors : Claudine Gabay, Noëlle Chatelet, Delphine Seyrig, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Marguerite Duras,

In response to her new friend's queries, Vera recounts the story of her life, beginning with marrying her no-good husband Cayre (Gerard Depardieu), who has been using her for some time to keep his failing building business afloat.