Best Investigation movies of 1980s

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 : Hema Malini, Jeetendra, Zeenat Aman, Dharmendra,
Directors : Mohan Segal,

Captain Chawla has been employed for years with a cargo shipping company run by Ranbir. While celebrating the new year, Chawla hears gunshots and goes below to investigate. He finds out ...

Actors : Vijay Aidasani, Jayshree Arora, Ila Arun, Kabir Bedi,
Directors : Esmayeel Shroff,

Inspector Shahnawaz Khan is called in to question some people about the apparel death of a young woman named Karuna Sharma. These people claims that Karuna's death was due to suicide but at...

Actors : George Eastman, Christian De Sica, Lorin Dreyfuss, David Landsberg,
Directors : Filippo Ottoni,

Two bumbling private detectives get themselves hired to find a missing person. They find themselves in the middle of a mob war when it turns out that the missing person is somebody the mob wants to stay missing.

Actors : Cindy Ferda, James Carroll Jordan, J. Buzz Von Ornsteiner, John Henry Richardson,
Directors : James Shyman,

A female cop goes undercover as a dancer at an old theater to catch a serial killer who has been murdering women auditioning for a musical.

Actors : Diane Venora, David McCallum, Robert Joy, Joe Spano,
Directors : Sheldon Larry,

A patient in an hospital dies under mysterious circumstances. The attending doctor Fank Holt gets under suspect - he'd been fired already from his last position due to mispractice. For his ...

Actors : Angelyne, Peter Marc Jacobson, Lawrence Monoson, Brenda Bakke,
Directors : Marty Ollstein,

Someone is videotaping & killing members of a video dating club.

Actors : Robert Forster, Phillip Glasser, Lydie Denier, Caren Kaye,
Directors : Bert I. Gordon,

A down-on-his-luck cop runs into harder times when he is searching for a missing woman.

Actors : John Smihula, Fred Borges, Paul Smihula, Michael Siegal,
Directors : Nathan Schiff,

A series of horrible murders prompts a massive police investigation. Inspector James Cameron, a two-fisted roughneck with his own philosophy on handling crime, heads the investigation. A ...

Actors : Massimo Troisi, Maddalena Crippa, Armando Marra, Lello Arena,
Directors : Lodovico Gasparini,

A killer, he call himself Funiculi' Funicula', spread terror in a killing spree during the "Primo Festival Nuova Napoli" ("New Naples First Festival").

Actors : Kam Kong Chow, Jaclyn Chu, Billy Sau Yat Ching, Philip Chan,
Directors : Sammo Kam-Bo Hung,

Two policemen must pretend to be a gay couple in order to investigate the murders of homosexuals in Hong Kong.

Actors : Blackie Dammett, Henry Darrow, Wings Hauser, Sybil Danning,
Directors : Worth Keeter,

An ex-cop-turned-bounty hunter goes after a crazed killer.

Actors : Gregg Henry, Michael J. Pollard, Jeff Conaway, Simone Griffeth,
Directors : Frank Harris,

Agent tries to track down terrorists who are intercepting government nuclear weapons.

Actors : Jimmy Stathis, Clara Perryman, Cassandra Gava, Stephen Knight,

A serially unfaithful businessman rents a spare room from two siblings to use for his sexual conquests, unaware that they're serial killers who murder every woman he bring there.

Actors : Aldo Ray, Renee Harmon, Antoine John Mottet, Christopher Mitchum,
Directors : James Bryan,

An L.A. cop and a reporter team up to find a masked serial killer.

Actors : Kati Lázár, János Derzsi, Péter Haumann, Judit Pogány,
Directors : György Fehér,

When a schoolgirl is found murdered in the woods, a retiring detective tries to find her murderer.

Actors : Keith Carradine, Angelo Infanti, Phyllis Logan, Harvey Keitel,
Directors : Damiano Damiani,

A Roman agent is sent to Palestine to investigate rumors of the resurrection of an executed criminal.

Actors : Ian McShane, Anne Archer, Leon Isaac Kennedy, Mike Connors,
Directors : Tony Lo Bianco,

A killer is brutually attacking several tenants that live in a high rise apartment building in New York City.

Actors : Yoshirô Aoki, Kai Atô, Yûsaku Matsuda, Asami Kobayashi,
Directors : Tôru Murakawa,

A journalist steals a gun from a cop after killing him and goes on a spree of robbery and murder.

Actors : William Smith, Barri Murphy, Gregory Scott Cummins, William Hubbard Knight,
Directors : John Stewart,

After her boyfriend is murdered by the gangsters whose diamonds he stole, a girl is protected by two FBI agents who plan to keep her from sharing the same fate.