Best Investigation movies of 1980s

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

A woman is stalked by a psychotic killer.

Actors : Gustav Vintas, Lesley Milne, Esther Elise, Jason Williams,
Directors : Gregory McClatchy,

The "Vampire Killer" leaves his victims drained of blood, while a detective tries to catch him.

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 : Elizabeth Edwards, Frank Stallone, Claudia Udy, Bruce Pirrie,
Directors : Tony Currie,

A pink meteor controlled by aliens lands near a small town and turns the local women into nymphos. A deputy sheriff and a local private eye investigate.

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 : 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 : 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 : Kenny Johnson, Jennifer McAllister, Todd Caldecott, Kevin Masterson,
Directors : Bill Crain,

A smiling, sadistic and seemingly demonic young killer in black, who drives a black pick up truck, is hunting three young couples who came to the desert to drink, party and have sex.

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 : Stan Wojno, Gordon De Vol, Jacqueline Ray, Jackson Bostwick,

A team of men and women investigate the mysterious deaths of two previous expeditions to a strategically important but barren world.

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

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

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 : 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 : Julianne Phillips, Laura Manszky, Treat Williams, Joanna Pacula,
Directors : Nathalie Delon,

An insurance investigator is visiting Paris on assigment. He is soon made the object of a seduction bet amongst three ladies. Problems arise when the girls realize they are really falling ...

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.

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

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

Actors : Donna Owen, Fred Williamson, Arlene Golonka, Christopher Connelly,

Private detective is hired by rich man to find his niece, who has disappeared while traveling in Europe.

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 : 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.