Best Mystery movies of 1970s

Actors : Perla Cristal, Jean Seberg, Marisol, Barry Stokes,
Directors : Juan Antonio Bardem,

A serial killer uses a scythe to slash his murder victims--or maybe it's *her* murder victims?

Actors : Andrés Mejuto, Guglielmo Spoletini, Gianni Garko, 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 : Mayumi Ogawa, Yôko Yamamoto, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Ken'ichi Hagiwara,
Directors : Yoshitarô Nomura,

The heir to a family fortune discovers that a curse has been placed on it, put there centuries before by a band of samurai warriors.

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

A reporter uncovers an amazing medical plot.

Actors : Vinod Mehra, Sunil Dutt, Shatrughan Sinha, Sanjeev Kumar,
Directors : Rajkumar Kohli,

A newly married bride disappears after her marriage.

Actors : James Mason, Orazio Orlando, Jennifer O'Neill, Franco Nero,
Directors : Luigi Zampa,

A female school teacher is implicated in a murder in a Sicilian town only hours after her arrival. The dead man insulted her on the bus on the way into town. As the mystery unfolds, it ...

Actors : Ezzat El Alaili, Seif El Dine, Soad Hosny, Mahmoud El-Meliguy,
Directors : Youssef Chahine,

Actors : John Wood, Tammy Grimes, Farrah Fawcett, Jeff Bridges,
Directors : Lamont Johnson,

A woman's husband is murdered and she and her lover must find the killer or stand accused of doing it themselves.

Actors : Elisa Montés, Barbara Rütting, Fred Williams, Horst Tappert,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

A London slasher pack the suitcases of his victims before stabbing them to death in this adaptation of Edgar Wallace's 'Secret of the Black Suitcases.'

Actors : Dyanne Thorne, Lory Hansen, Peter Carpenter, Leslie Simms,
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 : 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 : Joel Grey, Dorothy Tristan, Elizabeth Wilson, Cliff Robertson,
Directors : Frank Perry,

A small-town police chief investigating a murder is offered help by a self-described psychic. However, when the chief discovers that the "psychic" is in possession of information known only...

Actors : Jaime Fernández, Ignacio López Tarso, Salvador Sánchez, José Alonso,
Directors : Jorge Fons,

A watchman is murdered in a building site. The movie narrates the several versions of implicates. Based in the Vicente Leñero's novel.

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 : Helena Rojo, David Young, Cristina Ferrare, John Carradine,
Directors : Juan López Moctezuma,

A female bisexual artist turns out to be a vampire.

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 : Gayle Hunnicutt, Flora Robson, David Hemmings, Wilfrid Hyde-White,
Directors : Richard C. Sarafian,

Reformed drug addict Tim Brett is holidaying in Italy with his aunt. When she is murdered, he tries to investigate, and soon his whole life is out of control.

Actors : Klaus Maria Brandauer, Karen Jensen, Barry Newman, Anna Karina,
Directors : Lee H. Katzin,

A list of agents and collaborators, hidden by the Nazis in an Austrian lake in 1945, is sought after by various interested parties during the Cold War.

Actors : Raymond Burr, Martin Landau, Cybill Shepherd, Jan-Michael Vincent,
Directors : Greydon Clark,

Two young children and an adult in a small town have an encounter with an alien spaceship. 25 years later the children are reunited as adults in the same town which is now beset by strange ...

Actors : Moushumi Chatterjee, Satyendra Kapoor, Madan Puri, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Narendra Bedi,

After helping a stabbing victim to the hospital, a man begins to receive anonymous threats. The only way to save his wife and child is to unravel the mystery of the killer's identity.