Best Mystery movies of 1970s

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

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

A newly married bride disappears after her marriage.

Actors : Franco Abbina, Luciano Catenacci, Gianni Garko, Mimma Biscardi,
Directors : Lorenzo Gicca Palli,

Gunfighter Silver is hired by a lawyer to prove that his client, Chester Conway, is innocent of the saloon hold-up he's condemned to hang for.

Actors : Moushumi Chatterjee, Madan Puri, Satyendra Kapoor, 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.

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

A female bisexual artist turns out to be a vampire.

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 : 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 : Mayumi Ogawa, Yôko Yamamoto, Ken'ichi Hagiwara, Tsutomu Yamazaki,
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 : Flora Robson, Gayle Hunnicutt, 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 : Anna Moffo, Gastone Moschin, Peter Baldwin, Ida Galli,
Directors : Michele Lupo,

A family goes to a British estate to hear the reading of a will and while there they are murdered one by one.

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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...