Best Mystery movies of 1970s

Actors : Claudia Cardinale, Monica Vitti, Renato Pozzetto, Vittorio Gassman,
Directors : Marcello Fondato,

Tina is on trial for the murder of her lover, Gino. The violent nature of their relationship, revealed in the trial, seems to make obvious that she accidentally killed him during a fight. ...

Actors : Narendra Nath, Shashi Kapoor, Rakhee Gulzar, Nasir Hussain,
Directors : Samir Ganguly,

An army captain falls for an outgoing young woman, but unknowingly weds her shy twin sister.

Actors : Ed 'Too Tall' Jones, Elke Sommer, Ernest Borgnine, George Kennedy,
Directors : Joe Camp,

Some school kids stumble across a briefcase full of money, when they go back for it, they find a body instead. When they bring the police, neither is there, and the police refuses to ...

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 : 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 : John Harmon, Robert Gribbin, Russell Johnson, Randy Echols,
Directors : Irvin Berwick,

Howard is a mild-mannered young man who drives a truck for a commercial laundry. He's also a mother-obsessed psycho who picks up young female hitchhikers, rapes them and kills them. As the ...

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 : Chun Shih, Sylvia Chang, Feng Hsu, Hui Lou Chen,
Directors : King Hu,

A scholar, tasked to copy a sutra, meets with a mysterious old lady and her daughter in the mountains.

Actors : Rosanna Schiaffino, Richard Crenna, Stephen Boyd, Farley Granger,
Directors : Peter Collinson,

An amnesiac gunfighter, aided by a sympathetic outlaw, tries to discover his own identity and past.

Actors : Angelique Pettyjohn, Janet Wood, Tom Keena, Victoria Racimo,
Directors : Joel M. Reed,

A journalist gets mixed up with a stripper, a defecting Chinese scientist and Red Chinese agents.

Actors : Yun Ling, Tony Liu, Lung Ti, Li Ching,
Directors : Yuen Chor,

Once again we follow the ultimate playboy sword master, Chu Liu Hsiang, and his faithful friend, Yi Tien Hung, on another amazing adventure in Southeastern China. This time, our heroes make...

Actors : Anthony Steffen, Umberto Raho, Anita Strindberg, Gabriele Tinti,

A couple who vacationing in Haiti happens to stumble upon an old doctor friend. Dr Steffen has cooked up a powerful new hallucinogenic drug and there are quite a few different parties interesting in acquiring the formula.

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 : Jaya Bhaduri, Iftekhar, Sanjeev Kumar, Asrani,
Directors : Raghunath Jhalani,

A writer rescues a young woman lying injured on the road. She awakens with amnesia, but insists that she is the writer's wife. Is she the victim or the perpetrator of a devious plot?

Actors : Mariya Kapnist, Natalya Petrova, Vladimir Fyodorov, Valeri Kozinets,
Directors : Aleksandr Ptushko,

Based on Russian poet Alexander Pushkin's fairy tale poem of the same name. In the midst of the wedding party of Prince Ruslan and Ludmila, Ludmila is kidnapped by an evil sorcerer. Her ...

Actors : Elizabeth Alexander, Michelle Jarman, Nick Tate, John Waters,
Directors : Ken Hannam,

A teacher discovers one of his students has a rare blood disease, and is drawn into a mystery that culminates in a thrilling climax.

Actors : John Scanlon, Angelo Infanti, Rosalba Neri, Daniela Giordano,
Directors : William Rose,

A sadistic killer cult kidnaps and sacrifices beautiful women. A young girl, just paroled from prison, moves into a strange house and appears to be the cult's next victim.

Actors : Renzo Montagnani, Salvatore Puntillo, Bedy Moratti, Eva Czemerys,
Directors : Francesco Mazzei,

A sexually-promiscuous priest is stabbed to death inside a church.

Actors : Michael Pataki, Marc Lawrence, Edmond O'Brien, Brooke Mills,
Directors : John Hayes,

In a surrealistic horror setting, a young Preacher's assistant goes mad and becomes lost in a fantasy of her own creation.

Actors : Elke Sommer, Donald Pilon, Chuck Shamata, George Touliatos,
Directors : Murray Markowitz,

A woman is murdered and her millionaire husband is accused. But is he guilty?