Best Mystery movies of 1980s

Actors : Soledad Silveyra, Federico Luppi, Julio De Grazia, Ulises Dumont,
Directors : Adolfo Aristarain,

The story of a hitman, a man who kills other people for money, and the dangers that come with the job.

Actors : Nassar, Sukumaran, Mohanlal, Renjini,
Directors : Mohan,

A police officer tries to uncover and stop an unknown serial killer who sniped three victims and plans for a fourth one.

Actors : Rajesh Khanna, Hema Malini, Raaj Kumar, Vinod Khanna,
Directors : Chetan Anand,

The setting is in scenic Simla, summer capital of the British Raj in the 1970's. Chandramukhi from Bombay is on holiday with her parents and so is Naresh, a US educated medical professional...

Actors : Luis Camarena, Joaquín Cordero, Pedro Fernández, Tatiana,
Directors : Pedro Galindo III,

The diabolical doll and Pedro return in this sequel. Julio is invited to a birthday party for a little girl on Halloween in a closed movie studio. At the party, he notices she has a doll that resembles the one that his little sister had.

Actors : John Phillip Law, William Smith, Britt Ekland, Lewis Van Bergen,
Directors : Gary Graver,

Ex-soldiers on a yachting trip run into the ghosts of victims of a massacre.

Actors : Boris Plotnikov, Igor Klass, Aleksandr Kharitonov, Elena Dimitrova,
Directors : Valeri Rubinchik,

A mystical drama based on a story by V. Korotkevich. The film is set in out-of-the-way Belarusian woodlands at the end of the 19th century. A young ethnographer, Andrej Bielarecki, comes here to research local folk legends.

Actors : Sergi Mateu, Assumpta Serna, Raul Solnado, Patrick Bauchau,
Directors : José Fonseca e Costa,

In Portugal, in the 60s, the corpse of a man appears on Dog's Beach. The corpse is identified as the major Dantas, a man wanted by authorities after his escape from a military prison where he was awaiting trial for insurrection.

Actors : Nancy Allen, Richard Blackburn, Don Peoples, Catherine Schultz,
Directors : Paul Bartel,

Tabloid reporter Lois Thornedyke and her photographer Barry Denver stumble upon evidence of a sex scandal, blackmail and political conspiracy that may involve her love interest Franklyn - the saintly Mayor of New York City.

Actors : Sam Cook, Rod Taylor, Christopher Lee, Valerie Perrine,
Directors : Arne Mattsson,

In a Canadian village are women being killed by a psychopath. Chief Rich and Inspector McLane have no clue until McLane shoots a suspicious man. Now the killing seems to have ended, but the...

Actors : Christopher Wynne, Dal McKennon, Riley Novak, Randi Brown,
Directors : David E. Jackson,

Susan and her brother Johnny go to spend the summer with their aunt and uncle, where they discover a map that may lead to some sort of treasure. Susan had been having nightmares about a ...

Actors : Ming Jiang, Han Jiang, Liang Ding, Cherie Chung,

An imprisoned swordsman is accused of killing three men. He probably would have already been executed for his crimes but is kept alive because he knows the whereabouts of hidden gold.

Actors : Giorgos Konstas, Maria Kanellopoulou, Makis Arvanitakis, Tasos Goudelis,
Directors : Giorgos Karypidis,

A music composer tries to deposit money in his bank one morning, and is accused of counterfeiting. Harassed by the police, the gang of counterfeiters and a stranger, he becomes ...

Actors : John Bach, Martyn Sanderson, Don Selwyn, Darien Takle,
Directors : John Laing,

An anthropologist disappears in New Zealand while looking for a lost tribe, so his wife and little daughter as well as his shady twin brother who's in love with his sister-in-law go to look...

Actors : Pippa Guard, Dominic Guard, Billie Whitelaw, Paul Freeman,
Directors : Christopher Petit,

A rather loose adaptation of the P. D. James novel. Cordelia Gray, the survivor of a partnership in a detective agency, is asked by the assistant of James Calendar to investigate the ...

Actors : Helmut Krauss, Otto Sander, Udo Samel, Romy Haag,
Directors : René Perraudin,

Agitation fills the film studios at Heiligwalde. The film star Maria Loria has been stabbed to death with a pair of scissors. According to all evidence, her partner Roger Moon appears to ...

Actors : Vikram Gokhale, Shekhar Kapur, Zeenat Aman, Ashutosh Gowariker,
Directors : Anant Balani,

Jhanvi Kaul is on trial for the murder of her lover and employer, Ranjeet Choudhary. A series of prosecution witnesses build a damning case against her - that the two of them had embezzled ...

Actors : Wolfgang Preiss, Max Tidof, Catarina Raacke, Armin Mueller-Stahl,
Directors : Miloslav Luther,

In the dead of night, a few hours after Mozart's death, the usual suspects (Konstanze, Salieri, van Swieten, etc.) are summoned to Mozart's room by Count Pergen, head of the secret police, ...

Actors : Kwok Kuen Chan, Erik Chan Ka Kei, Shao-Chia Chen, Fei Ai,
Directors : Yuen Chor,

Liu Yung and Sun Chien (the Korean kicking The Five Venom from Chang Cheh's internationally popular series) team up to investigate the martial-art murders of a supposedly mortally wounded ...

Actors : José Mora Ramos, Cathrin Loerke, Fernando Heitor, João D'Ávila,
Directors : José de Pina,

The secret history of a curse upon an astrologer and esoteric initiate, who was a Portuguese poet and essayist: Fernando Pessoa.

Actors : Peter Mark Richman, Tom Martin, Tom Troupe, Gretchen Corbett,
Directors : Bryan Trizers,

Aliens from another dimension cross space and time to come to Earth. A scientist tries to discover what their motives are.