Best Investigation movies of 1980s

Actors : Hema Malini, Zeenat Aman, Jeetendra, Dharmendra,
Directors : Mohan Segal,

Captain Chawla has been employed for years with a cargo shipping company run by Ranbir. While celebrating the new year, Chawla hears gunshots and goes below to investigate. He finds out ...

Actors : Christian De Sica, George Eastman, Lorin Dreyfuss, David Landsberg,
Directors : Filippo Ottoni,

Two bumbling private detectives get themselves hired to find a missing person. They find themselves in the middle of a mob war when it turns out that the missing person is somebody the mob wants to stay missing.

Actors : Robert Forster, Phillip Glasser, Lydie Denier, Caren Kaye,
Directors : Bert I. Gordon,

A down-on-his-luck cop runs into harder times when he is searching for a missing woman.

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 : 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 : Keith Carradine, Angelo Infanti, Harvey Keitel, Phyllis Logan,
Directors : Damiano Damiani,

A Roman agent is sent to Palestine to investigate rumors of the resurrection of an executed criminal.

Actors : Lisa Schmidt, Debi Thibeault, Simone Reyes, Karen Nielsen,
Directors : Gorman Bechard,

A group of High School girls with guns go on a killing spree. They are intent on ridding the world of scummy men.

Actors : Anant Nag, Ashok Mandanna, Shankar Nag, Srinivasa Prabhu,
Directors : Shankar Nag,

Young man kills people sleeping on the footpath while driving under influence. Young man's influential father struggles to silence the police investigation and media coverage.

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 : Barbara De Rossi, Marina Suma, Athina Cenci, Mara Venier,
Directors : Franco Ferrini,

A serial killer is terrifying the prostitutes in a big Italian city. After few barbaric murdering four prostitutes Lena, Angela, Nadine and Stella decide to unify and try to self-defend ...

Actors : Robert Forster, Jeff Conaway, Duncan Regehr, Shanna Reed,
Directors : William Webb,

High-priced prostitutes are being systematically murdered, their corpses mutilated, and a bizarre South American symbol painted in blood is found at the scene. The cop investigating is out to solve the crime before his ex wife, a reporter, becomes the next victim.

Actors : Massimo Troisi, Maddalena Crippa, Armando Marra, Lello Arena,
Directors : Lodovico Gasparini,

A killer, he call himself Funiculi' Funicula', spread terror in a killing spree during the "Primo Festival Nuova Napoli" ("New Naples First Festival").

Actors : Riccardo Parisio Perrotti, Mariangela D'Abbraccio, Giovanni Visentin, Luigi Mezzanotte,
Directors : Camillo Teti,

While writing her thesis in criminology, a young woman begins to suspect that her new boyfriend is a serial killer.

Actors : Jean Simmons, Lea Thompson, Chris Lemmon, Viveca Lindfors,
Directors : James Kenelm Clarke,

Forever bungling private investigator Henry Brilliant (Chris Lemmon) has been hired by Maxine de la Hunt (Jean Simmons) to protect her step-daughter Marigold (Lea Thompson) during her trip ...

Actors : Angelyne, Peter Marc Jacobson, Lawrence Monoson, Brenda Bakke,
Directors : Marty Ollstein,

Someone is videotaping & killing members of a video dating club.

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.

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

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

Actors : Gerda Lindekens, Mieke Bouve, Herbert Flack, Marc Janssen,
Directors : Patrick Le Bon,

An undercover inspector of the Antwerp criminal investigation unit faces problems not only in his professional life, but also at home. When he is partnered with a young, over-confident ...

Actors : David Ramsey, Andrew Stevens, Mary Page Keller, Josh Segal,
Directors : Richard Friedman,

Strange visions come to haunt a singer when she and her boyfriend-psychiatrist move into the old house that is haunted by the ghost of a slave owner.

Actors : Kati Lázár, János Derzsi, Péter Haumann, Judit Pogány,
Directors : György Fehér,

When a schoolgirl is found murdered in the woods, a retiring detective tries to find her murderer.