Best Investigation movies of 1986

Truth or Dare?: A Critical Madness(1986)

Actors : Bruce Gold, A.J. McLean, John Brace, Mary Fanaro,
Directors : Tim Ritter,

Mike Strauber catches his wife Sharon in bed with his best friend Jerry. He gets mad and takes off to embark on an adventure of murder and self-mutilation in demented games of truth or dare.

Lucker(1986)

Actors : Marie Claes, Helga Vandevelde, Let Jotts, Nick Van Suyt,
Directors : Johan Vandewoestijne,

A serial killer awakens from a coma and escapes from a mental hospital to kill a survivor of his slayings years ago, all the while stalking, terrifying, and killing women on the way.

Armed Response(1986)

Actors : Mako, David Carradine, Lee Van Cleef, Lois Hamilton,
Directors : Fred Olen Ray,

One of Tanaka's underlings has stolen a rare statuette that he had planned to use as a peace offering between the local Yakusa and Chinese Tong. He hires two private investigators to ...

Il commissario Lo Gatto(1986)

Actors : Lino Banfi, Maurizio Ferrini, Maurizio Micheli, Isabel Russinova,
Directors : Dino Risi,

Police commissioner Lo Gatto is in charge of the local Italian police station within Vatican State. During an investigation, following the murder of a Vatican priest, he decides to question...

Dreamaniac(1986)

Actors : Thomas Bern, Sylvia Summers, Lauren Peterson, Ashlyn Gere,
Directors : David DeCoteau,

A heavy-metal musician makes a deal with a satanic succubus to make him successful with women, in return for the succubus being able to feed on the girls.

The Night Stalker(1986)

Actors : Charles Napier, Katherine Kelly Lang, Robert Viharo, Michelle Reese,
Directors : Max Kleven,

A tough homicide cop is assigned to track down a serial killer who is murdering prostitutes.

Kariyila Kattu Pole(1986)

Actors : Mammootty, Karthika, Rahman, Mohanlal,
Directors : P. Padmarajan,

Deputy Superintendent of Police Achuthankutty tries to solve the mystery of film director Harikrishnan's death. Three women are the main suspects.

As Sete Vampiras(1986)

Actors : Tania Boscoli, Neusinha Brizola, Dedina Bernardelli, Andrea Beltrão,
Directors : Ivan Cardoso,

Botanist is incapable of handling a carnivore plant that turns its victims into vampires. Clumsy detective and his secretary are hired to solve the mysterious deaths happening in a nightclub show.

The Fantasist(1986)

Actors : Moira Sinise, Christopher Cazenove, Timothy Bottoms, John Kavanagh,
Directors : Robin Hardy,

When an Irish woman moves from the suburbs to Dublin, she begins receiving phone calls from a stranger. Coincidentally, the city is being plagued by a serial killer who uses this method to ...

The Patriot(1986)

Actors : Gregg Henry, Jeff Conaway, Michael J. Pollard, Simone Griffeth,
Directors : Frank Harris,

Agent tries to track down terrorists who are intercepting government nuclear weapons.

City in Panic(1986)

Actors : Lee Ann Nestegard, Edward Chester, David Christopher Adamson, Peter Roberts,
Directors : Robert Bouvier,

A detective teams up with a talk-show host to take down a homophobic serial killer on the streets of Toronto.

Qatl(1986)

Actors : Sarika, Shatrughan Sinha, Sanjeev Kumar, Ranjeeta Kaur,
Directors : R.K. Nayyar,

A blind man plans revenge on his adulterous wife.... by murder. A taut thriller that keeps you on the edge of your seat.

Il mostro di Firenze(1986)

Actors : Bettina Giovannini, Leonard Mann, Francesca Muzio, Gabriele Tinti,
Directors : Cesare Ferrario,

A string of sex murders has been plaguing Florence for almost 15 years, in which a serial killer brutally murders couples who are sneaking "a quickie" in public areas. A writer who is doing...

Low Blow(1986)

Actors : Cameron Mitchell, Leo Fong, Diane Stevenett, Troy Donahue,
Directors : Frank Harris,

Leo Fong plays a private investigator who is in search of a young girl kidnapped by a religious cult. Destined to save her, he teams up with a Vietnam vet, a pro-boxing champ and a former cop to save her...

Cobra Mission(1986)

Actors : Oliver Tobias, Manfred Lehmann, John Steiner, Christopher Connelly,
Directors : Fabrizio De Angelis,

Ten years after the end of the war in Vietnam, four ex-Marines decide to return to S.E. Asia to investigate reports of American POWs still being held there. These four include Roger, whose ...

L'assassino è ancora tra noi(1986)

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.

Zui jia fu xing(1986)

Actors : Sylvia Chang, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Karl Maka, Kent Cheng,
Directors : Eric Tsang,

Kidstuff has been asked by the police to investigate a case of international ammunition trade between two gangs. One of the gangs is the Japanese Yakuza in possession of stolen diamonds, ...

Detective School Dropouts(1986)

Actors : George Eastman, Christian De Sica, 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.

Mord i mørket(1986)

Actors : Ove Sprogøe, Michael Falch, Ole Ernst, Line Knutzon,
Directors : Sune Lund-Sørensen,

A womanizing reporter investigates death of his friend in Copenhagen's sporting district and the detective finds himself caught between clunky ordeals of police and gangsters involved in drug trafficking.