Best Mystery movies of 1988

Actors : Andra Millian, Alexis Kanner, David Birney, Sarah Douglas,
Directors : Paul Mayersberg,

Far across the cosmos from our world lies a planet bathed in perpetual daylight. Soon nightfall will come and bring with it tremendous destruction. Science struggles against superstition in...

Actors : Ritchie Singer, Celine O'Leary, Steven Vidler, Vincent Gil,
Directors : Rolf de Heer,

Ex-con Eddie Cleary gets a job working on his older brother's isolated farm. It's not long before bizarre things start happening--dead birds falling out of the sky, family pets attacking ...

Actors : David Michael O'Neill, Pamela Gilbert, George Kennedy, Billy Jayne,
Directors : Emmett Alston,

A man and his daughter are attacked in the woods by what they believe is a Bigfoot-type creature. However, they soon begin to suspect that they may have stumbled onto a nest of aliens in a hidden spacecraft.

Actors : Keith Carradine, Jeff Fahey, Karen Allen, Bernie Casey,
Directors : Gilbert Cates,

Disgruntled wife cheats on her well off husband, who's been suffering from PTSD ever since he came home from the Vietnam War. After an incident he ends up in a catatonic state. Soon, she begins to suspect that someone is after her.

Actors : Pamela Gidley, James Russo, Dylan McDermott, Jessica Harper,
Directors : John Lafia,

Two overzealous psychopathic US tax collectors blackmail bounty hunter Vince Holloway into stopping an illegal transfer of 20 Mio. dollars from a Mexican tax paradise into the USA. So he ...

Actors : Eri Misawa, Hideo Murota, Yôji Matsuda, Shijaku Katsura,
Directors : Toshio Matsumoto,

A young man kills his bride on the day of his marriage and goes insane. He wakes up in an asylum with no memory, left in the hands of two mysterious doctors who relate his condition with his biological identity.

Actors : Daniel Olbrychski, Andrea Occhipinti, Burt Lancaster, Ben Cross,
Directors : Michael Anderson,

Based on a play by Pope John Paul II about couples who have reached either the hight or a crisis in their relationships. Their stories are connected by the local jeweler's shop.

Actors : Ned Beatty, Mia Sara, Michael Madsen, Donna Mitchell,
Directors : Terrell Tannen,

A married man suffering from midlife crisis obsesses over a girl from his romantic fantasy. He meets her exact duplicate on vacation and helps her get rid of her abusive husband. They run off together but a caller starts blackmailing him.

Actors : Jayaram, Madhu, Sukumari, Shobana,
Directors : P. Padmarajan,

Viswanathan, new in town, soon learns that he is being chased by enemies of his look-alike, who is a con man. Vishwanathan tries to find out Uthaman before its too late, but things don't go as planned.

Actors : Morio Kazama, Kumiko Akiyoshi, Atsuko Kawata, Tsurutarô Kataoka,
Directors : Nobuhiko Ôbayashi,

Harada is a successful scenario writer, and his best buddy has just announced an intention to propose to Harada's ex-wife. Recovering from the shock, Harada indulges in melancholy, mainly ...

Actors : Barbara May, Romina Nowack, Dominic Raacke, Ortrud Beginnen,
Directors : Ralf Huettner,

When a young family, father, mother and their daughter, is on a trip in the mountains, they loose orientation and have to stay there for the night. The daughter finds a dead young girl who ...

Actors : Knut Husebø, Chad Lowe, Mia Sara, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Ralph L. Thomas,

Fire-and-brimstone preacher sees Satan everywhere, trains gullible young boy to "detect" evil, and the two of them commit several murders in the name of Jesus. Based on a true story.

Actors : Miyuki Nakano, Eri Fukatsu, Eri Miyajima, Tomoko Ôtakara,
Directors : Shûsuke Kaneko,

Summer vacation has emptied a Japanese boys' school of all but three boys: the junior Norio & the seniors Kazuhiko & Naoto. They have no families to return to for the summer, so they spend ...

Actors : Antonio Banderas, Victoria Abril, Carmen Maura, Ángel de Andrés López,
Directors : Rafael Moleón,

Antonio dotes on his mute brother and promises him a better life, symbolized by Baton Rouge. He's a gigolo who moves in with Isabel, wealthy and separated from her husband. She has ...

Actors : Shane Briant, Colin Friels, Bruno Lawrence, John Waters,
Directors : Mark Joffe,

A schoolteacher (John Waters) becomes obsessed with the idea that his wife (Joy Bell) did not die in a car accident, as everyone else thinks.

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 : Julio Alemán, Nuria Bages, Pedro Fernández, Gabriela Hassel,
Directors : René Cardona III,

An evil witch gets burned at the stake, but not before vowing to return and get her revenge. A hundred years later a family arrived to spend their vacation at a summer home located in the ...

Actors : Andrei Baboshkin, Denis Germanov, Natalya Guseva, Vyacheslav Ilyushchenko,
Directors : Dmitri Mikhleyev,

To Dima predict fast death in accident. The neighbor pilot suggests the boy to fly to Leningrad. Dima sends the farewell letter to Lena and to spite "will of the Universe" makes the courageous decision.

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 : Carlos Cardán, Manuel Capetillo hijo, Gabriela Goldsmith, Sergio Ramos,
Directors : Julio Ruiz Llaneza,

A boy witness the murder of his family. Years later the killers are killed one by one. The boy now a grown man falls in love with the daughter of one of them. Is he the killer now looking for revenge?