Best Mystery movies of 1988

Actors : Adam Ant, Gail O'Grady, Richard Blade, Harold Pruett,
Directors : Rafal Zielinski,

A group of people are killed one by one while participating at a million dollar treasure hunt in a mysterious Italian castle.

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 : 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 : James Russo, Pamela Gidley, 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 : Patrick Bruel, Anne Brochet, Agnès Blanchot, Ingrid Held,
Directors : Georges Lautner,

After World War I, a young ex-soldier, Sébastien Monge, returns to his home village. Ignorant of his past, he learns that, 24 years before, his entire family was slain in their home one ...

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 : Rod Taylor, Sam Cook, 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Madhu, Jayaram, 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Jim Haynie, Jurgens Doeres, Scott Paulin, Barbara Schock,
Directors : Rex Pickett,

Two loser detectives need to score a case or give it up. Finding a missing starlet leaving a trail of blackmail and murder may be too much for them.

Actors : Guida Maria, Sinde Filipe, Manuel Coelho, Suzana Borges,
Directors : António de Macedo,

End of the 20th century. A group of scientists executes a project aiming to prevent a nuclear war with the planet Khalom. From their experimental project, involving manipulating events in ...

Actors : Robert Morin, Anne Rousseau, Carole Dalcourt, Ainey Madeleine,
Directors : Robert Morin,

Ten strangers are invited to an isolated mansion on an island and begin to die mysteriously one by one.