Best Investigation movies of 1980s

Actors : Guilin Li, Xiuwu Li, Ke Wei, Jia Liu,

People's Liberation Army soldier Ge Luo investigates the case of the Black Face Bandit among the Hani minority in 1948.

Actors : Navin Nischol, Prema Narayan, Sharmila Tagore, Suresh Oberoi,
Directors : S.U. Syed,

A married couple Nisha Mathur (Sharmila Tagore), and her husband Dilip Mathur (Navin Nishchal), purchase a hotel in a scenic locale. In the beginning, no one comes to stay there, however, ...

Actors : Naishe Zhai, Zhaoan Dai, Lanfa Li, Qi Qiao,
Directors : Jihong Xu,

Set in the period of the Republic of China, famous writer Gu Peng and his secretary dispute on the copyright of a new book. The secretary is murdered the next day. Detective Huo Sang takes over this case.

Actors : Kostas Rigopoulos, Giorgos Kappis, Vasilis Tsaglos, Giorgos Siskos,
Directors : Omiros Efstratiadis,

Eccentric cousins Arisitidis and Rodolfos open a detective agency and a client asks them to find chickens with pink feathers. They do and find out why the client was interested.

Actors : Chi Jan Ha, Yukari Ôshima, Toby Russell, Dick Wei,

A female undercover detective from Japan goes to Hong Kong to investigate the disappearance of several young Japanese girls and finds that a drug ring is kidnaping and forcing young girls into prostitution.

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 : Andrew Wilde, Emma Jacobs, Peter Blake, Allan Surtees,
Directors : Anders Palm,

A series of heinous murders ends with the arrest of the supposed killer. But when similar grisly killings continue, a beautiful reporter sets out to prove that the police are holding the ...

Actors : Kate Forster, Robert Forster, Shannon Wilcox, Joe Spinell,
Directors : Robert Forster,

A hapless Los Angeles private detective is hired by a shady millionaire to search for the man's missing teenage heiress while at the same time, the detective's estranged teenage niece arrives in town and wants in on the case.

Actors : Antonio Mayans, Ricardo Palacios, Carmen Carrión, Lina Romay,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

Private detective Alfredo Pereira is hired by eccentric couple Raden and Eve to find their missing sister, Adriana. Despite his limitations, Pereira soon finds the woman, but foreplay between characters complicates things.

Actors : Barbara Cupisti, Richard Hatch, Alessandra Stordy, Marina Suma,
Directors : Stelio Fiorenza,

Anna, a young saxophone player, investigates her sister's disappearance with the help of a friend.

Actors : Jin-hie Han, Mi-seon Choi,
Directors : Geum-hwan Jo,

A divorced woman finds that any man she loves, dies. She asks for the help of a writer and he begins an investigation. There are three prime suspects: her ex-husband, her lesbian sister, or...

Actors : Narayan Rao, Lakshmi, Madhavi, Chiranjeevi,
Directors : S.A. Chandrashekhar,

As a young boy, Chiranjeevi sees the murder of his father and sister, but the killers are released because of lack of evidence. This enrages him and he is out to seek revenge in a way not ...

Actors : Michael De Mesa, Francis Arnaiz, Vilma Santos, Miguel Rodriguez,
Directors : Maryo J. de los Reyes,

A young Pina was traumatized when her family was murdered while she had her first menstruation. She grown up into a serial killer transforming herself to different personalities as she ...

Actors : Carrie Preston, Beverly Ann Bailey, Adair Simon, Bill Cumming,
Directors : Peter Neil Nason,

After the death of his father, a boy, along with his mourning mother and bratty sister, goes camping in Conyers, Georgia, where he learns life lessons from a mysterious, gabby fisherman.

Actors : Viju Khote, Sudhir Joshi, Anant Jog, Laxmikant Berde,
Directors : Sachin,

A simple man killed in his village turns into ghost and comes to the city find his long lost mother and brother and wants his brother to come along with him to revenge his killers but the killers have laid some different trap.

Actors : Xinghai Wang, Junyi Shen,
Directors : Teyuan Mu,

The Tianjin chief of police has a rough time investigating the murders of unidentified women whose bodies are found floating in a river in the 1930s.

Actors : Peter Brown, Nancy Everhard, R. Lee Ermey, Jan-Michael Vincent,
Directors : Andrew Prowse,

Two U.S. Marine investigators looking into a series of grisly murders in Manila discover that the crimes are tied to an amulet with a 400-year-old curse on it that has unleashed supernatural forces. There's also a woman.

Actors : Mithun Chakraborty, Bindiya Goswami, Chandrashekhar, Leena Das,
Directors : S.K. Kapur,

Mohan, a singer is framed for a murder and his father, who is an honest cop, is also framed for a series of diamond heists. Will they be able to prove their innocence before it's too late?

Actors : Corinne Calvet, Lori Lynn Andrest, Jeff Speakman, Bill Bordy,
Directors : Bill Bordy,

Stylish noir thriller about an ex-con attempting to get his life in order, who is slowly drawn into an intricate murder plot.

Actors : Rowell Santiago, Sharon Cuneta, Christopher De Leon, Gina Alajar,
Directors : Lino Brocka,

A Mysterious And Deadly Rapist And Murderer Spreads Terror And Chaos Among Women In The City.But In The Midst Of Intrigues,Tensions,And Dangers A Lawyer Is Attracted To Him The Mysterious ...