Best Mystery movies of 1970s

Actors : Rajesh Khanna, Helen, Nanda, Rajendra Nath,
Directors : Ravikant Nagaich,

Hardworking, capable, honest and dedicated CBI inspector Shyam Kumar is assigned the case of bringing to justice the criminals behind the use of fake cheques to purchase commodities. The ...

Actors : Rajesh Khanna, Vinod Mehra, Simple Kapadia, Neetu Singh,
Directors : Basu Chatterjee,

A young man fights spies to defend his country.

Actors : Jun Fujimaki, Shôzô Fukuyama, Keiko Aramaki, Hiroshi Ayukawa,
Directors : Takashi Tsuboshima,

Deep in the mountains of feudal Japan, a group of children endure cruel and unorthodox training in order to become the Shogunate's most secret and deadly weapons - the Demon Spies! Their ...

Actors : Bruce Campbell, Jerome Scott, Brett Mariott, Ann Noble,
Directors : Dick Fontaine,

A woman is found murdered. The prime suspect is her timid son. She had an unhealthy fixation with him and he snapped when it became too unbearable. However, he swears he didn't do it. A police inspector must piece the clues together.

Actors : Hsiu-Chun Lin, Kuan Tai Chen, Yue Wong, Hui-Ling Liu,
Directors : Chung Sun,

Wong Yu is an upstart young fighter who gets a job to deliver a box which he is not allowed to know the contents of, but will be paid a fortune once its delivered.

Actors : Nino Besozzi, Jana Brezinová, Carlo Capannelle, Míla Beran,
Directors : Juraj Jakubisko,

As a car full of an assortment of characters rolls down an embankment and bursts into flames, the old driver says "See You in Hell, Friends." The relations between the characters are shown ...

Actors : María Rojo, Carlos Castañón, Ana Ofelia Murguía, José Alonso,
Directors : Jaime Humberto Hermosillo,

One woman (Murguía) lives waiting for his son (Alonso) who is a sailor. She hasn't seen him for years although he writes to her a lot. The woman shares the letters and her grief with a ...

Actors : Peter Neusser, Mascha Gonska, Marisa Mell, Mathieu Carrière,
Directors : Peter Patzak,

Man kills his lovers using his psychic powers.

Actors : Rekha, Aruna Irani, Shashi Kapoor, Danny Denzongpa,
Directors : Ved Rahi,

When a young woman is pushed off a boat, she must unmask her would-be killer.

Actors : Reiko Ôhara, Mitsuko Kusabue, Yôko Tsukasa, Kôji Ishizaka,
Directors : Kon Ichikawa,

A scruffy detective investigates the murders of three sisters on a small Japanese island in 1946.

Actors : Peter Haskell, James McEachin, Barbara Parkins, Marlyn Mason,
Directors : Paul Krasny,

An unemployed engineer accepts a $25,000 bribe to marry a beautiful and mysterious woman so that she can stay in the United States. During their honeymoon, he starts to fall in love with her, but she suddenly disappears. When he tries to find her, it puts his life in danger.

Actors : Gabriela Hyrmanová, Alois Svehlík, Gustav Bubník, Jaroslava Obermaierová,
Directors : Ludvík Ráza,

It is the year 2000. The parents of twelve-year-old Péta are worried about the boy. He has made a flying machine on the model of a bird, but it crashed when he tested it and he broke his ...

Actors : Benjamin Cattan, Francinette Costa, Lia Farrel, Emil Grigoletto,
Directors : Jean Garret,

A writer moves to an isolated beach house to write a new book, and gradually gets involved with his odd new neighbors.

Actors : Hee-ra Kim, Fred Hills, Kung-won Nam, Am Park,
Directors : Tae-ho Seol,

Dozens of people begin dying daily in the city of Wonsan shortly after the outbreak of the Korean War. Fearing a plague, the United Nations asks that the situation be investigated before they will commit troops.

Actors : Hermien Dommisse, Cobus Rossouw, Don Leonard, Jill Kirkland,
Directors : Jans Rautenbach,

A catatonic mathematics professor with an Oedipus complex is committed to an asylum which is a microcosm of South African society, circa 1970. The inmates band together to attempt to ...

Actors : Eizô Kitamura, Makoto Fujita, Junko Inagawa, Yoshio Harada,
Directors : Seijun Suzuki,

A police detective tries to investigate the mystery of a victim who was shot in the head, but no bullet was found.

Actors : Parviz Fanizadeh, Naser Nasiri, Farshid Farshood, Novin Ghiasi,
Directors : Kiumars Derambakhsh,

The uncle of the young narrator enters his house unexpectedly. In order to offer him some refreshments, he goes to bring a bottle of wine. Through the crevice of the wall which happens to ...

Actors : Yi Chang, Lingfeng Shangguan, Carter Wong, Chung-Erh Lung,
Directors : Da Chiao Lin,

A series of killings ravage a Buddhist temple and one of its disciples is a suspect. A corrupted Emperor seeks out a valuable piece of treasure while giving the monks a month to recover the gift or die.

Actors : Antoine Vitez, Sami Frey, Anne Parillaud, Catherine Deneuve,
Directors : Hugo Santiago,

Young aristocrat Arnaud de Maule hires female private detective Claude Alphand to investigate a strange cult, the Church of the Final Revival, that tried to recruit his girlfriend Chloé, who then disappeared, and it now stalks him.

Actors : Alberto de Mendoza, Janine Reynaud, Erika Blanc, George Ardisson,
Directors : Bitto Albertini,

A gangster seeks those who killed his brother. A series of murders follow.