Best Investigation movies of 1980s

Actors : László Gálffi, Ninetto Davoli, József Madaras, Teresa Ann Savoy,
Directors : Miklós Jancsó,

A historical drama set in the 1400s, about a young man sent to Italy but is forced back after his father's mysterious death.

Actors : Tony Valente, Michel Clinford, Saverio Vallone, Michela Miti,

A mysterious murderer has already killed seven people using the deadly venom of a snake from Martinique which causes immediate death with the victim's face turning into a horrible mask. A ...

Actors : Cangyu Ma, Xu Chen, Qinbao Wang, Yunian Zhang,

Public Security investigators in Nanjing in 1949 get the case when diamonds are stolen from a foreign ambassador.

Actors : Doug Shanklin, Loren Cedar, Mark Milan, Mel Novak,
Directors : Alan Hauge,

In a parking lot, Gloria Ramsey is the powerless witness to the murder of her life partner, a physician. On the scene of the crime, the police listen to the young woman's version but ...

Actors : Ranjeet, Poonam Dhillon, Kamal Haasan, Om Shivpuri,
Directors : Rama Rao Tatineni,

Shady and corrupt lawyer, Rashik Bihari Saxena, frames an innocent child, Mahesh Chander, the son of a convicted thief, for murder. Mahesh is sent to juvenile jail for several years. His ...

Actors : Bob Flag, Mark Hawkins, Martin Byrne-Quinn, Geoffrey Greenhill,
Directors : Fhiona-Louise,

Fictionalized account based on the actions of serial killer Dennis Nilsen.

Actors : Eddy Mitchell, Gérard Lanvin, Françoise Arnoul, Raymond Pellegrin,
Directors : Jean-Claude Missiaen,

With the help of journalist Diane Castelain, Parisian police inspectors Leo Gorce and Gu Arenas are trying to solve the murder of a member of the French Parliament, but some dangerous powerful people try to make sure that doesn't happen.

Actors : Robert Patrick, Brett Baxter Clark, William Steis, Ed Crick,
Directors : Cirio H. Santiago,

"The Lost Command," a bunch of notorious renegades, terrorize South Vietnam, forcing Sgt. Zack Skinner, HQ's best man to hunt down the Command to stop its killing spree.

Actors : Mehdi Fakhimzadeh, Mahvash Pakniat, Ahmad Hashemi, Ali Shoa'i,
Directors : Mehdi Fakhimzadeh,

A thief (Reza) is mistaken for a political rebellion (Tohid). The investigators use the resemblance between the two in order to destroy Tohid's social influence and then execute him. Tohid dies but Reza is far more changed than expected.

Actors : Richard Ng, Kara Hui, Deannie Yip, John Sham,
Directors : Philip Chan,

Hong Kong detectives Chau and Beethoven return in this sequel to "Pom Pom." This time out, they join forces with their boss, Inspector Chan, to find the notorious Flying Spider, who is ...

Actors : Talivaldis Abolins, Igrida Andrina, Romualds Ancans, Lilita Berzina,
Directors : Janis Streics,

In one of the prestigious restaurants during banquet speech a large company's director Palmgren is killed in front of dozen guests . Case is lead by Criminal Investigation Officer Pierre ...

Actors : Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic, Horst-Günter Marx, Barbara Sukowa, Rade Serbedzija,
Directors : Jeanine Meerapfel,

Katharina, a German journalist of Yugoslavian origin, comes to Podgorica to prepare a material for her TV-show. There she meets Peter, a young German, who came to Yugoslavia to make his own investigation about his father's Nazi past.

Actors : Mike Coleman, Terry Comer, Carol Fitzgerald Carlberg, Paul Steger,
Directors : Jack Snyder,

A group of university students are invited by their parapsychology professor to investigate a haunted house for the weekend.

Actors : Pierre Agostino, Kathryn Downey, Ron Jason, Chris Cave,
Directors : Ray Dennis Steckler,

August 31, 1986: Dangerously unhinged serial killer Johnathan Glick gets released from the Nevada State Penitentiary on a technicality. Three days after his release Johnathan arrives in Las...

Actors : Zarko Lausevic, Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic, Dragana Varagic, Dragomir Pesic,
Directors : Predrag Golubovic,

Two partisans, a man and a woman, try to escape a Nazi manhunt in the infernal landscape of WW2 Vojvodina.

Actors : Chung Wang, Ray Lui, Kent Cheng, Yung Chan,
Directors : Chung Wang,

Crank and Fatty, two remarkably incompetent cops whose inept investigations lead to rape, torture, duplicity, and murder.

Actors : Julie Carmen, Timothy Carhart, Lise Cutter, Martyn Stanbridge,
Directors : Jan Eliasberg,

Retired international police agent, now suburban housewife, is asked by her former partner to help him catch a serial killer.

Actors : Gary Halliday, Michael Flowers, Emma Ingham, Anthony Winder,
Directors : John Krish,

In an English village, three youths see the spirit of a child who died in a 17th-century plague epidemic. They decide to learn about the town's history to find out how they can help set the child's ghost free.

Actors : Chhaya Devi, Bikash Roy, Madhabi Mukherjee, Sarika,
Directors : Bimal Bhowmick,

A newly married woman discovers a thread of lies, conspiracy and murder in her husband's high class zamindar family.

Actors : Todd Jacobsen, Scott Allen Nollen,
Directors : Scott Allen Nollen,

Sherlock Holmes, his son, Steel Rod Holmes, and Dr. John H. Watson investigate the disappearance of an antique divan, believed to be part of a drug-smuggling ring led by the nefarious "...