Best Investigation movies of 1980s

Actors : Kaneko Iwasaki, Kunitarô Kawarazaki, Junko Mihara, Gô Katô,
Directors : Keisuke Kinoshita,

A newspaper reporter investigates the lives of juvenile delinquents.

Actors : Ava Kauffman, Robert Axelrod, Lonny Withers, Ann Richardson,
Directors : Jeff Hathcock,

Four young girls on a camping trip in the woods are stalked by a pair of crazed serial killers.

Actors : Ken Gampu, Ian Yule, Susan Coetzer, Joe Stewardson,
Directors : Darrell Roodt,

A medical examiner investigating a series of prostitute murders discovers that the culprit is an ancient tribal witch doctor come back to life.

Actors : Stephani Hardy, Gerard Flynn, Michael David Simms, Matthew Shaker,
Directors : William Mings,

Zack is the story of a private investigator who, like many Christians, never considered the importance of a commitment to his own church. But Zack takes on an insurance investigation and in...

Actors : Mike Huff, Tony Caprari, Mathew Stewardson, John Barrett,
Directors : Frans Nel,

A teenage boy falls under the protection of a private detective after the boy witnesses an actual murder being filmed.

Actors : Sophie Duez, Gastone Moschin, Antonella Lualdi, Anthony Delon,
Directors : Alberto Lattuada,

Guido, a young idler with a gambling problem falls in love with Caterina a mysterious girl. A torrid affair follows thereafter. When Caterina leaves him Guido investigates her past and ...

Actors : Terry Loughlin, Earl Owensby, Marilyn Carter, Dean Whitworth,
Directors : Thom McIntyre,

The life Of Sheriff Damon Huskey and his manhunt for the man who killed his brother.

Actors : Sylvie Potvin, Yiannis Roussi, Peter Bierman, Derek May,
Directors : Derek May,

The lives of four people trying to decide who they are and what they want. Romance, fad, fashion and food are the ingredients of their investigation. In contrast are the long-time residents...

Actors : Martin Laing, Chris Chescoe, Douglas Storm, David Haig,
Directors : Colin Finbow,

After a nuclear war, a group of children at an isolated farmhouse debate what the outside world might be like. Soon one of them leaves the house to investigate, and finds out that things aren't the way they thought.

Actors : Shuqing Wang, Wen Sheng Wang, Chongliang Sun, Qian Wun,
Directors : Qicang Zhang,

A magistrate investigates 2 apparently unrelated crimes.

Actors : Randy Strickland, Billie Carroll, Tamara Hext, Tom Campitelli,
Directors : Gary Marcum,

A young woman asks a policeman to help her find her missing sister. They find a medallion, sought after by some worshipers of demon Moloch, a beast that may be invoked and wreaks havoc, but can only be stopped with the amulet.

Actors : Janet Agren, Pippo Franco, Franco Bisazza, Daniela Poggi,
Directors : Pippo Franco,

A cartoonist overcomes his jealousy towards his wife's psychoanalyst by killing him in one of his strips. When the doctor is found dead, the police start an investigation and seek the cartoonist first.

Actors : Meng Lo, Lung Wei Wang, Siu-Ho Chin, Chan-Peng Chang,
Directors : Lung Wei Wang,

Cheng Tzu-hao and Kao Ying-wei, are CID officers in Hong Kong that are transferred to the same action squad to help solve a number of robberies and murders committed by a notorious, vicious...

Actors : Redford White, Cachupoy, Panchito, Pia Moran,
Directors : Angel Labra,

An action film (though majority of the cast are comedians) about two cops, Bong and Fidel, who were tasked to investigate a clandestine drug syndicate.

Actors : Bryan Bobb, Jeffrey Moler, Tor Reyel Lowry, Leanne Walschaert,
Directors : Jeff Carney,

A horror comedy about construction workers who stay overnight in an abandoned farm house where a serial killer lived. He is resurrected, along with those he murdered, as zombies who then attack the farm house.

Actors : Anneline Kriel, Arnold Vosloo, Norman Anstey, Wings Hauser,
Directors : Tim Spring,

A cop sets up his girlfriend as a target in order to trap a serial killer.

Actors : Jack Yates, Jim Gaines, Corwin Sperry, Max Thayer,
Directors : Teddy Page,

Texas Ranger Daniel Custer leaves for Vietnam to find his brother Michael, a Green Beret Lieutenant who has been reported missing in action. Michael's squad was searching for a mysterious ...

Actors : Narciso Ibáñez Menta, Sebastián D'Arbó, Mercedes Sampietro, Ramiro Oliveros,
Directors : Sebastián D'Arbó,

A woman is widow when her husband dies in an accident. Starting from that moment in her house begin to happen strange phenomenons, sounds and appearances. Doctor Oliver, an expert in parapsychology, begins to investigate.

Actors : Megan Spencer, Paul Harrington, Colin Savage, Zero Montana,
Directors : Mark Savage,

Two sociopaths who go on a killing spree, are interrupted when a man accidentally runs over one of the psycho's legs, leaving him badly injured.

Actors : Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge, Sarah Meyette, Jeremy Radick, Marie-Stéphane Gaudry,
Directors : Anne Wheeler,

Set in Canada in December 1945. A boy sets out to investigate an attack on his friend's father.