Best Investigation movies of 1980s

Actors : James Fox, Sean Connery, Roy Scheider, Michelle Pfeiffer,
Directors : Fred Schepisi,

An expatriate British publisher unexpectedly finds himself working for British intelligence to investigate people in Russia.

Actors : Mimi Rogers, Tom Berenger, Lorraine Bracco, Jerry Orbach,
Directors : Ridley Scott,

A married New York cop falls for the socialite murder witness he's been assigned to protect.

Actors : Warren Beatty, Madonna, Al Pacino, Charlie Korsmo,
Directors : Warren Beatty,

The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances towards him while he is trying to battle Big Boy Caprice's united mob.

Actors : Abigail Clayton, Kelly Piper, Joe Spinell, Caroline Munro,
Directors : William Lustig,

A psychopath, troubled by his childhood abuse, loose in New York City, kills young women and takes their scalps as his trophies. Will he find the perfect woman in a photographer, and end his killing spree?

Actors : Mickey Rourke, John Lone, Leonard Termo, Ariane,
Directors : Michael Cimino,

A police detective cracks down on organized crime in Chinatown after the murders of Triad and Mafia leaders.

Actors : Clint Eastwood, Dan Hedaya, Alison Eastwood, Geneviève Bujold,
Directors : Richard Tuggle,

New Orleans single dad and cop Wes Block goes after a serial rapist-killer but when he gets too close to the target the hunter suddenly becomes the hunted.

Actors : Anne Bancroft, Anne Pitoniak, Meg Tilly, Jane Fonda,
Directors : Norman Jewison,

When a naive novice nun is discovered with a dead newborn in her convent quarters, a court-appointed psychiatrist investigates her case.

Actors : John Houseman, Fred Astaire, Craig Wasson, Alice Krige,
Directors : John Irvin,

Two generations of men find themselves haunted by the presence of a spectral woman. When the son of one of the elderly men returns to his hometown after his brother's mysterious death, they attempt to unravel her story.

Actors : Annie Potts, John Candy, Tim Thomerson, Jeffrey Jones,
Directors : Paul Flaherty,

Harry Crumb is a bumbling and inept private investigator who is hired to solve the kidnapping of a young heiress which he's not expected to solve because his employer is the mastermind behind the kidnapping.

Actors : Dana Kimmell, Richard Brooker, Terry Ballard, Tracie Savage,
Directors : Steve Miner,

Having revived from his wound, Jason Voorhees takes refuge at a cabin near Crystal Lake. As a group of co-eds arrive for their vacation, Jason continues his killing spree.

Actors : Adolph Caesar, David Alan Grier, Howard E. Rollins Jr., Art Evans,
Directors : Norman Jewison,

An African American officer investigates a murder in a racially charged situation in World War II.

Actors : Joel Grey, J.A. Preston, Fred Ward, Wilford Brimley,
Directors : Guy Hamilton,

An officially "dead" cop is trained to become an extraordinarily unique assassin in service of the US president.

Actors : Dennis Hopper, Debra Winger, Sami Frey, Theresa Russell,
Directors : Bob Rafelson,

A federal investigator tracks down a gold digging woman who moves from husband to husband, kills them and collects the inheritance.

Actors : Jerry Orbach, Richard Foronjy, Don Billett, Treat Williams,
Directors : Sidney Lumet,

A New York City narcotics detective reluctantly agrees to cooperate with a special commission investigating police corruption. However, he soon discovers that he's in over his head, and nobody can be trusted.

Actors : William Daniels, Paulina Porizkova, Tom Selleck, James Farentino,
Directors : Bruce Beresford,

A writer of BAD detective novels is in full writers' block. He pretends to be the alibi of a beautiful woman who was arrested for murder at first thinking her innocent, but as she shows ...

Actors : Melody Anderson, Jack Albertson, Dennis Redfield, James Farentino,
Directors : Gary Sherman,

A suspense horror film set in a small coastal town where, after a series of gory murders commited by mobs of townspeople against visiting tourists, the corpses begin to come back to life.

Actors : Andrea Marcovicci, Paul Sorvino, Michael Moriarty, Garrett Morris,
Directors : Larry Cohen,

A delicious, mysterious goo that oozes from the earth is marketed as the newest dessert sensation, but the tasty treat rots more than teeth when zombie-like snackers who only want to consume more of the strange substance at any cost begin infesting the world.

Actors : Clint Eastwood, Burt Reynolds, Madeline Kahn, Jane Alexander,
Directors : Richard Benjamin,

A slick private eye and tough police lieutenant--once partners, now bitter enemies--reluctantly team up to investigate a murder.

Actors : Cecilia Pérez-Cervera, Fred Ward, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Alec Baldwin,
Directors : George Armitage,

When Fred Frenger gets out of prison, he decides to start over in Miami, Florida, where he starts a violent one-man crime wave. He soon meets up with amiable college student/prostitute ...

Actors : Sharon Stone, Carl Weathers, Vanity, Craig T. Nelson,
Directors : Craig R. Baxley,

Vengence drives a tough Detroit cop to stay on the trail of a power hungry auto magnate who's systematically eliminating his competition.