Best Mystery movies of 1980s

Actors : Bud Cort, Bill Pullman, Nicholas Pryor, Bill Paxton,
Directors : Adam Simon,

In a showdown of man vs. machine, Martin plunges into a chaotic nightmare trying to save his mind from the megalomaniacal corporation.

Actors : Sally Ann Howes, Nick Mancuso, Richard Crenna, George Kennedy,
Directors : Alvin Rakoff,

A mysterious ghostly freighter rams and sinks a modern day cruise ship whose survivors climb aboard the freighter and discover that it is a WW2 Nazi torture vessel.

Actors : Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Fanny Ardant, Philippe Laudenbach,
Directors : François Truffaut,

Claude Massoulier is murdered while hunting at the same place than Julien Vercel, an estate agent that knew him and whose fingerprints are found on Massoulier's car. As the police discovers...

Actors : Christopher George, Patch Mackenzie, E. Danny Murphy, E.J. Peaker,
Directors : Herb Freed,

A masked killer begins murdering students on the school track team after a track runner dies upon completion of a 30 second 200-meter race.

Actors : Susan Sarandon, Raul Julia, Judith Ivey, Edward Herrmann,
Directors : Frank Perry,

An ex-newspaper woman who is now a suburban housewife can't resist getting involved in an investigation of the murder of a philandering dentist who had been having affairs with several of her neighbors.

Actors : Nancy Allen, Paul Le Mat, Diana Scarwid, Michael Lerner,
Directors : Michael Laughlin,

Charlie's ex-wife disappears, and he travels to where she grew up--a rural town in the Midwest--to look for her. But, surprisingly, nobody knows about her or any of her many relatives, the ...

Actors : Jenny Seagrove, Brad Hall, Carey Lowell, Dwier Brown,
Directors : William Friedkin,

A young couple with a newborn baby don't realize that the nanny they hired is a magical nymph who sacrifices infants to an evil tree.

Actors : Stacy Keach, Marion Edward, Grant Page, Jamie Lee Curtis,
Directors : Richard Franklin,

A truck driver plays a cat-and-mouse game with a mysterious serial killer on a desolate Australian highway.

Actors : Robert Picardo, James Spader, Jim Haynie, Cynthia Gibb,
Directors : Rowdy Herrington,

A serial killer in Los Angeles celebrates Jack the Ripper's 100th birthday by committing similar murders and only one has a chance of stopping him.

Actors : Marjorie Yates, Vanessa Redgrave, Ian Holm, Judi Dench,
Directors : David Hare,

The mysterious death of an enigmatic young man newly arrived in the suburb of Wetherby releases the long-repressed, dark passions of some of its residents.

Actors : Suzanne Flon, Isabelle Adjani, Alain Souchon, Jenny Clève,
Directors : Jean Becker,

In spring 1976, a 19-year-old beauty, her German-born mother, and her crippled father move to the town of a firefighter nicknamed Pin-Pon. Everyone notices the provocative Eliane. She ...

Actors : James Woods, Sigourney Weaver, William Hurt, Christopher Plummer,
Directors : Peter Yates,

Eccentric Vietnam War vet turned janitor claims to have witnessed a murder of a man tied to international political underground in order to get the attention of a TV reporter he has a huge crush on. The cops suspect his loser best friend.

Actors : Julian Sands, Ellen Barkin, Gabriel Byrne, Isabella Rossellini,
Directors : Mary Lambert,

Claire (an American) wakes up in a terrible state at the end of a runway in Spain. As she tries to account for her state (blood-soaked and bruised), she has flashbacks from the past few ...

Actors : Gary Oldman, Christopher Lloyd, Colleen Camp, Theresa Russell,
Directors : Nicolas Roeg,

A doctor's wife tires of his obsession with model trains, and spends her days wondering about the son she gave up for adoption at birth. While eating at a roadside cafe, she encounters a ...

Actors : Dan Shor, Fiona Lewis, Louise Fletcher, Michael Murphy,
Directors : Michael Laughlin,

A scientist is experimenting with teenagers and turning them into murderers.

Actors : Lauren Bacall, John Gielgud, Peter Ustinov, Carrie Fisher,
Directors : Michael Winner,

When a former prison wardress who dominates the lives of her three adult stepchildren and her daughter is found dead at an archaeological dig near the Dead Sea, there are a great many suspects.

Actors : Bruce Lee, Jang Lee Hwang, Roy Horan, Tae-jeong Kim,

While investigating his friend Chin Ku's (Hwang Jang Lee) death, martial artist Billy Lo (Bruce Lee) is killed. His younger brother, Bobby Lo (Kim Tai Chung), investigates both deaths. His ...

Actors : Kate Nelligan, Stockard Channing, Judd Hirsch, David Dukes,
Directors : Stanley R. Jaffe,

This film, centering on a child's abduction, casts Kate Nelligan as the distraught mother who lashes out at the police (in the person of a relentless detective played by Judd Hirsch), who ...

Actors : Don Knotts, Tim Conway, Trisha Noble, Bernard Fox,
Directors : Lang Elliott,

This spoof of the Sherlock Holmes stories finds Inspector Winship and Dr. Tart investigating a strange death in a possibly haunted mansion, while dealing with the beautiful heiress and the ...

Actors : Nick Nolte, Debra Winger, Will Patton, Judith Ivey,
Directors : Karel Reisz,

A seeming good Samaritan (Debra Winger) hires a private detective (Nolte) to prove a teen sitting in prison on a murder charge is innocent. His investigation discovers deep corruption in a ...