Best Mystery movies of 1970s

Actors : George Lazenby, Anita Strindberg, Adolfo Celi, Dominique Boschero,
Directors : Aldo Lado,

A young girl is brutally murdered somewhere in France. Sometime later, the same thing happens to the daughter of a well-known sculptor. This time the parents (the sculptor and his wife) ...

Actors : Anthony Steffen, Enzo Tarascio, Marina Malfatti, Giacomo Rossi Stuart,
Directors : Emilio Miraglia,

A wealthy pervert lures beautiful young women to his castle so he can have his way with them.

Actors : Vanessa Redgrave, Richard Widmark, Christopher Lee, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Don Sharp,

On the remote Norwegian Bear Island, used as a submarine base by the Germans during WW2, U.N. scientist Larsen sends a distress signal using an emergency NATO frequency and is received by scientific vessel Morning Rose.

Actors : Mario Scaccia, Mimsy Farmer, Jho Jhenkins, Maurizio Bonuglia,
Directors : Francesco Barilli,

Sylvia, an industrial scientist, is troubled by strange hallucinations related to the tragic suicide of her mother.

Actors : Robert Powell, Broderick Crawford, David Hemmings, Carmen Duncan,
Directors : Simon Wincer,

A modern-day politician is faced with an incomprehensible in this mystical-fantasy. Senator Rast is a very powerful man. But his is nothing compared to the extraordinary power of the ...

Actors : Christine Kaufmann, Jason Robards, Herbert Lom, Adolfo Celi,
Directors : Gordon Hessler,

Paris...at the turn of the century. Inspector Vidocq investigates a series of unexplained murders at a Grand Guignol-type theatre...where the players have suddenly become real-life victims. Based on the story by Edgar Allan Poe.

Actors : Edwige Fenech, Paola Quattrini, Annabella Incontrera, George Hilton,
Directors : Giuliano Carnimeo,

Beautiful young model Jennifer Lansbury and her goofy friend Marilyn Ricci move into a swanky high-rise apartment after the previous tenant gets brutally murdered. Pretty soon Jennifer is ...

Actors : Richard Gilliland, Jamie Smith-Jackson, Bradford Dillman, Joanna Miles,
Directors : Jeannot Szwarc,

An earthquake releases a strain of mutant cockroaches with the ability to start fires, which proceed to cause destructive chaos in a small town. The studies carried out by scientist James ...

Actors : Edwige Fenech, Nino Castelnuovo, Solvi Stubing, Femi Benussi,
Directors : Andrea Bianchi,

When a fashion model dies during an abortion, a series of murders begins, starting with her doctor. The next victims are connected to the modeling agency where she worked, Albatross, run by...

Actors : Ben Johnson, Paul Winfield, Burt Reynolds, Catherine Deneuve,
Directors : Robert Aldrich,

At the instigation of a grieving father, a Los Angeles cop investigates the suspicious circumstances of a girl's apparent suicide.

Actors : Stacy Keach, Trevor Howard, Richard Attenborough, Michael York,
Directors : Michael Anderson,

At a British Regimental party in Colonial India the widow of Captain Scarlett is assaulted in the garden and she accuses one of the newly arrived junior lieutenants of the crime.

Actors : James Westmoreland, Nicholas Worth, Ben Frank, Flo Lawrence,
Directors : Robert Hammer,

A deeply disturbed Vietnam veteran terrorizes the young women of Los Angeles and taunts a radio psychologist with descriptions of his grisly crimes.

Actors : Barbara Bouchet, Ugo Pagliai, Marino Masé, Marina Malfatti,
Directors : Emilio Miraglia,

When two sisters inherit their family castle, a string of murders committed by a mysterious dark haired woman in a red cloak decimates their circle of friends. Is the killer their ancestor,...

Actors : Steve Vincent, Douglas Gudbye, John F. Goff, Verkina Flower,
Directors : Stu Segall,

Two police detectives try to catch a serial killer who is stalking a rural California drive-in theater, randomly killing people with a sword.

Actors : Paola Morra, Anita Ekberg, Alida Valli, Massimo Serato,
Directors : Giulio Berruti,

A demented nun sliding through morphine addiction into madness, whilst presiding over a regime of lesbianism, torture and death. Sister Gertrude is the head nurse/nun in a general hospital,...

Actors : Mia Farrow, Keir Dullea, Jill Bennett, Tom Conti,
Directors : Richard Loncraine,

After the death of her daughter, Julia Lofting, a wealthy housewife, moves to London to re-start her life. All seems well until she is haunted by the sadness of losing her own child and the ghosts of other children.

Actors : Margot Kidder, Jennifer O'Neill, Cornelia Sharpe, Michael Sarrazin,
Directors : J. Lee Thompson,

When college professor Peter Proud begins to experience flashbacks from a previous incarnation, he is mysteriously drawn to a place he has never been before but which is troublingly ...

Actors : Pier Paolo Capponi, Uschi Glas, Rossella Falk, Antonio Sabato,
Directors : Umberto Lenzi,

A woman, a survivor of a failed murder attempt by a person dubbed "The Half-Moon Killer" by the police, and her husband must find the connecting thread between herself, six other women, and...

Actors : Silvia Monti, Wolfgang Preiss, Franco Nero, Ira von Fürstenberg,
Directors : Luigi Bazzoni,

An alcoholic journalist finds himself on the trail of a murderer after the police make him a suspect in their investigation.

Actors : James Mason, Audrey Hepburn, Ben Gazzara, Claudia Mori,
Directors : Terence Young,

When her father is murdered, a pharmaceutical heiress becomes the next target of an unknown killer amid the international jet set.