Best Mystery movies of 1980s

Actors : Fabiola Toledo, Andrea Occhipinti, Anny Papa, Michele Soavi,
Directors : Lamberto Bava,

A killer stalks a composer staying at a posh Tuscany villa while writing the score to a horror film which has an incriminating clue to the killer's identity.

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 : Anne Archer, Kate Capshaw, Tom Berenger, Elizabeth Perkins,
Directors : Alan Rudolph,

Vampish miss Dolan hires hardboiled P.I. Harry Dobbs to tail her shady boyfriend. Harry realizes that the man leads a double life but then his client disappears. Harry teams up with his own tail, P.I. Stella Wynkowski, to clear things up.

Actors : Virginia Madsen, Tom Hulce, Don Keith Opper, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio,
Directors : Wayne Wang,

An artist, framed for the murder of a woman, is drawn into a web of corruption, blackmail and deceit.

Actors : Hume Cronyn, Kris Kristofferson, Josef Sommer, Jane Fonda,
Directors : Alan J. Pakula,

An Arab oil organization devises a plan to wreck the world economy in order to cause anarchy and chaos.

Actors : Richard Hatch, Peter Ustinov, Lee Grant, Angie Dickinson,
Directors : Clive Donner,

Famous detective Charlie Chan is called out of retirement to help a San Francisco detective solve a mysterious series of murders. With his bumbling grandson as his sidekick, Chan also ...

Actors : Isabelle Adjani, Stéphane Audran, Guy Marchand, Michel Serrault,
Directors : Claude Miller,

Beauvoir, lonely, aging private detective, is put on the bloody track of beautiful Catherine Leiris who kills and robs her rich husband(s) on their wedding night. Although he never ...

Actors : Clu Gulager, Daphne Zuniga, James Read, Vera Miles,

While trying to understand a frightening reoccurring nightmare, a pledge is coaxed into breaking into her father's department store by her sorority sisters, where a deranged killer targets the girls and their boyfriends.

Actors : Jeannie Elias, Sonja Smits, Sammy Snyders, Laura Hollingsworth,
Directors : Lew Lehman,

A solitary and strange preteen boy wreaks revenge on his harassers when he makes a disturbing discovery in the depth of a forest.

Actors : Mukesh, Asokan, Jagadish, Siddique,

Four unemployed men try to impress a new neighbor. Hilarity ensues, until the antagonist puts in an appearance.

Actors : Tatyana Drubich, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy, Aleksey Zharkov, Vladimir Zeldin,
Directors : Stanislav Govorukhin,

A psychological thriller based on the novel by Agatha Christie. Ten strangers are forced to come face to face with their dark pasts after receiving invitation to an isolated island off the coast of England.

Actors : Joe Turkel, Will Bledsoe, Robert Sampson, Camilla More,
Directors : D.J. Webster,

In 2022, a repair crew is sent to fix an orbital weapon but their spaceship malfunctions and ends up heading towards the dark side of the moon. There, in a mysterious, seemingly abandoned space shuttle, a sinister force lies in wait.

Actors : Ron Houck, Lara Wendel, Greg Rhodes, Mary Sellers,
Directors : Umberto Lenzi,

Visions of a deceased girl and her doll bring doom to the visitors of a deserted house.

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 : Karen Austin, Richard Masur, Drew Barrymore, Matt Frewer,
Directors : Meiert Avis,

A teenage girl and her father driving cross-country become stranded when their car runs out of gas in a remote Nevada desert town and they're forced to stay in a dilapidated trailer park where a serial killer lurks.

Actors : Christoph Moosbrugger, Nadja Gerganoff, Olivia Pascal, Jasmin Losensky,
Directors : Jesús Franco,

Girls are killed at a language-school in Spain.

Actors : Vladimir Menshov, Leonid Filatov, Oleg Basilashvili, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan,
Directors : Karen Shakhnazarov,

An engineer in charge of the production line of a factory in Moscow is sent to a small town to try to specify the distributor the new dimensions of a mechanic part they need. But in this ...

Actors : Jagathi Sreekumar, Janardanan, Mammootty, Suresh Gopi,
Directors : K. Madhu,

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) led by Sethuram Iyer investigate an unnatural death.

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 : Nicole Garcia, Richard Bohringer, Anémone, Christophe Malavoy,
Directors : Michel Deville,

A magnate and his younger wife hire David to teach guitar to their teenage daughter. The wife quickly seduces David, and simultaneously he strikes up an acquaintance with the family's ...