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1. The Invitation (II) (2022)
PG-13 | 105 min | Horror, Thriller
A young woman is courted and swept off her feet, only to realize a gothic conspiracy is afoot.
Director: Jessica M. Thompson | Stars: Nathalie Emmanuel, Thomas Doherty, Sean Pertwee, Hugh Skinner
Votes: 32,795
2. Pearl (2022)
R | 103 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
In 1918, a young woman on the brink of madness pursues stardom in a desperate attempt to escape the drudgery, isolation, and lovelessness of life on her parents' farm.
Director: Ti West | Stars: Mia Goth, David Corenswet, Tandi Wright, Matthew Sunderland
Votes: 99,412 | Gross: $9.42M
3. You Can't Run Forever (2024)
R | 102 min | Drama, Thriller
A teenage girl suffering from anxiety due to a tragic event from her past finds herself hunted through the woods by a sociopath on a murderous rampage.
Director: Michelle Schumacher | Stars: J.K. Simmons, Fernanda Urrejola, Allen Leech, Isabelle Anaya
Votes: 812
4. Get Out (I) (2017)
R | 104 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A young African-American visits his white girlfriend's parents for the weekend, where his simmering uneasiness about their reception of him eventually reaches a boiling point.
Director: Jordan Peele | Stars: Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Bradley Whitford, Catherine Keener
Votes: 701,385 | Gross: $176.04M
5. The Dry (2020)
R | 117 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Aaron Falk returns to his drought-stricken hometown to attend a tragic funeral. But his return opens a decades-old wound - the unsolved death of a teenage girl.
Director: Robert Connolly | Stars: Eric Bana, Genevieve O'Reilly, Keir O'Donnell, John Polson
Votes: 33,528
6. Tár (2022)
R | 158 min | Drama, Music
Set in the international world of Western classical music, the film centers on Lydia Tár, widely considered one of the greatest living composer-conductors and the very first female director of a major German orchestra.
Director: Todd Field | Stars: Cate Blanchett, Noémie Merlant, Nina Hoss, Sophie Kauer
Votes: 94,514
7. Sully (2016)
PG-13 | 96 min | Biography, Drama
When pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger lands his damaged plane on the Hudson River in order to save the flight's passengers and crew, some consider him a hero while others think he was reckless.
Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Tom Hanks, Aaron Eckhart, Laura Linney, Valerie Mahaffey
Votes: 299,109 | Gross: $125.07M
8. Those Who Wish Me Dead (2021)
R | 100 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A teenage murder witness finds himself pursued by twin assassins in the Montana wilderness with a survival expert tasked with protecting him -- and a forest fire threatening to consume them all.
Director: Taylor Sheridan | Stars: Angelina Jolie, Nicholas Hoult, Finn Little, Jon Bernthal
Votes: 72,945
9. Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016)
PG-13 | 99 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
In 1967 Los Angeles, a widowed mother and her daughters add a new stunt to bolster their seance scam business by inviting an evil presence into their home, not realizing how dangerous it is.
Director: Mike Flanagan | Stars: Elizabeth Reaser, Lulu Wilson, Annalise Basso, Henry Thomas
Votes: 73,433 | Gross: $35.14M
10. The Vampire Lovers (1970)
R | 91 min | Horror
Seductive vampire Carmilla Karnstein and her family target the beautiful and the rich in a remote area of late eighteenth-century Gemany.
Director: Roy Ward Baker | Stars: Ingrid Pitt, Pippa Steel, Madeline Smith, Peter Cushing
Votes: 7,518
11. The Tenant (1976)
R | 126 min | Drama, Thriller
A bureaucrat rents a Paris apartment where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.
Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Roman Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas, Jo Van Fleet
Votes: 47,743 | Gross: $1.92M
12. The Wolf of Snow Hollow (2020)
R | 85 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Terror grips a small mountain town as bodies are discovered after each full moon. Losing sleep, raising a teenage daughter, and caring for his ailing father, officer Marshall struggles to remind himself there's no such thing as werewolves.
Director: Jim Cummings | Stars: Jim Cummings, Riki Lindhome, Robert Forster, Chloe East
Votes: 24,368
13. The Turning (2020)
PG-13 | 94 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A young governess is hired to look after an orphaned girl, but the return of the girl's problematic brother uncovers secrets from their past. A modern take on Henry James' novella "The Turn of the Screw."
Director: Floria Sigismondi | Stars: Mackenzie Davis, Finn Wolfhard, Brooklynn Prince, Barbara Marten
Votes: 16,198
14. Malevolent (III) (2018)
TV-MA | 89 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A team of scam artists get more than they bargained for when a job at a haunted country estate gets out of hand.
Director: Olaf de Fleur Johannesson | Stars: Florence Pugh, Ben Lloyd-Hughes, Scott Chambers, Georgina Bevan
Votes: 17,164
15. Come True (2020)
Unrated | 105 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A teenage runaway takes part in a sleep study that becomes a nightmarish descent into the depths of her mind and a frightening examination of the power of dreams.
Director: Anthony Scott Burns | Stars: Julia Sarah Stone, Landon Liboiron, Carlee Ryski, Christopher Heatherington
Votes: 11,231
16. Hector and the Search for Happiness (2014)
R | 114 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A psychiatrist searches the globe to find the secret of happiness.
Director: Peter Chelsom | Stars: Simon Pegg, Rosamund Pike, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Jean Reno
Votes: 50,574 | Gross: $1.12M
17. Umma (2022)
PG-13 | 83 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Amanda and her daughter live a quiet life on an American farm, but when the remains of her estranged mother arrive from Korea, Amanda becomes haunted by the fear of turning into her own mother.
Director: Iris K. Shim | Stars: Sandra Oh, Fivel Stewart, Dermot Mulroney, Odeya Rush
Votes: 10,648
18. Sightless (2020)
Unrated | 89 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
After an attack renders her blind, Ellen Ashland withdraws from the world to recover. But soon she plunges into paranoia, unable to convince anyone that her assailant has returned to terrorize her by hiding in plain sight.
Director: Cooper Karl | Stars: Madelaine Petsch, Deniz Akdeniz, Alexander Koch, Matthew Yang King
Votes: 10,435
19. The Visitor (2022)
89 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
After a series of tragedies, Robert moves with his wife back to her childhood home. After he discovers an old portrait of a man who looks like him, he goes down a rabbit hole to discover the identity of this mysterious doppelganger.
Director: Justin P. Lange | Stars: Finn Jones, Jessica McNamee, Thomas Francis Murphy, Dane Rhodes
Votes: 2,926
20. Summer of Fear (1978 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 98 min | Horror, Thriller
A teenage girl's life is turned upside down after her cousin moves into her house, and as time goes by she begins to suspect that she may be a practitioner of witchcraft.
Director: Wes Craven | Stars: Linda Blair, Lee Purcell, Jeremy Slate, Jeff McCracken
Votes: 3,049
21. Julia (1977)
PG | 117 min | Drama
At the behest of an old and dear friend, playwright Lillian Hellman undertakes a dangerous mission to smuggle funds into Nazi Germany.
Director: Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards, Maximilian Schell
Votes: 10,428
22. Shrooms (2007)
Not Rated | 84 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
A group of friends are stalked and murdered whilst looking for psilocybin mushrooms in the Irish woods.
Director: Paddy Breathnach | Stars: Lindsey Haun, Jack Huston, Max Kasch, Maya Hazen
Votes: 17,704 | Gross: $0.00M
23. A Journal for Jordan (2021)
PG-13 | 131 min | Drama, Romance, War
1st Sgt. Charles Monroe King, before he is killed in action in Baghdad, authors a journal for his son intended to tell him how to live a decent life despite growing up without a father.
Director: Denzel Washington | Stars: Michael B. Jordan, Chanté Adams, Jalon Christian, Robert Wisdom
Votes: 2,910
24. Shock (1977)
R | 93 min | Horror
A couple is terrorized in their new house haunted by the vengeful ghost of the woman's former husband, who possesses their young son.
Directors: Mario Bava, Lamberto Bava | Stars: Daria Nicolodi, John Steiner, David Colin Jr., Ivan Rassimov
Votes: 4,693
25. Innocence (II) (2004)
R | 122 min | Drama, Mystery
A look inside an offbeat boarding school for young girls.
Director: Lucile Hadzihalilovic | Stars: Zoé Auclair, Lea Bridarolli, Bérangère Haubruge, Marion Cotillard
Votes: 6,461
26. Paris (I) (2008)
R | 130 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A ex-dancer has a heart problem and even with a transplant, he may still only have a few months to live. Time's spent looking at people/life in Paris from his balcony. His single mom sister moves in with her 3 kids to look after him.
Director: Cédric Klapisch | Stars: Fabrice Luchini, Romain Duris, Joffrey Platel, Mélanie Laurent
Votes: 12,882 | Gross: $1.01M
27. Dead Before Dawn (1993 TV Movie)
120 min | Drama, Thriller
A wife with a young family finds life becoming unbearable with her successful but violent and abusive husband. After filing for divorce, she quickly learns that her husband, through fear of... See full summary »
Director: Charles Correll | Stars: Cheryl Ladd, Jameson Parker, G.W. Bailey, Kim Coates
Votes: 617
28. The Attic (2007 Video)
R | 88 min | Horror, Thriller
Emma and her family are unhappy after moving to her house; one day she went to the attic and found someone who looked like her and began haunting her.
Director: Mary Lambert | Stars: Elisabeth Moss, Catherine Mary Stewart, John Savage, Tom Malloy
Votes: 2,007
29. Battle Cry (1955)
Approved | 149 min | Drama, Romance, War
Young Marines have adventures in love and war.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Van Heflin, Aldo Ray, Mona Freeman, Nancy Olson
Votes: 2,633 | Gross: $17.44M
30. Shrew's Nest (2014)
Not Rated | 91 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
1950s Madrid: The agoraphobic Montse raised her now 18 y.o. kid sister. The upstairs neighbor falls down the stairs and breaks a leg. The crazy Montse takes him in.
Directors: Juanfer Andrés, Esteban Roel | Stars: Macarena Gómez, Nadia de Santiago, Hugo Silva, Luis Tosar
Votes: 7,738
31. The Nest (2019)
107 min | Horror, Mystery
Samuel is a paraplegic boy who lives with his mother Elena in an isolated mansion. When he meets Denise, he finds the strength to open up to the world. Elena won't let him go so easily, and she is ready to do whatever it takes to stop him.
Director: Roberto De Feo | Stars: Francesca Cavallin, Justin Korovkin, Ginevra Francesconi, Maurizio Lombardi
Votes: 1,937
32. Amityville: A New Generation (1993 Video)
R | 91 min | Horror
An old mirror from the Amityville house finds its way into a young photographer's home, where the demonic presence soon manifests itself to cause more death and mayhem.
Director: John Murlowski | Stars: Ross Partridge, Julia Nickson, Lala Sloatman, David Naughton
Votes: 2,499
33. The Clown at Midnight (1998)
R | 91 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Seven teenagers are stalked by a murderous clown while refurbishing an old opera house.
Director: Jean Pellerin | Stars: Christopher Plummer, Margot Kidder, Sarah Lassez, James Duval
Votes: 2,374
34. The Housemaid (2016)
Not Rated | 105 min | Horror, Romance
When an orphaned Vietnamese girl is hired to be a housemaid at a haunted rubber plantation in 1953 French Indochina, she unexpectedly falls in love with the French landowner and awakens the... See full summary »
Director: Derek Nguyen | Stars: Nhung Kate, Jean-Michel Richaud, Kim Xuan, Svitlana Kovalenko
Votes: 901
35. Spirit (2001 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 92 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
When Kelly and her father move to New Orleans after the death of her mother, strange things start happening in their new home. Kelly is convinced that the house is haunted by a ghost who ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Slovis | Stars: Greg Evigan, Elisabeth Moss, Austin O'Brien, Valerie Wildman
Votes: 337
36. Byleth: The Demon of Incest (1972)
Not Rated | 80 min | Drama, Horror
A man who's been in love with his sister since childhood returns after a year's absence to find she has married. Soon, several women in the area start turning up dead with strange wounds on their necks.
Director: Leopoldo Savona | Stars: Mark Damon, Claudia Gravy, Aldo Bufi Landi, Franco Jamonte
Votes: 479
37. Stucco (2019)
18 min | Short, Horror
In Stucco (U.S.), an agoraphobic woman finds a suspicious hollow wall in her house.
Directors: Janina Gavankar, Russo Schelling | Stars: Janina Gavankar, Michael Ealy, Colton Haynes, Bel Powley
Votes: 529
38. June (I) (2015)
Not Rated | 84 min | Fantasy, Horror
JUNE is a 9-year-old orphan girl who shares her body with an ancient supernatural being whose mission is to destroy mankind to allow nature to prevail on earth.
Director: L. Gustavo Cooper | Stars: Kennedy Brice, Victoria Pratt, Eddie Jemison, Lance E. Nichols
Votes: 1,777
39. Lady of Csejte (2015)
Not Rated | 106 min | Horror
Based on a story of Countess Bathory, a serial killer in 16th century Transylvania who supposedly killed hundreds of children.
Director: Andrei Konst | Stars: Svetlana Khodchenkova, Isabelle Allen, Pavel Derevyanko, Ada Condeescu
Votes: 753
40. Not in My Family (1993 TV Movie)
87 min | Drama
Dark memories of her father are revealed by a new mother's nightmares and depression after childbirth.
Director: Linda Otto | Stars: Joanna Kerns, Michael Brandon, Shelley Hack, Richard Gilliland
Votes: 224
41. Widow's Kiss (1996 TV Movie)
R | 103 min | Thriller
A few months after his mother's death, a bereaved Sean is unhappy when his wealthy father, Justin, marries Vivian, a seductive blonde, a gold-digger with a 20-year-old son from her previous... See full summary »
Director: Peter Foldy | Stars: Beverly D'Angelo, Mackenzie Astin, Dennis Haysbert, Bruce Davison
Votes: 321
42. Abandoned: Angelique's Isle (2018)
90 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
Angelique's Isle is a harrowing tale of perseverance and survival that unfolds during the great copper rush of 1845, when newlyweds ANGELIQUE, a young Ojibway and CHARLIE, her voyageur ... See full summary »
Directors: Marie-Hélène Cousineau, Michelle Derosier | Stars: Julia Jones, Charlie Carrick, Tantoo Cardinal, Aden Young
Votes: 281
43. Daddy's Girl (1996)
R | 95 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A girl's bright smile masks a psychopathic soul that will eliminate anyone who comes between her and her doting father.
Director: Martin Kitrosser | Stars: William Katt, Michele Greene, Roxana Zal, Mimi Craven
Votes: 781
44. The Tribe (2016)
97 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A family of three young sisters live out their days after a pandemic has consumed most of the known world. One day a stranger suddenly shows up and their world changes in ways they never could have imagined.
Director: Roxy Shih | Stars: Jessica Rothe, Anne Winters, Cokey Falkow, Michael Nardelli
Votes: 473
45. Do You Know Me? (2009 TV Movie)
R | 89 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
When Elsa's friend recognizes her childhood photo on a milk carton as a missing child, Elsa finds herself in a web of dark secrets, sinister family members and murder.
Director: Penelope Buitenhuis | Stars: Rachelle Lefevre, Jeremy London, Ted Whittall, Lynda Boyd
Votes: 662
46. The Evening Dress (2009)
95 min | Drama
Like many of her classmates, 12 year old tomboy Juliette has a crush on Mrs. Solenska, a teacher distinguished by stylish attire and an uninhibited, provocative classroom demeanor. ... See full summary »
Director: Myriam Aziza | Stars: Alba Gaïa Bellugi, Lio, Sophie Mounicot, Léo Legrand
Votes: 323
47. Adaline (2015)
TV-MA | 97 min | Thriller
Adaline's terrifying visions bleed through from the past and become Daniela's present-day nightmares.
Director: Bidisha Chowdhury | Stars: Jill Evyn, Lane Townsend, Jeremy S. Walker, Emily Claeys
Votes: 265
48. House of Secrets (1993 TV Movie)
120 min | Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Marion Ravinel is trapped in an abusive spousal relationship. She forms a plan with her husband's former lover to kill him. However, the outcome turns out to be more than she planned on as ... See full summary »
Director: Mimi Leder | Stars: Melissa Gilbert, Bruce Boxleitner, Kate Vernon, Michael Boatman
Votes: 257
49. Echoes (I) (2014)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Struggling with horrifying, sleep-paralysis induced visions, a young writer retreats with her boyfriend to an isolated desert house. As the visions intensify, she finds herself on the verge... See full summary »
Director: Nils Timm | Stars: Kate French, Steven Brand, Steve Hanks, Billy Wirth
Votes: 1,569
50. Room 731 (2015)
16 min | Short, Horror, Mystery
In this supernatural mystery, The Grudge meets Saw, an amnesiac girl wakes up in what appears to be an abandoned jail, where she is haunted by spirits who want to torture her.
Director: Young Min Kim | Stars: Kim Yoo-jung, Tim Kang, Nikki SooHoo, Mariko Denda
Votes: 112