American death movies

List of the best American death movies selected by visitors to our site: The Professor, Sparkle, The Farewell, The Babysitter, Michael Jackson: Searching for Neverland, Containment, A Score to Settle, All Light Will End, I Still See You, Struck by Lightning.

In the top there are new films of 2021, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

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Markimdb: 6.7
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:30

A world-weary college professor is given a life-changing diagnosis and decides to throw all pretense and conventions to the wind and live his life as boldly and freely as possible with a biting sense of humor, a reckless streak and a touch of madness.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genredrama, music
CountryUSA
Duration02:00

Musical prodigy, Sparkle struggles to become a star while overcoming issues that are tearing her family apart. From an affluent Detroit area and daughter to a single mother, she tries to balance a new romance with music manager Stix while dealing with the unexpected challenges her new life will bring as she and her two sisters strive to become a dynamic singing group during the Motown-era.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genredrama
CountryUSA, China
Duration02:27

A headstrong Chinese-American woman returns to China when her beloved grandmother is given a terminal diagnosis. Billi struggles with her family's decision to keep grandma in the dark about her own illness as they all stage an impromptu wedding to see grandma one last time.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrehorror, comedy, melodrama
CountryUSA
Duration02:23

When Cole stays up past his bedtime, he discovers that his hot babysitter is part of a Satanic cult that will stop at nothing to keep him quiet.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genredrama, biography
CountryUSA
Duration00:45

Based on the best-selling book, Remember the Time: Protecting Michael Jackson in His Final Days, and told through the eyes of Jackson's trusted bodyguards, Bill Whitfield and Javon Beard. The movie will reveal firsthand the devotion Michael Jackson had to his children, and the hidden drama that took place during the last two years of his life.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genredrama
CountryUSA
Duration03:31

An epidemic breaks out in Atlanta leaving the large city quarantined and those stuck on the inside fighting for their lives. This is the story of loved ones torn apart, and how the society that grows inside the quarantine reveals both the devolution of humanity and the birth of unlikely heroes.

Markimdb: 4.7
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
CountryCanada, USA
Duration01:14

A former mob enforcer who is released from prison after serving 22 years for a crime he didn't commit sets out on a path for revenge against the people who wronged him.

Markimdb: 3.9
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryUSA

When a capricious young author with a dark secret returns home for her brother's graduation, she finds herself haunted by the past and tormented by night terrors.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrefantastic, thriller, detective
CountryUSA
Duration02:05

A spellbinding and romantic supernatural thriller. Ten years after an apocalyptic event left the world haunted by ghosts, Roni receives a threatening message from beyond the grave. Joining forces with a mysterious classmate, Kirk, Roni descends into a shadow world that blurs the bounds of the living and the dead-and begins a desperate race against time to stop a cunning killer.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA, Mexico
Duration01:30

After being struck and killed by lightning, a young man recounts the way he blackmailed his fellow classmates into contributing to his literary magazine.

Markimdb: 6
Genredrama, adventure
CountryUSA

Years after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took his business idea.

Markimdb: 6
Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama
CountryUSA, Belgium
Duration01:36

A hopeful young starlet uncovers the ominous origins of the Hollywood elite and enters into a deadly agreement in exchange for fame and fortune.

Markimdb: 4.2
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:54

A group of friends download a Siri-like App which, at first, seems like a harmless way to get directions or a restaurant recommendation. But the sinister nature of the App soon reveals itself. The App not only knows each person’s deepest, darkest fears, but is able to manifest these fears into the real world to literally scare the kids to death.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genrecomedy, musical, music
CountryUSA
Duration01:44

Bill Murray worries no one will show up to his TV show due to a massive snowstorm in New York City. Through luck and perseverance, guests arrive at Gotham’s Carlyle Hotel to help him — dancing and singing in holiday spirit.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:58

Midnight, New Year’s Eve: when all the hopes of new beginnings come to life – except for Lindsey and Jeff Pittman, whose strained marriage faces the ultimate test after they cover up a terrible crime and find themselves entangled in a Hitchcockian web of deceit and madness.

Markimdb: 5.6
Genrehorror, comedy
CountryUSA
Duration02:15

Gary, who has just married Samantha, the woman of his dreams, discovers that her six-year-old son may be the Antichrist.

Markimdb: 4.7
Genrehorror, action, thriller
CountryUSA, Australia, Canada
Duration01:30

See No Evil 2 revives the nightmare of the first film when Jacob Goodnight rises from the dead in the city morgue after his killing spree at the Blackwell hotel. In this ominous, underground locker for the dead, a group of medical students fight to survive as this deranged psychopath once again starts to pick them apart one by one.

Markimdb: 6
Genredrama, western
CountryUSA
Duration01:35

In this radically reimagined American Western set towards the end of the Civil War, Southerner Augusta encounters two renegade, drunken soldiers who are on a mission of pillage and violence. After escaping an attempted assault, Augusta races back to the isolated farmhouse that she shares with her sister Louise and their female slave Mad. When the pair of soldiers track Augusta down intent on exacting revenge, the trio of women are forced to take up arms to fend off their assailants, finding ways to resourcefully defend their home––and themselves––as the escalating attacks become more unpredictable and relentless.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration02:20

    A motorcycle stunt rider considers committing a crime in order to provide for his wife and child, an act that puts him on a collision course with a cop-turned-politician.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:04

    After a heist goes awry, a bank robber spends a night trying to free his brother from Riker's Island prison.

    Markimdb: 4.9
    Genrethriller
    CountryUSA, Chile, Israel
    Duration02:02

      When a devoted husband and father is left home alone for the weekend, two stranded young women unexpectedly knock on his door for help. What starts out as a kind gesture results in a dangerous seduction and a deadly game of cat and mouse.

      Markimdb: 3.7
      Genreaction, thriller, crime
      CountryUSA, Monaco, Romania
      Duration02:01

      An elite team of DEA agents are assigned to protect a dangerous drug lord and take refuge in a luxury hotel while they await extraction. They soon find themselves at the center of an ambush as the drug lord's former associates launch an explosive assault on the hotel.

      Markimdb: 4.9
      Genrehorror, fantastic, action, fantasy
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:42

      Brothers Mike and Jody join family friend Reggie to battle the Tall Man and his evil minions from another dimension, for the final time.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:38

        Financial TV host Lee Gates and his producer Patty are put in an extreme situation when an irate investor takes over their studio.

        Markimdb: 5.3
        Genrehorror, thriller, detective
        CountryUSA

        Cops involved with covering up a murder by getting rid of their body cam video footage find themselves haunted by an evil spirit.

        Markimdb: 3.7
        Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:13

        A man receives a mysterious box containing a terrible secret, a creature that will kill everyone else in his family unless he passes it on to someone he loves to continue its never-ending circulation.

        Markimdb: 4
        Genrehorror, detective
        CountryUSA

        A group of former classmates gather for a pre-party at one of their homes the night before their 10-year high school reunion, and one by one, they are brutally slain in a manner befitting each's senior yearbook superlative.

        Markimdb: 6.2
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, military, sport
        CountryUnited Kingdom, China, USA
        Duration02:11

        19-year-old Billy Lynn is brought home for a victory tour after a harrowing Iraq battle. Through flashbacks the film shows what really happened to his squad - contrasting the realities of war with America's perceptions.

        Markimdb: 5.8
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:08

        WE GO ON tells the story of one man's quest to find out if there is more out there after we die. Paralyzed by his fear of dying, Miles Grissom offers a cash reward to the first person who can show him a ghost, an angel, a demon anything that can prove that we go on after our deaths. He narrows the responses down to three viable candidates a scientist, a medium, and a worldly entrepreneur. Along with his fiercely protective mother, he embarks on an adventure that will spiral into an unthinkable nightmare.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genredrama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:42

        After having visions of a member of her support group who killed herself, a woman who also suffers with chronic pain seeks out the widower of the suicide.

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genredrama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:55

          With his wife Elizabeth on life support after a boating accident, Hawaiian land baron, Matt King takes his daughters on a trip from Oahu to Kauai to confront the young real estate broker, who was having an affair with Elizabeth before her misfortune.

          Markimdb: 3.6
          Genrehorror, thriller
          CountryUSA

          When a child-stealing demon attaches itself to a little girl, her family is thrust into a battle against time in order to save the girl and send the demon back to hell.

          Markimdb: 5.8
          Genrecomedy, drama, musical, crime
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:37

          A modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes, set against the backdrop of gang violence in Chicago.

          Markimdb: 4.2
          Genrehorror
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:28

          When a young couple – Anne and Harold – moves into a new home without knowing it was a site of horrific murders, Anne's loneliness and strange behavior makes their relationship complicated, especially after Anne meets 'Mary', a dark presence from which she can't escape.

          Markimdb: 4.3
          Genreaction, drama, adventure
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:08

          A troubled man runs away to Mexico and is recruited to join a paramilitary group of teens fighting the drug cartels. He proves himself to the group, but questions their motive.

          Markimdb: 5.7
          Genredrama
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:25

          Reeling from a terrifying assault, a nineteen year old enrolls into college with his brother and pledges the same fraternity. What happens there, in the name of 'brotherhood,' tests him and his loyalty in brutal ways.

          Markimdb: 5.7
          Genrefantastic, comedy
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:42

          Four everyday suburban guys come together as an excuse to escape their humdrum lives one night a week. But when they accidentally discover that their town has become overrun with aliens posing as ordinary suburbanites, they have no choice but to save their neighborhood - and the world - from total extermination.

          Markimdb: 5.7
          Genreaction, thriller, fantasy
          CountrySouth Africa, China, USA
          Duration02:23

          An assassin seeks redemption after being given a second chance at life.

          Markimdb: 7.1
          Genrehorror, thriller, crime
          CountryUSA, Serbia, Hungary
          Duration02:34

          A group of teens break into a blind man's home thinking they'll get away with the perfect crime. They're wrong.

          Markimdb: 6.8
          Genrecomedy, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:28

          David, a struggling comedy writer fresh off from breaking up with his boyfriend, moves from New York City to Sacramento to help his sick mother. Living with his conservative father and much-younger sisters for the first time in ten years, he feels like a stranger in his childhood home. As his mother’s health declines, David frantically tries to extract meaning from this horrible experience and convince everyone (including himself) that he's "doing okay.”

          Markimdb: 4.2
          Genrehorror, thriller, short, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:36

          20 years after a horrific accident during a small town school play, students at the school resurrect the failed show in a misguided attempt to honor the anniversary of the tragedy - but soon discover that some things are better left alone.

          Markimdb: 6.1
          Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
          CountryUSA

          When Mari Gilbert's daughter disappears, police inaction drives her own investigation into the gated Long Island community where Shannan was last seen. Her search brings attention to over a dozen murdered sex workers.

          Markimdb: 5.3
          Genrethriller, drama, detective
          CountryUSA

          Shy and reserved, Claire Decker, 30ish, is a part-time investigator for Social Services. Typically, she solves cases where senior citizens have died alone, leaving no indication of who must handle their estate. This time however, Claire is reluctantly drawn into a puzzling murder case. The local police have been unable to solve the horrific crime, or even decipher the victim's true identity. A beautiful and enigmatic young blond, known only as "The White Orchid," has been brutally murdered. As Claire is drawn deeper and more intimately into the dead woman's life, she finds herself taking dangerous chances and pushing personal and professional boundaries. As she gets closer to the truth, Claire must effectively become the charismatic "White Orchid" in order to solve the mysterious crime.

          Markimdb: 4.9
          Genrehorror, thriller
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:19

          A single mom and her two boys help take care of their grandmother with mystical powers

          Markimdb: 5.8
          Genrehorror, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:17

          When Simon brings his twelve year-old son, Finn, to rural Vermont to help flip an old farmhouse, they encounter the malicious spirit of Lydia, a previous owner. And now with every repair they make - she's getting stronger.

          Markimdb: 6.7
          Genredrama
          CountryUSA

          Madrid, Spain. The bedroom of Sofía, a luxury escort. Her new client, who has introduced himself as Hugo and appears to be an educated businessman, discovers that she has a name tattooed on her leg: Diana. Hugo cannot help asking her who Diana is.

          Markimdb: 5.7
          Genremelodrama, drama, family, history
          CountryUSA

          Savannah is the true story of Ward Allen, a romantic and bombastic character who rejects his plantation heritage for the freedom of life on a river. Ward navigates the change of early 20th century America on the wrong side of the law and society, his long-time friend, a freed slave named Christmas Moultrie, at his side. Master of Shakespeare, and the shotgun that provides Savannah's markets with fowl, Ward fights for his rights as a hunter. His charisma and eloquent rhetoric win the heart of a society woman who defies her father to marry him. An elderly Moultrie tells the story of life on the river with his friend to a little boy, who passes the legendary Ward Allen down to the next generation.

          Markimdb: 5.1
          Genrehorror, adventure
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:04

          Two estranged brothers reunite at their missing father's video store to liquidate the property and sell off his assets. As they dig through the store, they find a VCR board game dubbed 'Beyond The Gates' that holds a connection to their father's disappearance and deadly consequences for anyone who plays it.

          Markimdb: 7.3
          Genredrama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:43

          A drama centered on a classical pianist who has been diagnosed with ALS and the brash college student who becomes her caregiver.

          Markimdb: 4.8
          Genrehorror, thriller
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:28

          A young woman learns that she has inherited a Texas estate from her deceased grandmother. After embarking on a road trip with friends to uncover her roots, she finds she is the sole owner of a lavish, isolated Victorian mansion. But her newfound wealth comes at a price as she stumbles upon a horror that awaits her in the mansion’s dank cellars.




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