American films about the fight against evil

List of the best American films about the fight against evil, selected by visitors to our site: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Seventh Son, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Zack Snyder's Justice League, The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf, The Nun, Nitro Circus: The Movie, Hollow Creek, The Pact II, Deadline.

In the top there are new films of 2023, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

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Markimdb: 8.9
Genrefantasy, drama, adventure
CountryNew Zealand, USA
Duration02:58

Young hobbit Frodo Baggins, after inheriting a mysterious ring from his uncle Bilbo, must leave his home in order to keep it from falling into the hands of its evil creator. Along the way, a fellowship is formed to protect the ringbearer and make sure that the ring arrives at its final destination: Mt. Doom, the only place where it can be destroyed.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genrefantasy, adventure
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Canada, China
Duration01:42

John Gregory, who is a seventh son of a seventh son and also the local spook, has protected the country from witches, boggarts, ghouls and all manner of things that go bump in the night. However John is not young anymore, and has been seeking an apprentice to carry on his trade. Most have failed to survive. The last hope is a young farmer's son named Thomas Ward. Will he survive the training to become the spook that so many others couldn't?

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, comedy, adventure
CountryUSA, Australia

Shang-Chi must confront the past he thought he left behind when he is drawn into the web of the mysterious Ten Rings organization.

Markimdb: 8
Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, adventure
CountryUSA

Determined to ensure Superman's ultimate sacrifice was not in vain, Bruce Wayne aligns forces with Diana Prince with plans to recruit a team of metahumans to protect the world from an approaching threat of catastrophic proportions.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genreaction, fantasy, cartoon
CountryUSA

Escaping from poverty to become a witcher, Vesemir slays monsters for coin and glory, but when a new menace rises, he must face the demons of his past.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryUSA, Romania
Duration01:30

When a young nun at a cloistered abbey in Romania takes her own life, a priest with a haunted past and a novitiate on the threshold of her final vows are sent by the Vatican to investigate. Together they uncover the order’s unholy secret. Risking not only their lives but their faith and their very souls, they confront a malevolent force in the form of the same demonic nun that first terrorized audiences in “The Conjuring 2” as the abbey becomes a horrific battleground between the living and the damned.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genreaction, comedy, documentary
CountryUSA
Duration01:28

You will see Travis Pastrana and the whole Nitro Circus crew perform some of the most ridiculous, awe-inspiring, and simply insane stunts ever caught on camera. Coming to you in three dimensional glory, it will feel like you are there sitting shotgun with the crew.

Markimdb: 4.3
Genrehorror, thriller, crime, detective
CountryUSA

Trying to find inspiration for his next horror novel, Blake retreats to the Appalachian Mountains with his mistress, Angelica. Upon arrival they learn about the case of several missing boys in the area. When Angelica follows a lead to one of the missing boys and disappears, Blake becomes a prime suspect.

Markimdb: 4.3
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:36

The sequel is set just weeks after Annie Barlow's deadly confrontation with the Judas Killer. In this elevated sequel, we meet June, a woman whose carefully constructed life is beginning to unravel due to lucid nightmares so awful they disturb her waking life

Markimdb: 4.7
Genrethriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA

Deadline is the story of the murder of an African American youth in rural Alabama that has gone uninvestigated, unsolved, and unpunished for almost twenty years. That changes when Nashville Times reporter Matt Harper (Steve Talley) meets an idealistic young blueblood bent on discovering the truth. Harper undertakes the investigation despite the opposition of his publisher, violent threats from mysterious forces, a break-up with his fiancée, and his father's cancer diagnosis.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genredrama, documentary
CountryUSA

Desperate, broken men chase their dreams and run from their demons in the North Dakota oil fields. A local Pastor's decision to help them has extraordinary and unexpected consequences.

Markimdb: 2.9
Genrehorror, action, thriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:53

The end of one journey only marks the beginning of another as Detective Loomis returns to uncover the truth behind the Legend of Pitchfork.

Markimdb: 4.7
Genreaction, thriller, melodrama
CountryUSA
Duration01:37

A street smart, 17-year-old named Daniel practices Parkour and is both hero and thief.

Markimdb: 2.8
Genreaction, thriller, crime
CountryUSA

Victoria is a young mother trying to put her dark past as a Russian drug courier behind her, but retired cop Damon forces Victoria to do his bidding by holding her daughter hostage. Now, Victoria must use guns, guts and a motorcycle to take out a series of violent gangsters—or she may never see her child again.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA

More interested in partying and flirting with young musicians than work, veteran rock journalist Ellie Klug has one last chance to prove her value to her magazine’s editor: a no-stone-unturned search to discover what really happened to long lost rock god, Matt Smith, who also happens to be her ex-boyfriend. Teaming up with an eccentric amateur documentary filmmaker, Ellie hits the road in search of answers.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genredrama, biography
CountryUSA
Duration02:12

A look at the life of Cecil Gaines who served eight presidents as the White House's head butler from 1952 to 1986, and had a unique front-row seat as political and racial history was made.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genredrama
CountryUSA
Duration02:08

Based on the internationally-acclaimed play by Colette Freedman, the story of 4 estranged sisters who reunite for their mother’s alleged suicide.

Markimdb: 5.6
Genredrama, music
CountryUSA
Duration01:29

When Taryn, a Northern Irish runaway, finds herself in trouble in Ocean City, MD, she seeks refuge with her aunt and uncle in Baltimore. But Kim and Bill have problems of their own: they’re trying to handle the end of their marriage gracefully for the sake of their daughter Abby, just home from her first year of college. A story of family revelations, people finding each other and letting each other go, looking for love where they’ve found it before and, when that doesn’t work, figuring out where they might find it next.

Markimdb: 5.6
Genremelodrama, drama, biography
CountryUSA
Duration02:01

The controversial true story of a gay activist who rejects his homosexuality and becomes a Christian pastor.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genredrama
CountryUSA

Maddie, a teen stuck in the afterlife investigating her own disappearance, goes on a crime-solving journey as she adjusts to high school purgatory.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genreaction, comedy, drama, crime
CountryUSA, Japan, Colombia
Duration02:32

    The true story of pilot Barry Seal, who transported contraband for the CIA and the Medellin cartel in the 1980s.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genreaction, thriller, comedy, melodrama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:31

    An unemployed lingerie buyer convinces her bail bondsman cousin to give her a shot as a bounty hunter. Her first assignment is to track down a former cop on the run for murder – the same man who broke her heart years before. With the help of some friends and the best bounty hunter in the business, she slowly learns what it takes to be a true bounty hunter.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genremelodrama, drama, music
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:56

    Noni Jean is a hot new rising star. But not all is what it seems, and the pressure causes Noni to nearly fall apart - until she meets Kaz Nicol, a promising young cop and aspiring politician who's been assigned to her detail. Can Kaz's love give Noni the courage to find her own voice and break free to become the artist she was meant to be?

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA

    Love for the same woman causes conflict between an over-achieving blind athlete and the brother who made him that way.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrecrime, detective
    CountryUSA

    A brilliant crossword puzzle editor (Chabert) finds her life turned upside-down when she is pulled into a police investigation after several of the clues in her recent puzzles are linked to unsolved crimes. Proving her innocence means leaving the comfort of her sheltered world and working with a tough police detective (Elliott), puzzling through clues together in order to crack the case, as the two are fish out of water in each other's worlds.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genremelodrama, drama, crime, music
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:39

      Emily arrives in Miami with aspirations to become a professional dancer. She sparks with Sean, the leader of a dance crew whose neighborhood is threatened by Emily's father's development plans.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:30

      In an attempt to sign a Hollywood starlet, struggling talent agent and former child star Howard Holloway must contend with her volatile father, a scheming long-time rival, and a producer and casting director who despise him.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genredocumentary
      CountryUSA

      An exploration of the Alien presence on Earth and the reality of suppressed free energy technology.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genredrama, adventure, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:36

      The story of a young boy in the Midwest is told simultaneously with a tale about a young girl in New York from fifty years ago as they both seek the same mysterious connection.

      Markimdb: 4.9
      Genrethriller
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:27

      Terrified commuters are on the ride of their lives when terrorists send a subway train speeding out of control during rush hour. With the saboteur among them, a group of citizens are now trapped underground and in a race against time if they hope to see daylight again. Full of fast-paced action and suspense, Redline is a thriller that will have you holding on for safety.

      Markimdb: 5.2
      Genrecomedy
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:22

      Two superheroes, Electra Woman and Dyna Girl, move from Akron to Los Angeles in hopes of making it big in the crime fighting world, only to find competition with other vigilantes and infighting amongst themselves.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA, Canada

      A young woman's plans to propose to her girlfriend while at her family's annual holiday party are upended when she discovers her partner hasn't yet come out to her conservative parents.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genredocumentary, crime
      CountryUSA

      The Interrupters tells the moving and surprising stories of three Violence Interrupters — former gang members who try to protect their Chicago communities from the violence they once caused.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:05

      A comedy that takes place in the 1960's during turbulent times in the United States when a middle class suburban family is visited by a guest who turns their household completely upside down.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrehorror, fantasy, drama
      CountryUSA

      Based on Anne Rice's iconic novel, follow Louis de Pointe's epic story of love, blood and the perils of immortality, as told to the journalist Daniel Molloy.

      Markimdb: 4.1
      Genreaction
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:30

      John Falcon did 10 years of hard time in prison. Now he's got 24 hours to get revenge on every person who had a hand in sending him there.

      Markimdb: 4
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:21

      A group of college kids travel to a small, mountain town called Madison County to interview the author of a tell-all book on the accounts of several grisly murders that happened there. But when the kids get to Madison County, the author is no where to be found and the towns people act like they haven't seen him in years. They also say that the killer never existed and the murders never happened. However, when the kids start digging around to get their own answers, they find out that the stories maybe more real than the townspeople are letting on!

      Markimdb: 8.1
      Genredrama, biography, history
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration02:13

      In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty as well as unexpected kindnesses Solomon struggles not only to stay alive, but to retain his dignity. In the twelfth year of his unforgettable odyssey, Solomon’s chance meeting with a Canadian abolitionist will forever alter his life.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genrecomedy, western, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:05

      A young man seeking a father he has never met, through no fault of his own, ends up barricaded in a liquor store with five other people on Christmas Eve in the fictitious town of El Camino, NV.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:00

        After spending eight months in a mental institution, a former teacher moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife.

        Markimdb: 5.8
        Genredrama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:24

        Fred arrives at the doorstep of his beautiful young mistress Velvet after four years apart, claiming to have finally left his wife. But when she rejects his attempts to rekindle their romance, his persistence evolves into obsession — and a dark history between the former lovers comes into focus.

        Markimdb: 4.8
        Genrehorror, drama, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:41

        A man descends into paranoia after trapping what he believes to be the devil in his basement, but things take a dark turn when his family unexpectedly arrive for Christmas.

        Markimdb: 7.6
        Genreaction, drama, biography
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:24

        Members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots battle deadly wildfires to save an Arizona town.

        Markimdb: 5.3
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller
        CountryUSA

        A masked vigilante who discovers the dark side to heroism. Going after the nation's most notorious super criminal leaves Sparks' life and reputation in ruins.

        Markimdb: 6.2
        Genredrama
        CountryUSA

        After Davey's father is killed in a hold-up, she and her mother and younger brother visit relatives in New Mexico. Here Davey is befriended by a young man who helps her find the strength to carry on and conquer her fears.

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genredrama, family, biography, history, sport
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:56

          Housewife and mother Penny Chenery agrees to take over her ailing father's Virginia-based Meadow Stables, despite her lack of horse-racing knowledge. Against all odds, Chenery - with the help of veteran trainer Lucien Laurin - manages to navigate the male-dominated business, ultimately fostering the first Triple Crown winner in 25 years.

          Markimdb: 6.9
          Genrecomedy
          CountryUSA

          It's Roseanne Barr's turn to step in to the celebrity hot seat for the latest installment of The Comedy Central Roast.

          Markimdb: 4.3
          Genrecomedy
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:16

          A comedy that follows two high school students -- one overachiever struggling to write his valedictorian speech, the other a senior now going on his 15th year of school.

          Markimdb: 6.3
          Genrecomedy
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:05

          Two recently laid-off men in their 40s try to make it as interns at a successful Internet company where their managers are in their 20s.

          Markimdb: 5.2
          Genrethriller, drama
          CountryUSA

          When a husband and wife move to a small town, a home invasion leaves the wife traumatized and suspicious that those around her might not be who they seem.




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