American movies about fear

List of the best American fear movies selected by visitors to our site: Unforgettable, Starry Eyes, Blair Witch, The Canyons, Divergent, The Dark Tapes, Test, Water for Elephants, Armed Response, Victor Crowley.

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: 5.1
Genrethriller, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:18

Julia moves in with her fiancé, David, but his ex-wife and her own haunting past join forces to rock her quiet suburban existence.

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: 5
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration02:01

Students on a camping trip discover something sinister is lurking beyond the trees.

Markimdb: 3.8
Genrethriller, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:39

The discovery of an illicit love affair leads two young Angelenos on a violent, sexually charged tour through the dark side of human nature.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrefantastic, action, thriller, melodrama, adventure, detective
CountryUSA
Duration02:14

    In a world divided into factions based on personality types, Tris learns that she's been classified as Divergent and won't fit in. When she discovers a plot to destroy Divergents, Tris and the mysterious Four must find out what makes Divergents dangerous before it's too late.

    Markimdb: 4.6
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:33

    A genre-defying mixture of horror, sci-fi, myth, mystery and thrills told as four interlocking tales in one intelligent anthology. Ghosts, spirits, creatures, demons and more from the paranormal world collide with rational curiosity.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genremelodrama, drama, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:30

    San Francisco, 1985. Two opposites attract at a modern dance company. Together, their courage and resilience are tested as they navigate a world full of risks and promise, against the backdrop of a disease no one seems to know anything about.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:56

      In this captivating Depression-era melodrama, impetuous veterinary student Jacob Jankowski joins a celebrated circus as an animal caretaker but faces a wrenching dilemma when he's transfixed by angelic married performer Marlena.

      Markimdb: 3.7
      Genrehorror, action, thriller
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:38

      The story follows a team of highly trained operatives who find themselves trapped inside an isolated military compound.

      Markimdb: 5.5
      Genrehorror, action, thriller, comedy
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:07

      Ten years after the events of the original movie, Victor Crowley is mistakenly resurrected and proceeds to kill once more.

      Markimdb: 5.5
      Genreaction, thriller, crime
      CountrySouth Africa, USA
      Duration02:04

      When Alex, an infiltration expert with a secret past, accidentally reveals her identity during what should have been a routine heist, she quickly finds herself mixed up in a government conspiracy and entangled in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with a master assassin and his team of killers. Armed with her own set of lethal skills, Alex looks to exact revenge for her murdered friends while uncovering the truth.

      Markimdb: 5.3
      Genredrama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:27

      Tom’s birthday dinner party is turned upside down by the unexpected arrival of Alice, an old flame who changed her identity and vanished without a trace 15 years prior.

      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: 6.7
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:35

      Jordan Turner is an experienced 911 operator but when she makes an error in judgment and a call ends badly, Jordan is rattled and unsure if she can continue. But when teenager Casey Welson is abducted in the back of a man's car and calls 911, Jordan is the one called upon to use all of her experience, insights and quick thinking to help Casey escape, and not just to save her, but to make sure the man is brought to justice.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrefantastic, drama, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Canada
      Duration02:20

      The widow of a wise professor stumbles upon one of his inventions that's able to record and play a person's memory.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Canada
      Duration01:45

        Found footage helps a true-crime novelist realize how and why a family was murdered in his new home, though his discoveries put his entire family in the path of a supernatural entity.

        Markimdb: 4.2
        Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller
        CountryUSA, Spain
        Duration01:21

        V/H/S: VIRAL's segments include the story of a deranged illusionist who obtains a magical object of great power, a homemade machine that opens a door to a parallel world, teenage skaters that unwillingly become targets of a Mexican death cult ritual, and a sinister, shadowy organization that is tracking a serial killer. The segments are tied together by the story of a group of fame-obsessed teens following a violent car chase in LA that unwittingly become stars of the next internet sensation.

        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: 7.4
        Genredrama, history
        CountryUSA
        Duration00:30

        Follows the lives of two volunteer nurses on opposing sides of the Civil War - New England abolitionist Mary Phinney and Confederate supporter Emma Green. Based on true stories and set in a Union hospital in the occupied Confederate city of Alexandria, viewers are taken beyond the battlefield and into the lives of Americans on the Civil War home front as they face the unprecedented challenges of one of the most turbulent times in our nation’s history.

        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: 4.3
        Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
        CountryUSA, China
        Duration02:22

        When three college students move into an old house off campus, they unwittingly unleash a supernatural entity known as The Bye Bye Man, who comes to prey upon them once they discover his name. The friends must try to save each other, all the while keeping The Bye Bye Man's existence a secret to save others from the same deadly fate.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genrehorror, fantasy, drama, detective
        CountryCanada, USA
        Duration02:57

        27 years after overcoming the malevolent supernatural entity Pennywise, the former members of the Losers' Club, who have grown up and moved away from Derry, are brought back together by a devastating phone call.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:29

        Industrious high school senior, Vee Delmonico, has had it with living life on the sidelines. When pressured by friends to join the popular online game Nerve, Vee decides to sign up for just one dare in what seems like harmless fun. But as she finds herself caught up in the thrill of the adrenaline-fueled competition partnered with a mysterious stranger, the game begins to take a sinister turn with increasingly dangerous acts, leading her into a high stakes finale that will determine her entire future.

        Markimdb: 4.4
        Genrehorror, detective
        CountryUSA, Canada
        Duration02:10

        A struggling family buys an old ship at auction with high hopes of starting a charter business, only to discover her horrifying secrets on the isolated open waters.

        Markimdb: 5.3
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA

        Dissatisfied with the dishonesty they see in dating, strangers Naima and Sergio make a pact to spend 24 straight hours together in an attempt to fast forward their relationship.

        Markimdb: 5.2
        Genrehorror, drama
        CountryUSA

        A psychological horror about a young woman coping with an unwanted pregnancy after moving into a seemingly haunted house.

        Markimdb: 4.9
        Genreaction, adventure, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:42

        International master thief, Simon Templar, also known as The Saint, is asked by a desperate rich man to find his kidnapped daughter. However, in addition to evading the authorities, Simon must face a dangerous adversary from his past.

        Markimdb: 4.8
        Genrethriller, comedy, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:32

        Each member of a group of people has a connection to a self-help book authored by a reclusive former football coach.

        Markimdb: 5.1
        Genrethriller
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:56

        A young woman seeks help from a sleep clinic for her insomnia, but soon deals with her entire life being turned upside down.

        Markimdb: 8.2
        Genrethriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:18

        World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by his troubling visions and also by a mysterious doctor.

        Markimdb: 5.3
        Genrehorror, thriller
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:33

        Detectives use clues from various recording devices to piece together events surrounding a massacre involving bus passengers at an abandoned gas station.

        Markimdb: 6.2
        Genreaction, thriller
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:30

        Following the murder of his fiancée, Mitch Rapp trains under the instruction of Cold War veteran Stan Hurley. The pair then is enlisted to investigate a wave of apparently random attacks on military and civilian targets.

        Markimdb: 4.3
        Genrethriller, drama
        CountryUSA

        Hazel suffers from a crippling case of agoraphobia. So much so that it causes a rift between her and her mother, Dee. Hazel and her mother decide to go on a road trip to a desert facility to help Hazel deal with her fear but when gunmen and brothers Jesse and Pru attack them, Hazel has to battle her fears so she and her mother can survive.

        Markimdb: 7
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, biography
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom
        Duration02:34

          A U.S Customs official uncovers a massive money laundering scheme involving Pablo Escobar.

          Markimdb: 4.2
          Genrehorror
          CountryUSA

          A group of four amateur adventurers who specialize in exploring remote and forsaken places pay a visit to Shookum Hills, a town in the remote Appalachian Mountains which was abandoned decades ago due to a mysterious coal mine fire.

          Markimdb: 6.3
          Genrehorror, thriller, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:15

          An injured surfer stranded on a buoy needs to get back to shore, but the great white shark stalking her might have other ideas.

          Markimdb: 3.8
          Genrehorror, action, cartoon
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:47

          A group of survivors trapped in a New York apartment fight to stay alive against legions of zombies.

          Markimdb: 6.4
          Genreaction, documentary, military, history
          CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Afghanistan
          Duration01:28

          What does it mean to lead men in war? What does it mean to come home? Hell and Back Again is a cinematically revolutionary film that asks and answers these questions with a power and intimacy no previous film about the conflict in Afghanistan has been able to achieve. It is a masterpiece in the cinema of war.

          Markimdb: 4.9
          Genrehorror
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:28

          A horror anthology of shorts themed around the five senses.

          Markimdb: 5.8
          Genredrama
          CountryUSA, Mexico

          Nolan Mack, a soft-spoken bank employee, undoubtedly loves his wife Joy, though their cavernous empty house only underscores how disconnected they’ve always been from each other. Nolan finds himself drifting from his familiar present-day life in pursuit of lost time after meeting a troubled young man named Leo on his drive home. What begins as an aimless drive down an unfamiliar street turns into a life-altering series of events.

          Markimdb: 4.4
          Genrehorror, thriller
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:35

          Four friends gather at an elegant home during the Summer of Love, 1969. Unbeknownst to them, deadly visitors are waiting outside. What begins as a simple farewell party turns to a night of primal terror as the intruders stalk and torment the four, who struggle for their lives against what appears to be a senseless attack.

          Markimdb: 6.5
          Genrehorror, fantastic
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:16

          Two brothers return to the cult they fled from years ago to discover that the group's beliefs may be more sane than they once thought.

          Markimdb: 5.1
          Genredrama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:00

          A young woman is forced to return to her trailer-park beginnings after her political career is derailed by a sex scandal.

          Markimdb: 5.6
          Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:29

          After a painful breakup, Leah seems to meet the perfect guy. But she soon discovers his violent side that disrupts her life.

          Markimdb: 3.7
          Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, comedy, melodrama
          CountryUSA, Japan
          Duration01:23

          After the events at Lake Victoria, the prehistoric school of blood-thirsty piranhas make their way into swimming pools, plumbing, and a newly opened water park.

          Markimdb: 7.8
          Genredrama, military, biography, history
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:42

          An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", chronicling the history of an African slave, Kunta Kinte sold to America and his descendants.

          Markimdb: 6.6
          Genrethriller, crime, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:33

          Mike Kendall, a disgraced ex-cop, is fighting a losing battle with the bottle. When he finds a woman left for dead at the side of a road, Kendall turns private eye to track down her killers, taking one last shot at redemption.

          Markimdb: 7.1
          Genreaction, thriller, drama, history
          CountryUSA, Hong Kong
          Duration02:15

            A story set on the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, which exploded during April 2010 and created the worst oil spill in U.S. history.

            Markimdb: 8
            Genrethriller, drama
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:43

              A ballet dancer wins the lead in "Swan Lake" and is perfect for the role of the delicate White Swan - Princess Odette - but slowly loses her mind as she becomes more and more like Odile, the Black Swan.

              Markimdb: 4
              Genrehorror
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:34

              The creation of filmmaker Michael Emanuel, SCARY OR DIE tells five interwoven horror stories that take place in and around the “City of Angles”. A flesh-eating clown desperately trying to protect the person he craves the most; a dirty cop and a hit gone wrong with a vengeful Necromancer; a beautiful but mysterious woman and a lonely man looking for love in all the wrong places; a gruesome, blood-splattered uprising of illegal Mexican zombies; and a Cajun conjurer grandfather whose gift of never-ending love goes terribly awry…SCARY OR DIE is a unique experience in horror filmmaking certain to fulfill all your twisted horror film experience needs.




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