Crime Horror Movies

List of the best horror movies about criminals, crimes and lawbreakers, selected by visitors to our site: mother!, Sinister, Stan Against Evil, The Crow, The Exorcist, The Frighteners, Pitch Black, The Witches, Locke & Key, Scream.

In the top there are new films of 2022, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrehorror, thriller, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:23

A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.

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: 7.2
    Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:00

    An aging police sheriff who has recently lost his position due to an angry outburst begrudgingly joins an alliance with new sheriff, Evie Barret to battle angry demons haunting their small New Hampshire town.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrehorror, action, thriller, fantasy, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:42

    Exactly one year after young rock guitarist Eric Draven and his fiancée are brutally killed by a ruthless gang of criminals, Draven -- watched over by a hypnotic crow -- returns from the grave to exact revenge.

    Markimdb: 8.1
    Genrehorror
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:02

    12-year-old Regan MacNeil begins to adapt an explicit new personality as strange events befall the local area of Georgetown. Her mother becomes torn between science and superstition in a desperate bid to save her daughter, and ultimately turns to her last hope: Father Damien Karras, a troubled priest who is struggling with his own faith.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy
    CountryNew Zealand, USA
    Duration02:03

    Once an architect, Frank Bannister now passes himself off as an exorcist of evil spirits. To bolster his facade, he claims his "special" gift is the result of a car accident that killed his wife. But what he does not count on is more people dying in the small town where he lives. As he tries to piece together the supernatural mystery of these killings, he falls in love with the wife of one of the victims and deals with a crazy FBI agent.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller
    CountryUSA, Australia
    Duration01:48

    When their ship crash-lands on a remote planet, the marooned passengers soon learn that escaped convict Riddick isn't the only thing they have to fear. Deadly creatures lurk in the shadows, waiting to attack in the dark, and the planet is rapidly plunging into the utter blackness of a total eclipse. With the body count rising, the doomed survivors are forced to turn to Riddick with his eerie eyes to guide them through the darkness to safety. With time running out, there's only one rule: Stay in the light.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy, adventure, family, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:31

    A young boy named Luke and his grandmother go on vacation only to discover their hotel is hosting an international witch convention, where the Grand High Witch is unveiling her master plan to turn all children into mice. Will Luke fall victim to the witches' plot before he can stop them?

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, adventure
    CountryUSA

    Three children become the caretakers of a New England mansion that is home to a bevy of secrets and magic.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:51

    A killer known as Ghostface begins killing off teenagers, and as the body count begins rising, one girl and her friends find themselves contemplating the 'rules' of horror films as they find themselves living in a real-life one.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:24

    Ash Williams and his girlfriend Linda find a log cabin in the woods with a voice recording from an archeologist who had recorded himself reciting ancient chants from “The Book of the Dead.” As they play the recording an evil power is unleashed taking over Linda’s body.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrehorror, thriller
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:33

    Larry and his wife, Julia move into an old house and discover a hideous creature - the man's half-brother, who is also the woman's former lover - hiding upstairs. Having lost his earthly body to a trio of S&M demons, the Cenobites, Frank, is brought back into existence by a drop of blood on the floor. He soon forces his former mistress to bring him his necessary human sacrifices to complete his body... but the Cenobites won't be happy about this.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA, France

    The long-awaited missing pieces from the original version of the film – nearly an hour-and-a-half of deleted/alternate scenes from Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me – often referred to as the “holy grail” of Twin Peaks fandom.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrehorror, thriller, crime, detective
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration01:48

    Jigsaw has disappeared. Along with his new apprentice Amanda, the puppet-master behind the cruel, intricate games that have terrified a community and baffled police has once again eluded capture and vanished. While city detective scramble to locate him, Doctor Lynn Denlon and Jeff Reinhart are unaware that they are about to become the latest pawns on his vicious chessboard.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genrehorror, melodrama, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:59

    Chic socialite Melanie Daniels enjoys a passing flirtation with an eligible attorney in a San Francisco pet shop and, on an impulse, follows him to his hometown bearing a gift of lovebirds. But upon her arrival, the bird population runs amok. Suddenly, the townsfolk face a massive avian onslaught, with the feathered fiends inexplicably attacking people all over Bodega Bay.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrehorror, fantasy, drama
    CountryCanada, USA
    Duration01:37

    Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA, Romania, Germany, France
    Duration01:57

    An ex-cop and his family are the target of an evil force that is using mirrors as a gateway into their home.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrehorror, fantasy, musical, adventure, family, detective
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration01:53

    Dorothy, saved from a psychiatric experiment by a mysterious girl, finds herself back in the land of her dreams, and makes delightful new friends, and dangerous new enemies.

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genrehorror, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:04

    A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genrehorror, thriller
    CountryUSA, Italy
    Duration02:19

    During an ever-growing epidemic of zombies that have risen from the dead, two Philadelphia SWAT team members, a traffic reporter, and his television-executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrehorror, detective
    CountryCanada, USA, United Kingdom
    Duration01:52

      Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren work to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in their farmhouse. Forced to confront a powerful entity, the Warrens find themselves caught in the most terrifying case of their lives.

      Markimdb: 8
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:16

      A young couple moves into an infamous New York apartment building to start a family. Things become frightening as Rosemary begins to suspect her unborn baby isn't safe around their strange neighbors.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryGermany, USA
      Duration01:37

      David Callaway tries to piece together his life in the wake of his wife's suicide and has been left to raise his nine-year-old daughter, Emily on his own. David is at first amused to discover that Emily has created an imaginary friend named 'Charlie', but it isn't long before 'Charlie' develops a sinister and violent side, and as David struggles with his daughter's growing emotional problems, he comes to the frightening realisation that 'Charlie' isn't just a figment of Emily's imagination.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, adventure
      CountryUSA, Netherlands, Italy
      Duration01:32

      After witnessing the killing of his mate and offspring at Captain Nolan's hands, a vengeful killer whale goes on a rampage in the fisherman's Newfoundland harbor. Under pressure from the villagers, Nolan, Rachel and Umilak sail after the great beast, who will meet them on its own turf.

      Markimdb: 7.8
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:47

      Novelist Paul Sheldon crashes his car on a snowy Colorado road. He is found by Annie Wilkes, the "number one fan" of Paul's heroine Misery Chastaine. Annie is also somewhat unstable, and Paul finds himself crippled, drugged and at her mercy.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:15

      The legend of vampire Count Dracula begins here with this original 1931 Dracula film from Bela Lugosi.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrehorror, thriller, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:29

      A married woman and her lover plot to kill her husband to make off with the insurance money. However, their attempt to murder him using poisonous fish toxins backfires when he awakens inside his coffin and returns from the grave, hellbent on revenge.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrehorror, thriller, crime, detective
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Finland
      Duration01:46

        Trainees in the FBI's psychological profiling program must put their training into practice when they discover a killer in their midst.

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genrehorror, fantastic, action
        CountryUSA, Germany
        Duration01:40

          When a virus leaks from a top-secret facility, turning all resident researchers into ravenous zombies and their lab animals into mutated hounds from hell, the government sends in an elite military task force to contain the outbreak. Alice and Rain are charged with leading the mission. But they only have three hours before the pathogen becomes airborne and infects the world.

          Markimdb: 7.3
          Genrehorror, fantastic, fantasy, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:30

          Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.

          Markimdb: 7.9
          Genrehorror, fantastic, adventure
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:40

          An adventure film about a film crew in search of a monster on a remote island. The crew finds King Kong and decides to take him back to New York as a money making spectacle. The film is a masterpiece of Stop-Motion in filmmaking history and inspired a line of King Kong films.

          Markimdb: 6.5
          Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, comedy, detective
          CountryUSA, Mexico
          Duration01:44

          When some very creepy things start happening around school, the kids at Herrington High make a chilling discovery that confirms their worst suspicions: their teachers really are from another planet! As mind-controlling parasites rapidly begin spreading from the faculty to the students' bodies, it's ultimately up to the few who are left – an unlikely collection of loners, leaders, nerds and jocks – to save the world from alien domination.

          Markimdb: 7.1
          Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:36

          Hick handymen Val McKee and Earl Bassett can barely eke out a living in the Nevada hamlet of Perfection, so they decide to leave town -- despite an admonition from a shapely seismology coed who's picking up odd readings on her equipment. Before long, Val and Earl discover what's responsible for those readings: 30-foot-long carnivorous worms with a proclivity for sucking their prey underground.

          Markimdb: 7.3
          Genrehorror, drama, crime, biography
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:37

            The true story of suburban housewife Gertrude Baniszewski, who kept a teenage girl locked in the basement of her Indiana home during the 1960s.

            Markimdb: 6.6
            Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
            CountrySpain, USA
            Duration02:11

            A young man and his four younger siblings, who have kept secret the death of their beloved mother in order to remain together, are plagued by a sinister presence in the sprawling manor in which they live.

            Markimdb: 7.7
            Genrehorror, thriller, detective
            CountryUSA, Japan
            Duration02:43

            Chris and his girlfriend Rose go upstate to visit her parents for the weekend. At first, Chris reads the family's overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter's interracial relationship, but as the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries lead him to a truth that he never could have imagined.

            Markimdb: 7.6
            Genrehorror, fantastic, drama
            CountryUSA, United Kingdom, France, Canada
            Duration01:36

            When Seth Brundle makes a huge scientific and technological breakthrough in teleportation, he decides to test it on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a common housefly manages to get inside the device and the two become one.

            Markimdb: 7.3
            Genrehorror, fantastic, fantasy, comedy
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:46

            When Billy Peltzer is given a strange but adorable pet named Gizmo for Christmas, he inadvertently breaks the three important rules of caring for a Mogwai, and unleashes a horde of mischievous gremlins on a small town.

            Markimdb: 7.3
            Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:24

            The debut film from Darren Aronofsky in which a mathematical genius Maximilian Cohen discovers a link in the connection between numbers and reality and thus believes he can predict the future.

            Markimdb: 6.4
            Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, crime
            CountryUSA, Germany
            Duration01:47

            A psychotherapist journeys inside a comatose serial killer in the hopes of saving his latest victim.

            Markimdb: 6.3
            Genrehorror, fantastic, melodrama, drama
            CountryUSA, Japan, United Kingdom
            Duration02:03

            Based on Mary Shelley's novel, "Frankenstein" tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a promising young doctor who, devastated by the death of his mother during childbirth, becomes obsessed with bringing the dead back to life. His experiments lead to the creation of a monster, which Frankenstein has put together with the remains of corpses. It's not long before Frankenstein regrets his actions.

            Markimdb: 8.4
            Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, adventure
            CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
            Duration02:17

            When Ripley's lifepod is found by a salvage crew over 50 years later, she finds that terra-formers are on the very planet they found the alien species. When the company sends a family of colonists out to investigate her story, all contact is lost with the planet and colonists. They enlist Ripley and the colonial marines to return and search for answers.

            Markimdb: 7.7
            Genrehorror, thriller
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:41

            In John Carpenter's horror classic, a psychotic murderer, institutionalized since childhood for the murder of his sister, escapes and stalks a bookish teenage girl and her friends while his doctor chases him through the streets.

            Markimdb: 7.1
            Genrehorror, detective
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:24

            Mary Henry ends up the sole survivor of a fatal car accident through mysterious circumstances. Trying to put the incident behind her, she moves to Utah and takes a job as a church organist. But her fresh start is interrupted by visions of a fiendish man. As the visions begin to occur more frequently, Mary finds herself drawn to the deserted carnival on the outskirts of town. The strangely alluring carnival may hold the secret to her tragic past.

            Markimdb: 6.6
            Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy, melodrama
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:21

            Love presents many challenges to couples...but none so daunting as the one Justin faces with his girlfriend April...

            Markimdb: 7.6
            Genrehorror, action, comedy
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:24

            Columbus has made a habit of running from what scares him. Tallahassee doesn't have fears. If he did, he'd kick their ever-living ass. In a world overrun by zombies, these two are perfectly evolved survivors. But now, they're about to stare down the most terrifying prospect of all: each other.

            Markimdb: 6.3
            Genrehorror, thriller, comedy
            CountryUSA, Netherlands
            Duration01:34

            Three short stories by shock-meister Stephen King are linked by a stray cat that roams from one tale to the next in this creepy triptych that begins as Dick (James Woods) tries to quit smoking by any means necessary. Next, we meet Johnny, an adulterous man who's forced by his lover's husband onto a building's hazardous ledge. Finally, Amanda is threatened by an evil gnome who throws suspicion on the family cat.

            Markimdb: 7.4
            Genrehorror, thriller, crime, detective
            CountryJapan

            A wave of gruesome murders is sweeping Tokyo. The only connection is a bloody X carved into the neck of each of the victims. In each case, the murderer is found near the victim and remembers nothing of the crime. Detective Takabe and psychologist Sakuma are called in to figure out the connection, but their investigation goes nowhere...

            Markimdb: 7.3
            Genrehorror, fantasy, drama, detective
            CountryUSA, Canada
            Duration02:22

              In a small town in Maine, seven children known as The Losers Club come face to face with life problems, bullies and a monster that takes the shape of a clown called Pennywise.

              Markimdb: 7.4
              Genrehorror, fantasy, melodrama
              CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
              Duration02:08

              When Dracula leaves the captive Jonathan Harker and Transylvania for London in search of Mina Harker -- the spitting image of Dracula's long-dead wife, Elisabeta -- obsessed vampire hunter Dr. Van Helsing sets out to end the madness.




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