English movies about fear

List of the best English fear movies selected by our website visitors: Eden Lake, A Fantastic Fear of Everything, A Night in the Woods, Dunkirk, Bastille Day, Little Boy Blue, Don't Let Him In, Darkest Hour, Suburbicon, A Prayer Before Dawn.

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: 6.8
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:31

    Eden Lake is a relentlessly tense and immaculately paced horror-thriller about modern youth gone wild. When a young couple goes to a remote wooded lake for a romantic getaway, their quiet weekend is shattered by an aggressive group of local kids. Rowdiness quickly turns to rage as the teens terrorize the couple in unimaginable ways, and a weekend outing becomes a bloody battle for survival.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrethriller, comedy
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:40

    Jack is a children's author turned crime novelist whose detailed research into the lives of Victorian serial killers has turned him into a paranoid wreck, persecuted by the irrational fear of being murdered. When Jack is thrown a life-line by his long-suffering agent and a mysterious Hollywood executive takes a sudden and inexplicable interest in his script, what should be his big break rapidly turns into his big breakdown, as Jack is forced to confront his worst demons; among them his love life, his laundry and the origin of all fear.

    Markimdb: 3.7
    Genrehorror, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    Brody, his girlfriend Kerry and their friend Leo go hiking in Dartmoor's Wistman's Woods, so named because of its legendary haunted past. That night jealousies, sexual tensions and strained relationships come to a head turning what should have been a peaceful camping adventure into a trip to terror. As collective paranoia reaches fever pitch it becomes clear that there is a much darker force at work in the ancient eerie surroundings. Who or what is after them? And can any one of them survive a night in the woods?

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genredrama, military, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Netherlands, France, USA
    Duration02:27

    The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk between May 26th and June 4th 1940 during World War II.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA, Belgium, Luxembourg, China, Germany
    Duration02:25

    Michael Mason is an American pickpocket living in Paris who finds himself hunted by the CIA when he steals a bag that contains more than just a wallet. Sean Briar, the field agent on the case, soon realises that Michael is just a pawn in a much bigger game and is also his best asset to uncover a large-scale conspiracy.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genredrama, crime, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    Based on a true story, this four-part drama tells the story of the murder of 11-year-old Rhys Jones in Croxteth, Liverpool, in 2007. It explores Melanie’s and Steve’s ordeal, and tells of how Rhys’ murderer and associates were eventually brought to justice.

    Markimdb: 3.5
    Genrehorror, thriller
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:16

    Two couples spend a weekend in the country, only to cross paths with a brutal serial killer. As the body count rises, suspicion spirals into paranoia, climaxing in a terrifying battle for survival.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genredrama, military, biography, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:30

    A thrilling and inspiring true story begins on the eve of World War II as, within days of becoming Prime Minister of Great Britain, Winston Churchill must face one of his most turbulent and defining trials: exploring a negotiated peace treaty with Nazi Germany, or standing firm to fight for the ideals, liberty and freedom of a nation. As the unstoppable Nazi forces roll across Western Europe and the threat of invasion is imminent, and with an unprepared public, a skeptical King, and his own party plotting against him, Churchill must withstand his darkest hour, rally a nation, and attempt to change the course of world history.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, China
    Duration02:35

    In the quiet family town of Suburbicon during the 1950s, the best and worst of humanity is hilariously reflected through the deeds of seemingly ordinary people. When a home invasion turns deadly, a picture-perfect family turns to blackmail, revenge and murder.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genreaction, drama, crime, biography, sport
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, China, Cambodia, USA, Germany
    Duration02:05

    The true story of Billy Moore, an English boxer incarcerated in Thailand's most notorious prison. Thrown into a world of drugs and violence, he finds his best chance to escape is to fight his way out in Muay Thai tournaments.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, adventure
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Republic of Ireland
    Duration01:38

    On the last day of the first manned mission to Mars, a crew member of Tantalus Base believes he has made an astounding discovery – fossilized evidence of bacterial life. Unwilling to let the relief crew claims all the glory, he disobeys orders to pack up and goes out on an unauthorized expedition to collect further samples. But a routine excavation turns to disaster when the porous ground collapses and he falls into a deep crevice and near certain death. His devastated colleagues attempt to recover his body. However, when another vanishes, they start to suspect that the life-form they have discovered is not without danger.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genreaction, thriller, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, China, USA
    Duration01:41

    An American backpacker gets involved with a ring of drug smugglers as their driver, and winds up on the run from his employers across Munich's autobahns.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genrehorror, thriller
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration02:14

    A family’s road trip takes a dangerous turn when they arrive at a secluded mobile home park to stay with some relatives and find it mysteriously deserted. Under the cover of darkness, three masked psychopaths pay them a visit to test the family’s every limit as they struggle to survive.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:25

    Driving, lost and tormented in the night, primal fears of the dark and the unknown give way to fear that you have let the evil in, or that it is already there.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration00:40

    Somerset 1894. When a pioneering Victorian psychologist brings his vivacious young wife to live on his family's estate, he is confronted by one disturbing case after another. Are these strange events linked merely by coincidence, or is there something more sinister - more supernatural - going on at Shepzoy?

    Markimdb: 4.9
    Genrehorror
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    When a container washes ashore the residents of a sleepy cul-de-sac are plunged into violence, terror and paranoia. Ring fenced by the military a single mother must overcome all the odds to save her daughter.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genredrama, history
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Taiwan, Japan, Mexico, Italy
    Duration02:19

    Two Jesuit priests travel to seventeenth century Japan which has, under the Tokugawa shogunate, banned Catholicism and almost all foreign contact.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Spain, South Korea
    Duration02:32

    A tight-knit team of FBI investigators, along with their District Attorney supervisor, is suddenly torn apart when they discover that one of their own teenage daughters has been brutally murdered.

    Markimdb: 4.7
    Genrethriller
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    A heart-pounding suspense thriller, set on an isolated farm in England's beautiful, rugged Peak District.

    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: 5
      Genrehorror, detective
      CountryArgentina, New Zealand, United Kingdom

      Rod leads a radio show dedicated to horror. Until suddenly the announcer begins to receive strange calls from a child who desperately asks for help. At first thinks that it is a bad joke until he discovers that this is not the case. These calls hide a dark secret…

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      A descent into Hell is triggered when "Ex-Lord" Donald Brocklebank finds that he must leave Longleigh House for London to find a way to pay for the medical treatments for his wife Nancy. Alone, his over-protected, delusional, adult son, James, fancies himself in charge of the manor house with his terminally ill mother, and barricades the two of them into the house.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller, adventure
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration01:53

      Set in a post-apocalyptic world, young Thomas is deposited in a community of boys after his memory is erased, soon learning they're all trapped in a maze that will require him to join forces with fellow “runners” for a shot at escape.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama
      CountryUSA, Mexico, United Kingdom
      Duration01:30

      Dr. Ryan Stone, a brilliant medical engineer on her first Shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky in command of his last flight before retiring. But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The Shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky completely alone-tethered to nothing but each other and spiraling out into the blackness of space. The deafening silence tells them they have lost any link to Earth and any chance for rescue. As fear turns to panic, every gulp of air eats away at what little oxygen is left. But the only way home may be to go further out into the terrifying expanse of space.

      Markimdb: 4.2
      Genrehorror
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      When a vintage Jack-in-the-box is un-earthed and opened, it's new owners soon have reason to believe the creepy clown doll within has a life of it's own.

      Markimdb: 5
      Genreaction, thriller
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada, USA
      Duration02:18

      A police chief tries to solve a kidnapping that involves a bank robber holding a young boy hostage.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, short
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration02:00

      In a time of starvation, a survivalist lives off a small plot of land hidden deep in forest. When two women seeking food and shelter discover his farm, he finds his existence threatened.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrehorror, comedy, drama
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Finland

      Following the sudden death of his mother, a mild-mannered but anxiety-ridden man confronts his darkest fears as he embarks on an epic, Kafkaesque odyssey back home.

      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: 7.1
      Genredrama
      CountryBulgaria, United Kingdom

      The real story of the journalist Vesela Toteva (in the role is her daughter -Valentina Karoleva) searching for her own happiness during the dynamic and uncertain 90's in Bulgaria. A tale about drugs, fall, fear and redemption.

      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: 5.1
        Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration02:05

        A mother desperate to reconnect with her troubled daughter becomes embroiled in the urban legend of a demonic witch.

        Markimdb: 6.1
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration01:30

        Already deep into a second Cold War, Britain’s Ministry of Defense seeks a game-changing weapon. Programmer Vincent McCarthy unwittingly provides an answer in The Machine, a super-strong human cyborg. When a programming bug causes the prototype to decimate his lab, McCarthy takes his obsessive efforts underground, far away from inquisitive eyes.

        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: 6.3
        Genreaction, thriller, comedy, crime
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration02:40

        A crime drama set in 1970s Boston, about a gun sale which goes wrong.

        Markimdb: 4.9
        Genrethriller, drama
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
        Duration01:57

        Once a known counterculture figure, June E. Leigh now lives in self-imposed exile in her South Bronx apartment during the incendiary '77 Summer of Sam. When an unseen tormentor begins exploiting June's weaknesses, her insular universe begins to unravel.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genreaction, thriller, military, biography
        CountryUSA, France, United Kingdom, Belgium, Germany, Hungary
        Duration02:07

        With the Third Reich is at his peak in 1942, the Czech resistance in London plans the most ambitious military operation of WWII – Anthropoid. Two young recruits are sent to Prague to assassinate the most ruthless Nazi leader – Reinhardt Heydrich – head of the SS, the Gestapo and the architect of the Final Solution.

        Markimdb: 6.1
        Genrethriller, fantasy, drama
        CountryUSA, Belgium, Denmark, United Kingdom, Sweden, China
        Duration02:10

        Sophia, a new high school student, tries to make friends with Barbara, who tells her that “she kills giants,” protecting this way her hometown and its inhabitants, who do not understand her strange behavior.

        Markimdb: 4
        Genrehorror, thriller
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration01:20

        IF YOU HUNT, YOU'RE FAIR GAME... In October 2005, five young people were kidnapped in the Highlands of Scotland by the militant Real Animal League. Stripped and abandoned in the wilderness, never for one moment did the friends know what was coming to them. What followed was a harrowing game of cat and mouse as their weekend retreat became a deadly case of live or die. Combining dramatic reconstruction, real footage from the Real Animal League's archives and compelling interviews with the survivors of the ordeal, BLOODED finally tells the true story behind one of the most extreme internet virals of modern times. A must see! In Cinemas 1st April, on DVD 4th April 2011. www.bloodedmovie.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blooded_(film) Join us on Facebook http://on.fb.me/hhsl8M and Twitter @blooded2011

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genredrama, crime, detective
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration00:40

        Two junior investigators come together against a new breed of criminal, the uber rich and powerful corporations, individuals and governments who hide behind legitimate facades.

        Markimdb: 7
        Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
        Duration02:04

        A team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race.

        Markimdb: 7.8
        Genrecomedy, drama, history
        CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
        Duration02:00

        Based on a true story, the film is set in the summer of 1984 – when Margaret Thatcher is in power and the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) is on strike. At the Gay Pride March in London, a group of gay and lesbian activists decides to raise money to support the families of the striking miners. But there is a problem - the union seems embarrassed to receive their support. However the activists are not deterred. They decide to ignore the union and go direct to the miners. They identify a mining village of Onllwyn, in the Dulais Valley in Wales, and later set off in a mini bus to make their donation in person. And so begins the extraordinary story of two seemingly alien communities who form a surprising and ultimately triumphant partnership.

        Markimdb: 5
        Genrehorror, thriller
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
        Duration01:57

        A group of backpackers diving in a ruined underwater city discover that they have stumbled into the territory of the ocean's deadliest shark species.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genredrama, military
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration02:15

        Set in a dugout in Aisne in 1918, a group of British officers, led by the mentally disintegrating young officer Stanhope, variously await their fate.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genrehorror, drama
        CountryUnited Kingdom

        Having recently found God, self-effacing young nurse Maud arrives at a plush home to care for Amanda, a hedonistic dancer left frail from a chronic illness. When a chance encounter with a former colleague throws up hints of a dark past, it becomes clear there is more to sweet Maud than meets the eye.

        Markimdb: 5.4
        Genrethriller, drama
        CountryRepublic of Ireland, United Kingdom
        Duration01:24

        Citadel tells the story of widower and single father Tommy Cowley, a man inflicted with chronic agoraphobia since the day his wife was attacked. He was unable to protect her. He lives in Edenstown, the council estate from hell. Here he finds himself terrorized by a gang of syringe wielding feral children, who are intent on taking his baby daughter. With the help of a kind Nurse and a renegade Priest, Tommy learns the nightmarish truth surrounding these hooded children. He also learns that to be free of his fears, he must finally face the demons of his past and enter the one place he fears the most - The abandoned Tower block known as the Citadel

        Markimdb: 3.5
        Genrehorror, fantastic
        CountryCanada, United Kingdom
        Duration01:24

        The Lunar Base Ark explores ore and unexpectedly is hit by a meteor shower and has severe damages. Colonel Gerard Brauchman sends the crewwoman Ava Cameron to repair a wing that is full of CO2. Dr. Lance Krauss warns that the gas may cause paranoia and hallucinations. Ava brings a sample of the meteor for analysis and Dr. Krauss finds that there are spores attached to the meteor. Ava accidentally cuts her finger in a sample but she hides the cut from the doctor. Soon Ava gets pregnant and delivers an alien offspring. However, neither Col. Brauchman nor Dr. Kraus believes in her words and they believe that Ava is delusional. He offspring bites the crewman Bruce Johns and the crew discovers that Bruce has been cloned by the alien. Soon they find how dangerous the clone is.

        Markimdb: 4.7
        Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration00:51

        When Damon Miller, a talented, young London filmmaker becomes involved in the disturbing research surrounding Near-Earth Objects he stumbles onto the discovery that the Earth stands on the brink of an extraterrestrial disaster.

        Markimdb: 3.7
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom

        An African American male is imprisoned and placed in solitary confinement after being found guilty of murdering his wife, as he's haunted by internal demons and his dead wife, and pushed to the breaking point by an abusive female guard.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration01:47

        1921 England is overwhelmed by the loss and grief of World War I. Hoax exposer Florence Cathcart (Hall) visits a boarding school to explain sightings of a child ghost.




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