English movies about mysticism

List of the best English movies about mysticism, selected by visitors to our site: The Empty Man, Mandy, The Sonata, Ghosts of War, Possum, Detective Conan: The Lost Ship in the Sky, AfterDeath, A Dark Song, Dark Shadows, Hellraiser: Judgment.

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: 6.2
Genrehorror, fantastic, detective
CountryUSA, South Africa, United Kingdom

After a group of teens from a small Midwestern town begin to mysteriously disappear, the locals believe it is the work of an urban legend known as The Empty Man. As a retired cop investigates and struggles to make sense of the stories, he discovers a secretive group and their attempts to summon a horrific, mystical entity, and soon his life—and the lives of those close to him—are in grave danger.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrehorror, action, fantasy
CountryUnited Kingdom, Belgium, France, USA
Duration02:32

The Shadow Mountains, 1983. Red and Mandy lead a loving and peaceful existence; but when their pine-scented haven is savagely destroyed, Red is catapulted into a phantasmagoric journey filled with bloody vengeance and laced with fire.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genrethriller
CountryUnited Kingdom, Russia, Latvia, France
Duration01:59

After a gifted musician inherits a mansion after her long lost father dies under mysterious circumstances, she discovers his last musical masterpiece riddled with cryptic symbols that unravels an evil secret, triggering dark forces that reach beyond her imagination.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genrehorror, thriller, military
CountryUnited Kingdom

A group of World War II American soldiers encounter a supernatural enemy as they occupy a French castle previously under Nazi control.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:56

A disgraced children’s puppeteer returns to his childhood home and is forced to confront his wicked stepfather and the secrets that have tortured him his entire life.

Markimdb: 7
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, adventure, cartoon, crime, detective, anime
CountryJapan, Italy, United Kingdom, Mexico, Spain
Duration01:43

A terrorist group invades a laboratory containing a deadly bacteria and destroys the lab with an explosion. They later announce via the internet they have gained possession of the bacteria and declare themselves to be the Red Siamese Cats, a terrorist group that was eradicated a decade ago.

Markimdb: 4
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom

Five young people wake up dead. Washed up by the tide they scramble to an abandoned beach house, soon realizing that the perpetual night and blasts of pain suggest this is some version of hell. Between in-fighting and attacks by a demonic shadow creature, they recall the collapse of the nightclub that brought them here - and begin seeing hope of a second chance in the cabin's two mysterious paintings...

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrehorror
CountryRepublic of Ireland, United Kingdom
Duration01:55

A determined young woman and a damaged occultist risk their lives and souls to perform a dangerous ritual that will grant them what they want.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
CountryUSA, Australia, United Kingdom
Duration01:53

Vampire Barnabas Collins is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. He returns to Collinwood Manor to find that his once-grand estate and family have fallen into ruin.

Markimdb: 4.3
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration01:54

Detectives Sean and David Carter are on the case to find a gruesome serial killer terrorizing the city. Joining forces with Detective Christine Egerton, they dig deeper into a spiraling maze of horror that may not be of this world.

Markimdb: 4.1
Genrehorror, thriller, drama
CountryUSA, United Kingdom
Duration01:56

Disturbing and mysterious things begin to happen to a bartender in New Orleans after he picks up a phone left behind at his bar.

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: 6.5
Genrefantasy, adventure, family
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration02:25

Gellert Grindelwald has escaped imprisonment and has begun gathering followers to his cause—elevating wizards above all non-magical beings. The only one capable of putting a stop to him is the wizard he once called his closest friend, Albus Dumbledore. However, Dumbledore will need to seek help from the wizard who had thwarted Grindelwald once before, his former student Newt Scamander, who agrees to help, unaware of the dangers that lie ahead. Lines are drawn as love and loyalty are tested, even among the truest friends and family, in an increasingly divided wizarding world.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryHungary, United Kingdom
Duration01:48

Dorottya is a young Hungarian actress with a burning desire: to make it on the English stage. Legendary actor, Sir Michael Gifford suffers from an incurable disease, and has one desire: be left alone. When Dorottya becomes his carer they both hope their wish will be fulfilled.

Markimdb: 4.4
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:51

The spirit of a murdered girl returns with a message. Now a stranded woman must team up with the staff of a local station to solve the mystery of her death.

Markimdb: 6
Genrehorror, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom

Film censor Enid takes pride in her meticulous work, guarding unsuspecting audiences from the deleterious effects of watching the gore-filled decapitations and eye gougings she pores over. Her sense of duty to protect is amplified by guilt over her inability to recall details of the long-ago disappearance of her sister, recently declared dead in absentia. When Enid is assigned to review a disturbing film from the archive that echoes her hazy childhood memories, she begins to unravel how this eerie work might be tied to her past.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrethriller, detective
CountryNetherlands, Luxembourg, United Kingdom

A therapist loses her grip on reality when a ten-year-old boy claims he can control her future.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrethriller, drama, adventure, detective
CountryGermany, United Kingdom
Duration01:38

    As the plague decimates medieval Europe, rumours circulate of a village immune from the plague. There is talk of a necromancer who leads the village and is able to raise the dead. A fearsome knight joined by a cohort of soldiers and a young monk are charged by the church to investigate. Their journey is filled with danger, but it's upon entering the village that their true horror begins.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genreaction, comedy, melodrama, adventure, crime, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:28

      Art dealer, Charles Mortdecai, searches for a stolen painting rumored to contain a secret code that gains access to hidden Nazi gold.

      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: 6.4
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada
      Duration01:35

      The story follows a young lawyer, Arthur Kipps, who is ordered to travel to a remote village and sort out a recently deceased client’s papers. As he works alone in the client’s isolated house, Kipps begins to uncover tragic secrets, his unease growing when he glimpses a mysterious woman dressed only in black. Receiving only silence from the locals, Kipps is forced to uncover the true identity of the Woman in Black on his own, leading to a desperate race against time when he discovers her true identity.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration01:40

        Homeless and on the run from a military court martial, a damaged ex-special forces soldier navigating London's criminal underworld seizes an opportunity to assume another man's identity, transforming into an avenging angel in the process.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genredrama, western
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration01:00

        Yesterday wilderness. Tomorrow civilisation. In the Yorkshire Dales in the 1870s, the shantytown of Jericho is the home of a community that will live, thrive and die in the shadow of the viaduct they’ve been brought together to build.

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genredrama, family, biography
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration01:40

        Based on the international best selling book. The true feel good story of how James Bowen, a busker and recovering drug addict, had his life transformed when he met a stray ginger cat.

        Markimdb: 5.4
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
        CountryUnited Kingdom

        In the mean streets of London's East End, a former Serbian commando and a fourteen-year old boy plot revenge against a powerful crime lord and his ruthless lieutenants. As our heroes prepare to take on their enemies, the boy is mentored in the dark arts of assassination and learns the true meaning of friendship, honor and respect.

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genrefantasy, drama, detective
        CountryThailand, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Malaysia, South Korea, Mexico, USA, Norway
        Duration01:10

        In a hospital, ten soldiers are being treated for a mysterious sleeping sickness. In a story in which dreams can be experienced by others, and in which goddesses can sit casually with mortals, a nurse learns the reason why the patients will never be cured, and forms a telepathic bond with one of them.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genrecomedy, drama
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration01:32

        Jack has finally managed to propose to his infertile girlfriend when his life is turned upside down by the arrival of an old one-night stand that introduces him to his seven year old son.

        Markimdb: 4.9
        Genrethriller, drama, military
        CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany
        Duration01:32

        It is 1944 and the D-Day invasion has failed, Germany's army have successfully invaded England and the Nazi war-machine is now heading west towards Wales. A group of women in an isolated Welsh village near the English border wake up to discover all of the their husbands have mysteriously vanished. They have headed into the mountains to join the Resistance.

        Markimdb: 7.9
        Genredrama, military, history
        CountryNorway, Denmark, United Kingdom, Czech Republic, Sweden

        When the Nazis secure a heavy water plant to realize their plan to create an atomic bomb, the Norwegian Allies struggle to sabotage the operation.

        Markimdb: 4.1
        Genrethriller
        CountryUnited Kingdom

        Martin is a screenwriter, who finds himself in one of his own plays: A young woman is found dead in the Thames and no one really knows, what has happened to her.

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genrecomedy, crime
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
        Duration02:09

        A group of up-and-coming hustlers stumble upon a truckload of stolen gold bullion and are suddenly thrust into the high-stakes world of organized crime.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genredrama, biography
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
        Duration02:36

        Acclaimed writer and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt must battle for historical truth to prove the Holocaust actually occurred when David Irving, a renowned denier, sues her for libel.

        Markimdb: 5.1
        Genrecrime
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration01:21

        Casual football hooligan Mike Jacobs is going nowhere in life when he meets old friend Eddie Hill at a football match that turns nasty off the pitch. Under Eddie’s tutelage he soon finds himself inducted into the world of credit card fraud, where organised gangs withdraw hundreds of thousands of pounds from cash machines every night. As Mike becomes seduced by the money and women that come with his new lifestyle, the dangers increase and he soon finds events spiralling beyond his control.

        Markimdb: 6.2
        Genredrama, biography, sport
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration02:01

        The life story of one of Britain's most notorious bare-knuckle fighters, Lenny McLean, also known as "the Guv'nor."

        Markimdb: 4.9
        Genrethriller
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
        Duration01:42

        Sibling rivalry turned into betrayal between two brothers. One a prime candidate for Prime Minister, the other a henchman for a successful, yet shady businessman. Presented with an opportunity to take revenge against his brother, our anti-hero must come to terms with the truth in a world where you can trust no one and loyalty is rare.

        Markimdb: 6
        Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

        After a whirlwind romance with a wealthy widower, a naïve bride moves to his family estate but can't escape the haunting shadow of his late wife.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, military
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
        Duration02:39

        In 1942, an intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of war.

        Markimdb: 6.1
        Genrefantasy, comedy, family, military
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom, France
        Duration01:49

        Nanny McPhee appears at the door of a harried young mother, Mrs. Isabel Green, who is trying to run the family farm while her husband is away at war. But once she’s arrived, Nanny McPhee discovers that the children are fighting a war of their own against two spoiled city cousins who have just moved in. Relying on everything from a flying motorcycle and a statue that comes to life to a tree-climbing piglet and a baby elephant, Nanny uses her magic to teach her mischievous charges five new lessons.

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genrehorror, detective
        CountryUSA, Canada, United Kingdom
        Duration02:30

        Lorraine and Ed Warren travel to north London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by malicious spirits.

        Markimdb: 6.9
        Genreaction, comedy, crime
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration01:30

        Alan Partridge has had many ups and downs in life—national television broadcaster; responsible for killing a guest on live TV; local radio broadcaster; nervous breakdown in Dundee; and a self-published book that was subsequently recalled and pulped. Alan tries to salvage his public career while negotiating a potentially violent turn of events at North Norfolk Digital Radio.

        Markimdb: 5.2
        Genrethriller, fantasy, adventure
        CountryRussia, China, Ukraine, Germany, United Kingdom, Czech Republic
        Duration02:08

        Early 18th century. Cartographer Jonathan Green undertakes a scientific voyage from Europe to the East. Having passed through Transylvania and crossed the Carpathian Mountains, he finds himself in a small village lost in impassible woods. Nothing but chance and heavy fog could bring him to this cursed place. People who live here do not resemble any other people which the traveler saw before that. The villagers, having dug a deep moat to fend themselves from the rest of the world, share a naive belief that they could save themselves from evil, failing to understand that evil has made its nest in their souls and is waiting for an opportunity to gush out upon the world.

        Markimdb: 7
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA, Germany, Japan, Spain, United Kingdom
        Duration02:10

        Hobbs has Dominic and Brian reassemble their crew to take down a team of mercenaries: Dominic unexpectedly gets convoluted also facing his presumed deceased girlfriend, Letty.

        Markimdb: 5.8
        Genrehorror, action, fantasy, comedy, melodrama
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom
        Duration02:30

        A zombie outbreak has fallen upon the land in this reimagining of Jane Austen’s classic tale of the tangled relationships between lovers from different social classes in 19th century England. Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet (Lily James) is a master of martial arts and weaponry and the handsome Mr. Darcy (Sam Riley) is a fierce zombie killer, yet the epitome of upper class prejudice. As the zombie outbreak intensifies, they must swallow their pride and join forces on the blood-soaked battlefield in order to conquer the undead once and for all.

        Markimdb: 5.5
        Genrehorror, thriller
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration02:20

        An evening of drunken prank calls becomes a nightmare for a pair of teenagers when a mysterious stranger turns their own game against them.

        Markimdb: 4.5
        Genrehorror, action, history
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration01:39

        Action epic sees a passionate young man transform into a brutal warrior as he travels the unforgiving landscape in search of his long lost brother Hakan The Ferrocious, whose people are relying on him to restore order to their kingdom.

        Markimdb: 5.5
        Genrethriller, drama, crime
        CountryUnited Kingdom

        In 1995, drug suppliers and career criminals Tony Tucker, Patrick Tate and Craig Rolfe were blasted to death by a shot gun whilst waiting in a Range Rover in Rettendon, Essex. The film charts their rise to become the most prolific dealers and feared criminals in the south of England, maintaining the hold on their empire with fear and violence until their untimely death.

        Markimdb: 5.5
        Genrethriller, crime
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration01:29

        In London, a drug dealer grows increasingly desperate over the course of a week after a botched deal lands him in the merciless clutches of a ruthless crime lord. The more desperate his behavior, the more isolated he becomes until there is nothing left standing between him and the bullet his debtors intend to fire his way.

        Markimdb: 5.3
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama
        CountryUnited Kingdom

        Young Autism sufferer Danny enjoys the serenity and solitude of camping. That's all about to change when enraged teens Nicholas, Calvin and Julia find him, each with their own agenda for wanting to see Danny suffer.

        Markimdb: 6.1
        Genreaction, drama, adventure, military, history
        CountryUnited Kingdom, Serbia
        Duration02:01

          In the year 1215, the rebel barons of England have forced their despised King John to put his royal seal on the Magna Carta, a seminal document that upheld the rights of free men. Yet within months of pledging himself to the great charter, the King reneged on his word and assembled a mercenary army on the south coast of England with the intention of bringing the barons and the country back under his tyrannical rule. Barring his way stood the mighty Rochester castle, a place that would become the symbol of the rebel's momentous struggle for justice and freedom.

          Markimdb: 6.2
          Genrefantasy, comedy, adventure, family
          CountryUSA, United Kingdom
          Duration01:38

          When the magic powers of The Tablet of Ahkmenrah begin to die out, Larry Daley (Ben Stiller) spans the globe, uniting favorite and new characters while embarking on an epic quest to save the magic before it is gone forever.




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