French horror movies

List of the best French horror movies selected by visitors to our site: Zombi Child, Alone, Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces, The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, Nosferatu the Vampyre, Brotherhood of the Wolf, Cemetery Man, Black Sabbath, eXistenZ, Shaun of the Dead.

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

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrehorror, fantasy, drama
CountryFrance
Duration01:43

Haiti, 1962: A man is brought back from the dead only to be sent to the living hell of the sugarcane fields. In Paris, 55 years later, at the prestigious Légion d’honneur boarding school, a Haitian girl confesses an old family secret to a group of new friends - never imagining that this strange tale will convince a heartbroken classmate to do the unthinkable.

Markimdb: 5.1
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, adventure, family
CountryFrance, Belgium
Duration01:51

Five kids wake up in a world where everybody has disappeared.

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: 7
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
CountryCanada, France
Duration01:34

Quiet, withdrawn 13-year-old Rynn Jacobs lives peacefully in her home in a New England beach town. Whenever the prying landlady inquires after Rynn's father, she politely claims that he's in the city on business. But when the landlady's creepy and increasingly persistent son, Frank, won't leave Rynn alone, she teams up with kindly neighbor boy Mario to maintain the dark family secret that she's been keeping to herself.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrehorror, drama
CountryItaly, West Germany, France
Duration01:47

Ghoulish Count Dracula lures a naive estate agent, Jonathan Harker, to his decaying Transylvanian castle with the promise of easy money. But when he spies a portrait of the man's beautiful young wife Lucy, the vampire becomes obsessed and sets in motion their destruction.

Markimdb: 7
Genrehorror, action, thriller, drama, adventure
CountryFrance
Duration02:22

    In 18th century France, the Chevalier de Fronsac and his Native American friend Mani are sent by the King to the Gevaudan province to investigate the killings of hundreds by a mysterious beast.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrehorror, comedy
    CountryItaly, France, Germany
    Duration01:44

    A cemetery man has the unusual problem of the dead rising from the grave. Himself and his assistant must end these creatures' lives again after they are reborn. Everything is going well until "She" comes along and stirs things up a bit.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrehorror
    CountryItaly, France

    Three short tales of supernatural horror. In “The Telephone,” a woman is plagued by threatening phone calls. In "The Wurdalak,” a family is preyed upon by vampiric monsters. In “The Drop of Water,” a deceased medium wreaks havoc on the living.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Canada
    Duration01:37

    A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genrehorror, comedy
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
    Duration01:40

      Shaun lives a supremely uneventful life, which revolves around his girlfriend, his mother, and, above all, his local pub. This gentle routine is threatened when the dead return to life and make strenuous attempts to snack on ordinary Londoners.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryItaly, France, West Germany
      Duration01:38

      An American writer living in Rome witnesses an attempted murder that is connected to an ongoing killing spree in the city, and conducts his own investigation despite himself and his girlfriend being targeted by the killer.

      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: 7.4
      Genrehorror, fantasy
      CountryGermany, France
      Duration01:10

      Traveler Allan Gray arrives in the village of Courtempierre and takes lodgings in a small inn. Gray has a great interest in the supernatural, particularly vampires. He's barely settled in when he feels a sinister force descending upon him. In the night an old man enters his room to tell him 'she must not die'. One of the old man's daughters, Leone, has been bitten by a vampire. In order to break the curse, Gray and Leone's sister Gisele must find the original vampire and drive a stake through her heart.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryUSA, France, Canada, Spain
      Duration01:38

      After a car crash, a criminal psychologist (Halle Berry) comes to, only to find that she's a patient in the same mental institution that currently employs her. It seems she's been accused of murdering her husband -- but she has no memory of committing the crime. As she tries to regain her memory and convince her co-workers of her innocence, a vengeful spirit uses her as an earthly pawn, which further convinces everyone of her guilt.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrehorror, comedy, drama
      CountrySpain, France
      Duration01:47

      The journey of Javier, the obese Sad Clown, starts during his childhood in the midst of the Spanish civil war in 1937. His father, one of Spain’s most prominent jesters, is detained and tortured by the fascist regime.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountrySpain, USA, France, Italy
      Duration01:44

      Grace is a religious woman who lives in an old house kept dark because her two children, Anne and Nicholas, have a rare sensitivity to light. When the family begins to suspect the house is haunted, Grace fights to protect her children at any cost in the face of strange events and disturbing visions.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrehorror, fantasy, drama, detective
      CountryBelgium, France, West Germany
      Duration02:05

      Malpertuis is the name of an old, rambling mansion which is in reality a labyrinth where characters from Greek mythology are imprisoned by the bedridden Cassavius (Welles). He manages to keep them (as well as his nephew and niece) prisoners even after his death, through a binding testament. As Jan, the nephew, (Carrière) unravels the mystery, he discovers that he cannot escape the house because Malpertuis is far more significant than he was led to believe.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrehorror, drama
      CountryFrance, West Germany
      Duration02:07

      A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and bizarre incidents that indicate something more than a possessed love affair.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrehorror, drama, detective
      CountryFrance, Italy
      Duration02:01

      Three directors each adapt a Poe short story to the screen: "Toby Dammit" features a disheveled drugged and drunk English movie star who nods acceptance in the Italian press and his producers fawn over him. "Metzengerstein" features a Mediveal countess who has a love-hate relationship with a black stallion - who it turns out is really her dead lover. "William Wilson" tells the story of a sadistic Austrian student with an exact double whom he later kills.

      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: 7.3
      Genrehorror, action
      CountryUSA, Canada, Japan, France
      Duration01:49

      A group of surviving people take refuge in a shopping center after the world has been over taken over by aggressive, flesh-eating zombies. A remake of the 1978 zombie film of the same name.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genrehorror, drama
      CountryFrance, Italy
      Duration01:30

      Dr. Génessier is riddled with guilt after an accident that he caused disfigures the face of his daughter, the once beautiful Christiane, who outsiders believe is dead. Dr. Génessier, along with accomplice and laboratory assistant Louise, kidnaps young women and brings them to the Génessier mansion. After rendering his victims unconscious, Dr. Génessier removes their faces and attempts to graft them on to Christiane's.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genrehorror, action, thriller
      CountryUSA, France

      All the rules are broken as a sect of lawless marauders decides that the annual Purge does not stop at daybreak and instead should never end as they chase a group of immigrants who they want to punish because of their harsh historical past.

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genrehorror, thriller
      CountryFrance, Belgium

      While diving in a remote French lake, a couple of YouTubers who specialize in underwater exploration videos discover a house submerged in the deep waters. What was initially a unique finding soon turns into a nightmare when they discover that the house was the scene of atrocious crimes. Trapped, with their oxygen reserves falling dangerously, they realize the worst is yet to come: they are not alone in the house.

      Markimdb: 3.5
      Genrehorror
      CountryFrance

      Alex is an 18 year old young man. He has been a big fan of the Arthur and the Minimoys fantasy film saga for years. Then his group of friends suggests that he goes to the abandoned house where the film was shot. They are unaware that they are about to fall into a deadly plot.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrehorror
      CountryFrance
      Duration01:20

      Christmas Eve. On his way to his in-laws with his family, Frank Harrington decides to try a shortcut, for the first time in 20 years. It turns out to be the biggest mistake of his life.

      Markimdb: 3.3
      Genrehorror, thriller
      CountryItaly, France

      After several mysterious accidents, A Live Action Role Playing game is interrupted and the players leave the bunker while the staff remains behind to investigate the disappearance of Greg, the mastermind of the game.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genrehorror
      CountrySpain, France, Belgium

      A Paris model must return to Madrid where her grandmother, who had brought her up, just had a stroke. But spending just a few days with this relative turns into an unexpected nightmare.

      Markimdb: 5.5
      Genrehorror, comedy
      CountryFrance
      Duration02:20

      For the Olympique de Paris soccer team, this away match scheduled against Caplongue was merely supposed to be one last chore before the end of the professional season. Yet no one could ever have imagined that an unknown rabies-like infection was going to spread like wildfire, turning this small town’s inhabitants into ultra-violent and highly contagious creatures.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama
      CountryFrance
      Duration01:07

      After waking up in an apartment where only the night before a party was raging, Sam is forced to come to grips with reality: He is now alone and the living dead have invaded the streets of Paris. Petrified with fear, Sam is going to have to barricade himself inside the building and organize his survival. But is he really the sole survivor?

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genrehorror, fantasy
      CountryFrance
      Duration01:33

      It's young Lucy's first day as a trainee in-house caregiver. She visits Mrs Jessel, an old woman who lies in cerebral coma, by herself, in her large desolate house. Learning by accident that Mrs Jessel, a former dance teacher of repute, supposedly possesses a treasure somewhere in the house, Lucy and friends William and Ben decide to search the house in the hope of finding it. At night, they get into the house, which reveals itself to be increasingly peculiar. Their hunt for Mrs Jessel's treasure leads them into a horrifying supernatural series of events that will change Lucy forever..

      Markimdb: 5.5
      Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller
      CountryFrance

      After getting a car ride from an unknown man, Lisa wakes up in a tube. On her arm is strapped a bracelet with a countdown. She quickly understands that every 8 minutes, fire burns an occupied section. She has no choice but to crawl into safe sections to survive. To know why she’s there and how to get out, Lisa will have to face the memories of her dead daughter…

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genrehorror, thriller
      CountryFrance
      Duration01:24

      Sarah's life is in pieces after the brutal death of her 18 year-old son. One night, her car accidentally hits Arthur, a young man the same age as her boy who is running from a burglar. Sarah sympathizes with him and takes him in, only to be tracked down by the burglar whose murderous rage towards Arthur forces her to take action.

      Markimdb: 5.3
      Genrehorror
      CountryFrance

      Two girls on the run get lost in the French countryside, and wind up in a haunted chateau occupied by an ailing vampire and his servants.

      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: 5.1
      Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy, detective
      CountryFrance
      Duration01:38

      A teenager feels an endless fascination for his cellular which will enable him to reach his aim: alluring the pretty high-school girl he's in love with. Unfortunately, this special "addiction" will not be without negative consequences on the behavior of the boy...

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genrehorror, comedy, short
      CountryBelgium, France
      Duration00:15

      Five friends have encounters with black bears in a national park.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genrehorror, fantastic, drama, detective
      CountryFrance, Belgium, Spain

      11-year-old Nicolas lives with his mother in a seaside housing estate. The only place that ever sees any activity is the hospital. It is there that all the boys from the village are forced to undergo strange medical trials that attempt to disrupt the phases of evolution.

      Markimdb: 5.5
      Genrehorror
      CountrySpain, France

      Inspired by real events, the story centers around a family in the 70s who settles in the Madrid neighborhood of Malasaña where their new house will become the worst of their nightmares.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Belgium, France

      A dynamic killer thriller with its finger firmly on the pulse of stark social commentary and shattering suspense. Recently widowed mother of two Sarah is desperate to know who murdered her husband in front of her young son, rendering him mute. Coerced into helping a low-life drug dealer stash narcotics stolen from the local Mr Big, she’s forced into taking drastic action to protect her children, evolving from downtrodden submissive to take-charge vigilante.

      Markimdb: 5.5
      Genrehorror, fantastic, drama
      CountryRepublic of Ireland, France
      Duration01:48

      What happens when the undead return to life? In a world ravaged for years by a virus that turns the infected into zombie-like cannibals, a cure is at last found and the wrenching process of reintegrating the survivors back into society begins.

      Markimdb: 4.7
      Genrehorror, thriller
      CountrySpain, United Kingdom, USA, France

      Completely on her own, Sarah spends her time at home, waiting for the approaching birth of her child. But one night, a stranger breaks into her home, ready to snatch her still unborn baby from her.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, detective
      CountrySpain, Republic of Ireland, Belgium, France
      Duration01:42

      Samuel Salomon, a literature professor, has been off work for almost a year after the tragic death of his girlfriend. Samuel has been suffering from a recurring nightmare in which a woman is brutally murdered in a strange ritual. Suddenly, the same woman who appears every night in his dreams is found dead in exactly the same circumstances. Samuel sneaks into the crime scene and there he meets Rachel who has also dreamed about the murder. Together, they will do whatever they can to discover the identity of the mystery woman, entering a terrifying world controlled by the figures who have inspired artists throughout time: the Muses.

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama
      CountryFrance, Sweden

      Tom (8) and Benjamin (11) travel to Stockholm to spend the summer with their father, whom they have barely seen since he divorced their mother. Tom, in particular, knows next to nothing about this strange, solitary man who seems never to sleep. When he suggests they spend a few days at his cabin in the country, the boys are delighted. But the cabin is totally isolated in the middle of a huge forest, a place both beautiful and troubling.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama
      CountryUSA, France
      Duration01:27

        After years of performing “exorcisms” and taking believers’ money, Reverend Marcus travels to rural Louisiana with a film crew so he can dispel what he believes is the myth of demonic possession. The dynamic reverend is certain that this will be another routine “exorcism” on a disturbed religious fanatic but instead comes upon the blood-soaked farm of the Sweetzer family and a true evil he would have never thought imaginable.

        Markimdb: 5.6
        Genrehorror, detective
        CountryFrance, Greece

        ​Greece. A seaside resort struck by a heavy heat wave. Water is scarce and violence is ready to explode. Ashraf, a solitary immigrant, is looking after a villa while its owners are away. On a dusty road crushed by the sun, he is stopped by a police officer for an identity check...

        Markimdb: 5.8
        Genrehorror, melodrama, drama, detective
        CountryFrance, Canada

        We enter the film like into a dream. Paris. Lenz looks for Madeleine who has mysteriously disappeared. He encounters Hélène, a young woman bewitched by her self-destructive impulses. A crazy love develops between them. Louis and Léna, devoured by their jealousy, lead Lenz to follow, against his better wishes, Hélène into the subterranean world of a dark sexual exploitation network. Although lost, lost from the first, love is what saves us.

        Markimdb: 3.9
        Genrehorror, thriller
        CountryUSA, France, Nepal

        A dramatic mystery where a haunted teen endures a terrifying exorcism in the hopes of unlocking shocking secrets about the church and his family.

        Markimdb: 5.3
        Genrehorror, action, fantasy
        CountryCanada, France
        Duration01:31

        The coming-of-age story of Cayden Richards. Forced to hit the road after the murder of his parents, Cayden wanders lost without purpose... Until he meets a certifiable lunatic named Wild Joe who sets him on a path to the ominous town of Lupine Ridge to hunt down the truths of his history. But in the end| who's really hunting whom?

        Markimdb: 6
        Genrehorror, comedy, drama
        CountryFrance

        In a rural French town, twenty-something Teddy is scratched by an unknown beast and slowly undergoes frightening changes.




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