Horror movies about nuns

List of the best horror movies about nuns selected by visitors to our site: The Nun, It, Buried Alive, Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight, The Faculty, The Devil's Doorway, mother!, The Exorcist, Angel Heart, Get Out.

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

Markimdb: 5.3
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryUSA, Romania
Duration01:30

When a young nun at a cloistered abbey in Romania takes her own life, a priest with a haunted past and a novitiate on the threshold of her final vows are sent by the Vatican to investigate. Together they uncover the order’s unholy secret. Risking not only their lives but their faith and their very souls, they confront a malevolent force in the form of the same demonic nun that first terrorized audiences in “The Conjuring 2” as the abbey becomes a horrific battleground between the living and the damned.

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: 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: 6.7
    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, comedy
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:32

    A man on the run is hunted by a demon known as the Collector.

    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: 5.3
    Genrehorror
    CountryRepublic of Ireland, United Kingdom
    Duration01:42

    In the autumn of 1960, Father Thomas Riley and Father John Thornton were sent by the Vatican to investigate a miraculous event in an Irish home for 'fallen women', only to uncover something much more horrific.

    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: 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: 7.3
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada, USA
    Duration01:53

    The down-and-out private detective Harry Angel is ordered, by a mysterious man named Louis Cyphre, to go on a mission to find a missing person. His routine failure soon leads to a bloody spar with himself as Harry Angel goes on a supernatural journey into his own soul.

    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: 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: 6.3
    Genrehorror, detective
    CountryUSA

    A chilling story of terror, murder and unknown evil that shocked even experienced real-life paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren. One of the most sensational cases from their files, it starts with a fight for the soul of a young boy, then takes them beyond anything they’d ever seen before, to mark the first time in U.S. history that a murder suspect would claim demonic possession as a defense.

    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: 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: 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, 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: 6.3
    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
    CountryUSA, Canada, Germany
    Duration01:27

    Anna returns home after spending time in a psychiatric facility following her mother's tragic death and discovers that her mother's former nurse, Rachel, has moved into their house and become engaged to her father. Soon after she learns this shocking news, Anna is visited by her mother's ghost, who warns her that Rachel has evil intentions.

    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: 6.7
    Genrehorror, thriller
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:50

    Geeky student Arnie Cunningham falls for Christine, a rusty 1958 Plymouth Fury, and becomes obsessed with restoring the classic automobile to her former glory. As the car changes, so does Arnie, whose newfound confidence turns to arrogance behind the wheel of his exotic beauty. Arnie's girlfriend Leigh and best friend Dennis reach out to him, only to be met by a Fury like no other.

    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: 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: 7.8
    Genrehorror, fantastic, fantasy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:12

    Bride of Frankenstein begins where James Whale's Frankenstein from 1931 ended. Dr. Frankenstein has not been killed as previously portrayed and now he wants to get away from the mad experiments. Yet when his wife is kidnapped by his creation, Frankenstein agrees to help him create a new monster, this time a woman.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, fantasy, adventure
    CountryUSA, Germany, Hungary
    Duration02:02

    In the final days of World War II, the Nazis attempt to use black magic to aid their dying cause. The Allies raid the camp where the ceremony is taking place, but not before a demon - Hellboy - has already been conjured. Joining the Allied forces, Hellboy eventually grows to adulthood, serving the cause of good rather than evil.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrehorror, fantastic, comedy
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:31

    When a bumbling pair of employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air, the vapors cause the dead to re-animate as they go on a rampage seeking their favorite food: brains!

    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.

    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: 7.5
    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: 6.4
    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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 5.3
      Genrehorror, fantasy, drama
      CountryUSA, Australia
      Duration01:41

      Lestat de Lioncourt is awakened from his slumber. Bored with his existence, he has now become this generation's new Rock God. While in the course of time, another has arisen, Akasha, the Queen of the Vampires and the Dammed. He wants immortal fame, his fellow vampires want him eternally dead for his betrayal, and the Queen wants him for her King. Who will be the first to reach him? Who shall win?

      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: 7.1
      Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Poland
      Duration01:48

      A noted professor and his dim-witted apprentice fall prey to their inquiring vampires, while on the trail of the ominous damsel in distress.

      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: 6.2
      Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:05

      Publisher Will Randall becomes a werewolf and has to fight to keep his job.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, melodrama, drama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:50

      Posing for a portrait, Dorian Gray talks with Lord Henry Wotton, who says that men should pursue their sensual longings, but laments that only the young get to do so. Taken with the idea, Dorian imagines a scenario in which the painting will age as he stays youthful. His wish comes true, and his boyish looks aid him as he indulges his every whim. But when a stunning revelation forces him to see what he's become, Dorian faces some very dangerous questions.

      Markimdb: 7.9
      Genrehorror, action, thriller, adventure
      CountryUSA, Italy
      Duration01:36

      A group of people try to survive an attack of bloodthirsty zombies while trapped in a rural Pennsylvania farmhouse. Although not the first zombie film, Night of the Living Dead is the progenitor of the contemporary "zombie apocalypse" horror film, and it greatly influenced the modern pop-culture zombie archetype.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:05

      When Claire Spencer starts hearing ghostly voices and seeing spooky images, she wonders if an otherworldly spirit is trying to contact her. All the while, her husband tries to reassure her by telling her it's all in her head. But as Claire investigates, she discovers that the man she loves might know more than he's letting on.

      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: 7.2
      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, comedy
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:35

      A dedicated student at a medical college and his girlfriend become involved in bizarre experiments centering around the re-animation of dead tissue when an odd new student arrives on campus.

      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: 6.7
      Genrehorror, drama, biography
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:02

        When a younger girl called Emily Rose dies, everyone puts blame on the exorcism which was performed on her by Father Moore prior to her death. The priest is arrested on suspicion of murder. The trial begins with lawyer Erin Bruner representing Moore, but it is not going to be easy, as no one wants to believe what Father Moore says is true.

        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: 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: 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: 6.8
          Genrehorror, thriller, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:33

          After a twenty-year stay at an asylum for a double murder, a mother returns to her estranged daughter where suspicions arise about her behavior.

          Markimdb: 7.4
          Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:38

          Carrie White, a shy and troubled teenage girl who is tormented by her high school peers and her fanatically religious mother, begins to use her powers of telekinesis to exact revenge upon them.

          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.




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