Movies about fear

Movies about fear
List of the best fear movies selected by visitors to our site: Sinister, Ghostland, It Chapter Two, May, Unsane, Ouija, Eden Lake, The Babadook, The Shawshank Redemption, Tideland.

In the top there are new films of 2021, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Genre
Country
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: 6.4
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama
    CountryCanada, France
    Duration01:23

    A mother of two inherits a home from her aunt. On the first night in the new home she is confronted with murderous intruders and fights for her daughters' lives. Sixteen years later the daughters reunite at the house, and that is when things get strange...

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrehorror, fantasy, drama, detective
    CountryCanada, USA
    Duration02:57

    27 years after overcoming the malevolent supernatural entity Pennywise, the former members of the Losers' Club, who have grown up and moved away from Derry, are brought back together by a devastating phone call.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrehorror, thriller, comedy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:33

    Psychological horror about a lonely young woman traumatized by a difficult childhood, and her increasingly desperate attempts to connect with the people around her.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrethriller, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:23

    A woman is involuntarily committed to a mental institution where she is confronted by her greatest fear.

    Markimdb: 4.5
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:29

    A group of friends must confront their most terrifying fears when they awaken the dark powers of an ancient spirit board.

    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: 6.8
      Genrehorror, drama
      CountryAustralia, Canada
      Duration01:33

      A single mother, plagued by the violent death of her husband, battles with her son's fear of a monster lurking in the house, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her.

      Markimdb: 9.3
      Genredrama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:22

      Framed in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrefantasy, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada
      Duration02:02

      Because of the actions of her irresponsible parents, a young girl is left alone on a decrepit country estate and survives inside her fantastic imagination.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrehorror, thriller
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration01:43

        A family discovers that dark spirits have invaded their home after their son inexplicably falls into an endless sleep. When they reach out to a professional for help, they learn things are a lot more personal than they thought.

        Markimdb: 3.9
        Genrehorror
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:14

        A group of young people awake, locked inside a warehouse with cameras screwed into their heads. It becomes apparent that they are unwilling competitors in a deadly game, and they will need to murder each other if they hope to survive.

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genrehorror, thriller, crime, detective
        CountryUSA, Canada
        Duration01:33

        When a new murder victim is discovered with all the signs of Jigsaw's hand, Detective Eric Matthews begins a full investigation and apprehends Jigsaw with little effort. But for Jigsaw, getting caught is just another part of his plan. Eight more of his victims are already fighting for their lives and now it's time for Matthews to join the game...

        Markimdb: 7.5
        Genredrama
        CountryFrance
        Duration02:08

        Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his racially mixed students from a tough Parisian neighborhood.

        Markimdb: 8.8
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom
        Duration02:28

          Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious.

          Markimdb: 7.8
          Genredrama, history
          CountryItaly
          Duration03:06

          The life inside a farm in Italy at the beginning of the century. Many poor country families live there, and the owner pays them by their productivity. One of the families has a very clever child. They decide to send him to school instead of make him help them, although this represents a great sacrifice. The boy has to wake up very early and walk several miles to get to the school. One day the boy's shoes break when returning home, but they do not have money to buy other. What can they do?

          Markimdb: 7.4
          Genrethriller, drama
          CountryCanada, USA
          Duration01:36

          An average family is thrust into the spotlight after the father commits a seemingly self-defense murder at his diner.

          Markimdb: 7.2
          Genrehorror, action, thriller, drama, adventure
          CountryUnited Kingdom, France
          Duration01:39

            After a tragic accident, six friends reunite for a caving expedition. Their adventure soon goes horribly wrong when a collapse traps them deep underground and they find themselves pursued by bloodthirsty creatures. As their friendships deteriorate, they find themselves in a desperate struggle to survive the creatures and each other.

            Markimdb: 6.8
            Genrehorror, thriller, comedy, detective
            CountryUSA, China, Japan
            Duration01:56

            Husband and wife Gabe and Adelaide Wilson take their kids to their beach house expecting to unplug and unwind with friends. But as night descends, their serenity turns to tension and chaos when some shocking visitors arrive uninvited.

            Markimdb: 8.9
            Genrefantasy, drama, adventure
            CountryNew Zealand, USA
            Duration03:21

            Aragorn is revealed as the heir to the ancient kings as he, Gandalf and the other members of the broken fellowship struggle to save Gondor from Sauron's forces. Meanwhile, Frodo and Sam bring the ring closer to the heart of Mordor, the dark lord's realm.

            Markimdb: 6.2
            Genrehorror, drama
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:48

            Secure within a desolate home as an unnatural threat terrorizes the world, a man has established a tenuous domestic order with his wife and son, but this will soon be put to test when a desperate young family arrives seeking refuge.

            Markimdb: 6.2
            Genrethriller, drama
            CountryRussia
            Duration01:43

            The protagonist Vlad is a man of about forty; he lives and works as watchman in an old sanatorium that is due to be demolished. He obviously needs this work to live the life of a hermit. One night a married couple appears at the sanatorium: Vera and Stas. They are on the run. They are pursued by former friends and business partners of Stas. Vlad decides to help them, because he too is hiding from the past. Each character is threatened with the inevitable payment for wrong choices in the past, but helping each other, they try to expiate these faults.

            Markimdb: 6.7
            Genrehorror, thriller, detective
            CountryAustria
            Duration01:39

            In the heat of the summer lays a lonesome house in the countryside where nine year old twin brothers await their mother’s return. When she comes home, bandaged after cosmetic surgery, nothing is like before and the children start to doubt whether this woman is actually who she says she is.

            Markimdb: 7.4
            Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, adventure, detective
            CountrySpain
            Duration01:15

            A television reporter and cameraman follow emergency workers into a dark apartment building and are quickly locked inside with something terrifying.

            Markimdb: 6.5
            Genrehorror, thriller
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:21

            In October of 1994 three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, while shooting a documentary. A year later their footage was found.

            Markimdb: 7.5
            Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama
            CountryUnited Kingdom
            Duration01:53

            Twenty-eight days after a killer virus was accidentally unleashed from a British research facility, a small group of London survivors are caught in a desperate struggle to protect themselves from the infected. Carried by animals and humans, the virus turns those it infects into homicidal maniacs -- and it's absolutely impossible to contain.

            Markimdb: 8
            Genrethriller, drama
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:43

              A ballet dancer wins the lead in "Swan Lake" and is perfect for the role of the delicate White Swan - Princess Odette - but slowly loses her mind as she becomes more and more like Odile, the Black Swan.

              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, detective
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:26

                After a young, middle class couple moves into a suburban 'starter' tract house, they become increasingly disturbed by a presence that may or may not be somehow demonic but is certainly most active in the middle of the night. Especially when they sleep. Or try to.

                Markimdb: 7.6
                Genrethriller, drama, crime
                CountryUSA, Canada
                Duration01:42

                A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies.

                Markimdb: 6.1
                Genrehorror
                CountrySpain
                Duration01:37

                After the strange death of his young son at their new home, Daniel hears a ghostly plea for help, spurring him to seek out a renowned paranormal expert.

                Markimdb: 4.9
                Genrehorror, thriller
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:19

                A single mom and her two boys help take care of their grandmother with mystical powers

                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: 6.9
                Genremelodrama, drama
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:56

                  In this captivating Depression-era melodrama, impetuous veterinary student Jacob Jankowski joins a celebrated circus as an animal caretaker but faces a wrenching dilemma when he's transfixed by angelic married performer Marlena.

                  Markimdb: 5.4
                  Genrehorror, thriller, detective
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration01:35

                    John Form has found the perfect gift for his expectant wife, Mia - a beautiful, rare vintage doll in a pure white wedding dress. But Mia's delight with Annabelle doesn't last long. On one horrific night, their home is invaded by members of a satanic cult, who violently attack the couple. Spilled blood and terror are not all they leave behind. The cultists have conjured an entity so malevolent that nothing they did will compare to the sinister conduit to the damned that is now... Annabelle.

                    Markimdb: 6.7
                    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, detective
                    CountryUSA
                    Duration01:38

                    After a teenager has a terrifying vision of him and his friends dying in a plane crash, he prevents the accident only to have Death hunt them down, one by one.

                    Markimdb: 3.4
                    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
                    CountryUSA
                    Duration01:35

                      After learning of an urban legend in which a demented serial killer named SMILEY can be summoned through the Internet, mentally fragile Ashley must decide whether she is losing her mind or becoming Smiley's next victim.

                      Markimdb: 2.8
                      Genrehorror
                      CountryUSA
                      Duration01:14

                      Beginning at a stylish mansion in the roaring 1920's, a socialite, flappers, and the men who love them come to their ultimate demise. These ghosts continue to haunt the mansion throughout the decade. Now they've come back to haunt and chase after a new generation of beautiful girls. The Dead Want Women!

                      Markimdb: 8.2
                      Genrefamily, documentary
                      CountryUSA, Botswana
                      Duration01:28

                      In Botswana's Okavango Delta, an ostracized lioness and her two cubs must fight alone to survive - overcoming all manner of hazards. Their only defense is to escape to Duba Island -- and with that, an unknown future. The setting for this epic tale is one of the last regions where lions can live in the wild. Faced with dwindling land and increasing pressure from hunting, lions - like our lone lioness and her cubs - are approaching the brink of extinction.

                      Markimdb: 4.2
                      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller
                      CountryUSA, Spain
                      Duration01:21

                      V/H/S: VIRAL's segments include the story of a deranged illusionist who obtains a magical object of great power, a homemade machine that opens a door to a parallel world, teenage skaters that unwillingly become targets of a Mexican death cult ritual, and a sinister, shadowy organization that is tracking a serial killer. The segments are tied together by the story of a group of fame-obsessed teens following a violent car chase in LA that unwittingly become stars of the next internet sensation.

                      Markimdb: 8.3
                      Genredrama, crime
                      CountryMexico
                      Duration01:17

                      A group of juvenile delinquents lives a criminal, violent life in the festering slums of Mexico City, among them the young Pedro, whose morality is gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others.

                      Markimdb: 7.3
                      Genrethriller, drama, biography
                      CountryUSA
                      Duration02:28

                        The story of French high-wire artist Philippe Petit's attempt to cross the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in 1974.

                        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: 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: 6.3
                        Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller
                        CountryUSA
                        Duration01:37

                        From the producers of Paranormal Activity, Insidious, and Sinister comes Dark Skies: a supernatural thriller that follows a young family living in the suburbs. As husband and wife Daniel and Lacey Barret witness an escalating series of disturbing events involving their family, their safe and peaceful home quickly unravels. When it becomes clear that the Barret family is being targeted by an unimaginably terrifying and deadly force, Daniel and Lacey take matters in their own hands to solve the mystery of what is after their family.

                        Markimdb: 5.4
                        Genrehorror, comedy
                        CountryUSA, Japan
                        Duration01:25

                          Each year the population of sleepy Lake Victoria, Arizona explodes from 5,000 to 50,000 residents for the annual Spring Break celebration. But then, an earthquake opens an underwater chasm, releasing an enormous swarm of ancient Piranha that have been dormant for thousands of years, now with a taste for human flesh. This year, there's something more to worry about than the usual hangovers and complaints from locals, a new type of terror is about to be cut loose on Lake Victoria.

                          Markimdb: 7.8
                          Genredrama
                          CountryUSA
                          Duration01:55

                          In the Salinas Valley in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete against overwhelming odds with his brother for the love of their father. Cal is frustrated at every turn, from his reaction to the war, how to get ahead in business and in life, and how to relate to his estranged mother.

                          Markimdb: 7.5
                          Genrehorror, fantastic, drama
                          CountryUSA
                          Duration02:30

                          A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound.

                          Markimdb: 6.5
                          Genremelodrama, drama, western
                          CountryUSA
                          Duration02:28

                          Lee, a former Western film icon, is living a comfortable existence lending his golden voice to advertisements and smoking weed. After receiving a lifetime achievement award and unexpected news, Lee reexamines his past, while a chance meeting with a sardonic comic has him looking to the future.

                          Markimdb: 5.1
                          Genredrama
                          CountryUSA
                          Duration01:00

                          A young woman is forced to return to her trailer-park beginnings after her political career is derailed by a sex scandal.




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