Movies about fear

Movies about fear
List of the best fear movies selected by visitors to our site: Unsane, Ouija, The Dark Tapes, Sinister, Ryde, It Chapter Two, Ghostland, Lift to Hell, Fear of Rain, The Strangers: Prey at Night.

In the top there are new films of 2023, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Genre
Country
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: 4.6
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:33

A genre-defying mixture of horror, sci-fi, myth, mystery and thrills told as four interlocking tales in one intelligent anthology. Ghosts, spirits, creatures, demons and more from the paranormal world collide with rational curiosity.

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: 5.6
    Genrehorror, thriller, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:08

    Technology brings us closer. Or perhaps it brings strangers, a little too close. But how much can you really trust someone? With a new ride share service, you never know who will be getting in a car with. Or if you'll ever get out.

    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: 6.4
    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: 4.6
    Genrehorror, drama, detective
    CountryChina
    Duration01:27

    A killing spree takes place in a northern China's hospital, an old elevator goes to the 18th floor - underground.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryUSA

    A teenage girl living with schizophrenia begins to suspect her neighbor has kidnapped a child. Her parents try desperately to help her live a normal life, without exposing their own tragic secrets, and the only person who believes her is Caleb – a boy she isn’t even sure exists.

    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: 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: 6.1
      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: 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.

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genrehorror, thriller
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:46

      A maniacal clown named Art terrorizes three young women and everyone else who stands in his way on Halloween night.

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, adventure, western
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:38

      The last Gunslinger, Roland Deschain, has been locked in an eternal battle with Walter O’Dim, also known as the Man in Black, determined to prevent him from toppling the Dark Tower, which holds the universe together. With the fate of the worlds at stake, good and evil will collide in the ultimate battle as only Roland can defend the Tower from the Man in Black.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genredocumentary, short, crime, detective
      CountryUSA, New Zealand
      Duration02:25

      Journalist David Farrier stumbles upon a mysterious tickling competition online. As he delves deeper he comes up against fierce resistance, but that doesn’t stop him getting to the bottom of a story stranger than fiction.

      Markimdb: 3.2
      Genrefantastic, action, drama, adventure, western
      CountryUSA
      Duration03:00

      When Lane McCrae confronts the outlaw that murdered his family, the battle leaves him fatally wounded. He is visited by the Devil, who offers him a deal that would save the lives of both he and his brother, but instead makes him a bounty hunter for Hell replacing his predecessor. When Zathera, the embodiment of death, walks the earth, it's up to Lane, Hawk and their team, to stop her before she wipes out humanity. They are not the only ones hunting Zathera though - there are others who want to reach Zathera first, for plans of their own!

      Markimdb: 5.3
      Genredrama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:27

      Tom’s birthday dinner party is turned upside down by the unexpected arrival of Alice, an old flame who changed her identity and vanished without a trace 15 years prior.

      Markimdb: 3.1
      Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
      CountryUSA

      A series of freak weather occurrences around Washington D.C. reunites two estranged brothers who are the sons of a once prestigious climate scientist. One of them suspects their father is behind it and upon further investigation, they discover that all of their father's enemies are dead - victims of freak weather accidents.

      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: 4.1
      Genreaction, thriller, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:28

      A former bounty hunter who finds himself on the run as part of a revamped Condemned tournament, in which convicts are forced to fight each other to the death as part of a game that's broadcast to the public.

      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: 5.5
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:57

      Jenny Farrell is getting married. But how will her straight-laced family react when they find out that the woman they thought was their daughter’s roommate is actually her fiancée? As the old-fashioned Farrells attempt to come to terms with the prospect of a surprise daughter-in-law, they face a difficult choice: either adapt with the times or risk being left behind.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrefantastic, action, adventure
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:25

      Primatologist Davis Okoye shares an unshakable bond with George, the extraordinarily intelligent, silverback gorilla who has been in his care since birth. But a rogue genetic experiment gone awry mutates this gentle ape into a raging creature of enormous size. To make matters worse, it’s soon discovered there are other similarly altered animals. As these newly created alpha predators tear across North America, destroying everything in their path, Okoye teams with a discredited genetic engineer to secure an antidote, fighting his way through an ever-changing battlefield, not only to halt a global catastrophe but to save the fearsome creature that was once his friend.

      Markimdb: 5.2
      Genrehorror, fantastic, action
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:04

      Based on the game, Dead Rising takes place during a large-scale zombie outbreak. When a mandatory government vaccine fails to stop the infection from spreading, the four leads must evade infection while also pursuing the root of the epidemic, with all signs pointing to a government conspiracy.

      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: 6
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:21

      A young woman studying the habits of webcam chat users from the apparent safety of her apartment witnesses a brutal murder online and is quickly immersed in a nightmare in which she and her loved ones are targeted for the same grisly fate as the first victim.

      Markimdb: 4.5
      Genrehorror
      CountryUSA

      Strange events plague crew members of a reality TV show when they visit an infamous backwoods camp that was the site of a mass murder 20 years earlier.

      Markimdb: 4.3
      Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
      CountryUSA, China
      Duration02:22

      When three college students move into an old house off campus, they unwittingly unleash a supernatural entity known as The Bye Bye Man, who comes to prey upon them once they discover his name. The friends must try to save each other, all the while keeping The Bye Bye Man's existence a secret to save others from the same deadly fate.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genrefantastic, thriller, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:05

      A spellbinding and romantic supernatural thriller. Ten years after an apocalyptic event left the world haunted by ghosts, Roni receives a threatening message from beyond the grave. Joining forces with a mysterious classmate, Kirk, Roni descends into a shadow world that blurs the bounds of the living and the dead-and begins a desperate race against time to stop a cunning killer.

      Markimdb: 4.2
      Genrefantastic, fantasy, adventure, family
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:25

      After the disappearance of her scientist father, three peculiar beings send Meg, her brother, and her friend to space in order to find him.

      Markimdb: 8.2
      Genrethriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:18

      World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by his troubling visions and also by a mysterious doctor.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genrehorror, thriller, comedy
      CountryUSA

      A couple of master thieves find themselves trapped within a house they intended to rob, only to discover they've inadvertently wandered into the lair of a deranged serial killer.

      Markimdb: 7.8
      Genrefantastic, action, adventure
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:08

      A rogue band of resistance fighters unite for a mission to steal the Death Star plans and bring a new hope to the galaxy.

      Markimdb: 4.7
      Genrehorror, fantastic
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:49

      When a single mother and her two young children are tormented by an increasingly strange and intense presence in their quiet suburban home, she turns to her scientist boyfriend to take on the violent forces that paranormal experts are too frightened to face.

      Markimdb: 4.6
      Genrehorror, thriller
      CountryCanada, USA
      Duration02:30

      Veronica, the new girl in town, is lured into the woods by a group of senior boys looking to make her a victim. But the boys don't know that Veronica's been trained to handle herself in surprisingly lethal ways.

      Markimdb: 4.9
      Genrehorror, action, military
      CountryNew Zealand, USA

      A WWII pilot traveling with top secret documents on a B-17 Flying Fortress encounters an evil presence on board the flight.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:29

      Industrious high school senior, Vee Delmonico, has had it with living life on the sidelines. When pressured by friends to join the popular online game Nerve, Vee decides to sign up for just one dare in what seems like harmless fun. But as she finds herself caught up in the thrill of the adrenaline-fueled competition partnered with a mysterious stranger, the game begins to take a sinister turn with increasingly dangerous acts, leading her into a high stakes finale that will determine her entire future.

      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: 6.3
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA

      Deputy Sheriff Joe "Deke" Deacon joins forces with Sgt. Jim Baxter to search for a serial killer who's terrorizing Los Angeles. As they track the culprit, Baxter is unaware that the investigation is dredging up echoes of Deke's past, uncovering disturbing secrets that could threaten more than his case.

      Markimdb: 7.9
      Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:12

      The story of the onset of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City in the early 1980s, taking an unflinching look at the nation's sexual politics as gay activists and their allies in the medical community fight to expose the truth about the burgeoning epidemic to a city and nation in denial.

      Markimdb: 4.3
      Genrehorror, thriller
      CountryCanada, USA

      A young couple's dream of starting a family shatters as they descend into the depths of paranoia and must struggle to survive an evil presence that wants nothing more than their very own lives.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrethriller, drama
      CountryUSA

      Two miles into the earth, nine Appalachian miners struggle to survive after a methane explosion leaves them with one hour of oxygen.

      Markimdb: 4.3
      Genrethriller, drama
      CountryUSA

      Hazel suffers from a crippling case of agoraphobia. So much so that it causes a rift between her and her mother, Dee. Hazel and her mother decide to go on a road trip to a desert facility to help Hazel deal with her fear but when gunmen and brothers Jesse and Pru attack them, Hazel has to battle her fears so she and her mother can survive.

      Markimdb: 2.5
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure
      CountryUSA

      When a former Special Ops commando visits Pompeii, his wife and daughter are trapped as Mt. Vesuvius erupts with massive force. While his family fights to survive the deadly onslaught of heat and lava, he enlists his former teammates in a daring operation beneath the ruins of the city of Pompeii.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genredrama
      CountryUSA

      Forced to flee his home in Honduras, Óscar seeks asylum in the United States, only to find himself trapped in the immigration system.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genredrama, biography, history
      CountryChina, USA

      The extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of America's greatest heroes. Her courage, ingenuity and tenacity freed hundreds of slaves and changed the course of history.

      Markimdb: 3.2
      Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, adventure, detective
      CountryUSA

      A Marine Biologist is assigned to investigate the mysterious deaths of some marine life in an inland salt water lake that has been attributed to a creature thought to have been the stuff of a legend.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA, Canada

      NYC-based copy editor, Alex, is sent to Ridgeline Resort, an extreme sports outpost, to write a story for a travel writing competition. At first, she fails at everything – much to the chagrin of Cole, an extreme sports enthusiast who thinks this city girl should head back to New York. But when Alex offers to assist Cole with his local arts festival, he reluctantly obliges to be her guide as she faces her fears doing one extreme sport after the next.

      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.




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