Anthology movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant anthology movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, scary, suspenseful, macabre, stylized and tense films and TV shows about / with anthology, blood, murder, supernatural, death, danger, monster, storytelling, deadly and serial killer plots mostly in Horror, Thriller and Fantasy genres shot in USA, UK, Japan and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as anthology: American Horror Story (2011), Patient Seven (2016), V/H/S Viral (2014), Creepshow (1982), XX (2017), Tales of Halloween (2015), Tales from the Crypt (1972), Night Train to Terror (1985), The Vault of Horror (1973), Tales from the Crypt (1989).

Best films

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Patient Seven
Patient Seven (2016)
Horror
USA
116 min.
 4.9
True Detective
True Detective (2014)
Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
USA
55 min.
 9.0

New films

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Terror Tales of the Crimson Creeper
Terror Tales of the Crimson Creeper (2019)
Horror
UK
Ponoc Short Films Theatre, Chapter 1 – Modest Heroes
Ponoc Short Films Theatre, Chapter 1 – Modest Heroes (2018)
Animation, Family
Japan

List of anthology movies

The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story (2016)
 8.5
 58K
The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
Story: An anthology series centered around some of history's most famous criminals.
Style: captivating, serious, realistic, based on true events
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: murder, anthology, crimes, crime investigation, police, criminal, courtroom drama, legal, celebrity, society, murder trial, district attorney ...
Time: 20th century, 21st century, 90s
Place: usa, europe, beverly hills, california, los angeles
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American Horror Story (2011)
 8.1
 234K
American Horror Story
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
Story: American Horror Story is an anthology horror drama series.
Style: scary, surreal, atmospheric, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: supernatural, fear, haunted house, death, anthology, family in danger, ghost, couple relations, sadism, serial killer, nun, mental institution ...
Time: contemporary, 60s, 20th century, 21st century, year 1964 ...
Place: los angeles, massachusetts, new orleans, usa, florida ...
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Patient Seven (2016)
 4.9
 2K
Patient Seven
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: The film centers on Dr. Marcus, a renowned psychiatrist who has selected 6 severe mentally ill and dangerous patients from the Spring Valley Mental Hospital to interview as part of research for his new book. As Dr. Marcus interviews each patient, ...
Style: macabre, brutal, psychological, enigmatic, twist ending
Plot: mental patient, psychiatrist, interview, doctor, hallucination, death, anthology, book, mental institution, multiple storylines, storytelling, mother daughter relationship ...
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V/H/S Viral (2014)
 4.2
 13K
V/H/S Viral
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: scary, rough, serious, melancholic, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, gory, parallel universe, monster, gore, death, danger, murder, splatter, demons, chaos and mayhem, anthology ...
Time: contemporary, 21st century
Place: usa, tijuana mexico, atlanta georgia
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Creepshow (1982)
 6.9
 35K
Creepshow
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Inspired by the E.C. comics of the 1950s, George A. Romero and Stephen King bring five tales of terror to the screen.
Style: suspenseful, scary, macabre, dark humor, bloody ...
Plot: monster, cult, gory, danger, zombie, death, violence, multiple storylines, transformation, brutality, murder, revenge ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 1830s, 19th century, future
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XX (2017)
 4.5
 9K
XX
Genre: Horror
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: This all-female horror anthology features four dark tales from four fiercely talented women.
Plot: anthology, single mother, falling from height, creature, birthday party, violent death, christmas present, birthday present, transformation, evil child, female director, starvation ...
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Tales of Halloween (2015)
 5.5
 9K
Tales of Halloween
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Ten stories from horror's top directors. Ghosts, ghouls, monsters, and the devil delight in terrorizing unsuspecting residents of a suburban neighborhood on Halloween night. This creepy anthology combines classic Halloween tales with the stuff ...
Style: light
Plot: anthology, halloween, witch, evil, death, trick or treating, dead, aggression, girl, murder, kidnapping, police car ...
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Tales from the Crypt (1972)
 7.0
 8K
Tales from the Crypt
Genre: Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Five people find themselves in a tomb. The Crypt keeper explains why they are there through a series of frightening stories. Based on the classic comic book.
Style: suspenseful, scary, tense, dark humor, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: gory, vengeance, supernatural, murder, revenge, blood, verbal byplay, ghost, death, splatter, blindness, violence ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, future
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Night Train to Terror (1985)
 3.9
 2K
Night Train to Terror
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: God and Satan are on a train discussing the fate of three individuals. The stories of the people in question are told in a trio of very strange vignettes. One involves an insane anylum with some very interesting treatment plans. Another involves a ...
Style: atmospheric, serious, surreal, scary, bleak
Plot: train, gory, destiny, deadly, anthology, supernatural, stalking, apocalypse, cons and scams, mental illness, fall in love, danger ...
Time: 80s
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The Vault of Horror (1973)
 6.6
 4K
The Vault of Horror
Genre: Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The sequel to Tales from the Crypt. Five strangers trapped in a basement vault converse about their recurring nightmares. Their stories include vampires, bodily dismemberment, east Indian mysticism, an insurance scam, and an artist who kills by ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, scary, dark humor, surprise ending
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vampire, amateur detective, small town, supernatural, femme fatale, anthology, ghost, painting, serial killer, mysterious character, mystery, supernatural ability ...
Time: 70s
Place: india, haiti
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Tales from the Crypt (1989)
 8.0
 18K
Tales from the Crypt
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 25 min.
Story: Tales from the Crypt, sometimes titled HBO's Tales from the Crypt, is an American horror anthology television series that ran from June 10, 1989 to July 19, 1996 on the premium cable channel HBO for seven seasons with a total of 93 episodes. ...
Style: suspenseful, scary, dark humor, witty, macabre ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: mysterious character, amateur detective, hidden identity, supernatural ability, danger, supernatural, deadly, deadly creature, master villain, nightmare comes true, nightmare, verbal byplay ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
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From a Whisper to a Scream (1987)
 5.9
 2K
From a Whisper to a Scream
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The uncle of an executed murderess relates four stories of his hometown, Oldfield, to a reporter. In the first, an elderly man pursues a romance with a younger woman, even to the grave and beyond. In the second, a wounded man on the run from ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, scary, disturbing ...
Plot: american civil war, ghost, gory, serial killer, anthology, small town, slasher, murder, voodoo, supernatural ability, zombie, investigation ...
Place: tennessee, usa
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Creepshow 2 (1987)
 6.0
 19K
Creepshow 2
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: EC Comics-inspired weirdness returns with three tales. In the first, a wooden statue of a Native American comes to life...to exact vengeance on the murderer of his elderly owners. In the second, four teens are stranded on a raft on a lake with a ...
Style: scary, dark humor, serious, suspenseful, offbeat ...
Audience: teens
Plot: zombie, murder, slasher, revenge, gory, vengeance, supernatural, gore, blood, violence, bullying, splatter ...
Time: 80s
Place: arizona, usa
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Cat's Eye (1985)
 6.3
 20K
Cat's Eye
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Netherlands
Duration: 94 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: suspenseful, scary, macabre, psychological, tense ...
Plot: danger, cat, revenge, life & death, supernatural, child in peril, girl, dishonesty, multiple storylines, demons, couple relations, cure ...
Time: 80s
Place: atlantic city new jersey
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True Detective (2014)
 9.0
 408K
True Detective
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
Story: An American anthology police detective series utilizing multiple timelines in which investigations seem to unearth personal and professional secrets of those involved, both within or outside the law.
Style: serious, clever, realistic, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot: police investigation, partners against crime, police detective, murder, crimes, partners, who done it, law enforcement, uncover truth, investigation, crime, haunted by the past ...
Time: contemporary, 90s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: louisiana, usa, california
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Cartoon Monsoon (2003)
Cartoon Monsoon
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Story: A anthology collection of cartoons made by animators from 2003 to 2004.
Plot: anthology, woman, shorts, zombie, cell phone, monster, tomato, telephone
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Black Mirror (2011)
 8.9
 248K
Black Mirror
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
Story: A contemporary British re-working of The Twilight Zone with stories that tap into the collective unease about our modern world.  Over the last ten years, technology has transformed almost every aspect of our lives before we've had time to ...
Style: twists and turns, thought provoking, dark humor, philosophical, disturbing ...
Plot: human nature, social decay, society, computers and web, technology, politician, news, media satire, corruption, alternate reality, reporter, fear ...
Time: future
Place: england
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Chillers (1987)
 4.5
 427
Chillers
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Five passengers in a bus depot are waiting for a bus that is overdue. To pass the time, they start telling each other horror stories.
Plot: anthology, bus station, vampire, nightmare, murder, ghost, shower, maniac, swimming, student, professor, college ...
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Holidays (2016)
 5.1
 8K
Holidays
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: An anthology feature film that puts a uniquely dark and original spin on some of the most iconic and beloved holidays of all time by challenging our folklore, traditions and assumptions.
Style: dark, christmas horror
Plot: anthology, easter, christmas, halloween, new year's eve, blood, valentine's day, darkness, midnight, holiday season, holiday, medicine cabinet ...
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Southbound (2015)
 5.9
 13K
Southbound
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The film contains five stories set on desolate stretches of a desert highway. Two men on the run from their past, a band on its way to a gig, a man struggling to get home, a brother in search of his long-lost sister and a family on vacation are ...
Style: suspense, road movie, dark, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot: desert, monster, splatter, murder, storytelling, gory, demons, supernatural, chase, drinking, multiple storylines, anthology ...
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Nightmares (1983)
 5.7
 2K
Nightmares
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A collection of short stories. In one a woman who leaves her house late at night to drive to the store while a killer is loose encounters some problems. In the second an arcade whiz kid's obsession with a game leads to deadly consequences. In ...
Style: suspenseful, scary, serious, rough, intense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, slasher, supernatural, gory, video game, monster, obsession, on the road, store, urban legend, demons, suburbs ...
Time: 80s
Place: new jersey
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Terror Tract (2000)
 6.0
 2K
Terror Tract
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Bob Carter, a suburban real estate agent, tries to get a kindly couple, Allen and Mary Ann Doyle, to buy a house only to give them horrifying stories about the pasts of three of them. In the first story "Nightmare" a businessman discovers ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, dark humor, realistic
Plot: murder, gory, domestic disturbance, suburbs, real estate agent, crimes, anthology, danger, deadly, serial killer, dangerous animal, ghost ...
Time: 90s
Is relevant ?
Screams of a Winter Night (1979)
 5.2
 334
Screams of a Winter Night
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Ten college students go camping, when they get there, they tell scary stories to each other.
Plot: anthology, cabin, demon, supernatural, hanged man, forest, legend, car, monster, storm, group of friends, native american ...
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Hulk Vs. (2009)
 7.1
 10K
Hulk Vs.
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Two stories featuring Marvel's anti-hero The Incredible Hulk and his encounters with the X-Man Wolverine and the god known as Thor.
Style: stylized, exciting, serious, comic, witty ...
Audience: teens, kids, family outing, boys' night
Plot: superhero, monster, superhuman powers, justice, fight scenes, blood, ninja, weapons, fighting crime, splatter, comics, mutant ...
Time: contemporary, 21st century, ancient history
Place: canada, usa, tokyo, new jersey
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Twists of Terror (1997)
 5.3
 342
Twists of Terror
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Stuck in the attic, Phillip, (Joseph Ziegler) recounts several different tales to an unknown listener in order to explain the dangers of the world.
Style: surprise ending
Plot: female killer, anthology, dog attack, cat, serial killer, surgery, hospital, hitchhiking, honeymoon, kidnapping, single woman, cabin in the woods ...
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Tokyo! (2008)
 7.1
 8K
Tokyo!
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, Japan, South Korea, Germany
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Tokyo! is an anthology of three short films by directors Michel Gondry (France), Leos Carax (France) and Joon-ho Bong (Korea), each of whom offers an imaginative and transnatural/supernatural glimpse into the Tokyo Megapolis.
Style: surreal, stylized, semi serious, atmospheric, melancholic ...
Plot: obsession, city life, male nudity, loneliness, imagination, lawyer, surrealism, homeless, pornography, creativity, art, deadly creature ...
Time: contemporary, 21st century, year 2007, 2000s
Place: tokyo, japan, asia, paris france
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Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990)
 6.2
 13K
Tales from the Darkside: The Movie
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The first segment features an animated mummy stalking selected student victims; the second tale tells the story of a "cat from hell" who cannot be killed and leaves a trail of victims behind it; the third story is about a man who witnesses ...
Style: suspenseful, scary, serious, macabre, tense ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: mummy, murder, witch, monster, hitman, supernatural, vengeance, revenge, storytelling, transformation, blood, splatter ...
Time: 80s
Place: dungeon, new york
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Kwaidan (1964)
 8.0
 12K
Kwaidan
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 183 min.
Story: Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money with tragic results. A man stranded in a blizzard is saved by Yuki the Snow Maiden, but his ...
Style: atmospheric, stylized, bleak, meditative, serious ...
Plot: samurai, supernatural, ghost, storytelling, blindness, betrayal, ghosts, heroes, life & death, art, spirit, anthology ...
Time: 17th century, 19th century, middle ages, 1900s, 12th century
Place: japan, asia, tokyo
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The House That Dripped Blood (1971)
 6.6
 4K
The House That Dripped Blood
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A Scotland Yard investigator looks into four mysterious cases involving an unoccupied house.
Style: suspenseful, serious, scary, rough, tense ...
Plot: vampire, ghost, haunted house, mystery, mysterious character, serial killer, anthology, wax museum, supernatural ability, investigation, murder, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: europe, scotland, scotland yard, england
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Grim Prairie Tales: Hit the Trail... to Terror (1990)
 5.4
 790
Grim Prairie Tales: Hit the Trail... to Terror
Genre: Horror, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Two travelers meet on the open prairie, and pass their time together by trading stories with each other. Their tales become a sort of competition, each attempting to relate something which might disturb the other.
Style: twist ending
Plot: anthology, campfire, campfire story, desecration, playing footsie, buried alive, pregnant woman, prairie, killed during sex, traveler, forced suicide, clerk ...
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