Edgar allan poe movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant edgar allan poe movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspenseful, gothic, suspense, scary, serious and psychotronic films and TV shows about / with edgar allan poe, murder, supernatural, macabre, deadly, danger, revenge, death, blood and obsession plots mostly in Horror, Mystery and Thriller genres shot in USA, UK, Italy and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as edgar allan poe: Raven's Hollow (2022), Stonehearst Asylum (2014), The Raven (2012), Extraordinary Tales (2013), The Tomb of Ligeia (1964), The Pale Blue Eye (2022), The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1986), Murders in the Rue Morgue (1971), Masque of the Red Death (1989), The Masque of the Red Death (1964).
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List of edgar allan poe movies
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, Latvia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
West Point cadet Edgar Allan Poe and four other cadets on a training exercise in upstate New York are drawn by a gruesome discovery into a forgotten community where they find a township guarding a frightening secret.
Style:
gothic horror, supernatural thriller, disturbing, bleak, suspenseful
Plot:
edgar allan poe, supernatural, academy, cadet, glory, military academy, folk horror, mother daughter relationship, local legend, raven, hatchet, human sacrifice ...
Time:
19th century
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A Harvard Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes obsessed with a female mental patient, but he has no idea of a recent and horrifying staffing change.
Style:
twist ending, suspense, gothic, psychological thriller, atmospheric ...
Plot:
mental illness, mental institution, twists and turns, mental patient, insanity, plot twist, psychiatrist, edgar allan poe, madhouse, doctors and patients, doctor, macabre ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1890s, 1800s, year 1900
Place:
england, britain, usa, oxford university, tuscany ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Spain, Hungary
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A fictionalized account of the last days of Edgar Allan Poe's life, in which the poet is in pursuit of a serial killer whose murders mirror those in the writer's stories.
Style:
gothic, psychological, period piece, gothic horror, costume drama ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, murder mystery, investigation, police investigation, who done it, edgar allan poe, police detective, riddles and clues, writer's life, writers, murder investigation, murder ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, year 2012, 1840s, edwardian era ...
Place:
maryland, baltimore, former yugoslavia, usa, paris france ...
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Genre: Animation, Horror, Mystery
Country: France, Belgium, Germany, Spain, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
An animated anthology of 5 stories adapted from Edgar Allan Poe.
Style:
gothic horror, anthology, suspense, dark fairy tale, scary ...
Plot:
cemetery, edgar allan poe, old mansion, murder, paranoia, mansion, raven, hypnosis, literary, trippy, dying, death sentence ...
Time:
middle ages, medieval times
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Story about a man haunted by the spirit of his dead wife and her effect on his second marriage.
Style:
gothic, gothic horror, grindhouse, surreal, suspense ...
Plot:
edgar allan poe, cemetery, black cat, supernatural, monster, cat, nobility, folk horror, ghost, macabre, obsession, stonehenge ...
Time:
19th century, 1820s, victorian era
Place:
england
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
West Point, New York, 1830. When a cadet at the burgeoning military academy is found hanged with his heart cut out, the top brass summons former New York City constable Augustus Landor to investigate. While attempting to solve this grisly mystery, ...
Style:
gothic horror, detective, period piece, costume drama, gothic ...
Plot:
murder mystery, winter, edgar allan poe, occult, murder, investigation, renaissance, academy, veteran, secret, violence, army ...
Time:
1830s, 19th century, 2020s
Place:
west point, persia, america
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Horror
Country: France, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
No overview found.
Style:
scary, detective, tense, mind bending, realistic ...
Plot:
edgar allan poe, chess, serial killer, gorilla, retirement, literary, monkey, rivalry, murder, mass murder, danger, law enforcement ...
Time:
19th century, 1940s, victorian era
Place:
paris france, europe, france
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Genre: Action, Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The story involves a series of murders in Charron's performing company, murders caused by various members getting doused with vitriolic acid. Turns out all the people killed have a common denominator in their past, one which has recently ...
Style:
detective, grindhouse, slasher, cult classic, black and white ...
Plot:
edgar allan poe, murder, serial killer, whodunit, monkey, macabre, maniac, dream, unrequited love, police investigator, confronting the past, killer ...
Time:
victorian era, year 1971, 19th century, turn of the century
Place:
paris france, france, europe, england
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
With a deadly plague ravaging his Renaissance kingdom, Prince Prospero invites his friends to retire to the protection of his castle for ongoing revels, leaving the peasantry to die. But fate is not so easily escaped by the debauched nobility.
Style:
slasher, gothic, atmospheric, period piece, grim ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
edgar allan poe, macabre, plague, death, disease, aristocracy, renaissance, class conflict, decadence, medieval, castle, fatalism ...
Time:
year 1989
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Satan-worshiper Prince Prospero invites the local nobility to his castle for protection against an oncoming plague, the Red Death. He orders his guests to attend a masked ball and, amidst an atmosphere of debauchery and depravity, notices the entry ...
Style:
gothic, grindhouse, suspense, surreal, suspenseful ...
Plot:
murder, macabre, edgar allan poe, medieval, supernatural, revenge, life & death, plague, good versus evil, folk horror, brutality, masquerade ...
Time:
middle ages, medieval times, victorian era
Place:
italy, europe
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A warlock burned at the stake comes back and takes over the body of his great grandson to take his revenge on the descendents of the villages that burned him.
Style:
gothic horror, gothic, lovecraft, serious, tense ...
Plot:
curse, afterlife, edgar allan poe, mansion, burned alive, haunted house, cosmic horror, ghost, murder, mutant, haunted, cthulhu ...
Time:
18th century, 19th century
Place:
new england, usa
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Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
The plot concerns the discovery of a lost city beneath the sea off the coast of Cornwall. Price is the captain overseeing a group of sailors who have lived there for more than a century where the peculiar mix of gases has allowed them to extend ...
Style:
classic horror, gothic horror, suspense, grindhouse, semi serious ...
Plot:
edgar allan poe, lost world, sea, creature, underwater city, sea monster, giant monster, adventurer, animal, macabre, submarine, monster ...
Time:
victorian era, 1900s, 20th century
Place:
cornwall
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Marooned on a remote peninsula and haunted by frightening specters, a young man must confront the grotesque denizens of the night, or heed the Lighthouse Keeper's cryptic warning to, 'Always keep a light burning!'
Style:
suspense, gothic, scary, suspenseful, breathtaking ...
Plot:
lighthouse, isolation, edgar allan poe, paranoia, macabre, paranormal, haunting, supernatural, ghost, storm, symbolism, amnesia ...
Time:
1790s
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Three years after her lover, Rick Usher, and her best friend, Maddy Usher, had suddenly disappeared from her life without explanation, Jill Masters receives a phone call with news of Maddy's death. Her last wish was for Jill to attend her ...
Style:
gothic, sexy, serious, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Plot:
ghost, missing person, uncover truth, edgar allan poe, danger, supernatural, family secret, family curse, secret, twins, curse, violent content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new england, usa
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Genre: Horror, Romance
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Set during the height of Spanish Inquisition. The beautiful and kind-hearted Maria is arrested as a witch when she inadvertently cries out in horror at the public whipping of a child. As Maria’s husband Antonio tries to save her, Torquemada, the ...
Style:
gothic, sexy, creepy, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
spanish inquisition, inquisition, heretic, dungeon, edgar allan poe, religions or cults, danger, good versus evil, supernatural, clergy, woman in danger, telepathy ...
Time:
15th century, year 1991, medieval times, 90s, middle ages
Place:
spain, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A writer with a declining career arrives in a small town as part of his book tour and gets caught up in a murder mystery involving a young girl. That night in a dream, he is approached by a mysterious young ghost named V. He's unsure of her ...
Style:
suspenseful, scary, psychological, captivating, dark ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
ghost, murder, small town, supernatural, vampire, small town sheriff, writing a novel, sheriff, writer's life, lifestyle, writers, murder mystery ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, year 1955
Place:
usa, california
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Wealthy wine maker Jonathan Bragg (Keith Carradine) hires Tuscan wine detective (Gaetano Guarino) to discover the source of a mysterious bottle of wine. Based on Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado".
Style:
detective, atmospheric, tense, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
wine, edgar allan poe, vineyard, revenge, basement, murder, obsession, betrayal, adaptation, claustrophobia, investigation, european ...
Place:
tuscany, italy
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Francis Barnard goes to Spain, when he hears his sister Elizabeth has died. Her husband Nicholas Medina, the son of the most brutal torturer of the Spanish Inquisition, tells him she has died of a blood disease, but Francis finds this hard to ...
Style:
gothic horror, gothic, scary, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
spanish inquisition, castle, torture, murder, insanity, vengeance, investigation, inquisition, monster, macabre, gory, edgar allan poe ...
Time:
middle ages, 15th century, 16th century, medieval times, 14th century ...
Place:
europe, spain
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
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" ...
Style:
anthology, gothic, gothic horror, surreal, erotic ...
Plot:
surrealism, obsession, edgar allan poe, macabre, ghost, desire, doppelganger, twins, supernatural, redemption, omnibus, revenge ...
Time:
middle ages
Place:
rome italy, italy, england, europe, britain ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
England is torn in civil strife as the Royalists battle the Parliamentary Party for control. This conflict distracts people from rational thought and allows unscrupulous men to gain local power by exploiting village superstitions. One of these men ...
Style:
suspenseful, disturbing, bleak, creepy, gothic ...
Plot:
inquisition, witch, folk horror, torture, witch hunt, nudity, murder, vengeance, violence, exploitation, priest, sadism ...
Time:
17th century, year 1968, 60s
Place:
england, europe, latin america
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: West Germany
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
In the Olden Tymes, Count Regula is drawn and quartered for killing twelve virgins in his dungeon torture chamber. Thirty-five years later, he comes back to seek revenge on the daughter of his intended thirteenth victim and the son of his prosecutor ...
Style:
gothic, gothic horror, psychotronic, cult horror, classic horror ...
Plot:
torture device, snake, edgar allan poe, torture chamber, vengeance, supernatural, macabre, occult, public execution, fake priest, thief, dead body ...
Time:
year 1967, 19th century, 1810s
Place:
germany
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Genre: Horror
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Alan Foster, a professional American journalist, travels to London to meet with Edgar Allen Poe for an interview. While in London, Alan soon finds himself in the company of Lord Blackwood, and Alan accepts a bet to spend a night in his castle
Style:
gothic horror, gothic, grindhouse, suspense, classic horror ...
Plot:
vampire, ghost, edgar allan poe, snake, castle, dracula, reporter, murder, psychopath, couples, survival, dangerous animal ...
Time:
year 1971, 70s, 20th century, 19th century
Place:
italy
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Oliviero is a burned-out writer, living at his estate near Venice, his dead mother dominating his imagination. He is also a degenerate: sleeps with his maid and his ex-student, hosts Bacchanalia for local hippies, and humiliates his wife Irina in ...
Style:
sexy, slasher, erotic, scary, sexual ...
Plot:
voyeurism, serial killer, sexual assault, adultery, sexy girls, psychopath, redheaded woman, female nudity, extramarital affair, nobility, bare breasts, secret lover ...
Time:
year 2016, 70s
Place:
italy, venice, rome italy
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
After a long journey, a traveller and his wife arrive at the Usher mansion. Upon arriving, however, they discover that the mansion's sibling inhabitants, Roderick and Madeline Usher, have been afflicted with a mysterious malady: Roderick's ...
Style:
creepy, gothic, atmospheric, psychological horror, tragic ending ...
Plot:
edgar allan poe, supernatural, mansion, haunted house, madness, occult, family tragedy, haunting, isolation, psychological torment, devil worship, superstition ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1800s
Place:
england
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Genre: Horror
Country: Mexico
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
The inmates of an insane asylum take over the institution, imprison the doctors and staff, and then put into play their own ideas of how the place should be run.
Style:
independent film, surreal, black comedy, cult horror, suspense ...
Plot:
surrealism, edgar allan poe, psychiatric ward, mental institution, madness, voice over narration, insane asylum, female nudity, rape, torture, forest, occult ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
france, europe
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Genre: Horror
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A writer accepts a wager that he cannot spend the night alone in a haunted castle on All Soul's Eve. Once night falls at the castle, several who had been murdered therein return to life, reliving their deaths and seeking to kill the writer for ...
Style:
gothic horror, gothic, suspense, grindhouse, atmospheric ...
Plot:
haunted, ghost, edgar allan poe, supernatural, haunting, halloween, tomb, writers, snake, reporter, lgbt, love story ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 19th century
Place:
london, england
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Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Aristocrat Julian Markham keeps his disfigured brother, Sir Edward, locked in a tower of his house. Occasionaly Sir Edward escapes and causes havoc around the town.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, serious, classic horror, scary ...
Plot:
edgar allan poe, curse, vengeance, danger, obsession, supernatural, zombie, serial killer, brother brother relationship, monster, murderer, bare breasts ...
Time:
19th century, 1860s, year 1969, victorian era, year 1865
Place:
africa, london, england
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
An artist grows distant from his new wife as an irrational horror of premature burial consumes him.
Style:
gothic horror, psychological, bleak, gothic, slasher ...
Plot:
fear, edgar allan poe, obsession, tomb, eccentric family, haunted by the past, crumbling marriage, buried alive, wedding, mental illness, sleep disorder, monster ...
Time:
year 1962, 60s
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A young man caring for his terminally ill father gets pulled into a maelstrom of murder, madness and the macabre. Based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe.
Style:
tense, dark, gothic, psychological horror, disturbing ...
Plot:
macabre, murder, violence, insanity, basement, edgar allan poe, grief, madness, mental illness, psychopath, murderer, psycho killer ...
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Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In seventeenth century England Lord Whitman wages unending war on what he sees as the ever-present scourge of witchcraft, and many local villagers have suffered at his hands. But one victim uses her occult powers to curse his family, enlisting ...
Style:
grindhouse, classic horror, gothic, scary, serious ...
Plot:
witchcraft, folk horror, rape, witch, witch hunt, tudors, occult, curses spells and rituals, murder, edgar allan poe, stepmother, black magic ...
Time:
16th century, middle ages, medieval times, 17th century
Place:
england, europe
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