| Wind River (2017) | 7.7 | |
| First Reformed (2017) | 7.1 | |
| Sundays and Cybele (1962) | 7.7 | |
| Cut Off (2018) | 6.5 | |
| Monster (2004) | 8.7 |
Finding a dead body movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant finding a dead body movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspenseful, suspense, crying, slasher, psychological and scary films and TV shows about / with discovering a dead body, murder, dead body, corpse, death, violence, blood, bare chested male, deadly and flashlight plots mostly in Horror, Thriller and Drama genres shot in USA, UK, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as finding a dead body: Cut Off (2018), Wind River (2017), Unsane (2018), All of Us Strangers (2023), Nero (1992), Storyteller (2014), The House (2016), Nobody Else But You (2011), The Frighteners (1996), Weekend at Bernie's (1989).
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Thriller set in the world of Forensic Pathology. Coroner Paul Herzfeld finds a capsule in the head of a heavily mutilated corpse, containing a phone number and single word: the name of his daughter.
Style:
sexy, suspenseful, suspense, perverse, bleak ...
Plot:
serial killer, coroner, island, abduction, death, blizzard, riddles and clues, rape, pathology, clue, murder, violence ...
Place:
germany, berlin germany
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Western
Country: UK, France, USA, Canada
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
An FBI agent teams with the town's veteran game tracker to investigate a murder that occurred on a Native American reservation.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, neo western, neo noir, surprise ending ...
Plot:
investigation, murder, snow, fbi, rape, native american reservation, murder investigation, winter, violence, fbi agent, forest, native american ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
wyoming, usa
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A woman is involuntarily committed to a mental institution amid uncertainty as to whether her greatest fear is real or delusional.
Style:
psychological, psychological thriller, suspense, medical horror, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
obsession, stalking, mental institution, maniac, psychiatric ward, mental patient, sexual assault, psychopath, stalker, murder, mental illness, mental disorder ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
portugal, pennsylvania, boston
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
One night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam has a chance encounter with a mysterious neighbor Harry, which punctures the rhythm of his everyday life. As a relationship develops between them, Adam is preoccupied with memories ...
Style:
crying, independent film, depressing, surprise ending, gay cinema ...
Plot:
gay club, gay romance, gay son, gay relationship, gay couple, homosexuality, gay interest, childhood home, death of mother, traumatized man, man dances with a man, childhood memory ...
Place:
london
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Right after she moves in with him, Frederico's new girlfriend Francesca sends him back to her former boyfriend's apartment to fetch her something she forgot - but he's surprised to find him lying there - dead. Assuming that Francesca ...
Style:
dark comedy, neo noir, surprise ending, detective, black comedy ...
Plot:
police, blood, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, murder, neighbor, dog, deception, lie, witness, flashback, male nudity, criminal ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Czech Republic
Story:
A loose adaption of Bára Nesvadbová's novel of the same name. A novel that lacks a dramatic line and concentrates on the flow of emotions and feelings of two injured and beloved women, two women that the aging lothario Mára came between. The ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, romantic, melancholic, captivating ...
Plot:
love triangle, pregnant woman, jealousy, false identity, boarding school, police detective, investigation, mistaken identity, ex husband ex wife relationship, female judge, teenager, selfish woman ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, central europe, czech republic
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Genre: Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Two German soldiers has taken a Norwegian soldier as prisoner, during one of the cold Scandianvian winter nights during WW2. They are thankful that they find a lonely house out in the wilderness, but the houses aren't that cozy after all.
Style:
dark, suspenseful, bleak, melancholic, period drama
Plot:
world war two, curse, haunted house, danger, struggle for survival, helplessness, german soldier, captive, hiding place, macabre, disorder, fear ...
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The ambiguous suicide of a local beauty, weathergirl, cheese model, and Marilyn Monroe look-a-like finds an eager sleuth in David Rousseau, best-selling crime novelist. When Rousseau visits a remote Alps village for the reading of his friend's ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, semi serious, melancholic, captivating ...
Plot:
mysterious death, investigation, small town, psychiatrist, misogyny, sex, model, voyeurism, public nudity, dead body, nudity, wife beater ...
Time:
year 2000, year 2005, year 2001, year 1999, year 1990 ...
Place:
france, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: New Zealand, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Once an architect, Frank Bannister now passes himself off as an exorcist of evil spirits. To bolster his facade, he claims his "special" gift is the result of a car accident that killed his wife. But what he does not count on is more ...
Style:
scary, black comedy, dark comedy, horror comedy, humorous ...
Audience:
date night, horror for children, adult
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, serial killer, haunted house, dark humor, funeral, psychic, supernatural ability, violence, architect, car accident, death of wife ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 1800s, 1950s, 70s
Place:
oklahoma city, oceania, usa, california
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Two friends are invited for a weekend to a luxury island with their boss. The boss gets shot and nobody seems to notice, except for the two friends. In order not to become suspects of murder they treat the body as a puppet and make people believe ...
Style:
funny, humorous, black comedy, hilarious, buddy comedy ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, kids
Plot:
dark humor, beach, murder, farce, insurance, comedy of errors, heat wave, vacation gone wrong, weekend getaway, businessman, summer job, organized crime ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, labor day
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, new jersey
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Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In 1830, the Karnstein heirs use the blood of an innocent to bring forth the evil that is the beautiful Mircalla - or as she was in 1710, Carmilla. The nearby Finishing School offers rich pickings not only in in the blood of nubile young ladies but ...
Style:
gothic horror, gothic, sexy, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot:
vampire, girls' school, female orgasm, village, lesbian vampire, family curse, lesbianism, virgin, sexual attraction, outdoor sex, missing girl, nobleman ...
Time:
15th century, 1830s, 19th century, year 1971, 20th century ...
Place:
austria, europe, england, central europe
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Tom Smothers stars as the brave mountie, who along with his trusty horse and bitter deputy Paul Reubens must track down a killer who is stalking coeds at a nearby cheerleader camp.
Style:
slasher, parody, scary, not serious, humorous ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
cheerleader, serial killer, murder, female protagonist, sexual attraction, friendship, partner, teenage life, teenager, gym, summer camp, doctor ...
Time:
80s, year 1982, 60s, year 1963
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Two garbage men find the body of a city councilman in a trash can on their route. With help from a supervisor, the duo must solve the case and find the man's killer while hiding the body from the cops.
Style:
funny, humorous, intense, exciting, semi serious ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
murder, justice, amateur detective, brothers, partner, disorder, buddies, goofy hero, dishonesty, cons and scams, workplace, buddy ...
Time:
80s, 90s
Place:
california, los angeles
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Catherine Clare reluctantly trades life in 1980s Manhattan for a remote home in the tiny hamlet of Chosen, New York, after her husband George lands a job teaching art history at a small Hudson Valley college. Even as she does her best to transform ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, sinister, gothic horror, captivating ...
Plot:
haunted house, husband murders wife, ghost, terror, supernatural, haunted, supernatural horror, nightmare, small town, doll, paranormal activity, dark secret ...
Time:
80s, 2020s, year 1980, year 1979, 20th century ...
Place:
manhattan new york city
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A group of unwitting teens are stranded near a strange wax museum and soon must fight to survive and keep from becoming the next exhibit.
Style:
slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, gothic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, girls' night, adult
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, group of friends, torture, murder, violence, small town, gory, brutality, ghost town, wax museum, masked man ...
Time:
year 2005, year 2000, 2000s, 50s, 20th century ...
Place:
usa, florida, louisiana, new york, paris france
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A troupe of struggling stage actors is rehearsing for a small-town production of a play. Everything seems to be as it should until one of the cast members turns up dead. In a panic, the others try to get out, only to find they are now locked in the ...
Style:
slasher, scary, bloody, suspenseful, grindhouse ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
murder, psychopath, gory, strangulation, theater, blood, woman in danger, death, macabre, serial killer, theatre group, owl ...
Time:
80s
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Sex-hungry teens are kidnapped by auto mechanics, who take them to a rural hospital run by aliens who need their blood as the key to their own longevity.
Style:
scary, rough, enigmatic, suspense, crying ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
kidnapping, masked man, hospital, horniness, lesbianism, missing person, youth, supernatural, danger, stalking, alien, nudity ...
Time:
80s
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Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Seven teens head up to a cabin on the lake for spring break. Mike has studied all horror films on video, and recognizes the signs of foreshadowing of doom. The others dismiss his concerns as the workings of a person that watches too many videos, but ...
Style:
independent film, slasher, scary, suspenseful, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
woods, monster attack, creature, sex scene, nudity, monster, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, basement, bare breasts, high school student, survival, spring break ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Australia
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A pastor of a small church in upstate New York starts to spiral out of control after a soul-shaking encounter with an unstable environmental activist and his pregnant wife.
Style:
suspense, tense, visually stunning, social, suspenseful ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
priest, church, religion, suicide, christianity, politics, depression, journal, reverend, minister, faith, environment ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, new york state
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, Austria, Netherlands, Malta
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Rike is forty, a successful doctor whose job demands everything of her. She intends to use her much-needed annual holiday to fulfill her long-cherished dream of sailing alone from Gibraltar to Ascension, a small tropical island in the middle of the ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, tense, disturbing, existential
Audience:
adult
Plot:
storm at sea, sailboat, sinking ship, rescue, yacht, car crash, dehydration, moral dilemma, female protagonist, map, danger, women ...
Place:
germany
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition into a mysterious zone where the laws of nature don't apply.
Style:
psychedelic, suspense, disturbing, mindfuck, medical horror ...
Audience:
family friendly, adult
Plot:
female protagonist, cosmic horror, dna, creature, mutation, scientist, scientific experiment, biologist, expedition, research, genetics, terror ...
Time:
2010s, future, 21st century
Place:
west virginia, arkansas, maine, england, louisiana ...
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
As a killer named Cinderhella stalks the student body at the high school in Grizzly Lake, a group of co-eds band together to survive while they're all serving detention.
Style:
slasher, horror comedy, spoof, semi serious, dark comedy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
high school, dark humor, time machine, time loop, youth, imaginary, social relations, survival, unrequited love, grizzly bear, american football, body swap ...
Time:
year 2011, year 1992, year 2003, year 2005, year 2008 ...
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The film centers on Darren Mullet, a bullied asthmatic, driven to suicide by his tormented life - ignored by his parents, ridiculed by his teachers and bullied at school. He returns from the dead to pay his teenage tormentors a final visit.
Style:
scary, slasher, semi serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
high school, bullying, revenge, ghost, dead teenager, bully, vengeance, serial killer, suicide, prank, school, supernatural ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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!
Style:
black comedy, parody, independent film, dark comedy, spoof ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
zombie, cemetery, nudity, cannibalism, punk, monster, female nudity, crematorium, undead, living dead, zombie apocalypse, paramedic ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1984
Place:
louisville kentucky, usa, san diego california, kentucky
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Former Hollywood star Reagan Pearce (Ryan Phillippe) is kidnapped by two men connected to his past while on location in Louisiana. When he wakes up bound and chained in a rundown shack, he soon discovers the real motives of his captors and finds ...
Style:
serious, psychological, tense, suspenseful, realistic
Plot:
kidnapping, actor, attempted rape, insomnia, homoeroticism, revenge, fight, jealousy, rescue, secretly observing, sexual attraction, alligator ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, louisiana
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Genre: Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A team consisting of a physicist, his wife, a young female psychic and the only survivor of the previous visit are sent to the notorious Hell House to prove/disprove survival after death. Previous visitors have either been killed or gone mad, and it ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, gothic, spooky, suspense ...
Plot:
haunted house, haunting, haunted, psychic, psychic power, isolation, occult, afterlife, macabre, ghost, danger, legends and myths ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 1920s, 1950s
Place:
england
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Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Five "city boys" travel to the country to relax by doing some hunting, drinking Bud, and generally having good time. However, the local inbred backwoods psychos turn the hunters to be the hunted, and they need all the ammo and wits they ...
Style:
slasher, independent film, exciting, scary, serious ...
Plot:
redneck, backwoods, deer, poacher, swamp, rape and revenge, nightmare, travel, exploitation, freak, hunting, psychopath ...
Time:
80s
Place:
arkansas
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
In the Iranian ghost-town Bad City, a place that reeks of death and loneliness, the townspeople are unaware they are being stalked by a lonesome vampire.
Style:
dark, surreal, creepy, biting, art house ...
Plot:
vampire, supernatural, cat, prostitute, loneliness, murder, father son relationship, drug addict, following someone, drug use, women, feminist ...
Time:
2010s, year 2016, year 2014
Place:
middle east, iran, persia, maghreb, california
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A group of high school friends discover that they are in the presence of a killer. One of them, Samson, has murdered his girlfriend Jamie. He brags to his friends about killing her, and when they discover he is telling the truth, their reactions ...
Style:
independent film, creepy, retro, cult classic, dark ...
Audience:
teens, kids, teen drama
Plot:
high school, coming of age, murder, strong sexual content, teenager, drug abuse, violence, death, marijuana, drug, serial killer, small town ...
Time:
80s, year 1986, 20th century
Place:
oregon, california, usa, portland oregon
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The clues to a young woman's death come together as the lives of seemingly unrelated people begin to intersect.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, bleak, depressing, atmospheric ...
Plot:
missing person, investigation, prostitute, murder, uncover truth, family relations, life is a bitch, outdoor sex, violence against women, dead body, promiscuous daughter, child abuse ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s
Place:
california, los angeles, usa, southern california
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