Shadow movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant shadow movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspense, suspenseful, scary, tense, disturbing and psychotronic films and TV shows about / with shadow, fear, supernatural, death, violence, ghost, mentor, adaptation, chase and dialogue plots mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres shot in USA, UK, Japan and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as shadow: Vanishing on 7th Street (2010), Shadow People (2013), Shutter (2008), Near Death Experience (2014), Shadows of the Dead (2016), The Shadow People (2017), Shadow (2018), Awaken the Shadowman (2017), Monochrome Factor (2008), Iravin Nizhal (2022).
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List of shadow movies
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A mysterious global blackout yields countless populations to simply vanish, leaving only their clothes and possessions behind. A small handful of survivors band together in a dimly-lit tavern on 7th Street, struggling to combat the apocalyptic ...
Style:
atmospheric, serious, suspense, harsh, intense ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
apocalypse, post apocalypse, disappearance, vestiges of humanity, group of strangers, supernatural, darkness, survival, hospital, danger, chaos, death ...
Time:
year 2000, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, detroit
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A radio talk show host unravels a conspiracy about encounters with mysterious beings known as The Shadow People and their role in the unexplained deaths of several hundred victims in the 1980s.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, serious, realistic, suspense ...
Plot:
supernatural, paranormal activity, uncover truth, life is a bitch, listener, radio dj, dishonesty, down on your luck, small town, sleep disorder, ghost, found footage ...
Time:
80s, year 1979, year 2008, 21st century
Place:
usa, kentucky, cambodia
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40K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Thailand, Japan, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A newly married couple discovers disturbing, ghostly images in photographs they develop after a tragic accident. Fearing the manifestations may be connected, they investigate and learn that some mysteries are better left unsolved.
Style:
psychological, sexy, intense, road movie, serious ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
spirit, ghost, rape and revenge, vigilante, photograph, supernatural, wedding, photographer, revenge, police investigation, photography, car accident ...
Time:
year 2008
Place:
japan, tokyo, new york, asia, mount fuji ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Follows a man wandering in the wilderness.
Style:
realistic, serious, stylized, atmospheric, offbeat
Plot:
death, monologue, cyclist, shadow, ruins, ant, dead animal, drawing, moon, swimming pool, cafe, suicide ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A group of teenagers try to escape a creature that lives among the shadows and is hunting them down one by one.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, scary, tense, psychotronic ...
Plot:
shadow, supernatural, party, characters killed one by one, creature, interracial friendship, loss of friend, hallucination, friend, survival, demonic possession, group of friends ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Newlyweds Megan and Andrew have just moved into their dream home with aspirations to start a family. But soon strange events start happening. Voices and shadowy figures haunt Megan, and even Andrew, starts questioning his own sanity as their ...
Style:
sexy, surprise ending, tense, scary, creepy ...
Plot:
shadow, haunting, priest, newlywed, a vision, ghost, dying, female protagonist, car accident, trap, haunted house, lawyer ...
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20K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, History, War
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
About a king who attempts to lead his displaced people out of exile, and those who play a role in his mysterious plans.
Style:
exciting, tense, captivating, costume drama, visually stunning ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
martial arts, medieval, training, king, violence, betrayal, death, friendship, asian, civil war, danger, murder ...
Time:
turn of the century, 2010s, year 2019
Place:
ancient china, china, greece, asia
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
After the mysterious disappearance of their mother, estranged brothers reunite and discover an unknown supernatural force.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, tense, captivating
Plot:
disappearance, small town, supernatural, family relations, disorder, society, obsession, child in peril, family drama, loss of child, child abduction, sacrifice ...
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Genre: Animation, Action, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
The story revolves around high school student Akira Nikaido, a typical slacker living a normal life. That is, until he meets the mysterious Shirogane, a man who suddenly appears and tells him that they have a destiny together. When Akira hears this, ...
Style:
anime, tense, yaoi, captivating, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
battles, shadow, supernatural, high school, warrior, fight, identity crisis, school, transformation, young adult, coming of age, urban ...
Place:
japan
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Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A man on the run looks back on his crime-filled life, the people who have shaped it up, his sins and his one last hope at redemption.
Style:
psychological, tense, suspenseful, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
shadow, rivals, guilty conscience, life is a bitch, battles, social problems, self discovery, fight, introspection, moral ambiguity, guilt, mature ...
Place:
india
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Eddie returns to his home town hoping to pick up the pieces of his broken life. There he meets Amy, a mysterious young woman with an undeniable allure. Eddie falls for her, but he doesn't know that Amy is a conduit - a channel for evil that she ...
Style:
bleak, scary, suspense
Plot:
drug addict, exorcism, missing girl, shadow, rape, ghost, supernatural, peril, curses spells and rituals, victim, characters in danger, deadly creature ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story:
A powerful mushi appears during an eclipse, drawing other mushi to form a huge shadow that blocks the sun over a small village. Looking for clues about the mushi, Ginko meets a child who is afflicted by a strange disease that manifests itself when ...
Style:
anime, philosophical, atmospheric, contemplative, adult animation ...
Plot:
supernatural, folklore, nature, village, shadow, macabre, symbolism, investigation, haunting, adaptation, isolation, ritual ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: China
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Near Qishan Mountain, there is a little town called Fu Feng, which is nicknamed the "City That Never Turns Dark". There, lies a legend of the "Lit Lamp Murderer". Wen Ning arrives at Fu Feng, and he realizes the abnormality of ...
Style:
exciting, contemplative, suspenseful, suspense, scary ...
Plot:
death, shadow, medieval, youth, who done it, testimony, rivalry, escapades, murder mystery, violence, revenge, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
china
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Genre: Animation
Country: UK
Duration: 41 min.
Story:
One of several collaborative dance films by the Brothers Quay & (dancer, choreographer) William Tuckett. Little enough info around on line, but there's briefly by way of Wikipedia entry. Adapted rather loosely from the works of the E.T.A. ...
Style:
tense, disturbing, psychological, captivating, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
ballet, stop motion, dance performance, child, creature, monster, dancing, fear, shadow, supernatural being, haunting, anxiety ...
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Genre: Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Berlin’s notorious Neukoelln district. The near future. A time in which the health system has collapsed. A man works in the shadows and without license as a doctor. He has no practice, no appointments system. He treats people in the courtyards and ...
Style:
neo noir, medical drama, independent film, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
outlaw, medical profession, social inequality, moral dilemma, urban, urban setting, social issues, medicine, city life, doctors and patients, physician, social problems ...
Time:
near future, future
Place:
berlin germany
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Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland, West Germany
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Beautiful, detached, laconic, consumptive Lily Brest is a streetwalker with few clients. She loves her idle boyfriend Raoul who gambles away what little she earns. The town's power broker, called the rich Jew, discovers she is a good listener, ...
Style:
melancholic, bleak, art house, ambiguous ending, poignant
Plot:
prostitution, corruption, female protagonist, alienation, existentialism, minimalism, moral ambiguity, character study, small town, shadow, urban, bittersweet ...
Time:
70s
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When Quasi defies the evil Frollo and ventures out to the Festival of Fools, the cruel crowd jeers him. Rescued by fellow outcast the gypsy Esmeralda, Quasi soon finds himself battling to save the people and the city he loves.
Style:
fairy tale, romantic, sentimental, colorful, retro ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, girls' night, family friendly, toddlers ...
Plot:
notre dame cathedral, medieval, profanity, unrequited love, gypsy, bell, church, prejudice, clergy, disability, villain, epic battle ...
Time:
15th century, 90s, year 1996, 18th century
Place:
paris france, france, europe, madagascar
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
A man dying of cancer installs a series of cameras in his home to try to capture a paranormal entity that has been causing issues in the home before he dies.
Style:
spooky, suspense, mockumentary
Plot:
found footage, swimming pool, ghost, mysterious noise, evil being, darkness, violence, evil force, brother brother relationship, fright, death, fear ...
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
When a young nun at a cloistered abbey in Romania takes her own life, a priest with a haunted past and a novitiate on the threshold of her final vows are sent by the Vatican to investigate. Together they uncover the order’s unholy secret. Risking ...
Style:
scary, demonic, religious horror, suspense, spooky ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
supernatural, exorcism, supernatural horror, ghost, nun, demon, paranormal, priest, evil nun, suicide, blood, demonic possession ...
Time:
year 1952, 2010s, 20th century, 1950s, 50s
Place:
romania, rome italy, xian
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their time with their friend Dill and spying on their reclusive and mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley. When Atticus, their widowed father and a respected ...
Style:
touching, thought provoking, gothic, compassionate, sentimental ...
Audience:
family outing, manly, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
lawyer, courtroom, courtroom drama, trial, racism, small town, legal, single father, coming of age, rape, justice, childhood ...
Time:
1930s, year 1932, 20th century, year 1962
Place:
alabama, usa, southern usa, america, africa ...
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Australia, USA, South Korea, Taiwan, UK, France, Canada, Thailand, Denmark
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
When a sprite named Crysta shrinks a human boy, Zak, down to her size, he vows to help the magical fairy folk stop a greedy logging company from destroying their home, the pristine rainforest known as FernGully. Zak and his new friends fight to ...
Style:
touching, fairy tale, feel good, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens, girls' night ...
Plot:
environment, fairy, good versus evil, magic, imaginary kingdom, environmental, toxic, young lovers, danger, deforestation, magical power, fish out of water ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
australia
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Denmark, France, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Set 15 years in the future in post-earthquake California, where San Diego and Los Angeles are merged into one city, two teenage brothers have half of a powerful ancient Chinese talisman. An evil gang leader named Bo Abobo has the other half, and ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, exciting, light hearted, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, boys' night, kids
Plot:
martial arts, heroic mission, gang, vigilante, chase, heroes, good versus evil, danger, superhuman powers, secret identity, rivalry, race against time ...
Time:
future, year 1994, year 2007, 2000s, 80s ...
Place:
los angeles, china, usa, california, egypt
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Lilli Palmer owns and runs a school for wayward girls in France. Her absolute discipline has fostered a social order among the girls with rampant sex, lesbianism and torture the norm. Palmer also has an adolescent son (Moulder Brown) she tries to ...
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, scary, serious, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
humiliation, danger, bullying, cruelty, desire, voyeurism, teenage girl, serial killer, missing person, boarding school, woman in danger, youth ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s
Place:
france, europe, south of france
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Serbia
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A group of six tourists looking to go off the beaten path, hire an 'extreme tour guide'. Ignoring warnings, he takes them into the city of Pripyat, the former home to the workers of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor, but a deserted town since ...
Style:
scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, surprise ending, creepy ...
Plot:
radiation, tourist, nuclear power plant, death, survival, abandoned building, stranded, brutality, nuclear radiation, group of friends, virus, mutant ...
Time:
year 2012
Place:
chernobyl, ukraine, kiev ukraine, london, rome italy ...
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84K
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK, Australia, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
In stifling Edwardian London, Wendy Darling mesmerizes her brothers every night with bedtime tales of swordplay, swashbuckling and the fearsome Captain Hook. But the children become the heroes of an even greater story, when Peter Pan flies into ...
Style:
fairy tale, feel good, captivating, sweet, teen ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot:
childhood, fantasy world, pirate, fairy, children, boy, pirate ship, magic, young heroes, imaginary kingdom, peter pan, youth ...
Time:
1900s, victorian era, year 2003, 19th century, 20th century
Place:
london, fictional island, europe, big ben london, england ...
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA, Ireland
Duration: 69 min.
Story:
An orphaned brontosaurus named Littlefoot sets off in search of the legendary Great Valley. A land of lush vegetation where the dinosaurs can thrive and live in peace. Along the way he meets four other young dinosaurs, each one a different species, ...
Style:
touching, feel good, sweet, colorful, emotional ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, family friendly, toddlers, preschool
Plot:
dinosaur, tyrannosaurus rex, friendship, earthquake, childhood, talking animal, natural disaster, babies and infants, wilderness, rescue, coming of age, land before time ...
Time:
prehistoric times, prehistory, 90s, 20th century, 80s
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31K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
After one of their friends commits suicide, strange things begin happening to a group of young Tokyo residents. One of them sees visions of his dead friend in the shadows on the wall, while another's computer keeps showing strange, ghostly ...
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, scary, dark, creepy ...
Audience:
date night, boys' night, teens
Plot:
internet, afterlife, supernatural, ghost, suicide, missing person, haunting, depression, college student, technology, lifestyle, confined ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
tokyo, asia, japan, latin america
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A newlywed photographer is stalked by a dark man in a brimmed hat who followers her from her nightmares. Sanity slipping, she meets a mysterious man claiming to know the shocking secrets of the Hat Man.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, bleak, disturbing, scary ...
Plot:
photographer, newlywed, nightmare, insanity, female protagonist, uncover truth, stalker, fear, supernatural horror, photograph, shadow, fish ...
Place:
canada
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia, UK, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A newly married detective and his pregnant wife move into their dream home unaware of its dark history. When his wife claims their baby is being tormented by a supernatural force and seeks the help of a renegade demonologist, he must investigate the ...
Style:
scary, disturbing, suspense, psychotronic, suspenseful
Plot:
ghost, demon, supernatural, paranormal, supernatural power, murder, peril, supernatural ability, vengeance, fear, loss, revenge ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia
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Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Based on True Events: Suffering from sleep paralysis, a medical student falls prey to a demonic force that wants to rip her apart from within. Torn between sanity and the unknown, she's left with no alternative but to contact a local priest for ...
Style:
suspense, psychotronic, psychological, scary, suspenseful
Plot:
student, female nudity, supernatural power, demon, creature, couples, paranormal, supernatural ability, exorcism, ghost, youth, rescue ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
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