| Amadeus (1984) | 8.4 | |
| Dances with Wolves (1990) | 8.0 | |
| Casino Royale (2006) | 8.0 | |
| 21 Grams (2003) | 7.6 | |
| Black Swan (2010) | 8.0 |
Phantasmagoric movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant phantasmagoric movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out phantasmagoric, atmospheric, weird, serious, surreal and scary films and TV shows about / with blood, death, murder, macabre, supernatural, surrealism, storytelling, loneliness, cult and dream plots mostly in Drama, Horror and Thriller genres shot in USA, UK, Italy and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as phantasmagoric: Fight Club (1999), 21 Grams (2003), Black Swan (2010), The Book of Eli (2010), Possum (2018), Mandy (2018), Hagazussa (2017), Dark Cycle (2021), Deep Sea (2023), Somewhere in Palilula (2012).
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List of phantasmagoric movies
2.6M
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the ...
Style:
psychological, twist ending, surprise ending, cerebral, thought provoking ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot:
twists and turns, self destructing, psychology, split personality, plot twist, nihilism, insanity, obsession, dissociative identity disorder, insomnia, identity crisis, mental illness ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1999, year 2013
Place:
delaware, seattle, iran, america, los angeles ...
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253K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
This is the story of three gentle persons: Paul Rivers an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré, Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife, happily married and mother of two little girls, and Jack Jordan, an ...
Style:
mind bending, clever, gloomy, psychological, bleak ...
Plot:
guilt, tragedy, drug addiction, drug addict, life is a bitch, multiple storylines, grief, redemption, drug, loneliness, drug abuse, loss ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new mexico, persia
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882K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A ballet dancer wins the lead in "Swan Lake" and is perfect for the role of the delicate White Swan - Princess Odette - but slowly loses her mind as she becomes more and more like Odile, the Black Swan.
Style:
psychological, cerebral, atmospheric, suspense, twist ending ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
ballet, mental illness, obsession, psychology, character study, dancing, insanity, hallucination, mother daughter relationship, ballerina, surrealism, schizophrenia ...
Time:
year 2010, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
bolivia, usa, new york, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A post-apocalyptic tale, in which a lone man fights his way across America in order to protect a sacred book that holds the secrets to saving humankind.
Style:
futuristic, serious, apocalyptic, road movie, heroic ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, adult
Plot:
survival, apocalypse, post apocalypse, post apocalyptic, dystopian future, lone hero, religion, protector, end of the world, dystopia, dystopic future, chaos ...
Time:
future, year 2010, near future, distant future, 2040s ...
Place:
indiana, usa, san francisco
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12K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A disgraced children’s puppeteer returns to his childhood home and is forced to confront his wicked stepfather and the secrets that have tortured him his entire life.
Style:
suspense, psychological horror, phantasmagoric, psychological, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
surrealism, hallucination, puppet, supernatural, mental disorder, hardcore, madness, missing child, danger, evil, haunted house, curses spells and rituals ...
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98K
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK, Belgium, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Pacific Northwest. 1983 AD. Outsiders Red Miller and Mandy Bloom lead a loving and peaceful existence. When their pine-scented haven is savagely destroyed by a cult led by the sadistic Jeremiah Sand, Red is catapulted into a phantasmagoric journey ...
Style:
satanic, suspense, suspenseful, surreal, psychedelic ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
revenge, nightmare, surrealism, cult leader, biker gang, cosmic horror, drug trip, vengeance, lumberjack, rage, sadism, russian roulette ...
Time:
year 1983, 2010s, 80s, 20th century
Place:
xian, california, usa
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The dark legend of the young woman Albrun and her struggle to preserve her own sanity, and tries to explore the fine line between ancient magic, faith and madness at a time when pagan beliefs in witches and nature spirits spread fear and terror in ...
Style:
art house, demonic, gothic, phantasmagoric, suspenseful ...
Plot:
folk horror, witch, superstition, animal sex, renaissance, woods, mother daughter relationship, cabin in the woods, illness, mental illness, curse, society ...
Time:
middle ages, 15th century
Place:
europe, alps
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A beauty company run by Aliens abducts and harvest young women for life extension.
Style:
captivating, suspenseful, serious, phantasmagoric, exciting ...
Plot:
alien technology, abduction, corporate conspiracy, immortality, alien race, alien, alien creature, fantasy world, women, space and aliens, woman, female alien ...
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: China
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Shenxiu has felt a deep sadness since her mother left. A storm plunges her into a dreamlike world of swirling colour. Led by the Hyjinx, and joined by inventive underwater chef Nanhe, she embarks on a quest to find solace in the Eye of the Deep Sea.
Style:
3d animation, captivating, phantasmagoric, entertaining, exciting ...
Plot:
little girl, girl, dreaming, children, fantasizing, asian girl, fantasy world, childhood, sea, daydreamer, ocean, monster ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
The '60s, Romania. Serafim, a young doctor, is sent to the Hospital in Palilula, a small town lost somewhere on the country map, after the death of the previous pediatrician, Mr. Pantelică.
Style:
surreal, absurd, allegory, atmospheric, poetic ...
Plot:
magic realism, hospital, satire, small town, isolation, social commentary, quarantine, sanitarium, loneliness, macabre, remote village, bare chested male ...
Time:
60s
Place:
romania
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23K
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:
anthology, disturbing, suspense, scary, bleak ...
Plot:
samurai, ghost, supernatural, supernatural horror, marriage, folk horror, macabre, japanese mythology, naval battle, promise, visceral, snow ...
Time:
19th century, 17th century, 13th century, 11th century, 12th century ...
Place:
japan, asia, kyoto japan, tokyo
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
A bored, unhappy suburban housewife gets mixed up in witchcraft and murder.
Style:
slasher, psychotronic, cult classic, classic horror, phantasmagoric ...
Plot:
witch, curses spells and rituals, occult, witchcraft, housewife, suburban life, exploitation, pagan, magic, folk horror, witchery, girl power ...
Time:
70s
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
After Laura and John Baxter lose their only child in a horrible drowning, they are greeted by strange sightings of her throughout their everyday lives. When two old ladies approach them in Italy with news that their daughter may still be alive, it ...
Style:
sexy, twist ending, erotic, atmospheric, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
drowning, sex scene, blindness, serial killer, haunted by the past, hallucination, death of daughter, supernatural, psychic, grief, loss of child, marriage ...
Time:
70s, near future, 20th century, year 1973
Place:
italy, venice, europe
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A notorious bank robber kills his wife and flees the police, only to be captured by a mysterious group of figures in an abandoned town. His beautiful daughter, Lila Lee, receives a letter stating that her father is near death and that he needs to ...
Style:
suspenseful, scary, lovecraft, suspense, bleak ...
Plot:
supernatural, vampire, blonde, adultery, woman in danger, folk horror, rescue, femme fatale, female psychopath, father daughter reunion, strong female character, transformation ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 1930s, 1920s
Is relevant?
11K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Arizona ants mock the food chain on their way to a desert lab to get two scientists and a woman.
Style:
natural horror, apocalyptic, psychotronic, lovecraft, phantasmagoric ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
desert, ant, animal attack, monster, survival horror, apocalypse, dystopian future, killer animal, insect, cosmic horror, creature feature, arizona desert ...
Place:
arizona, north america
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Sylvia, an industrial scientist, is troubled by strange hallucinations related to the tragic suicide of her mother.
Style:
suspense, surreal, mind twisting, erotic, gothic ...
Plot:
hallucination, seance, murder, photograph, surrealism, female protagonist, paranoia, secret, flashback, guilt, conspiracy, fear ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
italy, europe, rome italy
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
An Italian nobleman seeks help after his paralyzed daughter becomes possessed by the spirit of a malevolent ancestress.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, serious, psychological, gothic horror ...
Plot:
supernatural, reincarnation, possession, faith, danger, paralysis, ghost, supernatural ability, disability, haunted by the past, clergy, curses spells and rituals ...
Time:
70s
Place:
italy
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young woman goes searching for her missing artist father. Her journey takes her to a strange Californian seaside town governed by a mysterious undead cult.
Style:
lovecraft, scary, creepy, atmospheric, classic horror ...
Plot:
zombie, curse, cannibalism, vampire, folk horror, unhappy ending, undead, supernatural, occult, supernatural horror, town, virus ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 19th century
Place:
los angeles, california
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A lesbian vampire couple haunt an abandoned castle and the English country side around it. They prey on passing motorists, whom they seduce, and murder.
Style:
sexy, suspenseful, rough, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot:
vampire, erotica, sexy female vampire, femme fatale, lesbian, lesbian vampire, murder, couples, female vampire, female nudity, sex, brutality ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
england, london
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
A man robs a bank to pay for his lover's operation; it turns into a hostage situation and a media circus.
Style:
cerebral, tense, dark comedy, suspenseful, clever ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
bank robbery, hostage, bank, heist, lgbtq, hostage situation, bank robber, character study, heat wave, fbi agent, true crime, gay ...
Time:
20th century, year 1975, year 1972, 70s
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, persia, usa, north america ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
In the early 1900s, Miranda attends a girls boarding school in Australia. One Valentine's Day, the school's typically strict headmistress treats the girls to a picnic field trip to an unusual but scenic volcanic formation called Hanging ...
Style:
meditative, scenic, breathtaking, gothic, surreal ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
missing person, valentine's day, girls' boarding school, coming of age, unsolved mystery, boarding school life, adolescence, sexuality, private school, folk horror, child, wilderness ...
Time:
1900s, year 1900, victorian era, year 1975, near future ...
Place:
australia, south australia, oceania, new zealand
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
A quiet and inconspicuous man (Trelkovsky) rents an apartment in France where the previous tenant committed suicide, and begins to suspect his landlord and neighbors are trying to subtly change him into the last tenant so that he too will kill ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, atmospheric, surreal, creepy ...
Plot:
surrealism, paranoia, nightmare, satire, suicide, conspiracy, obsession, apartment building, loner, dream, landlord tenant relationship, mental illness ...
Time:
year 1976, near future, 70s, 20th century
Place:
paris france, france, europe
Is relevant?
39K
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A girl invites her six friends to spend summer vacation with her at her aunt’s house in the countryside. However, the girls don’t know the aunt’s secret......
Style:
psychedelic, surreal, horror comedy, creepy, experimental ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
cat, surrealism, ghost, haunted house, evil wins, possession, skeleton, kung fu, white cat, coming of age, characters murdered one by one, piano ...
Time:
year 1977, 70s, 20th century, 1940s
Place:
japan, east asia, asia
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
White Australian lawyer David Burton agrees with reluctance to defend a group of aborigines charged with murdering one of their own. He suspects the victim was targeted for violating a tribal taboo, but the defendants deny any tribal association. ...
Style:
dark fantasy, surreal, philosophical, lovecraft, psychological ...
Plot:
nightmare, cosmic horror, lawyer, murder, water, folk horror, disaster, extreme weather, aborigine, shaman, surrealism, fantasy world ...
Time:
year 1977, 70s, 20th century, future
Place:
australia, oceania, sydney australia
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Visitors to a remote island discover that a reclusive Nazi commandant has been breeding a group of zombie soldiers.
Style:
scary, psychotronic, splatter, apocalyptic, creepy ...
Plot:
swastika, nazi, nazi zombie, ship, mad scientist, world war two, exploitation, military, infected, undead, water, mansion ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Michael is a young boy living in a typical 1950's suburbanite home... except for his bizarre and horrific nightmares, and continued unease around his parents. Young Michael begins to suspect his parents are cooking more than just hamburgers on ...
Style:
dark comedy, creepy, terrifying, slasher, black comedy ...
Plot:
cannibalism, coming of age, macabre, suburbs, dysfunctional family, eating human flesh, dark humor, youth, cannibal, body horror, blood, nightmare ...
Time:
year 1989, 50s, 20th century, 1950s, year 1954
Is relevant?
Genre: Biography, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
At Princeton University, John Nash struggles to make a worthwhile contribution to serve as his legacy to the world of mathematics. He finally makes a revolutionary breakthrough that will eventually earn him the Nobel Prize. After graduate school he ...
Style:
psychological, touching, cerebral, dramatic, intellectual ...
Audience:
teens, date night, chick flick, family friendly
Plot:
mathematics, mental illness, schizophrenia, genius, paranoia, insanity, imagination, scientist, prodigy, nobel prize, imaginary friend, mathematician ...
Time:
year 2001, 60s, 1940s, 20th century, 2000s ...
Place:
harvard university, boston, new jersey, detroit, persia ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Finding Neverland is an amusing drama about how the story of Peter Pan and Neverland came to be. During a writing slump play writer J.M. Barrie meets the widowed Sylvia and her three children who soon become an important part of Barrie’s life and ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, period piece, heartbreaking, sweet ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, date night ...
Plot:
single parent, writers, friendship, writer's life, parents and children, death, biopic, peter pan, stage play, country house, passion, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
edwardian era, 1900s, year 2004, turn of the century, future ...
Place:
london, england, britain, europe, canada
Is relevant?
141K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Italy, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A young American studying in Paris in 1968 strikes up a friendship with a French brother and sister. Set against the background of the '68 Paris student riots.
Style:
sexy, erotic, psychological, erotic drama, sexual ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
incest, sexuality, protest, sexual relations, sex, nudity, youth, couples, love triangle, brother sister relationship, brother sister incest, sex scene ...
Time:
60s, year 1968, year 2003, near future, 20th century
Place:
paris france, france, europe
Is relevant?
477K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Throughout his life Edward Bloom has always been a man of big appetites, enormous passions and tall tales. In his later years, he remains a huge mystery to his son, William. Now, to get to know the real man, Will begins piecing together a true ...
Style:
surreal, feel good, sentimental, touching, fairy tale ...
Audience:
date night, kids, chick flick, teens, girls' night ...
Plot:
surrealism, fish, journey, storytelling, fantasy world, father son relationship, childhood, mermaid, magic, loneliness, adventurer, free spirited ...
Time:
60s, 70s, 20th century, 1940s, year 2003 ...
Place:
texas, usa, alabama, southern usa, paris france ...
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