Skeleton movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant skeleton movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out psychotronic, weird, stylized, suspense, cult classic and scary films and TV shows about / with skeleton, supernatural, danger, dialogue, storytelling, monster, transformation, fantasy world, cult and violence plots mostly in Fantasy, Adventure and Horror genres shot in USA, UK, Japan and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as skeleton: Army of the Dead (2008), The Creeping Flesh (1973), The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), Der Todesking: The Death King (1990), The Hunt for the Hidden Relic (2002), A Minecraft Movie (2025), House (1977), Corpse Bride (2005), Snow White (2025), Gremlins (1984).
Best films
List of skeleton movies
Genre: Adventure, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
While doing undercover work in a mental hospital, Emanuelle discovers a girl who seems to have been raised by a tribe of amazonian cannibals. Intrigued, Emanuelle and friends travel deep into the Amazon jungle, where they find that the supposedly ...
Style:
sexy, grindhouse, disturbing, sexual, erotic ...
Plot:
exploitation, cannibalism, lesbian sex, sexploitation, jungle, erotica, voyeurism, lesbianism, sexual pleasure, tribe, outdoor sex, sadistic horror ...
Time:
70s
Place:
latin america, south america, new york, tanzania
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Genre: Action, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In 1590, Coronado dispatched a division of one thousand men to find El Dorado, the legendary city of gold. Those men were never seen again. While searching some Baja peninsula caves as part of an archeological expedition, a university professor and ...
Style:
bleak, suspense, psychotronic, independent film, tense ...
Plot:
skeleton, supernatural being, desert, supernatural, curse, undead, survival horror, el dorado, treasure hunt, lost city, exploration, isolation ...
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A scientist comes to believe that evil is a disease of the blood and that the flesh of a skeleton he has brought back from New Guinea contains it in a pure form. Convinced that his wife, a Folies Bergere dancer who went insane, manifested this evil ...
Style:
gothic, classic horror, gothic horror, cult classic, suspense ...
Plot:
skeleton, creature, mad scientist, reincarnation, murder, body horror, laboratory, corpse, scientist, supernatural power, macabre, expedition ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 19th century, 1800s
Place:
england, europe, east end london
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Tired of scaring humans every October 31 with the same old bag of tricks, Jack Skellington, the spindly king of Halloween Town, kidnaps Santa Claus and plans to deliver shrunken heads and other ghoulish gifts to children on Christmas morning. But as ...
Style:
gothic, dark fantasy, dark, atmospheric, cult classic ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, toddlers, family outing, horror for children ...
Plot:
holiday, christmas, halloween, stop motion, imaginary, music, goth, objects come to life, fantasy world, imaginary kingdom, love, loneliness ...
Time:
90s, year 1993, 20th century
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: West Germany
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Seven episodes, each taking place on a different day of the week, on the theme of suicide and violent death.
Style:
anthology, disturbing, splatter, crying, controversial ...
Plot:
sadism, suicide, cruelty, castration, skeleton, brutality, mutilation, nudity, dismemberment, skull, death, corpse ...
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Genre: Action, Thriller, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Fantasy
Country: Germany
Duration: 182 min.
Story:
STEFFEN VOGT, aged around 25, is helping out at a German archeological excavation in Israel when he finds a 2,000-year-old skeleton holding the instructions for a video camera dating from the year 2003. The bones also show traces of the present day. ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, atmospheric
Plot:
archaeologist, time travel, tomb, skeleton, excavation, chase, supernatural, danger, nobody believes, investigation, jesus christ, on the run ...
Place:
israel, holy land, middle east
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Sweden, New Zealand, Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The malevolent Ender Dragon sets out on a path of destruction, prompting a young girl and her group of unlikely adventurers to set out to save the Overworld.
Style:
epic fantasy, slapstick comedy, psychotronic, surprise ending, hilarious ...
Audience:
kids, preschool
Plot:
zombie, surrealism, fantasy world, portal, lava, skeleton, alternate world, animal, miner, survival, wolf, mine ...
Time:
year 1985, 2020s, 80s, year 1989
Place:
idaho, north america
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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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326K
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Set in a 19th-century european village, this stop-motion animation feature follows the story of Victor, a young man whisked away to the underworld and wed to a mysterious corpse bride, while his real bride Victoria waits bereft in the land of the ...
Style:
gothic, dark fantasy, romantic, melancholic, gothic horror ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, family outing, date night, horror for children ...
Plot:
stop motion, afterlife, corpse, goth, supernatural, wedding, marriage, love, death, disagreement, fear, loneliness ...
Time:
19th century, year 2005, 1800s, edwardian era, victorian era
Place:
europe, england
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394K
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A beautiful girl, Snow White, takes refuge in the forest in the house of seven dwarfs to hide from her stepmother, the wicked Queen. The Queen is jealous because she wants to be known as "the fairest in the land," and Snow White's ...
Style:
fairy tale, motion capture, surprise ending, psychological horror, psychotronic ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
poison, princess, evil queen, tyrant, female antagonist, love, narcissism, vanity, cruelty, witch, jealous woman, tyranny ...
Time:
medieval times, middle ages
Place:
germany
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272K
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
When Billy Peltzer is given a strange but adorable pet named Gizmo for Christmas, he inadvertently breaks the three important rules of caring for a Mogwai, and unleashes a horde of mischievous gremlins on a small town.
Style:
black comedy, frightening, funny, horror comedy, dark comedy ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family friendly, family outing, girls' night ...
Plot:
christmas, monster, small town, supernatural, transformation, creature, holiday, gremlin, father son relationship, winter, swimming pool, bank ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1984, 90s, future
Place:
usa
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324K
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A young teenager named Mikey Walsh finds an old treasure map in his father's attic. Hoping to save their homes from demolition, Mikey and his friends Data Wang, Chunk Cohen, and Mouth Devereaux run off on a big quest to find the secret stash of ...
Style:
feel good, funny, entertaining, intense, retro ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, girls' night, date night, pre-teens ...
Plot:
treasure hunt, childhood, treasure map, pirate, treasure, friendship, pirate ship, small town, children, teenage girl, mischievous children, child ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
oregon, astoria oregon, usa
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In the Australian outback a vicious wild boar kills and causes havoc to a small community.
Style:
anamorphic, independent film, grindhouse, cult horror, horror comedy ...
Plot:
animal attack, revenge, killer animal, creature feature, brother brother relationship, death of wife, nightmare, dog, slaughterhouse, hunter, death of child, american abroad ...
Time:
80s
Place:
australia, oceania, new york, new zealand
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story:
One day, a gamer played video games until he fell asleep...and when he woke up, he found himself in the game world—as a skeleton! Equipped with the powerful weapons and armor of his avatar but stuck with its frightening skeletal appearance, Arc ...
Style:
anime, entertaining, exciting, mecha, captivating ...
Plot:
isekai, video game, humanoid robot, battles, incest, computer game, game, female nudity, magic, nudity, skeleton, combat ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, France
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Nearly 10 years have passed since Sarah Connor was targeted for termination by a cyborg from the future. Now her son, John, the future leader of the resistance, is the target for a newer, more deadly terminator. Once again, the resistance has ...
Style:
exciting, apocalyptic, suspenseful, suspense, futuristic ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly, kids, adult
Plot:
artificial intelligence, terminator, time travel, robot, man versus machine, cyborgs, dystopia, apocalypse, androids and robots, cyberpunk, chase, time traveler ...
Time:
future, 20th century, 90s, near future, year 1997 ...
Place:
california, los angeles, persia, america, usa ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: United Arab Emirates, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds humankind divided into two warring races.
Style:
futuristic, atmospheric, serious, stylized, exciting ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
time travel, time machine, steampunk, dystopic future, apocalypse, escapades, changing the past or future, utopia, destiny, chase, time warp, post apocalypse ...
Time:
future, distant future, 2030s, victorian era, near future ...
Place:
usa, new york, egypt
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1.2M
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.
Style:
psychological, suspense, scary, disturbing, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
isolation, hotel, insanity, supernatural, psychopath, stephen king, ghost, snow, imaginary friend, danger, evil, haunting ...
Time:
20th century, year 1980, 80s, 1920s, 70s
Place:
colorado, denver colorado, persia, usa, miami ...
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
What can two little mice possibly do to save an orphan girl who's fallen into evil hands? With a little cooperation and faith in oneself, anything is possible! As members of the mouse-run International Rescue Aid Society, Bernard and Miss ...
Style:
light, touching, cute, crying, colorful ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, toddlers, preschool ...
Plot:
childhood, mouse, friendship, good versus evil, orphan, rescue, kidnapping, chase, little girl, anxiety, talking animal, treasure hunt ...
Time:
70s, 90s, 20th century
Place:
louisiana, madagascar, new york, usa, new orleans
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Spain
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:
anthology, scary, stylized, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
violence, found footage, supernatural, virus, parallel universe, monster, magician's assistant, photograph, brutality, gory, violent, murder ...
Time:
year 2013, 21st century
Place:
tijuana mexico, usa, los angeles, las vegas, spain ...
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15K
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia, Switzerland, UK, West Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A quiet young English girl named Alice finds herself in an alternate version of her own reality after chasing a white rabbit. She becomes surrounded by living inanimate objects and stuffed dead animals, and must find a way out of this nightmare- no ...
Style:
surreal, disturbing, art house, adult animation, atmospheric ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
surrealism, alice in wonderland, little girl, arthouse horror, absurdism, mushroom, stop motion, rabbit, female protagonist, child protagonist, anthropomorphic animal, skeleton ...
Time:
1800s, year 1988, 20th century, 80s, 19th century ...
Place:
czech republic, central europe, czechoslovakia, australia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Morgan, an aggressive and self-admitted dreamer, a fantasist who uses his flights of fancy as refuge from external reality, where his unconventional behavior lands him in a divorce from his wife, Leonie, trouble with the police and, ultimately, ...
Style:
independent film, cynical, biting, witty, dark comedy ...
Plot:
gorilla, divorce, political satire, skeleton, class differences, disguise, marxism, marriage, obsession, satire, swing, eccentricity ...
Time:
year 1966, 60s, 20th century
Place:
england, london, europe, wales, united kingdom
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153K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The life of a divorced television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.
Style:
romantic, intellectual, visually stunning, humorous, meditative ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
dating, couples, older man younger woman relationship, age difference, love and romance, teenage girl, dachshund, lolita, sarcasm, relationships, divorce, 17 year old ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1979
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa
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Genre: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A group of middle school friends go on the hunt for treasure after finding a skeleton in the woods.
Style:
exciting, entertaining, captivating, tense, funny
Plot:
time travel, skeleton, treasure map, treasure hunt, cave, friends, group of friends, treasure hunter, adventurer, hunting, friend, forest ...
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9K
Genre: Crime, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Over 20 years after his death by a gunshot, Jimmy Bones comes back as a ghost to wreak revenge on those who killed him and to clean up his neighborhood.
Style:
scary, bloody, stylized, hood, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
blaxploitation, revenge, dog, vengeance, gory, brutality, supernatural, incest, sexual assault, hip hop, ghost, haunted by the past ...
Time:
year 2001, 70s, 90s, 2000s
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Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A man is accidentally transported to 1300 A.D., where he must battle an army of the dead and retrieve the Necronomicon so he can return home.
Style:
cult classic, dark fantasy, horror comedy, spooky, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, date night, boys' night, adult
Plot:
zombie, time travel, evil dead, one man army, siege, possession, doppelganger, chainsaw, medieval, supernatural, sword and sorcery, sword fight ...
Time:
medieval times, 13th century, year 1992, middle ages, 20th century ...
Place:
england
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Princess Leia is captured and held hostage by the evil Imperial forces in their effort to take over the galactic Empire. Venturesome Luke Skywalker and dashing captain Han Solo team together with the loveable robot duo R2-D2 and C-3PO to rescue the ...
Style:
cerebral, epic, saga, entertaining, futuristic ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, date night, girls' night, chick flick ...
Plot:
space opera, star wars, outer space, robot, spaceship, rebellion, intergalactic, space station, space, wilhelm scream, space travel, space wars ...
Time:
future, 20th century, 90s, year 1977, year 2016 ...
Place:
space western
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: South Africa, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Seven years after the last attack by the "soulless ghosts" who haunted the human race twice before, the world is left void of all deadly electronics that almost destroyed it... or so we thought. Living a primitive existence on the ...
Style:
bleak, scary, serious, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
nightmare, afterlife, post apocalypse, ghost, supernatural, full moon, suicide, chaos, danger, skeleton, running for your life, dystopian future ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
houston texas
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Mathilde is nine years old. Her parents have separated. She lives with her mother, a fragile person who hovers at the edge of madness. It is a story of a unique love between a daughter and her mother.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, sincere
Plot:
owl, madness, little girl, train, mother daughter relationship, psychotic woman, skeleton, disturbed individual, family problems, teenager, teenage girl, mental illness ...
Place:
paris france
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Remember the good old days when anyone with a camera and a few thousand bucks could schlep up to Bronson canyon and quickly make a cheap sci-fi/horror B-movie? Well, they're back! The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra is an affectionate, meticulous ...
Style:
parody, humorous, stylized, talky, light ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
mad scientist, dystopic future, science, farce, space travel, heroic mission, save the world, benign alien, alien encounter, danger, heroes, goofy hero ...
Time:
50s, year 2001, 20th century, 1950s
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Houkago Midnighters is about a human anatomical model that comes to life at midnight in a school.
Style:
anime, computer animated, humorous, surreal, stylized ...
Plot:
children, school, imaginary, supernatural, on the run, motorcycle chase, skeleton, trippy, chases and races, group of children, trio, motorcycle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, asia
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