Dark place movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant dark place movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out scary, weird, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing and serious films and TV shows about / with dark place, suspense, murder, blood, death, supernatural, macabre, brutality, danger and violence plots mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres shot in USA, Canada, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as dark place: Shutter Island (2010), Orphan (2009), The Rite (2011), A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010), Paranormal Activity (2007), Pandorum (2009), The Skin I Live In (2011), The Fourth Kind (2009), Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010), The Woman in Black (2012).
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by his troubling visions and also by a mysterious doctor.
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, confusing, atmospheric ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
twists and turns, investigation, mental illness, insanity, suspense, plot twist, psychology, paranoia, psychiatrist, mental institution, memory, isolation ...
Time:
year 1954, 1940s, year 1945, 20th century, year 1952 ...
Place:
boston
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236K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Germany, France
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A married couple with a rocky past adopt 9-year old, Esther to fill the void created by a recently-stillborn baby. However, Esther is not quite who she seems.
Style:
psychological, scary, twist ending, suspenseful, surprise ending ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
orphan, suspense, adoption, killer child, murder, twists and turns, female psychopath, mysterious character, parents and children, fear, serial killer, family in danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, connecticut, estonia
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100K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Hungary, Italy
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Seminary student Michael Kovak (Colin O'Donoghue) reluctantly attends exorcism school at the Vatican. While he’s in Rome, Michael meets an unorthodox priest, Father Lucas (Anthony Hopkins), who introduces him to the darker side of his faith, ...
Style:
scary, disturbing, psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
supernatural, clergy, exorcism, church, curses spells and rituals, good versus evil, supernatural ability, teachers and students, supernatural horror, suspense, demonic possession, catholic ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
vatican, italy, latin america, europe, rome italy ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The film that brings back horror icon Freddy Krueger as a darker and more sinister character than ever before. While Freddy is on the prowl a group of teenagers being stalked soon learn they all have a common factor making them targets for this ...
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, surreal, intense ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
murder, death, nightmare, nightmare comes true, serial killer, monster, torture, dream, youth, serial murder, surrealism, brutality ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ohio, usa
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
After a young, middle class couple moves into a suburban 'starter' tract house, they become increasingly disturbed by a presence that may or may not be somehow demonic but is certainly most active in the middle of the night. Especially ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, disturbing, dark ...
Plot:
haunted house, ghost, fear, supernatural, paranormal activity, suspense, demon, videotaping, panic, found footage, monster, evil force ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
san diego california, los angeles, california, usa
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154K
Genre: Action, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Two crew members wake up on an abandoned spacecraft with no idea who they are, how long they've been asleep, or what their mission is. The two soon discover they're actually not alone – and the reality of their situation is more ...
Style:
futuristic, scary, atmospheric, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
space, survival, space travel, post apocalypse, isolation, suspense, memory loss, survival horror, spacecraft, mission, end of the world, monster ...
Time:
future
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, suspenseful, sexy, clever ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
kidnapping, obsession, twists and turns, rape, insanity, skin, revenge, sexual perversion, tragic love, isolation, gender bending, abuse ...
Time:
year 2006, year 2012, 21st century
Place:
spain, ancient greece, europe
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Bulgaria
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Since the 1960s, a disproportionate number of the population in and around Nome, Alaska, have gone missing. Despite FBI investigations, the disappearances remain a mystery. Dr. Abigail Tyler, a psychologist, may be on the verge of blowing the ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot:
ufo, alien abduction, hypnosis, found footage, alien encounter, space and aliens, alien, suspense, investigation, disappearance, supernatural, space ...
Time:
year 2000, 2000s, year 2002, 21st century
Place:
alaska, usa, california, antarctica
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Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In a world ravaged by a virus infection, turning its victims into the Undead, Alice continues on her journey to find survivors and lead them to safety. Her deadly battle with the Umbrella Corporation reaches new heights, but Alice gets some ...
Style:
exciting, stylized, splatter, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night, teens
Plot:
zombie, post apocalypse, monster, future dystopia, apocalypse, virus, survival, mutation, infected, zombie survival, female warrior, supernatural ...
Time:
future
Place:
los angeles, usa, tokyo, california, japan ...
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA, Sweden
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The story follows a young lawyer, Arthur Kipps, who is ordered to travel to a remote village and sort out a recently deceased client’s papers. As he works alone in the client’s isolated house, Kipps begins to uncover tragic secrets, his unease ...
Style:
gothic, gothic horror, atmospheric, scary, suspenseful ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
ghost, haunted house, suspense, estate, isolation, supernatural, afterlife, curses spells and rituals, vengeance, tragic event, loss of son, curse ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, edwardian era, 1910s, 20th century
Place:
england, london, europe
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
The action now takes place miles away from the original location and partly in broad daylight, giving the film an entirely fresh yet disturbing new reality. The infection has left the building. In a clever twist that draws together the plots of the ...
Style:
scary, intense, harsh, serious, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
wedding, virus, quarantine, infection, zombie, monster, found footage, supernatural, plague, suspense, religion and supernatural, survival ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, spain
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20K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Based on true events, 16 year-old Jamie falls in with his mother's new boyfriend and his crowd of self-appointed neighborhood watchmen, a relationship that leads to a spree of torture and murder.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, serious, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
serial killer, violence, psychopath, gang, gay rape, male rape victim, torture, suspicion, murder, manipulation, killer, mother's boyfriend ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1999, year 1998
Place:
australia, south australia, adelaide south australia, oceania
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
1921 England is overwhelmed by the loss and grief of World War I. Hoax exposer Florence Cathcart (Hall) visits a boarding school to explain sightings of a child ghost.
Style:
scary, gothic, suspenseful, twist ending, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, haunted house, fear, boarding school, afterlife, suspense, haunted by the past, supernatural horror, macabre, supernatural power, twists and turns ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, post world war one
Place:
england, europe, london, britain
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A crew from a paranormal reality television show lock themselves in a haunted psychiatric hospital. They search for evidence of paranormal activity as they shoot what ends up becoming their final episode.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, psychological, intense, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
found footage, ghost, haunted house, supernatural, paranormal, paranormal investigation, claustrophobia, mental institution, suspense, abandoned hospital, monster, maze ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
canada
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Newlywed Molly moves into her deceased father's house in the countryside, where painful memories soon begin to haunt her.
Style:
scary, serious, suspenseful, rough, satanic ...
Plot:
husband wife relationship, nude, haunted house, haunted by the past, drug addiction, losing-it hero, nobody believes, life is a bitch, woman in danger, newlyweds, isolation, addiction ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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28K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Two million fish washed ashore. One thousand blackbirds dropped from the sky. On July 4, 2009 a deadly menace swept through the quaint seaside town of Claridge, Maryland, but the harrowing story of what happened that Independence Day has never been ...
Style:
scary, disturbing, thought provoking, suspenseful, absurd ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
infection, parasite, found footage, monster, disaster, suspense, plague, virus, apocalypse, ecological disaster, infected, small town ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
maryland, california, usa
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The City of Salem, Massachusetts is visited by a coven of ancient witches.
Style:
scary, psychological, surreal, splatter, atmospheric ...
Plot:
witch, supernatural, occult, demon, insanity, cult, radio dj, burned alive, uncover truth, losing-it hero, religions or cults, curses spells and rituals ...
Time:
70s, 21st century
Place:
new england, massachusetts, usa, boston, new jersey
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In 2007, in the midst of the drought and water shortages, the NSW State government has unveiled plans to tap into and recycle millions of litres of water trapped in a network of abandoned train tunnels just beneath the heart of Sydney. However the ...
Style:
scary, dark, rough, suspenseful, splatter ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
found footage, monster, investigation, tunnel, underground, survival, uncover truth, missing person, journalism, hidden truth, urban legend, maze ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia, sydney australia
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Arkin escapes with his life from the vicious grips of "The Collector" during an entrapment party where he adds beautiful Elena to his "Collection." Instead of recovering from the trauma, Arkin is suddenly abducted from the ...
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, brutal, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, masked killer, kidnapping, trap, torture, sadistic horror, escape, monster, suspense, crazy, survival horror, psychopath ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A team of parapsychologists sets out to investigate a series of anomalous phenomena taking place in a newly occupied apartment. Telephone calls with no caller, mysterious shadows, extraordinary light emissions, flying objects, and exploding light ...
Style:
scary, serious, enigmatic, bleak, psychological ...
Plot:
ghost, haunted house, supernatural, family in danger, found footage, demonic possession, father daughter relationship, doctor, levitation, psychic, mental illness, apartment building ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
In 1988, evil begins to terrorize young sisters Katie and Kristi for the first time when an invisible entity resides in their home.
Style:
scary, tense, suspenseful, stylized, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, found footage, ghost, paranormal activity, macabre, suspense, haunted house, demon, child in peril, monster, terrorizing, evil force ...
Time:
80s, 2000s, year 1988, 21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles, california
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260K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Found footage helps a true-crime novelist realize how and why a family was murdered in his new home, though his discoveries put his entire family in the path of a supernatural entity.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, tense, disturbing, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, haunted house, suspense, fear, murder, supernatural horror, investigation, evil force, writer's life, paranormal activity, children ...
Time:
year 2012, year 2011, year 1966, year 1979, year 1998 ...
Place:
pennsylvania, usa, sacramento california, st. louis missouri
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143K
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A reimagining of the classic horror tale about Carrie White, a shy girl outcast by her peers and sheltered by her deeply religious mother, who unleashes telekinetic terror on her small town after being pushed too far at her senior prom.
Style:
suspenseful, rough, splatter, slasher, scary ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
bullying, high school, prom, suspense, telekinesis, social misfits, mother daughter relationship, humiliation, supernatural ability, teacher, supernatural, dead teenager ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Belgium, Denmark, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
When aspiring model Jesse moves to Los Angeles, her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty-obsessed women who will take any means necessary to get what she has.
Style:
art house, psychological, neo noir, disturbing, surreal ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
fashion, teenage girl, cannibalism, obsession, lesbian, murder, model, jealousy, beauty, 16 year old, rape, necrophilia ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
los angeles, california, pasadena california
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23K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Alienated teen Pauline struggles with the pressures of fitting into high school, pleasing her mother and a burning desire to lose her virginity. With a grotesque curiosity for the darker side of life, Pauline is considered a social outcast by ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, surreal, scary, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
social outcast, body horror, dysfunctional family, high school, sister sister relationship, surgical operation, surgeon, mentally unstable, teacher, erotic dream, mentally unstable protagonist, social relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
virginia, usa
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10K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A group of friends who venture into the remote Texas woods for a party weekend find themselves stalked by Bigfoot.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, tense, natural horror, scary ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
sasquatch, bigfoot, found footage, forest, creature, survival, suspense, cabin in the woods, monster, supernatural, legends and myths, isolation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, usa
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
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, splatter ...
Plot:
tourist, mutant, stranded, nuclear power plant, virus, suspense, abandoned building, radiation, brother brother relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, death, brutality ...
Place:
chernobyl, ukraine, kiev ukraine, london, rome italy ...
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Desperate to help her ailing brother, a young woman agrees to compete in a deadly game of "Would You Rather," hosted by a sadistic aristocrat.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, rough, psychological, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
survival, torture, game of death, group of strangers, game, psychopath, deathtrap, mind game, confinement indoors, plot twist, moral dilemma, death ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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105K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A group of college friends reunite for a trip to the forest, but encounter a menacing presence in the woods that's stalking them.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, scary, enigmatic, tense ...
Plot:
monster, forest, lost in the woods, cult, supernatural, creature, hiking, ritual, paganism, guilt, friends, creature feature ...
Place:
sweden, scandinavia, eastern europe
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Dr. Steven Murphy is a renowned cardiovascular surgeon who presides over a spotless household with his wife and two children. Lurking at the margins of his idyllic suburban existence is Martin, a fatherless teen who insinuates himself into the ...
Style:
psychological, tense, disturbing, art house, dark ...
Plot:
revenge, blackmail, psychopath, dysfunctional family, surgeon, obsession, mysterious stranger, father son relationship, recovering alcoholic, desperation, dead father, husband wife relationship ...
Place:
ancient greece, ireland
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