| Under the Skin (2013) | 6.3 | |
| Onibaba (1964) | 7.8 | |
| Raw (2016) | 6.9 | |
| Suspiria (2018) | 6.7 | |
| The Wicker Man (1973) | 7.5 |
Arthouse horror movies and TV shows – page 2
Best films
New films
| Mother of Flies (2025) | 5.5 | |
| The Lighthouse (2019) | 7.4 | |
| Us (2019) | 6.8 | |
| Titane (2021) | 6.4 | |
| The Lodge (2019) | 6.0 |
List of arthouse horror movies
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Austria
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
South African enfant terrible filmmaker and artiste-cineaste Manus Oosthuizen meets with Rotten Tomatoes-approved indie film critic Babette Cruickshank in an Echo Park sound studio. With key members of Manus's crew joining, they record an audio ...
Style:
meta, experimental, art house, atmospheric, surreal ...
Plot:
found footage, filmmaker, arthouse horror, artist, recording studio, critic, macabre, obsession, identity, slow burn, claustrophobia, guilt ...
Place:
south africa
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesic, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.
Style:
surreal, psychological, neo noir, art house, disturbing ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
surrealism, twists and turns, amnesia, lesbian, obsession, dream, alternate reality, parallel universe, hollywood, filmmaking, lesbian sex, nightmare ...
Time:
2000s, year 2001, 20th century, future, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, persia, usa, california, mulholland drive
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, Germany, Italy, Canada, Japan
Duration: 161 min.
Story:
This psychedelic tour of life after death is seen entirely from the point of view of Oscar (Nathaniel Brown), a young American drug dealer and addict living in Tokyo with his prostitute sister, Linda (Paz de la Huerta). When Oscar is killed by ...
Style:
psychedelic, art house, disturbing, atmospheric, philosophical ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
surrealism, stripper, afterlife, trippy, drug trip, lsd, sex scene, hallucination, life after death, incest, abortion, youth ...
Time:
year 2010, year 2009, 2000s, future, 21st century
Place:
tokyo, japan, asia
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266K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, twisted, mysterious, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
vandalism, symbolism, pregnant woman, surrealism, cannibalism, uninvited guest, nightmare, supernatural horror, death, riot, sex, pregnancy ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s
Place:
america
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In medieval times, on a remote plain, a widow and her mother-in-law kill wandering samurai, put their bodies in a hole in the ground and sell their armour and valuables, until the daughter-in-law falls in love with one of their intended victims.
Style:
black and white, scary, surreal, art house, creepy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
folk horror, samurai, swamp, murder, witch, sexuality, sex, medieval, survival, danger, vengeance, samurai sword ...
Time:
middle ages, medieval times, 14th century
Place:
japan, asia, east asia, tokyo
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Poland, USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
An actress's perception of reality becomes increasingly distorted as she finds herself falling for her co-star in a remake of an unfinished Polish production that was supposedly cursed.
Style:
surreal, psychological, avant garde, confusing, art house ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
surrealism, nightmare, macabre, curse, danger, couples, violence, alternate reality, abusive husband, insanity, doppelganger, mysticism ...
Time:
year 2006, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
poland, los angeles, europe, california, usa ...
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119K
Genre: Horror
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A young woman's quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tormented her as a child leads her and a friend, who is also a victim of child abuse, on a terrifying journey into a living hell of depravity.
Style:
disturbing, creepy, brutal, bloody, extreme horror ...
Plot:
torture, violence, revenge, child abuse, kidnapping, gory, brutality, death, abuse, torment, violent, hardcore ...
Time:
year 2008, year 2000, turn of the century, 2000s, year 1971 ...
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7K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Searing memories and carnal desires rule the mind of Ana, a young woman in thrall to her own fantasies whose visions and obsessions draw her toward deeper eroticism -- and deeper danger, in this modern take on a Giallo.
Style:
retro, surreal, sexy, slasher, psychological ...
Plot:
haunted house, danger, murder, haunted by the past, woman in danger, estate, arthouse horror, adolescent girl, erotica, perversion, desire, bitterness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, belgium
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Deep within the mysterious Arboria Institute, a disturbed and beautiful girl is held captive by a doctor in search of inner peace. Her mind controlled by a sinister technology. Silently, she waits for her next session with deranged therapist Dr. ...
Style:
surreal, stylized, retro, suspense, futuristic ...
Plot:
exploitation, cosmic horror, escape, behavior control, trippy, mad scientist, captivity, power relations, confined, hospital, maniac, surrealism ...
Time:
80s, 2010s, year 1966, 20th century, 60s ...
Place:
vancouver, seattle
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Denmark, USA, Belgium
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, sexy, disturbing, dark, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
fashion, teenage girl, cannibalism, model, beauty, lesbian, obsession, jealousy, murder, rivalry, fashion model, surrealism ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, pasadena california
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Genre: Drama, History, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
During the Civil War in 17th-Century England, a small group of deserters flee from a raging battle through an overgrown field. They are captured by an alchemist, who forces the group to aid him in his search to find a hidden treasure that he ...
Style:
surreal, stylized, tense, atmospheric, psychedelic ...
Audience:
date night, family friendly
Plot:
folk horror, psychedelia, wilderness, group of strangers, surrealism, hallucination, captivity, danger, chaos, trippy, on the run, poisoning ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s, 17th century
Place:
england
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A woman vanishes. Her husband inquires into the strange circumstances of her disappearance. Did she leave him? Is she dead? As he goes along searching, he plunges into a world of nightmare and violence...
Style:
surreal, experimental, serious, postmodern, realistic ...
Plot:
male nudity, disappearance, whodunit, violence, danger, uncover truth, obsession, spouse in danger, violent content, nudity, crazy love, arthouse horror ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brussels, belgium
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: France, Belgium, Spain
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
11-year-old Nicolas lives with his mother in a seaside housing estate. The only place that ever sees any activity is the hospital. It is there that all the boys from the village are forced to undergo strange medical trials that attempt to disrupt ...
Style:
psychological thriller, lovecraft, disturbing, realistic, suspense ...
Plot:
sea, arthouse horror, cosmic horror, hospital, beach, lost soul, scared, mermaid, minimalism, octopus, coming of age, children ...
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A torrid night of passion and terror awaits Phillip after a chance meeting with a beautiful stranger, whose shocking secret past threatens to destroy them both. Little does he know he will soon be drawn into a nightmare more terrifying than even he ...
Plot:
secret, fall in love, desire, woman, dark secret, murder, survival, love, wedding, husband wife relationship, blood, fear ...
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In a construction site under the full moon, construction workers dig too deep and inadvertently wake up Joe (Alex Lam), a vampire that has been lying underground for a century. Dazzled by the vibrancy of a modern city at night, Joe wanders around ...
Style:
not serious, witty, humorous, atmospheric, parody ...
Plot:
paranormal, werewolf, fear, supernatural, supernatural power, moving, found footage, past, vampire, creature, violence, undead ...
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A young orphan discovers her occult lineage and the curse she is destined to fulfill.
Style:
psychotronic, psychological, suspenseful, gothic, enigmatic ...
Plot:
witch, doppelganger, family secret, devil, occult, ghost, person thought dead is alive, aunt niece relationship, hell, witchcraft, a vision, coven ...
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Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 61 min.
Story:
Three best buds head to the lake for a weekend of fishing. Unfortunately they become the bait.
Style:
absurd, creepy, disturbing, suspense, exciting ...
Plot:
cannibal, cannibalism, life & death, arthouse horror, human weakness, friends, abduction, friendship, disaster, folk horror, survival, maniac ...
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A self-styled messiah initiates a teenage runaway into his cult of sister-wives. Her rebellious nature upends the community, triggering a bloody uprising against the patriarch.
Style:
art house, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
messiah, island, religious cult, runaway, cult leader, satanic cult, threat, problem, teenager, escape, isolation, violence ...
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Kopfrkingl enjoys his job at a crematorium in Czechoslovakia in the late 1930s. He likes reading the Tibetan book of the dead, and espouses the view that cremation relieves earthly suffering.
Style:
dark comedy, surreal, black comedy, psychedelic, gothic ...
Plot:
crematorium, world war two, insanity, murder, anti semitism, father murders son, surrealism, renaissance, death, mental disorder, arthouse horror, funeral ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 1969, year 1938, year 1939
Place:
czech republic, eastern europe, ussr, europe, prague ...
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Genre: Animation, Horror, Mystery
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Several scary black-and-white animated segments in different styles appeal to our fear(s) of the dark.
Style:
atmospheric, surreal, adult animation, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
ghost, monster, bestiality, nightmare, body horror, cowardice, danger, nightmare comes true, dangerous attraction, couples, fear, bullying ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, europe
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Horror
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Jan Balej's animated film Night In A City / Jedné Noci V Jednom Meste (2007) from the Czech Republic. Very little dialogue throughout, but instead a rich world of sounds and music which more than match the detailed animation and curious ...
Style:
adult animation, enigmatic, entertaining, captivating, satirical ...
Plot:
absurdism, surrealism, absurd humor, eccentricity, loneliness, loner, city life, satire, alone, stop motion, arthouse horror, mature ...
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11K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Musical, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Two mermaid sisters, who end up performing at a nightclub, face cruel and bloody choices when one of them falls in love with a beautiful young man.
Style:
fairy tale, psychotronic, horror musical, modern fairy tale, perverse ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
mermaid, dance club, female monster, body horror, teenage girl, sister sister relationship, dancing, musician, coming of age, breast feeding, monster, new job ...
Time:
80s
Place:
central europe, warsaw poland
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
A writer, possessed by a terrifying story hunts for its secret heart in a mysterious landscape. He journeys into unknown, dreamlike places, haunted by the infamous Hum emitted from a strange factory.
Style:
surreal, avant garde, experimental, art house, psychedelic ...
Plot:
folk horror, theater, hallucination, factory, macabre, unsettling, ritual, memory, obsession, occult, remote village, arthouse horror ...
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A pagan village, founded on the bones of both innocent and foul, is deeply rooted within the heart of an ancient Eden. When a balance of flesh and soil decays, the last surviving village elder battles madness and the macabre to save her people from ...
Style:
bleak, atmospheric, psychological horror, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot:
forest, pagan cult, paganism, supernatural, folk horror, survival, nightmare, monster, folklore, madness, pagan, fear ...
Place:
canada, vancouver
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Genre: Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A broken family,a forbidden ritual,and a girl caught between the real and the unreal.Honey is a haunting tale of systemic abuse,spiritual delusion,and the invisible horrors inflicted on children,where the darkest monsters aren't imaginary.
Style:
psychological horror, intense, tense, atmospheric, surreal
Plot:
domestic abuse, religious fanaticism, trauma, father daughter conflict, possession, supernatural, paranoia, cult leader, occult, animal sacrifice, abuse of power, moral ambiguity ...
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3K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
When a mysterious entity manifests itself, a family finds themselves on a scary and dark journey into their own self-created madness.
Style:
tense, psychological horror, captivating, disturbing, gothic horror ...
Plot:
supernatural horror, madness, craziness, family in danger, trapped, crazy, life is a bitch, threat, trap, family tragedy, guilt, grief ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Valerie, a Czechoslovakian teenager living with her grandmother, is blossoming into womanhood, but that transformation proves secondary to the effects she experiences when she puts on a pair of magic earrings. Now seeing the world around her in a ...
Style:
fairy tale, allegory, surreal, sexual, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
innocence, teenage girl, folk horror, wedding night, surrealism, menstruation, folklore, magic realism, older man younger woman relationship, supernatural, female protagonist, vampire ...
Time:
19th century, year 1970, near future
Place:
central europe, eastern europe, europe, czech republic
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16K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A woman wakes up on a distant planet and finds the crew of her space station viciously killed. Her investigation into what happened sets in motion a terrifying chain of events.
Style:
absurd, cynical, art house, psychological horror, crying ...
Plot:
cosmic horror, trapped in space, female protagonist, arthouse horror, memory loss, alien possession, space station, spaceship, body horror, violent death, alien parasite, infected ...
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
15-year-old Mia faces an overwhelming transformation which puts her entire existence into question. Her body is changing radically, and despite desperate attempts to halt the process, Mia is soon forced to accept that nature is far more powerful ...
Style:
captivating, suspenseful, suspense, touching, erotic ...
Plot:
mermaid, teenager, coming of age, puberty, transformation, parent child relationship, body horror, group sex, life is a bitch, underage sex, drunken girl, depression ...
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2K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A couple trying to save their marriage during a zombie apocalypse.
Style:
suspense, captivating, enigmatic, horror comedy, tragic ending ...
Plot:
zombie, zombie apocalypse, dying repeatedly, sensuality, survival, home invasion, childlessness, love, danger, epidemic, apocalypse, virus ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
copenhagen, europe, london
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