| Repulsion (1965) | 7.5 | |
| Kwaidan (1964) | 7.9 | |
| The Lighthouse (2019) | 7.4 | |
| Antichrist (2009) | 6.5 | |
| Mary and Max (2009) | 8.1 |
Arthouse horror movies and TV shows – page 4
Best films
New films
| Lux Æterna (2019) | 6.2 | |
| Friend of the World (2020) | 4.6 | |
| Horse Girl (2020) | 6.0 | |
| Doctor Sleep (2019) | 7.3 | |
| Wounds (2019) | 4.1 |
List of arthouse horror movies
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: West Germany, Spain
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
An erotic horror tale about a vixen vampiress seducing and killing women to appease her insatiable thirst for female blood.
Style:
erotic, sexy, grindhouse, surreal, atmospheric ...
Plot:
lesbian vampire, vampire, lesbian, sexploitation, lesbian sex, female protagonist, supernatural, female nudity, skinny dipping, obsession, erotica, voyeurism ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
spain, istanbul turkey, turkey, constantinople
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Genre: Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Demonic gang-leader Alex goes on the spree of rape, mugging and murder with his pack of "droogs". But he's a boy who also likes Beethoven's Ninth and a bit of "the old in-out, in-out". He later finds himself at the ...
Style:
disturbing, controversial, psychedelic, philosophical, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
psychology, insanity, dystopia, surrealism, gang, rape, violent, controversy, violence, psychopath, sociopath, murder ...
Time:
future, 20th century, 90s, 70s, 80s ...
Place:
britain, london, england, united kingdom, europe
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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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47K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
A musician witnesses the murder of a famous psychic, and then teams up with a fiesty reporter to find the killer while evading attempts on their lives by the unseen killer bent on keeping a dark secret buried.
Style:
suspense, gothic, psychological, scary, disturbing ...
Plot:
serial killer, gory, murder, psychopath, manic, intrigue, murder mystery, female serial killer, danger, haunted by the past, amateur detective, darkness ...
Time:
70s, year 1975, 20th century
Place:
italy, rome italy, europe, canary islands, lebanon ...
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Stefano, a young restorer is commissioned to save a fresco representing the suffering of St. Sebastiano. The fresco painter was Legnani, and the fresco is his last work. Legnani apparently was mentally disturbed. He was used to paint people close to ...
Style:
surreal, scary, creepy, serious, tense ...
Plot:
female nudity, attempted rape, transvestism, amateur detective, person on fire, obsession, murder, supernatural horror, unlikely criminals, mentally unstable, obsessive quest, twists and turns ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
italy, europe
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A couple of English tourists arrive on an island where all the children have gone crazy and are murdering the adults.
Style:
disturbing, scary, suspenseful, slasher, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
evil child, killer child, island, children, pregnancy, isolation, manhunt, creepy kid, terror, murder, tourism, teenager ...
Time:
year 1976, 20th century, 70s
Place:
iberian peninsula, mediterranean sea, spain, angola, fictional island
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Ghoulish Count Dracula lures a naive estate agent, Jonathan Harker, to his decaying Transylvanian castle with the promise of easy money. But when he spies a portrait of the man's beautiful young wife Lucy, the vampire becomes obsessed and sets ...
Style:
gothic, gothic horror, dark, bleak, creepy ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
vampire, blood, castle, melancholy, plague, nosferatu, death, rat, medieval, loneliness, insanity, solitude ...
Time:
19th century, year 1979, 1850s, 1800s, 20th century ...
Place:
romania, transylvania, europe, germany, black sea ...
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44K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A young boy and his friends face off against a mysterious grave robber known only as the Tall Man, who keeps a mysterious arsenal of terrible weapons with him.
Style:
scary, cult classic, disturbing, harsh, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
gory, tall man, twists and turns, cemetery, funeral, small town, supernatural, mausoleum, hearse, murder, adaptation, family relations ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1978, 80s
Place:
usa, southern california, california, oregon
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of great intelligence and sensitivity. Based on the true story of Joseph ...
Style:
emotional, touching, psychological, sad, poignant ...
Audience:
family outing, teens
Plot:
disability, hospital, dignity, freak, melancholy, disfigurement, social misfits, cruelty, isolation, hopes, biopic, humanism ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, ancient times, 20th century, turn of the century ...
Place:
england, london, britain, europe
Is relevant?
26K
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A young man returns from Rome to his sister's satanic New York apartment house.
Style:
dark, slasher, atmospheric, cult classic, scary ...
Plot:
death, amateur detective, witch, haunted house, gory, supernatural, violent, murder, serial killer, eclipse, danger, riddles and clues ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 80s
Place:
italy, rome italy, new york
Is relevant?
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: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A young woman inherits an old hotel in Louisiana where after a series of supernatural 'accidents', she learns that the building was built over one of the entrances to Hell.
Style:
slasher, grindhouse, gothic, surreal, atmospheric ...
Plot:
violent, supernatural horror, blindness, gory, darkness, ghost, afterlife, hell, zombie attack, murder, haunted house, surrealism ...
Time:
80s, 1920s, 20th century, year 1981
Place:
louisiana, italy, usa, new orleans
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112K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A sleazy cable-TV programmer begins to see his life and the future of media spin out of control in a very unusual fashion when he acquires a new kind of programming for his station.
Style:
surreal, disturbing, psychedelic, cult classic, sexy ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
body horror, surrealism, cyberpunk, television, virtual reality, mind control, hallucination, insanity, dystopia, satire, mind game, brainwashing ...
Time:
80s, year 1983, 20th century
Place:
pittsburgh, malaysia, toronto ontario canada, usa, canada ...
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48K
Genre: Horror
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Four months after the death of her husband, a woman on the brink of motherhood is tormented in her home by a strange woman who wants her unborn baby.
Style:
disturbing, slasher, dark, brutal, christmas horror ...
Plot:
home invasion, female killer, female psychopath, blood, gory, pregnancy, serial killer, violent, sadism, danger, insanity, extreme ...
Time:
year 2007, year 2000, turn of the century
Place:
france
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201K
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York. In the mid-1970's, a homely, friendless ...
Style:
depressing, touching, emotional, sad, adult animation ...
Audience:
kids, teens, adult
Plot:
loneliness, stop motion, friendship, social misfits, letter, depression, melancholy, asperger's syndrome, young woman, relationships, solitude, mental illness ...
Time:
20th century, year 2009, 2000s, year 1976, 70s
Place:
australia, oceania, persia, usa, new york ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Finland, Czech Republic
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
It is 1595. Brutal wars have just ended in an uneasy peace between Protestant Sweden and Orthodox Russia. We focus on the spiritual defeats of two conquered Finnish brothers, one a hardened near-psychopathic war hero, the other a gentle scientist in ...
Style:
atmospheric, scary, disturbing, intense, harsh ...
Plot:
redemption, medieval, ghost, supernatural, brother brother relationship, gay, guilt, folk horror, haunted by the past, rural setting, swamp, remorse ...
Time:
16th century, middle ages, year 2008
Place:
finland, europe, russia
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A nasty virus has spread throughout the human race turning the population into something ...else. After a brief setup (and a messy hit and run) we’re introduced to an ambulance and its four occupants. Sonia (Helene de Fougerolles) and Marco ...
Style:
scary, bleak, tense, atmospheric, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mutation, mutant, infection, survival, deadly virus, supernatural, danger, love and romance, life is a bitch, isolation, lovers on the run, escapades ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Is relevant?
17K
Genre: Action, Horror
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A posse of crooked cops, malevolent gangsters and a horde of walking dead are the centre point of this gruesome, tight, action packed, claustrophobic tale of retribution and escape. Penned like animals, on the top floor of a deserted high-rise ...
Style:
exciting, scary, suspenseful, bleak, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
zombie, zombie apocalypse, female warrior, infected, infection, police brutality, murder, violence spree, gang, danger, wrong place wrong time, gory ...
Time:
turn of the century, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france, europe
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Bulgaria, USA
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, atmospheric, suspenseful, disturbing, spooky ...
Plot:
ufo, alien abduction, hypnosis, alien encounter, disappearance, found footage, space and aliens, extraterrestrial, alien, paranormal activity, alien invasion, space ...
Time:
2000s, year 2000, year 2002, 21st century
Place:
alaska, usa, california, antarctica
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Sarah's life is in pieces after the brutal death of her 18 year-old son. One night, her car accidentally hits Arthur, a young man the same age as her boy who is running from a burglar. Sarah sympathizes with him and takes him in, only to be ...
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, serious, scary, rough ...
Plot:
home invasion, psychopath, danger, haunted by the past, chases and races, woman in danger, chase, twists and turns, death of son, murder, grief, dream ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, france
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
In the middle of a snowy no man's land, Charlotte picks up Max, a hitchhiker; they stop in a truck-stop restaurant, and when Max doesn't come back from the bathroom, Charlotte starts looking for him in vain. She decides to return during ...
Style:
suspense, underground horror, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
backwoods, diner, danger, deadly creature, hitchhiker, twists and turns, confined, supernatural, underground, monster, murder, violence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A woman attracts the attention of a psychotic former Army interrogator and an emotionally fragile young man caring for his ailing mother.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, serious, suspenseful, controversial ...
Plot:
obsession, violence, erotic scene, taboo, cruelty, revenge, sexually transmitted disease, sex talk, home invasion, mental illness, mental disorder, couples ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
texas, usa, austin texas
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Canada, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Survivors of a nuclear attack are grouped together for days in the basement of their apartment building, where fear and dwindling supplies wear away at their dynamic.
Style:
suspense, satanic, tense, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot:
isolation, group of strangers, nuclear holocaust, torment, losing-it hero, survival, survival horror, social decay, violence, confined, apocalypse, nuclear explosion ...
Time:
2010s, future, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york, north korea
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror, War
Country: Spain, France, Italy, Belgium
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The journey of Javier, the obese Sad Clown, starts during his childhood in the midst of the Spanish civil war in 1937. His father, one of Spain’s most prominent jesters, is detained and tortured by the fascist regime.
Style:
disturbing, dark comedy, sexy, rough, psychological ...
Plot:
clown, circus, dark humor, sadism, killer clown, rivalry, uninhibited rivalry, performer's life, life is a bitch, evil clown, revenge, graphic violence ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 70s, 20th century, year 1937 ...
Place:
europe, spain, madrid
Is relevant?
13K
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A writer with a declining career arrives in a small town as part of his book tour and gets caught up in a murder mystery involving a young girl. That night in a dream, he is approached by a mysterious young ghost named V. He's unsure of her ...
Style:
suspenseful, scary, psychological, captivating, dark ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
ghost, murder, small town, supernatural, vampire, small town sheriff, writing a novel, sheriff, writer's life, lifestyle, writers, murder mystery ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, year 1955
Place:
usa, california
Is relevant?
236K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, Spain, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A mild-mannered college professor discovers a look-alike actor and delves into the other man's private affairs.
Style:
surreal, psychological, twist ending, mind bending, clever ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
doppelganger, obsession, mental illness, symbolism, paranoia, nightmare, lookalikes, infidelity, disturbed individual, spider, surrealism, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
year 2013, year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
toronto ontario canada, canada
Is relevant?
268K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Australia, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A single mother, plagued by the violent death of her husband, battles with her son's fear of a monster lurking in the house, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her.
Style:
psychological, scary, tense, spooky, dark ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
supernatural, macabre, ghost, nightmare, monster, fear, danger, trauma, book, single mother, nightmare comes true, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
australia, adelaide south australia, oceania, new zealand
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Sweden
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
An artist in crisis is haunted by nightmares from the past in Ingmar Bergman's only horror film, which takes place on a windy island. During "the hour of the wolf" - between midnight and dawn - he tells his wife about his most painful ...
Style:
gothic, creepy, atmospheric, surreal, black and white ...
Plot:
surrealism, macabre, insanity, nightmare, artist, island, isolation, insomnia, existentialism, obsession, mental illness, homosexual subtext ...
Time:
year 1968, 60s, 20th century
Place:
scandinavia, eastern europe, europe, germany
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Four corrupted fascist libertines round up 9 teenage boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of sadistic physical, mental and sexual torture.
Style:
controversial, disgusting, erotic, extreme horror, psychological ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult, teen drama
Plot:
torture, atrocity, sexual perversion, sex, fascism, sexual abuse, sexual torture, sadism, brutality, rape, libertine, captivity ...
Time:
1940s, year 1975, 20th century, year 1943, year 1944 ...
Place:
italy, europe, latin america
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan, France
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Based on a true story set in pre-war Japan, a man and one of his servants begin a torrid affair. Their desire becomes a sexual obsession so strong that to intensify their ardor, they forsake all, even life itself.
Style:
sexy, controversial, erotic, sexual, sensual ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
obsession, sex scene, passion, jealousy, sex, lust, bdsm, sexual relations, sexual perversion, sensuality, sexuality, asian sex ...
Time:
1930s, pre world war two, year 1976, 20th century, year 1936
Place:
japan, asia, east asia, tokyo, paris france ...
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