Haunted by the past movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant haunted by the past movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, psychological, suspenseful, suspense, psychological thriller and tense films and TV shows about / with haunted by the past, death, danger, blood, murder, supernatural, serial killer, flashback, twists and turns and deadly plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Mystery genres shot in USA, UK, Spain and other countries.
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haunted by the past movies
TOP 10 movies tagged as haunted by the past: Sleeping with the Enemy (1991), Prodigal Son (2019), The House at the End of Time (2013), Stolen (2009), The Place Beyond the Pines (2012), Boy A (2007), Forgotten (2012), Sleepers (1996), What Lies Beneath (2000), The Orphanage (2007).

List of haunted by the past movies

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Sleeping with the Enemy (1991)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A young woman fakes her own death in an attempt to escape her nightmarish marriage, but discovers it is impossible to elude her controlling husband.
Style: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, tense, neo noir ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: obsession, domestic violence, stalking, violent husband, woman in danger, starting over, psychopath, dangerous attraction, haunted by the past, revenge, abusive relationship, obsessive love ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1990
Place: africa, iowa, usa
Is relevant ?
 7.7
 23K
Prodigal Son (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: The son of a notorious serial killer becomes an acclaimed criminal psychologist who uses his unique insight into how killers think to help the NYPD.
Style: psychological, psychological thriller, suspense, disturbing, detective ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: serial killer, haunted by the past, psychological trauma, expert, murder investigation, maniac, police, criminal psychologist, repressed memory, profiler, childhood trauma, homicidal maniac ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york
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The House at the End of Time (2013)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Venezuela
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The story of Dulce, a mother who has encounters with apparitions inside her old house. She must decipher a mystery that could trigger a prophecy: the death of her family.
Style: scary, suspense, suspenseful, mind bending, mystic ...
Plot: supernatural, haunted by the past, time travel, twists and turns, haunted house, ghost, murder, danger, family in danger, life is a bitch, elderly, missing child ...
Time: 21st century
Place: venezuela
Is relevant ?
 6.1
 6K
Stolen (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A detective becomes obsessed with solving a child's 50-year-old murder, uncovering striking similarities between the case and his son's disappearance.
Style: suspenseful, psychological, serious, tense, realistic ...
Plot: loss of child, life is a bitch, dead child, missing child, haunted by the past, police detective, dealing with death, police investigation, interrogation, loss of son, uncover truth, children ...
Time: year 2009, 1950s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa
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The Place Beyond the Pines (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story: A motorcycle stunt rider considers committing a crime in order to provide for his wife and child, an act that puts him on a collision course with a cop-turned-politician.
Style: harsh, captivating, psychological, stylized, neo noir ...
Audience: date night, family friendly
Plot: motorcycle, haunted by the past, bank robbery, corruption, family relations, money problems, robbery, loner, father son relationship, bank robber, parenthood, police ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, y2k, future, 21st century
Place: usa
Is relevant ?
 7.6
 39K
Boy A (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The story of a young ex-con Jack, newly released from serving a prison sentence for a murder he committed as a child.
Style: heartbreaking, psychological, disturbing, emotional, touching ...
Audience: teens
Plot: juvenile delinquency, childhood, redemption, going straight, haunted by the past, released from prison, rehabilitation, starting over, dysfunctional family, child abuse, murder, criminal ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: britain, united kingdom, nebraska, england, europe ...
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 5.8
 730
Forgotten (2012)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: During their childhood, Hanna and Clarissa were best friends. They spent every vacation together in an old summer house on a small island. Shortly after Hanna’s 9th birthday, they suddenly lost touch and only meet again unexpectedly 25 years ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric, serious, tense ...
Plot: haunted by the past, ghost, friendship, supernatural, uncover truth, little girl, island, promise, danger, life is a bitch, friends, impostor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
Is relevant ?
 7.5
 237K
Sleepers (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 147 min.
Story: Two gangsters seek revenge on the state jail worker who during their stay at a youth prison sexually abused them. A sensational court hearing takes place to charge him for the crimes.
Style: disturbing, sadistic, harsh, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: family friendly, teens, teen drama
Plot: lawyer, courtroom drama, child abuse, vengeance, friendship, childhood, rape, sexual abuse, haunted by the past, pedophilia, pedophile, murder trial ...
Time: 90s, 60s, 20th century, 80s
Place: new york, usa, madison square garden manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city
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What Lies Beneath (2000)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: When Claire Spencer starts hearing ghostly voices and seeing spooky images, she wonders if an otherworldly spirit is trying to contact her. All the while, her husband tries to reassure her by telling her it's all in her head. But as Claire ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, surprise ending, psychological thriller, psychological ...
Plot: ghost, haunted house, couple relations, adultery, supernatural horror, haunted by the past, losing-it hero, infidelity, supernatural, woman in danger, danger, spiritualism ...
Time: year 2000, 90s, 20th century, 2000s
Place: vermont, persia, usa, boston
Is relevant ?
 7.4
 163K
The Orphanage (2007)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Mexico, France, Belgium
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, which used to be an orphanage, intent on reopening it. Before long, her son starts to communicate with a new invisible friend.
Style: scary, twist ending, psychological, surprise ending, gothic horror ...
Plot: haunted house, ghost, supernatural, macabre, fear, missing child, death, afterlife, haunted by the past, tragic event, life is a bitch, orphan ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, y2k, year 2000, 21st century
Place: spain
Is relevant ?
 7.1
 119K
The Jacket (2005)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A military veteran goes on a journey into the future, where he can foresee his death and is left with questions that could save his life and those he loves.
Style: psychological, surreal, enigmatic, mind bending, tricky ...
Audience: girls' night, boys' night
Plot: time travel, psychology, time loop, mental institution, supernatural, murder, hallucination, mental illness, memory loss, butterfly effect, supernatural ability, parallel universe ...
Time: year 2005, 90s, 2000s, 20th century, year 1992 ...
Place: iraq, vermont
Is relevant ?
 5.2
 51K
Flatliners (2017)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Five medical students, hoping to gain insight into the mystery of what lies beyond the confines of life, embark on a daring and dangerous experiment. By stopping their hearts for short periods of time, each triggers a near-death experience. As the ...
Style: serious, disturbing, psychological horror, surprise ending, teen horror ...
Audience: teens
Plot: medical experiment, hospital, haunted by the past, afterlife, experiment, friendship, hallucination, death, medical student, near death experience, medical, supernatural ...
Time: 2010s, year 2017, 2000s
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Murder by Numbers (2002)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Tenacious homicide detective Cassie Mayweather and her still-green partner are working a murder case, attempting to profile two malevolently brilliant young men: cold, calculating killers whose dark secrets might explain their crimes.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, detective, intense, suspense thriller ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: murder, psychopath, mind game, haunted by the past, investigation, sociopath, murder investigation, serial killer, murderous pair, perfect crime, police investigation, police detective ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: persia, california, usa
Is relevant ?
 6.4
 25K
Anna (2013)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA, UK, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A man with the ability to enter peoples' memories takes on the case of a brilliant, troubled sixteen-year-old girl to determine whether she is a sociopath or a victim of trauma.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, mind bending, tense ...
Plot: manipulation, psychic power, haunted by the past, uncover truth, twists and turns, mind game, plot twist, brutality, teenager, life is a bitch, murder, false memory ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
Is relevant ?
 8.3
 111K
The Leftovers (2014)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: When 2% of the world's population abruptly disappears without explanation, the world struggles to understand just what they're supposed to do about it. The drama series 'The Leftovers' is the story of the people who didn't ...
Style: captivating, mind bending, offbeat, serious, touching ...
Audience: adult
Plot: life turned upside down, society, disappearance, haunted by the past, apocalypse, missing person, post apocalypse, depression, small town sheriff, chief of police, small town, worldwide chaos ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, syria, new york state, new york
Is relevant ?
 7.5
 117K
A Single Man (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Adapted from a 1964 novel of the same name, the film follows a day in the life of George Falconer, a British college professor reeling with the recent and sudden loss of his longtime partner. This traumatic event makes George challenge his own will ...
Style: touching, psychological, sincere, heartbreaking, emotional ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: gay, depression, homosexuality, gays and lesbians, loneliness, homosexual, lgbt, broken heart, grief, haunted by the past, gender, tragic love ...
Time: 60s, year 1962, year 2009, 2000s, 20th century ...
Place: los angeles, california, cuba, usa, madrid ...
Is relevant ?
 7.4
 117K
Jacob's Ladder (1990)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A traumatized Vietnam war veteran finds out that his post-war life isn't what he believes it to be when he's attacked by horned creatures in the subway and his dead son comes to visit him...
Style: surreal, twist ending, disturbing, bleak, scary ...
Plot: nightmare, paranoia, hallucination, memory, delusion, mental illness, haunted by the past, conspiracy, plot twist, psychology, dealing with death, twists and turns ...
Time: 90s, year 1990, 20th century, year 1971, 70s
Place: new york, vietnam, usa, asia, brooklyn new york city
Is relevant ?
 5.9
 10K
Castle Freak (1995)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story: John has inherited a castle and Italy and he moves there with his wife Susan and their blind daughter Rebecca. What they don't realize is that there is somebody else in the castle. An abused child left to die in the basement who has now become ...
Style: scary, slasher, lovecraft, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: haunted by the past, blindness, cannibalism, monster, macabre, freak, inheritance, murder, violence, castle, prostitute, dysfunctional marriage ...
Time: 90s
Place: italy, europe
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 7.6
 72K
The Body (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A woman’s body disappears mysteriously from the morgue without a trace. Police inspector Jaime Peña investigates the strange occurrence with the help of Álex Ulloa, the widower of the missing woman.
Style: surprise ending, tense, suspenseful, atmospheric, detective ...
Plot: twists and turns, murder, investigation, uncover truth, missing person, adulterous husband, car accident, mistress, morgue, vengeance, adultery, haunted by the past ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: spain, barcelona
Is relevant ?
 7.3
 3K
The Method (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 53 min.
TV show
Story: The main character is an extraordinary and mysterious person, at the same time, he (Rodion Meglin) is an outstanding inspector. Rodion is used to work alone in order to keep the secrecy of his unusual method. Young graduate Esenya Steklova is ...
Style: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, tense, exciting ...
Plot: serial killer, danger, investigation, haunted by the past, mental illness, psychosis, murder, brutality, human nature, good versus evil, life is a bitch, uncover truth ...
Time: year 2015
Place: russia
Is relevant ?
The Memory Keeper's Daughter (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: During a blizzard in 1964, Dr. David Henry delivers his son Paul with the help of nurse Caroline. But when Henry realizes his wife is also carrying a girl with Down syndrome, he hands the second child over to Caroline without his wife's ...
Style: emotional, touching, realistic, sad, gloomy ...
Plot: down syndrome, disability, haunted by the past, child illness, family problems, parents and children, crumbling marriage, love and romance, obsession, hopes, hidden identity, unfulfillment ...
Time: 60s, 80s, 70s
Place: kentucky, pittsburgh
Is relevant ?
 7.1
 62K
Don't Look Now (1973)
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: suspense, twist ending, disturbing, sexy, atmospheric ...
Audience: adult
Plot: supernatural, drowning, serial killer, blindness, psychic, haunted by the past, grief, sex scene, hallucination, twists and turns, death of daughter, marriage ...
Time: 70s, year 1973, near future, 20th century
Place: italy, venice, europe
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Interview with the Vampire (1994)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter.
Style: gothic, gothic horror, visually appealing, scary, melancholic ...
Audience: girls' night, adult
Plot: vampire, supernatural, immortality, goth, loneliness, vampirism, dark hero, bonding, child vampire, life & death, vampire human love, monster as victim ...
Time: 18th century, 19th century, georgian era, 1870s, 20th century ...
Place: new orleans, san francisco, paris france, louisiana, america ...
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The Well (2020)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Sweden
Story: An injured woman trapped in a deep well must outsmart a manipulative stranger with keys to her dark past to save her daughter from a terrifying ordeal.
Style: minimal cast, neo noir, suspense, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: haunted by the past, hidden truth, cat and mouse, strong female character, psychological manipulation, female warrior, tough girl, strong female lead, female hero, mind game, self delusion, trapped ...
Is relevant ?
 8.2
 130K
Penny Dreadful (2014)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Some of literature's most terrifying characters, including Dr. Frankenstein, Dorian Gray, and iconic figures from the novel Dracula are lurking in the darkest corners of Victorian London. Penny Dreadful is a frightening psychological thriller ...
Style: gothic, gothic horror, dark fantasy, atmospheric, scary ...
Audience: adult
Plot: supernatural, witch, vampire, werewolf, deadly creature, psychotherapy, lycanthropy, fear, imaginary, supernatural ability, frankenstein's monster, black magic ...
Time: victorian era, 1890s, 19th century
Place: england, london
Is relevant ?
 6.4
 107K
Colombiana (2011)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, USA, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Zoe Saldana plays a young woman who, after witnessing her parents’ murder as a child in Bogota, grows up to be a stone-cold assassin. She works for her uncle as a hitman by day, but her personal time is spent engaging in vigilante murders that she ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, intense, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, female assassin, vengeance, revenge, female killer, vigilante, one against many, assassin, tough girl, haunted by the past, female protagonist, strong female lead ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, year 1992, 90s, 21st century
Place: colombia, chicago, latin america, south america, usa ...
Is relevant ?
 4.1
 5K
Boo (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The friends Emmett, Freddy, Marie, Kevin and his reluctant girlfriend Jessie decide to spend the Halloween night in an abandoned hospital. Meanwhile, the younger Allan meets the old friend of his father Arlo Ray Baines and asks him to help to find ...
Style: serious, scary, atmospheric, suspense, independent film ...
Audience: teens
Plot: youth, haunted by the past, halloween, mysterious character, danger, childhood trauma, human experiment, medical, psychopath, hospital, dark secret, ghost ...
Is relevant ?
 6.6
 813
The Collector (2004)
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The Collector is a Canadian supernatural drama television series about a man attempting to help save people who have bargained their souls with the Devil. After over 600 years of "collecting" the souls of people at the end of their 10-year ...
Style: thought provoking, gloomy, demonic, tense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: deal with the devil, haunted by the past, unfulfillment, negotiation, hopes, escapades, danger, unfulfilled love, crime and punishment, lifesaver, mythical creature, religious ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: canada
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An American Haunting (2005)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, Romania, USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Based on the true events of the only case in US History where a spirit caused the death of a man.
Style: scary, suspenseful, tense, psychological, suspense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: ghost, haunted by the past, rape, curses spells and rituals, supernatural, curse, sexual abuse, death, chase, redemption, supernatural horror, witch ...
Time: 19th century, year 2006, year 2005, ancient times, year 2000 ...
Place: tennessee, usa
Is relevant ?
 5.9
 46K
Gone (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Jill Parrish is trying to rebuild her life after surviving a terrifying kidnapping attempt. Though she is having a difficult time, she takes small steps toward normalcy by starting a new job and inviting her sister, Molly, to move in with her. ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, twist ending, tricky, suspense ...
Audience: girls' night, teens
Plot: kidnapping, missing person, serial killer, woman in danger, twists and turns, tough girl, sisters, haunted by the past, revenge, police investigation, danger, paranoia ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: oregon, usa
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