Found footage movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant found footage movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out mockumentary, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing and fake documentary films and TV shows about / with found footage, camera, death, witch, murder, danger, supernatural, violence, blood and fear plots mostly in Horror, Mystery and Thriller genres shot in USA, Canada, UK and other countries.
found footage movies
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TOP 10 movies tagged as found footage: V/H/S (2012), As Above, So Below (2014), Hell House LLC (2015), Lucky Bastard (2014), Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum (2018), Atrocious (2010), Searching (2018), The Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007), #Screamers (2016), Evil Things (2009).

List of found footage movies

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 5.8
 75K
V/H/S (2012)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: When a group of misfits is hired by an unknown third party to burglarize a desolate house and acquire a rare VHS tape, they discover more found footage than they bargained for.
Style: disturbing, anthology, scary, atmospheric, creepy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: found footage, supernatural, halloween, ghost child, macabre, demon, nudity, ghost, danger, haunted house, gory, brutality ...
Time: year 2012, year 1998, 90s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, arizona, seattle
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As Above, So Below (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When a team of explorers ventures into the catacombs that lie beneath the streets of Paris, they uncover the dark secret that lies within this city of the dead.
Style: scary, dark, suspenseful, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: found footage, supernatural, catacomb, underground, archaeology, survival, treasure hunt, death, claustrophobia, ancient mystery, confined, tunnel ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france, iran
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 6.4
 35K
Hell House LLC (2015)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Five years after an unexplained malfunction causes the death of 15 tour-goers and staff on the opening night of a Halloween haunted house tour, a documentary crew travels back to the scene of the tragedy to find out what really happened.
Style: dark, spooky, mockumentary, scary, slasher ...
Audience: teens
Plot: found footage, haunted house, halloween, dark secret, supernatural, mysterious death, abandoned hotel, basement, hanging, investigation, tragic event, night ...
Time: 2000s
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Lucky Bastard (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Lucky Bastard is a "found footage" thriller about a porn website run by Mike (Don McManus) that invites fans to have sex with porn stars. Jay Paulson plays Dave, an eager young fan given a chance to have sex with the fabulous Ashley Saint ...
Style: sexy, erotic, tense, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: found footage, psychopath, male nudity, sexual cruelty, loss of control, porn actress, nudity, female nudity, obsessed fan, oral sex, disturbed person, shyness ...
Place: california
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Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum (2018)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An internet broadcaster recruits a handful of people for their 'experience the horror' show at Gonjiam Psychiatric Hospital, a place selected as one of the '7 freakiest places on the planet'. They are to explore the haunted ...
Style: scary, dark, suspenseful, mystical, mockumentary ...
Plot: found footage, ghost, paranormal investigation, night, youth, friends, vlogger, legend, mental institution, paranormal, fear, psychiatric hospital ...
Place: south korea
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 4.9
 5K
Atrocious (2010)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Mexico
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Quintanilla family was found dead in their country side house. Police reported the existence of 37 hours of recorded evidence. The family traveled to their old farm house, where they investigated about the Legend of the Girl in the Garraf woods. ...
Style: suspense, scary, suspenseful, serious, creepy ...
Plot: found footage, supernatural, amateur detective, danger, murder, family vacation, country house, investigation, urban legend, ghost, haunted by the past, holiday horror ...
Time: year 2000, 21st century
Place: spain, europe
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 7.6
 191K
Searching (2018)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Russia
Duration: 102 min.
Story: After his 16-year-old daughter goes missing, a desperate father breaks into her laptop to look for clues to find her. A thriller that unfolds entirely on computer screens.
Style: suspense, surprise ending, suspenseful, disturbing, detective ...
Audience: teens
Plot: found footage, missing person, father daughter relationship, social media, missing child, mysterious disappearance, internet, search and rescue, disappearance, instagram, presumed dead, missing daughter ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s, future, year 2015, year 1971 ...
Place: persia, california, pittsburgh
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Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County (1998)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: After a mysterious blackout, a son goes out to investigate and captures footage of actual aliens. When the aliens follow he and his brothers back to their home all hell breaks lose.
Style: mockumentary, christmas horror, weird, fake documentary
Plot: alien abduction, found footage, ufo, thanksgiving, holiday horror, alien invasion, abduction, lake, alien, flying saucer, terror, monster ...
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The Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: When hundreds of videotapes showing torture, murder and dismemberment are found in an abandoned house, they reveal a serial killer's decade-long reign of terror and become the most disturbing collection of evidence homicide detectives have ever ...
Style: disturbing, mockumentary, sadistic, slasher, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: found footage, serial killer, murder, psychopath, torture, macabre, violence, psycho killer, maniac, psycho, sadism, captive ...
Time: year 2001
Place: usa, new york state, pennsylvania, new york
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 4.2
 1K
#Screamers (2016)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When an internet company decides to investigate a series of 'Screamer' videos, they are confronted with havoc and hell they could never expect.
Style: scary, suspense, suspenseful, serious, slasher ...
Plot: found footage, missing person, revenge, missing girl, house, danger, death, characters killed one by one, supernatural, fear, chase, gory ...
Time: 21st century
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 4.2
 2K
Evil Things (2009)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: It's Miriam's 21st Birthday. As a birthday gift, Miriam's aunt Gail has decided to lend Miriam her beautiful country house for an entire weekend. Aunt Gail's country house is amazing. It's a four bedroom house surrounded by ...
Style: serious, slasher, scary, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: found footage, woods, stalking, missing person, danger, violence, murder, group of friends, trap, loss of control, fear, mysterious death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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 6.8
 19K
Noroi (2005)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A documentary filmmaker explores seemingly unrelated paranormal incidents connected by the legend of an ancient demon called the "kagutaba."
Style: scary, tense, serious, satanic, frightening ...
Audience: date night
Plot: found footage, curse, occult, demon, investigation, slow burn, folklore, fear, supernatural horror, paranormal phenomena, journalist, danger ...
Time: 70s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: japan, asia, tokyo, kyoto japan
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 6.0
 5K
Savageland (2015)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: When a small town near the Arizona-Mexico border is wiped out overnight, suspicion falls on the lone survivor. But a roll of photos the survivor took that night tells a different story.
Style: mockumentary, tense, suspense, disturbing, scary ...
Plot: found footage, zombie, investigation, serial killer, investigator, mexican border, violence, death, society, murder investigation, partners against crime, heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, arizona, mexico
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Unfriended: Dark Web (2018)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Russia
Duration: 92 min.
Story: ​When a 20-something finds a cache of hidden files on his new laptop, he and his friends are unwittingly thrust into the depths of the dark web. They soon discover someone has been watching their every move and will go to unimaginable lengths to ...
Style: suspense, scary, slasher, saga, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: found footage, plot twist, hacking, characters killed one by one, sign language, dark web, facebook, murder, threat, secret society, hacker, cyberspace ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Grave Encounters (2011)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
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, gothic, tense, disturbing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: found footage, haunted house, supernatural, ghost, paranormal, paranormal investigation, mental institution, claustrophobia, paranormal investigator, maze, abandoned hospital, paranormal phenomena ...
Time: 2010s, year 2000, 21st century
Place: canada
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The Fear Footage (2018)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story: On April 19th, 2016, Deputy Leo Cole vanished. The next morning, his body camera was found.
Style: scary, bleak, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: found footage, clown, missing person, murder, ghost, paranormal, peril, exorcism, supernatural, rescue, paranormal phenomena, chase ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: maryland
Is relevant?
 5.1
 14K
Willow Creek (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A young couple ventures into the woods to capture footage of the elusive Bigfoot.
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, mockumentary ...
Audience: teens
Plot: found footage, creature feature, forest, woods, sasquatch, cryptozoology, bigfoot, camping, lost in the woods, slow burn, marriage proposal, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: california, usa
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 5.3
 2K
Webcast (2018)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Stranded in the suburbs, student filmmaker Chloe begins to make a documentary about her family's troubled past. Whilst filming, she and best friend Ed, witness an hysterical girl appearing to escape from a neighbour's house, only to be ...
Style: scary, psychotronic, suspenseful, bleak, suspense
Plot: found footage, sacrifice, psycho killer, kidnapping, folk horror, murder of a woman, death, murder investigation, revenge, murder, double life, violence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
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The Blair Witch Project (1999)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: In October of 1994 three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, while shooting a documentary. A year later their footage was found.
Style: suspense, scary, independent film, dark, psychological ...
Audience: date night, teens, adult
Plot: witch, found footage, folk horror, urban legend, supernatural, fear, survival, lost in the woods, supernatural horror, panic, forest, wilderness ...
Time: 90s, year 1994, 20th century, year 1999
Place: maryland, usa, north america
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Found Footage (2012)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Story: The contents of a memory card are presented in the exact order in which they were found. Beginning with a simple camping trip and ending in a bloodbath years later, the mystery of these video clips have never been solved.
Style: dark, psychotronic, bleak, scary, independent film ...
Plot: found footage, missing person, supernatural power, fear, violence, ghost, supernatural, danger, evil, darkness, camping, friend ...
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 5.0
 53K
Blair Witch (2016)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Students on a camping trip discover something sinister is lurking beyond the trees.
Style: scary, dark, suspenseful, tense, suspense ...
Audience: girls' night, teens
Plot: supernatural, found footage, forest, witch, lost in the woods, death, fear, chase, tunnel, friendship, runaway, camping ...
Time: 2010s, year 2016, 80s
Place: maryland
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 5.8
 25K
The Tunnel (2011)
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: spooky, dark, suspenseful, suspense, scary ...
Audience: teens
Plot: found footage, creature, missing person, journalism, tunnel, urban legend, underground, food, survival, investigation, uncover truth, hidden truth ...
Time: year 2011, year 2000, 21st century
Place: australia, oceania, sydney australia, new zealand
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Megan Is Missing (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Fictional drama based on actual events, about two teenage girls who encounter an Internet predator.
Style: mockumentary, suspenseful, twisted, sexual, disturbing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: found footage, internet, teenage girl, pedophile, best friend, rape, missing person, teenage life, rape of a girl, psychopath, blood, sexual assault ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: usa
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 6.0
 4K
Exhibit A (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Exhibit A tells the timely story of a normal family disintegrating under financial pressure, eventually driven to the unimaginable. All is not as it seems as the King family go about their day-to-day lives oblivious of the horror to come. Dad Andy ...
Style: suspense, psychological, serious, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot: found footage, money problems, murder, stalking, family relations, danger, downfall, photograph, dark secret, voyeurism, tragic event, uncover truth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
Is relevant?
 7.4
 215K
REC (2007)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 78 min.
Story: A television reporter and cameraman follow emergency workers into a dark apartment building and are quickly locked inside with something terrifying.
Style: scary, dark, suspense, cult classic, frightening ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: found footage, fear, zombie, trapped, supernatural horror, epidemic, gory, nightmare, escapades, infected, videotaping, virus ...
Time: year 2007, year 2008, year 2000, 2000s, 21st century
Place: spain, usa, barcelona, europe
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 3.4
 316
Tape_13 (2014)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Germany
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Young lovers Ann and Gero are travelling through Europe when their car breaks down in the Eifel mountains. Vinzent and Franz invite them to spend a carefree weekend partying in a remote holiday cabin. But after a playful ‘séance’ their initial ...
Style: rough, enigmatic, disturbing, suspense, psychedelic ...
Plot: found footage, paranormal phenomena, travel, forest, young couple, night, young lovers, ouija, paganism, loss of loved one, sacrifice, road trip ...
Is relevant?
 3.4
 2K
Sx_Tape (2013)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: From the director of CANDYMAN and the producers of PARANORMAL ACTIVITY comes a found-footage nightmare of lust, possession, and destruction. Jill's an artist. Ian's a filmmaker. And their love life is off the chain. There's no ...
Style: realistic, scary, rough, bleak, crying ...
Plot: found footage, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, sex scene, danger, police, violence, car, desire, abandoned building, exhibitionism, evil force, ghost ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Antrum: The Deadliest Film Ever Made (2018)
Genre: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Rumored to have been lost, Antrum appears as a cursed film from the 1970s. Viewers are warned to proceed with caution. It’s said to be a story about a young boy and girl who enter the forest in an attempt to save the soul of their recently ...
Style: suspense, surprise ending, suspenseful, contemplative, mockumentary ...
Plot: found footage, death, nightmare, child in peril, family problems, haunted by the past, occult, folk horror, uncover truth, tragic event, danger, memory ...
Time: 2010s, year 1988, 70s
Place: budapest, san francisco
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 6.1
 2K
Leaving D.C. (2012)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: After 20 years of living in Washington, D.C., Mark Klein seeks much-needed solace by moving to the remote wilds of West Virginia. To ease his loneliness, he sends regular video updates to members of his OCD-support group back in the city. But Mark ...
Style: mockumentary, disturbing, dark, scary, tense ...
Plot: found footage, woods, mysterious event, house, computer, travel, witch, support group, rural area, photograph, mysterious noise, death ...
Place: west virginia
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 4.7
 7K
Hollow (2011)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: An old monastery in a small, remote village in Suffolk, England has been haunted by a local legend for centuries. Left in ruin and shrouded by the mystery of a dark spirit that wills young couples to suicide, the place has been avoided for years, ...
Style: tense, atmospheric, suspenseful, demonic, spooky ...
Audience: teens
Plot: found footage, supernatural, danger, friendship, monastery, ghost, folk horror, brutality, vacation gone wrong, tree, church, folklore ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
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