Underground movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant underground movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspense, serious, suspenseful, tense, scary and atmospheric films and TV shows about / with underground, danger, survival, blood, murder, supernatural, creature, violence, death and trapped plots mostly in Horror, Thriller and Drama genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as underground: Hidden (2015), White Wall (2020), As Above, So Below (2014), The Tunnel (2011), The Descent (2005), City of Ember (2008), Underground (2011), Beneath (2013), The Call (2013), Temple (2019).
Best films
New films
| Hawaii (2024) | 2.4 | |
| Gunman (2025) | 6.8 | |
| Bad Boys: The Movie (2025) | 5.8 | |
| Klaus & Barroso (2024) | 5.6 | |
| Cold Storage (2026) | 6.2 |
29K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A family takes refuge in a fallout shelter to avoid a dangerous outbreak.
Style:
suspense, scary, suspenseful, psychological, dark ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
virus, post apocalypse, twists and turns, survival, father daughter relationship, murder, quarantine, epidemic, nightmare, infected, plot twist, isolation ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 353 min.
TV show
Story:
Three workers die in a mysterious explosion accident deep down in a mine shaft. The incident is obscured, but rumors begin to spread about a find that no one can explain.
Style:
suspense, captivating, serious, realistic, exciting ...
Plot:
underground, geologist, nuclear waste, mine, small town, female protagonist, winter, unknown, paranoia, conspiracy, mining, investigation ...
Time:
near future
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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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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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270K
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
After a tragic accident, six friends reunite for a caving expedition. Their adventure soon goes horribly wrong when a collapse traps them deep underground and they find themselves pursued by bloodthirsty creatures. As their friendships deteriorate, ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, suspense, dark, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, date night, boys' night, adult
Plot:
monster, cave, survival horror, trapped, survival, creature, fear, expedition, claustrophobia, gory, group of friends, woman in danger ...
Time:
year 2005, year 2000, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
north carolina, appalachia
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
For generations, the people of the City of Ember have flourished in an amazing world of glittering lights. But Ember's once powerful generator is failing and the great lamps that illuminate the city are starting to flicker. Now, two teenagers, ...
Style:
exciting, dark fantasy, visually stunning, apocalyptic, visual ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, girls' night, teens, pre-teens ...
Plot:
steampunk, post apocalypse, save the day, danger, dystopia, uncover truth, survival, underground city, girl, underground, puzzle, ancient mystery ...
Time:
future, year 2008, 20th century, distant future
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A group of friends fight for their lives against the lethal and ravenous creatures lurking beneath the Earth's surface. The group finds themselves at the mercy of creatures genetically engineered by the military to be expendable in battle. ...
Style:
suspense, rough, bleak, disturbing, scary ...
Plot:
eating human flesh, monster, military base, survival horror, experiment, mutant, zombie, soldier, scientific experiment, trap, trapped, struggle for survival ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
On a quest to find out what happened to his missing brother, a scientist, his nephew and their mountain guide discover a fantastic and dangerous lost world in the center of the earth.
Style:
exciting, teen, breathtaking, rom com, psychotronic ...
Audience:
teens, kids, girls' night, family friendly, family outing
Plot:
dinosaur, fantasy world, lost world, adventurer, twists and turns, mysterious place, underground, expedition, cave, imaginary, obsessive quest, danger ...
Time:
year 2008, prehistoric times, prehistory, 19th century, 2000s ...
Place:
iceland, italy, europe
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A crew of coal miners becomes trapped 600 feet below ground after a disastrous collapse. As the air grows more toxic and time runs out, they slowly descend into madness and begin to turn on one another. Inspired by true events.
Style:
scary, serious, suspenseful, exciting, ambiguous ending ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
mine, miner, supernatural, confined, father daughter relationship, underground, race against time, danger, isolation, machismo, hallucination, mining ...
Time:
21st century
Is relevant?
134K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Jordan Turner is an experienced 911 operator but when she makes an error in judgment and a call ends badly, Jordan is rattled and unsure if she can continue. But when teenager Casey Welson is abducted in the back of a man's car and calls 911, ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, tense, surprise ending, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, girls' night, adult
Plot:
kidnapping, serial killer, danger, investigation, woman in danger, 911, youth, psycho, murder, kidnapped, chase, child abduction ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
TV show
Story:
Talented and successful surgeon Daniel Milton has his world shattered when his wife Beth develops a fatal degenerative disease. After conventional treatment options run out, Daniel partners with the lonely yet resourceful Lee to start a literal ...
Style:
captivating, suspenseful, rough, suspense, serious ...
Plot:
underground, secret, criminal, doctor, desperation, rescue, moral dilemma, wife, clinic, police detective, police investigation, runaway ...
Time:
future, 2010s
Place:
london
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307K
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, UK, France, Japan, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When a virus leaks from a top-secret facility, turning all resident researchers into ravenous zombies and their lab animals into mutated hounds from hell, the government sends in an elite military task force to contain the outbreak. Alice and Rain ...
Style:
scary, suspense, cult classic, splatter, saga ...
Audience:
manly, teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
zombie, infected, virus, zombie apocalypse, artificial intelligence, monster, survival, experiment gone awry, post apocalyptic, woman with a gun, bio weapon, gory ...
Time:
future, 2000s, year 2002, near future, 21st century
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy, Romania
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
On her first trip to Paris, a young woman hits a party in the Catacombs, the 200-mile labyrinth of limestone.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, rough, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
twists and turns, danger, confined, woman in danger, gory, underground, campus, isolation, murder, murder of sister, prank, darkness ...
Place:
france, paris france, europe
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Serbia
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Milos, a retired porn star, leads a normal family life trying to make ends meet. Presented with the opportunity of a lifetime to financially support his family for the rest of their lives, Milos must participate in one last mysterious film. From ...
Style:
disturbing, brutal, bloody, controversial, scary ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
rape, sexual abuse, gory, torture, violence, macabre, sadism, incest, perversion, controversy, insanity, murder ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
serbia, former yugoslavia, europe
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
In Moscow, the priest Owen hires a team to guide him in the underworld to find his friend Sergei that is missing while researching the legend about the existence of demons and an entrance to hell beneath the city.
Style:
suspenseful, stylized, atmospheric, psychological, offbeat ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
underground, supernatural, catacomb, ghost, priest, investigation, rescue, danger, escapades, supernatural ability, religion, occult ...
Place:
russia
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Genre: Animation, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Heaven is a beautiful, clean suburban paradise as long as they follow one simple rule: DO NOT communicate with "The Evil One" that dwells on the other side of a giant wall that circles the town. One day after chasing one he discovers a ...
Style:
disturbing, psychedelic, captivating, surreal, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
surrealism, underground, body horror, bird, worship, school, distopia, city, social misfits, society, bird attack, creepy kid ...
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59K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The 3-D action-thriller Sanctum, from executive producer James Cameron, follows a team of underwater cave divers on a treacherous expedition to the largest, most beautiful and least accessible cave system on Earth. When a tropical storm forces them ...
Style:
suspense, exciting, suspenseful, serious, tense ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
survival, cave, expedition, disaster, danger, underwater, death, forces of nature, underground, water, struggle for survival, deathtrap ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
papua new guinea
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Mystery
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Sent to spend the summer with their uncle on a remote island, young brothers Andy and Mark learn that their eccentric grandfather once owned the island, but vanished without a trace…taking with him the secret to a vast fortune. Delving into the ...
Style:
captivating, exciting, entertaining, sincere, light ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
lost treasure, treasure, underground, treasure hunt, father son relationship, family relations, missing person, teenage boy, escapades, riddles and clues, danger, secret place ...
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Genre: Action, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A group of elite soldiers sent to infiltrate and extract the lead science team from Pine Gap, Australia's top secret underground military compound, after it comes under attack from unknown forces. The mission is compromised when they encounter ...
Style:
scary, disturbing, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic ...
Plot:
military base, swat team, military, experiment, paranormal activity, psychic, telepath, supernatural, soldier, survival, underground, woman in danger ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
australia, oceania, new zealand
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The film is based on real events when, in the 1970s, the deepest well in the world with a depth of more than 12 thousand meters was drilled in Murmansk Region for research purposes. During drilling, seismic sensors began to pick up strange sounds, ...
Style:
mysterious, suspense, unusual plot structure, tense, disturbing ...
Plot:
supernatural, rescue, body horror, parasite, science, secret, underground, danger, threat, struggle for survival, creature feature, small time ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, future
Place:
russia
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Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
From the warped mind of underground auteur Nick Zedd comes this campy horrorfest that follows screwy scientist Dr. Frankenberry as he attempts to resurrect the dead, aided by his hunchbacked minion. Adding to the twisted fun are Donna Death as ...
Style:
black comedy, grindhouse, transgressive, avant garde, surreal ...
Plot:
underground, transgression, mad scientist, vampire, monster, camp, exploitation, punk, dark humor, punk rock, satire, macabre ...
Time:
80s
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Genre: Action
Country: UK, Switzerland, Netherlands, Hungary
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
An off-duty SAS soldier, Tom Buckingham, must thwart a terror attack on a train running through the Channel Tunnel. As the action escalates on the train, events transpire in the corridors of power that may make the difference as to whether ...
Style:
perverse, suspense, tense, captivating, exciting ...
Plot:
hostage, terrorism, commando mission, hostile takeover, female terrorist, brutality, underground, mission, terrorist, swat team, sniper, hostage situation ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
english channel, georgia, london, united kingdom, spain ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Thailand, Ireland
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
When a youth football team of 12 boys, aged 11-16, and their 25-year-old coach is trapped deep inside a cave in Northern Thailand, thousands of volunteers and soldiers from around the world unite in a race against time to find them.
Style:
exciting, captivating, suspenseful, serious, disturbing
Plot:
cave, lifeguard, rescue mission, diving, underground, scuba diving, journalist, american abroad, child in peril, rescue, boy in peril, saving a life ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
thailand
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In the 1970s, a British sound technician is brought to Italy to work on the sound effects for a gruesome horror film. His nightmarish task slowly takes over his psyche, driving him to confront his own past.
Style:
retro, atmospheric, psychological, tense, serious ...
Plot:
movie studio, mental disorder, unsettling, nightmare, arthouse horror, torture, repeated scene, torment, puzzle, darkness, underground, folk horror ...
Time:
70s, 2010s, 20th century
Place:
italy
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
Lenz leaves England and returns to Paris in search of Madeleine who disappeared in uncertain circumstances. He meets Helena, a nurse still struggling with the loss of her infant son. Thus begins a fevered love story set against a backdrop of sorrow, ...
Style:
sexy, experimental, captivating, bleak, gothic ...
Plot:
relationships, cheating wife, exploitation, underground, big city, loss of child, grief, infidelity, nurse, death, menage a trois, depression ...
Place:
paris france
Is relevant?
227
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
While shooting a documentary on the suspicious disappearances within the homeless community, a filmmaker and his crew go missing while uncovering a terrifying and vicious secret below the city's surface.
Style:
detective, mysterious, suspense, spooky, suspenseful ...
Plot:
found footage, creature, missing person, bum, mutant, sewer, underground, killing, disappearance, homeless, loneliness, homelessness ...
Place:
ohio
Is relevant?
1K
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
Warhol's strange interpretation of "A Clockwork Orange."
Style:
art house, avant garde, independent film, experimental, controversial ...
Plot:
underground, torture, sadism, counterculture, social commentary, betrayal, alienation, minimalism, adaptation, brainwashing, psychological experiment, juvenile delinquency ...
Time:
60s
Place:
new york
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Lithuania, Russia
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A thriller about a crook who efforts to get out of the business could cost him his life. Gena is a drug runner who has grown tired of the violence and unpredictability of his life, and he decides it's time to go straight. Gena plans one last ...
Style:
crime drama, captivating, tense, crime thriller, road movie ...
Plot:
betrayal, prostitution, underground, murder, gangster, drug smuggling, murderer, escape, criminal underworld, organized crime, smuggling, russian mafia ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
moscow russia, eastern europe, france, lithuania
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story:
Long ago, all humans lived beneath the sea. However, some people preferred the surface and abandoned living underwater permanently. As a consequence, they were stripped of their god-given protection called "Ena" which allowed them to ...
Style:
anime, sentimental, touching, semi serious, colorful ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
teenage life, unrequited love, slice of life, friendship, supernatural, first love, underground, follow your dream, love triangle, grownups, childhood friend, teenage boy ...
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
The Mosley family keeps the secrets and dark history of a town located on the outskirts of New Orleans that is also a landing patch for the world's darkest manifestations of fear, guided into the world by a mysterious malefactor named The ...
Style:
gothic, gothic horror, dark fantasy, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot:
supernatural, witch, mysterious character, supernatural power, rivalry, secret, underground, danger, stereotypes, african american protagonist, deadly creature, creature ...
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