Sinister movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant sinister movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out sinister, disturbing, suspenseful, psychological, suspense and scary films and TV shows about / with blood, fear, danger, murder, violence, gore, death, macabre, supernatural and corpse plots mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres shot in USA, Japan, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as sinister: One Missed Call (2003), A Cure for Wellness (2016), Sinister (2012), Terrifier 2 (2022), Martyrs (2008), Halloween Ends (2022), Tailgate (2019), Mama (2013), Under the Skin (2013), The Collector (2009).

List of sinister movies

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One Missed Call (2003)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min.
Story: People mysteriously start receiving voicemail messages from their future selves, in the form of the sound of them reacting to their own violent deaths, along with the exact date and time of their future death, listed on the message log. The plot ...
Style: scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological ...
Audience: teens
Plot: macabre, telephone call, hospital, urban legend, death, supernatural, child abuse, spirit, good versus evil, mysterious death, vengeance, haunted by the past ...
Time: 2000s, year 2003, 21st century
Place: japan, asia
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A Cure for Wellness (2016)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 146 min.
Story: An ambitious young executive is sent to retrieve his company's CEO from an idyllic but mysterious "wellness center" at a remote location in the Swiss Alps but soon suspects that the spa's miraculous treatments are not what they ...
Style: gothic, suspense, dark, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot: cure, therapist, patient, hospital, dark secret, spa, capitalism, macabre, slut, experiment, torture, boobs ...
Time: 2010s, year 2016, year 2017, future
Place: swiss alps, switzerland, alps, germany, america ...
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 6.8
 278K
Sinister (2012)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Found footage helps a true-crime novelist realize how and why a family was murdered in his new home, though his discoveries put his entire family in the path of a supernatural entity.
Style: scary, suspense, tense, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: supernatural, haunted house, ghost, fear, supernatural horror, murder, danger, occult, investigation, evil force, paranormal activity, writer's life ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, year 2000, 60s, year 1966 ...
Place: pennsylvania, usa, sacramento california, missouri, st. louis missouri
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 6.1
 46K
Terrifier 2 (2022)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: After being resurrected by a sinister entity, Art the Clown returns to Miles County where he must hunt down and destroy a teenage girl and her younger brother on Halloween night. As the body count rises, the siblings fight to stay alive while ...
Style: slasher, disturbing, scary, psychotronic, sinister ...
Audience: adult
Plot: halloween, clown, evil clown, killer clown, killer, violence, supernatural power, gory, monster, survival, supernatural, good versus evil ...
Time: 2020s, year 2017
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 7.0
 105K
Martyrs (2008)
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, bloody, scary, brutal, splatter ...
Plot: torture, child abuse, violence, gory, kidnapping, brutality, revenge, afterlife, torment, fear, torture chamber, home invasion ...
Time: year 2008, year 2000, 2000s, year 1971, 21st century
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 5.0
 70K
Halloween Ends (2022)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Four years after the traumatic events of Halloween in 2018, the nightmare ends as Laurie Strode comes face to face with Michael Myers, once and for all.
Style: slasher, scary, slasher horror, bloody, sinister ...
Plot: halloween, killing spree, serial killer, homicidal maniac, babysitter, radio station, junkyard, radio dj, holiday horror, death of son, grandmother granddaughter relationship, masked killer ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, year 2019, 21st century
Place: illinois
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 5.8
 4K
Tailgate (2019)
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A cocksure, road-raging family man finds himself pursued and terrorized by the vengeful van driver he chooses to tailgate.
Style: suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, brutal, slasher ...
Plot: driving, psychopath, highway, car chase, murder, mentally unstable, on the road, brutality, stalker, woman in danger, threat, violence ...
Place: netherlands
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 6.2
 190K
Mama (2013)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, Spain, Mexico
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Guillermo del Toro presents Mama, a supernatural thriller that tells the haunting tale of two little girls who disappeared into the woods the day that their parents were killed. When they are rescued years later and begin a new life, they find that ...
Style: scary, suspense, gothic, frightening, dark ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ghost, supernatural, supernatural horror, children, haunted house, mother daughter relationship, afterlife, macabre, adoption, danger, revenge, redemption ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, year 2000, year 2008, 21st century
Place: usa
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 6.3
 157K
Under the Skin (2013)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Switzerland, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A seductive alien prowls the streets of Glasgow in search of prey: unsuspecting men who fall under her spell.
Style: surreal, disturbing, bleak, atmospheric, dark ...
Audience: adult
Plot: alien, femme fatale, extraterrestrial, human prey, nudity, disguise, female nudity, desire, nightclub, seduction, deformity, male nudity ...
Time: future, 2010s, year 2013, year 2014, 21st century
Place: scotland, glasgow scotland, europe
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 6.3
 72K
The Collector (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Desperate to repay his debt to his ex-wife, an ex-con plots a heist at his new employer's country home, unaware that a second criminal has also targeted the property, and rigged it with a series of deadly traps.
Style: slasher, scary, brutal, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, torture, psychopath, home invasion, trap, gory, maniac, macabre, massacre, sadistic horror, homicidal maniac, mystery killer ...
Time: year 2009, year 2000, 21st century
Place: usa, detroit
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Motel Melati The Series (2023)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Indonesia
TV show
Story: Motel Melati was originally an old Dutch colonial estate which was converted into an inn. The house was once owned by a local doctor named Kusno, who secretly performed inhumane experiments on cadavers. After the arrival of Melati, a young village ...
Style: sinister, suspenseful, captivating, tense, psychological horror ...
Plot: motel, guesthouse, haunting, ghost, hotel, confronting the past, troubled past, supernatural horror, secret, abandoned hotel, blood, female nudity ...
Time: 20th century, year 1997, 90s
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 5.6
 4K
Infiesto (2023)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 96 min.
Story: As the coronavirus upends their lives, two detectives doggedly pursue those responsible for an abduction they realize is part of a sinister pattern.
Style: dark, sinister, enigmatic, captivating, dramatic ...
Plot: forest, pandemic, mining, job, criminal, small town, child abduction, dead woman, homicide detective, female detective, corpse, abduction ...
Time: 2020s
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 4.3
 264
The Ancestral (2022)
Genre: Horror
Country: Vietnam
Duration: 101 min.
Story: After suffering a family tragedy, a widower named Thanh moves his two daughters to a centuries-old ancestral home. Both daughters fall prey to sleep paralysis and night terrors. Their father seeks the help of a local psychologist, but chilling ...
Style: sinister, thrilling, gothic horror, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: terror, tragic event, tragedy, insomnia, family tragedy, dysfunctional family, undercover, secret, family secret, loss of mother, death of mother, loss of wife ...
Place: vietnam
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The Exorcist: Believer (2023)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: The father of a possessed child seeks out the aid of Chris MacNeil, whose daughter Regan survived a similar possession in the 1970s.
Style: slasher, scary, disturbing, serious, bleak ...
Audience: date night
Plot: demonic possession, exorcism, exorcist, possession, possessed, priest, possessed girl, evil force, demon, evil spirit, obsession, good versus evil ...
Place: haiti
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 4.4
 713
13 Exorcisms (2022)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story: After participating in a séance, young Laura begins to behave strangely. Alarmed, her parents ask Father Olmedo, one of the few exorcists authorized by the Vatican to intervene in cases of demonic possession, for help.
Style: scary, suspenseful, sinister, dark, disturbing ...
Plot: exorcism, demonic possession, priest, seance, fear, catholic priest, spiritualism, supernatural power, possessed, possessed woman, paranormal, obsession ...
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 5.7
 37
Hide & Seek (2007)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 103 min.
Story: After a tragedy, a family moves to an isolated house where strange apparitions appear.
Style: disturbing, sinister, suspense, mystical, psychological ...
Plot: ghost, haunted house, stepfather, haunted, family relations, dysfunctional family, murder, abandoned house, murder mystery, mysticism, husband wife relationship, patricide ...
Place: the philippines
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 6.1
 130K
Wrong Turn (2003)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Chris crashes into a carload of other young people, and the group of stranded motorists is soon lost in the woods of West Virginia, where they're hunted by three cannibalistic mountain men who are grossly disfigured by generations of inbreeding.
Style: slasher, scary, bloody, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: gory, cannibalism, survival, forest, massacre, danger, youth, manhunt, chase, disfigurement, cannibal, survival horror ...
Time: year 2003, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: west virginia, virginia, usa
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 6.2
 29K
Frontier(s) (2007)
Genre: Horror
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A gang of young thieves flee Paris during the violent aftermath of a political election, only to hole up at an Inn run by neo-Nazis.
Style: scary, suspenseful, rough, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot: cannibalism, psychopath, sadistic horror, macabre, torture, survival, human monster, gory, cruelty, sadism, insanity, butcher ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: europe, paris france, france
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 7.3
 147K
Irreversible (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Events over the course of one traumatic night in Paris unfold in reverse-chronological order as the beautiful Alex is brutally raped and beaten by a stranger in the underpass. Her boyfriend and ex-lover take matters into their own hands by hiring ...
Style: art house, bleak, disturbing, surreal, offbeat ...
Audience: adult
Plot: rape, sexual abuse, revenge, violence, violent, rape and revenge, vengeance, brutality, sex, sexual perversion, sadism, vigilante ...
Time: year 2002, year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe
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 6.7
 91K
Suspiria (2018)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 152 min.
Story: A young ballet dancer travels to a prestigious dance academy in Europe, only to discover it is a front for something far more sinister and supernatural amidst a series of increasingly grisly murders.
Style: suspense, dark, suspenseful, twisted, scary ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: good versus evil, ritual sacrifice, dead woman, witchcraft, mysterious event, paranormal phenomena, telepathy, curse, occult, spiritualism, abuse of power, corporal punishment ...
Time: 70s, year 1977, year 1943, year 1948, post world war two
Place: berlin germany, italy, west berlin west germany, east berlin, ohio
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Ebola Syndrome (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A restaurant employee wanted for murder contracts Ebola by raping a woman in South Africa and starts an outbreak there and in Hong Kong when he returns home.
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, rough, bloody, extreme horror ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, rape, virus, deadly virus, infection, dark humor, female nudity, cannibalism, serial killer, psychopath, village, meat ...
Time: 90s, 80s, 20th century, year 1986, year 1996
Place: south africa, africa, china, johannesburg south africa, asia ...
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 7.8
 14K
The Servant (1963)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A decadent London aristocrat hires a man-servant to attend to his needs. However, the balance of power starts to shift...
Style: psychological, atmospheric, sexy, surreal, thought provoking ...
Plot: servant, decadence, manipulation, master and servant, gay subtext, homosexual subtext, sadomasochism, sexual repression, lgbt, alcoholism, surrealism, obsession ...
Time: 60s, year 1963, 20th century
Place: england, london, america, united kingdom, britain
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 8.7
 52K
Berserk (1997)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: Japan, Poland
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Guts, a man who calls himself "The Black Swordsman" looks upon his days serving as a member of a group of mercenaries, the Band of the Hawk, nicknamed "the Grim Reaper of the Battlefield." Led by an ambitious, ruthless, and ...
Style: anime, exciting, dark fantasy, slasher, epic ...
Audience: kids, manly, teens
Plot: tragic hero, battles, destiny, vengeance, danger, sword fight, mercenary, one man army, supernatural, rivalry, heroes, massacre ...
Time: middle ages, 90s, medieval times
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Home Is Where the Killer Is (2019)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: What if Dee Dee Blanchard was a rich lady doctor who preyed on her roommates and also loved to watch Downton Abbey?
Style: psychological, suspense, disturbing, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: girlfriend girlfriend relationship, social problems, relationships, friends, life is a bitch, obsession, relationship problems, girlfriend, friendship, female protagonist, mysterious death, mysterious event ...
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Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story: In an effort to thwart Grindelwald's plans of raising pure-blood wizards to rule over all non-magical beings, Albus Dumbledore enlists his former student Newt Scamander, who agrees to help, though he's unaware of the dangers that lie ...
Style: fairy tale, mysterious, exciting, breathtaking, dark fantasy ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: magic, wizard, magical creature, fantasy world, good versus evil, magic wand, witch, magical, animal cruelty, wizards and magicians, harry potter, wizarding world ...
Time: 2020s, year 1939, year 1932, 1930s
Place: berlin germany, germany, new york, rio de janeiro, london ...
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Mister Designer (1987)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A famous artist strives to find the secret of eternal life through the beautiful mannequins he creates.
Style: surreal, slasher, art house, visual, mystical ...
Plot: psychedelia, macabre, puppet, doll, painter, perestroika, surrealism, secret, artist, arrogance, mysterious past, dark secret ...
Time: 1900s, 1910s
Place: ussr, soviet union, st. petersburg russia
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 5.3
 169K
The Nun (2018)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When a young nun at a cloistered abbey in Romania takes her own life, a priest with a haunted past and a novitiate on the threshold of her final vows are sent by the Vatican to investigate. Together they uncover the order’s unholy secret. Risking ...
Style: scary, demonic, suspense, bleak, surprise ending ...
Audience: adult
Plot: exorcism, supernatural, ghost, supernatural horror, nun, paranormal, demon, evil nun, priest, murder, nightmare, suicide ...
Time: 2010s, year 1952, 1950s, 20th century
Place: romania, rome italy, xian
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The Garden of Sinners: Overlooking View (2007)
Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 49 min.
Story: When an odd string of suicides begins to occur at a local high rise building, most of the townsfolk treat it as an unfortunate series of events. One girl, however, senses something more sinister at work - especially when a close friend of hers falls ...
Style: anime, manga, tense, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: supernatural, investigation, paranormal phenomena, hospital, possessed human, surrealism, suicide, evil, serial killer, saving a life, danger, escapades ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: japan
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 6.3
 17K
The Fury (1978)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A government agent is determined to come to his son's rescue, when a sinister official kidnaps him to harness his extremely powerful psychic abilities.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, disturbing, stylized ...
Audience: teens
Plot: kidnapping, supernatural, vengeance, telekinesis, chase, rescue, family relations, visceral, danger, espionage, parents and children, secret government organization ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1978, year 1977
Place: chicago, middle east
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Urotsukidôji IV (1993)
Genre: Animation, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 135 min.
Story: It is the age of the Overfiend, and flesh-hungry monsters rule the Earth. Immortal half-demon Amano Jyaku travels the wasteland, witness to the rape and torture of the human race. The last hope for humanity is the demonic Lord of Chaos, the ...
Style: surreal, adult anime, adult animation, hentai, anime ...
Plot: sexual sadism, dystopia, child, surrealism, demon, sadism, rape, macabre, evil child, sexual abuse, supernatural power, fictional war ...
Time: 2010s
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