Demonic possession movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant demonic possession movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspenseful, demonic, scary, suspense, serious and psychological films and TV shows about / with demonic possession, possession, supernatural, demon, exorcism, supernatural horror, danger, priest, ghost and paranormal plots mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres shot in USA, UK, Mexico and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as demonic possession: The Crucifixion (2017), The Exorcist (2016), Here Comes the Devil (2012), The Rite (2011), Luciferina (2018), The Vatican Tapes (2015), The Exorcism of God (2021), Deliver Us from Evil (2014), Evil Dead (2013), The Possession of Michael King (2014).

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The Crucifixion (2017)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Romania, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When a priest is jailed for the murder of a nun on whom he was performing an exorcism, an investigative journalist strives to determine whether he in fact murdered a mentally ill person, or if he lost the battle with a demonic presence.
Style: satanic, captivating, suspenseful, demonic, horrifying ...
Plot: demonic possession, exorcism, nun, demon, priest, investigation, journalist, prison, exorcist, possession, supernatural power, death ...
Place: romania
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 7.9
 31K
The Exorcist (2016)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Follow the lives of two very different priests tackling one family’s case of terrifying demonic possession.
Style: suspenseful, disturbing, scary, exciting, spooky ...
Plot: demonic possession, supernatural, priest, exorcist, possessed woman, exorcism, possession, catholic priest, macabre, danger, religion, paranormal ...
Time: 2010s
Place: chicago
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Here Comes the Devil (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A married couple loses their children while on a family trip near some caves in Tijuana. The kids eventually reappear without explanation, but it becomes clear that they are not who they used to be, that something terrifying has changed them.
Style: scary, serious, tense, creepy, disturbing ...
Plot: demonic possession, family problems, danger, parents and children, gory, siblings relations, family in crisis, strong sexual content, legends and myths, supernatural, supernatural power, murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, mexico, tijuana mexico
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 6.0
 102K
The Rite (2011)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Hungary, Italy
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Seminary student Michael Kovak (Colin O'Donoghue) reluctantly attends exorcism school at the Vatican. While he’s in Rome, Michael meets an unorthodox priest, Father Lucas (Anthony Hopkins), who introduces him to the darker side of his faith, ...
Style: scary, suspense, disturbing, atmospheric, demonic ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: supernatural, exorcism, church, supernatural horror, clergy, demonic possession, good versus evil, vatican, curses spells and rituals, supernatural ability, teachers and students, catholic ...
Time: year 2011, year 2000, 21st century
Place: italy, europe, rome italy, xian
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Luciferina (2018)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Argentina
Duration: 114 min.
Story: After receiving bad news, Natalia, a young novice, returns home, where her sister Ángela asks her to travel with her and her friends to a mysterious place.
Style: scary, bleak, disturbing, psychotronic, suspense
Plot: demonic possession, satanism, exorcism, sister sister relationship, violence, female protagonist, deadly creature, curses spells and rituals, supernatural, demon, supernatural power, paranormal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina
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The Vatican Tapes (2015)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In a highly secured vault deep within the walls of Vatican City, the Catholic Church holds thousands of old films and video footage documenting exorcisms/supposed exorcisms and other unexplained religious phenomena they feel the world is not ready ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, demonic, serious, suspense ...
Plot: exorcism, demonic possession, vatican, supernatural horror, antichrist, curses spells and rituals, supernatural, found footage, possession, priest, religions or cults, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, rome italy
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The Exorcism of God (2021)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Mexico, Venezuela, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: An American priest working in Mexico is considered a saint by many local parishioners. However, due to a botched exorcism, he carries a secret that’s eating him alive until he gets an opportunity to face his demon one final time.
Style: tense, psychological, suspense, disturbing, captivating
Plot: exorcism, demonic possession, exorcist, priest, nun, possessed, confronting the past, moral dilemma, small town life, demon, religious faith, sin ...
Place: mexico
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Deliver Us from Evil (2014)
Genre: Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: When a frightening wave of violence sweeps through New York City, troubled cop Sarchie fails to find a rational explanation for the bizarre crimes. However, his eyes are opened to a frightening alternate reality when renegade Jesuit priest, Mendoza ...
Style: scary, demonic, suspense, mystical, suspenseful ...
Plot: exorcism, demonic possession, supernatural, occult, curses spells and rituals, supernatural horror, catholic, partner, possessed, demon, bible, police investigation ...
Time: year 2014, year 2000, year 2010, year 2013, 21st century
Place: iraq, new york, usa, bronx new york city
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 6.5
 196K
Evil Dead (2013)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, New Zealand, Australia
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Evil Dead, the fourth installment of the Evil Dead franchise, serving as both a reboot and as a loose continuation of the series, features Mia, a young woman struggling with sobriety, heads to a remote cabin with a group of friends where the ...
Style: scary, bloody, suspenseful, slasher, demonic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: gory, demon, supernatural, zombie, demonic possession, blood, violence, extreme violence, cabin in the woods, addiction, woods, fear ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, year 2000, 80s, 21st century
Place: usa
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The Possession of Michael King (2014)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: The film tells the story of documentary filmmaker Michael King (Shane Johnson), who doesn’t believe in God or the Devil. Following the sudden death of his wife, Michael decides to make his next film about the search for the existence of the ...
Style: demonic, dark, scary, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: demonic possession, occult, found footage, supernatural, demon, possession, satanic ritual, self destructing, cemetery, curses spells and rituals, danger, dealing with death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 7.8
 32K
Evil (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Skeptical female clinical psychologist Kristen Benoist joins a priest-in-training and a blue-collar contractor as they investigate supposed miracles, demonic possessions, and other extraordinary occurrences to see if there’s a scientific ...
Style: exciting, psychological, enigmatic, christian film, captivating ...
Plot: paranormal investigation, spirituality, miraculous event, investigation, twists and turns, demonic possession, murder mystery, catholic priest, demon, riddles and clues, psychologist, supernatural power ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, 21st century
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 4.6
 4K
Grace (2014)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A unique horror film told from the first-person perspective of Grace - a naive, virginal college freshman trying to deal with campus culture and her outgoing roommate as an evil entity takes over her body and unleashes chaos.
Style: demonic, psychological, stylized, suspenseful, scary ...
Audience: teens
Plot: exorcism, demonic possession, possession, demon, teenage girl, supernatural, college, found footage, grandmother granddaughter relationship, danger, youth, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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The Inhabitant (2017)
Genre: Horror
Country: Mexico
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Three sisters enter the house of a senator with the intention of stealing money obtained from bribes, but once inside, they begin to hear strange cries coming from the basement.
Style: rough, suspenseful, suspense, bleak, exciting
Plot: demonic possession, exorcist, priest, car accident, suicide, obsession, little girl, satanism, devil worship, exorcism, pope, abusive father ...
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The Devil in Me (2012)
Genre: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Alexandra is a lively college student returning to live with her roommates Jessica and Breanne after the summer holidays. After a night of drinking, Alex agrees to a psychic reading to learn about her future with her boyfriend, Brian, but during the ...
Style: psychological, scary, demonic, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: demonic possession, fortune teller, supernatural, ghost, woman in danger, seance, exorcism, possession, curses spells and rituals, demon, nudity, dance club ...
Time: 21st century
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The Atticus Institute (2015)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: In the early 1970s, Dr. Henry West creates an institute to find people with supernatural abilities. When Judith Winstead comes to the facility, she exhibits amazing abilities that the military wants to turn into a weapon.
Style: scary, suspenseful, serious, mockumentary, sexy ...
Plot: exorcism, supernatural, demonic possession, research, psychic, supernatural ability, possession, military, medical, parapsychology, experiment gone awry, danger ...
Time: year 2015, 20th century, 70s
Place: usa, pennsylvania
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 7.5
 130K
The Omen (1976)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Immediately after their miscarriage, the US diplomat Robert Thorn adopts the newborn Damien without the knowledge of his wife. Yet what he doesn’t know is that their new son is the son of the devil. A classic horror film with Gregory Peck from ...
Style: suspenseful, bleak, satanic, psychological, scary ...
Audience: adult
Plot: devil, evil child, prophecy, satan, supernatural, macabre, priest, murder, demon, demonic possession, gory, religion ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1976
Place: london, persia, britain, rome italy, england ...
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 7.3
 298K
The Conjuring 2 (2016)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, UK
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Lorraine and Ed Warren travel to north London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by malicious spirits.
Style: scary, dark, suspenseful, atmospheric, creepy ...
Audience: adult
Plot: haunted house, supernatural, ghost, demonic possession, paranormal investigation, demon, single mother, supernatural horror, psychic, fear, child in peril, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 70s, year 2016, 2010s, year 1976, year 1977 ...
Place: england, peru, london
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Night of the Demons (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: While conducting a seance during a Halloween party, high-school seniors unlock the demon that remains locked in the crematorium.
Style: scary, gothic, demonic, suspenseful, grindhouse ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: haunted house, demon, halloween, gory, brutality, demonic possession, supernatural, killed during sex, teenager, ghost, dark humor, halloween party ...
Time: 80s
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The Devil Inside (2012)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: In Italy, a woman becomes involved in a series of unauthorized exorcisms during her mission to discover what happened to her mother, who allegedly murdered three people during her own exorcism.
Style: demonic, scary, suspenseful, suspense, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: found footage, demonic possession, exorcism, supernatural, exorcist, possession, possessed girl, investigation, uncover truth, possessed, death, haunted by the past ...
Time: year 2000, year 2012, 80s, year 2009, year 1989 ...
Place: rome italy, italy, america, europe
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 4.7
 53K
The Unborn (2009)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A young woman fights the spirit that is slowly taking possession of her.
Style: scary, suspense, demonic, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Plot: supernatural, afterlife, ghost, supernatural horror, demonic possession, uncover truth, possession, twins, death, insect, woman in danger, brutality ...
Time: year 2000, year 2009
Place: middle east
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[REC] 4: Apocalypse (2014)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Ángela Vidal the young television reporter who entered the building with the fireman, manages to make it out alive. But what the soldiers don?t know is that she carries the seed of the strange infection. She is to be taken to a provisional ...
Style: bloody, scary, bleak, suspense, rough ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: zombie, quarantine, zombie outbreak, demonic possession, gory, virus, found footage, isolation, chaos, danger, violence spree, confined ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, barcelona
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 6.9
 6K
Requiem (2006)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Michaela, an epileptic, enrolls in college to study education. She goes off her medication and soon begins hearing voices and seeing apparitions that tell her to avoid religious objects, although she is devoutly Roman Catholic. One priest scoffs at ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, demonic, suspenseful, sincere ...
Plot: mental illness, epilepsy, friendship, religion, small town, depression, insanity, possession, family relations, character study, demonic possession, domineering mother ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: germany, europe
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 7.5
 551K
The Conjuring (2013)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren work to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in their farmhouse. Forced to confront a powerful entity, the Warrens find themselves caught in the most terrifying case of their lives.
Style: scary, dark, atmospheric, suspenseful, frightening ...
Audience: family friendly, teens, adult
Plot: haunted house, supernatural, ghost, exorcism, witch, paranormal investigation, fear, possession, psychic, paranormal, haunting, supernatural horror ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 70s, year 2000, 20th century ...
Place: rhode island, new england, connecticut, usa
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 3.3
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Sacred Flesh (2000)
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Taunted by visions of Mary Magdalene, who reveals the confessions of the younger nuns at the convent, the Mother Superior's mind is filled with the violent, sexual acts of her fellow sisters.
Style: serious, psychological, suspenseful, sensual, disturbing ...
Plot: nun, convent, nunsploitation, clergy, lesbian sex, priest, female nudity, lust, erotica, obsession, dangerous attraction, destructive relationship ...
Time: 18th century
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 6.5
 134K
Evil Dead Rise (2023)
Genre: Horror
Country: Ireland, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Two sisters find an ancient book that gives birth to bloodthirsty demons that run amok in a Los Angeles apartment building and thrusts them into a primal battle for survival as they face the most nightmarish version of family imaginable.
Style: psychological, mystical, suspenseful, slasher, psychotronic ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: sister sister relationship, demonic possession, demon, sibling relationship, evil, earthquake, supernatural horror, back from the dead, chainsaw, evil smile, elevator, blood ...
Time: 2020s
Place: los angeles
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The Possession of Hannah Grace (2018)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: When a cop who is just out of rehab takes the graveyard shift in a city hospital morgue, she faces a series of bizarre, violent events caused by an evil entity in one of the corpses.
Style: mystical, scary, suspense, demonic, bleak ...
Audience: adult
Plot: morgue, demonic possession, exorcism, corpse, demon, supernatural, hospital, fear, police officer, terror, priest, paranormal ...
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The Night House (2020)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Reeling from the unexpected death of her husband, Beth is left alone in the lakeside home he built for her. Soon she begins to uncover her recently deceased husband's disturbing secrets.
Style: dark, suspense, disturbing, atmospheric, psychological ...
Audience: adult
Plot: occult, demonic possession, afterlife, grief, forest, depressed woman, suicide, ghost, widow, high school student, female protagonist, invisibility ...
Time: 2020s
Place: new york state
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 7.0
 92K
Fallen (1998)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Homicide detective John Hobbes witnesses the execution of serial killer Edgar Reese. Soon after the execution the killings start again, and they are very similar to Reese's style.
Style: detective, twist ending, surprise ending, neo noir, suspense ...
Plot: supernatural, serial killer, murder, devil, psychopath, good versus evil, possession, twists and turns, police detective, psychic, demon, demonic possession ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, new york, philadelphia
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Prey for the Devil (2022)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Sister Ann is a restless 25-year-old who devoutly believes that performing exorcisms is her calling. But she is at odds with the institution's traditions: nuns are not allowed to perform exorcisms, only priests. With the support of a mentor, a ...
Style: disturbing, scary, tense, suspense, surprise ending ...
Plot: exorcism, good versus evil, demonic possession, exorcist, nun, curse, evil, female protagonist, supernatural, possession, catholic school, danger ...
Time: 2020s
Place: usa, boston
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 7.0
 372K
Constantine (2005)
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 121 min.
Story: John Constantine has literally been to Hell and back. When he teams up with a policewoman to solve the mysterious suicide of her twin sister, their investigation takes them through the world of demons and angels that exists beneath the landscape of ...
Style: dark fantasy, gothic, suspense, satanic, stylized ...
Audience: family friendly, chick flick, boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: supernatural, demon, occult, devil, angel, exorcism, good versus evil, demonic possession, heaven and hell, hell, superhero, suicide ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, usa, mexico
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