Possession movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant possession movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspenseful, suspense, scary, demonic, slasher and psychotronic films and TV shows about / with possession, supernatural, demon, exorcism, ghost, demonic possession, supernatural horror, supernatural power, danger and occult plots mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres shot in USA, Canada, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as possession: The Haunting of Morella (1990), 8ight After (2020), The Exorcist (1973), Grace (2014), Demon Witch Child (1975), Anything for Jackson (2020), Exeter (2015), Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016), Fallen (1998), The Quiet Ones (2014).

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The Haunting of Morella (1990)
Genre: Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: An executed witch inhabits her teenaged daughter's body to continue in the pursuit of bloodshed.
Style: gothic, erotic, slasher, independent film, ambiguous ending
Plot: possession, witch, voyeur, lesbian sex, curse, occult, ghost, edgar allan poe, father daughter relationship, monster, haunting, murder of a nude woman ...
Time: 18th century
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 2.9
 223
8ight After (2020)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: After discovering a secret box in the wall of her house, a demonic presence begins terrorizing a YouTuber, at 8 after 1:00am every night.
Style: scary, tense, psychotronic, suspense, bleak ...
Plot: found footage, possession, paranormal, ghost, demon, vlogger, paranormal activity, haunted house, supernatural, paranormal phenomena, death, murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 8.1
 452K
The Exorcist (1973)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: 12-year-old Regan MacNeil begins to adapt an explicit new personality as strange events befall the local area of Georgetown. Her mother becomes torn between science and superstition in a desperate bid to save her daughter, and ultimately turns to ...
Style: scary, suspense, satanic, demonic, psychological ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: religion, supernatural, demon, exorcism, devil, priest, macabre, possession, demonic possession, occult, exorcist, supernatural horror ...
Time: 70s, year 1973, 20th century
Place: persia, usa, washington d.c., asia, new york ...
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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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Demon Witch Child (1975)
Genre: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An old witch seeks vengence through the daughter of the politician who had her thrown in jail. Soon the little girl's head is spinning around, and an old priest is called in to perform an exorcism.
Style: grindhouse, bleak, scary, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: witch, possession, exorcism, witchcraft, demon, priest, child in peril, supernatural power, revenge, satanic cult, transformation, politician ...
Time: 70s
Place: europe, spain
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Anything for Jackson (2020)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A bereaved Satanist couple kidnap a pregnant woman so they can use an ancient spellbook to put their dead grandson's spirit into her unborn child, but they end up summoning more than they bargained for.
Style: suspense, tense, psychotronic, suspenseful, slasher ...
Plot: satanism, satanist, demon, demonic possession, evil spirit, occult ritual, possession, occult, curse, ghost, kidnapping, supernatural ...
Time: 2020s
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 4.5
 6K
Exeter (2015)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: During an all-night, drug-fueled party at an abandoned asylum known for the horrific treatment of its patients, a group of ordinary teens decide to experiment with the occult, mysteriously leading to a violent possession. In an effort to find help, ...
Style: slasher, rough, bleak, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot: abandoned hospital, demon, possession, ghost, exorcism, murder, friendship, secret, party, characters killed one by one, trapped, chase ...
Place: rhode island
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Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In 1965 Los Angeles, a widowed mother and her two daughters add a new stunt to bolster their séance scam business and unwittingly invite authentic evil into their home. When the youngest daughter is overtaken by the merciless spirit, this small ...
Style: scary, suspense, psychological, dark, demonic ...
Plot: macabre, supernatural, possession, occult, ghost, demon, supernatural horror, ouija board, spiritualism, teenager, witchcraft, survival ...
Time: year 2016, 60s, year 1967
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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
Is relevant ?
 5.1
 21K
The Quiet Ones (2014)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A university student and some classmates are recruited to carry out a private experiment -- to create a poltergeist. Their subject: an alluring, but dangerously disturbed young woman. Their quest: to explore the dark energy that her damaged psyche ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, suspense, stylized, splatter ...
Plot: paranormal phenomena, experiment, seance, cameraman, possession, doll, found footage, poltergeist, skepticism, ghost, student, supernatural ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: england
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Hold Your Breath (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: There is an old wives' tale that you should hold your breath when passing by a cemetery lest an evil spirit rejected by both heaven and hell gets inside of you when you inhale. Someone in a carload of college kids on holiday doesn't hold ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ghost, urban legend, supernatural, curses spells and rituals, possession, prison, danger, youth, human host, redneck, serial killer, exorcism ...
Time: year 2012, 1950s, 21st century
Place: usa
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 8.4
 1.1M
The Shining (1980)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 146 min.
Story: Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.
Style: psychological, suspense, scary, atmospheric, psychological thriller ...
Audience: adult
Plot: isolation, hotel, insanity, psychopath, supernatural, stephen king, ghost, snow, winter, macabre, imaginary friend, evil ...
Time: 20th century, year 1980, 1920s, 80s, 70s
Place: colorado, persia, denver colorado, usa, miami ...
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 4.5
 2K
Anguish (2015)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A new girl in a quiet town, Tess tries to manage her psychosis while adjusting to her new life with her mom. After stumbling upon the shrine of Lucy, a hit and run victim, Tess finds herself overwhelmed by hallucinations of the dead girl and starts ...
Style: suspense, psychological, scary, tense, captivating ...
Plot: supernatural, possession, disorder, nightmare, mental disorder, mother daughter relationship, hallucination, mentally unstable, paranoia, dissociative identity disorder, soldier, female protagonist ...
Place: india
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Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Bizarre nightmares plague Regan MacNeil four years after her possession and exorcism. Has the demon returned? And if so, can the combined faith and knowledge of a Vatican investigator and a hypnotic research specialist free her from its grasp?
Style: demonic, scary, religious horror, splatter, surreal ...
Audience: adult
Plot: possession, demon, exorcism, priest, good versus evil, supernatural, psychic, surrealism, demonic possession, pact with the devil, exorcist, devil ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: africa, washington d.c., usa, new york, manhattan new york city
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 5.3
 16K
Demonic (2015)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A police officer and a psychologist investigate the deaths of five people who were killed while trying to summon ghosts.
Style: scary, demonic, serious, suspenseful, detective ...
Plot: haunted house, possession, supernatural, ghost, demon, teenager, video surveillance, investigation, missing person, characters killed one by one, found footage, characters murdered one by one ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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From a House on Willow Street (2016)
Genre: Action, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: South Africa
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After a young woman is kidnapped, her captors soon come to realize that in fact they may be the ones in danger and this young woman has a dark secret inside her.
Style: scary, disturbing, tense, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: demon, possession, demonic possession, supernatural, kidnapping, abduction, nightmare, violence, ghost, evil, danger, little girl ...
Place: south africa
Is relevant ?
 5.9
 812
Ballet (1989)
Genre: Fantasy, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story: An American ballerina arrives in Hungary to enroll in a ballet school and it soon becomes apparent that things are not what they seem.
Style: captivating, suspenseful, suspense, exciting, surprise ending ...
Plot: possession, dancing, obsession, ballerina, haunted by the past, ghost, love interest, conspiracy, female ghost, ballet school, rehearsal, american abroad ...
Time: 19th century
Place: budapest, europe, eastern europe, central europe
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 6.1
 6K
Demon (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Poland, Israel
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A bridegroom is possessed by an unquiet spirit in the midst of his own wedding celebration, in this clever take on the Jewish legend of the dybbuk.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, bleak, spooky, scary ...
Plot: demon, possession, wedding, ghost, wedding party, demonic possession, bride and groom, missing person, wedding day, father son relationship, search party, obsession ...
Place: poland, europe
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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
Is relevant ?
 7.3
 373K
Hereditary (2018)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: After their reclusive grandmother passes away, the Graham family begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry. The more they discover, the more they find themselves trying to outrun the sinister fate they seem ...
Style: psychological horror, spooky, disturbing, satanic, psychological ...
Audience: adult
Plot: fear, supernatural horror, dysfunctional family, ghost, grief, demon, seance, supernatural, evil spirit, possession, secret society, funeral ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: utah, america
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The Blackcoat's Daughter (2015)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In the dead of winter, Kat and Rose, two very different girls, find themselves spending winter break at their prestigious prep school. What they don't know is that Kat is being stalked by an evil entity, and their lives are about to change ...
Style: demonic, scary, disturbing, psychological horror, creepy ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: boarding school, possession, satanism, teenage girl, nun, murder, loneliness, snow, supernatural horror, demonic possession, supernatural, flash forward ...
Place: new york state
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 7.8
 442K
Ghostbusters (1984)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: After losing their academic posts at a prestigious university, a team of parapsychologists goes into business as proton-pack-toting "ghostbusters" who exterminate ghouls, hobgoblins and supernatural pests of all stripes. An ad campaign ...
Style: funny, humorous, entertaining, light, cult classic ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot: supernatural, ghost, monster, nerd, transformation, paranormal investigation, giant monster, chase, imagination, accountant, friendship, librarian ...
Time: 80s, year 1984, year 2016, 20th century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, nova scotia, usa
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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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 5.3
 14K
Incarnate (2016)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: An exorcist comes up against an evil from his past when he uses his skills to enter the mind of a nine year old boy.
Style: scary, suspenseful, serious, satanic, rough ...
Plot: demonic possession, possession, supernatural, exorcism, demon, exorcist, danger, possessed, scientist, imaginary, haunted by the past, supernatural ability ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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The Exorcist III (1990)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Set fifteen years after the original film, The Exorcist III centers around the philosophical Lieutenant William F. Kinderman who is investigating a baffling series of murders around Georgetown that all contain the hallmarks of The Gemini, a deceased ...
Style: demonic, scary, suspenseful, religious horror, splatter ...
Audience: adult
Plot: serial killer, demon, possession, supernatural, demonic possession, macabre, exorcist, priest, investigation, murder, violence, hospital ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 80s, year 1998
Place: washington d.c., virginia, usa, india, copenhagen
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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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Amityville II: The Possession (1982)
Genre: Horror
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The Lutz family have managed to flee their home with their lives intact, but before them, another family lived in this house and were caught up in the original evil who weren't so lucky...
Style: demonic, scary, slasher, splatter, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: haunted house, incest, possession, dysfunctional family, demon, demonic possession, supernatural, ghost, female nudity, brother sister kiss, brother sister incest, wife abuse ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
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The Amityville Horror (1979)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: George Lutz and his wife Kathleen, move into their Long Island dream house with their children only for their lives to be turned into a hellish nightmare. The legacy of a murder committed in the house gradually affects the family and a priest is ...
Style: scary, demonic, suspenseful, grindhouse, creepy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: haunted house, ghost, supernatural, haunted, paranormal, murder, fear, possession, supernatural horror, macabre, indian burial ground, demon ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1974, year 1975
Place: long island
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Exorcism: The Possession of Gail Bowers (2006)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The film takes place in an undisclosed part of Florida, in which a priest is called upon to help exorcise Gail Bowers, who has come to be possessed by malevolent forces.
Style: demonic, mockbuster, tense, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: possession, exorcism, demon, curse, demonic possession, murder, violence, older woman younger man, older woman younger man relationship, priest, good versus evil, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Voodoo Possession (2014)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Imagine an insatiable demon that feeds on blood, thrives on pain, and reaches from beyond the grave to torment the living...and the dead. For believers and skeptics alike, there is nothing in this world or the next to rival the relentless evil of a ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, suspense, tense, captivating ...
Plot: possession, supernatural, rivalry, danger, curse, demonic possession, exorcism, demon, showdown, salvation, shaolin, hospital ...
Time: 21st century
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