Girl in peril movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant girl in peril movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out scary, suspenseful, psychological, slasher, bloody and psychotronic films and TV shows about / with girl in peril, suspense, murder, violence, supernatural, death, blood, revenge, serial killer and fear 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 girl in peril: Leatherface (2017), Scream (2022), The Devil's Candy (2015), Witch (2019), Maligno (2016), Spirit Riding Free (2017), The Silencing (2020), The Purge (2013), Happy Death Day (2017), Mang Kepweng Returns (2017).

List of girl in peril movies

 5.0
 25K
Leatherface (2017)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A young nurse is kidnapped by a group of violent teens who escape from a mental hospital and take her on the road trip from hell. Pursued by an equally deranged lawman out for revenge, one of the teens is destined for tragedy and horrors that will ...
Style: slasher, psychotronic, bleak, brutal, rough ...
Plot: serial killer, chainsaw, chainsaw murder, panic, psycho killer, kidnapping, psychopath, violence, fear, countryside, face mask, mutilation ...
Time: year 1965, year 1955, 50s
Place: texas, southern usa
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 6.3
 125K
Scream (2022)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Twenty-five years after a streak of brutal murders shocked the quiet town of Woodsboro, a new killer has donned the Ghostface mask and begins targeting a group of teenagers to resurrect secrets from the town’s deadly past.
Style: slasher, bleak, suspenseful, scary, psychotronic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: masked killer, serial killer, whodunit, sister sister relationship, psychopath, homicidal maniac, killing spree, sadistic psychopath, threatening telephone call, murder mystery, characters killed one by one, gory violence ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: usa, california
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The Devil's Candy (2015)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: A struggling painter is possessed by satanic forces after he and his young family move into their dream home in rural Texas.
Style: scary, disturbing, suspenseful, bleak, rough ...
Plot: father daughter relationship, painting, serial killer, kidnapping, haunted house, artist, buying a house, art gallery, psychotic, child abduction, hearing voices, religion ...
Place: austin texas
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 5.3
 110
Witch (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A single mother is an expert in black magic, but has never used it to do evil, until a prostitution network kidnaps her daughter.
Style: suspenseful, psychological, unusual plot structure, tense
Plot: witch, black magic, illegal prostitution, kidnapping, girl in peril, mother daughter relationship, brothel, violence, peril, chase, heroes, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina
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 5.6
 80
Maligno (2016)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Peru
Duration: 87 min.
Story: After causing a bloody slaughter in a hospital, the most cruel and powerful forest spirit is trapped in a pavilion, after a ritual of witchcraft. Decades later, the wall is broke, waking the evil force. When a young teen is possessed by the spirit, ...
Style: scary, disturbing, bleak
Plot: ghost, haunted house, trapped, death, girl in peril, demon, demonic possession, possession, urban legend, evil force, paranormal phenomena, supernatural power ...
Time: 21st century
Place: peru
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Spirit Riding Free (2017)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: In a small Western town, spunky ex-city girl Lucky forms a tight bond with wild horse Spirit while having adventures with best pals Pru and Abigail.
Style: captivating, light, entertaining, semi serious, 3d animation
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: horse riding, horse, friendship between girls, cartoon horse, wild horse, girl horse relationship, girl in peril, cowboy, female protagonist, old west, friendship, friends ...
Time: 2010s, year 2017
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 6.2
 28K
The Silencing (2020)
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A reformed hunter becomes involved in a deadly game of cat and mouse when he and the local sheriff set out to track a vicious killer who may have kidnapped his daughter years ago.
Style: captivating, tense, psychological, disturbing, thrilling ...
Plot: suspense, serial killer, forest, disappearance, manhunt, sheriff, hunter, missing daughter, small town, missing person, dead girl, investigation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, chicago illinois
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 5.7
 228K
The Purge (2013)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Given the country's overcrowded prisons, the U.S. government begins to allow 12-hour periods of time in which all illegal activity is legal. During one of these free-for-alls, a family must protect themselves from a home invasion.
Style: scary, tense, psychological, suspenseful, twist ending ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: home invasion, survival, self defense, violence spree, family in danger, society, distopia, suspense, social decay, killing spree, security system, chaos ...
Time: future, near future, 2020s, 21st century
Place: usa, california
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 6.6
 148K
Happy Death Day (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A college student relives the day of her murder over and over again as she tries to discover her killer's identity.
Style: surprise ending, slasher, twist ending, captivating, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: time loop, time travel, college, college student, mystery killer, murderer, repeated event, dying repeatedly, murder, masked killer, alternate timeline, surprise birthday party ...
Time: 2010s, year 2017
Place: arizona
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Mang Kepweng Returns (2017)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Philippines
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A remake of a funny quack doctor who was originally portrayed by the late comedian Chiquito in 1979. Its a story of the quack doctor's son and his adventures with the magical bandana.
Style: psychotronic, disturbing, bleak, exciting, scary ...
Audience: horror for children
Plot: supernatural power, supernatural being, evil being, girl in peril, evil girl, paranormal phenomena, good versus evil, ghost, monster, exorcist, paranormal, exorcism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: the philippines
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 4.7
 4K
Separation (2021)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A young girl finds solace in her artist father and the ghost of her dead mother.
Style: bleak, scary, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
Plot: ghost, supernatural, suspense, daughter, mother, father, supernatural power, girl in peril, paranormal, society, good versus evil, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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Jeepers Creepers (2001)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A college-age brother and sister get more than they bargained for on their road trip home from spring break. When the bickering siblings witness a creepy truck driver tossing body bags into a sewer near an abandoned church, they investigate. Bad ...
Style: scary, slasher, disturbing, suspenseful, bloody ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: monster, supernatural, macabre, demon, death, serial killer, scarecrow, torture, suspense, characters murdered one by one, chase, road trip ...
Time: 2000s, 80s, 21st century
Place: florida
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Black Christmas (1974)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A sorority house is terrorized by a stranger who makes frightening phone calls and then murders the sorority sisters during Christmas break.
Style: slasher, scary, atmospheric, psychological, bloody ...
Audience: teens
Plot: christmas, serial killer, murder, sorority, serial murder, psychopath, holiday, winter, violence, suspense, prank telephone call, mental illness ...
Time: 70s, 80s, 20th century
Place: canada
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When a Stranger Calls (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Far away from the site of a gruesome murder, a teenager named Jill Johnson arrives at a luxurious home for a baby-sitting job. With the children fast asleep, she settles in for what she expects to be an ordinary evening. Soon, the ringing of a phone ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, tense, slasher, intense ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: serial killer, suspense, high school, home invasion, stalking, murder, babysitting, husband wife relationship, teenager, survival, psychopath, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, colorado
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 7.4
 354K
Scream (1996)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A killer known as Ghostface begins killing off teenagers, and as the body count begins rising, one girl and her friends find themselves contemplating the 'rules' of horror films as they find themselves living in a real-life one.
Style: slasher, suspenseful, scary, bloody, parody ...
Audience: teens, kids, chick flick, date night
Plot: serial killer, high school, teenager, small town, psychopath, murder, masked killer, twists and turns, suspense, woman in danger, teenage life, violent ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s
Place: california, usa
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 7.7
 286K
Halloween (1978)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In John Carpenter's horror classic, a psychotic murderer, institutionalized since childhood for the murder of his sister, escapes and stalks a bookish teenage girl and her friends while his doctor chases him through the streets.
Style: slasher, scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: halloween, serial killer, psychopath, murder, masked killer, suspense, small town, psychiatrist, violence, violent, high school, evil ...
Time: year 1978, 70s, 80s, year 1963, 20th century ...
Place: california, illinois, midwest
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 5.8
 13K
Terror Train (1980)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A masked killer targets six college kids responsible for a prank gone wrong three years earlier and who are currently throwing a large New Year's Eve costume party aboard a moving train.
Style: slasher, scary, suspenseful, bloody, intense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: murder, masked killer, serial killer, train, prank, psychopath, survival, stalking, youth, uninvited guest, medical student, new year's eve ...
Time: 80s, year 1980, 20th century
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 6.2
 156K
Scream 4 (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Sidney Prescott, now the author of a self-help book, returns home to Woodsboro on the last stop of her book tour. There she reconnects with Sheriff Dewey and Gale, who are now married, as well as her cousin Jill and her Aunt Kate. Unfortunately, ...
Style: scary, slasher, suspenseful, splatter, brutal ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: serial killer, masked killer, serial murder, high school, mystery killer, woman in danger, psychopath, suspense, murder, twists and turns, revenge, small town ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
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 5.3
 19K
Prom Night (1980)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: This slasher movie follows a relentless killer who is out to avenge the death of a young girl who died after being bullied and teased by four of her classmates. Now high-school students, the guilt-ridden kids have kept their involvement a secret, ...
Style: slasher, sexy, bloody, realistic, serious ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: high school, serial killer, teenager, prom, masked killer, revenge, murder, teenage sex, high school prom, prom queen, female nudity, sexual predator ...
Time: 70s, 80s, year 1980, 20th century
Place: canada
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A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The film that brings back horror icon Freddy Krueger as a darker and more sinister character than ever before. While Freddy is on the prowl a group of teenagers being stalked soon learn they all have a common factor making them targets for this ...
Style: slasher, scary, suspenseful, surreal, intense ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: murder, death, nightmare, nightmare comes true, serial killer, monster, torture, dream, youth, serial murder, surrealism, brutality ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ohio, usa
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 5.3
 6K
Mother's Day (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Three girls discover that two men are willing to do anything to impress Mother and what impresses Mother is watching her sons commit acts of rape and murder. Now these women are prisoners and lowered to pawns in the game of checkers between two dim ...
Style: slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, rough, serious ...
Plot: kidnapping, murder, serial killer, psychopath, rape and revenge, backwoods, redneck, forest, mentally unstable, survival, rape, violence spree ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: new jersey
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The Last House on the Left (1972)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Mari and Phyllis go to the "big city" to see their favorite band BloodLust. Along the way they meet up with newly escaped convict Krug and his gang.
Style: disturbing, slasher, scary, controversial, bleak ...
Audience: teens
Plot: rape, serial killer, rape and revenge, youth, revenge, psychopath, life is a bitch, violent, vengeance, kidnapping, murder, police investigation ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, 80s
Place: new york, connecticut
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When They Cry (2006)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: After moving into the quiet town of Hinamizawa, Maebara Keiichi spends his days blissfully in school often playing games with his local friends. However, appearances can be deceiving. One fateful day, Keiichi stumbles upon news of a murder that had ...
Style: anime, psychological, serious, suspenseful, mind bending ...
Plot: murder, psychopath, village, time loop, torture, disappearance, rage, folklore, fear, under the surface, secret, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1983
Place: japan, asia
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The Hills Have Eyes (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, France, Morocco
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Based on Wes Craven's 1977 suspenseful cult classic, The Hills Have Eyes is the story of a family road trip that goes terrifyingly awry when the travelers become stranded in a government atomic zone. Miles from nowhere, the Carter family soon ...
Style: slasher, scary, brutal, suspenseful, splatter ...
Audience: teens
Plot: desert, torture, cannibalism, survival, rape, fear, human monster, stranded, victim, kidnapping, trapped, massacre ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: new mexico, usa
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 6.4
 144K
Friday the 13th (1980)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp that was the site of a child's drowning.
Style: slasher, scary, suspenseful, bloody, dark ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, camp, suspense, maniac, summer, murder, revenge, monster, disturbed individual, forest, brutality, fear ...
Time: 80s, 50s, 70s, 20th century, year 1958
Place: new jersey, usa
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High School of the Dead (2010)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: When the world is struck by a deadly pandemic that turns humans into zombies, Takashi Komuro and several of his classmates at Fujimi High School try to survive the apocalypse.
Style: anime, bleak, exciting, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: zombie, survivor, apocalypse, harem, chaos, plague, supernatural, hot and sexy, survival, graphic violence, dark humor, zombie survival ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
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 5.9
 22K
No One Lives (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A gang of ruthless highway killers kidnap a wealthy couple traveling cross country only to shockingly discover that things are not what they seem.
Style: scary, psychological, slasher, splatter, dark ...
Plot: kidnapping, psychopath, serial killer, strong violent content, serial murder, hunt down, massacre, murder, trap, woman in danger, gang, captivity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Dario Argento's Phenomena (1985)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy, Switzerland
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A young girl, with an amazing ability to communicate with insects, is transferred to an exclusive Swiss boarding school, where her unusual capability might help solve a string of murders.
Style: surreal, scary, suspenseful, slasher, disturbing ...
Audience: teens, pre-teens
Plot: serial killer, supernatural, murder, investigation, psychopath, suspense, chimpanzee, boarding school, telepathy, macabre, school, disfigurement ...
Time: 80s, year 1985, 20th century
Place: switzerland, europe, alps, munich germany
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 161 min.
Story: Ignoring threats to his life, Harry returns to Hogwarts to investigate – aided by Ron and Hermione – a mysterious series of attacks.
Style: entertaining, exciting, fairy tale, scenic, dark fantasy ...
Audience: teens, family outing, kids, girls' night, chick flick ...
Plot: magic, harry potter, witch, fantasy world, boarding school, wizards, magical, creature, teacher, supernatural, chosen one, youth ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1992, year 1993, 21st century
Place: england, london, europe
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 8.4
 726K
Aliens (1986)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story: When Ripley's lifepod is found by a salvage crew over 50 years later, she finds that terra-formers are on the very planet they found the alien species. When the company sends a family of colonists out to investigate her story, all contact is ...
Style: scary, futuristic, intense, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: kids, chick flick, boys' night
Plot: alien, strong female character, survival, space travel, monster, space, space and aliens, female warrior, human versus alien, strong female lead, deadly creature, mysterious planet ...
Time: future, 22nd century
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