| Girl in the Basement (2021) | 6.3 | |
| Barbarian (2022) | 7.0 | |
| Pet (2016) | 5.7 | |
| Summer of 84 (2018) | 6.7 | |
| Fright Night (2011) | 6.4 |
Basement movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant basement movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspenseful, suspense, scary, slasher, psychological and disturbing films and TV shows about / with basement, death, murder, danger, serial killer, violence, kidnapping, female protagonist, blood and supernatural plots mostly in Thriller, Horror and Drama genres shot in USA, Canada, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as basement: Girl in the Basement (2021), 3096 Days (2013), Barbarian (2022), Pet (2016), 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016), The Visit (2015), An American Crime (2007), Caged (2010), The Hole (2009), Single White Female (1992).
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List of basement movies
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Sara is a teen girl who is looking forward to her 18th birthday to move away from her controlling father Don. But before she could even blow out the candles, Don imprisons her in the basement of their home.
Style:
suspense, captivating, suspenseful, dark, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
basement, abusive father, father, hostage, father and daughter, captivity, strict father, hidden room, domineering father, bomb shelter, violent father, rescue ...
Time:
20th century, 21st century
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18K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A young Austrian girl is kidnapped and held in captivity for eight years. Based on the real-life case of Natascha Kampusch.
Style:
realistic, saga, rough, controversial, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
kidnapping, child abuse, psychological torture, rape, abduction, basement, life is a bitch, violence against women, pedophile, missing child, stockholm syndrome, kidnapped ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place:
germany, austria
Is relevant?
254K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Bulgaria, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In town for a job interview, a young woman arrives at her Airbnb late at night only to find that it has been mistakenly double-booked and a strange man is already staying there. Against her better judgement, she decides to stay the night anyway, but ...
Style:
psychological horror, scary, suspense, spooky, slasher ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
basement, secret passageway, locked in a room, fear, kidnapping, secret room, locked in, psychopath, rape, serial rapist, terror, serial killer ...
Time:
2020s, 80s
Place:
detroit, brooklyn new york city, usa
Is relevant?
20K
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A man imprisons the woman he's still obsessed with after years apart, then finds the tables turned on him.
Style:
disturbing, suspense, psychological thriller, bleak, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
obsession, basement, captivity, kidnapping, psychopath, fear, locked in a cage, captive, stalking, female psychopath, sadist, animal shelter ...
Place:
los angeles
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
After getting in a car accident, a woman is held in a shelter with two men, who claim the outside world is affected by a widespread chemical attack.
Style:
suspense, surprise ending, minimal cast, twist ending, psychological horror ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
apocalypse, alien invasion, post apocalypse, kidnapping, bunker, strong female character, alien, underground bunker, survivalist, end of the world, conspiracy theory, bomb shelter ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s
Place:
louisiana, peru, new orleans, usa
Is relevant?
172K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The terrifying story of a brother and sister who are sent to their grandparents' remote Pennsylvania farm for a weeklong trip. Once the children discover that the elderly couple is involved in something deeply disturbing, they see their chances ...
Style:
twist ending, suspense, surprise ending, atmospheric, dark ...
Audience:
teens, kids, horror for children
Plot:
danger, elderly, murder, kids in trouble, siblings relations, found footage, grandmother granddaughter relationship, plot twist, basement, farm, parents and children, child protagonist ...
Time:
year 2015, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
philadelphia, usa, pennsylvania
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The true story of suburban housewife Gertrude Baniszewski, who kept a teenage girl locked in the basement of her Indiana home during the 1960s.
Style:
disturbing, harsh, bleak, brutal, sad ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
child abuse, true crime, torture, captivity, murder, threat, dysfunctional family, children, court, courtroom drama, domestic violence, trial ...
Time:
year 2007, 60s, 20th century
Place:
indiana, usa
Is relevant?
3K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Somewhere in Eastern Europe. Carole is a young nurse with a humanitarian aid group that has reached the end of its mission. But just then, the young woman and her two colleagues are kidnapped by strangers for mysterious reasons. Held captive, cared ...
Style:
disturbing, bleak, scary, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
kidnapping, captivity, scarecrow, organ trafficking, woman in danger, confined, danger, basement, farmhouse, abduction, expedition, kidnapped ...
Time:
turn of the century, 21st century
Place:
kosovo, europe, eastern europe, former yugoslavia
Is relevant?
25K
Genre: Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
After moving into a new neighbourhood, brothers Dane & Lucas and their neighbour Julie discover a bottomless hole in the basement of their home. They find that once the hole is exposed, evil is unleashed. With strange shadows lurking around ...
Style:
modern fairy tale, exciting, suspenseful, spooky, creepy ...
Audience:
teens, kids, horror for children
Plot:
basement, little brother, danger, youth, supernatural, good versus evil, small town, young heroes, brother brother relationship, killer clown, disorder, escapades ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Attractive Manhattanite Allison Jones has it all: a handsome beau, a rent-controlled apartment, and a promising career as a fashion designer. When boyfriend Sam proves unfaithful, Allison strikes out on her own but must use the classifieds to seek ...
Style:
sexy, suspense, erotic, psychosexual thriller, intense ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
obsession, psychopath, femme fatale, stalker, mental illness, sex scene, jealousy, sexual harassment, nudity, stalking, murder, dangerous friend ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, san francisco
Is relevant?
864
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A couple moves into a quiet neighborhood. With too much time on her hands, the woman begins to suspect that someone is confined in the basement next door.
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
captive, neighbor, captivity, woman in danger, couples, family relations, dishonesty, psychopath, basement, relocation, crazy neighbor, chamberplay ...
Time:
21st century
Is relevant?
70K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Sue Ann is a loner who keeps to herself in her quiet Ohio town. One day, she is asked by Maggie, a new teenager in town, to buy some booze for her and her friends, and Sue Ann sees the chance to make some unsuspecting, if younger, friends of her ...
Style:
disturbing, suspense, slasher, psychological thriller, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
revenge, underage drinking, basement, mental health, group of friends, twists and turns, teenage girl, psychopath, teenager, social network, female psychopath, teen drinking ...
Time:
80s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A shocking story of captivity and survival inspired by actual events.
Style:
rough, disturbing, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
abduction, held captive, captivity, confined, power relations, child in peril, childhood memory, child abandonment, nightmare, loss of father, minimal dialogue, basement ...
Time:
21st century
Is relevant?
737K
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Eight-year-old Kevin McCallister makes the most of the situation after his family unwittingly leaves him behind when they go on Christmas vacation. But when a pair of bungling burglars set their sights on Kevin's house, the plucky kid stands ...
Style:
funny, light, humorous, not serious, slapstick comedy ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot:
christmas, holiday, home alone, mischievous children, child, children, youth, home invasion, child protagonist, kids and family, childhood, when the parents are away ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1990, year 2016, 80s
Place:
chicago, illinois, north america, usa, france ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
When secretive new neighbors move in next door, suburbanite Ray Peterson and his friends let their paranoia get the best of them as they start to suspect the newcomers of evildoings and commence an investigation. But it's hardly how Ray, who ...
Style:
dark comedy, humorous, funny, black comedy, horror comedy ...
Audience:
teens, kids, date night, teen drama
Plot:
neighbor, suburbs, neighborhood, paranoia, investigation, obsession, nothing goes right, dark humor, fear, basement, suspicion, missing person ...
Time:
80s
Place:
canada
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Herbert West once again revives the dead. This time, he brings Dan's ex-girlfriend's heart back inside a 'perfect' body. Dr. Hill returns as the evil nemesis who lost his head.
Style:
lovecraft, horror comedy, black comedy, independent film, splatter ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
mad scientist, zombie, laboratory, police detective, hospital, gay subtext, reanimation, gory, reanimated corpse, mind control, obsession, dog ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Place:
massachusetts, peru, south america, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A Parisian couple decides to sell an unsanitary basement in their building. A very ordinary, nondescript man, Mr. Fonzic, shows up to buy it. Nothing unusual there, until the man moves into the cellar and makes it his permanent residence. The couple ...
Style:
suspense, psychological, disturbing, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
basement, anti semitism, domestic drama, tragic past, confronting the past, dark past, troubled past, life is a bitch, problem, changing lives, manipulation, threat ...
Place:
paris france
Is relevant?
15K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Anna suffers from agoraphobia so crippling that when a trio of criminals break into her house, she cannot bring herself to flee. But what the intruders don't realize is that agoraphobia is not her only psychosis.
Style:
dark, psychological, suspense, bloody, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
home invasion, agoraphobia, violence, revenge, hidden room, mental disorder, brutality, trapped in a room, basement, intruder, female protagonist, murder ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Saudi Arabia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
At a strict girls’ school, a mysterious fire blazes out of control. Now everyone's questioning whether it was an accident — or arson.
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, psychological, thrilling, tense ...
Plot:
student, school, chaos, basement, fire, girls' school, investigation, campus, panic, schoolgirl, house fire, problem ...
Place:
saudi arabia
Is relevant?
615K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Though Kevin has evidenced 23 personalities to his trusted psychiatrist, Dr. Fletcher, there remains one still submerged who is set to materialize and dominate all the others. Compelled to abduct three teenage girls led by the willful, observant ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, twist ending, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
teens, teen fantasy, teen drama
Plot:
mental illness, kidnapping, dissociative identity disorder, murder, split personality, psycho, insanity, serial killer, paranoia, captive, schizophrenia, psychopath ...
Time:
2010s, year 2016, year 2017
Place:
philadelphia, pennsylvania, america
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Four sexy young girls are to clean an old house for the new owners. They get delivered an old book full of magic incantations, and while reading it they accidentally bring a cartoon character to life. The cartoon character likes the blood of young ...
Style:
dark comedy, parody, independent film, adult animation, disturbing ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
monster, demon, nudity, woman in jeopardy, blood, lesbianism, sexploitation, sexual humor, mansion, striptease, basement, lust ...
Is relevant?
216K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Two young missionaries are forced to prove their faith when they knock on the wrong door and are greeted by a diabolical Mr. Reed, becoming ensnared in his deadly game of cat-and-mouse.
Style:
psychological horror, psychological thriller
Plot:
mormon, religion, atheist, survival horror, book of mormon, theology, basement, latter day saints, cat and mouse, faith, resurrection, social experiment ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The teenager Christina, her younger brother Bobby, and their father James Tarling moves to a rented house in a small town in Washington to be close to Christina's mother Joanne, who is interned in an asylum. The house is being repaired by Howie ...
Style:
slasher, psychological, suspenseful, rough, scary ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
murder, psychopath, mental illness, psychiatric hospital, house, small town, serial killer, amateur detective, teenage girl, teenage boy, father daughter relationship, female protagonist ...
Time:
90s
Place:
washington state
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A suburban family chooses seemingly sweet Peyton Flanders as their newborn's nanny. Only much later does the infant's mother, Claire Bartel, realize Peyton's true intentions -- to destroy Claire and replace her in the family. The ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, psychological, sexy, neo noir ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
obsession, home invasion, nanny, suicide, vengeance, sexual abuse, malice, female psychopath, parenthood, breast feeding, rivalry, femme fatale ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
seattle, washington state, persia, new york, usa ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Seven teens head up to a cabin on the lake for spring break. Mike has studied all horror films on video, and recognizes the signs of foreshadowing of doom. The others dismiss his concerns as the workings of a person that watches too many videos, but ...
Style:
independent film, slasher, scary, suspenseful, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
woods, monster attack, creature, sex scene, nudity, monster, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, basement, bare breasts, high school student, survival, spring break ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The story of a man who wakes up in bed suffering from memory loss after being in an accident, only to begin to suspect that his wife may not be his real wife and that a web of lies and deceit deepen inside the house where he soon finds himself a ...
Style:
neo noir, scary, rough, suspense, exciting ...
Plot:
kidnapping, memory loss, murder, murder of a policewoman, car accident, electroshock therapy, injection, amnesia, policewoman, flashback, basement, restraint ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A teenaged girl discovers that her stepfather is trying to murder her and her mother, but when she tells people, no one will believe her.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, slasher, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
home invasion, murder, stepfather stepdaughter relationship, voyeur, teenage girl, abusive husband, basement, female protagonist, mother daughter relationship, broken leg, teenager, family in danger ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In 1959, an alien experiment crashes to earth and infects a fraternity member. They freeze the body, but in the modern day, two geeks pledging a fraternity accidentally thaw the corpse, which proceeds to infect the campus with parasites that ...
Style:
cult classic, cult horror, grindhouse, horror comedy, slasher ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
alien, violence, zombie, dark humor, police, supernatural, parasite, fraternity, macabre, monster, gory, survival ...
Time:
80s, 50s, 20th century, year 1986, year 1959 ...
Place:
california
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 63 min.
TV show
Story:
6-grader Kolya Gerasimov discovers a time machine in a basement of an old house in Moscow and gets transferred into the 21st century. There he is allowed to look around. Accidentally, Kolya witnesses two space pirates who arrive from Saturn and ...
Style:
clever, light, entertaining, apocalyptic, exciting
Audience:
kids
Plot:
time travel, time machine, school, pursuit, schoolboy, secret place, basement, space pirate, chase, alien, shapeshifting, laser gun ...
Time:
future, year 1984
Place:
soviet union, ukraine, moscow russia, ussr
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Nobody believes teenager Charley Brewster (William Ragsdale) when he discovers that his suave new neighbor, Jerry Dandrige (Chris Sarandon), is a vampire. So when the bloodsucker starts stalking Charley, he turns to has-been actor Peter Vincent ...
Style:
scary, cult classic, horror comedy, dark comedy, teen horror ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
vampire, blood, supernatural horror, supernatural, monster, transformation, bloodsucker, vampire hunter, teenager, teenage protagonist, dracula, werewolf ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
iowa, los angeles, usa
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