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, psychological, disturbing and slasher films and TV shows about / with basement, murder, danger, blood, kidnapping, supernatural, death, serial killer, psychopath and teenager plots mostly in Horror, Thriller and Drama genres shot in USA, Canada, UK 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), The Cellar (2022), The Visit (2015), Caged (2010), Ma (2019), 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016), The Amityville Horror (2005).

List of basement movies

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Girl in the Basement (2021)
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, mindfuck ...
Audience: date night, teens
Plot: basement, abusive father, domineering father, hostage, captivity, father and daughter, father, rescue, strict father, violent father, bomb shelter, hidden room ...
Time: 20th century, 21st century
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 6.5
 16K
3096 Days (2013)
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, rough, twisted, teen, controversial ...
Audience: teens
Plot: kidnapping, child abuse, rape, psychological torture, abduction, life is a bitch, basement, pedophile, violence against women, missing child, hostage, woman in danger ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place: germany, austria
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 7.0
 176K
Barbarian (2022)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria
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: scary, suspense, slasher, spooky, disturbing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: basement, fear, psychopath, locked in a room, kidnapping, secret passageway, plot twist, inbreeding, locked in, serial killer, female protagonist, house ...
Time: 2020s, 80s
Place: detroit, brooklyn new york city
Is relevant ?
 5.7
 19K
Pet (2016)
Genre: 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, bleak, suspenseful, slasher ...
Audience: adult
Plot: obsession, basement, kidnapping, captivity, stalking, psychopath, locked in a cage, disturbed individual, fear, stalker, animal shelter, obsessive love ...
Place: los angeles
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 5.3
 8K
The Cellar (2022)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Ireland, Belgium, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When Keira Woods' daughter mysteriously vanishes in the cellar of their new house in the country, she soon discovers there is an ancient and powerful entity controlling their home that she will have to face or risk losing her family's ...
Style: enigmatic, suspense, captivating, disturbing, tense ...
Plot: supernatural, basement, supernatural horror, evil, haunted, haunted house, mysticism, female protagonist, evil spirit, mother and daughter, ghost, spirit ...
Place: ireland
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 6.3
 150K
The Visit (2015)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
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: suspense, twist ending, surprise ending, suspenseful, mockumentary ...
Audience: teens
Plot: murder, elderly, danger, kids in trouble, siblings relations, found footage, sibling relationship, farm, grandmother granddaughter relationship, family relations, parents and children, basement ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s, 21st century
Place: philadelphia, usa, pennsylvania
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 5.3
 2K
Caged (2010)
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, suspenseful, scary, bleak, serious ...
Plot: kidnapping, abduction, captive, captivity, woman in danger, confined, organ trafficking, basement, farmhouse, danger, expedition, kidnapped ...
Time: 21st century
Place: kosovo, europe, eastern europe, former yugoslavia
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 5.6
 59K
Ma (2019)
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: suspense, slasher, disturbing, psychological thriller, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: underage drinking, basement, revenge, mental health, psychopath, teenager, torture, twists and turns, teenage girl, female psychopath, teen drinking, social network ...
Time: 2010s, 80s, 21st century
Place: usa
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10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, 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, twist ending, minimal cast, dark ...
Audience: teens
Plot: apocalypse, post apocalypse, alien invasion, alien, kidnapping, bunker, ufo, strong female character, survivalist, end of the world, bomb shelter, conspiracy theory ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s
Place: louisiana, peru, new orleans, usa
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The Amityville Horror (2005)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A family is terrorized by demonic forces after moving into a home that was the site of a grisly mass-murder.
Style: scary, demonic, suspenseful, suspense, creepy ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: haunted house, ghost, supernatural, supernatural horror, murder, danger, death, paranormal activity, domestic disturbance, family in danger, gory, paranormal ...
Time: year 2005, year 2000, 70s, 21st century
Place: wisconsin, long island, usa, new york
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Don't Look in the Cellar (2008)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A group of college students regret their decision to sneak into the cellar of a haunted asylum on Halloween. One by one they encounter Smiley, the last of a flawed bloodline.
Style: slasher, suspenseful, suspense, captivating, tense ...
Plot: halloween, survival, college, cheerleader, mental institution, masked killer, basement, mental patient, college student, maniac, murder, danger ...
Time: 2000s, year 2000, 21st century
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 5.7
 24K
The Hole (2009)
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: exciting, suspenseful, semi serious, stylized, scary ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: basement, good versus evil, little brother, youth, danger, supernatural, nightmare comes true, small town, young heroes, coming of age, escapades, family in danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: africa
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 5.2
 725
Confined (2010)
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, suspenseful, serious, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: neighbor, captivity, woman in danger, couples, family relations, dishonesty, psychopath, captive, basement, relocation, crazy neighbor, chamberplay ...
Time: 21st century
Is relevant ?
 6.7
 11K
Performance (1970)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Young gangster Chas Devlin seeks refuge from the mob in a basement belonging to a reclusive, fading rock star Turner.
Style: psychedelic, surreal, atmospheric, stylized, sexy ...
Plot: gangster, rock star, organized crime, surrealism, violence, rock and roll, sex, music, rock, basement, murder, on the run ...
Time: 20th century, year 1970, 60s
Place: london, england, europe, paris france, berlin germany ...
Is relevant ?
 1.5
 941
Dungeon Girl (2008)
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, realistic, serious ...
Plot: captivity, held captive, abduction, confined, power relations, child in peril, nightmare, loss of father, child abandonment, childhood memory, minimal dialogue, basement ...
Time: 21st century
Is relevant ?
 5.9
 57K
Child's Play 2 (1990)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: When Andy's mother is admitted to a psychiatric hospital, the young boy is placed in foster care, and Chucky, determined to claim Andy's soul, is not far behind.
Style: slasher, scary, bloody, splatter, psychological thriller ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: doll, killer doll, evil doll, serial killer, foster home, psychopath, supernatural, supernatural power, murder, disbelieving adult, elementary school, possession ...
Time: 90s, 80s
Place: chicago, midwest
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An American Crime (2007)
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, serious, bleak, brutal ...
Audience: teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: child abuse, true crime, torture, dysfunctional family, murder, captivity, courtroom drama, family problems, domestic violence, court, trial, mistreatment ...
Time: 60s, year 2007, 20th century
Place: indiana, usa
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The Good Neighbor (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Two high school filmmakers decide to create the illusion of a haunting on an unsuspecting neighbor.
Style: twist ending, suspenseful, surprise ending, stylized, sad ...
Plot: found footage, hidden camera, prank, bullying, revenge, neighbor, lawyer, home invasion, twists and turns, old man, obsession, suicide ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s, year 2014, 21st century
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 6.9
 189K
The Black Phone (2021)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Finney Shaw, a shy but clever 13-year-old boy, is abducted by a sadistic killer and trapped in a soundproof basement where screaming is of little use. When a disconnected phone on the wall begins to ring, Finney discovers that he can hear the voices ...
Style: suspense, captivating, slasher horror, slasher, psychological ...
Audience: adult
Plot: murder, kidnapping, child abduction, struggle for survival, basement, serial child killer, victim, phone terror, locked in a basement, homicidal maniac, kidnapped, masked killer ...
Time: 70s, year 1978, 2020s, 20th century
Place: colorado, denver colorado
Is relevant ?
 4.7
 4K
Cordelia (2019)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Cordelia ia a troubled, damaged soul who is only just recovering after some unnamed trauma; she is an actor rehearsing a play and comes to stay in a creepy London mansion flat occupied by her twin sister Caroline and Caroline’s boyfriend Matt. ...
Style: suspense, psychological, captivating, disturbing, psychological thriller ...
Plot: basement, stalker, relationship problems, psychological trauma, twin sister, couples, traumatic experience, couple relations, male female relationship, sister, relationships, girl next door ...
Place: london
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32 Malasana Street (2020)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Inspired by real events, the story centers around a family in the 70s who settles in the Madrid neighborhood of Malasaña where their new house will become the worst of their nightmares.
Style: suspense, disturbing, bleak, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot: haunted house, ghost, spirit, supernatural, haunted, pregnancy, poltergeist, secret, evil force, missing child, mysterious event, possession ...
Time: 70s, year 1976, 2020s, year 1972
Place: spain, madrid
Is relevant ?
 5.2
 2K
The Unseen (1980)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Freelance reporter Jennifer and her two friends, Karen and Vicki, accept an invitation for cheap room and board in a large farmhouse offered by a friendly, but shady, museum owner named Ernest Keller since all the motels in and around town are ...
Style: slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: reporter, psychopath, museum, serial killer, murder, small town, stalking, woman in danger, captivity, isolation, journalism, estate ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: california
Is relevant ?
 6.6
 137K
Monster House (2006)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Monsters under the bed are scary enough, but what happens when an entire house is out to get you? Three teens aim to find out when they go up against a decrepit neighboring home and unlock its frightening secrets.
Style: scary, dark, 3d animation, computer animated, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, girls' night, family outing, toddlers ...
Plot: halloween, haunted house, suburbs, supernatural, children, ghost, neighbor, monster, old dark house, human versus monster, friendship, holiday ...
Time: 21st century
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There's Nothing Out There (1991)
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: slasher, independent film, scary, suspenseful, semi serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: woods, nudity, monster attack, creature, possessed woman, monster, deadly creature, danger, spring break, teenage boy, high school student, survival ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Is relevant ?
 7.3
 601K
It (2017)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 135 min.
Story: In a small town in Maine, seven children known as The Losers Club come face to face with life problems, bullies and a monster that takes the shape of a clown called Pennywise.
Style: scary, suspense, demonic, spooky, slasher ...
Audience: teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: killer clown, supernatural horror, clown, evil clown, small town, stephen king, fear, monster, coming of age, child, missing person, good versus evil ...
Time: year 1989, 2010s, year 2017, 80s, year 1988
Place: maine
Is relevant ?
 8.1
 188K
That '70s Show (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
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Story: Crank up the 8-track and flash back to a time when platform shoes and puka shells were all the rage in this hilarious retro-sitcom. For Eric, Kelso, Jackie, Hyde, Donna and Fez, a group of high school teens who spend most of their time hanging out ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, not serious, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience: teens, kids, date night, teen drama, adult
Plot: friendship, group of friends, teenage love, cannabis, small town, teenager, couples, couple relations, generation gap, parents and children, basement, adolescence vs adulthood ...
Time: 90s, 70s, 20th century
Place: usa, wisconsin
Is relevant ?
 4.3
 4K
Amnesiac (2014)
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: scary, neo noir, rough, suspense, exciting ...
Plot: kidnapping, memory loss, murder of a policewoman, murder, car accident, femme fatale, captive, investigation, nurse, child in peril, missing person, restraint ...
Is relevant ?
 5.3
 7K
Kill Theory (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Whilst celebrating a graduation at a secluded vacation home, a group of college students find themselves targeted by a sadistic killer who forces them to play a deadly game of killing one another in order to survive.
Style: scary, surprise ending, suspense, realistic, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: psychopath, murder, mind game, torture, trapped, confined, friendship, trap, rivalry, game of death, murderer, psycho ...
Time: 21st century
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The House That Dripped Blood (1971)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A Scotland Yard investigator looks into four mysterious cases involving an unoccupied house.
Style: anthology, suspense, scary, suspenseful, detective ...
Plot: vampire, curse, haunted house, witchcraft, investigation, murder, female vampire, wax museum, country house, supernatural power, evil child, serial killer ...
Time: 20th century, year 1971, 70s
Place: scotland yard, scotland, europe, england
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 6.4
 113K
Fright Night (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA, India
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A teenager suspects his new neighbour is a vampire. Unable to convince anyone, he tries to enlist the help of a self-proclaimed vampire hunter and magician in this remake of the 1985 comedy-horror classic.
Style: gothic, scary, entertaining, bloody, dark ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: vampire, supernatural, vampirism, vampire hunter, teenager, celebrity, stalker, transformation, high school student, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, gory, bullying ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, year 2000, 21st century
Place: usa, las vegas, nevada
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