Best Disturbing Movies of 2024
This page is updated regularly. Subscribe, so you don't miss new recommendations. The list of "Best Disturbing Movies of 2024" contains films with the following parameters. Style: disturbing, tense, psychological horror, suspenseful, dark and captivating. Plot: isolation, claustrophobia, revenge, survival, supernatural, slow burn, blood, ritual, small town and supernatural horror. Genre: Horror, Thriller and Drama. Country: USA, UK and Canada.
Best Disturbing Movies of 2024
TOP Movies: Trap (2024), No Way Up (2024), My Name Is Loh Kiwan (2024), Smile 2 (2024), V/H/S/Beyond (2024), Nyctophobia (2024), Tarot (2024), Milk & Serial (2024), The Beldham (2024), Traumatika (2024), Wanted Man (2024), Butchers Book Two: Raghorn (2024), Bloody Axe Wound (2024), Bloodline Killer (2024), Girl in the Video (2024), DarkGame (2024), Conjuring the Cult (2024), The Jack in the Box Rises (2024), Dead Whisper (2024), The Mouse Trap (2024).
List of Best Movies
160K
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, UK, Yemen
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A father and teen daughter attend a pop concert, where they realize they're at the center of a dark and sinister event.
Style:
ambiguous ending, psychological thriller, psychotronic, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
serial killer, father daughter relationship, concert, female singer, sting operation, teenage girl, teenage protagonist, teenager, teenage daughter, bloodbath, blood, villain as protagonist ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
philadelphia
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12K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Characters from different backgrounds are thrown together when the plane they're travelling on crashes into the Pacific Ocean. A nightmare fight for survival ensues with the air supply running out and dangers creeping in from all sides.
Style:
atmospheric, disturbing, psychological, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
plane crash, survivor, shark, bodyguard, childhood trauma, social relations, air disaster, peril, survival, disaster, struggle for survival, characters in danger ...
Place:
pacific ocean, los angeles
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
After defecting from North Korea, Loh Kiwan struggles to obtain refugee status in Belgium, where he encounters a dejected woman who has lost all hope.
Style:
bleak, disturbing, suspenseful, realistic, psychological ...
Plot:
refugee, love story, relationships, problem, woman, male female relationship, couples, love affair, relationship problems, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, hopes, couple relations ...
Place:
north korea, korea, belgium
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136K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
About to embark on a new world tour, global pop sensation Skye Riley begins experiencing increasingly terrifying and inexplicable events. Overwhelmed by the escalating horrors and the pressures of fame, Skye is forced to face her dark past to regain ...
Style:
psychological horror, creepy, bloody, disturbing, absurd ...
Plot:
pop singer, concert, suicide, dancing, supernatural horror, pop star, car accident, drug addiction, tattoo, female protagonist, mother daughter relationship, escape ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
usa
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
The infinite playground of forbidden worlds and dangerous lifeforms offered by the sci-fi horror genre will lead to the biggest, maddest, bloodiest V/H/S ever.
Style:
anthology, dark, suspenseful, bloody, disturbing ...
Plot:
found footage, alien invasion, cosmic horror, body horror, violent, graphic violence, dystopia, claustrophobia, paranormal, ufo, alien, underground ...
Place:
india
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
As Liz struggles with nyctophobia (fear of the dark), a form of anxiety disorder that causes sleeping issues, she desperately tries to fall asleep by entering her “inner world” where she can access her happy childhood memories. However, she ...
Style:
psychological thriller, psychological horror, mind bending, disturbing, surreal ...
Plot:
nightmare, dreamscape, lucid dream, subconscious, macabre, sleep disorder, trauma, isolation, rehearsal, mental illness, female protagonist, slow burn ...
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37K
Genre: Horror
Country: Serbia, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
When a group of friends recklessly violates the sacred rule of Tarot readings they unknowingly unleash an unspeakable evil trapped within the cursed cards. One by one, they come face to face with fate and end up in a race against death.
Style:
suspenseful, bleak, psychological, serious, disturbing ...
Plot:
cursed object, curse, zodiac sign, tarot card, evil being, zodiac, horoscope, supernatural power, college student, curses spells and rituals, supernatural being, supernatural ...
Time:
year 1969, year 1988, year 1951
Place:
former yugoslavia, london, mexico city, hungary
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 62 min.
Story:
A surprise birthday prank takes a turn for the worse when a popular social media duo must face the reality of the terrifying aftermath.
Style:
disturbing, suspenseful, psychological horror, intense, tense ...
Plot:
found footage, prank gone wrong, social media, birthday party, house party, claustrophobia, panic, humiliation, betrayal, revenge, obsession, guilt ...
Time:
2020s
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
At the edge of postpartum psychosis, new mother Harper moves in with her own mother at their family's rural farmhouse. Soon she finds herself hunted by a threatening monster who has designs on her child.
Style:
psychological horror, dark, disturbing, tense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
infant, motherhood, haunted house, female protagonist, threat, supernatural, trauma, paranoia, mental illness, claustrophobia, driven mad, family secret ...
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Mikey's night terrors become reality when his mother begins showing signs of demonic possession. What he's about to experience will haunt him for the rest of his life and claim countless lives across generations.
Style:
psychological horror, disturbing, dark, tense, creepy ...
Plot:
trauma, possession, supernatural, demon, fear, mother son relationship, terror, nightmare, haunting, occult, paranormal, family secret ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Follows a police officer who must retrieve an eyewitness and escort her after a cartel shooting leaves several DEA agents dead, but then he must decide who to trust when they discover that the attack was executed by American forces.
Style:
tense, action adventure, captivating, exciting, thrilling ...
Plot:
police shootout, police inspector, police, cartel, police officer, police chase, police detective, police station, tough cop, police investigation, drug cartel, murder
Place:
mexico
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Genre: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Book one followed a family of sadistic butchers, living in the backcountry, who see anyone that crosses their path as dead meat. In “Butchers Book Two: Raghorn,” the story continues when an accident leaves the captors in the hands of brutal ...
Style:
disturbing, brutal, slasher, grim, bleak ...
Plot:
bloodbath, cannibalism, violent, survival, shock, torture, savage, captivity, hunted, isolation, abduction, revenge ...
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Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Abbie Bladecut is a teenager torn between the macabre traditions of her family’s bloody trade and the tender stirrings of her first crush. In the small town of Clover Falls, Abbie’s father Roger has built an infamous legacy by capturing ...
Style:
slasher, disturbing, tense, psychological horror, dark comedy ...
Plot:
graphic violence, mature, small town, obsession, coming of age, video store, moral corruption, first love, moral ambiguity, teen angst, anti hero, female empowerment ...
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Moira Cole endeavors to rebuild her shattered life after her family's murder at the hands of her deranged and obsessed cousin.
Style:
intense, tense, dark, suspense, slasher ...
Plot:
grief, family tragedy, stalking, obsession, survivor, violent, betrayal, family secret, revenge, cat and mouse, legacy, home invasion ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Widowed mother Mo's daughter Krissy begins chatting online with a closet predator who kidnaps and exploits her in sexually abusive live streams on the dark web.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, dark, disturbing ...
Plot:
widow, dark web, predator, sexploitation, relationships, family problems, female protagonist, life is a bitch, mother child relationship, family life, single mother, motherhood ...
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A determined detective is in a race against time to stop a twisted game show on the dark web, where captives are forced to compete for their lives.
Style:
tense, detective, intense, suspense, dark ...
Plot:
investigation, survival, maniac, race against time, game of death, detective inspector, uncover truth, crime solving, game, police detective, struggle for survival, homicidal maniac ...
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
After discovering his blood-soaked daughter dead in the bathtub, David Bryson attends a self-help group to help save him from his ghostly nightmares. But when a group of mysterious cult-like women offer to help him resurrect his daughter. ...
Style:
dark, disturbing, psychological horror, supernatural thriller, suspense ...
Plot:
grief, soul, supernatural, moral dilemma, haunted, trauma, nightmare, resurrection, paranormal, guilt, occult, ghost ...
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Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
When a creepy Jack-in-the-Box is discovered and opened on the grounds of an exclusive girls' school, six brave students soon enter a fight to the finish against the unleashed demon.
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, scary, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot:
demon, killer clown, supernatural horror, supernatural, paranormal activity, clown, evil doll, girls' school, paranormal investigation, paranormal phenomena, paranormal, supernatural power ...
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Elliot Campbell, a Cape Cod lawyer, is drawn to a mysterious island where he is tempted by a reunion with his dead daughter, but at the peril of his soul.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological thriller, realistic, psychological, bleak ...
Plot:
supernatural, grief, paranormal activity, superhuman powers, supernatural being, supernatural ability, paranormal investigation, paranormal, super powers, supernatural horror, supernatural power, paranormal phenomena ...
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
It's Alex's 21st Birthday, but she's stuck at the amusement arcade on a late shift so her friends decide to surprise her, but a masked killer dressed as Mickey Mouse decides to play a game of his own with them which she must survive.
Style:
slasher horror, slasher, suspenseful, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
death, murder, characters killed one by one, masked killer, psycho killer, friends, murderer, homicidal maniac, group of friends, serial killer, killing, pets ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, Slovakia
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
As Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels creates films and pictures used to prepare the Germans for Total War and the Holocaust. When the war is lost, he conceives his last staging, the most radical propaganda act still possible to him.
Style:
historical drama, disturbing, grim, period piece, dark ...
Plot:
world war two, holocaust, propaganda, nazi germany, hitler, biopic, manipulation, political corruption, husband wife relationship, infidelity, flashback, nazi propaganda ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s
Place:
berlin germany, germany
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
What happens when your past comes back to haunt you in the most supernatural way? And what if you don't even remember it?
Style:
creepy, psychological, suspenseful, tense, disturbing ...
Plot:
possession, haunting, supernatural, dark past, creepy child, trauma, ghost, memory loss, revenge, family drama, family secret, village ...
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551
Genre: Horror
Country: Mexico
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
In a dystopian future ravaged by a viral apocalypse, three young brothers—Salvador, Oliver, and Benjamin—find themselves isolated in a remote cabin deep within the woods. As they navigate this desolate world, they harbor a dark and disturbing ...
Style:
dark, disturbing, tension, suspense, bleak ...
Plot:
dystopia, post apocalyptic, isolation, dark secret, survival, brothers, siblings, claustrophobia, threat, violence, woods, body horror ...
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Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A young girl wakes up imprisoned underground, with amnesia. She must escape, unravel the mystery behind her captivity, and confront her personal struggles. A suspenseful tale of survival, truth, and inner turmoil unfolds.
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, suspense, intense, psychological horror ...
Plot:
amnesia, escape, survival, female protagonist, confined space, claustrophobia, isolation, trauma, identity, danger, darkness, flashback ...
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Genre bending horror anthology featuring 5 tales of perversion, obsession, blasphemy, nihilism, and sadism!
Style:
anthology, disturbing, dark, tense, psychological horror ...
Plot:
fear, perversion, obsession, sadism, unsettling, violence, vicious, blasphemy, shock, nihilism, taboo, extreme ...
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Genre: Action
Country: India
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Ajay struggles with modern life's demands until meeting Shwetha, a drug-addicted medical student who inspires his fight against inner and outer challenges.
Style:
serious, tense, disturbing, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot:
illegal drugs, drug addiction, love, junkie, relationships, lifestyle, love affair, male female relationship, drug use, fight, couple relations, couples ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Mindy, a young widow and mother who tries to protect her daughter Alice from a flesh eating monster named Agyar. Mindy has been secretly sacrificing her own life by allowing the creature to feast on her body as she keeps Alice hidden away at her ...
Style:
psychological, psychological horror, tension, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
monster, widow, sacrifice, mother daughter relationship, child in peril, motherhood, protective parent, body horror, female protagonist, problem, supernatural horror, survival ...
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Su-yeon, a cellist in an orchestra led by her fiancé and conductor Sung-jin, disappears one day, leaving behind only a video recording. Sung-jin is devastated over the loss of Su-yeon, but feels a strong attraction to Mi-ju, a cellist who fills in ...
Style:
intense, psychological thriller, suspense, dark, disturbing ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
hidden room, obsession, cellist, sexual tension, surveillance, evidence, voyeurism, love triangle, betrayal, infidelity, jealousy, guilt ...
Place:
asia
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1K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Ju-young is a young woman with a hearing impediment who decides to investigate her sister's inexplicable disappearance, last seen in her apartment. Feeling more and more cornered, Ju-young begins to hear strange sounds and sense an evil ...
Style:
tension, suspenseful, creepy, psychological horror, mysterious ...
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, haunting, female protagonist, investigation, paranoia, claustrophobia, suspicion, isolation, obsession, slow burn, grief ...
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
While staying at her boyfriend’s childhood home with him and his friends, a young woman experiences terrifying visions of a violent spirit.
Style:
psychological horror, tense, psychological thriller, suspenseful, mystic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
friend, supernatural, haunted house, supernatural horror, spirit, mysticism, evil spirit, paranormal activity, paranormal phenomena, demonic possession, obsession, threat ...
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