Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "mysterious-figure"

1. Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (2017)

PG-13 | 152 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Rey develops her abilities with the help of Luke Skywalker, as the Resistance prepares for battle against the First Order.

Director: Rian Johnson | Stars: Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher

Votes: 673,908 | Gross: $620.18M

2. The Wailing (2016)

TV-MA | 156 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Soon after a stranger arrives in a little village, a mysterious sickness starts spreading. A policeman, drawn into the incident, is forced to solve the mystery in order to save his daughter.

Director: Na Hong-jin | Stars: Jun Kunimura, Hwang Jung-min, Kwak Do-won, Chun Woo-hee

Votes: 82,768

3. The Nun (2018)

R | 96 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A priest with a haunted past and a novice on the threshold of her final vows are sent by the Vatican to investigate the death of a young nun in Romania and confront a malevolent force in the form of a demonic nun.

Director: Corin Hardy | Stars: Demián Bichir, Taissa Farmiga, Jonas Bloquet, Bonnie Aarons

Votes: 171,242 | Gross: $117.45M

4. Jeepers Creepers (2001)

R | 90 min | Horror, Mystery

A brother and sister driving home through isolated countryside for spring break encounter a flesh-eating creature which is in the midst of its ritualistic eating spree.

Director: Victor Salva | Stars: Gina Philips, Justin Long, Jonathan Breck, Patricia Belcher

Votes: 143,081 | Gross: $37.90M

5. The Babadook (2014)

Not Rated | 94 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A single mother and her child fall into a deep well of paranoia when an eerie children's book titled "Mister Babadook" manifests in their home.

Director: Jennifer Kent | Stars: Essie Davis, Noah Wiseman, Daniel Henshall, Hayley McElhinney

Votes: 248,196 | Gross: $0.92M

6. Lights Out (II) (2016)

PG-13 | 81 min | Horror, Mystery

Rebecca must unlock the terror behind her little brother's experiences that once tested her sanity, bringing her face to face with a supernatural spirit attached to their mother.

Director: David F. Sandberg | Stars: Teresa Palmer, Gabriel Bateman, Maria Bello, Billy Burke

Votes: 142,760 | Gross: $67.27M

7. Countdown (III) (2019)

PG-13 | 90 min | Horror, Thriller

When a nurse downloads an app that claims to predict the moment a person will die, it tells her she only has three days to live. With the clock ticking and a figure haunting her, she must find a way to save her life before time runs out.

Director: Justin Dec | Stars: Elizabeth Lail, Jordan Calloway, Talitha Eliana Bateman, Peter Facinelli

Votes: 45,879

8. Veronica (I) (2017)

TV-MA | 105 min | Horror, Mystery

Madrid, 1991. A teen girl finds herself besieged by an evil supernatural force after she played Ouija with two classmates.

Director: Paco Plaza | Stars: Sandra Escacena, Bruna González, Claudia Placer, Iván Chavero

Votes: 47,802

9. Oculus (2013)

R | 104 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A recently released inmate from a mental asylum learns from his sister that the murders he was convicted of committing were actually orchestrated by a supernatural entity, the Lasser Glass mirror.

Director: Mike Flanagan | Stars: Karen Gillan, Brenton Thwaites, Katee Sackhoff, Rory Cochrane

Votes: 140,088 | Gross: $27.70M

10. Jeepers Creepers 2 (2003)

R | 104 min | Horror

Set a few days after the original, a championship basketball team's bus is attacked by The Creeper, the winged, flesh-eating terror, on the last day of his 23-day feeding frenzy.

Director: Victor Salva | Stars: Jonathan Breck, Ray Wise, Nicki Aycox, Garikayi Mutambirwa

Votes: 70,777 | Gross: $35.67M

11. No One Gets Out Alive (2021)

R | 87 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

After being forced to take a room in a boardinghouse, an immigrant in search of the American Dream finds herself in a nightmare she can't escape.

Director: Santiago Menghini | Stars: Phil Robertson, Joana Borja, Victoria Alcock, Cristina Rodlo

Votes: 21,025

12. Lust for a Vampire (1971)

R | 91 min | Horror

In 1830, forty years to the day since the last manifestation of their dreaded vampirism, the Karnstein heirs use the blood of an innocent to bring forth the evil that is the beautiful Mircalla - or as she was in 1710, Carmilla.

Director: Jimmy Sangster | Stars: Barbara Jefford, Ralph Bates, Suzanna Leigh, Yutte Stensgaard

Votes: 3,579

13. Blair Witch (2016)

R | 89 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

After discovering a video showing what he believes to be his vanished sister Heather, James and a group of friends head to the forest believed to be inhabited by the Blair Witch.

Director: Adam Wingard | Stars: James Allen McCune, Callie Hernandez, Corbin Reid, Brandon Scott

Votes: 49,739 | Gross: $20.78M

14. Cell (I) (2016)

R | 98 min | Action, Adventure, Horror

When a mysterious cell phone signal causes apocalyptic chaos, an artist is determined to reunite with his young son in New England.

Director: Tod Williams | Stars: John Cusack, Samuel L. Jackson, Isabelle Fuhrman, Clark Sarullo

Votes: 30,749

15. The Masque of the Red Death (1964)

Not Rated | 89 min | Drama, Horror

A European prince terrorizes the local peasantry while using his castle as a refuge against the "Red Death" plague that stalks the land.

Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Vincent Price, Hazel Court, Jane Asher, David Weston

Votes: 16,347

16. The Bye Bye Man (2017)

PG-13 | 96 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Three friends stumble upon the horrific origins of a mysterious figure they discover is the root cause of the evil behind unspeakable acts.

Director: Stacy Title | Stars: Douglas Smith, Lucien Laviscount, Cressida Bonas, Michael Trucco

Votes: 26,075 | Gross: $22.38M

17. Polaroid (I) (2019)

PG-13 | 88 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

High school loner Bird Fitcher has no idea what dark secrets are tied to the Polaroid camera she finds. It doesn't take long to discover that those who have their picture taken with it, soon die.

Director: Lars Klevberg | Stars: Kathryn Prescott, Tyler Young, Samantha Logan, Keenan Tracey

Votes: 16,535

18. Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (1972)

Not Rated | 97 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A series of murders are committed near the estate of a degenerate author and his mistreated wife.

Director: Sergio Martino | Stars: Edwige Fenech, Anita Strindberg, Luigi Pistilli, Ivan Rassimov

Votes: 4,707

19. The Minor (1974)

84 min | Comedy, Romance

Everyone want to be with a young cute girl, but she must find a real man for herself.

Director: Silvio Amadio | Stars: Gloria Guida, Rosemary Dexter, Marco Guglielmi, Luciano Roffi

Votes: 334

20. Fright (1971)

PG | 87 min | Horror, Thriller

An English baby sitter is terrorized by her friend's ex-husband, escaped from an asylum.

Director: Peter Collinson | Stars: Honor Blackman, Susan George, George Cole, Tara Collinson

Votes: 1,940 | Gross: $0.17M

21. Alpha Code (2020)

97 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Johana, a woman with no past, is hiding from a UN Agent Bowie, a head of secret space program. On her run she meets Martin and with help of Bowie's ex-colleague Lance they both help Martin to find his half alien daughter.

Director: Keoni Waxman | Stars: Bren Foster, Denise Richards, Randy Couture, Marek Vasut

Votes: 1,116

22. Scary Movie (1991)

Not Rated | 82 min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller

A paranoid teenage nerd comes to believe that an escaped lunatic may be hiding in the neighborhood Halloween house of horrors, and slowly starts to descend into madness.

Director: Daniel Erickson | Stars: John Hawkes, Suzanne Aldrich, Ev Lunning, Mark Voges

Votes: 1,067

23. Nightmare Castle (1965)

Unrated | 90 min | Horror

A woman and her lover are tortured and killed by her sadistic husband. The pair return from the grave to seek vengeance.

Director: Mario Caiano | Stars: Barbara Steele, Paul Muller, Helga Liné, Marino Masé

Votes: 2,721

24. Sinful (2020)

TV-MA | 74 min | Horror, Thriller

On the run after committing a horrific crime, newlywed couple Remy and Salem find themselves trapped in a mysterious house as a terrifying darkness closes in on them.

Director: Rich Mallery | Stars: Nicole D'Angelo, Chris Spinelli, Christina Lo

Votes: 2,410

25. Sneekweek (2016)

108 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery

Six friends party for a week during the "Sneekweek", but they get haunted by a serial killer because of a dark secret from their past..

Director: Martijn Heijne | Stars: Carolien Spoor, Jelle de Jong, Jord Knotter, Holly Mae Brood

Votes: 1,568

26. The Housemaid (2016)

Not Rated | 105 min | Horror, Romance

When an orphaned Vietnamese girl is hired to be a housemaid at a haunted rubber plantation in 1953 French Indochina, she unexpectedly falls in love with the French landowner and awakens the... See full summary »

Director: Derek Nguyen | Stars: Nhung Kate, Jean-Michel Richaud, Kim Xuan, Svitlana Kovalenko

Votes: 901

27. Murders in the Rue Morgue (1971)

PG-13 | 87 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery

Paris...at the turn of the century. Inspector Vidocq investigates a series of unexplained murders at a Grand Guignol-type theatre...where the players have suddenly become real-life victims. Based on the story by Edgar Allan Poe.

Director: Gordon Hessler | Stars: Jason Robards, Herbert Lom, Christine Kaufmann, Adolfo Celi

Votes: 1,557

28. Dominique (1979)

PG | 100 min | Horror, Thriller

A millionaire, who drove his wife to commit suicide, starts believing that he is being haunted by her spirit.

Director: Michael Anderson | Stars: Cliff Robertson, Jean Simmons, Jenny Agutter, Simon Ward

Votes: 1,184

29. Extraordinary Tales (2013)

Not Rated | 73 min | Animation, Horror, Mystery

An animated anthology of five tales adapted from Edgar Allan Poe's stories.

Director: Raul Garcia | Stars: Christopher Lee, Bela Lugosi, Julian Sands, Guillermo del Toro

Votes: 3,577

30. Cat Soup (2001)

Not Rated | 34 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

A young anthropomorphic cat goes on a psychedelic journey with his sister in order to save her soul.

Directors: Tatsuo Satô, Masaaki Yuasa

Votes: 5,973

31. You Die (2018)

94 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

An app appears on a girl’s phone. What looked like a game is actually a connection to the world of the dead, which allows you to see them through the phone’s camera.

Directors: Alessandro Antonaci, T3, Daniel Lascar, Stefano Mandalà | Stars: Carola Cudemo, Simone Valentino, Erica Landolfi, Simone Moretto

Votes: 432

32. Dark August (1976)

PG | 87 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A man accidentally runs down a young girl and has a curse placed on him by the girl's father, an occultist. He goes to a spiritualist for help in fighting the curse.

Director: Martin Goldman | Stars: Kim Hunter, J.J. Barry, Carolyne Barry, Kate McKeown

Votes: 694

33. Lófej

Drama, Mystery, Thriller | Filming

After their chance encounter, Zsolt and Ildikó team up to uncover a mysterious person who wears a horse head and appears in a field every sunset.

Director: Tóth Milán | Stars: Tóth Zoltán, Vámos Mária, Tóth Viktória, Kolonits Ferenc

34. Evil Eye (1975)

R | 106 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery

The police has to face some extremely brutal murders. How is the rich playboy Peter Crane (Jorge Rivero) involved in this? He suffers from horrible nightmares that make him believe that he is responsible for these murders.

Director: Mario Siciliano | Stars: Anthony Steffen, Richard Conte, Pilar Velázquez, Jorge Rivero

Votes: 400

35. The Signalman (1976 TV Movie)

38 min | Drama, Horror

A lonely Signalman is visited by a stranger.

Director: Lawrence Gordon Clark | Stars: Denholm Elliott, Bernard Lloyd, Reginald Jessup, Carina Wyeth

Votes: 1,760

36. The Girl in Cabin 13 (2021)

82 min | Horror

A young couple must fight for their lives in a remote cabin when three masked men appear outside their door at night.

Director: Brendan Rudnicki | Stars: Chloë Marie Rhoades, Stuart Maxheimer, Reggie Johnson, Raymond Mckee

Votes: 433

37. Strange Events (2014– )

78 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

In a world where monsters, ghosts and other dreadful creatures are a reality, nightmares can come true. And they will. An anthology that delves into the paranormal, the bizarre and the downright insane. No place is safe.

Stars: Kyle Kankonde, Rachel Winters, Corey Scott Rutledge, Katrina Ann Volonnino

Votes: 677

38. Ánimas (2018)

TV-MA | 83 min | Horror, Thriller

This time, horror comes fron the other side.

Directors: Laura Alvea, José Ortuño | Stars: Clare Durant, Iván Pellicer, Luis Bermejo, Liz Lobato

Votes: 1,526

39. Fear(s) of the Dark (2007)

Unrated | 83 min | Animation, Horror, Mystery

Several scary black-and-white animated segments in different styles appeal to our fear(s) of the dark.

Directors: Blutch, Charles Burns, Marie Caillou, Pierre Di Sciullo, Lorenzo Mattotti, Richard McGuire | Stars: Aure Atika, Guillaume Depardieu, Nicole Garcia, Gil Alma

Votes: 3,238 | Gross: $0.08M

40. 3 A.M. 3D (2012)

96 min | Horror

Thailand's latest horror omnibus is made up of three chilling stories. Two sisters who own a wig shop.

Directors: Isara Nadee, Kirati Nakintanon, Patchanon Thammajira | Stars: Apinya Sakuljaroensuk, Focus Jirakul, Shahkrit Yamnarm, Ray MacDonald

Votes: 964

41. Pirate's Passage (2015 TV Movie)

88 min | Animation, Drama, Fantasy

A mysterious old sailor arrives in Grey Rocks, Nova Scotia and meets a young boy and mother whom he offers to help for his own reasons.

Directors: Mike Barth, Jamie Gallant | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Gage Munroe, Carrie-Anne Moss, Megan Follows

Votes: 435

42. The Hollow One (2015)

Not Rated | 95 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

While searching for her missing father, an emotionally damaged woman confronts her tragic past and a shadowy figure with sinister intentions.

Director: Nathan Hendrickson | Stars: Kate Alden, Jesse James, Chelsea Farthing, Tony Doupe

Votes: 415

43. The Tomb of Nosferatu (2023)

Not Rated | 36 min | Short, Horror

Nearly a century ago, two filmmakers traveled to Germany to shoot an homage to the 1922 film, Nosferatu, and visit the graves of those who made the silent horror masterpiece. In doing so, they unleashed a dark shadow from cinema's past.

Directors: Arthur Dark, Nathan D. Lee | Stars: Lauren Foulk, Arthur Dark, Matthew Toronto, Susie Schwab

44. Paradox: A Rusty Lake Film (2018)

19 min | Short, Fantasy, Horror

A detective must solve increasingly challenging puzzles as part of a bizarre game orchestrated by an old foe in order to escape the room he's in.

Director: Sean van Leijenhorst | Stars: David Bowles, Elena Kejvalová, Maarten Looise, Bob Rafferty

Votes: 1,187

45. Inakunare Gunjo (2019)

105 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

An island in Japan is the site for the dumped and the refuse. Nanakusa and Yu who were childhood and school friends meet on this island that is called Kaiden, a scary name that only refers ... See full summary »

Director: Akina Yanagi | Stars: Ryûsei Yokohama, Marie Iitoyo, Honoka Miki, Kôdai Matsuoka

Votes: 123

46. Signore e signori, buonanotte (1976)

105 min | Comedy

An episodic satire of the social and politic status of Italy in the 1970s through the programming of a television channel.

Directors: Leonardo Benvenuti, Luigi Comencini, Piero De Bernardi, Agenore Incrocci, Nanni Loy, Ruggero Maccari, Luigi Magni, Mario Monicelli, Ugo Pirro, Furio Scarpelli, Ettore Scola | Stars: Senta Berger, Adolfo Celi, Vittorio Gassman, Nino Manfredi

Votes: 923

47. Operation Diplomat (1953)

70 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Doctor Fenton is abducted and forced to operate on a mysterious figure. Meanwhile, Inspector Austin investigates the murder of Fenton's assistant. All this has something to do with a missing diplomat.

Director: John Guillermin | Stars: Guy Rolfe, Lisa Daniely, Patricia Dainton, Sydney Tafler

Votes: 239

48. Retorno a la juventud (1954)

Drama, Fantasy, Horror

An old professor in love with one of his students is rejected by her because of his advanced age. He then sells his soul in return for youth and a chance at love, but the things don't go as he planned.

Director: Juan Bustillo Oro | Stars: Enrique Rambal, Rosario Granados, Carlos López Moctezuma, Andrés Soler

Votes: 58

49. You0 DECO (2022– )

Animation, Mystery, Sci-Fi

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Stars: Mira Kawakatsu, Anna Nagase, Miyu Irino, Setsuji Sato

Votes: 62

50. Noctem (2017)

R | 97 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Nights in a row, Adrian finds himself in his apartment, with no lights and strange sounds coming from the inside. He asks his friends for help and one of them decides to make a documentary of what is happening to him.

Director: Marcos Cabotá | Stars: Adrián Lastra, Sara Lopez, Esteban Piñero, Carla Nieto

Votes: 331