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1. Suspiria (I) (2018)
R | 152 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the artistic director, an ambitious young dancer, and a grieving psychotherapist. Some will succumb to the nightmare. Others will finally wake up.
Director: Luca Guadagnino | Stars: Chloë Grace Moretz, Tilda Swinton, Doris Hick, Malgorzata Bela
Votes: 92,805 | Gross: $2.47M
2. The Platform (2019)
TV-MA | 94 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A vertical prison with one cell per level. Two people per cell. Only one food platform and two minutes per day to feed. An endless nightmare trapped in The Hole.
Director: Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia | Stars: Ivan Massagué, Zorion Eguileor, Antonia San Juan, Emilio Buale
Votes: 273,914
3. The Lodge (2019)
R | 108 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A soon-to-be stepmom is snowed in with her fiancé's two children at a remote holiday village. Just as relations begin to thaw between the trio, some strange and frightening events take place.
Directors: Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz | Stars: Riley Keough, Jaeden Martell, Lia McHugh, Richard Armitage
Votes: 58,047
4. House (1977)
Not Rated | 88 min | Comedy, Horror
A schoolgirl and six of her classmates travel to her aunt's country home, which turns out to be haunted.
Director: Nobuhiko Ôbayashi | Stars: Kimiko Ikegami, Miki Jinbo, Kumiko Ôba, Ai Matsubara
Votes: 33,871
5. Phenomena (1985)
R | 116 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
A young girl who has 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.
Director: Dario Argento | Stars: Jennifer Connelly, Donald Pleasence, Daria Nicolodi, Dalila Di Lazzaro
Votes: 30,135
6. Goodnight Mommy (2014)
R | 99 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Twin boys move to a new house with their mother after she has face-changing cosmetic surgery, but under the bandages is someone the boys don't recognize.
Directors: Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz | Stars: Lukas Schwarz, Elias Schwarz, Susanne Wuest, Hans Escher
Votes: 59,939 | Gross: $1.17M
7. Gretel & Hansel (2020)
PG-13 | 87 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
A long time ago in a distant fairy tale countryside, a young girl leads her little brother into a dark wood in desperate search of food and work, only to stumble upon a nexus of terrifying evil.
Director: Oz Perkins | Stars: Sophia Lillis, Samuel Leakey, Alice Krige, Jessica De Gouw
Votes: 34,136 | Gross: $15.35M
8. The Painted Bird (2019)
Unrated | 169 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A young Jewish boy somewhere in Eastern Europe seeks refuge during World War II where he encounters many different characters.
Director: Václav Marhoul | Stars: Petr Kotlár, Nina Sunevic, Alla Sokolova, Stanislav Bilyi
Votes: 7,678
9. The Beast (1975)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
In order to inherit a fortune a young woman agrees to marry a young man. She soon discovers that his family harbours a dark past involving a monstrous beast.
Director: Walerian Borowczyk | Stars: Sirpa Lane, Lisbeth Hummel, Elisabeth Kaza, Pierre Benedetti
Votes: 5,356
10. The Lure (2015)
Not Rated | 92 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
In Warsaw, a pair of mermaid sisters are adopted into a cabaret. While one seeks love with humans the other hungers to dine on the human population of the city.
Director: Agnieszka Smoczynska | Stars: Marta Mazurek, Michalina Olszanska, Kinga Preis, Andrzej Konopka
Votes: 9,836 | Gross: $0.10M
11. Daughters of Darkness (1971)
R | 87 min | Horror
While passing through a vacation resort, a newlywed couple encounters a mysterious, strikingly beautiful countess and her aide.
Director: Harry Kümel | Stars: Delphine Seyrig, John Karlen, Danielle Ouimet, Andrea Rau
Votes: 7,069
12. The Night Eats the World (2018)
TV-14 | 93 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
The morning after a party, a young man wakes up to find Paris invaded by zombies.
Director: Dominique Rocher | Stars: Anders Danielsen Lie, Golshifteh Farahani, Denis Lavant, Sigrid Bouaziz
Votes: 15,989
13. Blue My Mind (2017)
97 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
An outwardly normal teenage girl faces overwhelming body transformations that put the very nature of her existence into question.
Director: Lisa Brühlmann | Stars: Luna Wedler, Zoë Pastelle Holthuizen, Regula Grauwiller, Georg Scharegg
Votes: 3,455
14. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970)
Not Rated | 77 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Surreal tale in which love, fear, sex, and religion merge into one fantastic world. Based on a classical Czech novel of the same title.
Director: Jaromil Jires | Stars: Jaroslava Schallerová, Helena Anýzová, Petr Kopriva, Jirí Prýmek
Votes: 11,277
15. Alice (1988)
Not Rated | 86 min | Animation, Adventure, Fantasy
A surrealistic revision of Alice in Wonderland.
Director: Jan Svankmajer | Stars: Kristýna Kohoutová, Camilla Power
Votes: 14,021
16. In Fabric (2018)
R | 118 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
In Fabric is a haunting ghost story set against the backdrop of a busy winter sales period in a department store and follows the life of a cursed dress as it passes from person to person, with devastating consequences.
Director: Peter Strickland | Stars: Sidse Babett Knudsen, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Julian Barratt, Steve Oram
Votes: 14,002
17. The Cremator (1969)
Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Set in Central Europe during World War II, a demented cremator believes cremation relieves earthly suffering and sets out to save the world.
Director: Juraj Herz | Stars: Rudolf Hrusínský, Vlasta Chramostová, Jana Stehnová, Milos Vognic
Votes: 10,837
18. Two Evil Eyes (1990)
R | 120 min | Horror
A duo of Edgar Allan Poe adaptations about a greedy wife's attempt to embezzle her dying husband's fortune, and a sleazy reporter's adoption of a strange black cat.
Directors: Dario Argento, George A. Romero | Stars: Adrienne Barbeau, Harvey Keitel, Ramy Zada, Bingo O'Malley
Votes: 8,172 | Gross: $0.35M
19. The Shout (1978)
86 min | Drama, Horror
A traveller by the name of Crossley forces himself upon a musician and his wife in a lonely part of Devon, and uses the aboriginal magic he has learned to displace his host.
Director: Jerzy Skolimowski | Stars: Alan Bates, Susannah York, John Hurt, Robert Stephens
Votes: 5,240
20. Little Otik (2000)
TV-14 | 132 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
A childless couple passes off an anthropomorphous tree stump as their baby, but things get out of hand when the monstrosity comes to life and demands to be fed.
Director: Jan Svankmajer | Stars: Veronika Zilková, Jan Hartl, Jaroslava Kretschmerová, Pavel Nový
Votes: 6,890 | Gross: $0.12M
21. Beauty and the Beast (1978)
91 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
In this gothic rendition of the classic fairy tale, a merchant's youngest daughter is held prisoner by a mysterious winged beast.
Director: Juraj Herz | Stars: Zdena Studenková, Vlastimil Harapes, Václav Voska, Jana Brejchová
Votes: 1,828
22. Tam Lin (1970)
PG-13 | 106 min | Horror, Mystery
An older woman uses witchcraft to keep her young jet-set friends. Based on an ancient Scottish folk song.
Director: Roddy McDowall | Stars: Ava Gardner, Ian McShane, Richard Wattis, Cyril Cusack
Votes: 740
23. Lunacy (2005)
Not Rated | 118 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
A man takes up residence with a mysterious marquis and is soon persuaded to enter into an asylum for preventative therapy. Things are not what they seem, and the marquis may be even more sinister than what the young man may've predicted.
Director: Jan Svankmajer | Stars: Jan Tríska, Pavel Liska, Anna Geislerová, Martin Huba
Votes: 3,954 | Gross: $0.05M
24. Zoo (I) (2018)
Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
A couple try to save their marriage during a zombie apocalypse.
Director: Antonio Tublen | Stars: Zoë Tapper, Ed Speleers, Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Jan Bijvoet
Votes: 2,150
25. Witchhammer (1970)
107 min | Drama, History, Horror
In the 1600s, an overzealous clergy hauls innocent women in front of tribunals, forces them to confess to imaginary witchery, and engages in brutal torture and persecution of their subjects.
Director: Otakar Vávra | Stars: Vladimír Smeral, Elo Romancik, Josef Kemr, Sona Valentová
Votes: 2,848
26. Arrebato (1979)
Unrated | 115 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A low budget horror filmmaker gets in touch with an eccentric who is trying to film his consciousness during drug abuse.
Director: Iván Zulueta | Stars: Eusebio Poncela, Cecilia Roth, Will More, Marta Fernández Muro
Votes: 3,400
27. Faust (1994)
97 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
An ordinary man is lured into a strange puppet theatre by a map and finds himself embroiled in a production of the Faustian legend.
Director: Jan Svankmajer | Stars: Petr Cepek, Jan Kraus, Vladimír Kudla, Antonin Zacpal
Votes: 4,301
28. Jamie Marks Is Dead (2014)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Based on the novel "One For Sorrow" by Christopher Barzak, Jamie Marks is Dead is the story of a murdered high school boy who returns as a ghost looking for the love and friendship he never had when he was alive.
Director: Carter Smith | Stars: Morgan Saylor, Noah Silver, Cameron Monaghan, Brett DelBuono
Votes: 2,765
29. The Blood Rose (1970)
R | 92 min | Horror, Thriller
A Famous artist becomes obsessed with restoring the beautiful face of his badly burned fiancée, resorting to blackmailing a plastic surgeon into shady operations involving the skin from young girls.
Director: Claude Mulot | Stars: Philippe Lemaire, Anny Duperey, Olivia Robin, Elizabeth Teissier
Votes: 510
30. The Cat with Hands (2001)
16+ | 4 min | Animation, Short, Fantasy
The dark, surreal story of a cat who wants to be human.
Director: Robert Morgan | Stars: Livy Armstrong, Daniel Hogwood-Kane, Victoria Hayes
Votes: 2,042
31. Teddy (I) (2020)
88 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
In a rural French town, twenty-something Teddy is scratched by an unknown beast and slowly undergoes frightening changes.
Directors: Ludovic Boukherma, Zoran Boukherma | Stars: Anthony Bajon, Christine Gautier, Ludovic Torrent, Guillaume Mattera
Votes: 1,859
32. The Noonday Witch (2016)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Horror
A story of Eliska and her daughter, starting a new life in a remote house, with the father away on business, as the mother claims. After the lie is exposed, their relationship begins to ... See full summary »
Directors: Jiri Sádek, Matej Chlupacek, Michal Samir | Stars: Anna Geislerová, Karolína Lipowská, Zdenek Mucha, Daniela Kolárová
Votes: 685
33. Erotic Symphony (1980)
91 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A nobleman and his two lovers - a teenage boy and a runaway nun - plan to kill his mentally fragile wife.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Lina Romay, Susan Hemingway, Armando Borges, Mel Rodrigo
Votes: 407
34. Prague Nights (1969)
99 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Rumor has it that the house of Prague hide secret obtain the philosopher's stone, and complex multi-level labyrinth of underground tunnels and cellars keep many unsolved mysteries and untold treasures.
Directors: Jirí Brdecka, Milos Makovec, Evald Schorm | Stars: Milena Dvorská, Milos Kopecký, Jirí Hrzán, Milena Zahrynowska
Votes: 149
35. The Killer of Dolls (1975)
98 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A groundskeeper's son, who is mentally unstable due to childhood trauma, goes on a murdering spree where his perception of reality is distorted by imagining people as mannequins and vice versa.
Director: Miguel Madrid | Stars: David Rocha, Inma de Santis, Helga Liné, Elisenda Ribas
Votes: 394
36. Morgiana (1972)
106 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Klara and Viktoria are sisters. Their father dies, leaving most of his property to Klara. When Klara becomes involved with a man that her sister loves, Viktoria begins to plot her murder.
Director: Juraj Herz | Stars: Iva Janzurová, Josef Abrhám, Nina Divísková, Petr Cepek
Votes: 1,551
37. 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: 1,524
38. The Tell-Tale Heart (I) (1953)
Passed | 8 min | Animation, Short, Crime
A madman tells his tale of murder, and how a strange beating sound haunted him afterward.
Director: Ted Parmelee | Stars: James Mason, Jack Mather
Votes: 2,218
39. Ulises (I) (2018)
8 min | Short, Sci-Fi
Ulysses goes to to the sea without knowing if he will ever come back to shore as he meets a mermaid who tries to capture him with her enchanting call.
Director: Jorge Malpica | Stars: Michelle Betancourt, José Manuel Poncelis
Votes: 71
40. The Berlin Bride (2019)
72 min | Fantasy, Mystery
Two oddball Berliners discover the abandoned appendages of a mannequin. Separately, and with grotesque consequence, they come to terms with their disjointed mate.
Director: Michael Bartlett | Stars: Miklos Königer, Henry Akina, Sushila Day, Emil Kio
Votes: 488
41. Wild Flowers (2000)
81 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Seven unrelated Czech fairy tales from 1853 by Karel Jaromír Erben, united by folklore, atmosphere, and visuals, form this anthology film exploring themes through a series of poetic vignettes without a cohesive narrative.
Director: F.A. Brabec | Stars: Martina Bezousková, Sylvie Kraslová, Sára Vorísková, Anna Bezousková
Votes: 1,491
42. The Ninth Heart (1979)
90 min | Fantasy, Horror
A poor student must rescue an ailing princess from the castle of an evil magician, who's preparing a rejuvenating elixir from the stolen hearts of nine children.
Director: Juraj Herz | Stars: Ondrej Pavelka, Anna Malová, Julie Juristová, Josef Kemr
Votes: 266
43. Mask of the Red Death (1969)
10 min | Animation, Short, Horror
An animated adaptation of Poe's famous short story: "Mask of the Red Death"
Directors: Branko Ranitovic, Pavao Stalter
Votes: 137
44. Domestique (2018)
117 min | Drama
Top cyclist Roman has had enough of serving as a domestique, a bicycle racer who sacrifices for the team. And since strenuous training and a strict regimen don't lead to the type of ... See full summary »
Director: Adam Sedlák | Stars: Tereza Hofová, Jirí Konvalinka, Miroslav Hanus, Tomás Bambusek
Votes: 203
45. Horror Story (1993)
99 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
The film is based on the book of the same title (A Sanguinary Novel) by the very individual Czech painter, typographer, author and philosopher Josef Vachal, who squeezed adventure, love, ... See full summary »
Director: Jaroslav Brabec | Stars: Ondrej Pavelka, Klára Jirsáková, Raoul Schránil, Jakub Saic
Votes: 129
46. Uncle Cyril (1989)
107 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A surreal look at madness in a brooding Czech countryside mansion.
Director: Jirí Svoboda | Stars: Petr Brukner, Radoslav Brzobohatý, Václav Burkert, Petr Cepek
Votes: 184
47. The Pendulum, the Pit and Hope (1983)
15 min | Animation, Short, Fantasy
A horrifying, surrealist version of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum" directed by the masterful animator Jan Svankmajer.
Director: Jan Svankmajer | Star: Jan Zácek
Votes: 1,041
48. The Fall of the House of Usher (1982)
15 min | Animation, Short, Horror
In this animated version of Edgar Allan Poe's story, a traveller arrives at the Usher mansion to find that the sibling inhabitants are living under a mysterious family curse: The brother's ... See full summary »
Director: Jan Svankmajer | Star: Petr Cepek
Votes: 794
49. Kybernetická babicka (1962)
29 min | Short, Animation, Horror
Trnka's sci-fi vision of the future in which machines and robots try to substitute themselves into the most beautiful human relationships. A cybernetic robot is supposed to substitute for ... See full summary »
Director: Jirí Trnka | Stars: Otýlie Benísková, Jana Werichová
Votes: 223
50. Down to the Cellar (1983)
15 min | Animation, Short, Fantasy
A little girl goes down to the basement cellar to fetch some potatoes, and finds all her hidden fears about the cellar depicted in animated form.
Director: Jan Svankmajer | Stars: Monika Belo-Cabanová, Olga Vronská, Aleksandr Letko
Votes: 1,150