Cinema of the Damned

2009 · Thriller, Crime, Drama · 105m · David Morrissey, Lisa Howard, Chris Walker

Detective Chief Superintendent Maurice Jobson is forced to remember the very similar disappearance of Clare Kemplay, who was found dead in 1974, and the subsequent imprisonment of local boy Michael Myshkin. Washed-up local solicitor John Piggott becomes convinced of Myshkin's innocence and begins to fight on his behalf, unwittingly providing a catalyst for Jobson to start to right some wrongs.

IMDb 7.1MC 77🍅 92%TMDB 7.0☠ 7.3

2014 · Crime, Drama · 1 season · Reece Shearsmith, Alex Kingston, Noel Clarke

A socially awkward detective who deals better with data than people is assigned to work on a missing persons unit searching for lost souls.

IMDb 7.4TMDB 7.2☠ 7.3

2016 · Crime, Drama · 1 season · Martin Compston, Douglas Henshall, Joanne Thompson

Based on the true story of Lanarkshire detective William Muncie’s quest to bring to justice notorious Scottish killer Peter Manuel.

IMDb 7.4TMDB 6.9☠ 7.3

TV-MA2021 · Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama · 1 season · Simona Brown, Eve Hewson, Tom Bateman

A single mother enters a world of twisted mind games when she begins an affair with her psychiatrist boss while secretly befriending his mysterious wife.

IMDb 7.2TMDB 7.3☠ 7.2

NR1962 · Horror, Mystery, Fantasy · 78m · Candace Hilligoss, Herk Harvey, Sidney Berger

Mary Henry ends up the sole survivor of a fatal car accident through mysterious circumstances. Trying to put the incident behind her, she moves to Utah and takes a job as a church organist. But her fresh start is interrupted by visions of a fiendish man. As the visions begin to occur more frequently, Mary finds herself drawn to the deserted carnival on the outskirts of town. The strangely alluring carnival may hold the secret to her tragic past.

IMDb 7.0🍅 87%TMDB 6.9☠ 7.2

1961 · Horror, Mystery, Drama · 80m · Vincent Price, John Kerr, Barbara Steele

In the sixteenth century, Francis Barnard travels to Spain to clarify the strange circumstances of his sister's death after she had married the son of a cruel Spanish Inquisitor.

IMDb 7.0MC 78🍅 89%TMDB 6.9☠ 7.2

1934 · Horror, Thriller · 65m · Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, David Manners

After a road accident in Hungary, the American honeymooners Joan and Peter and the enigmatic Dr. Werdegast find refuge in the house of the famed architect Hjalmar Poelzig, who shares a dark past with the doctor.

IMDb 6.9🍅 89%TMDB 6.7☠ 7.2

TV-MA2024 · Crime, Drama, Mystery · 3 seasons · Aldis Hodge, Isaiah Mustafa, Juanita Jennings

Alex Cross is a brilliant but flawed homicide detective and full of contradictions. A doting father and family man, Cross is single-minded to the point of obsession when he hunts killers. He is desperate for love, but his wife’s murder has left him too damaged to receive it.

IMDb 7.2TMDB 7.0☠ 7.2

1946 · Thriller, Mystery, Horror · 85m · Olivia de Havilland, Lew Ayres, Thomas Mitchell

A sister and her disturbed twin are implicated in a murder and a police detective must figure out which one's the killer.

NR1968 · Comedy, Thriller · 108m · Rod Steiger, Lee Remick, George Segal

Christopher Gill is a psychotic killer who uses various disguises to trick and strangle his victims. Moe Brummel is a single and harassed New York City police detective who starts to get phone calls from the strangler and builds a strange alliance as a result. Kate Palmer is a swinging, hip tour guide who witnesses the strangler leaving her dead neighbor's apartment and sets her sights on the detective. Moe's live-in mother wishes her son would be a successful Jewish doctor like his big brother.

IMDb 7.0🍅 89%TMDB 6.7☠ 7.2

R1985 · Comedy, Horror · 107m · Chris Sarandon, William Ragsdale, Amanda Bearse

Charley Brewster, a high school student, accidentally discovers the true and creepy nature of Jerry Dandrige, his dashing and enigmatic new neighbor; but no one seems willing to believe him.

IMDb 7.1MC 62🍅 83%TMDB 7.0☠ 7.1

TV-MA2023 · Crime, Comedy, Drama · 1 season · Dominique Fishback

Murder. Sex. Music. This is not a work of fiction.

IMDb 7.1TMDB 6.6☠ 7.1

1936 · Horror, Science Fiction · 78m · Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan, Frank Lawton

Respected Parisian banker Paul Lavond is framed for robbery and murder by crooked associates and sent to prison. Years later, he escapes with a friend, a scientist who was working on a method to reduce humans to a height of mere inches (all for the good of humanity, of course). Lavond, however, is consumed with hatred for those who betrayed him, and takes the scientist's methods back to Paris to exact painful revenge.

IMDb 7.0🍅 79%TMDB 6.8☠ 7.1

TV-141996 · Crime, Drama · 4 seasons · Jamie Luner, Robert Davi, Julian McMahon

Rachel Burke is a criminal profiler, one of the best, actually. She, along with a sophisticated team of specialists on the FBI's Violent Crimes Task Force in Atlanta, investigates crimes throughout the country. Together, they solve the toughest of cases while trying to live their lives as best they can.

1970 · TV Movie, Horror, Mystery · 54m · Vincent Price

Renowned horror actor Vincent Price narrates four tales of terror by renowned horror author Edgar Allen Poe: The Tell-Tale Heart, The Sphinx, The Cask of Amontillado, and The Pit and the Pendulum.

1977 · Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 1 season · Louis Jourdan, Frank Finlay, Bosco Hogan

Count Dracula is a British television adaptation of the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. It first aired 22 December 1977. It is among the more faithful of the many adaptations of the original book. Louis Jourdan played the title role.

TV-MA2022 · Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 1 season

Bizarre nightmares unfold in eight tales of terror in this visually stunning, spine-tingling horror collection curated by Guillermo del Toro.

IMDb 7.0TMDB 7.5☠ 7.0

G1954 · Adventure, Horror, Science Fiction · 79m · Richard Carlson, Julie Adams, Richard Denning

When scientists exploring the Amazon River stumble on a “missing link” connecting humans and fish, they plan to capture it for later study. But the Creature has plans of his own, and has set his sights on the lead scientist's beautiful fiancée, Kay.

IMDb 6.9MC 68🍅 81%TMDB 6.8☠ 7.0

NR1960 · Horror, Drama · 79m · Vincent Price, Mark Damon, Myrna Fahey

Convinced that his family is tainted by generations of evil, Roderick Usher is hellbent on stopping his sister Madeline’s wedding to prevent the cursed Usher bloodline from expanding. When her fiancé Philip Winthrop arrives at the crumbling estate to claim his bride, Roderick goes to ruthless—even deadly—lengths to keep them apart.

IMDb 6.9MC 75🍅 83%TMDB 6.7☠ 7.0

NR1957 · Horror, Science Fiction · 83m · Peter Cushing, Hazel Court, Robert Urquhart

Baron Victor Frankenstein has discovered life's secret and unleashed a blood-curdling chain of events resulting from his creation: a cursed creature with a horrid face — and a tendency to kill.

IMDb 7.0MC 59🍅 85%TMDB 6.8☠ 7.0

TV-MA2021 · Documentary, Crime · 1 season · Maury Terry, Paul Giamatti, David Berkowitz

The Son of Sam case grew into a lifelong obsession for journalist Maury Terry, who became convinced that the murders were linked to a Satanic cult.

IMDb 7.0TMDB 7.0☠ 7.0

2002 · Horror, Music · 74m · Wei-Qiang Zhang, Tara Birtwhistle, David Moroni

A cinematic version of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet's adaptation of Bram Stoker's gothic novel Dracula. Filmed in a style reminiscent of silent Expressionist cinema of the early 20th century (complete with intertitles and monochrome photography), it uses dance to tell the story of a sinister but intriguing immigrant who preys upon young English women.

1972 · TV Movie, Horror, Drama · 50m · Peter Vaughan, Clive Swift, Julian Herrington

Paxton, an amateur archeologist, travels to the town of Seaburgh and inadvertently stumbles across one of the lost crowns of Anglia, which, according to legend, protect the county from invasion. On digging the crown up, Paxton is stalked by its supernatural guardian.

IMDb 7.2TMDB 6.9☠ 7.0

2014 · Action & Adventure, Crime · 1 season · Chloë Sevigny, James D'Arcy

Follows Catherine Jensen, a recently promoted homicide detective who enlists the help of Thomas Schaeffer, a forensic psychologist, to track down serial killers and relentlessly seeks the truth behind the disappearance of her brother.

IMDb 7.1TMDB 6.2☠ 7.0