Cinema of the Damned

TV-MA2006 · Crime, Drama, Mystery · 8 seasons · Michael C. Hall, Jennifer Carpenter, Geoff Pierson

Dexter Morgan, a blood spatter pattern analyst for the Miami Metro Police also leads a secret life as a serial killer, hunting down criminals who have slipped through the cracks of justice.

IMDb 8.6TMDB 8.2☠ 8.6

TV-MA2019 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Action & Adventure · 5 seasons · Karl Urban, Jack Quaid, Antony Starr

A group of vigilantes known informally as “The Boys” set out to take down corrupt superheroes with no more than blue-collar grit and a willingness to fight dirty.

IMDb 8.5TMDB 8.4☠ 8.5

TV-MA2024 · Crime, Drama, Mystery · 1 season · Patrick Gibson, Christian Slater, Molly Brown

In 1991 Miami, Dexter Morgan transitions from student to avenging serial killer. When his bloodthirsty urges can't be ignored any longer, Dexter must learn to channel his inner darkness. With the guidance of his father, Harry, he adopts a Code designed to help him find and kill people who deserve to be eliminated from society without getting on law enforcements' radar. This is a particular challenge for young Dexter as he begins a forensics internship at the Miami Metro Police Department.

IMDb 8.2TMDB 8.2☠ 8.2

TV-MA2021 · Drama, Crime · 1 season · Michael C. Hall, Jack Alcott, Julia Jones

10 years after Dexter went missing in the eye of Hurricane Laura, we find him living under an assumed name in the small town of Iron Lake, New York. Dexter may be embracing his new life, but in the wake of unexpected events in this close-knit community, his Dark Passenger beckons.

IMDb 8.0TMDB 7.9☠ 8.0

R1994 · Fantasy, Action, Thriller · 102m · Brandon Lee, Rochelle Davis, Ernie Hudson

Exactly one year after young rock guitarist Eric Draven and his fiancée are brutally killed by a ruthless gang of criminals, Draven, watched over by a hypnotic crow, returns from the grave to exact revenge.

IMDb 7.5MC 72🍅 88%TMDB 7.5☠ 7.6

R2014 · Thriller, Action, Crime · 132m · Denzel Washington, Marton Csokas, Chloë Grace Moretz

McCall believes he has put his mysterious past behind him and dedicated himself to beginning a new, quiet life. But when he meets Teri, a young girl under the control of ultra-violent Russian gangsters, he can’t stand idly by – he has to help her. Armed with hidden skills that allow him to serve vengeance against anyone who would brutalize the helpless, McCall comes out of his self-imposed retirement and finds his desire for justice reawakened. If someone has a problem, if the odds are stacked against them, if they have nowhere else to turn, McCall will help. He is The Equalizer.

IMDb 7.3MC 57🍅 61%TMDB 7.3☠ 7.1

R2017 · Thriller, Drama, Crime · 96m · Melanie Lynskey, Elijah Wood, David Yow

When a depressed woman is burglarized, she finds a new sense of purpose by tracking down the thieves alongside her obnoxious neighbor. But they soon find themselves dangerously out of their depth against a pack of degenerate criminals.

IMDb 6.9MC 75🍅 89%TMDB 6.6☠ 7.1

TV-142015 · Drama, Mystery · 1 season · Victoria Justice, Casey Deidrick, Kiersey Clemons

Tech genius Lindy, convinced by her roommate to begin online dating, begins to suspect that one of her mysterious suitors may be a deadly cyber stalker. When her friends at the elusive cyber-police uncover a potential serial killer in Manhattan, all signs point to one of Lindy’s dates. Teaming up with this band of hackers Lindy works to solve the murders while unleashing her own style of justice on the streets of New York City.

IMDb 7.1TMDB 6.3☠ 7.1

R2009 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · 109m · Jamie Foxx, Gerard Butler, Colm Meaney

A frustrated man decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets one of his family's killers free. He targets not only the killer but also the district attorney and others involved in the deal.

IMDb 7.4MC 34🍅 26%TMDB 7.4☠ 6.7

NR1981 · Horror, TV Movie · 97m · Charles Durning, Larry Drake, Robert F. Lyons

Bubba, an intellectually disabled man, is falsely accused of attacking a young girl. Disguised as a scarecrow, he hides in a cornfield, only to be hunted down and shot by four vigilante men. After they are acquitted due to lack of evidence, the men find themselves being stalked one by one.

IMDb 6.7🍅 63%TMDB 6.5☠ 6.6

R2011 · Horror, Thriller, Comedy · 97m · Kevin Corrigan, Barry Bostwick, Karen Black

A former mental patient's repressed anger reaches the boiling point, leading him to embark on a mission of revenge against the thugs who once subjected him to severe physical and mental trauma.

R1983 · Drama, Thriller · 105m · Michael Douglas, Hal Holbrook, Yaphet Kotto

As violence escalates in Los Angeles and heinous murders are committed, Steven Hardin, a young judge of the California Supreme Court, must struggle with his tortured conscience and growing despair as he watches helplessly as the ruthless criminals brought before his court go free because clever lawyers find obscure loopholes in the law.

IMDb 6.3MC 60🍅 77%TMDB 6.1☠ 6.4

R1976 · Horror, Thriller · 87m · Derrel Maury, Andrew Stevens, Robert Carradine

Maimed by bullies at a California high school, a new student engineers acts of revenge.

IMDb 6.1🍅 80%TMDB 5.8☠ 6.4

2025 · Thriller, Horror · 92m · Bella Thorne, Ryan Phillippe, Rebecca De Mornay

In a small town a solitary woman is haunted by voices that lead her to assassinate ill intended people and get away with it, until her last kill sucks her down a rabbit hole riddled with corruption, trafficking and visions from the beyond.

IMDb 7.7MC 31🍅 32%TMDB 5.2☠ 6.4

1974 · Action, Thriller, Horror · 74m · Martin Sheen, Vic Morrow, Michelle Phillips

A sadistic small-town sheriff has a habit of deliberately forcing speeders to their deaths on the mountain roads leading into town. The brother of one of the victims rolls into town in his hot rod to investigate his brother's death.

IMDb 6.3TMDB 6.3☠ 6.4

R2014 · Horror, Thriller · 103m · Frank Grillo, Carmen Ejogo, Zach Gilford

One night per year, the government sanctions a 12-hour period in which citizens can commit any crime they wish -- including murder -- without fear of punishment or imprisonment. Leo, a sergeant who lost his son, plans a vigilante mission of revenge during the mayhem. However, instead of a death-dealing avenger, he becomes the unexpected protector of four innocent strangers who desperately need his help if they are to survive the night.

IMDb 6.4MC 50🍅 58%TMDB 6.6☠ 6.3

2021 · Mystery, Thriller, Horror · 101m · Siobhan Fallon Hogan, Robert Patrick, Jake Weary

Barbara O’Brien, an Irish Catholic mother, has her life turned upside-down when her son, a freshman in college, is involved in a tragic hazing incident. Taking justice into her own hands, she travels across the country recording mothers who have lost sons to hazing in an effort to prove the university’s liability. When she is confronted by corruption and cover ups, she seeks revenge on the one person she finds truly responsible, proving that hell hath no fury like a mother scorned.

IMDb 5.7🍅 90%TMDB 6.7☠ 6.3

R2009 · Comedy, Horror, War · 117m · Chris Wylde, David Anders, Louise Griffiths

A horror movie/buddy comedy about Joey and his undead friend Bart who comes back from the dead as a revenant: an articulate zombie that needs to drink blood to arrest the decomposition of his body.

IMDb 6.3MC 57🍅 56%TMDB 6.2☠ 6.2

2016 · Thriller, Horror, Crime · 115m · Ziad Abaza, Scot Williams, Darren Morfitt

After his father is killed in an altercation with drunken thugs, Salah's world is plunged into darkness. Forced into running the family kebab shop alone, Salah struggles to manage the increasingly rowdy night life and when a fight with an angry customer goes fatally wrong, he finds himself with a dead body on his hands. With no faith in the authorities Salah disposes of the body in the one place he knows best… the kebabs.

IMDb 5.9🍅 75%TMDB 5.8☠ 6.2

TV-MA2008 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery, Drama · 1 season · Mimi Michaels, Christopher Stapleton, Shawnee Smith

A month after the events of 30 Days of Night (2007), prison nurse Sara Maguire is attacked by a vampire during a prisoner transfer and begins to turn, while her ex-cop brother Nick hunts for her, encountering escaped vampire hunter George Fowler along the way.

R1984 · Action, Comedy, Horror · 82m · Andree Maranda, Mitch Cohen, Jennifer Prichard

A gang of thugs devise a cruel hoax that goes horribly wrong as Melvin, a nerdy emaciated janitor at the local health club, is cast through a third story window into a vat of hazardous toxic waste.

IMDb 6.2MC 42🍅 73%TMDB 6.3☠ 6.1

1994 · Horror, Romance, Fantasy · 81m · Angela Featherstone, Daniel Markel, Nicholas Worth

A bored female demon ventures to the surface world to punish the wicked before they enter her hellish domain.

IMDb 5.9TMDB 5.5☠ 6.1

2023 · Horror, Thriller · 102m · Emile Hirsch, Shane West, Kelli Garner

Walden Dean is a stenographer, whose mind witnessed all types of injustices in the courtroom. After discovering he has a terminal illness, repressed anger deep within him surfaces -- taking justice into his own hands in the most gruesome ways imaginable.

IMDb 6.0TMDB 6.1☠ 6.1

R1971 · Horror · 83m · Bhaskar Roy Chowdhury, Jadin Wong, Rhonda Fultz

A group of Satanic hippies wreak havoc on a small town where a young boy, whose sister and grandfather were victimized by them, tries to get even - with deadly results.

IMDb 5.9TMDB 5.9☠ 6.0