Topic: Ghosts

Explore the top movies, series, and documentaries on Ghosts. Enjoy the must-watch titles that define this topic.


The Shining

1980 · Movie · 146 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Stanley Kubrick

Cast Jack Nicholson · Shelley Duvall · Danny Lloyd · Scatman Crothers

Plot Writer Jack Torrance takes a job as a winter caretaker of the Overlook Hotel in the remote Colorado mountains. He moves in, along with his wife Wendy and son Danny,...

8.2

145K votes

8.2

145K votes

Gravity Falls (TV Series)

2012 · Series · 23 min. · United States

Direction Alex Hirsch · Joe Pitt · John Aoshima · Aaron Springer

Plot TV Series (2012-2016). 2 Seasons. 41 Episodes. The show tells the story of twins Dipper and Mabel – two city kids sent to spend the summer with their crusty old...

8.0

3K votes

8.0

3K votes

Manuel on the Island of Wonders (TV Miniseries)

1984 · Series · 152 min. · France

Direction Raoul Ruiz

Cast Armanda Bacelar · Aurélie Chazelle · Luis Gaspar da Silva · José de Freitas

Plot Manoel's fantasy travel through Time goes from Long Ago (Episode 1 - O jardim proibido / Le Jardin interdit aka Les destins de Manoel) through Now (Episode 2 - O...

7.8

71 votes

7.8

71 votes

Kwaidan

1964 · Movie · 164 min. · Japan

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Rentarô Mikuni · Katsuo Nakamura · Kei Sato

Plot This film contains four distinct, separate stories. "Black Hair": A poor samurai who divorces his true love to marry for money, but finds the marriage disastrous and returns to his...

Max

7.7

4K votes

7.7

4K votes

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

1947 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast Gene Tierney · Rex Harrison · George Sanders · Edna Best

Plot At the beginning of the twentieth century, Mrs. Edwin Muir - Lucy - widowed for one year, decides to move out of her controlling in-law's home in London to the...

7.7

6K votes

7.7

6K votes

The Innocents

1961 · Movie · 99 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jack Clayton

Cast Deborah Kerr · Peter Wyngarde · Megs Jenkins · Pamela Franklin

Plot In Victorian England, the uncle of orphaned niece Flora and nephew Miles hires Miss Giddens as governess to raise the children at his estate with total independence and authority. Soon...

7.7

8K votes

7.7

8K votes

Smilin' Through

1941 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Frank Borzage

Cast Jeanette MacDonald · Brian Aherne · Gene Raymond · Ian Hunter

Plot John Carteret has long been depressed and lonely, because, at his wedding years ago, his bride, Moonyean, was murdered. He accepts into his house Kathleen, the 5 year old orphaned...

7.6

56 votes

7.6

56 votes

The Sixth Sense

1999 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction M. Night Shyamalan

Cast Haley Joel Osment · Bruce Willis · Toni Collette · Olivia Williams

Plot Dr. Malcolm Crowe (Willis) is a successful child psychologist in Philadelphia. The night before he is to receive an award for his medical achievements, a former patient breaks into his...

7.6

160K votes

7.6

160K votes

The Haunting of Hill House (TV Series)

2018 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Mike Flanagan

Cast Michiel Huisman · Carla Gugino · Henry Thomas · Timothy Hutton

Plot TV Series (2018). 10 Episodes. A modern reimagining of Shirley Jackson‘s iconic novel, "The Haunting of Hill House" explores a group of siblings who, as children, grew up in what...

7.6

17K votes

7.6

17K votes

Master's Sun (TV Series)

2013 · Series · 65 min. · South Korea

Direction Jin Hyuk

Cast Kong Hyo-jin · So Ji-Sub · Seo In-guk · Kim Yoo-Ri

Plot TV Series (2013). 17 Episodes.

7.5

101 votes

7.5

101 votes

The Others

2001 · Movie · 104 min. · Spain

Direction Alejandro Amenábar

Cast Nicole Kidman · Fionnula Flanagan · Christopher Eccleston · Alakina Mann

Plot Towards the end of World War II, Grace (Kidman) retires to a remote island mansion on the English coast to await her husband's return from battle, and to nurse her...

7.5

147K votes

7.5

147K votes

The Black Cat

1968 · Movie · 99 min. · Japan

Direction Kaneto Shindô

Cast Kichiemon Nakamura · Nobuko Otowa · Kiwako Taichi · Kei Sato

Plot A woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of civil war. Afterwards, a series of samurai returning from the war through that area are...

7.4

1K votes

7.4

1K votes

The Saragossa Manuscript

1965 · Movie · 182 min. · Poland

Direction Wojciech Has

Cast Zbigniew Cybulski · Iga Cembrzynska · Elzbieta Czyzewska · Gustaw Holoubek

Plot In the Napoleonic wars, an officer finds an old book that relates his grandfather's story, Alfons van Worden, captain in the Walloon guard. A man of honor and courage, he...

7.2

1K votes

7.2

1K votes

Sherlock: The Abominable Bride (TV)

2016 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Douglas Mackinnon

Cast Benedict Cumberbatch · Martin Freeman · Amanda Abbington · Mark Gatiss

Plot What if the world's most famous consulting detective and his best friend lived in a Baker Street of steam trains, hansom cabs, top hats and frock-coats? Welcome to 'Sherlock' in...

7.2

11K votes

7.2

11K votes

Ghost of Yotsuya

1949 · Movie · 85 min. · Japan

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

Cast Kinuyo Tanaka · Ken Uehara · Haruko Sugimura · Keiji Sada

Plot Iemon Tamiya is an impovershed masterless samurai who craves a better life, which he cannot have because of his marriage to Oiwa, who is completely devoted to her husband

7.2

23 votes

7.2

23 votes

The Changeling

1980 · Movie · 109 min. · Canada

Direction Peter Medak

Cast George C. Scott · Trish Van Devere · Melvyn Douglas · John Colicos

Plot A famous composer moves from New York City to Seattle and becomes convinced his new home is haunted. This man names John (George C. Scott) whose family is killed in...

7.2

27K votes

7.2

27K votes

Undertow (Contracorriente)

2009 · Movie · 100 min. · Peru

Direction Javier Fuentes-León

Cast Cristian Mercado · Manolo Cardona · Tatiana Astengo · José Chacaltana

Plot An unusual ghost story set on the Peruvian seaside; a married fisherman named Miguel (Cristian Mercado) struggles to reconcile his devotion to his male lover within his town's rigid traditions.

7.1

2K votes

7.1

2K votes

Dead of Night

1945 · Movie · 103 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Alberto Cavalcanti · Basil Dearden · Charles Crichton · Robert Hamer

Cast Michael Redgrave · Googie Withers · Mervyn Johns · Roland Culver

Plot Visiting a country house, architect Walter Craig realises that it and his fellow guests are familiar from a recurring nightmare. As the guests share their own tales of the supernatural,...

7.1

1K votes

7.1

1K votes

American Horror Story: Murder House (TV Miniseries)

2011 · Series · 50 min. · United States

Direction Ryan Murphy · Brad Falchuk · Alfonso Gomez-Rejon · Bradley Buecker

Cast Connie Britton · Dylan McDermott · Jessica Lange · Denis O'Hare

Plot TV Miniseries (2011). 12 Episodes. The season centers on the Harmon family: psychiatrist Ben, his wife Vivien, and their teenage daughter Violet, who move from Boston to Los Angeles after...

7.1

28K votes

7.1

28K votes

Summer Ghost

2021 · Movie · 35 min. · Japan

Direction Loundraw

Plot Have you heard of Summer Ghosts?" Tomoya, Aoi, and Ryo are high school students who met through the Internet. The urban legend of the Summer Ghost is that it is...

7.0

21 votes

7.0

21 votes