Topic: Ghosts

Direction Stanley Kubrick

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

Synopsis 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, in the hope that the isolation will cure his writer’s...

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

Synopsis 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 great uncle Stan (aka Grunkle Stan) in Gravity Falls, Oregon....

Direction Raoul Ruiz

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

Synopsis 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 pique-nique dos sonhos / Le Pique-nique des rêves), arriving in...

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

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

Synopsis 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 old wife, only to discover something eerie about her. "The...

Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz

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

Synopsis 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 English seaside with her adolescent daughter Anna and their long...

Direction Jack Clayton

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

Synopsis The Innocents (1961) follows Miss Giddens, a governess hired to care for two orphaned children, Flora and Miles, at a remote English estate. As she settles in, Miss Giddens begins to witness eerie apparitions and unsettling behavior from the children,...

Direction Frank Borzage

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

Synopsis 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 niece of Moonyean, and she quickly grows up to look...

Direction M. Night Shyamalan

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

Synopsis In The Sixth Sense (1999), a child psychologist named Malcolm Crowe takes on the case of a troubled young boy, Cole Sear, who claims to see and communicate with the dead. Struggling with his own personal demons, Malcolm tries to...

Direction Mike Flanagan

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

Synopsis The Haunting of Hill House (TV Series) (2018) follows the Crain family, who, decades after living in the eerie Hill House, are still haunted by traumatic memories and supernatural experiences. The narrative alternates between their childhood in the mansion and...

Direction Jin Hyuk

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

Synopsis TV Series (2013). 17 Episodes.

Direction Alejandro Amenábar

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

Synopsis The Others (2001) is a haunting psychological thriller set in a secluded mansion on the Isle of Jersey in 1945. Grace, a devoutly religious mother, lives with her two photosensitive children, Anne and Nicholas, who must avoid sunlight. When strange...

Direction Kaneto Shindô

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

Synopsis 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 found mysteriously dead with their throats torn out. The governor...

Direction Wojciech Has

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

Synopsis 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 seeks the shortest route through the Sierra Morena. At an...

Direction Douglas Mackinnon

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

Synopsis 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 1895! Some things, though, remain reassuringly the same. Friendship, adventure...

Direction Keisuke Kinoshita

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

Synopsis 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

Direction Peter Medak

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

Synopsis The Changeling (1980) follows John Russell, a composer who moves into a secluded historic mansion after the tragic loss of his wife and daughter. As he settles in, he begins experiencing unsettling supernatural occurrences, including eerie sounds and ghostly visions....

Direction Javier Fuentes-León

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

Synopsis 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.

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

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

Synopsis 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, Craig is filled with a growing dread.

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

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

Synopsis American Horror Story: Murder House (TV Miniseries) (2011) follows the Harmon family—Ben, Vivien, and their daughter Violet—as they move into a restored mansion in Los Angeles, seeking a fresh start after personal struggles. However, the house holds a dark history...

Direction Loundraw

Synopsis 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 a ghost of a young woman who appears when fireworks...