Gothic
"gothic" Movies and TV Shows
#1
Angel
Synopsis:
The vampire Angel, cursed with a soul, moves to Los Angeles and aids people with supernatural-related problems while questing for his own redemption. A spin-off from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Starring:
James Marsters,
David Boreanaz,
Amy Acker
#2
A Haunting in Venice
Synopsis:
Celebrated sleuth Hercule Poirot, now retired and living in self-imposed exile in Venice, reluctantly attends a Halloween séance at a decaying, haunted palazzo. When one of the guests is murdered, the detective is thrust into a sinister world of shadows and secrets.
Starring:
Tina Fey,
Jamie Dornan,
Kenneth Branagh
Plot:
based on novel,
seance,
detective,
murder,
whodunit,
hercule poirot character,
whodunnit mystery,
ghost,
medium,
children
...
#3
The Last Voyage of the Demeter
Synopsis:
The crew of the merchant ship Demeter attempts to survive the ocean voyage from Carpathia to London as they are stalked each night by a merciless presence onboard the ship.
Starring:
Corey Hawkins,
David Dastmalchian,
Stefan Kapičić
Plot:
vampire,
cargo ship,
gothic,
supernatural horror,
doctor,
captain,
count dracula character,
horror icon,
ship captain,
vampirism
...
#4
Satanic Pandemonium
Synopsis:
Sister Maria is known in the convent for her good works and charity, but, in the secret depths of her sexual fantasies, she is tormented by visions of another world - a world where her forbidden passions are allowed to run free. In this world Satan is her master. As her acts of violence and blasphemy mount, Maria realizes that she has been chosen by the Devil to destroy the convent and lead her s…
Starring:
Cecilia Pezet,
Enrique Rocha,
Delia Magaña
Plot:
mexico,
nun,
satanism,
murder,
nunsploitation,
nudity,
male nudity,
female nudity,
sexual assault,
lesbianism
...
#5
The Pale Blue Eye
Synopsis:
West Point, New York, 1830. When a cadet at the burgeoning military academy is found hanged with his heart cut out, the top brass summons former New York City constable Augustus Landor to investigate. While attempting to solve this grisly mystery, the reluctant detective engages the help of one of the cadets: a strange but brilliant young fellow by the name of Edgar Allan Poe
Starring:
Timothy Spall,
Christian Bale,
Lucy Boynton
#6
The Sandman
Synopsis:
After years of imprisonment, Morpheus — the King of Dreams — embarks on a journey across worlds to find what was stolen from him and restore his power.
Starring:
Boyd Holbrook,
Patton Oswalt,
Tom Sturridge
Plot:
dream,
nightmare,
superhero,
based on comic,
raven,
dreaming,
death,
vertigo comics,
magic,
kingdom
...
#7
It
Synopsis:
In 1960, seven outcast kids known as "The Losers' Club" fight an evil demon who poses as a child-killing clown. Thirty years later, they reunite to stop the demon once and for all when it returns to their hometown.
Starring:
Tim Curry,
John Ritter,
Dennis Christopher
Plot:
based on novel or book,
supernatural,
clown,
flashback,
miniseries,
villain,
nerd,
surrealism,
derry maine,
horror icon
...
#8
Wednesday
Synopsis:
Wednesday Addams is sent to Nevermore Academy, a bizarre boarding school where she attempts to master her psychic powers, stop a monstrous killing spree of the town citizens, and solve the supernatural mystery that affected her family 25 years ago — all while navigating her new relationships.
Starring:
Christina Ricci,
Emma Myers,
Riki Lindhome
Plot:
anti heroine,
goth girl,
gothic,
dark fantasy,
addams family,
macabre,
academy,
dark comedy,
teen agers series,
friendship
...
#9
Renfield
Synopsis:
Having grown sick and tired of his centuries as Dracula's lackey, Renfield finds a new lease on life — and maybe even redemption — when he falls for feisty, perennially angry traffic cop Rebecca Quincy.
Starring:
Nicolas Cage,
Awkwafina,
Nicholas Hoult
#10
Young Frankenstein
Synopsis:
A young neurosurgeon inherits the castle of his grandfather, the famous Dr. Victor von Frankenstein. In the castle he finds a funny hunchback, a pretty lab assistant and the elderly housekeeper. Young Frankenstein believes that the work of his grandfather was delusional, but when he discovers the book where the mad doctor described his reanimation experiment, he suddenly changes his mind.
Starring:
Richard Haydn,
Teri Garr,
Cloris Leachman
Plot:
spoof,
hunchback,
reanimation,
laboratory,
sexual joke,
experiment,
castle,
electricity,
corpse,
rain
...
#11
Wuthering Heights
Synopsis:
The Earnshaws are Yorkshire farmers during the early 19th Century. One day, Mr. Earnshaw returns from a trip to the city, bringing with him a ragged little boy called Heathcliff. Earnshaw's son, Hindley, resents the child, but Heathcliff becomes companion and soulmate to Hindley's sister, Catherine. After her parents die, Cathy and Heathcliff grow up wild and free on the moors and despite the con…
Starring:
David Niven,
Laurence Olivier,
Flora Robson
Plot:
grief,
dog,
marriage,
jealousy,
ghost,
based on novel,
national film registry,
afi,
monster movie,
gothic
...
#12
What Lies Beneath
Synopsis:
When Claire Spencer starts hearing ghostly voices and seeing spooky images, she wonders if an otherworldly spirit is trying to contact her. All the while, her husband tries to reassure her by telling her it's all in her head. But as Claire investigates, she discovers that the man she loves might know more than he's letting on.
Starring:
Miranda Otto,
Harrison Ford,
Michelle Pfeiffer
Plot:
hitchcockian,
death by drowning,
small village,
pick up truck,
entity,
cold sweat,
secret,
ghost,
panic,
grave
...
#13
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Synopsis:
A former child star torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.
Starring:
Wesley Addy,
Bette Davis,
Victor Buono
#14
Videodrome
Synopsis:
As the president of a trashy TV channel, Max Renn is desperate for new programming to attract viewers. When he happens upon "Videodrome," a TV show dedicated to gratuitous torture and punishment, Max sees a potential hit and broadcasts the show on his channel. However, after his girlfriend auditions for the show and never returns, Max investigates the truth behind Videodrome and discovers that th…
Starring:
Julie Khaner,
James Woods,
Jack Creley
Plot:
snuff film,
hallucination,
surrealism,
suicide,
satire,
cyberpunk,
cult,
body horror,
canuxploitation,
illegality
...
#15
Urban Legend
Synopsis:
A college campus is plagued by a vicious serial killer murdering students in ways that correspond to various urban legends.
Starring:
Tara Reid,
Robert Englund,
Loretta Devine
#16
The Silence of the Lambs
Synopsis:
Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into a case and that Starling, as an attractive young woman, may be just the bait to draw him out.
Starring:
Anthony Heald,
Tracey Walter,
Anthony Hopkins
#17
The Silence
Synopsis:
Traveling through an unnamed European country on the brink of war, sickly, intellectual Ester, her sister Anna and Anna's young son, Johan, check into a near-empty hotel. A basic inability to communicate among the three seems only to worsen during their stay. Anna provokes her sister by enjoying a dalliance with a local man, while the boy, left to himself, has a series of enigmatic encounters tha…
Starring:
Ingrid Thulin,
Birger Malmsten,
Jörgen Lindström
Plot:
female masturbation,
nihilism,
room,
illness,
translator,
hotel room,
sibling rivalry,
classical music,
sexuality,
sensuality
...
#18
The Phantom of the Opera
Synopsis:
A grotesquely disfigured composer known as "The Phantom" haunts Paris' opera house, where he's secretly grooming Christine Daae to be an opera diva. Luring her to his remote underground lair, The Phantom declares his love. But Christine loves Raoul de Chagny and plans to elope with him. When The Phantom learns this, he abducts Christine.
Starring:
Lon Chaney,
Mary Philbin,
Norman Kerry
Plot:
phantom of the opera,
opera,
singer,
underground,
opera house,
mask,
masked ball,
secret door,
kidnapping,
silent film
...
#19
The Others
Synopsis:
Grace is a religious woman who lives in an old house kept dark because her two children, Anne and Nicholas, have a rare sensitivity to light. When the family begins to suspect the house is haunted, Grace fights to protect her children at any cost in the face of strange events and disturbing visions.
Starring:
Christopher Eccleston,
Nicole Kidman,
Fionnula Flanagan
#20
The Omen
Synopsis:
Immediately after their miscarriage, the US diplomat Robert Thorn adopts the newborn Damien without the knowledge of his wife. Yet what he doesn’t know is that their new son is the son of the devil.
Starring:
David Warner,
Billie Whitelaw,
Lee Remick
Plot:
nanny,
priest,
hospital,
catholic hospital,
baby switch,
switched at birth,
death of wife,
ambassador,
dagger,
child's grave
...