Best movies — horreur on Netflix : our Top 20

2000 · Mary Harron

A successful, well-heeled investment banker in New York projects a flawless public image while secretly harboring a psychopathic alternate personality; as his detached, increasingly irrational impulses grow bolder and more gratuitous, he conceals the mounting danger from colleagues and friends.

With Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe, Jared Leto, Josh Lucas, Samantha Mathis, Matt Ross and Bill Sage

1931 · James Whale

Un brillant scientifique du nom d'Henry Frankenstein réussit à insuffler la vie à une entité créée à partir de morceaux de cadavres qu'il a réunis.

With Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, John Boles, Boris Karloff, Edward Van Sloan, Frederick Kerr and Dwight Frye

1931 · James Whale

Obsessed with conquering death, Henry Frankenstein assembles a human likeness from spare body parts, convinced he can ignite a new life. When the creature awakens, overwhelmed by confusion and fury, the townspeople’s revulsion and violence shatter Henry’s dreams and turn his experiment into tragedy.

With Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, John Boles, Boris Karloff, Edward Van Sloan, Frederick Kerr and Dwight Frye

2012 · Clark Baker

amid the frozen, shell‑pocked expanse between opposing trenches, French and Scottish soldiers stand off against German troops. On Christmas Eve an astonishing incident occurs in that desolate no man's land — a fleeting, humane truce that interrupts the slaughter and forces enemies to recognize one another as men rather than targets. What begins as tentative curiosity blossoms into fragile acts of fellowship that will change those who take part.

With Brandon Bales, Brandy Maasch, Julie Mintz, Walter Phelan, Taylor Pigeon, Alan Pietruszewski and Whit Spurgeon

2024 · Robert Eggers

A tormented young woman, haunted by shadows of her past, becomes the object of a relentless vampire's fixation. As his dark devotion tightens around her life, the fragile boundary between salvation and doom collapses, igniting a wave of dread and violence that consumes their world.

With Lily-Rose Depp, Nicholas Hoult, Bill Skarsgård, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Willem Dafoe, Emma Corrin and Ralph Ineson

2024 · Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia

A massive platform piled with food travels down the levels of a towering, vertical complex; the people at the top gorge themselves while those below are left to scavenge for scraps. Humiliation and hunger fuse into solidarity among the neglected, and a coordinated uprising begins to take shape.

With Hovik Keuchkerian, Milena Smit, Deborah Ayorinde, Callum Keith Rennie, Natalia Tena and Óscar Jaenada

2014 · Jonathan Glazer

When a missile shatters Shideh’s apartment block during the Iran–Iraq War, a superstitious neighbor claims the blast carried a curse and awakened malevolent spirits. As strange phenomena intensify, Shideh becomes certain a dark force is trying to possess her daughter, Dorsa, and she must confront this supernatural threat—and the traumas of war—to save them both.

With Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy McWilliams, Lynsey Taylor Mackay, Dougie McConnell, Kevin McAlinden, D. Meade and Andrew Gorman

2022 · Scott Cooper

In 1830 at the fledgling West Point Military Academy, the discovery of a cadet found hanged with his heart removed plunges the post into alarm. The army’s senior officers summon Augustus Landor, a former New York City constable famed for unraveling grim mysteries, to uncover the truth. Reluctant to leave his quiet life, Landor nevertheless accepts and soon finds himself navigating a maze of secrets, rivalries, and buried resentments among the cadets. He enlists the aid of an eccentric young student, Edgar Allan Poe—brilliant, hauntingly perceptive, and drawn to the macabre—and together they race against time to expose a cold-blooded killer before the academy’s fragile order collapses.

With Christian Bale, Harry Melling, Lucy Boynton, Toby Jones, Simon McBurney, Timothy Spall and Robert Duvall

1999 · Daniel Myrick

In October 1994, three student filmmakers vanished while shooting a documentary in the woods outside Burkittsville, Maryland; their camera and the footage it contained were recovered only a year later.

With Rei Hance, Michael C. Williams, Joshua Leonard, Bob Griffin, Jim King, Sandra Sánchez and Ed Swanson

2017 · Mike Flanagan

Handcuffed to the bed of a secluded lakeside cabin after an intimate experiment goes awry, Jessie is plunged into a haze of disturbing visions, buried betrayals and a harrowing decision that will determine who she becomes — and who survives.

With Carla Gugino, Bruce Greenwood, Carel Struycken, Chiara Aurelia, Henry Thomas, Kate Siegel and Adalyn Jones

1967 · Carlos Velo

A man returns to a town plagued by violence and the fury of thwarted love to find his father, Pedro Páramo.

With John Gavin, Ignacio López Tarso, Pilar Pellicer, Julissa, Graciela Döring, Carlos Fernández and Augusto Benedico

2010 · Troy Nixey

The Daily Show host riffs on the comic pitfalls of assigning names to nations, how traffic lights seem to grant New Yorkers a bizarre sense of invincibility, and the strange reasons you might want to avoid drinking in Scotland.

With Katie Holmes, Guy Pearce, Bailee Madison, Jack Thompson, Alan Dale, Emelia Burns and Nicholas Bell

2004 · Renny Harlin

A group of FBI behavioral profiling trainees see their practicum become a matter of survival when they learn a killer is operating inside their ranks, forcing them to apply their skills to identify and stop the murderer. Loosely inspired by Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None.

With Kathryn Morris, Jonny Lee Miller, LL Cool J, Christian Slater, Patricia Velásquez, Clifton Collins Jr. and Eion Bailey

1981 · Sam Raimi

A wildly imaginative boy befriends Dark, a towering creature with a constant grin, and together they set off on a moonlit odyssey that pushes him to confront and ultimately conquer his deepest fears.

With Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Richard DeManincor, Betsy Baker, Theresa Tilly, Philip A. Gillis and Dorothy Tapert

2023 · Eli Roth

In the aftermath of a Black Friday riot that leaves the town shattered, a mysterious, Thanksgiving-themed killer begins preying on the residents of Plymouth, Massachusetts—the historic birthplace of the holiday. What first looks like sporadic revenge for that fateful night soon unravels into a chilling pattern, revealing the murders to be pieces of a larger, deliberately orchestrated holiday plot.

With Nell Verlaque, Patrick Dempsey, Rick Hoffman, Gina Gershon, Milo Manheim, Addison Rae and Karen Cliche

2001 · J.S. Cardone

During World War II, six million Jewish people were murdered—some in extermination camps, others killed in the field by mobile death squads like the Einsatzgruppen and by police battalions. These units carried out systematic shootings of men, women and children, day after day, often following orders with a bureaucratic, matter‑of‑fact routine that made the killings disturbingly ordinary—an aspect of the Holocaust that remains little known. The film explores who these perpetrators were and how seemingly ordinary men could commit such crimes.

With Brendan Fehr, Izabella Miko, Kerr Smith, Johnathon Schaech, Simon Rex, Phina Oruche and Carrie Snodgress

2004 · Renny Harlin

When a catastrophic earthquake reduces Seoul to a lawless wasteland, a relentless tracker dives into the anarchic streets to rescue a teenager seized by a deranged physician.

With Kathryn Morris, Jonny Lee Miller, LL Cool J, Christian Slater, Patricia Velásquez, Clifton Collins Jr. and Eion Bailey

2025 · Aditya Suhas Jambhale

A dedicated detective investigating a wave of child abductions in the quiet town of Baramulla uncovers a tangle of buried secrets that awaken a menacing supernatural force. As inexplicable events spiral out of control, he must race to protect his family and the town’s fragile peace before the darkness consumes them all.

With Manav Kaul, Neelofar Hamid, Masoom Mumtaz Khan, Arista Mehta, Baby Kiara Khanna, Ashwini Koul and Nazneen Madan

2000 · Janusz Kamiński

When her daughter vanishes and authorities show little urgency, Mari Gilbert launches her own inquiry into the gated Long Island community where Shannan was last seen, and her determined pursuit ultimately exposes and draws attention to the murders of more than a dozen women who worked as prostitutes.

With Winona Ryder, Ben Chaplin, Sarah Wynter, Anna Gunn, Philip Baker Hall, John Hurt and K.K. Dodds

2025 · Shieh Meng-ju

While developing a new horror VR title, Hsu-Chuan brings home a cracked clay doll he recovered from a notorious haunted house. His pregnant wife, Mu-Hua—a meticulous conservator of cultural artifacts—becomes obsessively determined to restore the fragile figure, and as she pours herself into the task, strange and menacing events begin to plague their home and her health deteriorates. Running out of options, Hsu-Chuan turns to Ah-Sheng, a spiritual medium, and together they peel back the doll’s past. What they uncover is a buried, horrific secret woven into the clay that refuses to stay silent.

With Tony Yang, Cecilia Choi, Derek Chang, Tracy Chou, Puff Kuo, Chen Wei-Min and Li Kuan-Yi