Highest-Rated Movies about 'Mysterious Deaths', Sort by Popularity

Julia's Eyes (2010), Mark of an Angel (2008), Cosmos (2015), Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind (2020), Hereditary (2018), The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (2009), God Knows Where I Am (2016), The Adultress (1953) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Mysterious Deaths movies.

#5. Hereditary (2018)

Storyline: When her mentally ill mother passes away, a woman named Annie (Toni Collette) and her husband (Gabriel Byrne), son (Alex Wolff) and daughter (Milly Shapiro) all mourn her loss. The family turn to different means to handle their grief, including Annie and her daughter both flirting with the supernatural. They each begin to have disturbing, otherworldly experiences linked to the sinister secrets and emotional trauma that have been passed through the generations of their family.

Plot Keywords: art gallerist, mother, daughter, son, husband, thrilling, suspenseful ...

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#6. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (2009)

Storyline: After taking a bullet to the head, Salander is under close supervision in a hospital and is set to face trial for attempted murder on her eventual release. With the help of journalist Mikael Blomkvist and his researchers at Millennium magazine, Salander must prove her innocence. In doing this she plays against powerful enemies and her own past.

Plot Keywords: heroine, journalist, wrongly accused, assassin, photographer, hacker, brutal ...

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#7. God Knows Where I Am (2016)

Storyline: The body of a homeless woman is found in an abandoned New Hampshire farmhouse. Beside the body, lies a diary that documents a journey of starvation and the loss of sanity, but told with poignance, beauty, humor, and spirituality. For nearly four months, Linda Bishop survived on apples and rain water, waiting for God to save her, during one of the coldest winters on record. As her story unfolds from different perspectives, including her own, we learn about our systemic failure to protect those who cannot protect themselves.

Plot Keywords: homeless person, dead person, police detective, witness, mother, daughter, bleak ...

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#9. Ringu (1998)

Storyline: Reiko Asakawa is researching into a 'Cursed Video' interviewing teenagers about it. When her niece Tomoko dies of 'sudden heart failure' with an unnaturally horrified expression on her face, Reiko investigates. She finds out that some of Tomoko's friends, who had been on a holiday with Tomoko the week before, had died on exactly the same night at the exact same time in the exact same way. Reiko goes to the cabin where the teens had stayed and finds an 'unlabeled' video tape. Reiko watched the tape to discover to her horror it is in fact the 'cursed videotape'. Ex-Husband Ryuji helps Reiko solve the mystery, Reiko makes him a copy for further investigation. Things become more tense when their son Yoichi watches the tape saying Tomoko had told him to. Their discovery takes them to a volcanic island where they discover that the video has a connection to a psychic who died 30 years ago, and her child Sadako...

Plot Keywords: girlfriend, mental patient, psychiatrist, journalist, son, mother, eerie ...

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#10. May God Save Us (2015)

Storyline: During the scorching summer of 2011 in bustling central Madrid and in the background of the imminent Papal visit, the metropolis pulsates with anticipation while thousands of pilgrims flock to the capital. However, in the bowels of the city, there is something sinister going on, as it seems that a string of sex-related homicides have been taking place under the nose of the police, nurturing a scandal that no one wants to break out. Under those circumstances, two investigators, the brilliant, yet eccentric Luis Velarde and the hot-headed loose cannon Javier Alfaro must track down the sadistic and methodical serial killer in total secrecy. But to catch a killer, one must first keep his own demons at bay.—Nick Riganas

Plot Keywords: serial killer, pope, religious person, detective, investigator, government official, engaging ...

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#11. The Upturned Glass (1947)

Storyline: A prominent neurosurgeon relates to his students in medical school a story about an affair he had with a married woman and how, after the affair was over, the woman one day fell out a window and died. The surgeon, suspecting that she was murdered, set out to find her killer--but, instead of turning the suspect over to the police, he planned to take his own revenge on the murderer.—frankfob2@yahoo.com

Plot Keywords: surgeon, lover, murder victim, criminal, brooding, gripping, intense ...

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#12. The Quiet Family (1998)

Storyline: A family decides to buy a lodge in a remote hiking area. Their first customer commits suicide and the distraught family buries his body to avoid the bad publicity. But their luck gets worse, the bodies start piling up, and the family becomes frantic to rectify the situation.—Paul Benmussa

Plot Keywords: mother, father, son, daughter, guest, uncle, cheeky ...

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#13. The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959)

Storyline: In the 1890s a team of British archaeologists discover the untouched tomb of Princess Ananka but accidentally bring the mummified body of her High Priest back to life. Three years later back in England a follower of the same Egyptian religion unleashes the mummy to exact grisly revenge on the despoilers of the sacred past.—J-26

Plot Keywords: surgeon, model, doctor, detective, sculptor, brooding, campy ...

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#14. Phantasm (1979)

Storyline: Mike, a young teenage boy who has just lost his parents, afraid to lose his brother follow him to a funeral, where Mike witnesses the Tall Man lifting a coffin on his own. Mike decides to investigate, and discovers that the Tall Man, protected by his flying spheres, is shrinking dead bodies down to half their normal size and reanimating them as slaves. It is then up to Mike, his brother, and Reggie the ice cream man to stop the Tall man.

Plot Keywords: adolescent, brother, undertaker, ice cream man, zombie, fortuneteller, frightening ...

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#15. The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016)

Storyline: While investigating the murder of a family, Sheriff Sheldon and his team are puzzled with the discovery of the body of a stranger buried in the basement that does not fit to the crime scene. He brings the corpse of the beautiful Jane Doe late night to the coroner Tommy Tilden and requests to have the cause of death until the next morning to have an answer to the press. Tommy's son and assistant Austin Tilden is ready to go to the movie theater with his girlfriend Emma, but he decides to stay to help his father in the autopsy. Along the stormy and tragic night, they disclose weird and creepy secrets about Jane Doe.

Plot Keywords: dead person, detective, doctor, morgue employee, coroner, corpse, witch ...

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